At five o'clock in the morning the next day, when Lucy took the space ladder down to the satellite ground station, Ling Xiao had already arrived.

Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Lucy saw him and said coldly to Professor Ling, "Morning! ”

I went to the experimental cabin.

Ling Xiao sat at the back of his work cabin, boredly flipping through a handful of materials on the surface of the cabin, flipping through them, and feeling very bored, so he began to flip through the work drawer again.

Through the monitoring TV in the experimental cabin, Lucy inadvertently looked back and saw Ling Xiao in a work drawer at the bottom of her right hand, turning out a large number of old computer disks, both disks and CDs, and the disks were piled up in front of Professor Ling in a disorderly manner, Lucy suddenly had a desire to eat.

Then she seemed to see him pick up a disk, and her mind drove her to remove the iron tongue that protected the reading and writing slot, and then gently broke the plastic disk, and the core of the disk slid silently into her hand like magic.

A red test tube shattered in vain, and she held it up to her eyes by pinching the iron-covered place in the center of the core, the light in the room was soft, and on the thin plastic disc coated with magnetic powder, there was a greasy glow, dark purple and purple, which strengthened Lucy's desire to devour it.

As for the disc, not to mention, the colorful halo reflected on the disc is a temptation that is difficult to resist in itself.

Lucy imagined what it felt like to chew the disc in her mouth, and it was more crisp than chewing on a hard walnut.

Lucy had had this thought for a long time, but she had been suppressing it.

She had read in historical sources that there were many strange things in the 20th century, some people lived by eating dirt, and they were tired after not eating dirt for a few days; Some people also eat porcelain or eat poisonous insects and ants; As a result, they were considered eccentrics, but they did not find anything unusual in their bodies.

Lucy didn't admit that she was different from others, but for some reason, she walked into the experiment cabin in a hurry, and as soon as she saw Professor Ling sitting in front of the computer, she had the desire to eat biochemical drugs and CDs, this desire came completely and tenaciously, like those who took drugs, could not control it, could not be rejected.

How many times, Lucy has been wrestling with this idea of herself, and finally, Lucy can't resist it, this idea seems to have been forced on her by someone, so that she can't refuse.

The bare disks, potions, and test tubes were scattered on the table, and she couldn't bear to see them, and she picked up a piece, and the plastic film trembled like a living thing, so that she couldn't bear to swallow it.

Confused, she tossed aside the disk, the potion, and the test tube, and stood up and walked to the porton, which was surrounded by the bright blue lights of the city.

The clock points to eight o'clock.

The satellite city is full of green.

Green is not necessarily plants, and the surface of all space buildings is now coated with a new layer of chlorophyll-rich paint, which can replace trees and flowers for photosynthesis, and can make satellite cities cleaner and more beautiful.

However, the people in the satellite cities are becoming more and more alienated.

Lucy remembers last night with the "White Cloud Knight"

One of the topics I talked about, one about the "cocooned people"

of the topic.

"White Cloud Knight"

Tell her that he had known about her for a long time on a world-famous Western female prodigy and had seen pictures of her on the Internet.

But Lucy said I don't know you.

"White Cloud Knight"

It doesn't matter if you don't know me, what matters is that we are all too lacking in contact, with computers and outer space communication satellites (the middle of the 22nd century - the beginning of the 23rd century, mankind built a new Mars space launch station; It has also successfully launched spacecraft that orbit the earth, wood, and gold as far as the sea king, the heavenly king, and the Hades solar system) developed, human beings are increasingly lacking face-to-face communication, people can complete their work, receive education, buy goods without leaving home, and people are more and more tightly locked up and "cocooned"

It has become a universal phenomenon of human beings.

What is "cocooning"?

？

Lucy asked.

Don't you think that people have become chrysalis in a cocoon?

Human beings use the silk they spit out - high technology - to bind themselves layer by layer, and keep themselves away from society.

People seem to know everything, they -- no, you and me, what they see, hear, are all fake, reality can be virtual, emotions can be virtual, what can not be virtual?

How can we live more authentically?

"White Cloud Knight"

As an anime film and television writer, you can't do without virtual reality, otherwise your anime film and television works will not be able to spread, and your adventure to explore other habitable planets outside the solar system will lose its meaning - and you will not be able to survive, isn't it?

Miss Lucy, you are wrong again, before the advent of virtual reality, the literature of various countries has always been based on the mother language or writing of their own country, and the literature at that time also had a very wide readership and strong vitality.

Could it be that the boring words are more powerful than the electrodes on this helmet?

Lucy said, glancing at the helmet on the floor.

The appeal of art should not rely on the stimulation of electric currents, "White Cloud Knight"

It is said that art expresses people's perception of life, and this perception needs to be absorbed by people with a kind of understanding, and no matter how much electricity is used by a super-intelligent killing machine, it cannot arouse his sympathy.

I can't feel the beauty of art because my perception is too poor?

Lucy asked.

Yes, man should open himself and his heart to all his kind.

Art, as an expression of the human psyche, is originally an open world.

But today, human beings have locked themselves up and cut off themselves from dialogue with the outside world, and the final result of such development can only make people chrysalis and insects!

But the chrysalis will always turn into moths and break out of the cocoon.

Yes, people will break through one day, "White Cloud Knight"

Said very firmly, Miss Lucy, it's not early, you should rest, let's talk another day.

"White Cloud Knight"

After saying that, he hung up the phone, and his resolute and handsome face on the screen disappeared.

Yes, people will break through one day.

Lucy thought about it, and suddenly remembered that today was the day of the conversation with the outer space laboratory, so she turned on the remote monitor on the left wall, and the moment the monitor lit up, Engineer Oakley Ford, the director of the outer space laboratory, was already standing in front of her and Ling Xiao.

How is our research progressing?

Mr. Ao!

Lucy asked.

Everything is normal, Professor, Oakley Ford Engineer replied, and at the moment we are moving towards another "brother" of Earth outside the solar system

--Planet "Kepler-22b"

and T Cetus emits high-powered electromagnetic beams, expecting each other to react as soon as possible – if there were highly intelligent life forms, they would respond.

Very good, Ling Xiao, who has been standing on the side for a long time, said approvingly, I hope you will do a good job of the Sirius constellation "Little Green Man 2" at the same time

, Cetus M-3 observations, and establish communication satellite contact with it as much as possible.

"-- The closest thing to the Little Green Man 2 is 6'7 light-years away from the solar system, and Earth's 'brother', the planet Kepler-22b, is about 600 light-years, and M-3 is too far away to make contact even more difficult. Do your best, Ling Xiao and Lucy said in unison. Thirteen,000 light years is a long way from this era, but it is worth doing for the sake of 26,000 years of reply. Professor Ling continued to bury her head in her work, and Lucy looked at the busy figures of the professor and the researchers behind Oakley Ford, watching their fluttering movements in a weightless state, her heart was as light as their actions, if everything was really like the prophecy of the "White Cloud Knight", sooner or later it would be broken, then wouldn't what they were doing today be meaningless? The civilization of the solar system that mankind has spent thousands of years to build has turned into nothingness in an instant, and what kind of state people will face if they have lost their science, Lucy really dare not imagine.