Chapter 15: Homestead

"Then you have to send this woman back, we have not known the whereabouts of the earthlings for two hundred years, and now we finally have a living specimen, and according to you, the current situation is quite critical, we must dig out their true motives! This is not only a matter of you and me, the stars, and Mars, but also the stability of the entire inner solar system, and the stability of all mankind - I ask you to hand over this woman to the Martian government immediately! After listening to the report, Nick Ma replied to Zhang Tianhe.

Because there is now a communication interval of more than ten minutes between the orbit of Mars and Fanxing, Zhang Tianhe and Nick Ma's conversations are intermittent, and in order to maintain the integrity of the story, we will no longer manually fill Zhang Tianhe's waiting time.

The solar system is extremely large, human eyes can't look far, human activities can't go far, and the scary place is that all the universe observed by human beings is how many years ago it looked, in other words, most of the universe seen by human beings is what they came to let you see what they used to be, people know little about the current universe, and the so-called human vision is really very narrow. Whether in the observation of the universe or the observation of the solar system, people are not accurate in what they see, this feeling is actually very bad, just like a lame disabled grandmother, she can't go anywhere, she can only sit in a wheelchair and wait for pedestrians, cars, planes, and spaceships outside to come and show her one by one, and if people don't come, she can't see anything.

This is the same as Zhang Tianhe's feeling now, after the war two hundred years ago, the earthlings disappeared, they are by no means corrupt and stinky in space, but trying to survive, the tenacity of life is actually far beyond people's imagination, especially intelligent life, they will definitely survive like mold, and it is not so easy to exterminate an intelligent species. The problem now is that they're hiding from you to see that you're having a hard time finding them in a solar system so large, and you don't know what's going on inside them, you can do just as much as you can do to a galaxy 10 billion light-years away — guess.

Fortunately, for Zhang Tianhe and Nixma now, it is much easier to guess the development of a human society than to guess the real situation of a galaxy.

"Of course they have to be sent, but I have to weakly ask, what exactly are they putting in my head? Has our technology reached the point of controlling people's emotions? ”

"I don't know much about the cutting-edge science of the Martian government, you know, I'm studying anthropology other than cosmology, and I don't know what the government has to do about it. But in my opinion, there is an absolute premise that the technology addition to your brain will not affect the safety of the Star and its technological mission, so you can rest assured that it will ......"

"! I suspect that if I send this woman back to you, you may not be able to dig out more urine than I do, unless you really have the technology beyond my knowledge......"

"I don't think it's useful for you to complain about this at this stage, and it's not a priority. Our immediate task is to find out where this woman came from and what the civilization in which she lives has any plans! ”

"You are an expert in anthropology, you know more than me, the so-called Athena and Medusa are ancient myths, this kind of thing is to put it bluntly, people in the past were obsessed with force majeure, and human beings have long broken through this barrier. So, if they pick up this set of things again, will they be able to be convincing and pay for it? This woman, no matter what, she has a clear mission, that is, she knows what she wants to do, so the question is, is this possible? Let a person rush to the universe without hesitation to die, and make her believe that she is shouldering a great and glorious mission......"

"Yes, in fact, if humanity is hit hard and its survival is threatened, it is not difficult to instill this kind of ideology into other people's brains, and if there is a leading person who deliberately does so, two hundred years is actually enough time to turn this kind of myth into a belief, in fact, it is okay to turn it into a universal idea of the whole people, and the flood of ideology is much more terrible than we think, so I agree with your idea on this point. No matter what the situation of this woman is, we have to pay attention to it, so ......"

"I know, I know, send her back...... It's not like using my brain to add this kind of thing to her, I don't see how useful it is, you let me slow down, I also want to know what's going on here, I have to think about it, and then I'll send this woman back, don't worry. ”

Regarding this kind of thing, about this situation, in fact, Zhang Tianhe thought about it before he talked to Nick Ma, how to describe his current state? Before an event happens, people's thoughts can't actually transcend reality, that is, no matter what you think, the event will still happen like that, Zhang Tianhe doesn't believe in the kind of nonsense that people will win the sky, things develop according to their own laws, and they are not controllable by what people can imagine - in words that can be understood, there will be many stories about this woman, in Zhang Tianhe's feeling, if this woman is sent back to Mars, then the story will be over, and he doesn't know what will happen. But knowing that sending her back was a negative factor for what was to come.

People have to summarize the laws of life in life, pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages, so now Zhang Tianhe's feeling is the law he has summarized in his nearly forty years of life, this kind of thing is similar to a woman's sixth sense, you can't tell it clearly, but it does exist. If he really didn't want to cut off the story according to his own wishes, he couldn't do things according to his likes and dislikes, and he should think more about it, especially in this eventful time - there was such a civilizational threat, and she should indeed be sent back to Mars to be dissected.

At first he thought that it would be easiest to bounce the woman back into the egg bin, but he immediately realized that this method was not perfect, and there was one thing he had not thought of before, that no matter what she was sent to do, it would be a very unreasonable thing to launch such a single woman into space, which at least showed that they were not prepared to let her return to where she came. It would be difficult for him to shoot her back to Mars in such a way now, there were too many uncontrollable factors. Another point is that Mars is now on the other side of the Sun, Jupiter and the Star are on the other side, and the Star is destined for Jupiter, otherwise you can throw her back along the way.

Don't panic when you encounter everything, sleep first and then talk about it. With that in mind, he called for a bed and lay down.

When Zhang Tianhe was communicating with Nick Ma, Zhou Limin and Shi Kening were looking at the electronic brain.

"Why don't you open it and take a look? We have to know who is giving instructions to it and what its purpose is......" Shi Kening said to Zhou Limin.

"It's not that simple, but there is a limit to all artificial intelligence, and this is something that Martian scientists have spent a lot of money to study. We humans are like this with artificial intelligence, it's like if you ignite a fire in a fuel field, either the intelligence is too low to be of little use to us, that is, you can't light it at all, or there is a chain reaction that burns into a sea of fire and swallows everything, so ......"

"Then there's no way to open this thing?"

"Yes, there is still something, this electronic brain is quite rudimentary, and it has been etched by someone on the construction site, and we only need to figure out these circuits, and we can channel the molecular cloud into the magnetic field...... But even if we take out this electronic brain, it won't work, we have to have a matching central nervous system to know what it's going to do......"

"Isn't there anything like that on the Star?"

"No, it has to be made fresh. But let's think about it, maybe you can use the chip to dock with this electronic brain, let its consciousness reflect on the chip, and then we'll see what it is going to do - but I'm afraid it's useless, because this level of electronic brain, there is one thing to say, digging a pit and people dislike it and use it, it's almost the same, and it's not okay to do anything else......"

“…… Then you have to know what it's for, do it, the captain is still waiting for you to report. ”

Shi Kening was going to go back to talk to Zhang Tianhe after settling down, but when he saw that the captain's room was already free of idlers, he thought about it and walked to Athena's cell inexplicably.

Regarding the relationship between men and women on Mars, it is actually quite loose, and no one can command anyone else to do this kind of thing, so everyone can only try their luck. Reproductive rights determine that most of the relationship between men and women will be a play, said that only having children is the ultimate result of love between men and women, if there is no such thing, then everyone is just passing the time, no one has to take it seriously. Sknin is a fighter among the Martians, and he belongs to the ...... How to put it, belongs to the kind of person who is so clean and self-loving that it will make people think that there is something wrong with his body, he has only had one emotional experience, and that is also when he is studying. Martian basic education is very fast, at the age of thirteen sexual maturity can find the other half openly, although you can't have children, but at least exercise your feelings, Shi Kening is almost thirty years old, he has only found one opposite sex, he understands everything he should know, but he just doesn't have luck in this regard.

It's not accurate to say that he is ugly or stupid or incapacitated, but it just happened, from his own point of view, maybe he hasn't met the kind of woman who is worthy of his love, and he can only comfort himself like this, everything else is easy to find in this universe, and it is not easy to find someone who wants to love someone.

After Athena appeared, he seemed to find a similar feeling, that is, his heart was warm, even if he looked at her more, it was good, which was quite an exciting thing for Shi Kning, who was lackluster in daily life.

When he entered Athena's cell, she was sitting cross-legged on the bed, straightened like an ancient monk sat down, her hands flat on her lap.

"What are you doing?" He asked.

"My star spirit is in a fugue."

“…… Does it make you feel comfortable? Are you happy? Sknin asked, then sat down at a table in the cell and looked at Athena with a gentle eye.

"There is no joy or pain in iQue, it is just a spiritual visual ......"

"And what do you see?"

"I can't see clearly...... But I can see my home when I am in the fugue, it is the garden of the gods, which I couldn't see before......"

"What does your home look like?"

"It'...... It has been weak since it was destroyed by the Martians, but it is getting better day by day, and we will go back one day......" Athena thought hysterically with her eyes closed, and suddenly she cried out, "Ah! Suffering! Someone is destroying our homeland! It's begging me for help! It's crying! It's wailing! It's calling me back! ”

“…… But where is it? ”

"It's not far from us! I can see it! Someone raises bugs on it! Lots and lots of bugs! ”