It took Wang Youquan a full day to roughly understand what Yevgeny meant.

About the digitization of consciousness, and the difference between Wu Xiaoqing and Wu Xiaoqing's memory replica.

In his three views of a duty-bound and honest earthling, the alien's approach is really ...... It's too much! Outrageous too much!

This is simply the real and fake Monkey King in Journey to the West, and the problem now is that the six-eared macaque may not be one at all, but two or three...... Theoretically, this number could be infinite if the federal government wanted to.

"This alien is so bad that it comes out of pus!" Wang Youquan felt resentful and scared, "Then Wu Xiaoqing, they don't know about this matter yet?" ”

"Maybe you already know, maybe you haven't...... But whether they know it or not, we have to inform them, and we have to send them a copy of this contact information, indicating the source. ”

"Professor Ye, do you suspect that this may be a decoy deliberately released by the federal government?" Wang Youquan said, "Send a fake Wu Xiaoqing to gain our trust? ”

"No, it's okay if it's fake, I'm afraid it's true," Yevgeny's eyes were a little focused, as if he had thought of something more terrifying, "if the three of them are really controlled by the federal government, but they don't know it themselves...... Have you ever heard of a brain in a vat? ”

Wang Youquan shook his head.

So, Yevgeny spent another full hour explaining the concept to Wang Youquan, and then spent another half a day for Wang Youquan to understand the concept.

After completely understanding, Wang Youquan felt even colder.

"Their situation is almost typical of a brain in a vat," said Evgeny, "and we have to get in touch with the search and rescue team as soon as possible...... Since they were able to contact us through the Zhiti side, maybe they also contacted the search and rescue team at this time. ”

After finishing speaking, he paused, and then looked at Wang Youquan: "What about you, tell me, your intuition." Do you think they can be trusted? ”

Wang Youquan calmed down, walked to Yevgeny's side, carefully read all the documents a few times, and carefully recalled the experience he had with Wu Xiaoqing and the three of them.

"It looks like it's true," Wang Youquan said, "I don't dare to judge Professor Shen, he is a professor." But Wu Xiaoqing and Xu Yan are quite reliable in their words. ”

"Xu Yan is reliable?" Yevgeny looked at Wang Youquan curiously, he was eager to hear how Wang Youquan came to this conclusion.

"Yes," said Wang Youquan, "although this man's mouth is broken, his brain is still tendon...... Otherwise, I wouldn't have been deceived into doing pyramid schemes. Before coming to this mission, we talked many times, and he was so afraid of death. Now that they are in this situation, if he can still pretend that he is not afraid of death, it will be very suspicious, and now it is like this, I think it is normal. ”

Yevgeny nodded, and from a personal point of view, he and Wang Youquan thought the same.

But as he said just now, even if their judgment is completely correct, it does not mean that the contact is completely normal. Wu Xiaoqing: Whether they understand their own situation is still a big question.

Yevgeny radioed their question to the search and rescue team, and three hours later they received a confirmation call back from the search and rescue team, but the message did not give an intentional answer - apparently they were also hesitating about the question.

At this time, there was a knock at the door, and Wang Youquan and Yevgeny glanced at each other - what a hell, who else would knock on the door here?

The knock sounded again, and Yevgeny noticed that it was not a vibration from the door itself, but an analog sound coming from outside the door.

"May I come in?" Sure enough, it was the voice of the avatar of the intelligent body.

"Yes." Wang Youquan went and opened the door.

"I'm sorry," the other party said after he came in, "I know a little bit about your civilization, is it because my way of knocking on the door is not quite right?" ”

"No, it's our ......," Yevgeny thought for a moment, "it's that we're not used to it yet...... You are so polite. Actually, you don't have to be so polite. ”

"Since politeness is something that makes you feel comfortable, it's necessary," said the figure of the intellect, as he walked back and forth in the room, "and your communication seems to be over?" ”

"Yes, thank you for this confidence."

"Are we friends now," replied Zhiti, "and you offered to visit our production process before, and I have considered it completely and can agree to this request." ”

"You...... Promised? "Yevgeny felt a little incredible.

"Yes," said the Intellectual, "I think that for a civilization that can move freely through the universe, this little thing in our galaxy may be a farce for you. If possible, I still hope that your civilization will take a closer look at this farce - if there is something we have done not do well, I hope we can get your criticism and correction. ”

Since meeting with Zhiti, Zhiti's attitude towards them has always been relatively cold, and the two sides have only maintained a minimum of communication. Before that, Yevgeny and Wang Youquan had been told that they could only stay in this room and not go out. - Of course, the intellectuals fully understand the euphemism in the language and culture of the earthlings, and the reason for house arrest is that it is difficult to achieve a thorough simulation of the atmosphere outside.

But now, the intellectual body suddenly lowered its posture so low, which made Yevgeny a little confused for a moment. Maybe this has something to do with the message sent by Wu Xiaoqing?

These are not things that Yevgeny can figure out now.

But one thing is certain, and that is that visiting the production process of Zhiti will definitely have absolute benefits for the execution of the entire rescue mission. Don't say that because of this, even if it was just to satisfy Yevgeny's personal curiosity, he would have agreed in one go.

As far as a 65-year-old man is concerned, Yevghny is in good physical condition now, especially after the operation, and some of the original minor problems on his body are now gone.

After the son's matter was satisfactorily resolved, the ties from the family and loved ones also disappeared. If it weren't for the search and rescue team, Yevgeny would have imagined that he would be like many old people, in his own home, getting a few bottles of vodka every day, watching the world change more and more in front of the TV, and at the same time allowing his body to age day by day......

Maybe one day, I will suddenly die due to excessive drinking or other physical problems. For a Russian, this can be regarded as a very happy ending, and it is also the possibility of the end of his own life that Yevgeny once imagined.

But the appearance of the search and rescue team allowed Yevgeny's life to linger for a while more when it was about to come to an end.

At the end of the last mission, Yevgeny went to see the spacecraft of the Ascension Realm returning alone, and the appearance of the spaceship Yevgeny can still clearly recall in his mind, and when he saw the huge flying machine passing through the "membrane" of the Ascension Realm from the telescope, gradually slowing down, and finally stopping in front of him, he could even hear the sound of his heart beating violently in his chest.

In fact, in his original plan, he was not ready to join the search and rescue team, even if he saved his son and cured his alcohol addiction...... In the depths of his heart, he has always maintained a subconscious vigilance against the pure "idealism" of the search and rescue team - people who have experienced the former Soviet Union and then the collapse of the former Soviet Union often remain vigilant against "ideals".

But after the mission to ascend to heaven ended, Yevgeny changed his mind.

Back on Earth, your life is almost like waiting to die in a hut, compared to getting in touch with other civilizations and seeing what other civilizations look like...... Clearly, there was an important attraction for Yevgeny.

This mission has always been mysterious to Yevgeny from the beginning to the present.

Federal, AI, Intellectual...... The more you listen to conceptualized nouns, the more ambiguous the image behind these nouns becomes.

This is the gap between civilizations, a fact that there is no way to change.

It's like if you explain the order of the feudal era to the people of the slave era, I'm afraid they will be a little difficult to understand, and if you talk about capitalism to them, I'm afraid they will feel that this is a pipe dream, as for communism...... That's nonsense that only people with a fever in the brain can say.

Before the mission, when learning about the two civilizations of the Federation and the Intellectual, Yevgeny had the illusion that he was the primitive man from the slave age.

A primitive man who does not understand anything can only truly understand what slavery is when he sees the slave owner wielding a whip at a slave for the first time; Only when we see the peasants paying rent to the landlords can we understand what is called feudalism; Only when you see countless money, orders, and countless workers and products on the production line will you know what capitalism is......

The reason why the Federation and the Mind have always felt so mysterious is very simple, because for this kind of advanced civilization, the lowest things of civilization have been finely encapsulated and cannot be seen at all, just like a house that has been fully renovated, and people can only see gorgeous lights, exquisite walls, and soft carpets when they walk in...... And the supports under the floor, the pipes inside the walls, the wires above the ceiling...... Such technical details are carefully hidden, and there is no chance to see them at all.

As far as the Federation civilization is concerned, what they have seen and learned the most so far is their virtual world, but in the entire virtual world, they have no idea how this world works - how much electricity does it take to maintain such a world? How much labor? How many other social resources...... Not to mention Yevgeny and others, even the federal consul and his team couldn't fully figure it out.

As for the sapient body, it is even more mysterious, whether in the eyes of the Federation people, or in the eyes of their earthlings, the image of the sapient body seems to be a god - he can solve almost all the problems of a civilization with one "existence". With a high degree of concentration in their thinking, they can still understand how to make countless production lines coordinate so that they can produce enough warships for military use...... It's so curious.

Yevgeny and Wang Youquan were taken out of the door, where they got on a flying machine, which was fully autonomous, and the driver was Zhiti.

Not far after flying out, neither earthling could feel gravity. The house they had lived in had become a small dot in the darkness, the only shining dot, which was moving in a regular circle around a circle.

Yevgeny knew about the environment when he came, and he probably made a little guess, but after coming out this time, many of the details he guessed were overturned. He asked the intellect differently: "Are we in the core of the whole planet?" ”

"No, it's not," replied the Intellectual, "you're in the outer part of the planet.

"But we don't feel gravity at all!"

As he spoke, Yevgeny suddenly saw several blue-white rays of light suddenly appear in the black background outside the window, which seemed to be very far away from them, but the brightness of the light itself was very strong, so it was particularly eye-catching.

The light stopped on the distant black background for more than ten seconds, and then disappeared, just like a few earthworms that suddenly crawled out of the soil to breathe before a summer thunderstorm, and it seemed to be a crawling visual imprint left on the eyelids after people closed their eyes.

It's faint, but it's remarkable.

Yevgeny looked around the porthole, and only then did he notice that at the end of the surrounding vision, such blue-white traces appeared and disappeared in different places, disappearing and reappearing, and the scale was completely beyond Yevgeny's imagination for a while—those blue-white rays seemed to really weave a huge web in this whole dark world.