"If the information was sent to other civilizations, doesn't that mean that the chips in the Noshan's brains are likely to have been invented by other civilizations?" Dart asked, confused.

Dart's subconscious doubts woke up the dreamer with a word, and as soon as his words fell, Zhou Xin, who realized it later, said with a hesitant tone: "It seems that this speculation is not unreasonable——? ”

"It doesn't just make sense." With a look of sudden realization on his face, Spred excitedly continued, "Why didn't I think of it before, if it was really like what Dart had guessed, then many of the mysteries we encountered in the Norshan civilization before could be reasonably explained. ”

"Indeed." Zhou Xin said happily after figuring it out, "If it is the aliens who make all this, then why the chip will block part of the cognition of the Norshans, and even why it sometimes directly controls the thinking of the Norshans, all of this makes sense." ”

"More importantly." Spred added, "We've been wondering why the chip manufacturing process is far beyond the current level of technology of the Noxan civilization, because the invention of the chip has nothing to do with the Noshan civilization at all, but the technology is far beyond the invention of their other civilization." ”

"I didn't expect the truth to be so simple, but we have been speculating about how the chip was made by the Nuoshan civilization before, and we have made so many guesses for this, but all the guesses are actually wrong." Zhou Xin sighed, "It seems that our previous thoughts were still misled by the information provided by the Noshan people, and we have not jumped out of the circle of Noshan civilization to think. ”

"But—" Dart seemed to understand a little after listening for so long, and he spoke, "all of this you said was based on the message sent to other civilizations by the communication tower, and if this premise is wrong, then all your speculations just now are meaningless, isn't it?" ”

After glancing at Spred, Zhou Xin said: "Actually, I don't want this speculation to be correct, but whether it's right or not depends on the results of Atlas's next investigation." ”

However, the less you want something to happen, the more likely it is to happen. Just a week later, Atlas found some clues from the equipment in the control center at the bottom of the communications tower he was investigating-

"Let Wren check it out, and if the crew recovers, let them get back to work." On this day, Zhou Xin was explaining some affairs on the Voyager to Spred, when Atlas's voice suddenly sounded in the command module.

"Brother Captain, I'm afraid your previous guess is correct, that communication tower may really be sending a message to the extraterrestrial system."

"Can you be sure that it was sent extragalactly?" Zhou Xin confirmed.

"Basically, I didn't run away, because in the process of inspecting all the equipment, I found a set of equipment suspected to be used for hyperspace communication." Atlas's words were a bit startling, and she explained, "Although the scope of a star system is already very large, in general, it does not require extra-space communication, which is usually used at least for contact in light years, that is, between stars. ”

After listening to the little girl's explanation, Zhou Xin thought for a while, and then asked, "Can you be sure that it is a set of hyperspace communication equipment?" ”

"Brother Captain, have you forgotten that people once participated in hyperspace communication experiments." Atlas replied a little embarrassed, "It's only once, and the final result—" After a pause, her tone became quicker, "But that's not the point, the point is that people have participated in hyperspace communication experiments, so they still know a lot about related equipment." Although the equipment at the bottom of the tower is very different from the hyperspace communication equipment used by people before in appearance, from the analysis of the working principle, it can basically be determined that it is hyperspace communication equipment. Then she added, "Of course, if people now have all the detection equipment that they used to conduct experiments, they will be able to directly detect the signals of hyperspace communication." However, today's technology is limited and we can't manufacture the corresponding inspection equipment, so we can only speculate on some clues. ”

"Is there a way to guess the exact location of the receiver of the hyperspace signal and how long it will take for the other party to receive the signal from the communication tower?" Although he knew that the answer was likely to be no, Zhou Xin still asked tentatively.

"Even if you have all the testing equipment you used to have, people can't do it." As expected, the little girl shook her head, "We've only done one experiment, so we didn't have time to study the various properties of this method of communication. The only thing that can be determined now is that the propagation range of hyperspace communications is theoretically infinite. ”

In other words, the person receiving the information may already know that we exist. Perhaps the hostile behavior of the Norsan civilization before and the anomalies that continue to this day are all orders from the receiver, and it is even possible that the other party has already begun to send research ships to this star system. Spred said with a wry smile, "It seems that we have inadvertently offended another advanced civilization." You know, it's an advanced civilization that can control the vast majority of individuals in a civilization of the same level as ours. ”

As soon as Spred's words fell, Atlas seemed to remember something, "By the way, although we can't detect the results ourselves, maybe those devices store information about the receiver of the signal, as long as people can go deeper into the system." It's just that if you do this, people are worried that it may trigger an alarm in the system. ”

"Try your best." Zhou Xin said casually with a little frustration, "It's best to know the identity of the other party, it doesn't matter if you don't know, it doesn't even matter if the alarm will be triggered." ”

Hearing Zhou Xin's words, Spred obviously guessed his thoughts, "Have you already decided to leave here?" But now the Voyager—"

"I also know that the ship is still a long time before the repair is complete, but I don't plan to leave right away." Zhou Xin said, "But some preparations before departure can already be done, lest a high-level civilization spaceship suddenly appear in front of us......