Chapter 25: The Crossfire

Human beings know very little about everything in this world, from the smallest quantum, to the largest universe, from thousands of other living beings, to human beings, from the reality that we have to experience every day, to the various consciousnesses generated in the brain, from the dreams that we remember or cannot remember, to all kinds of spiritual feelings, none of which human beings can explain clearly.

In other words, people don't really understand anything, humen, you know nothing.

The Mariana Trench is the deepest trench on earth, and some scientists have said that there is too much pressure in this place for creatures to survive at all, but it didn't take long for it to be slapped in the face, there are many biological populations in the Mariana Trench, and they are all living very well, in this sense, scientists and gods are not much different, for some unexplained phenomena they are just guessing there, guessing that you will speak, and if you don't guess, there is no evil result, anyway, it is regarded as nonsense, and you have no way to be ashamed of him. Some people say that mathematics and physics don't lie, these things are just some tools that have been categorized in science, and their role in the end is to make a factual theoretical basis for the conjectures of the gods, which goes back to the human way of thinking of causality, always finding something first and then adding various reasons to it, isn't science also a truth? Let's first put forward a theory of relativity, and use mathematics for a long time, it doesn't seem right, okay, then let's call it "special relativity". So he put forward a generalized one, and then went to the method of mathematical physics to calculate and observe, and added the same reason, this time it seemed to be right, and no one could refute it for the time being, and he stabilized the old iron, and sat firmly on the throne of the great scientist - isn't this such a process? Everyone is just looking for irrefutable reasons for the idea of a god, but what about the nature of science, the nature of facts, and the nature of truth? In fact, it was muddyed by these things.

There is a very famous saying on the ancient earth that the ultimate of science is theology, although this sentence has been misinterpreted by countless people, but compared to this sentence is the closest to the essence of the universe - all science, no matter what kind of discipline it is, it should be able to return to a final explanation, this explanation can infinitely cover all problems, from the quantum mentioned above to the final human heart feelings, it can give you the answer. What is this explanation? Humanity has not yet discovered.

The reason why science should return to theology is not that there is a creature god in this world who can explain everything, but that there must be a final explanation, and the final truth can explain all this, and human beings cannot break through this barrier, but this sounds theological - for the earthlings at that time, they felt that this final explanation could never be realized by human beings, and it had surpassed the limits of human beings, so it was not like a real thing in the universe, but more like a virtual god, a concept.

In fact, as mentioned above, the Martian civilization is a continuation of the earth's civilization, and in essence, the Martians did not break through the set of things created by the earthlings in terms of theory, so their scientific concepts are not much different from those of the earthlings. Yes, the ultimate of science is theology, but we can't touch theology, so let's concentrate on science, science is so fun, because science is the most real, the most can bring practical benefits to people, is there a more rational way to think about life than this? You have to put all your energy into science to be considered a decent person!

The vast majority of people on the Star have this worldview, and there are a few exceptions that everyone will see slowly, but the exceptions are silent for those who realize that the real situation is definitely not the supremacy of science to solve the problem, and it is too stupid for them to go against the mainstream reality, even if they find something, they will not be angry, because it is biased towards theological issues, which cannot be verified and falsified, and will be laughed at by others - whatever, a person will not live for a hundred years at most, can I still manage others if I live to understand? Who wants to be like Copernicus Bruno? And those who have really made a breakthrough in the ultimate truth know that humanity is incorrigible, so they all remain silent. If it weren't for the fact that they encountered some insurmountable danger in reality, such a person would probably never have expressed his theologically similar ideas to others for the rest of his life, and it would be useless after all.

Brian wasn't worried at all when he dived, he had strong fire support, except for a few pigs' noses nearby, don't forget that there was a huge Star in space, if this lineup flew over Mercury, the people from the Mercury Mining Company should be playing with it - too many things were done, for fear that people would wipe them out, the Star Mine's particle cannon was really no joke, the average asteroid it shot through, it could shoot particle cannons into the ocean from space. In the ocean, the landing craft sail much slower than in space, and if you look at it from the outside, the pig's nose is now in a state with its head down, and inside, the gyroscope will create a gravitational effect on the cabin anyway, allowing the crew to drive normally. There were only four people on the bait-making landing craft, two pilots including Brian, a gunner and an observer, all young men, and now they had once again dived to a distance of five thousand meters, where the accident had last occurred, and everyone was laughing.

"I don't know what the enemy is, but give it to me I won't gnaw a pig's nose, and I'm going to jump off my big teeth!" The gunner said.

"The strange thing is that I can't see anything on the radar, so I don't know what the use of taking me is!" The observer replied while looking at the radar.

"That's the first mate giving you a chance to earn points! I wonder if you can go back to Mars and find a girl to have a baby! ”

"Hey! I'm only in my thirties, and I'm still far from it! By the time we have enough, we may have flown beyond Uranus, and it will be difficult to come back by then......"

"Didn't you lose again while bowling that day...... I'll just say seven at most, you have to bet eight, yes! Let's save up! I'll tell you, I've heard that there's a way to come back wherever we fly, just stuff you in the egg bin and shoot you back like the men shoot like that......"

"Let your mother go...... Feed! Look! There's movement down there! ”

No matter what the radar is, its principle is to emit some particles or waves to reflect back, in order to determine the size, shape, and distance of the other party, the last time they were attacked, the guy came to the landing craft silently, but this time it lurked more than ten meters below the landing craft when it suddenly appeared. This guy is much smaller than the landing craft, about ten meters long, and as soon as it emerges from the radar, it can be concluded that it is an octopus, and its huge head and eight brachiopods can be clearly seen on the radar, it opens like an umbrella, and on the electro-optical radar it flashes like pulses, and the brightness and color are constantly changing, which dazzles the observer.

It turned out to be an octopus! Several people on the bait boat came up with the idea at the same time - the enemy was just an octopus for a long time, and at that moment they forgot that this was the earth after a nuclear war, not to mention the ten-meter-long octopus, which had always been thought to be extinct even a creature the size of a mouse, and perhaps only a few cockroaches and other insects remained. Brian was carrying a biopotential monitor, which was different from the radar on his instrument, and he began to panic.

Bioelectricity is the current generated by the atoms in the cells of all living organisms, in this sense, all life is electrified, in the past, there are many species of fish in the earth's marine life have evolved a bioelectric radar, they use this thing to track their prey, and the flounder buries no matter how deep it is, it can't escape the hammerhead shark's hammerhead radar because of this. Brian's sensors work on the same principle as hammerhead sharks' glands, but his instruments are more sophisticated.

Now he sees such a scene: the bioelectricity on this octopus is converging on its beak except for the part of the skin that generates electricity outward, which looks like a particle cannon charge, he knows this principle, so when others let down their vigilance, he is scared to death, he doesn't know what this octopus is going to do, what the consequences will be, but he knows that this kind of bioelectric charge will not be a good thing.

The men on their boat weren't the first to shoot their guns, because they couldn't fire them anymore - almost at the same time as the octopus came out, it began to discharge electricity into the landing craft, and the electricity was able to penetrate the hull of the landing craft, and instantly knocked all four people in the boat to the ground.

The landing craft, which cannot be penetrated by high-energy particles, was knocked out by an octopus with a single discharge. It's kind of like ...... The sun's stream of energetic particles can't penetrate the Earth, but it can knock everyone on Earth down when it's electrified. It can't be so analogous, because the electromagnetic force can't penetrate the landing craft, this kind of pediatric thing Martian people have long been out of use in terms of armament, and the application of electromagnetic force in Martian technology is mainly to constrain atomic energy, and particles can't penetrate electromagnetic It's meaningless at all - that is, the things launched by this octopus have not been mastered by Martian technology.

Terrific!

From the moment the octopus appeared to the time it discharged (since it can't explain what force it used to knock down the four people in the landing craft, that can only be defined phenomically) was only a short moment, and the moment it discharged, the other three landing craft immediately opened fire on it. The principle of action of the particle cannon has been mentioned above, it needs fire control and correction, and it is enough to hit such an octopus with a conventional magnitude, and three landing craft fired at the same time to hit the octopus, and the three boats all hit the head, and instantly drilled three holes with a diameter of half a meter in the octopus's head. Its eight brachiopods twisted and struggled to knot and unknot, blue blood spurting everywhere, and the octopus turned around and swam into the depths.

All the descriptions took place in a matter of seconds, and as soon as the octopus ran away, the other three pigs chased after it. In the past, in the experience of earthlings, the octopus was a relatively slow animal in the ocean, but this one ran faster than a dog, and the three pigs behind were originally some distance away from them, and they couldn't catch it for a while. The communication between the pig's nose is selectively related, everyone on the Star is like this, if you want to see someone else's holographic image and need authorization, Zhang Tianhe can see everyone's image, he kept looking at Brian, he knew that the four people on their boat had been knocked down, and when he pushed the engine to chase, he gave an order, let the people on Shi Kning's boat go and save people first.

"What's going on?" Shu Ermi asked when he followed Zhang Tianhe to catch up, his perspective was looking at the entire bait boat, so he didn't see anything going on inside.

"Several people in the bait were knocked out." Zhang Tianhe replied.

"Is there such a thing?" Shulmi was also taken aback, there are only a handful of things in the history of Martians such as penetrating landing craft, which is exactly the cost of Martians to dominate the solar system!

"Free firefight, knock it down!" Zhang Tianhe pursed his lips and said.