Chapter 13: Another Exchange

Spred nodded, "That's all there is to it now......"

In the next half month, Zhou Xin and they ran into a lot of trouble. Detectors www.biquge.info explore the surface of the frozen planet from time to time come under unidentified attack. Most of these attacks were one-hit, and the probes were basically destroyed after sending back a single message, and some probes lost contact with the Voyager without even sending a message. When the Voyager sent the combat robots to investigate, the scene of the accident left only the wreckage of the probe and the traces of the probe's own progress, and nothing else.

Plus, the unconscious Atlantean is still in a coma. According to Dr. Wren, her condition has improved slightly compared to half a month ago. The wounds all over her body were already showing signs of healing, but the damage to her internal organs was still severe, so the Atlantean was still not out of danger. Moreover, the medical methods and equipment that can be used on the ship have been used on her, and now whether she can survive depends on her own physical fitness and desire to survive. Now Wren's daily job is to observe the condition of the Atlantean and change her dressing regularly, and nothing else can be done.

In this regard, Zhou Xin felt very worried, but he had nothing to do, and what made him even more depressed was that the Atlantean who was locked up still refused to communicate, in the past half a month, she sat in a chair in a daze every day except for eating, and even Ralph ignored her when she talked to her, and Zhou Xin and they still had nothing to do about it.

Another day has passed, and Zhou Xin and the others still haven't figured out a way to break the deadlock, and hundreds of probes have been lost on the planet. Now, the Atlanteans on the planet are getting bolder, and they have even begun to attack the combat robots that have gone to investigate the probe crash. At that time, a probe was destroyed in a canyon-like terrain, and while the battle robots were probing, the Atlanteans attacked it and successfully destroyed it. Since then, the number of attacks on the combat robots has increased, and in the end, in order to avoid more unnecessary losses, Zhou Xin had no choice but to take back the combat robots sent out with the detectors. Fortunately, the exploration of the interior of the planet's ice is almost complete, but unfortunately, the probe has not found any traces of Atlantis in the area explored.

For what happened in the past half a month, Zhou Xin and they seemed very helpless, and at the same time, Zhou Xin felt deeply powerless. He felt that the month and a half should be the worst situation he had encountered since his departure, and he didn't even know what to do next.

On this day, Zhou Xin frowned and stood in the command module, the probes and combat robots on the surface of the planet have been withdrawn to a temporary base built on the surface of the planet, their activities on the planet have been completely stagnant, only a few artificial satellites are left around the low orbit of the planet, but without the help of the probes on the ground, the functions of these satellites are also very limited. Moreover, these satellites did not play much role in the Atlantean attacks the most frequent days ago, they did not find out exactly how the Atlantean platforms that were attacked appeared, their appearance was completely without warning, and only a few black spots could be seen from the perspective of the satellites that inexplicably emerged from the ice, and disappeared from another place after destroying the probe. However, when the battle robots went to reconnoiter where they appeared and disappeared, they found no signs of anomalies. Although Zhou Xin and his colleagues had suspected that the platforms had come out of a nearby ice crevasse, after a detailed investigation of the bottom of the ice crevasse, the probe did not find any entrances and exits.

Looking at the video of the previous attack on the probe, Zhou Xin said to himself depressedly: "How did they find our probe?" Could it be that the Atlanteans also have probes on the planet? But why didn't we find out? ”

"And it's all over the planet." Spred also said, "I just looked at the location of the probe attack, and found that there is no pattern, almost everywhere there are reports of probe attacks, how did they do it, is it that there are so many Atlanteans on this planet that they are all over the planet?" If there were so many, then how could we find only two traces of Atlanteans. ”

Sighing heavily, Zhou Xin said, "It seems that the breakthrough is still on the Atlantean on the ship, but how can we get her to open her mouth to communicate with us." ”

Renard, who was busy next to him, heard Zhou Xin's words, he turned his head and stopped talking.

Zhou Xin saw Renard's movements, and he asked directly, "Renard, do you have any ideas?" Just say it. ”

Renard turned his head again and showed a hesitant look, and Zhou Xin suddenly understood, "I don't blame you for what happened last time, didn't we all agree with your opinion?" Let's just say that we didn't expect that Atlantean to react like this. Renard turned to look at Spred again, and saw that he also nodded, so Renard finally spoke.

"I'll just say a little bit of thought." Renard's tone was still cautious, "Since that Atlantean might have misunderstood that we were in league with the spherical battleship that attacked them earlier, why don't we just tell her where we came from?" ”

"I wanted to explain to her where we came from, but now she refuses to communicate and doesn't understand what we're talking about, so how do you explain that?" Zhou Xin asked with a frown.

Renard hesitated for a moment, but finally said his thoughts, "Since she refuses to communicate, then we can only force her to communicate, first tell her where we come from, as long as she understands that we are not in the same group as their enemies, then it should be easier to communicate next." ”

Zhou Xin lowered his head and thought for a moment, and then said hesitantly: "Wouldn't this be too rude, after all, we have to communicate with them well next, so will their first impression not be good." ”

Spred figured it out, "Is it good that we give her first impression now?" He asked rhetorically, "In her mind, we are enemies now, and if we continue like this, we won't even be able to change her first impression." It's better to make a quick decision, first let her know that we are not her enemies, and then slowly change her first impression. ”

Under Spred's persuasion, Zhou Xin also figured it out, "Okay, then let's try it, but that Atlantean is going to suffer a little bit." ”

Seeing that Zhou Xin had made up his mind, Spred then asked, "Then how should I tell her where we came from, do you have a good way?" ”

"Since she misunderstood us for enemies of Atlantis, let's start where we misunderstood." Zhou Xin replied without thinking, "Actually, the method has been there for a long time, but because she directly broke the display screen after watching the invasion video, she didn't see the content behind the video." Behind that invasion video, I asked the Voyager to add to the history of our civilization and our experiences along the way, and as long as she watched what was next, she should understand. ”

"Then what are you hesitating about, let's do it quickly, and solve the misunderstanding as soon as possible, so that we can have the next step of communication with her." Spred urged.

"Hmm." Zhou Xin nodded, "Then who will this task be entrusted to?" ”

After hearing this question, the researchers who had just followed Zhou Xin and Spred's chat all turned their heads and pretended not to hear him, and even Spred said, "Don't you see that I'm still busy here, where can I go?" ”

Zhou Xin smiled bitterly: "Emotional evildoers want me to do it, right?" You guys made it easy, and you just pushed this task to me with a single sentence. ”

"Nonsense, don't give it to whom." Spred glanced at Zhou Xin, "We've met that Atlantean a few times in total, so you don't bother the two masters, of course, the work of communicating with her will be handed over to you." Do you expect one of us to be taught by her again? After a pause, he continued, "And we are here that you are an earthling, and we have to explain to her where you come from, and how you can do it without being an earthling." ”

"Okay, okay, you have a point." Zhou Xin said depressedly, "How do you feel that a group of you are captains, and I am the hard-pressed crew, and I have to do everything that is troublesome." With that, he waved his hand and walked out of the command module.

What Zhou Xin didn't see was that after he walked out of the command cabin, everyone in the command cabin, including Spred, breathed a sigh of relief-

A few minutes later, Zhou Xin first went to the medical cabin to check on the situation of the unconscious Atlanteans. She was still unconscious, with all sorts of instruments on her, and Dr. Wren had only reported four words to him - business as usual. Zhou Nobunaga sighed and walked towards the room where the first Atlantean was being held. Walking to the door of the room, Zhou Xin hesitated for a moment, and then pushed the door open.

He noticed that the Atlantean was still sitting quietly in his chair with his cheeks held up, while Ralph sat in another chair staring at her. Hearing the sound of the door opening, the Atlantean raised his head and glanced at the door, and found that it was Zhou Xin who came in, and then lowered his head, keeping his previous movements and not knowing what he was thinking. When Ralph saw Zhou Xin coming in, she hurriedly stood up, she walked up to Zhou Xin and asked, "How is it, have you thought of a solution to the misunderstanding?" Every day I get bored to death. Now Zhou Xin asks this question every time she comes to Ralph, and she is tired of being able to accompany her like this every day, but she can't bear to leave the Atlanteans alone in the room, so she still insists on coming over to accompany her every day, from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night. So Ralph now wants to resolve this misunderstanding as soon as possible, so that he can communicate with this Atlantean properly.

Looking at Ralph's expectant eyes, Zhou Xin replied depressedly: "There is a way." ”

Before Zhou Xin could finish speaking, Ralph couldn't wait to ask, "What's the solution, say it quickly, do you need me to do something?" ”

"I don't need you to do anything." Zhou Xin said sullenly, "But it's me who suffers." Then he told Ralph what he had discussed.

Before Zhou Xin finished speaking, Ralph hurriedly said: "What kind of solution is this, what if it hurts her, no, no, absolutely not." She shook her head vigorously as she spoke.

Zhou Xin spread his hands and said helplessly: "I don't want to either, but if she doesn't force her to watch it, it is estimated that she will smash the screen halfway through it as before, and the content of that video is very important, after she watches it, she should understand that we are not in the same group as their enemies." Unless, you have a better way to solve this misunderstanding. ”

After listening to Zhou Xin's words, the excited Ralph quieted down, then thought for a while, and said dejectedly: "Okay, it seems that this is the only way to go." Then she said in a threatening voice: "Then how do you want to force her to watch the video, it's impossible to tie her to a chair to watch it, if that's the case, I won't let you go." ”

"I used to think so." Zhou Xin replied honestly, and seeing that Ralph was showing signs of madness, he hurriedly added, "Later, after thinking about it, I felt that it was a bit too violent, so I changed my mind." I just need to protect the monitor, so I've just got the robot ready. As they spoke, they heard footsteps coming from the doorway. Are you ready, it's fast? Zhou Xin said.

Knowing that the Atlantean was very sensitive to robots, Zhou Xin did not ask the robot to move things in directly, but walked out of the door and brought in a transparent box by himself.

"Phew-it's really heavy after the modification." Zhou Xin put the box on the ground and let out a sigh of relief. Then he patted the box and said, "This is this special monitor, I had the robot put tempered glass around the monitor, so that even if the Atlantean smashed it, he wouldn't want to smash it." ”

Ralph glanced at the special monitor, and then said happily, "It's a good idea, but if it's so simple, then why didn't you think of this way, Uncle Captain, for a long time." ”

"Well-" Zhou Xin replied a little embarrassed, "hehe-hehe-I didn't expect it for a while, when I was on the road just now, I was still thinking about what kind of rope I could use to tie her up without letting her get hurt, and then a robot carried a piece of glass over I thought of this method, otherwise what you see now should be a strong rope." ”

"Humph......"