16 A glimmer of light

When Gao Jie walked out of her cabin, it was already the next morning, and she was resting well, but there were still two things that kept wandering in her mind:

The first is whether your family is safe. Gao Jie understood that her husband and children had actually borne this (political) risk since the day she was elected as a member of the Minerva, but she never expected that this risk would come because of someone else's unintentional "planting". Gao Jie's intuition told her that once some important information was leaked, the traces of the lives of the relevant personnel and their families would be completely "cleaned up", which should be confidential information that only certain high-level people could read (I have to say how accurate Gao Jie's intuition is). But Gao Jie still found a positive side, if the truth is as Miller introduced, then her husband and children will continue to be watched by some media or organizations, which is undoubtedly an invisible protection, meaning that they will remain safe in the near future, but it is difficult to infer how long the media interest in this matter will continue, which has become an uncertain factor.

And the second thing is the immediate problem: Wang Chen's condition. Gao Jie knew that there was an ambiguous relationship between Wang Chen and Yazi, and of course she could imagine Wang Chen's inner reaction after Yazi was exposed and under house arrest, and she would not be so masochistic as to blame herself for all this - because she was also a victim, but judging from the fact that Wang Chen did not come to visit her, he may have been angry with herself. In this confined space station, you may have inadvertently set up an "opponent" or even an "enemy", which is not a joke.

- Resigned to fate, I hope that the above two things can be resolved smoothly...... It's just that the initiative is not in Gao Jie's hands.

Seeing Gao Jie reappear in the public cabin, Ryan and Silka couldn't hide their excitement and excitement, rushed over to greet and hug each other, and the three of them sat down in the corner seats. Silka asked a lot of questions with concern, and Gao Jie found out from her questions that the other space station members didn't know that they had been under house arrest in the commander's room for the past few days, and they all thought that they were missing or that something had happened. After some thought, Gao Jie still told the two of them a series of things such as Toda Meizi using her PDA to transmit confidential information to the earth.

For Gao Jie and his family being implicated in this matter, Ryan and Silka both sighed and shook their heads.

“Bad luck！” Ryan summed it up brilliantly.

"Your family...... Do you and the commander have any ideas? Silka asked, frowning.

Gao Jie pursed her lips and shook her head in denial, her eyes gloomy.

"There will definitely be a way, just like the protagonist of World War Z, to do something to keep your family safe," Silka reassured. ”

"Ha, Brad Pitt's bad movie." Ryan said haha, of course, we all know that he is adjusting the pessimistic atmosphere of the scene.

Silka spread her hands: "I'm talking about the original novel." ”

"Novels are worse. Hahaha......" Ryan said in a joking tone.

Silka shrugged wryly, indicating that she couldn't keep up with the joke, but she immediately remembered something and said, "You can help her, Ryan, just say that you and Gao got that information from the N-star consciousness together, so ......"

Ryan interrupted Silka with a gesture, his smile disappearing, and he said in a serious tone, "I don't think those things can help Gao, nor can they help Earth, or even do anything. ”

"Don't say that, maybe there's a chance......" Silka persuaded.

Gao Jie was very curious when he heard this: "What are you talking about?" ”

"You would never have imagined," Silka turned to Gao Jie, "Just yesterday, Ryan actually managed to obtain a large amount of N-star technology from the N-star consciousness, a lot!" Now the researchers are studying this information, which may help Earth repel the Nt fleet. ”

"Awesome, Ryan! Terrific! Gao Jie admired sincerely, and she suddenly remembered the "good news" that Miller said yesterday, and it should be that this matter is correct.

"No, no," Ryan said, waving his hand vigorously, "it's too early to say it's useful...... However, I agree with Silka's idea, and when I report to Earth, I say that I did it with Gao...... As for whether the earth can approve it, it depends on luck. ”

"Great! Thank you! Seeing the hope, Gao Jie immediately thanked Ryan, and then asked, "Then how did you get these N-star technology materials?" ”

Ryan adjusted his sitting position, straightened his back and said, "This process is full of coincidences. Gao, it was the days when you disappeared, I remembered a very old movie - "The Matrix", which involves mechanical consciousness, and there is still a problem of probability, for example, let the most advanced computers keep repeating 1+1, and there will definitely be trillions...... There is a 1 in 1 trillion chance that the answer will be miscalculated, because this is an error that cannot be avoided by machinery. So I thought, that piece of metal...... Ah, it's the container that is contained in the consciousness of the N-star people, and it is also a machine in itself. Since it's a machine, there are such errors and chances, so I keep asking the 'butler' to 'please share your technology with us' and 'I would you kindly tell me your technological secrets'...... Of course, there will be repetitions. The first reply was of course no, so I kept asking for more than eight hours, and when I asked for the 3143rd time, the chance of 'agreeing to the request' appeared, so I transferred the data to the space station's memory......"

"What a brilliant idea! And the unbelievable will that you can hold on for so long! Gao Jie said with obvious admiration.

Ryan tilted his head and said, "Lucky Ryan." It's like the AlphaGo who plays Go will admit defeat in some situations, but if the human side refuses, it will turn defeat into victory as it progresses, it's just that I'm lucky. ”

"Then why do you say that the information may not be useful?" Gao Jie asked.

Ryan squeezed out a few wrinkles between his eyebrows, and he explained: "The information of those N star technology is far more and larger than we imagined, even if the memory space of the space station is large enough, the total amount of these materials is calculated in exabytes (1EB=1024PB=1048576TB=1073741824GB), of which a relatively small picture has 80G, not to mention precise design drawings, text data, celestial pictures, and star maps...... It's simply an indescribable size. ”

"What does that mean?" Gao Jie didn't understand what Ryan meant.

"To put it in Amazon's way: trucks are much faster than fiber!" Ryan pouted as he finished speaking.

Gao Jie shook his head, indicating that he didn't quite understand, and Silka beside him also smiled and nodded for Ryan to continue.

Ryan continued, his eyes raised from time to time, as if calculating: "Let's say I'm going to transfer 1 exabyte of data from ...... From Charleston (the capital of West Virginia) to Seattle, it would take at least four years to transfer that huge amount of data, even if it is exaggerated to 8 gigabytes per second. If this data were stored in storage devices – the very bulky ones – and transported on trucks, it would take only a few days to complete, and of course it would be faster to transport it by plane...... And from the space station to Earth, the data transfer per second is less than a pitiful 2GB ......"

"I see," Gao Jie is still sensitive to numbers, "that means that in the Nt fleet, these extraterrestrial materials may not have been fully transmitted back to Earth. ”

The other two nodded. Ryan continued: "Now the technical team is screening the information with high scientific and technological value to send back to Earth first, but they also say that even if this information arrives on Earth in a few months, there will not be enough time to create weapons to counter the Nt fleet......"

"What about the spaceship that was built to escape?" Gao Jie rarely interrupted others.

"It's not optimistic." Ryan flicked his hands upwards in a sign of weak frustration, and Silka patted him on the shoulder as a comforting gesture.

For a moment, Gao Jie's eyes flashed the faces of her husband and children, but soon, she was blinded by the harsh reality.

Ryan's words were fulfilled the next day, and the commander, who originally thought that getting N-star technology was "good news", conveyed Earth's gratitude to Ryan Booker, but a trace of eagerness and dissatisfaction could still be seen between the lines. The first text on the core technology of the spacecraft (note: only the core technology) screened by the technical team has already been sent, but it is expected that it will take at least four and a half months to reach the earth, and this is also the first time that the space station has sent such a huge amount of information to the earth.

Silka's original hope that Gao Jie would use Ryan's work to help his family seems to be unattainable.

In this way, the time came on December 4th, and Gao Jie was still at a loss for ways to save his family.

"Even if it's a delay...... Not at all...... I hope time will be on my side......" Gao Jie thought as he hesitated in the hallway.

"Alas, I hope time will be on our side......" - the voice came from nowhere, almost coinciding with Gao Jie's thoughts. Gao Jie followed the voice and found that two members of the space station were chatting, one of whom was in charge of technical work and was also Wang Chen's colleague. They exchanged pleasantries with Gao Jie and continued the conversation just now, and soon Gao Jie realized that they were complaining about the current situation.

“…… The speed of information transmission is too slow, and some small drawings will be transmitted for a day or two......"

“…… The material is so complex that it would take at least a year or two to make it even if it were put on Earth, and it would take more time to verify it repeatedly......"

“…… The number of colliders is still too small......"

…… Some professional terms made Gao Jie unable to interject, so she had to find an opportunity to ask: "Do you know how Wang Chen is?" I haven't seen him in a few days. ”

"King? He's fine! Always at work. The technician replied, "He's depressed, but he's very positive at work." Hearing this, Gao Jie breathed a sigh of relief, and she agreed very much with Wang Chen's practice of using work to relieve negative emotions.

The technician continued: "Yesterday Wang (Chen) told me his thoughts: he wants to go to the other side of the black hole. I think it's weird. ”

"Won't you be able to come back?" Gao Jie also asked in surprise, she didn't think that Wang Chen would think so.

The technician nodded and said, "Yes, but what he means is to take the technical data of the N people to the wormhole to study - because the time flow over there is slow, and any research results are only a matter of a day for the people here." ”

"I remember that communication couldn't pass through wormholes......"

"It can be transmitted in Morse code or binary code, and the previously received detector signal shows that both methods work."

"So that's ......" Gao Jie held her chin with her hand, remembering what Wang Chen had told her before, but she didn't expect that this matter could already be discussed openly on the space station.

"It's just that these ideas will definitely not be completed," the technician continued, "and even if there are indeed research results, they will not be able to transmit all of them, and thirty words is considered the limit...... Ah, high, we still have something to do, let's go first. The three of them said goodbye to each other.

After the two left, Gao Jie also returned to his cabin, thinking about the content of the conversation just now. The universe outside the cabin window is like a black bottomless pit, devouring the hopes that have been squeezed out of this tiny space station.

"Only a small amount of information can be sent back...... That is to say, wasting time on N-star technology is equivalent to Jingwei reclamation, which is completely hopeless, but ...... Wang Chen's idea does have a certain reference value, using the speed of time on both sides to balance this ...... No, no, it's a little messy...... That's right! Go talk to Silka! Saying...... Where did Syrka go? Oh, and to help develop the N-particle directive...... Development Instruction ...... Directives? …… Time? …… How many test subjects? …… Wait a minute?! ”

Outside the cabin window, a "star" twinkled and turned (in fact, Minerva rotated), as if it was trying its best to shine its light onto the space station, which was the sun far away at the center of the galaxy.

Gao Jie looked at the sun the size of a star, and a glimmer of dawn appeared in his mind:

"I seem to ...... I saw hope! ”