The ruins of Guangling, the underground command center, the main base complex. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The sky outside resembles the world of the Matrix obscured by black clouds, but the underground base is always brightly lit, the abundant power provided by the super reactor is transmitted to every terminal and every corner along the fine and well-planned lines buried in the steel walls, and the newly established base staff ethics have limited even the living area to be kept lit 24 hours a day, of course, only to public areas such as corridors and stairs, except for private residences.

Xana walked briskly towards the base living quarters, protected by a six-man squad in full armor. The people there did not have the right to enter the interior of the main base vehicle that was usually only attended by the senior commander and others, and Xia Na had been wondering if it was necessary to propose to Qin Feng to connect to an external building, and the province would need to go out at every turn, which made the party who actively sought to talk to it particularly passive.

"Someone has been brought and is waiting for you in the examination room." Said the sergeant guarding the door.

At the same time, a panel shrank up from the heavy alloy door behind the sergeant, revealing a retina scanner and a palmprint contrast device, and Xana pressed her right palm onto it, then rested her chin on the protrusion of the scanner.

The air valve started with a sound, followed by the dull sound of the operation of the slide rail, and the titanium alloy steel plate that originally looked like a whole piece suddenly leaked a crack, and the gate weighing more than 1,000 pounds was quickly moved to the reinforced concrete on both sides with the assistance of electromagnetic attraction.

If it weren't for the meticulous and careful casting of the doors in almost every area of the base, Xana would have thought she was in a sturdy cell with heinous criminals. The coldness and ruggedness of the typical Soviet Union, as well as the sci-fi sophistication that Shengyang has always insisted on, have built this steel fortress that gives people an absolute sense of security deep underground.

"You can go in, Commander." The sergeant on the side reminded.

Xana stroked the non-existent folds in her crisp uniform and stepped quickly into the transition zone shrouded in soft white light.

Examination room.

This is the only connection between the residential area where the researchers brought back from the Sichuan nuclear power station and the rest of the base, and each similar heavy gate of the base has a place of different size but the same pattern, like a passage, as long as the doors on both sides are closed, a closed short corridor can be formed to test whether the passers-by are carrying prohibited items, or can be quickly closed to form a safe area that can support the rescue when attacked.

A bespectacled man in a white lab coat sat uneasily in a chair, and it was obvious that he was genuinely apprehensive about the two gendarmes standing beside him, and when Xana, who was clearly a senior officer, strode in, the nervousness that had been building up made him snap like a soldier.

"Sit." Xana stretched out her arm and pressed it down, "Don't be too restrained, I only have a few questions to ask, and it will be fine soon." ”

In normal times, Xana would not mind letting the soldiers on both sides press this guy who is obviously not psychologically strong enough to press on the chair, but now, she still has a place to rely on the other party.

The man who stood up did not relieve the tension suddenly became more nervous, but fortunately, before his legs were shaking more and more obviously, Xana beckoned someone to bring a chair, and then sat down opposite him with his legs crossed like a high-end visitor.

In this round arched passage, which is five meters wide and seven meters long, and the walls, floor, and ceiling are all made of steel plates, it is so quiet that even the sound of breathing can be heard clearly, Xana opened the recording software on her tablet, and cut straight to the topic without introducing herself.

"Say what you reported again, it's okay to speak slowly, just don't miss anything, of course, you can add to what you said before."

Maybe it was the dignified environment that infected the man, or maybe it was his excessive brain that was not sluggish, but a little flexible, instantly realized that the patience of the people around him was because of the importance of the piece of information he reported. In other words, as long as she delays the time of the woman in front of her who is full of strong Eastern European style, she will not hesitate to throw herself to the ground the next moment, the hellish ground full of stray dog-like stray zergs.

He didn't know that the insects on the ground were all disguised by the Thunderbolt Transport Boat, in order to cover them up.

Taking a deep breath, the man closed his eyes and didn't look at the frightening surroundings, he opened his mouth as if trying to find a suitable entry point.

"It was 1997, I guess so, and I had just graduated from Keio University...... Oh, I'm so sorry, but I'm going to get to the point! ”

When he opened his eyes and realized that there was no one around him who was looking at him with even the slightest trace of human emotion, a chill from the bottom of his heart made him want to slap himself hard.

His mouth finally continued before his palm could rise.

"That year, the Greenbank Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia, USA, received some strange signals, said to come from an alien civilization somewhere in the universe, and even the person in charge of SETI was clearly convinced that this radio wave from the far reaches of the universe came from another intelligent race with at least 19th century human civilization, and my alma mater even organized a team to visit Greenbank to obtain first-hand records. This was also the work that most universities in the world were doing at about the same time at the time. ”

"I had just graduated from the Noshiro Experimental Center for aero engine research and development practice, and I was urgently recalled by the school and was assigned to the delegation with a very high level of personnel, the reason is to discern whether the signals are the radiation of aero engines in space that have been abandoned and detached from the gravitational pull of the Earth-Moon system, after all, we are more skeptical about the discovery of aliens, so we are much more cautious than those ghosts. He was accompanied by professors who study pulsars and all the academics who might prove the signal wrong. ”

"Unfortunately, when we got off the plane, scientists were convinced that the signals were actually coming from a European satellite, less than a day after the news was released. We thought we were ahead of the other schools, but we didn't expect ......"

Shana's eyelids couldn't help but pick at her, and she looked up at the guards standing with guns on the side, wondering if she could get the answer she wanted faster under their torture.

"But the team had arrived, so a targeted expedition could only turn into an ordinary exchange, and we ended up going to the observatory, where all the information had been collected in advance by the NASA people, supposedly to find conclusive evidence that it was just a farce of man-made malicious fabrication, and the only relevant documents we ended up seeing were just audio maps drawn by interns."

"You know, it's just redrawing the silent signal to the frequency fluctuations, which doesn't do anything in itself......"

Shana rolled her eyes a little irritably, "It didn't work, you still said it...... And what the hell is an audio map...... That's called a digital signal......"

Finally. The next sentence completely aroused Xana's interest.

"It wasn't until many years later, when I entered the Sichuan Nuclear Power Station, that this map appeared again!"

(To be continued.) )