Chapter 3: Unknown Rays

Aside from the white skeleton that had never been seen in biology classes, there was nothing else on the video.

It can't be said that there is nothing, although the eyes of the nine people can only see those terrifying white skeletons.

But they could clearly feel that the darkness on the video screen was a little different from the darkness they usually saw.

"It's the same as the Alpine landscape captured by satellite 6." It was Academician Li from the satellite management department who spoke.

Dr. Chen of the Chinese Academy of Sciences also interjected, "Do you say these people are dead or not?" ”

Ignoring Dr. Chen's question, Director Lin looked at the skull on the video screen and asked, "May I ask if it is Comrade Conglu?" ”

With Director Lin's questioning, the tension in the office eased a lot.

On the other end of the phone, I tried all kinds of methods from the road, but in the end I couldn't get any light.

He gave up trying to call home first, but his name came out on the phone.

From the road, I subconsciously put my phone in my ear and said, "Who is looking for me".

"This is the Beijing office of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and this is the director of the Astronomical Bureau."

As a national-level cadre, I was asked who it was when I had a video conversation with someone, but fortunately, a secretary answered, otherwise I don't know how to carry out this conversation.

"You haven't hung up yet! For a while, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a moment for the Astronomical Bureau, there are quite a lot of tricks. ”

The chief's secretary seemed to hear the meaning of Conglu's words, and said with a little anger: "You can see clearly, this person in front of you is Lin Shu, director of the National Astronomical Bureau."

"Lin Shu!" When he heard this name, Conglu unconsciously opened his mouth, and the expression on his face changed slightly.

"You're really not a scam syndicate?"

The secretary of the bureau looked at the skull on the screen like a bun and said angrily: "Don't you watch the news?" I don't even know Director Lin! ”

Although the other party's tone was not very friendly, Ke Conglu was not angry, but still a little happy in his heart.

Although he has become a skeleton, he still wants to live, and if the other party is a state cadre, then he will be saved.

"I'm Lin Shu." There is no meaning to explain, just a simple sentence "I am Lin Shu".

But the strange thing is that such a simple sentence has eliminated all doubts from the road.

At this moment, he was very sure that the person on the other end of the phone was not a scam syndicate. The person who spoke to him was Lin Shu, the first person in contemporary physics who solved the problem of quantum physics that has puzzled human scientists for nearly a thousand years.

"Lin, Director Lin."

"Yes, I'm Lin Shu, hello Comrade Conglu! Could you please report back on your situation there? ”

"You, what do you want to know?"

Without waiting for Director Lin to ask, Dr. Chen on the side grabbed the words and said, "How did you die?" ”

I knew from the road that it should be a big man who asked the question, so I dispelled the urge to curse.

"We shouldn't be dead yet!"

"Then how did you become this ghost?"

"You're a ghost! Your whole family looks like a ghost! Naturally, I didn't dare to say what I thought in my heart.

However, Conglu found something from the other party's words, and he immediately replied, "Can you see me?" ”

"If you're the white bone in front of you, then we can see you." The one who replied was another scientist named Huang Rong.

"Can you really see me?" There is some surprise from the road.

"You can see it! How did you become the way you are? ”

"I don't know, I just remember that there was a cloud that obscured the sun, and then it suddenly got dark."

"I was a little distracted, and when I came back to my senses, everyone was like me."

"But our bodies are still there, and our hearts haven't stopped, but they just look a little scary."

"Are you still there?"

"Also, after dark, I can see farther than during the day. Originally, my eyesight was very poor, and I used to be unable to see clearly beyond 200 meters, but now I feel that I can see bones dozens of kilometers away. ”

Dr. Chan seemed to have some obsession with death and asked, "How did you die?" ”

"I told you, we're not dead yet!"

Academician Li confirmed: "You mean that you are not dead, and your bodies are still there. ”

"Yes."

"It seems that it was the unidentified ray that made them what they are now!"

"Ray! What rays? ”

Academician Li looked at the skull on the screen and explained: "That's right, at 23:37:44 Beijing time, our Galaxy 7 satellite found an unknown ray entering the edge of the Milky Way. Judging from the direction of the rays, they should have come from the Ngc3357 galaxy in the constellation Leo. At first, we thought it was a ray from a supernova explosion. But then we realized that we might be wrong, because the speed of the ray was too fast. It traveled at least 100,000 times faster than the speed of light, and in just 17 minutes it traveled from the Yhq6845 galaxy at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy to the edge of the solar system. By the time our quantum satellite sent back the data, the ray had already hit the Earth's surface. Judging from the footage captured by the satellite, the area covered by the rays was only boundless darkness except for the white bones. At first, we weren't sure why those bones moved, but now it looks like they should be just like you..."

Before Academician Li finished speaking, the female police officer outside the door interrupted: "Report to the chief!" The International Association of Astronomical Unions has sent a video that they want you to see right away."

"Pick it up and play it on the No. 3 camera." The secretary hurriedly arranged.

Then the eyes of the nine people converged on the screen of machine 3.

There isn't any mood for the opening song, and the screen is playing a small town in the south of Canada.

There are a lot of people coming and going on the streets, mostly Westerners, but you can occasionally see a few oriental faces.

Most of the people there don't like the fast pace of life. Instead of getting 20 yuan for an hour of overtime, they prefer to spend an hour haggling with the clerk in the store.

While that would save them a few cents, it would keep them happy all day.

The screen continued to play, and just as everyone was wondering what was unusual about this video, the screen of Unit 3 suddenly went black.

I saw that the men and women on the street all turned into terrifying white skeletons in an instant.

There was nothing in the video except the skeletons, everything was buried in the darkness.

The nine people in the office who watched the video gasped.

"Hey! Hey, hey! Can you still hear me? Hey, hey! The voice from the road was clearly in a hurry.

After a long time of no response, he held his phone above his head and looked for a satellite signal in a messy manner.

In a panic, I didn't know what I stepped on, and I didn't stand still from the road and fell to the ground.

"Hmmm! ~~~" The woman frowned and let out a painful sound.

The voice was very close to Conglu, it must have come from below him, and he sat up with his hands propped up.

"Huh! What is this? It's soft and wet, and it's quite comfortable to pinch. Looking over from Luxin's thoughts, he saw that his five fingers were resting on the left side of the sternum of a white skeleton.

"Ahh ~~~~~~~~~~~" The white skull's upper and lower jawbones parted and let out a woman's scream.

Immediately after that, the skeletal woman uses the ulna of her left hand to open the hand from the road.

Then she put her hands on the ground, her legs and femurs and took a few steps back.

As she retreated, she repeatedly shouted "Don't" in a non-standard American English.

From the road stunned to look at the white skeleton with his hands crossed in front of his chest, his mouth kept screaming no, and his mind recalled the previous conversation.

"It's just that the unknown ray made them look like this."

As soon as he thought of this, Conglu suddenly felt that the skeleton woman in front of him didn't seem to be so terrifying, and then thought of the soft feel just now, his face began to feel a little hot.

"Yes, yes, I'm sorry! I, I didn't mean to. "I was in a panic for a while, and I forgot that the other party was a foreigner and should not understand Chinese.

"Ahh ~~~~ Don't, don't come! Yes! ~~~”

Conglu only raised his hands to indicate that he had no malicious intent, but the skeleton woman was obviously more afraid.

"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you." Because he often watches American blockbusters, he still knows more or less about the lines that are used in almost every drama.

Hearing the familiar language, the skeleton woman seemed to ease up a bit, at least she didn't continue to scream.

"You, you listen, I, say, we, no, die."

The Skeleton Woman should be able to understand the meaning of each word, but after connecting them like the road, I don't know if she can understand the meaning.

After listening to what Conglu said, the skeleton woman said in a puzzled tone, "We're all alive, you mean?" ”

From the road, I worked hard to squeeze out one word after another.

"I, yes, say, we, live."

The skeleton woman understood this, and she asked back, "Why is this happening, us?" ”

He didn't fully understand it, but he probably understood what the woman was going to ask, so he continued to explain to the woman in his own way: "I, no, I want, touch, you." Wrong! I, yes, fell, you, above, not, deliberately. ”

"What did you say?"

Watching the nonsense from the road while gesturing, the skeleton woman's fear gradually dissipated, replaced by deep confusion.

She really didn't know what the white skeleton in front of her was trying to do to her.

"The handset is too far away, and the hands-free has been turned on for you."

"Hey! Hey, hey! Are you still there? Comrade Conglu, are you still there? Hey, hey! Hey, hey, hey! …”

"Yes, I'm here."

"Great, you finally heard me."

Seeing that Conglu had a response, Director Lin took over and said, "Comrade Conglu! What I'm going to say next, you have to be mentally prepared. ”