6 N

Miller looked at the time displayed on the PDA slightly nervously: 15:33 on November 16, 2099, the temperature in the space station was not high, and he still felt a lot of cold sweat oozing from his head, he adjusted the camera again, and then returned to his seat.

Fifteen minutes had passed since the "housekeeper" had been controlled by an alien civilization, and Miller had given the required order to summon everyone on the space station. The 25-seat conference room on the Minerva is actually a folded partition wall between the two compartments into one, where all the members of the entire space station gather. Everyone sat upright towards the "butler", and the first row of four: Miller, Ryan, Silka, and Gao Jie, who would be responsible for communicating directly with the "butler" who was being controlled. Mike and other researchers sat in the second and third rows, and Wang Chen and other technicians sat in the last row.

Gao Jie could hear the people in the back row whispering, "I heard that the 'housekeeper' is controlled by aliens." "Why doesn't it control Minerva?" "'Butler' is out of order, right? It's too much like a movie plot. "We're all gathered here, is it going to catch us all?" "It's really dangerous, I'm scared!" ……

Miller motioned for everyone to be quiet, then turned to the "butler" and asked, "Dear representative of an alien civilization, you just said that you have something important to tell us, and now that we are all here, we welcome you to be open and honest." ”

The "butler's" voice was still the same: "Thank you, Commander. Friends of Earth civilization, please believe that I have no intention of harming you, which is not in line with the purpose of my here. What I want to tell you is this: I am a collection of consciousness, not a being. ”

After a brief commotion, it quickly quieted down.

"The Butler" continued: "I was injected into the memory of consciousness, the ...... that hit your space station"

A researcher abruptly interrupted it and asked, "Are you able to store consciousness?" Miller glanced back, frowning and motioning to do it again.

The "butler" replied earnestly: "Yes." It's hard for you, but it's commonplace for us. It paused, as if waiting for the other questioners, but no one continued to ask, "As a consciousness, I can fully express, communicate, and interact with everyone, but I need a medium that can act, so I control this mechanical body so that I can communicate with everyone." As he spoke, the "butler" waved four robotic arms to the people in front of him and greeted them. "I could have controlled your space station, but doing so would upset you, so I made this the most minor option, and luckily I found an alternative."

A thought came to some people's minds: "Is this really a consciousness that has been detached from living beings?" Gao Jie also had such thoughts in his heart.

"This is the end of my self-introduction, and I will explain to you about the life and death of the earth's civilization." As soon as the words ended, there was another commotion, even more noisy than before, because the "life and death" of the earth's civilization can always recall the various images that seem to be the end of the world—especially the disasters at the beginning of the "Great Reconciliation Era".

Miller raised his arm and signaled for everyone to be calm, but if someone held his hand at this time, they would find that his palm was cold. The "butler" waited for the crowd to be quiet, and if the consciousness of the alien civilization could recognize the expressions of those present, it would read worry and fear.

"I want to thank this machine for containing all the information on human civilization, and for being able to explain everything I have to explain in a way that you can understand." Wang Chen once said to Yu Yu and others that the electronic devices of the "housekeeper" stored almost all the text information in the earth's network, but he did not expect that this would make it convenient for extraterrestrial civilizations to understand the history and development process of mankind.

"My home planet is not far from here, it is an extremely fertile and habitable planet, and our population can breathe on nitrogen, so you can call us N-star people." Many people, including Miller, have recorded "N-star people" on their PDAs.

"The home planet can easily feed tens of billions of people on the planet, and since there is no competition for resources, there has been no war within our civilization, so the communication method of our species is spiritual communication, and the communication between each individual is not hidden." Several people nodded tacitly, in the various films, television, and literary creations that everyone came into contact with, it was common for aliens to have the setting of spiritual communication.

"We N people don't fight internally, we don't like to expand outward, in order to protect ourselves, our scientific and technological research and development is always at a high speed, we have a considerable number of starfleets, which can destroy any intruder, but this is not enough, in addition to huge warships, we also study microscopic particles, and create something we are proud of, we even named it after the mother star: the outstanding N electron." There was some impatience on the faces of the people, who had not yet begun to say anything about the "life and death" of civilization on Earth.

"The N electron is an engineered electron, and we can control it, at first just control its trajectory, then we can control it to discharge, and then ...... We can control it to electrically engrave patterns on other particles! ”

"Impossible!" Gao Jie heard the soft exclamations of several researchers behind her, she still didn't understand how powerful and magical the N electron that the "housekeeper" was talking about, she only remembered that she had seen the introduction of "writing on a low-temperature smooth conductive crystal with inert atoms" in physics or chemistry textbooks, and she already felt incredible.

The "butler" seemed to hear the researcher's voice and responded, "It's not impossible to be incomprehensible. Just as in ancient times you thought that the earth was not round, that it was impossible to fly to the sky, and that the moon landing was only a fantasy. Today, there are still people who believe that the pyramids, terracotta warriors, and hanging gardens were not built by people in ancient times. Don't rush to deny, you think it's incredible, maybe you're not ready to accept it. This statement brilliantly sums up one aspect of human nature: easy to deny. This can't help but make Gao Jie and the others tremble: Could it be that the consciousness of the N star people has fully understood the characteristics of human beings in such a short period of time through the words in "The Butler" and some film and television works? Or have they already been in contact with humans? Gao Jie and others are not allowed to think too much, and the "housekeeper" went on to explain N Electronics......

"We pursued the ultimate in the research of N electrons, and the engraving pattern could not satisfy us, so we continued to develop its potential capabilities, and later we experimented with controlling N electrons to electrically carve very complex circuit diagrams on other particles, and achieved initial success. We call the particles that have been modified by N electrons collectively as N particles, and this will be a greater creation than N electrons! ”

"You want to control other particles?" Another researcher rushed to ask, but this time Miller didn't look back.

"Yes. Once we can control neutrons and protons, let them move and combine according to our will, even without contact between matter or physical changes and chemical reactions, we can freely transform matter into different types and change forms, and achieve true control over all things! For example, we can rearrange the protons in the air and convert them into iron atoms, and then control those iron atoms to form iron blocks into whatever shape we want, and eventually make up all the parts I need, to create a machine, or to control the phase transition between different forms of matter made up of particles (solid-liquid-gas conversion) – and that's just the basics. N particles can even change the form of living beings, allowing particles around the organism to merge into the body to form new tissues (to become larger) and vice versa (to shrink) and to change into other organisms. We even envisage that N-particles can change the cycle and speed of the metabolism of living organisms, thereby extending the lifespan of living organisms......

"To sum it up, N particles can decompose matter into a proton state and then reassemble it."

This series of answers made the bodies of everyone present tremble, especially the last sentence, what was once just a dare to think but did not dare to practice, but here it has become the research target of alien civilizations - other substances are conjured out of thin air in the air, humans become animals, and life expectancy is extended...... These fanciful claims are very similar to the ancient fantasy legends of the earth: magic.

"Why is it a preliminary success?" The researcher asked, and this time Miller turned around, his expression very serious—but the seriousness was more from what the "butler" had said.

"We make electro-engraving circuit diagrams on common particles, including electrons, neutrons, and protons, and of these three particles, in the end, only electrons succeed in receiving our mind control - because we N-star people mainly communicate with spirits. Protons and neutrons do not respond to our mental commands, even if we control the modified electrons to transmit enough power......"

"Wait a minute!" This time, it was Wang Chen who interrupted the "housekeeper", "Your transformed electrons, aren't they still N particles?" ”

"Yes!" The tone of the voice has increased a lot, and it is obvious that the N-star consciousness in the "housekeeper" is very recognizant of Wang Chen's interpretation, "The attempts and experiments we have made are just copying N electrons. And protons and neutrons, which we really want to control, even if the electro-etchography circuit diagram is perfect, we can't mentally control them. We kept improving the circuit diagram, and we didn't succeed in improving it tens of thousands of times, and then the traitors of our species found another way to take control. ”

"Traitor?" Several voices asked together.

"Yes, traitors, you can call them Nt (t=traitor). The NTs are the scum of our species, cowards who escaped from our battle with the invaders, and as punishment, we exiled them to a barren planet, regularly giving them resources and technology to ensure their survival, including N electronic technology. Little did we know that they had succeeded in finding a way to make and control N particles in those harsh conditions, which was to control them with sound. They rewrote the circuit diagram to make the otherwise complex control part simple, and successfully controlled the protons and neutrons. What makes us puzzled is that, like us, they can only communicate through spirits, where do they get the language with sound? I think you'll be able to guess—"

"Earth." Everyone said in unison that the answer was already obvious.

The "butler" was silent for a moment, it should be said that the N-star consciousness pondered for a moment, and the space station members pondered for a moment.

"We don't know how the Nt people acquired the human language, and when we found out it was too late, the Nt people created their own starfleet by controlling protons and neutrons, without any machinery or shipyards, and declared war on us. Although our fleet is far ahead in numbers, their fleet is invincible. The words of the N-star consciousness made the people present shudder. Gao Jie heard the word "invincible", and others heard the word "invincible".

"All our weapons, can't damage their starships. After numerous attempts, we decided that they could not destroy the particles on the battleship with some kind of command. As a result, our fleet was defeated one after another, and a large area of the star field was captured by the Nts, and we were completely passive and helpless. ”

"So you're coming to us for help?" Miller asked.

"Nope." The answer was crisp, "We don't need assistance at this time, but the Nt people have already sent three starships to the Earth to carry out a cleaning mission, in order to eliminate the hidden danger so that the N-particles will not become a potential weapon for other civilizations." With your military strength, you are no match for them at all, and when the three warships arrive on Earth, it will be the end of Earth civilization. ”

Almost everyone gasped, making the already cold space station as cold as the deep sea.

"Nt Starman...... How long do they have to reach Earth? Miller asked with pretended composure, his hands already trembling, and the people around him and behind him were the same as him, and some of them were already nervously covering their mouths with their hands, with tears in their eyes...... They were all waiting for the "butler" to tell the time.

"In your time...... Five years. ”

Somehow, Gao Jie's mind came up with the image of watching the "sunset" on the space station - but this time it will be the sunset of the civilization of the earth.