Chapter Seventy-Three: The Detector on the Ground
"What you said before should be true, there is a high probability that this civilization has made up its own history. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" Spred made the same guess, but then he said calmly, "but it's understandable that they are doing this only to better stir up the fighting mood of the people so that they can better support the war." ā
"It's not impossible." Zhou Xin nodded, and then he held his chin and said thoughtfully, "However, it is very debatable how many elements of the history that Aina told have been deliberately modified. Then his tone was a little skeptical, "I'm actually quite curious, why did such a fake history sound recognized by the people, and they shouldn't be so stupid." ā
"They're definitely going to come up with a whole bunch of credible evidence." "It's just that because we're outsiders, we see it a little bit more clearly, and if we had been educated by them since we were young, maybe we'd have thought that what we learned in school was the truth." Maybe there's another possibility," he said, "maybe most of the people in this civilization know that their history is fictional, but they have a deep hatred for another civilization anyway, so they simply treat fictional history as if it were true." ā
"Okay." Zhou Xin didn't know whether Spred's statement was right or wrong, and if he wanted to study it deeply, he didn't have enough clues now, so he had to put this question aside for the time being, "If that's the case, I understand that they made up the history of the war, but why do they hide a longer history, even Atlas can't find it in their database." ā
"Yes, yes, there really are no clues at all." Atlas chimed in.
"Maybe something can be deduced from ancient history that contradicts the history of wars they fabricated." Spred wasn't very sure, he thought for a while and then just gave this guess, "But I don't think they will completely annihilate their history, and they will always find some traces, but these traces are very hidden, and we haven't found them yet." ā
After listening to Spred's words, Zhou Xin sighed, "In the end, it was because our investigation was not deep enough, but when we encounter such a vigilant civilization, how can we investigate deeply." His tone was a little embarrassed.
"The main thing is that people can't find a suitable entry point." Atlas explained to Zhou Xin, "This civilized civilian network can be said to be extremely simple, only basic communication functions, nothing else, people just want to find some useful information is impossible." However, at the end of the battle between the two sides yesterday, it seems that they inadvertently broke into another independent network, and after entering this network, they almost discovered it after just a quick glance, but it was this glance that people found that this seemed to be their military network, and there seemed to be something very interesting hidden in this network, but because the time was too short, people did not have time to check the specific content of those materials. ā
"Military network?" Zhou Xin thought for a moment, "This is not unusual, we used to have a distinction between military networks and civilian networks. ā
"What they mean is that they may have separate networks like military networks in addition to civilian networks." "Maybe the information we need is hidden in this kind of place, but they haven't been found yet." She adds, "It's a bit of luck to find such separate networks, which are generally hidden and not so easy to find." ā
"Is it luck again?" When it came to luck, Zhou Xin seemed a little distressed, "Since I set off, why do I need to rely on some luck every time, although our luck is not very bad so far, but it feels really bad to have this every time." ā
"There's no way, it's still okay to rely on some luck." Spred reassured, "You can't expect our investigation to go so smoothly every time." ā
"Okay, okay." Zhou Xinli also understood this, and he instructed Atlas, "All in all, the task of finding information can only be entrusted to you, find a way to get as many clues as possible." ā
"Brother Captain, don't worry, just leave this to others." The little girl on the screen nodded, "But if you really can't find it, people can't do it." ā
"Hmm." Zhou Xin nodded, and after explaining this matter to Atlas, he thought for a while, recalled what the little girl said before, and then said: "Actually, I still have a question about Aina's introduction. ā
"You're talking about that weird three-man council?" As if knowing what Zhou Xin was going to say next, Spred asked.
"This is it." Zhou Xin nodded, "You said that such a high-tech country uses an imperial system, which inevitably seems a bit backward." And the imperial system is not a pure imperial system, it is actually some strange three-person council. At the same time, listening to Aina's statement, the three people in the three-person council are still independent of each other, and they can't even play a supervisory role with each other, so what's the use of having such a three-person council? Speaking of this, Zhou Xin paused, and after a while, he shook his head puzzled, "I still don't understand what such a three-person council is like, how do they decide on one thing and vote?" Or is it one of the three who makes the decision? Or can any one of them decide something alone? ā
"It's kind of weird." "At first glance," said Dart, "it doesn't feel like an empire, but a bit like a united chief. Each chiefdom deals with its own affairs independently, and they only come together to decide when one thing affects the entire chiefdom. ā
"No, it won't." After listening to Dart's words, Zhou Xin also thought about it, "If it is really like what you said, this country adopts the chiefdom system, wouldn't it be more primitive, and this civilization is not only one country, where are the different chiefdoms." ā
"It's just how I feel." Dart's tone was a little uncertain, "As for whether this is the case or not, then I don't know. ā
"It's weird." Zhou Xin muttered casually, and then continued, "It seems that we can't get any accurate results if we continue to discuss like this, or ......" Before he could finish his words, Atlas's excited voice rang out.
"Brother Captain! Brother Captain! The detector sent back a message again, and people followed the message back to find the location of the detector. ā
"Really? Where is it? What happened before and why can't I get in touch? Zhou Xin asked several questions in a row.
"Now the probe is staying somewhere on the edge of the southern continent." Atlas replied, "According to the message sent back by the probe, in the process of landing on the ground, it encountered a patrol aircraft from the southern continent, in order not to be discovered by the other party, so it deviated from the predetermined orbit and landed in the offshore sea of the southern continent, because the signal was blocked by the sea, so the probe had no way to contact us." And the location where it landed seemed to be a densely populated area, so the probe did not dare to surface easily, and after advancing some distance on the ocean floor, it finally found a remote position. It is in this remote location that it is now in contact with people. ā
"I see." After listening to Atlas's explanation, Zhou Xin finally understood, and then he asked with some concern, "In this case, is the place where the probe is located safe?" Will it be discovered? ā
"According to the report of the probe, it is now located in a no-man's land on this continent, and the probability of being found is very low." Atlas replied.
"That's good." Zhou Xin breathed a sigh of relief, and then he continued to ask, "What is the current situation of the detector, has it been damaged, and what is the surrounding situation?" ā
"Except for a slight cracking of the shell during the fall into the water, everything else is intact." Atlas's answer made Zhou Xin feel a little relieved, "However, in order to prevent being discovered by the civilization on the planet, the probe only tried to send a small piece of information this time, which did not record the environment around the probe, but the message sent back showed that everything was normal." ā
"Good." Zhou Xin's tone was a little excited, "Continue to contact the probe and find out what the surface of the planet looks like as soon as possible." ā
"No problem." The little girl jumped on the screen and went on to communicate with the probe.
Next, nearly an hour passed, and the probe intermittently sent back a few more messages, but these messages were basically the self-test information of the probe, and the amount of information itself was very small, not even as large as the amount of information in a picture, and Zhou Xin and they couldn't see the surface of the planet they wanted to see. However, they did not rush because of this, and waited quietly for Atlas to check the self-test information sent back by the probe. In the end, Atlas happily announced the conclusion, the situation of the probe was indeed as it had reported, everything was normal, and Zhou Xin's heart was finally completely relaxed. It then took nearly half an hour for the probe to intermittently send back the first images it had taken.
Originally, Zhou Xin thought that it would be a blurry picture, but he didn't expect that when Atlas released the picture that the probe took half an hour to send back, Zhou Xin found that the picture was unexpectedly clear. Everyone carefully observed the screen screen, and the position shown in the screen seemed to be on a cliff by the sea, and the camera was located high above the sea level, and the largest area in the picture was the vast expanse of the sea. Similar to what Zhou Xin had seen on Earth before, the sea was blue, and some unknown birds could be seen foraging above the sea. It was close to dusk at the location of the probe, and the star in the middle of the galaxy that gave the planet light was now stopped not far above the sea, shining with a faint red glow on the surface of the sea, sparkling waves. Now, it is preparing to leave this place and bring warmth to the other side of the planet, and everything seems to be so good.
However, when the probe sent back a second image, the beauty was destroyed in an instant. This time, the angle chosen by the probe's lens is directly below the cliff on which it is located. As soon as he saw this picture on the screen, Zhou Xinli was immediately surprised. In the upper part of the picture, the blue ocean that you saw before is still showing its graceful posture, but when you move your perspective to the cliff position, the color of the sea begins to gradually darken, and when you get closer to the shoreline, the sea water in the picture is simply pitch black, it looks like ink is completely different, and the ink is covered with a layer of grease-like liquid, and there are a lot of strange things floating on it. Compared to the beautiful picture you saw in the previous picture, it was a world of difference. Zhou Xin glanced at the azure ocean in the upper part of the screen, and then at the pitch-black liquid in the lower part, he couldn't believe that such a strong contrast would appear in the same picture, and he was a little stunned, even many people in the command cabin were stunned.
While Zhou Xin was in a daze, Spred shouted directly, "What's going on, how can the surface of the planet be like this." His scream woke up many people who were in a daze, including Zhou Xin.
After coming back to his senses, Zhou Xin didn't say anything more about the picture on the screen, but directly ordered Atlas to let the probe continue to send back the picture of the nearby coastline, while he continued to stare at the screen without saying a word. This time, the probe sent back information very quickly, and in less than ten minutes, a third image appeared on the screen.
This time, the picture Zhou Xin saw was similar to what he saw before, starting from the coastline, and the color of the sea water was as black as ink. As you get farther away from the shore, the color becomes lighter and lighter, and finally it returns to the normal appearance of the sea at a great distance.
Over the next two hours, the probe reassembled images of the coastline near its location, and Atlas reassembled the images, and when an entire coastline appeared on the screen, everyone present was shocked by the shocking scene......