"Coordinates?" Zhou Xin asked, "Where are the coordinates?" ”

"There is not enough data to come up with a specific location. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Voyager replied, Zhou Xin was a little disappointed to hear this answer, but Voyager added: "The newly added data to the database has content about the planet's terrain, which is being processed, and it is expected that it will take some time to reach a conclusion." ”

"Find the location of this coordinate as soon as possible." Zhou Xin hurriedly said, "Maybe this place can tell us why this civilization retreated in such a hurry. ”

"At the same time." Zhou Xin added, "We must also step up the analysis of the results of the voice in the video just now, after all, it is the last recording before they retreat." I have a hunch that this passage must be important. ”

"Understood."

After communicating with the Voyager, Zhou Xin continued to walk to the command platform and take a closer look, trying to discover something new. But maybe the luck has run out, or maybe this information is over, and after studying for a long time, the words on the screen still haven't changed. Zhou Xin gave up, so he handed over the work of continuing to study this command platform to the robot, and walked back to the first room by himself.

Looking at the robots that occasionally walked around, Zhou Xin thought about the current situation for a while. a high-tech civilization destroyed by a nova; a legacy underground research base; a hurried retreat; a video before the retreat; An accurate coordinate in the imagery. What is the reason for the destruction of this civilization? Is it really a nova explosion? Why does a red dwarf star have a nova explosion? Why retreat? Could it be that they had already discovered that the planet was about to be destroyed before they retreated? Where did they retreat? Did the retreating people survive?

After thinking for a while, Zhou Xin's heart became even more chaotic, and he shook his head, and Zhou Xin drove these thoughts out of his mind. "Anyway, there's no way to draw conclusions now, and it's useless to think about it so much." Zhou thought confidently. Seeing that it was almost evening, he stretched and said to the Voyager, "I'll leave it to you first, get the results of the analysis as soon as possible, and I'll go back to the base first." ”

Back at the base, Zhou Xin had dinner, read some irrelevant reports by the way, and then played with Xiaobai for a while, and the busy day was over.

For the next few days, Zhou Xin stayed in that underground research room during the day and returned to the base at night. Over the course of several days, the robot found a small room in the room with the podium, but it was just a lounge with only a bed, a set of tables and chairs, and a personal terminal. And there are only a few diary-like things in that personal terminal, after interpretation, most of these diaries are written about the life of the end user, and only one content is related to scientific research, which is an article that introduces how to make helium or heavier elements fuse the reaction, but it only mentions some relevant concepts and dangers, and there is no detailed operation method.

On this day, Voyager reported to Zhou Xin the results of further investigation and analysis of the underground research base.

"The results of the content analysis of that image are already out." The Voyager reported.

"How come the image results first?" Zhou Xin asked suspiciously, "Have you found the location that the string of coordinates points to?" ”

"The information on the past terrain and coordinate system of this planet was found in the data, but due to the serious damage to the surface terrain of this planet after the outbreak, and some of the terrain was even displaced, the terrain matching system could not work well, and the ship was looking for more matching terrain to locate." The Voyager replied.

"Okay, let's talk about that video." Zhou Xin understood.

The content of Zhou Xin's screen changed, and the humanoid creature appeared on the screen, just like the first time it was seen, and after a while, the image began to speak. This time, however, what he said was changed to Chinese.

"I'm Spred, the head of this command post, and I'm going to talk about something very important next. Whether you are a survivor of this catastrophe or an alien creature lucky enough to reach this planet, please listen to this passage and act on it. ”

"We're going to run an experiment so dangerous that it could wipe out the entire planet, but if successful, the benefits of this experiment will be enormous. Although my colleagues and I in this research lab are not optimistic about the results of this experiment, most people on this planet are carried away by the results of the experiment and are optimistic about this experiment. But we don't think so. ”

"We're going to ignite our home planet." The image uttered a shocking message, "No matter what you say about that star, the star I'm referring to is the star around which this planet revolves. We will conduct a large-scale ignition experiment on this star, and the purpose of ignition is to trigger a heavier elemental reaction from this star, so that we can get more energy. ”

"Although the results of the simulation experiments show that the ignition of this star will only increase the size of this star by a tenth, it will increase the average temperature of our planet by about 15 degrees. Even if it fails, the star will only produce about a month of intense activity, which will not affect our planet much. However, our researchers came up with a hypothesis, and after our calculations, it was very likely. ”

"Although it is said that the star will only grow by a tenth of the size after ignition, the size they get is the size of the star when it is stabilized. According to our conjecture, the initial explosion of the star will be very large, due to the first heavy element reaction inside the star, the star will produce a violent explosion under the influence of internal pressure, the energy of this explosion may even double the size of the star, and then the star will gradually shrink under the influence of gravity until it reaches 1.1 times its original size. ”

"According to our calculations, the probability of this happening is 30%, so the people in our laboratory are strongly opposed to this experiment. But since most of the people were in favor of the experiment, we couldn't stop it from happening. So, our researchers came up with an alternative. ”

"We're going to hide on the back side of the planet from this outbreak." At this point, the camera cuts to a room where people are busy packing up their belongings. "We will take all the materials for the revival of our civilization and hide in an underground fortification that already exists, hoping to survive and then rebuild our civilization."

Sighing slightly, the man continued, "I hope what I'm saying is just our guess and won't happen in the end. If disaster strikes, I'd like someone to see it. Then it's you, visitor. ”

The camera shifts back to the humanoid creature, and he continues, "If you are a survivor of this disaster, then this disaster is not as serious as we calculated. Well, please arrive at the coordinates that will appear after the round with us, the survivor camp is very welcoming to the arrival of new members, and I hope you will rebuild the civilization of this planet with us. ”

"If you are a civilization from an extraterrestrial world, I am here to make a request. Please lend a helping hand to help our civilization that is about to be destroyed. If you can read this information, it means that your civilization is at least as advanced as we are, so with your ability to at least allow us to survive. If you have no intention of saving us, please mothball this base as it is for the arrival of the next personnel. If you want to save us, I'll tell you where the shelter is. ”

"There's not much time left, the experiment is about to begin, and we should head to the Vault." The man looked panicked and said, "The coordinates of the Vault will appear next, I hope you keep it firmly in mind." After saying this, the humanoid creature on the screen disappeared, and then the coordinate text appeared.

After listening to this translated text, Zhou Xin held his forehead and thought about it. "I can't think of such a complicated reason. But why are they setting the planet on fire? Get more energy? What do they want so much energy for? Traveling to space? Forget it, there are survivors left, just ask them when the time comes."

After thinking about this, Zhou Xin raised his head and said to the Voyager: "Speed up the analysis of that set of coordinates, I want to know the location of the shelter as soon as possible." By the way, do you know when this video was recorded? ”

"It was about 6 months before the Earth Standard Month." The Voyager replied.

"It seems that this nova explosion was really caused by them, it's crazy to allow such a dangerous experiment to be carried out. Moreover, their level of technology is so high that they can change the stars, which is terrifying. Zhou Xin continued to analyze, "If we can obtain their technology, the development of mankind may be able to take a big step forward." Zhou Xin's tone was a little excited.

"Two questions. First, we have not yet found a way back to Earth, and even we have not found the exact location of Earth, how do we transfer the technology back? Second, what are you going to do to light the sun after you get their technology? The Voyager asked solemnly.

"Ahem." Zhou Xin's expression was a little embarrassed, "I mean other technologies, we don't need crazy technology like igniting the sun." Since they can ignite the sun, it means that their skill level is above ours, and it would be good to have some other skills. ”

"I hope you think so." The Voyager replied solemnly.

"Okay, okay, I'm just thinking about it, I haven't encountered this civilization yet, it's too early to say this." Zhou Xin explained embarrassedly, "When I encounter this civilization, I think it's okay to learn a few techniques from them with our help." ”

"Please think carefully about this." The Voyager reminded.

"What else is there to consider?" Zhou Xin was a little puzzled.

"This is our first contact with a new civilization, and we don't yet know what the situation of this civilization is like going further, especially the character of this civilization. According to the law of the Dark Forest, we should not actively approach this civilization to avoid encountering dangerous situations. Therefore, the ship is cautious about this first contact. Moreover. The Voyager paused and continued, "There is only one free-minded natural human on this ship, and you are the Captain right now, and if you have a dangerous situation in contact. The ship will not be able to continue its mission, and for safety reasons, you will be prevented from making the first contact. ”

"But how can we understand this civilization if we don't get in touch, and this civilization is in danger now, if we don't save them, who else can save them." Zhou Xin argued.

"At least it is not feasible for you to make direct contact, according to the previous plan, the first contact should be made by a diplomat, not by you, the captain." The Voyager explained.

"Then what's the solution, I'm alone here now, it's impossible not to touch." Zhou Xin wondered.

"There's an alternative here."

"What's the plan?"

"Use a simulated robot for the first contact." "Anyway, the other civilization doesn't know about our life forms, and if we use the simulated robots to make contact, even if something unexpected happens, we can get out of it safely." ”

"Is it possible?" Zhou Xin asked, "After all, it is a simulated robot, and the gap between it and the real person is still very large, won't there be any problems?" ”

"The ship has considered this problem, so this simulation robot is an independent model, and it will be equipped with the ship's intelligent system."

"Wait." Zhou Xin interrupted, "You've completed your miniaturization? ”

"Not really." Voyager explained, "Simulated robots exist, you know. Due to the special situation of the ship, there is a serious shortage of personnel, so the ship has come up with a way to directly load the ship's system into the bionic robot, so that the bionic robot will get the performance improvement, but this robot is only installed on the ship's system, limited to the size of the body, the database can only be shared with the ship. Therefore, you can think of this robot as a doppelganger of your own ship. ”

"That's a great idea." Zhou Xin praised, "Wouldn't it be very helpful to make more of these models." I'm curious about this kind of robot, so I'll call one for me to see. ”

"I'm sorry, but since this is a recent idea proposed by this ship, the installation experiment is still ongoing. In addition, due to the limited performance of the small machine, the robot equipped with the ship's system will always be under high load, and the expected lifespan is only about one month, so it is not realistic to plan for mass production. ”

"Well, I took it for granted." Zhou Xin said helplessly, "Then it was decided to use the bionic robot for the first contact, and there is nothing else to pay attention to." All that's left is to find the spot where that coordinate points to......"