Chapter 5: An Untold Story
A rural village in a remote area of northwest China, surrounded by mountains and closed to traffic. The only way to get in and out is a cable that crosses a tributary of the Yellow River.
The people in the village are looking forward to going out and seeing the world that those who have returned from migrant work have learned about it.
"Baby, you're really good. This ravine has never produced a college student, even the most learned person. That teacher has only been in junior high school for a few years, and you are really promising. Dad is really proud of you. I haven't had a chance to go out in my life, too, we are uneducated people, we can only stay in this mountain col for the rest of our lives and look for food in the field" The old man's face was full of joy, and he couldn't help but feel sad when he recalled the past, and tears slowly flowed.
When Old Man Bai was still a young man, he often heard people say how prosperous the city outside the mountain was, and the lights on the road could be like daytime even at night.
But at that time, household registration control was carried out, and people everywhere had to stay there, and they couldn't go to other places, so Old Man Bai's wish was disappointed.
When Old Man Bai had Xiaobai, that is, Bai Kai, the college entrance examination policy was restored again, which rekindled Lao Bai's wishes.
He saw a way out, a way out of the mountains. Study. But where did the books come from in this poor ravine, and the most knowledgeable one was the teacher who had been in junior high school for a few years.
He was sent out and pulled back by his family, and in the eyes of the older generation, studying is a waste of food, and eating food if you don't go to farming is a loss-making business.
But Bai Laohan still insisted on letting his son study, and in the end, Bai Kai lived up to his expectations, was admitted to the university, and entered the Institute of Cosmophysics, a cutting-edge field of Chinese science and technology.
But all this did not fulfill Bai Laohan's wishes, and in the second year of Bai Kai University, Bai Laohan died of illness in the mountain col.
Bai Kai received the news when he was about to apply for a junior observer at the institute, but the society was not as simple as he thought, someone replaced his place with a favor, and then fell into the controversy over the right to reputation, and finally lost the lawsuit as expected.
Just when he fell into a deep confusion and a hopeless sadness in life, the bad news of his father came, his only spiritual sustenance was also destroyed, the goal he had insisted on for more than ten years was shattered, and his eyes were gloomy.
As compensation, the institute gave him a job as an operator, sitting in a small dimly lit room every day, looking at various dashboards and monitoring radio signals.
He felt like he was back in a small col, and this time the mountain had become a noisy and disordered electromagnetic signal, and the only way out had become a straight line from the bed to the workshop.
Bai Kai was once again blocked. Decades have passed, and the best years are drowned out by noisy electromagnetic signals in a dimly lit room.
Something different suddenly appears during boring working hours.
"呲~~呲~la". A disorderly arrangement of signal magnetic waves was transmitted into the radio monitoring room through the signal receiver, Bai Kai suddenly woke up, and after listening carefully, he thought it was a strange sound caused by the change of the surrounding magnetic field.
He didn't report it to his superiors, as time went on, this message gradually became clear, Bai Kai noticed this incident recently and reported it to his superiors, but when the inspectors checked it, there was no problem, everyone thought he was too lonely, mentally confused, and wanted to attract the attention of others to make up lies, but in fact he was mentally ill.
But only he knew that he was not sick, this was real, he planned to continue listening, as the days passed, the signal became clear from the original sound of clattering to band by band, until half a month later, he heard a cold voice
"We are the gods of the universe, are you willing to accept our baptism, we have learned your language from the flying machines you have sent, we have learned your history, we are the children of the mother of the universe, let us help you" The voice came out slowly, like an emotionless machine voice, but this voice went straight to the soul and made people not forget.
He was stunned, his eyes wide open, and his fingers trembled slightly. He majored in physics, and he believed that there were other life forms in the universe, but he didn't expect that he would one day talk to them.
He took off his headphones and rushed out of the studio, rushed into the bathroom and slapped cold water in his face frantically, trying to wake himself up.
"It's not true, it's not true." Bai Kai frantically rushed out of the building and shouted loudly. He was suspended for a check to check on his mental problems.
When he saw someone, he told them that there were aliens and that they were coming. In the end, in order to maintain face and maintain social order, the institute fired Bai Kai.
He was desperate, in the past, he contributed more than ten years to the so-called society, thinking about serving the country, but in the end he was defeated by the so-called human sophistication; He used to think of working hard to take his father out of the mountains, but he didn't achieve anything, and he didn't even see the last side; In the end, he wanted to spread the message to the world so that humanity could be prepared, but everyone was regarded as crazy.
He feels worthless and wants to find his worth. But no one in the world recognizes his own worth, and he needs to find someone who can recognize his worth or any intelligent living being.
He used his old acquaintances at the institute to get the key to his studio. At night, he quietly infiltrated the research institute to avoid all surveillance and entered the studio to turn on the signal transmitter, adjust to the inner band, and input
"This is the earth, the child of the mother of the universe, I beg you to come down and bring us the dawn" The trembling fingers stopped on the launch button, everything flashed in his mind, and with each passing thing, the determined look in Bai Kai's eyes became more and more firm.
Bai Kai comforted himself
"I just want to find someone who can know my own value, I am not a sinner, I am the savior of the earth, I will speed up the development of the earth, it has nothing to do with good and evil and revenge" In the end, the button was pressed, and this spell that I don't know if it will bring dawn or darkness to the earth was launched from the transmitter into space and transmitted to the unknown universe.