"Don't worry," the second consul immediately explained to Wu Xiaoqing, "they are all spontaneous among the people...... Come and welcome us. ”

"Welcome?" When Wu Xiaoqing first saw those faces, he was almost startled, you know, this is a dark place for gods thousands of meters underwater-this alien's diving equipment is also too good! Or is water just a decoration in this virtual world? Can't drown? Even if you can't drown, the pressure of such a deep water pressure will crush people to death. Besides, shouldn't their itinerary be kept secret?

"Confidentiality?" The Second Archon smiled contemptuously, "The Archon has published the telegram you sent to us throughout the Federation, including your itinerary. Obviously, the Archons want to use you to increase the prestige of some governments. ”

The boat sped up the speed of floating, which made Wu Xiaoqing feel strange that the people outside the boat had also maintained the frequency of floating at high speed with them, which made Wu Xiaoqing a little surprised: "Doesn't it mean that the rules here are the same as in the real world?" Aren't they afraid that the pressure will change too much? ”

The Second Archon was stunned for a moment, and then pointed out: "The diving suits they wear can provide pressure protection, which looks close-fitting, but they are actually hard - they provide pressure protection in themselves, so Wu Xiaoqing's worries are completely unnecessary."

After arriving ashore, Wu Xiaoqing, under the leadership of the second consul, went to a large ship on the surface of the water and participated in a public meeting. It's a ship, but by earthlings' standards, it's actually a moving island - there's also a large area on the island for air parking. There are constantly people coming and landing on the island in planes.

These people obviously came to see the alien "Wu Xiaoqing", but it is inconvenient for Wu Xiaoqing to see them now. In any case, according to the fact that before they met with the consul, that is, the official government of civilization B, it was better to participate in these non-governmental activities as little as possible, and this time they came out today, in fact, Wu Xiaoqing and they were only familiar with the "venue environment" in the name of "venue environment". Soon after arriving on the ship, Wu Xiaoqing agreed on the online time tomorrow and found a reason to go offline.

……

After Wu Xiaoqing "went offline", Xu Yan and Shen Changwen soon applied to enter this virtual world, as they will perform tasks here in the future, they naturally need to be familiar with the environment. It's just that with Wu Xiaoqing's example in front of them, it is inconvenient for them to appear in the name of openness, so they are just like ordinary people, walking freely in the second world.

On Earth, emissaries are naturally spies.

In fact, this principle is also applicable between the stars.

Although this is only a virtual world, according to Changbai and Changxing's previous explanations, the geography and social and cultural states in it are almost completely equivalent to reality. It's just that in some completely different times from reality, and in the virtual world, it's hard to find key cutting-edge technology.

For example, the second earth simulates the "earth" 1500 years ago, that is, the "earth" in this world is the ancient era of civilization B in reality.

Although Wu Xiaoqing came once, Wu Xiaoqing came to a fixed place, and most of his energy was talking to people, compared to Shen Changwen and Xu Yan, it seemed that they got more information in this world. With the help of the image sharing provided by the search and rescue team, Wu Xiaoqing can see everything the two of them see now from the computer screen.

The continent of the whole "earth" can be divided into four parts, which is different from the earth, the earth is surrounded by the ocean, but here, it is the land that divides the sea into various parts, and there are even many mountains and ridges between the four landmasses. Civilization B 1,500 years ago seems to have many scenes vaguely similar to the earth - such as huge ships in the ocean and maglev vehicles traveling on land.

This is seen from Shen Changwen's perspective, he is more concerned about the lifestyle of this era. His position at the moment is in the middle of a huge underground city - from a simple historical knowledge of Civilization B, it is known that as a diminutive mammal, their early civilization lived more in a burrowing manner like a mouse or squirrel on Earth. This habit was maintained until the civilization was formed, and the entire city was still dominated by the underground part.

Therefore, the people of civilization B are not particularly interested in sunlight, and there is always a gray texture in Shen Changwen's pictures, and the light along the way is dim - these dwarves undoubtedly have stronger visual ability in the dark than earthlings.

According to the information provided to them by Changbai and Changxing, Shen Changwen tentatively walked into a public area similar to a restaurant on Earth.

In fact, there is still currency in the real B civilization, but in this virtual, 1500-year-old "world", money is only used as a decoration or decoration.

Before entering the door of the restaurant, Wu Xiaoqing could see a cabinet at the door, and the people who entered in front of him reached into the cabinet casually, grabbed a lot of money, and then went to the counter to spend money - spending money is more of a mocking experience for people here - this is also a manifestation of the superiority of people in the virtual world over people in reality, because in the virtual world, everyone's behavior does not need to be restricted by money.

Shen Changwen also followed their example, took a handful of money, and then gave it to the counter according to the price prompted by the restaurant, and ordered the corresponding dish in the menu.

After sitting down, Shen Changwen began to try to listen to the conversation of the others. As Changbai said, most people come here just to talk.

"That madman must be going to preach the theory of racial superiority of carbon-based civilization again," shouted several people with drinks in their hands near one of the liveliest tables in the restaurant—the B-star people spoke in a very high pitch, and the tone was complicated, and when a group of people chatted about the day, it was like a symphony, the tone set by the person who spoke in front of him, and the person who followed him had to follow the rhythm of the person in front of him—a kind of sensual language that naturally favored social and artistic.

After he uttered this sentence, there was almost a lot of echo like a harmonie, "Carbon-based superior!" Racism! ”

"Judging from the news revealed by the experts of the Academy of Sciences, the aliens who came this time are also carbon-based civilizations, and what surprises them is that these carbon-based civilizations seem to be even more barbaric than us!"

"Barbarism?"

"How savage?"

"They are as tall as giant beasts, and they are said to be able to lay down our whole body in their mouths!"

"Oh my God! Whole people! ”

"Savage carbon-based creatures!"

The echoes of the others turned into surprise and fear, between the tactful change of tone, which almost made Wu Xiaoqing almost think that he was listening to Peking Opera or opera.

"The official language library has been released to communicate with them! There are already more than a dozen teams of linguists who have made accurate descriptions of each other's civilizations based on the language library! ”

It seems that in this world, not only are they smart, but what they can think of, the other party also thinks of it. Although the search and rescue team has made special secrecy for the technical aspects of the language, many things can still be detected by the other side - as long as the two sides need to communicate, the differences between civilizations cannot be concealed.

"It can be ascertained that the other civilization has not even completed the complete unification of the various political entities of its own civilization, and to some extent, there is still some kind of ......hostility between these political entities," the speaker's voice was raised to a new level at this moment, "I think we cannot believe in such a civilization until the other side has taken the initiative to explain their purpose and show sufficient sincerity." ”

"yes, I can't believe it!"

"But the bureaucratic team of the Archons will not care! All they need is an alliance against silicon-based creatures! Friends and comrades! Tomorrow we must mobilize enough people to come to the reception site of the Second Earth, and we must let the government see our strength and attitude! ”

"Yes, let them see it clearly!"

"Any hostile behavior directed against a particular state of civilization is intolerable to us!" The tone returns to its previous rhythm, like a song returning to the beginning of the melody, only with the lyrics changed.

"Long live the freedom of consciousness!"

"Long live the freedom of consciousness!"

"Long live the digitization of consciousness!"

"Long live the digitization of consciousness!"

……

Then, these people shouted the same similar slogans, and after about ten minutes of shouting, the atmosphere of the real restaurant reached its fullest, and then suddenly, the conductor who was leading the "concert" paused, and the grand symphony was temporarily suspended.

Then the second public speaker came on the stage, giving Wu Xiaoqing the feeling that everyone was taking turns to perform on stage in a concert hall.

"I just heard that the Wall-Riding Sect of the Fourth Earth has just betrayed us!"

……

Compared with the political remarks that Shen Changwen heard and whose meaning was not very clear, Xu Yan's understanding seemed to be more straightforward.

According to Shen Changwen's request, the place where Xu Yan appeared now is in space, a space city.

This is the boundary area of the Fourth Earth simulation - beyond that, all the other planets, the sun, even the fleets above the cities...... In fact, it's all just illusions and decorations.

Due to the limitations of computing power, the second earth can only simulate the main area of their "earth".

Xu Yan came here mainly because the name of the city is more special - his name is Changming City.

Xu Yan and Changxing learned about the history of this city, which has a very high reputation in the entire interstellar development history of civilization B. It is the first space city to be located in orbit - because it is always bright, it is called Changming City.

In the years that followed, the city's capacity was repeatedly increased, and gradually, it turned from a city to a giant man-made island, and from an island to a real satellite—in just over 300 years, the mass of the long star has surpassed that of the Earth.

With the expansion of the Federation, Changxing, as a professional space port city, naturally changed from a satellite to a planet, he left the orbit of the earth, and followed the pace of the expansion of the entire civilization, towards the outer solar system, planet by planet, spreading in a jumping way. Changxing said that the history of interstellar development of the entire B civilization is actually the history of the migration and expansion of Changxing......

About 200 years ago, the Everstar reached its historical peak, reaching almost a third of the Earth's total mass.

But now, in the real real universe, this interstellar city, which is almost entirely filled with artificial materials, has fallen in the war not so long ago.

Because of the special historical significance of this place, in the second world, almost most of the people who support this war will put the meeting place here, according to Changxing, when he came here a few decades ago, he can often see hundreds of people in this space city, in a harsh environment where gravity does not even simulate, discussing topics related to war.

Xu Yan was originally going to come here to listen to some different voices, but after arriving, he found that there was no one in the entire Changming City, but only at the entrance, he saw a row of eye-catching big-character slogans: "Carbon-based racists are not welcome on the second earth!" ”