At night, under the ginkgo tree, it is particularly quiet, graphite looks up at the sky overhead, some places are obscured by leaves, and the exposed parts are deep and dark, and the sky is covered with twinkling stars.

The ghost in the body, the jellyfish that used to be, came from above this mysterious firmament.

There are many thrilling stories that have happened and are happening behind this seemingly calm and peaceful night sky, and behind every shining star may be a galaxy, and there are many strange creatures living in those dark planets that are invisible to the naked eye......

How vast is the night sky? What kind of place is the universe?

Graphite sat alone under the ginkgo tree in a quiet daze.

……

He suddenly thought of the ghost in his body again.

It had been at peace with itself in its own body for a day and a night, and whatever the ghost wanted to do, at least Graphite was now slowly beginning to accept that fact and get used to the ghost's presence.

In fact, he sometimes thinks that this is actually not bad, because of brain cancer, he is different from ordinary people, deep in his heart he actually has the determination and consciousness to die, and he has a different understanding of life than ordinary people.

Perhaps, this is what people often call "impermanence", impermanence in life, for him is not just a slogan, but really sees that "impermanence".

"I don't know what kind of life you are, but I have deep sympathy for what happened to you and your galaxy......"

Graphite seemed to be talking to himself, and seemed to start chatting slowly with a friend.

"Actually, I want to thank you, in my small life, let me see some secrets about the starry sky, although everything is still like a fog, but at least I have seen the other side of this universe, I have seen the endless vastness and long years, I am really grateful, I have no regrets in my death."

He laughed self-deprecatingly and muttered again.

His gaze stayed on the sky above his head, looking up at the endless twinkling starry sky.

"If we could, I think we could be friends and we stay in the same body, right? I don't have the slightest ill will towards you, and of course, I hope you will be kind to me, and we, and by we I mean human beings like me. ”

Graphite felt as if the ghost was listening quietly, I wonder if the ghost would feel like listening to a book from heaven? He thought.

He had a strange feeling that this ghost was like a little stray dog that he had accidentally picked up in the wild, and it was now lying at his feet, listening to himself quietly, although he knew that he might not understand human speech, but he could not help but think of it as a companion who could talk to everything, and then chattered to it.

He remembers that when he was very young, he had a dog at home, which was a little yellow dog with yellow hair, and from the moment he brought it back, he gave it a simple and catchy name, which he called "Little Yellow".

"Xiao Huang!"

Every time he called it that, and then Yellow would wagging his little tail around his feet, jumping out of it with joy.

He didn't know why he remembered the former Xiao Huang.

This may be a feeling, he feels that this silent but word-speaking ghost is really like that former friend, always lying silently by his side, spending those quiet times with him.

"Why don't I give you a name too!"

He suddenly had a whim, and said to it silently.

"Well...... what's it called?"

Graphite pondered for a moment.

"Why don't you call it 'Star Spirit'? Well, I think it's a fitting call 'Star Spirit', and I think so: because you're the only survivor of your galaxy and the only intelligent creature I've ever seen in your galaxy, this name might be right for you......"

"Heh......, Starry Sky Spirit!"

Graphite said with a smile as he looked up at the starry sky above his head.

The ghost in his body seemed to understand something, and moved slightly.

Graphite continued to chatter: "By the way, my name is graphite, the stone of stone, the ink of ink. ”

"Ink ......"

The ghost in his body moved slightly, reacted, and gently pronounced this ink word in the depths of his consciousness!

Graphite quickly realized that the ghost had just spoken to him!

The ghost understands what it means, and it can even learn to say the word "ink" very quickly!

Graphite's gaze withdrew from the endless firmament, and he lowered his eyes, his mind sinking into the depths of consciousness.

"You just spoke, Star Spirit!" He asked.

"Mo ......," the ghost whispered softly again in the depths of his consciousness.

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Two souls from different worlds, under the firmament, under the ginkgo tree, surrounded by the night, finally have their first formal conversation!

Although this conversation just confirms each other's titles, that's all!

For the first time in human history, a dialogue with extraterrestrial life took place, and the only thing that witnessed this moment was the eternal silent ginkgo tree.

Graphite naturally suddenly felt something.

That is the intimacy between him and it that has since been intertwined, and it is difficult to separate each other.

At the level of consciousness, directly engaging in a dialogue between souls, he suddenly has a different understanding of the soul, and from a certain point of view, the soul is no longer the elusive and ethereal thing of the past, but a real existence.

Graphite suddenly realized that maybe the soul was something higher dimensional, but humans didn't know much about it.

The truth of the world still looms like a fog in front of Graphite's eyes.

But he has gone one step further than all humans, one step forward.

……

This conversation under the ginkgo tree meant a lot to graphite.

After calming down, Graphite can be sure that he has encountered the third type of contact, which is the so-called encounter with aliens, although he is not sure whether the star spirit is an alien, but who stipulates that aliens must look similar to humans in order to be called a human, at the very least, he can be sure that the star spirit is an intelligent alien life, from the fact that it can escape the disaster of the destruction of the galaxy, and then it can also say two words to itself, it can define the star spirit as an alien life with intelligence.

Then, he unconsciously thought of some other things, which made Graphite fall into contradiction and confusion again......

On the one hand, it is the inexplicable intimacy that the ghost brings to itself, and on the other hand, the sense of vigilance after rational analysis.

Graphite has read many science fiction novels about the third type of contact, the most famous is Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem", and has also seen many Hollywood movies with similar themes, human beings have all kinds of fantasies about the third type of contact, and in the early days, there were even naïve scientists who sent radio waves to the universe to express human existence and friendly greetings.

However, in recent years, humanity has begun to reflect on whether this behavior is appropriate, because the universe may be a dark forest, in which every civilization is cautiously sneaking around, and easily exposing its existence will only attract the destruction of other advanced civilizations.

After reading the "Three-Body Problem", graphite was deeply convinced of this.

The universe may really be a dark forest, and the evolution process of life on the earth is like a condensed universe, and the law it reveals is the bloody competition of the jungle, unable to adapt to the environment to preserve its own life, and sooner or later it will become extinct in the dust and smoke of history.

Darwin's theory of evolution reveals the truth about the evolution of life, natural selection!

So, can this law be extended to the entire universe, and if there are countless strange life forms in the starry sky, then the competition between different species may be displayed in front of human beings in an extremely tragic way.

What exactly does the "Star Spirit" mean to humans and themselves, intellectually, graphite is really difficult to determine.

Will it make the final decision against itself?

"Takeaway?" Graphite laughed to himself, I don't know why he thought of such a funny term, maybe it's because he has read too many fantasy novels.

Will it thrive silently on Earth, where its body was once as vast as an ocean, and its current tininess may be an illusion......

He suddenly became uncertain about many things.

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The night is as cool as water under the stars.

Sitting under the ginkgo tree, time seems to slow down.

Soon, graphite returned to the wings.

The room was still in the same mess as before, as if it had been looted by thieves, and things were thrown everywhere, and before that he had been a little confused and had not had time to clean up, and now, he was finally quiet and sober.

He bent down to pick up a saw on the ground, and was about to hang it back on the wall, when suddenly, he felt the star spirit in his consciousness seem to move slightly, and then the star spirit swam through his body, and soon reached his arm holding the saw, and the star spirit swam along the arm to his palm.

He was a little surprised and a little curious, and when he raised his arm to look, he found that the star spirit had actually come out of his palm.

The appearance of the star spirit looks a little strange, like a small ball of silver glutinous rice dumplings, not only does it not look like a ghost is eerie, but it is a cute and dumb look, it is like a ball of glutinous rice balls, squirming close to the saw in Graphite's hand, and then "click" sticking to the saw.

The next scene made Graphite stunned.

Xing Ling stuck to the saw at this time, just like a spring silkworm baby, and began to gnaw on the saw, its speed was quite fast, but after a while, he gnawed most of the saw on the graphite hand, and the remaining half of the saw fell to the ground with a "clang", and the star spirit also chased after it, and continued to stick to the half of the saw and gnawed it, and between a few breaths, a good saw disappeared in front of Graphite's eyes.

For this unexpected discovery, graphite was somewhat surprised and delighted.

I was surprised that the Star Spirit could directly gnaw on metal, which means that the Star Spirit is likely to be a creature that feeds on metal; Happily, the appearance of the star spirit does not look vicious, but cute and docile, and from the appearance alone, the star spirit should be a docile creature.

Of course, these are just graphite's own guesses.

Seeing that Xing Ling ate a saw with three strokes and five divided by two, Graphite felt a slight pain in his heart, these are all tools left by his father for his guys, even if they are not of much use, they are also a kind of commemoration and have a different meaning, not to mention, they can still use these saws to do some carpentry work.

Seeing the star spirit squirming on the ground and moving towards another saw, Graphite immediately blurted out, "Eh, star spirit," he was actually not sure if the star spirit could still communicate after leaving his body, but he just subconsciously screamed.

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