014 How can there be no aliens in the interstellar age

While Lin Youde racked his brains to drive Lin Xiangori back to his room, in the downtown area of the Arcturus Space Station, the fourth quadrant of the Eighteenth Circle, a secret conversation was going on in a small inconspicuous café.

One of the participants in the secret conversation is a mediocre-looking human being, and the mediocre appearance will disappear as soon as it is thrown into the crowd - of course, this is just a rhetoric, in fact, human beings now have computer-level face recognition capabilities with the help of nanomachines, and even the mediocre appearance can be recognized by modern people when thrown into the crowd - provided that the observer is consciously looking for such a face.

And this person's face is really difficult to attract the attention of others, as long as he is not deliberately looking for it, no one should notice him.

On the other side of the conversation, the man was carrying a large respirator, his bare skin under his clothes, and his mane in some places.

He—or rather, it—was breathing heavily, like he was snoring.

Pigs, as humans always call them, are far from the animals of ancient human societies in terms of physical structure and intelligence.

In fact, the pig clan is a very historical name, long before humans entered space, there were science fiction writers who wrote such a story: human astronauts arrived on a planet and found that pigs on that planet were raising humans in captivity and killing humans to eat. Angry humans immediately attacked, but then humans discovered that pigs were intelligent beings on that planet, and humans were only intelligent domestic animals. The novel is more of a fable set in a scientific context than science fiction, but then the pig race becomes a regular in human science fiction.

Not only do they feature in masterpieces like Ender's Game and Star Cluster, but some of the less famous titles often feature pigs, and even in the sci-fi game Mass Effect, they don't have much of a role in the main storyline.

Now, humanity has put this historically rich and discriminatory name on the 100th ranked race in the Galactic Council. This race has been acting against humanity in various ways when humans were still 200 members of the Galactic Council, and have invaded many galaxies that should have been cultivated by humans despite the Council's mediation.

And now they are surpassed by humans and trampled under their feet, so humans proudly give them the name Pigs. Of course, diplomatically humans still call them Kuka, and Kuka is their name for their home planet.

The pig-dwelling fingers were clumsily typing words on the keyboard, which was connected to the skin of the mediocre-looking human through tiny wires, and the information entered by the pigs was constantly being passed on to the man's nanomachines.

"Your pig clan's communication efficiency is too low."

The human's words appear on the monitor attached to the keyboard in the pig's hand, and the corresponding human smiles of disdain appear on their faces.

"Hmph." The pig-people let out an unpleasant grunt as they typed, "We are pure, you humans are not pure. ”

"So we surpassed you. To be honest, I really don't want to cooperate with you, but it's a pity that the higher races don't like the little treasure of our humans, and it's your pig tribe's bid that is more satisfactory. ”

"Hmph" the pigs made another sound, and their thick fingers sped up, "It's best that the thing you're talking about really exists." ”

"Of course it is, and it's because of it that we stepped on your pigs' faces. By the way, almost all of the top 100 races have their own 'treasures', and everyone tacitly emphasizes that supercivilization does not exist, and only you three-digit races are still in the dark. ”

"If that's the case, how can you sell us something?"

"Because I'm tired of being a dog of the Lin family. When a person goes to the direct star district of the Galactic Council to live a happy life, it seems to be a good life. ”

"Hmph", the pig clan did not enter again, but expressed his opinion with a humming sound.

The human tilted his head, as if receiving something through the nanomachinery, and after a moment he said with his mouth, "My subordinates have already inquired about your deposit, and it is a pleasure to cooperate." ”

After saying that, the human directly unplugged the wire attached to his skin, threw it on the table, and turned to leave the café.

As soon as he left the café, he gave his subordinates the order to act.

"Dock Fifteen, it's nostalgic," he muttered softly, "maybe we should go back and see before we flee Bighorn...... But forget it, I don't want to see Instructor Li's fake face. ”

**

On the second day after arriving at the Navy Dockyard 15th, Lin Youde still got up early according to his usual schedule of working on the farm.

Modern human beings have unimaginable arm strength in ancient times, and their physical strength is comparable to that of ancient agricultural machines, so although Lin Zhengdao's farm has a high degree of mechanization, Lin Youde's aunt will still desperately call Lin Youde and squeeze his labor force, which is not low.

Therefore, Lin Youde has been accustomed to heavy agricultural work for more than ten years, and has also developed the habit of getting up early every day.

Lin Youde walked out of the room, glanced at Lin Kaori's door, and then began to wash and change clothes. When he had taken care of everything in the morning, Hayashi Kaori came out of the room rubbing his eyes and yawning.

"Huh...... You got up so early......" Lin Xiangzhi said as she reached out and hugged her, and the whole person hung on Lin Youde's neck.

"Sister Kaori, although we are five generations of collateral blood relatives and can be legally combined, you can't do the same."

"Let me lean on it."

Lin Youde couldn't help but sigh.

Why sigh, I analyzed the endocrine in your body and came to the conclusion that you are quite happy.

What nonsense is telling the truth. Lin Youde rolled his eyes and played a real robot next to the wireless charging dock.

In the culture of your race, is it impossible to tell the truth?

Yes, but it depends on the occasion.

After Lin Youde responded, he ignored Noah's brain induction and focused on getting Lin Xiangori away from himself.

Originally, Lin Youde thought that this would be a difficult task, but he didn't expect Lin Xiangzhi to be satisfied after just making a fuss for a while, and then she completed washing and changing clothes at an astonishing speed.

"See you later, then, dear nephew."

"Eh, do you want to go to the cafeteria alone?" Lin Youde said in surprise.

"What, reluctantly? If you want me to go with you, you can come and beg me......"

"No, go slowly." Lin Youde decisively stepped forward to open the door and made the posture of the housekeeper to send off the hostess.

He heard Lin Xiangzhi "cut".

"Goodbye then, boy!" After speaking, Lin Xiangori returned to her usual expression of "used in front of people" and left the dormitory suite shared by the two.

After Lin Xiangzhi left, Lin Youde quickly cleaned up the common part of the suite and his own room, which was also a habit developed in Lin Zhengdao's house, which could reduce the possibility of being picked on by his aunt. Then Lin Youde also took Noah out of the room.

On the way to the cafeteria, Lin Youde met a large group of new students in the support group, unlike the ghost candidates, the people in the support group seemed to have been instructed to wear military uniforms today, so they all changed into military uniforms, which made Lin Youde, who was still dressed in casual clothes, look very eye-catching.

Everyone was very careful to keep a distance from Lin Youde, and most people seemed to be talking about Lin Youde, so they would glance at him from time to time, but there were some exceptions.

For example, Lin Youde saw a pair of men and women holding hands and walking beside them as if no one was around, and they didn't seem to notice Lin Youde's existence at all.

"There are even couples among the students who have entered here......" As soon as Lin Youde had such an idea, Noah's voice popped up in his head.

At this distance, I could hear what they were saying through their skin.

Wait, it's not good to eavesdrop on people's love words......

Although Lin Youde stopped it, Noah had already sent the content of the communication between the two into his mind.

"The bomb is ready, and in five minutes the action will begin," the boy said. ”

I'll you......

Your human courtship conversation is so special.

That's called love! No, no, it's not that when you care about this, you intercept all the content of their chats.

So new information entered Lin Youde's mind, and the little guy also thoughtfully marked a virtual arrow on Lin Youde's retina and pointed out the person who sent the message.

Or the boy said: "The spacecraft arrives in half an hour, and until then, the bombs have to be in place, and there is no time to waste." ”

Then the girl replied, "Yes." ”

Immediately after that, the two let go of their hands, apparently their communication was over.

Lin Youde watched the girl turn and turn to the public toilet on the side of the road.

The men quickly moved through the crowd.

Mobilize all the cameras we can get our hands on to spy on those two guys.

Oh.

After giving instructions to Noah, Lin Youde thought about it.

The conversation brought up several key information: the bomb, the ship that was about to arrive, and the timing of the operation. But before Lin Youde continued to think along this line of thought, a new idea popped up:

This can't be another test, right?

I think it's nine out of ten likelihood not. Noah immediately said that the information transmitted by you humans through skin-to-skin contact is very safe, and people like me can only intercept it when they are very close, and your own human technology has no way to obtain this information. And humans other than you don't know I exist. In conclusion, no one will test it this way.

Lin Youde couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

In other words, someone really wanted to attack this UN Navy dock, and he inadvertently happened to break a hostile action against humanity.

His heart beat faster.

Should I report to Instructor Lee?

This is not recommended because you can't explain how you found out about it, and there is a risk that my presence will be exposed. So if you're going to report it like that, I'll take action to stop you.

Lin Youde was speechless.

It seems that there is no other way to hide Noah's existence and at the same time stop the conspiracy.

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