Chapter 12: The Strange City
"How the hell did they do it?" Zhou Xin asked this question for the second time. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Maybe it's a disguise." Atlas guessed.
"It's a camouflage that covers the whole city, and it's all the cities in the world." Dart exclaimed, "If that's true, it's unbelievable." Then he asked, puzzled, "But what is the purpose of their disguise?" Is it to defend against space scouts like ours? ”
"This person can't guess."
"If you can't guess, don't guess yet." Zhou Xin said, "Anyway, I guess it has nothing to do with us, didn't you mention that there is another bad news just now?" Let's talk about the bad news. ”
"The bad news is that until now people don't know what kind of language is spoken in this civilization." Atlas's tone was a little frustrated.
"How so?" Zhou Xin looked a little surprised, "Could it be that you haven't been able to successfully hack into their system yet?" ”
"Not so." The little girl shook her head, "Relying on the signals sent back by those flying machines, people did connect to some of their transceiver devices, and they did find some other terminals through these transceiver devices. However, apart from the signals, people could not recognize the meaning of these signals at all, and there was nothing related to language and writing in the transceiver equipment. It's just a lot of signals, and there's no way to know what language they're using. ”
"Didn't you find out what language they spoke?" After listening to Atlas's answer, Spred said thoughtfully, "Could it be that the control of the aircraft only requires simple commands?" So I can't find any language in the control system? ”
"People thought of that, too, so they secretly let a small probe sneak into a city last night. But, Captain, do you know what people have found in the city? As he spoke, Atlas released the footage captured by the probe.
On the screen, Zhou Xin saw a rather bustling street. It's like the streets of any city on the planet, and the streets are full of pedestrians. Pedestrians on the road walked casually, and from time to time you could see people coming in and out of the shops on the side of the street, which seemed to be very normal.
Seeing the high-level intelligent life on this planet for the first time, everyone in the command module was very curious, and their eyes were all focused on those people. After a closer look, they found that the people on this planet did not seem to be much different from the earthlings in appearance, and even the body shape was very similar. The only big difference may be that they are dressed, at first glance it looks like fabric, but if you look closely, you can see that the patterns on the fabric that look like plants seem to have grown naturally. Not only the clothes on their bodies, but even the entire street, except for the smooth pavement in the middle, which can be seen artificially, the buildings on both sides of the street are covered with a large number of plants, and only the inside of the open shops can see some traces of high-tech buildings.
"I think I already know why I can't find their city in the air." Zhou Xin couldn't help but sigh.
"The perfect combination of nature and technology." Spred was distracted, "It's such a beautiful place. ”
"Alright, Brother Captain, don't sigh about this yet." Atlas interrupted their conversation, "Didn't you notice anything strange?" ”
"What's so strange? Isn't this a very ordinary street? Dart asked suspiciously, and even Zhou Xin nodded approvingly.
"No, have you noticed that there is not a single text in the picture? It looks like it's a shopping street, but there's no signboard or anything like that. Spred was keenly aware of the oddities.
Under Spred's reminder, Zhou Xin and the others found out about this, and after scanning the whole picture again, Zhou Xin said suspiciously: "Indeed, why is there not even a picture or even text here." How exactly do the locals know exactly what the buildings on both sides are? ”
"That's not all, brother captain, take a closer look." With that, Atlas pulled the camera in front of a group of people.
At first, Zhou Xin was puzzled why she gave such a strange picture, but after observing it for a while, he strangely found that although the expressions on the faces of the people walking together were constantly changing, and occasionally making some strange gestures, their mouths basically did not move. The most exaggerated thing is that one of them made a laughing expression during the exchange, but Zhou Xin and the others did not hear his laughter.
Then, Zhou Xin and the others noticed that it seemed that it was not only these people on the screen, they didn't seem to hear any speech from the beginning. Because they could hear all the other sounds in the picture, all Zhou Xin didn't think that something was wrong with the detector.
"What about the voice? What about the sound of their voices? After discovering this, Zhou Xin subconsciously asked.
"People don't know." Atlas shook his head, "Judging by their facial expressions, there is no doubt that these people are talking to each other in the frame. But from the audio sent back by the detector, no conversation was extracted at all. ”
"Do you mean that they, like the Green Elves, don't use their voices to communicate?" Spred immediately thought of the Green Elf.
"This possibility cannot be ruled out." The little girl replied, "But judging from their actions in the picture, it seems unlikely that the way of communication between this civilized individual is also physically active." ”
"Then what else can they rely on to communicate?" Zhou Xin realized that the whole thing had become troublesome, "If we don't figure it out, we won't be able to communicate with the civilization on this planet at all, and if we can't even communicate, how can we talk about the next action." ”
"People will try to figure out how to communicate with the civilizations of this planet." Atlas replied.
"We must do it as soon as possible, there may not be much time left for us, and the other party will start a new operation against us at any time." There was obviously a hint of worry in Zhou Xin's words.
As it turned out, Zhou Xin's fears were correct, and just a few hours later, they welcomed new visitors......