You Gege still remembers the day he first made contact with Forerunner 3.

Through the thick closed glass, You Gege saw "Forerunner 3" sitting in the middle of the closed room.

It has a strange posture, with one leg crossed and one leg bent to form a triangle with the ground.

Holding a glass ball in his hand, he stroked it carefully and constantly.

This is the first time that You Gege has observed "Forerunner 3" with the naked eye without the help of observation equipment, and she can't help but get close to the past.

As if sensing the presence of You Gege, "Forerunner 3" stopped its movements and raised its head to "look" at You Gege.

Although the Precursor 3 had no eyes, at that moment You Gege felt like it saw itself, and it looked focused.

The temperature in the enclosed room is constant at 22 degrees Celsius, which is a relatively cool temperature for humans.

"Forerunner No. 3" also seemed to like it, and after looking at You Gege for a while, he lay down comfortably, stretched out his crossed legs freely, and hugged a puppet casually, completely like a child.

You Gege walked around the closed room, and when she came to the side, she once again "looked at Forerunner 3".

This time, "Forerunner 3" seems to be a little curious.

Who is she? Why is she here? Why did she keep staring at me?

These ideas were the guesses of Yougege himself.

"Forerunner 3" and You Gege "looked at each other" for a long time, and then slowly sat up.

After making sure that Precursor 3's attention was on him, You Gege raised his left hand and pressed it against the glass of the closed room.

"Forerunner 3" did not move, he was engrossed in "watching" You Gege.

Until You Gege received a reminder and left in a hurry, it didn't take its "eyes" off again.

……

The first day of contact seemed unfruitful to outsiders.

But in You Gege's heart, he felt very fulfilled.

Because she felt that "Forerunner 3" noticed her, and even remembered her, which was very important and a good start.

On the second day of the contact plan, You Gege still came to the closed room alone.

Guo Xingcai is in charge of guarding the observation room in China.

Today's Forerunner 3 is a little more lively than in the past.

Although it has the body of an adult, it acts like an innocent child.

At this time, he was arranging a set of matryoshka dolls in order of size.

This has been happening since the morning, and researchers in all districts are thrilled by this, as it proves that Forerunner 3 is a sapient organism, as evidenced by its ability to determine the intrinsic properties of concrete things.

However, the Forerunner 3 was a little clumsy at first.

Not only did it get the size order wrong many times, but the matryoshka dolls were not arranged in the same line, and the spacing was completely different.

In this regard, experts in the United States said that they are not optimistic, and they believe that although the "Pioneer 3" may have intelligence, its ability to act is extremely low, and it is a primitive and backward life.

Russian experts also expressed dissatisfaction with this unoptimistic attitude of the Americans, and they believe that "Forerunner 3" cannot be judged to be primitive because it does not understand what humans have created, because everything is relative, and perhaps it is we who are really primitive, and "Forerunner 3" is just trying to lower its posture to communicate with us.

You Gege can be said to be indifferent to these two views, and the "Forerunner 3" in her eyes is not only not clumsy, but very smart, because it only fiddles with a few nesting dolls, and the experts of the two great powers on the planet are in a debate.

It's like a man and a woman looking at monkeys in a zoo, and when they find the monkey drawing on the ground, one person praises the monkey for being smart, and the other says that no matter how smart it is, it's just a monkey.

But they didn't know that the monkey was scolding these two fools who judged it in circles.

Thinking of this, You Gege couldn't help but smile.

Guo Xingcai on the side looked carefully, but he didn't know why You Gege was laughing.

That night, when the server restarted, there were still many researchers who had not left the observation room, apparently concerned about Forerunner 3 and matryoshka dolls.

However, "Forerunner No. 3", who was originally very interested in nesting dolls, suddenly put down the things in his hand, then turned to face in one direction, and sat there without moving.

Researchers are puzzled by this move by Forerunner 3.

Experts in the United States took advantage of the situation and sneered and belittled the "Forerunner 3".

The Russian experts argued with reason, and the two sides went to the restaurant noisily, and soon the observation room was gone.

Only You Gege and Guo Xingcai stayed.

And only You Gege knew why "Forerunner 3" was staring in one direction.

Because she knew that "Forerunner 3" was waiting for her.

……

Although it was the second time he had come to the closed room, You Gege still couldn't help but have his heart beat faster.

Because she felt that she was really lucky to have the opportunity to come into contact with a life form like "Forerunner 3" that she had never seen before.

So when she came to Precursor 3, her face was full of smiles.

Precursor 3 sat there dumbfounded, looking at Yougege.

You Gege was also watching it.

Two intelligent beings peered into each other through a closed glass.

Although he just looked at it like this, the careful You Gege found that today's "Forerunner No. 3" was a little closer than yesterday.

And what excites You Gege the most is that after looking at each other for about five minutes, "Forerunner No. 3" actually raised his left hand and opened his palm.

The movement was almost identical to yesterday's Yougege.

Guo Xingcai, who was in the observation room, noticed this scene and immediately turned on the recording and made a separate backup.

……

When You Gege came to the glass of the closed room, she also raised her left hand and pressed it against the glass, and asked at the same time, "Can you understand what I said?" ”

"Precursor 3" did not respond, it slowly lowered its left hand, and then reached out with its right hand and took the nesting doll not far away.

Seeing this, You Gege realized that perhaps Forerunner 3 was becoming less interested in her.

Then he curled his fingers and tapped them lightly on the glass of the closed room.

The rhythmic percussion sound really got the Forerunner 3 interested again.

He looked at it "suspiciously", then got up and walked very close to You Gege.

When she saw it approaching, You Gege subconsciously wanted to retreat, but she suddenly realized that if she showed fear at this moment, then it was very likely that "Forerunner 3" would have less trust in her, so she forced herself to calm down so that she did not retreat.

However, You Gege's heartbeat accelerated to one hundred and forty beats per minute at this time.

This is an exaggeration for the frail You Gege.

After Guo Xingcai noticed the move of "Forerunner No. 3", he couldn't help but get nervous.

She reminded: "Miss You, I suggest that you don't have too close contact with it for the time being, it's too dangerous. ”

Listening to the reminder in his ear, You Gege replied softly: "Don't worry, I can feel it, it has no malice, it's just curious." ”

As she spoke, You Gege saw a white palm larger than her palm sticking to the safety glass of the closed room.

At that moment, although there was still a reinforced safety glass with a thickness of more than fifteen centimeters, You Gege had vaguely felt the temperature of the palm of the "Forerunner No. 3".

After the big man with a pure white body sat down, he slowly flexed his fingers, and followed the rhythm of You Gege, beating the beat, and inexplicably, You Gege felt that it was not imitating, but looking forward to communication.

When You Gege realized this, he stopped his fingers at Forerunner 3 and began to tap again.

This time, You Gege chose a Chinese folk song and used his fingers to imitate the prelude drum beat of that ballad, striking a rhythmic tune on the glass.

Precursor 3 lowered his hand and listened quietly.

But after listening to it, it didn't "imitate" anymore, it just looked at You Gege like this.

You Gege didn't know what it was thinking at this time, but she felt that the big man in front of her must have understood, and now it was thinking, scrutinizing, and hesitating......

As for what to think, what to examine, and why hesitate...... She didn't know, and she didn't have a specific idea.

But it felt real.

……

On the third day, You Gege did not appear.

She was sick, and Antarctica was a high-altitude and extremely cold region, and her body did not allow her to stay awake all day thinking about how to build a stronger mutual trust with Forerunner 3.

In the days when You Gege was unconscious with a high fever, You Gege didn't know that "Forerunner 3" was also "sick".

It's just that its "disease" is not physical, but spiritual.

After discovering that "Pioneer 3" began to actively approach the glass of the closed room, researchers from many countries speculated that "Pioneer 3" had become interested in the outside world, and its perception of space was improving, and urged the construction personnel to speed up the construction progress of the Origin 1 experimental base.

But this does not include researchers in China, because they all know that the reason why Forerunner 3 behaves so unusually is because it is waiting for her to appear.

……

When You Gege woke up, exactly a week had passed.

A lot has happened during the week.

First of all, Takahashiyama, who first discovered the "door", also passed away, and the cause of death was a sudden myocardial infarction.

At present, the human factor has been officially ruled out.

You Gege can only accept this bad news......

Attending a funeral in Antarctica is a strange experience......

Lake Don Juan is surrounded by vast and empty plains, and the snow does not completely cover the area.

Looking at the graveyard in front of him, although he knew that there was no body of Takahashi Sanya, You Gege still stood in front of the tombstone for a long time.

During this period, Guo Xingcai was worried about You Gege's body and reminded her to return to the camp several times, but You Gege refused.