Ancient City Manuscripts:

Just thinking about it, come over and take off the mask, it's a white man. The white man said, "Hello, we are from the United Nations scientific team, my name is Charles, if you have time, would I like to ask you a few questions?"

Du Jianguo said: "Please show your ID. ”

Charles really took out a work card from his pocket, and Du Jianguo took a closer look, and sure enough, it was from the United Nations. But for some reason, maybe it's social phobia, maybe it's just a dislike for this group of expedition members, he still doesn't want to cooperate with this Charles, so he said: "I'm sorry, I'm working, I don't have time to answer your questions." ”

Charles said, "When do you have time? I want to make an appointment." ”

Du Jianguo wanted to say that I didn't have time all the time, but he felt that it didn't seem polite, so he said, "How long does it take for you to ask questions? ”

Charles said it would be about ten minutes. Du Jianguo said: "Okay, then you can come over in 10 minutes, I will be free at that time." ”

Charles said, "Okay, that's fair," and put on his mask and went back to work. Du Jianguo didn't move, took out a cigarette and stood there while smoking and looking at his watch. Ten minutes later, Charles was back on time. He was also secretly looking at his watch, Du Jianguo thought.

"Say, what do you want to ask?" Du Jianguo said.

"Do you remember where you found this stone?" asked Charles.

"I don't remember, next question. Du Jianguo said. 
"I heard that you were a tour guide when you found this stone, can you recount the situation at that time?"

Du Jianguo talked about how he found out that Mrs. Pi found this stone, how he persuaded her to put it back, and how Professor Zhou asked her to carry it back.

Charles videotaped the whole thing, asked the question, and then turned to leave. Over the next few days, everyone at Star Trip was asked around. The 50-mile radius around the travel agency, together with Liu Qilin's farm, has been tested by them, and it can be said that they have found nothing. Unlike Du Jianguo's mentality of wanting to see jokes, Wang Qianyuan was very concerned about the progress of the scientific expedition team. Every day, he runs around like a small follower, anxious about what the scientific expedition team is anxious about, and thinks about what the scientific expedition team thinks, as if his main job is the supernumerary staff of the scientific expedition team, and engaging in travel agencies is just a side business.

Seeing that the scientific expedition team was about to return in vain, Wang Qianyuan had an idea and said that there is another person you should ask, he must know where the stone came from. Professor Zhou asked, "Who is it?"

Wang Qianyuan said: "Wang Miqiu, bring us stones." ”

When Wang Miqiu came, he was still wearing a large boat of new stones that he didn't know where to pick up. As soon as he opened the hatch, a group of scientific expedition team rushed up in white clothes and white helmets, he thought that he had encountered a robbery, and the anxious Martian words came out: "Cyka Blyat, who are you?

A large ship of stones brought by Wang Miqiu has also been tested, and they are all ordinary goods, nothing special. Everyone thought it was in vain, so Charles showed Wang Miqiu the stone that Professor Zhou brought back with the mentality of giving it a try, and asked Wang Miqiu if he still remembered this stone?

Wang Miqiu said: "Remember, this is what I specially found to give to Xiaomei." ”

Charles said, "How can you prove what you are looking for?" Wang Miqiu said: "You use an ultraviolet lamp to shine on that stone, and there is a poem I wrote on it. ”

Everyone used the lamp to shine, and a few lines of small words appeared on the surface of the stone: "Jun should be a rock, and a concubine should be a reed." Pu Wei is as tough as silk, and the rock has no transfer" is Wang Miqiu.

Wang Miqiu said: "I wrote with a highlighter, and the word can automatically appear with ultraviolet lights or at night, and I want to surprise Xiaomei." ”

Seeing this line of words, Xiaomei blushed with shame. The members of the expedition team were pleasantly surprised, surrounded Wang Miqiu, and asked him where he found the stone.

Wang Miqiu said that I found it on Mammoth Star. The scientific expedition team looked at each other, Mammoth Star is 10 billion light-years away from the Earth, and it takes half a month to drive at full speed 7, the fastest speed of mankind, which is the farthest planet that humans have ever explored.

Charles asked, "Why are you running so far?"

Wang Miqiu said: "Because I like the feeling of being far away, can't I?"

It is of course permissible to like to travel to distant places, but for the expedition team, going to Mammoth means more investment and more detailed preparation. Mammoth Star is a super-large planet, with a mass more than 1,000 times that of Jupiter, and has reached the size of a star, and Mammoth Star has not undergone gravity modification and atmospheric modification, and human beings have only used unmanned reconnaissance vehicles to investigate, so everyone is suspicious of Wang Miqiu's statement that he dug back a stone from Mammoth Star. But the poems he left on the stone prove that what he said is still more credible.

The expedition team discussed it and felt that the expedition mission on the lunar side had been completed. For a highly exploited planet like the Moon, there is nothing to investigate, and now it is time to return to Earth to prepare a larger expedition team to investigate Mammoth. So Professor Zhou went to settle the hotel account with Wang Qianyuan, and this time Xingtu prepared the machine to issue an invoice. The invoice should be made payable to: "United Nations Joint Scientific Expedition Team." ”

After settling the account, Professor Zhou was ready to leave. Xiaomei suddenly chased after him and asked, "Can you return that stone to me after you finish the investigation?" It was given to me by Yuqiu, and there is a poem he wrote to me on it. ”

Professor Zhou pondered for a moment and said, "I'm afraid not, because I have already bought that stone, and legally speaking, it is my personal belongings." I overpaid for a ticket, do you remember?"

Xiaomei lowered her head helplessly, and at this time Tian Lei suddenly stepped forward and said, "Hello Professor Zhou, this stone is a personal item given to Ms. Li Xiaomei by Mr. Wang Miqiu, and the company has no right to sell it. And you were buying a ticket for the passengers, not a receipt for the stone. If you go to court, the stone doesn't have to be yours. ”

Professor Zhou said: "Well, I don't know much about legal matters, so let's give you a business card, and I'll ask my lawyer to contact you when I go back. ”

When that's all that, I'm leaving. Wang Qianyuan stopped Professor Zhou and said, "The two young people are not sensible, don't take it to heart." Let's not go to court. ”

Professor Zhou nodded. Just walking towards the spaceship, Wang Qianyuan asked again: "Can you tell me what kind of extraterrestrial creature information is on that stone?"

Professor Zhou said: "Preliminary tests showed that the stone was actually an epithelial cell. Reptilian scales, like those found on crocodiles and lizards. What exactly it is will continue to be studied. With that, he boarded the spaceship and set off.

Seeing that the scientific expedition team was leaving, Du Jianguo pulled Wang Miqiu and asked, "Miqiu, that stone can't be what you did to do something, right? Why don't I believe what kind of scales that stone is?"

Wang Yiqiu said that I really didn't do anything except write a poem, and the stone looked no different from the others. I don't know if it's really Professor Zhou's trick of pretending to be a ghost. After speaking, he went to comfort Xiaomei, saying that there are so many stones in the universe, I will find you a few more beautiful ones.

Wang Qianyuan didn't express an opinion on this stone, but just said to Tian Lei: "Xiao Tian don't talk so impulsively in the future, don't think that you are the only one who understands the law, and there are more lawyers." Let's do business, it's better to keep a low profile in everything. ”

Tian Lei nodded and agreed.

The situation on the side of the Star Travel Agency is not listed, but it is said that after the United Nations scientific expedition team returned to Earth, it immediately organized a meeting to discuss the matter of going to Mammoth Star for investigation.

This mammoth is no bigger than other planets in the solar system, and it is difficult to transform this planet. Trillions of tonnes of carbon dioxide would be needed to transform the atmosphere alone, which would be a hundred years smaller than the emitted smoke bombs like other planets, let alone the gravity of that planet.

The United Nations Institute of Biology has limited funds, and there have been basically no research results for hundreds of years, so the call for the abolition of this organization has been high in the United Nations, and many countries have been in arrears for a long time. The cost of going to the moon this time is basically half a year's budget for this institute, and such a thing as going to a planet tens of billions of light-years away is not enough, even if the entire budget of this organization is added up to the present.

The news of the discovery of extraterrestrial life happens once in a while, and many of them are not followed later, and many of them are deceptive. Who knows if the stone that Professor Zhou got was a prank he had done after he retired? It was already very face-saving for everyone to accompany him to the moon to explore, and although he did not find any extraterrestrial life, it was not bad to go on a tour. As for the mammoth clues found, they can be presented to the public as the results of the investigation.

That's the meaning of the institute, and everyone's eyes were full of tacit understanding when they looked at Professor Zhou, as if they were thanking Professor Zhou for doing such a bureau, so that the guys could go out for a trip. In such an atmosphere, Professor Zhou was naturally embarrassed to mention the matter of going to Mammoth Star again. He found that the stone originally thought that the stone looked a bit like animal scales, and he took it back and tested it with a playful attitude. Of course, he didn't think that this thing really represented any extraterrestrial creature, maybe it was synthesized by the travel company itself, in order to make a gimmick.

Seeing that the matter was about to be resolved, a Russian named Юрий (Yuri) at the institute said: "I think we should go to Mammoth for an expedition." ”

Everyone laughed and said, "Okay, Yuri, we'll go with you if you go get the money for the inspection." ”

Yuri said, "We don't need so many people, I can go by myself." Wasn't the guy who found this scale at the time also a person? I'll just use the institute's boat, and you can reimburse me for the electricity bill. ”

Now everyone stopped talking. After being silent for a while, Napoléon Zhao, the director of the institute, said: "You can go, but don't be alone, I will send Zhou Haoyu and Charles to accompany you, anyway, two more people is two more pairs of chopsticks, and the electricity bill is the same." ”

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This section is very interesting to see Wang Xijia, who has never heard of a mammoth star before crossing over, nor has he seen a combination of Chinese and Western naming methods like "Napoléon. Zhao".

What kind of era is depicted in the manuscript?