"Pterodactyl?!" Zhou Xin shouted, and he stood up directly from his seat. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hearing Zhou Xin's cry of surprise, Spred and the researchers both turned their heads and looked at him in surprise. However, Zhou Xin ignored their gaze, and he eagerly asked the Voyager, "Isn't this a pterodactyl?" How could there be pterosaurs? ”

"Judging by the appearance of the picture, there is a more than 90% chance that the creature is a pterosaur." The Voyager gave the answer.

The conclusion given by the Voyager affirmed Zhou Xin's judgment, and he recovered from the gaffe just now, and found that the people around him were looking at him with strange eyes, and he said with some embarrassment: "Huh? What are you looking at me for? Looking at their strange gazes, he finally reacted to what had just happened, and he touched his nose, "Sorry, sorry, I just lost my temper." ”

At this time, Ralph asked curiously, "Why were you so surprised?" What is a pterosaur? ”

"Pterodactyl is a creature that appeared on our planet tens of millions of years ago." Zhou Xin explained to them a little what kind of creature the lower pterosaur was.

After listening to Zhou Xin's explanation, Spred thought for a moment, and then asked suspiciously: "Since it is a creature that once appeared on the earth, how can it appear on this planet." ”

Zhou Xin shrugged helplessly, "I don't know, that's why I was so surprised just now." ”

"Don't you even know?" Ralph asked, and then she excitedly said, "It looks like there are a lot of mysteries on this planet, why don't we go down and investigate?" ”

Zhou Xin didn't pay attention to Ralph's words, he pondered for a while, and then said to the Voyager: "You just said that there is a more than 90% chance of being a pterosaur, so is it possible that it is a creature that evolved naturally on this planet, but it is just similar to the pterosaur on the earth. ”

"It's a possibility." The Voyager replied, "This ship needs to investigate further. ”

"Hmm." Zhou Xin nodded, "Are there any detectors nearby?" Tell them to investigate the location first. Also, send a little more probe, and I think there will be other discoveries on this planet. ”

"Understood, nearby probes are heading to the site of the accident, and more probes will be launched in five hours." Voyager replied.

After a while, a nearby probe was about to reach the canyon just now, and under Zhou Xin's reminder, the probe used silent mode to move forward so as not to alarm the group of creatures. Quietly advancing for a while, the probe reached the top of the rock wall, in order not to alarm those creatures, the probe found a suitable rock on the rock wall to hide and observe quietly, but because it was already dusk on the planet, there was no movement on the rock wall below the probe after a long time, at most only a few occasional flapping wings were heard.

Zhou Xin said helplessly: "It seems that the pterosaur is not a nocturnal animal, and these guys are highly vigilant, I think there is no way to investigate anything now, and I have to wait until this is daytime to continue the investigation." ”

Spred nodded in agreement with Zhou Xin's opinion.

"Voyager, keep the probe silent, but you have to keep it probed at all times so you don't miss something." Zhou Xin added.

In this way, a busy day passed, and in order to get up in the early morning of the next day local time to investigate the rock wall, Zhou Xin adjusted the time at night and went to bed early.

= Nothing happened overnight = When the early morning arrived at the rock wall location, Zhou Xin also woke up at the prompting of the Voyager, and he quickly packed up and came to the command cabin.

When he arrived at the command module and said hello to a few researchers who had been working all night in the command module, Zhou Xin sat down in his seat, and after sitting down, he found that there was still about an hour left before the sunrise at the location of the rock wall, so he was bored watching the images sent back by the other probes.

After Zhou Xin watched the video for about half an hour, he heard the sound of the door opening, Spred and Ralph arrived, and Ralph, who had just entered the door, was still yawning, looking like he hadn't woken up.

"Oh—what time is it, how long is sunrise?" Ralph asked, yawning.

Zhou Xin looked at the time, "There is about half an hour." ”

"I'll just say I'll sleep for a while, it's all your fault for waking me up so early." Ralph complained to Spred.

Spred smiled helplessly at Zhou Xin, and then patted Ralph's head, "Okay, okay, it's just a little early, just go back to sleep later." ”

The two of them walked to their seats, and then the researcher who had come to change shifts also arrived, and after they had done some handover, there were only 15 minutes left before sunrise, so Zhou Xin asked Voyager to put the screen of the probe on the screen.

Since there are no moons on this planet, it is pitch black on the big screen, with only some faint starlight hanging in the sky.

Looking at the pitch-black screen, Zhou Xin frowned, "Why don't you turn on the infrared detector?" ”

"I'm sorry, but this model of detector is not equipped with an infrared detector."

"......" Zhou Xin was helpless.

After waiting quietly for more than ten minutes, a faint red light appeared on the screen, and after a while, this red light became more and more intense, and when the red light filled the entire sky, Zhou Xin saw that a dazzling light appeared in the sky, and as time continued, this dazzling light gradually turned into a semicircle, and after a while, it changed from a semicircle to a circular ball of light. The sun has finally risen on the planet.

Just when the sky was just dawning, Zhou Xin and the others turned their eyes to the hole in the rock wall. The probe had already quietly found its location, on the rock wall directly opposite the rows of holes. Here, you can clearly see the situation at the opposite opening.

At first, there was no movement at all at the entrance to the cave. After a while, when Ralph was a little impatient, there was a sudden fluttering sound or two in the cave. The sound of flapping wings continued for a while, and when the sun was fully rising, the sound of flapping wings became more and more loud and louder, until finally it came from the cave on the opposite side like a stormy wave.

At this moment, there was a sudden scream in the fluttering sound, and after hearing the scream, the sound of the waves began to rush towards the probe. A few seconds after the scream, Zhou Xin and the others saw a vague shadow appear at the entrance of the cave, and at this moment, a large number of flying creatures rushed out of those holes. After scurrying out, they quickly flew towards the top of the cliff, obscuring a large area of the sky.

At the moment when the group of creatures flew out, Zhou Xin and the others finally saw their appearance clearly with the help of slow motion, it was a group of creatures that looked very much like pterosaurs, they had a bird-like head, a rather long beak and an obvious crown on their heads. They fly on the thin membrane of wings between their forelimbs and hindlimbs, and their tails still swing slightly to maintain their balance as they fly.

At this time, the Voyager also analyzed some specific conclusions based on the video that came back, "The organism is about 1.5 meters long, with a wingspan of about 7 meters, compared with the wings, the body is very small, the palate is very long, in order to balance the long palate, there is a parietal ridge behind the skull, according to the comparison of appearance, this creature has more than 95% similarity with the genus of Toothless Pterodactyl that once appeared in the Cretaceous period of the earth." ”

"So you're pretty sure this is the kind of pterosaur that once appeared on Earth?" Zhou Xin asked.

"There is an 85% probability that it can be determined." The Voyager gave its own judgment.

"Why only 85%?" Zhou Xin asked suspiciously.

"Since our own understanding of the pterosaur is only based on the shape of the skeleton, this ship cannot give a higher probability to determine this conjecture."

"Okay." Zhou Xin nodded, "It's enough to have such a high probability." With this conclusion in mind, we can proceed to the next conjecture. Zhou Xin sorted out the language, and continued, "At first, we found that some of the plants here are very similar to the Cretaceous plants on the earth, and then now we have found that there are pterosaur species that only appear in the Cretaceous period. If you say one thing, it's a coincidence, but if both things are so coincidental, I think it's not just a coincidence. ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Xin stopped, Ralph was listening to Zhou Xin's analysis very carefully, and seeing that he suddenly stopped, Ralph hurriedly urged: "Next, it's not just a coincidence."

Zhou Xin spread his hands and said, "It's gone below."

"How could it be gone?" Ralph continued, "You've guessed something, right or not, let's hear about it." ”

Zhou Xin had no choice but to say, "Okay, let me tell you what I think." After a pause, he continued, "The first thought is: the universe is so big, since both things are so coincidental, will the whole planet be a coincidence? ”

Seeing that everyone was listening carefully, Zhou Xin continued: "Maybe the initial state of this planet is similar to my home planet, so the way creatures evolve is also similar to my home planet, so it is natural to be able to evolve basically identical creatures."

Spred said with some hesitation: "But the probability of this kind of coincidence is too low, I definitely won't believe in such a coincidence." How is it possible that an entire planet is a coincidence? ”

"How much do you know about this universe?" Zhou Xin asked rhetorically, "We are all like babies who have only begun to understand the universe, so it is not too arbitrary to say that it is impossible when we encounter unexplained phenomena." And--" Zhou Xin paused, "Now I can be sure that these two places are basically similar, and the whole planet is a coincidence, which is just a guess on my part, and maybe in the end, only the species in these two places are similar, so I think it makes sense to explain it by coincidence." As for the planet as a whole, we'll wait for more probes to send back the results. ”

Spred nodded thoughtfully, "Okay, what you said is right, I don't know enough about this universe, so I can't make an accurate judgment on some phenomena, just now I'm too arbitrary." ”

"Alright, alright." Ralph interrupted, "That's it for the review, Uncle Captain just said this was the first idea, so is there a second idea?" ”

"As I said, don't call me Uncle Captain." Zhou Xin tugged at the corners of his mouth, and seeing that Ralph ignored his words again and made a grimace at him, he had no choice but to continue helplessly, "The second thought is a bit fantastical, do you think that there will be an alien civilization that visited my home planet tens of millions of years ago, and then brought the biological samples on the home planet to this planet for them to take root and sprout?" ”

As soon as Zhou Xin finished saying this conjecture, there was a sudden silence around them, and it took them a while to digest what Zhou Xin said. Ralph spoke first.

"How is this possible! Uncle Captain, you're too whimsical, aren't you? ”

Zhou Xin said helplessly, "I also think that I have read too much science fiction, and this idea came to me instantly, and then I unconsciously thought far along this idea." Thinking about this idea, the more complete it is in my mind, and I can't get rid of it, so now I can say it as entertainment, haha. After speaking, Zhou Xin himself smiled.

Ralph also smiled, "That's right, how can there be such an idle alien civilization, and how can an alien civilization have the technology to replicate so many lives and bring them to this place where I don't know where." ”

Spred thought for a long time, and then said, "I'd like to believe that yours is right more than your first thought." He paused, "You just said that the universe is so big that there are no wonders, so it is possible that there is an alien civilization with such advanced technology, at least I think the probability is higher than the previous coincidence." As for why they put so much effort into replicating the creatures of your planet—" he shrugged, "I don't know. ”

While they were discussing fiercely, the pterosaurs on the screen had gradually flown away until they disappeared, and they had flown out of the monitor's field of vision, but they didn't care about these while they were discussing, and just after the pterosaur disappeared from the screen, a series of message tones came from the Voyager's public communicator.

Hearing this series of continuous prompts, Zhou Xin and the others suddenly stopped discussing, and Zhou Xin asked a little puzzled, "What's the matter?" Why are you receiving so many messages all of a sudden? ”

The Voyager paused, analyzed all the messages, and then reported, "This is a message from probes from all over the planet who have found something unusual in their location......"