Ten questions in a row.

The children were silent.

For them, these questions are too profound.

"That's it."

On the flagship, a thousand light-years away, the fleet commander said to the Supreme Consul.

They are pressed for time, and if they don't complete the mission of destroying the star according to the schedule, there is a good chance that the silicon-based empire will take advantage of this to escape and fight back.

At that time, it will be another war that will last 20,000 years, or more.

The intelligence field around the Supreme Archon dimmed for a moment, and then a signal of agreement was given.

"Launch the Singularity Bomb!"

The command crossed the four-dimensional space and instantly reached the battleship located between the solar systems.

The glowing ball of fog slid out of the battleship's long rails, accelerating along the invisible force field beam towards the sun.

Is this the end of it?

Bai Ling, who was watching the movie, felt apprehensive in his heart.

The Singularity Bomb has been launched, and the Earth is unaware that no one can save the sun.

Could it be that the ending of this movie is because the children in the village did not receive a good education, and the villagers suppressed the village teachers because of ignorance and conservatism, which eventually led to the extinction of the human race?

It's also too cruel.

Bai Ling studied Chinese, and the most read were Chinese and foreign masterpieces, among which naturally there were descriptions of the evil of human nature.

Even so, Bai Ling still prefers to believe in the goodness of human nature.

She never thought that humanity was hopeless, even though there were still many things in this world where ignorance destroys truth and evil destroys goodness.

The supreme consul on screen doesn't seem to think so either.

"How long is it until the singularity bomb reaches its target?"

He asked again.

"It's passing through the orbit of Planet 1 on the inner side, and it's about ten minutes away."

"Let's take five minutes and do some more tests."

"Yes, Your Excellency."

Under the watchful eye of the Supreme Consul, the Commander-in-Chief of the fleet, the senators, the tests continued.

"3C Civilization Test Question No. 11: What is the relationship between the three sides of a right triangle on a three-dimensional plane?"

?? Silent.

"3C Civilization Test Question No. 12: Your planet is the first planet in your planetary system?"

?? Silent.

"It doesn't make sense, Your Excellency."

said the fleet commander-in-chief.

"3C Civilization Test Question No. 13: When an object is not subjected to external forces, how does it operate?"

An exclamation was clearly heard in the cinema.

In that space, the crisp voices of children suddenly sounded.

"When an object is not subjected to an external force, it will remain at rest or in a uniform linear motion."

"The 3C civilization test question No. 13 passed! 3C Civilization Test Question No. 14 ......"

"Wait!"

The senator interrupted the officer who asked a question.

"The next question is also about the fundamental approximation of very low-speed mechanics."

He asked the Supreme Archon again.

"Doesn't that violate the testing guidelines?"

"Of course not, as long as it's in the test database."

The Fleet Commander was also intrigued, and he stared at the fragile group of lifeforms.

"3C Civilization Test Question No. 14: Please describe the relationship between the forces between two interacting objects."

The children were not silent.

"When an object exerts a force on a second object, this second object also exerts a force on the first object, and these two forces are equal in magnitude and in opposite directions!"

"Good!"

In the movie theater, someone shouted like this, but no one found out who shouted it.

Because that's what everyone is saying.

"The 3C civilization test question No. 14 passed! 3C Civilization Test Question No. 15: For an object, please explain the relationship between its mass, the external force and the acceleration. ”

?? The children spoke in unison.

"The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the force to which it is subjected, and inversely proportional to its mass!"

"Good!"

This time, most of the people in the movie theater also shouted in unison.

"The 3C civilization test question No. 15 passed, and the civilization test passed! It was determined that a Class 3C civilization existed on Planet 3 where the target star 500921473. ”

"Singularity bomb turns, out of target!"

The Supreme Consul immediately passed the order to the battleship with the greatest energy.

In the solar system, the force field beam that guides the singularity bomb is like a long curved rod, trying to pick the singularity bomb away from the sun's orbit.

The ship's force field engine ran at maximum power, and the huge heat sink turned from dark red to dazzling silver white.

The orbit of the singularity bomb began to bend.

But it has crossed the orbit of Mercury and is too close to the Sun.

Through hyperspace livestreaming, the entire galaxy is watching the trajectory of this fog.

Different civilizations, different beings, are watching.

The audience also tugged at their heartstrings and watched the trajectory.

Eventually, the singularity bomb swept across the surface of the sun.

It was as if a huge hand had streaked across the sea, leaving a deep trail.

The outer ring of the singularity bomb was surrounded by a silvery light, and for a moment, it was as if two stars were shining.

Eventually, the Singularity Bomb disappeared into the void with a slight tail flame.

The sun survived.

I don't know who took the lead first, and there was warm applause in the screening hall.

Bai Ling rarely sees this situation in the cinema, unless it is some main theme movie, it is difficult to encounter the applause of the audience just because the film is wonderful.

What's more, this is no longer a premiere.

Most viewers are probably just looking for a movie to pass the afternoon.

But "The Country Teacher" did exceed their expectations.

The plot in the movie continues.

"We nearly destroyed a carbon-based civilization."

The senator breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's unbelievable that there can be a 3C-level civilization in such a desolate place!"

The commander-in-chief of the fleet was equally emotional.

"Yes, whether it is a carbon-based federation or a silicon-based empire, its civilization expansion and cultivation plan does not include this area, if this is a civilization that has evolved on its own, it is a very unusual thing."

The Supreme Consul consul concluded.

The battleship remained in the solar system and carried out a comprehensive civilization monitoring of the earth, and beams of light swept across the ground, but no one noticed.

In the mountain village, the children cried around the teacher's body for an unknown amount of time before finally quieting down.

"Let's go to the village and tell the adults."

"What's the matter, when the teacher was alive, everyone in the village was tired of him, and no one would even give him the coffin money at this time!"

After some arguments, the children decided to bury the teacher themselves.

They took hoes and shovels and began to dig a hole in the hillock next to the school.

The brilliant stars watched them silently.

On the flagship of the carbon-based Federation, there were bursts of exclamations.

"Oh my God, the civilization on this planet is not level 3C, it is level 5B!"

Seeing the inspection report sent back by the battleship, people couldn't help but be surprised.

On the screen, the bustling scene of a human city is unfolding.

"They've started using nuclear energy, they're using chemical propulsion into space, and they've even landed on the moons of their planet!"

"What are their basic characteristics, and what is the level of genetic memory of life on this planet?"

The fleet commander asked impatiently.

"They don't have memory inheritance, and all memories are acquired."

"So, what is the way in which their individuals communicate information with each other?"

"It's very primitive and it's very rare. They have a thin organ in their body that generates sound waves when the planet's oxygen-dominated atmosphere vibrates, and at the same time modulates the information to be transmitted into the sound waves, and the receiver also uses a thin film organ to receive information from the sound waves. ”

"What is the rate at which information is transmitted in this way?"

"About 1 to 10 bits per second."

??“ What the?! ”

The fleet commander could not believe what he had heard.

"It's really 1 to 10 bits per second, we didn't believe it at first, but we checked it repeatedly."

"Wait, you mean ......"

The Supreme Consul's intelligence field emitted a glow, a sign of shaking.

"A species that has no memory inheritance and uses sound waves to communicate with each other at a rate of 1 to 10 bits per second can create a 5B civilization?"

"And this civilization evolved on its own without any interference from any external advanced civilization."

The senator added.

“...... Indeed, Your Excellency. ”

"But in this state, it is simply impossible for this species to accumulate and transmit knowledge from generation to generation, which is necessary for the evolution of civilization!"

The fleet commander said again.

"They have a type of individual, a certain number of them, distributed in all corners of the population, and this type of individual acts as a medium for the transfer of knowledge between two generations of life."

"Sounds like a myth."

The Supreme Archon felt that what he had witnessed today was beyond his own comprehension.

"In the primeval era of galactic civilization, there was indeed a similar concept, but it was too long ago, and few people knew about it except for scholars like us who specialized in the evolution of galactic civilizations."

"You mean the kind of individual who transfers knowledge between two generations of life?"

"They call teachers."

The senator uttered the word from the primeval universe.

......

The camera returns to Earth.

Back to that mountain village.

On the hill, there is a tomb.

By the time the children had made it, it was already dawning.

The teacher's coffin was a door panel that had been removed from the classroom, and he was accompanied by two boxes of chalk and a set of torn elementary school textbooks.

There is a small stone slab on the head of the grave with the words "Tomb of Teacher Li" written in chalk.

The children walked along the path towards the village, the mist obscuring their figures.

On the other side of the horizon, the sun rises as usual.

Warm, blazing, and hopeful.

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