Chapter Ninety-Eight: Messages in Conversation
Having just reached the middle of the screen, the men seemed to have discovered something, and they walked briskly in the direction that the probe had just entered. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The detector adjusted the lens slightly, and the men reappeared in the camera. At this moment, they were standing next to the door that the probe had just pushed open, as if they were discussing something, and at the same time, one or two people had angry expressions on their faces.
Seeing the open door, Zhou Xin was shocked, and then he began to complain in his heart that the detector was so careless, and when he didn't even close the door, the sound of a conversation suddenly came out.
"If I let me know who hasn't passed the gate, I'm going to have to beat him up, isn't that harmful. You have to find out early, or something big will happen. The first sentence is the voice of an angry person.
"Alright, alright." Another person advised, "It's not a day or two that this door has failed, maybe it's just that we happened to encounter it by accident." ”
"Then hurry up and get it repaired!" The tone of the person before was still very angry, "You don't know how to repair such a critical door when it's broken?!" If there is an air leak, the people in the base will not live! ”
"We'd like to fix it." One person smiled bitterly, "But now that we have no materials in stock, and we don't have new materials on it, how can we repair them?" Shall we send someone to stand here against the door? ”
"Didn't the spaceship come back yesterday, and it brought back a lot of materials, why don't you go to them and ask for it?" Anyway, I don't care what method you use, I have to fix this door within today, or I'll let you top the door here. ”
Then, before the angry man wanted to say something, a man standing to his right spoke, "Alright, that's it, let's hurry up and see what foreign objects are there, otherwise it will affect the departure of the ship." ”
When he heard this, Zhou Xin's heart was shocked again, he felt that the foreign objects discussed by those aliens were very likely to be those probes that had just slipped in. But it didn't take long for him to react, and now all the images on the screen were from the past. And just now he saw that the current detectors are all intact, indicating that these aliens have not discovered the whereabouts of the detectors before.
The reprimanded man nodded, "Yes, if you don't set off again, it'll be too late, let's go, let's go out." Then he was the first to walk out of the door, and after him, the others walked out with him.
Just as the last person walked out, the vast majority of the probes began to follow the path of the aliens and continue to explore the interior of the base. However, a probe followed the men back into the passage.
Zhou Xin saw that the probe was sticking to the corner of the wall on the ground, and followed closely about ten meters behind the alien. As the men came out of the door, their movements increased significantly, and they were still chatting as they walked briskly through the passage.
"Captain, didn't the exploration ship just come back? What is it to do in such a hurry to set off again before the supplies have been unloaded? The man who had been reprimanded earlier asked. Just after he asked this question, several people next to him also showed questioning expressions.
Glancing at the person who asked the question, the man known as the captain said, "You all know what happened to the convoy a few days ago. Seeing that the few people nodded, he continued, "I thought everyone was killed in that attack, but I didn't expect that not long ago, we actually received a distress signal from the space city that belongs to the Ewen Empire. The gist of the signal was that a small number of people had fled back to the city from the previous attack, and that, together with those who had not been on the ship before, there were about a thousand or so survivors in the city. Now that the survivors seem to have been abandoned by the Ewen Empire, they haven't been resupplied for a long time, so they're sending out a distress signal in the hope that someone can help them. Due to the urgency of the situation described in the message, it is necessary to leave immediately. ”
"But—" the man who asked the question continued, "can you be sure that this message is true?" Could it just be a ploy by the Ewen Empire to lure us in? ”
"Now that they are fighting with the Republic of Kazran, how can they have time to care about us." The person who urged him before replied, "However, in fact, I also have some doubts about the authenticity of this message, it stands to reason that it is difficult for us to receive a signal from the direction of Space City, how come we just received this distress signal when we were facing Space City." Moreover, there are only two scientific research bases nearby besides our base, and they obviously can't and can't help the survivors in Space City, if they don't know about our existence, what's the use of them sending signals in our direction? ”
"Maybe they're broadcasting a whole region." The captain explained, "Or maybe they want to ask for help from the two research bases with the attitude of giving it a try." If we are really discovered, with their strength, they can simply send a few warships, so why bother to lure us to show up. Seeing that some people still had some uneasy expressions on their faces, he continued to comfort, "Don't worry, the spacecraft sent out will only go over to see first, and as for whether it will contact the survivors in the space city, you will have to wait until you find out the specific situation over there before you can make a decision." ”
"That's good." The person who asked the question breathed a sigh of relief, "I thought that the spaceship was trying to directly pick up the 1,000 or so people in the past, you must know that it would be good that our base can barely maintain normal operation now, and if so many more people are suddenly added, it will be over." ”
"It may be, but I don't think it's likely." The captain replied casually, and while they were chatting, the men were constantly looking for something in the passageway.
After searching for a long time, the captain said suspiciously, "Strange? Nothing strange was found, and if the probe's report was correct, the foreign object could only be in the passage near the two ships that were launched. ”
"The people on the ship have checked it for us, and nothing anomalous has been found in that section of the passage." A man next to the captain reported to him.
"The probe is a false alarm again." Another said, "I don't know how many times this has happened, every time it always makes people feel a false alarm, and I think it's time for these detectors to be replaced." ”
"Forget it, if it really doesn't, that's a good thing." The captain said, and then his tone became helpless, "As for replacing those detectors, it will take us to do so, do you know how long it has been since the people who went out have brought back a complete detector?" Even the parts brought back are many damaged, and every time you want to find a suitable part that can repair the detector, you have to find a long time, and even a few old detectors can no longer find suitable replacement parts. Sighing slightly, he continued, "Forget it, it's useless to talk about this, since you haven't found any foreign objects, let's go back and report it, so that the spacecraft can also depart early." ”
After saying this, he turned around and led the men to the door where they had come out before. Seeing this, the probe following them quickly found a place to hide, and waited until they passed before following back up. Next, they chatted and talked about their current life, and after listening to some of them, Zhou Xin found that although they still had a lot of complaints about the life in the base, they couldn't suppress their happiness from the tone in which they spoke.
After only listening to a short paragraph, Zhou Xin's face showed a puzzled expression, "Do you think that these people in front of you seem to be a little different?" ”
"Did you find out too?" "These people don't give me the feeling of the walking dead like the townsfolk I've seen before, they look more like—more like—more like, how to say, more like people." After thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't think of a better adjective, so he had to say vaguely.
"Well, almost." Zhou Xin understood his words, "Those townsfolk feel more like robots to me, but these people in front of me are different, and they look more human." When I said this, the people on the screen happened to say happy things and laughed. Look, at least the townsfolk won't have such expressions. Zhou Xin pointed to the screen and said.
"So, why do these people look so different from the townspeople?" Dart asked, "Besides, aren't the people of these two countries still fighting each other on the surface of the planet?" How can we live together at this base and still get along? What's going on here? ”
"That's what we're going to investigate next in this base." Zhou Xin said, "It's best to figure out the origin of this base, as well as the relationship between the people in the base and the two countries on Songxing, and it's best to figure out what purpose they are hiding here." After a moment's hesitation, he continued, "Actually, when I didn't see these people at first, I thought that it would be a new civilization that was completely different from the two civilizations on the planet, but I didn't expect to see such a result, which made people a little unexpected. ”
"Brother Captain, actually—" As soon as Zhou Xin finished speaking, Atlas continued, "From a linguistic point of view, they can already be regarded as a new civilization. Hearing this, everyone looked surprised, and the little girl continued, "Because what you hear is something that has been translated, you don't feel it, but people can hear it." In the conversation just now, although the two men were still speaking the languages of their respective civilizations, the two languages seemed to be beginning to show signs of merging. ”
"Signs of integration."
Atlas nodded, "That's it, in their conversation just now, when the Eun man spoke, he occasionally popped up one or two words that appeared in Kazlan, and vice versa, and even some new words appeared. Most of the new vocabulary is made up of the same word from two different languages. This shows that these people from different civilizations in the base have culturally accepted each other. ”
"If that's the case, then it also means that they've been living together in this base for a long time." After listening to Atlas's words, Spred analyzed thoughtfully.
"That's the truth." Zhou Xin's heart was also thinking at the same time, and after a while he continued, "It seems that there are still a lot of secrets hidden behind this force, and the next thing is to look at the probes and see what clues they can investigate in the base." ”
"Don't worry, leave it to others." Atlas said confidently, "Compared with the other two civilizations, there is still a big gap in their technological strength. The conversation you just heard on the video was temporarily cracked by the probe not long after encountering them, but I didn't expect that a large number of communication signals in their base were only simply encrypted, which was completely incomparable to the two civilizations on the planet. People have already started to hack their database, but this is still a bit of a hassle, but it shouldn't take much time. ”
"I'll leave it to you." Hearing Atlas's report, Zhou Xin was still a little happy, and after giving a command, he continued to turn his gaze to the image sent back by the probe.
The probe flew in the same way as the previous men, and they came to a hallway. The corridor was very long, estimated to be more than 100 meters, and the walls on both sides were lined with small doors more than a meter high, most of which were closed. From time to time, aliens can be seen walking in the corridors, walking from room to room, some of them still holding things in their hands, and they seem to be very busy.
Due to the presence of a large number of people around the probe, in order not to be discovered by the people in the base, the probes that had been gathered together were decisively dispersed. Along the ceiling or other unnoticeable routes, they each looked for a hidden position, and it didn't take long for many of the images on the screen to freeze, turning into the familiar picture that Zhou Xin and the others had seen at first.
Atlas then closes the course and cuts back to the live image sent back by the probe. After all this time, the probe still did not take any further action, and the picture displayed was exactly the same as before, and if it weren't for Atlas's reminder, Zhou Xin and the others would not have known that what they were seeing now was a real-time image.
"Brother Captain, don't worry." As if knowing what Zhou Xin wanted to ask, the little girl explained, "It won't be long before the night of this base arrives, and then the probe can start moving." The plan is to explore the terrain of this base first, and then conduct a detailed investigation of some important locations. ”
Speaking of time, Zhou Xin suddenly found that it was almost late at night on the spaceship. He nodded, "Well, just do what you want." Now he trusts Atlas more and more. After saying this, he went back to his room to rest......