After getting a general understanding of the Voyager's maintenance, Zhou Xin turned his attention to the Noshan civilization.

"Voyager, hasn't anything changed in the Noshan civilization?" Zhou Xin asked the question that he repeated every day. That's right, it's been almost two months since they fled from the planet Norsan, and yet the other party is still the same as Atlas had previously reported. Even for this reason, the little girl handed over such boring observations to the Voyager after a few days of observation of the planet Nosan, and she was preoccupied with reading the data of the equipment in the building at the foot of the minaret.

Of course, Atlas can ignore the Nosan civilization, but Zhou Xin can't. Although this work was called "a job that even the simplest engineering robot can do alone", after a long period of observation, Zhou Xin still discovered the special feature of today's Noshan people-

Under the control of the unknown will in their brains, all the Nothans with the chip implanted in their brains gave up all their entertainment activities, concentrated all their energy on production, and even tried to complete even the most basic physiological activities such as sleeping and eating in the shortest possible time. It can be said that today's Norzans spend more than 70 percent of their day working hard. In this situation, the work efficiency of the whole society has been unprecedentedly improved. According to Atlas's estimates when he was bored, the total production capacity of the entire Norsan civilization is now more than three times that of when it was not controlled, which can be said to be very terrifying. Such a scene reminded Zhou Xin, who learned this number, of that familiar civilization.

"Do you think that the current situation of the Nosan civilization is very similar to the opposing civilization we encountered before?" At that time, Zhou Xin asked Dart and Spred, who were close to him, "The whole society is also highly organized, and the production efficiency is equally efficient, and even now it seems that it is even better." ”

"In the first place, opposing civilizations were forced to do this because of the need for war. But what is the reason why the Noshan civilization is doing this, is it just to deal with us? Spred asked, confused, "But if it's just to deal with us, do they need to do this?" ”

"Indeed, if it's just to deal with us, they're going to be exaggerating." Zhou Xin said thoughtfully, "But if it's not for us, what is the purpose of them doing this?" And why did it happen at the same time as we appeared? ”

"Who knows, maybe it's just a coincidence." Dart said casually. Of course, Zhou Xin obviously doesn't believe this statement.

While Zhou Xin was thinking, Spred looked at the picture taken by the probe on the screen on the planet Nosan, shook his head and said, "If the approach of opposing civilizations is understandable, the current situation of the Noshan civilization is too much. Look at the appearance of these Noshans, except for the most basic physiological needs, how different they are from robots. If the whole society is treated as a machine, then the Norzans have really become humanoid parts that can only work. This practice, although it can improve the efficiency of the whole society for a while, is overdrawing the lives of all Noshan people. No will with normal thinking would do that. ”

"What is it that controls the Norzans now, is it really the chip in their brains? If it is true, who could invent such an anti-heaven chip that can actually control the human mind. Dart said. Chatting and chatting, the topic returned to the question of who the inventor of the chip was.

However, as in previous discussions, this one still did not arrive at an answer to this question. Although many ideas were put forward at that time, many of which were even well analyzed, they were still unable to come up with an accurate answer due to the lack of clues.

The complete discussion process will not be repeated here, let's put the time back to the present, after hearing Zhou Xin's question, the Voyager gave the same answer as a dozen times before, and not even a word was changed, "In all the data related to the Norshan civilization sent back by the probe, this ship has not found any anomalies." ”

"It's strange, it's been so long, why haven't the Norzans changed back to their original ways? Could it be that they are no longer recoverable? Zhou Xin muttered to himself suspiciously, and there was a hint of self-reproach in his tone. After all, the changes that have taken place in the Nuoshan civilization today are likely to be related to his own behavior, and it is normal for Zhou Xin to feel self-blame.

"Brother Captain! Captain's brother. As soon as Zhou Xin's words fell, Atlas's excited voice rang out in the command cabin.

"What's wrong?" Hearing Atlas's voice, Zhou Xin immediately walked out of his thoughts, and he asked, "Did you find anything there?" ”

"Hmm." The little girl on the screen nodded, "Although it hasn't entered the system core of those devices yet, people still get a lot of useful information from it." Without waiting for Zhou Xin's questioning, she continued, "Brother Captain, your previous guess is not wrong, that spire on the planet is indeed a communication tower. As for the small room at the bottom of the tower, it is the control and information processing center of the entire communication tower. Speaking of which, the little girl sold, "Brother Captain, guess where the information from that communication tower is receiving and processing?" ”

"Noshan civilization?" These four words came out of Zhou Xin's mouth for the first time. Then, he remembered that Atlas had mentioned that the devices in the communication tower stored data in almost exactly the same way as the Nexus Tower on the planet Norsan. So, along this line of thought, Zhou Xin speculated: "Could it be that the communication tower, like the central tower, receives information from the chips in the Noshan people's brains?" ”

"It's not true, but it's close to the answer." "That tower is receiving information from the armed satellites in orbit around Norsan. ”

"Armed satellites?" Zhou Xin repeated, "This is quite reasonable. But soon, new doubts appeared in his mind, "But why would anyone build a communication tower in such a remote place to receive information......?" ”