Chapter 9: A Message from Another Civilization

The next day, Zhou Xin got up early, and absentmindedly listened to the Voyager's report in the command room, Zhou Xin couldn't wait to urge, "How is the investigation, I want to go down and see." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”

"Due to the size of the facility and the sheer volume of information, only about 10% of the searches are completed in a day, so it is advisable to go down after a complete search." The Voyager replied.

"It's okay, I'll be safe, and the exploration so far hasn't been dangerous." Zhou Xin said perfunctorily, "Otherwise, I'll just bring a few more combat robots down." ”

"If you insist on going down." The Voyager said, "Please move around the explored area, and don't go to the unknown area at random. ”

"Okay, okay, then you can prepare to let me go down now." As he spoke, Zhou Xin walked towards the door of the command cabin.

"Chirp." At this time, Xiaobai, who was playing on the command platform, shouted at Zhou Xin.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Xin turned around, "Isn't it the breakfast you just had?" ”

"Chirp." Xiaobai's cry was a little urgent.

"Do you want to go down too?" Zhou Xin wondered.

"Chirp." Xiaobai's voice was a little excited, and while Zhou Xin was not paying attention, it slipped to Zhou Xin's shoulder and sat down.

"This ......" Zhou Xin hesitated a little, "This time is different from the last time, this time I want to explore an unknown place, which is a bit dangerous." You little one, don't go. ”

"Chirp~" Xiaobai twisted his head on Zhou Xin's shoulder.

"Okay, okay, let's take you there." Zhou Xin was a little helpless.

So, Zhou Xin took Xiaobai and more than a dozen combat robots to the scientific research base first. After changing the means of transportation at the scientific research base, they walked towards their goal this time.

Standing at the entrance of this underground facility, Zhou Xin looked around, as the report said, the entrance of this underground facility was opened in a remote corner of the square, and there was a broken wall in front of the entrance. In addition, this entrance is also built directly on the flat ground, so there is no difference from the surrounding ground at all. If it weren't for ultrasonic detection, this underground facility would not have been discovered.

Walking into the violently opened exit, Zhou Xin was about to bend down, and then he found that the height of this underground facility was actually more than two meters, and Zhou Xin walked in with a little surprise. After passing through a downward passage of about ten meters, Zhou Xin came to the first room that the robot discovered. It is also the only room that has been explored so far.

Looking around the room, Zhou Xin saw something similar to a display screen found in other places, these screens were scattered on the low tables around them, and there were some facilities next to the display screen that I didn't know what function. In addition to these facilities, there are small paper-like flakes scattered on the table, and there are some words of this civilization on them. Robots walking around are collecting and sorting out the small slices on these tables.

"This is the 'paper' used by this civilization." Zhou Xin picked up a small sheet and asked.

"Yes, this is a 'paper'-like recording tool woven directly from synthetic fibers, and the words of this civilization are written on it." A robot next to him replied.

Zhou Xin looked at this piece of paper carefully, there are more than a dozen lines of text written on this paper, and the square word is different, the text used by this civilization is actually round, Zhou Xin saw a stroke structure similar to Chinese characters on the text, but these strokes are different from the horizontal and vertical of Chinese characters, they are all strokes with arcs, and the words composed of these strokes naturally form a pattern similar to a circle. In Zhou Xin's view, these characters are somewhat similar to artistic words, recording information while retaining a trace of beauty.

"Those words are really beautiful." Zhou Xin sighed with emotion, "Do you know what is written on this piece of paper?" ”

"According to the textual analysis of this civilization, the contents of this piece of paper are a daily list of purchases. Written on it are some of the everyday items needed by this civilization, followed by the quantity and price of these items. The Voyager replied.

"Purchase list." Zhou Xin put down the piece of paper, "This thing is useless, have you found more valuable written materials?" ”

"Yes, after preliminary identification, we have found some scientific research materials in these materials, but due to the insufficient number of words that have been identified, the analysis of this part of the data is still in progress."

While listening to the traveler's report, Zhou Xin walked to the end of the room. At this end, Zhou Xin saw a "door" and walked to the door, Zhou Xin tried to push the door open.

"Please don't do that." The Voyager stopped, "We've only done our research into this room, please don't go to any other room." ”

"Uh, okay." Zhou Xin scratched his helmet, "Then a robot, open this door." ”

At this time, a combat robot came over, and with a "bang", the door was cut in half, and the robot walked in.

"Although it is said that the door is opened, this way of opening the door is really rude, so you can't use some gentler means." Zhou Xin complained, and then walked in.

Walking into the new room, Zhou Xin found that this room was a little larger than the previous one, and the middle of this room was divided into two small rooms by a transparent wall. One of the small rooms was empty, and the half of the furnishings where Zhou Xin was standing were no different from the previous room, but there were a lot of papers scattered on the table in this room, and some of them had even slipped to the ground, Zhou Xin walked to the few pieces of paper that had fallen on the ground and picked them up.

Looking at the somewhat messy room around him, Zhou Xin was a little puzzled, "How do you feel that the 'people' here seem to have left in a hurry, and they haven't even cleaned up the room." ”

"There is not enough information to judge."

At this time, more than a dozen reconnaissance robots came in behind Zhou Xin, and they had already finished tidying up the first room. Now, they're getting ready to tidy up the room. Zhou Xin avoided the robots and walked towards the transparent wall.

Walking back and forth along the transparent wall, Zhou Xin didn't find anything like a door, but through the wall, Zhou Xin saw a door-like pattern on the opposite wall.

"How did the opposite room get by?" Zhou Xin asked, and just as Zhou Xin asked the question, he saw the door on the opposite side open, and a robot came out of the door.

"There's a side door in the passage, and you come in through a passageway through the side door." The robot replied.

Zhou Xin walked back to the beginning of the passage, and saw a door appear on the originally smooth passage wall, Zhou Xin walked in and came to the other side of the room. Looking at the robot on the opposite side of the room who was busy sorting out the information, Zhou Xin wondered: "What is this room for?" ”

"It should be used as an observation and research room, and there are similar rooms on the ship." The Voyager replied.

In this room, Zhou Xin didn't find anything, so he went back to the other side of the room. Just as Zhou Xin watched the robot tidy up the room, a robot reported that it had found a hidden entrance in the first room, so Zhou Xin walked back to the room at the entrance.

Looking at the blank wall in front of him, Zhou Xin sighed slightly, "Hidden door? ”

"There's a strange space behind the wall." A bot answers.

"Let's find a way to open it."

An engineering robot came over and began to destroy the wall with large equipment. When a small hole was just opened, Zhou Xin heard a faint whistling sound, and then the robot sounded a prompt, "Gas eruption detected, the internal gas pressure is large, whether to continue to open." ”

Zhou Xin stopped the robot from breaking through the door and ordered it to close the gap that had been opened.

"I didn't expect there to be a complete space preserved." Zhou Xin was a little surprised, "Find a way to open this place completely, don't let the air inside leak out." ”

After half a day, the robot did not find a normal way to open the door, so they had to build a temporary air-tight room in front of the wall to prevent air leakage inside, and in this closed room, the robots continued their work of breaking down the door. In a few moments, they opened a gap, and a scout robot walked in.

"What's going on inside?" Zhou Xin asked.

The communicator in Zhou Xin's hand lit up, and the screen showed the situation inside. He saw a room on the screen similar to the one he was standing in. At this time, the voice of the reconnaissance robot was also heard from the communicator.

"The air content inside was detected to be 1/10 of the atmospheric pressure, the oxygen content was 18%, and the rest was nitrogen, no harmful gases existed, no dangerous goods, and it was allowed to enter."

Hearing this, Zhou Xin decisively walked through the makeshift room and walked in.

After entering, Zhou Xin saw at a glance that there was a wall-sized screen in front of him, and there was a large platform similar to a console in front of the screen. Apart from these two unique things, the other tables were arranged in the same way as the one outside, and there were some machines with screens on the tables, but there were far fewer paper-like items on the tables.

Zhou Xin walked in front of the console and took a closer look, there is a panel on this console, and there are some unknown small devices distributed around it, this panel is about the size of a blackboard, and there are regular buttons distributed in the lower part of the panel, and the upper part is a small screen, because this console is not open, there is nothing on the screen.

When Zhou Xin was carefully observing this console, Xiaobai, who was standing on his shoulder, ran up to this console with a "whoosh", ran around on this console, and looked left and right curiously, as if he regarded this console as a command platform on the ship. Since the console was not opened, Zhou Xin let it move freely on the console.

When he was on the ship, Zhou Xin asked the engineering robot to design a small spacesuit for it for the convenience of Xiaobai's future activities, and now Xiaobai is running around on the console wearing this spacesuit that is a bit bulky compared to it, and Zhou Xin feels a little funny when he looks at it running back and forth.

Suddenly, Xiaobai, who was running around clumsily, didn't know what he tripped on the console, and jumped up and pounced on the buttons on the control panel. only heard the sound of "tick", so frightened that Xiaobai jumped up and wanted to jump back on Zhou Xin's shoulder, but because he was wearing a bulky spacesuit, Xiaobai jumped to half the height and fell.

Zhou Xin quickly reached out and fished out Xiaobai, who was about to fall to the ground, and then quickly took two steps back. The battle robot beside him quickly assumed a fighting stance after hearing the voice. At this time, Zhou Xin, who had taken two steps back, saw the wall-like screen in front of him light up.

After a flash of white light, a few lines of circular text appeared, and the text disappeared a few seconds after it appeared, then a strange pattern appeared, and the pattern appeared for a while and disappeared, then the screen went dark again, and finally lit up again, and a humanoid creature appeared on the screen.

This humanoid creature is about a little over a meter, and its facial features are similar to those of a normal human, but its body is very different. He has a long upper body, stubby legs, hands about the length of his upper body, and four fingers. On the screen, he stood there quietly with a serious face.

After standing silently for a moment, the humanoid began to speak. His voice was strange, and he spoke with a strange rhythm, but it wasn't hard to hear. After about ten minutes of talking, the camera began to switch to a room, and the voice continued to echo behind him, and Zhou Xin recognized the scene in the picture at a glance, it was the next room, but there were many more humanoid creatures in the room. They were quickly tidying up the room, looking panicked, and after a while, the people on the screen left the room in order, as if they had been ordered to do so, ignoring even the scattered items on the floor. Zhou Xin saw that they were walking towards the door of the exit. Then the scene returned to the humanoid creature at the beginning, and his expression was not as calm as it had been at the beginning, with a hint of panic. After less than 5 more minutes, the humanoid disappeared, and finally a few more lines of words appeared on the screen. Zhou Xin waited for a while, and the screen stopped on those lines.

"Do you know what that guy said?" Zhou Xin asked.

"There is not enough audio data and needs to be further analyzed." Voyager replied, "But there is good news, just as the screen was activated, the robot in the next room reported that the machines over there were activated, and we collected a lot of voice and text materials on the machine next door. The ship is undergoing a detailed analysis. ”

"Speed up the analysis, I want to know what is going on sooner." Zhou Xin said, "Why did they leave in a hurry? Where did they go after leaving? Could it be that they foresaw this catastrophe? Hopefully, this voice will give us the answer. By the way, what does this text on the screen mean. ”

"It's a string of numbers, and according to the way this string of numbers is arranged, it is suspected to be a coordinate." Voyager replied.

"Coordinates?" Zhou Xin asked, "Where are the coordinates ......?"