played and sang in front of the gags and raps on the seven emotions of the sketch actors who come to mix with familiar faces every year on TV. Li Pu couldn't help but think of the only Chinese New Year's Eve night that the three of them spent in this room with Aunt Chenxin and Xiaoxian.

Those laughing voices and smiles, warm and unforgettable scenes, are still reproduced in front of me. The depths of the young man's eyes vaguely revealed the loneliness that was not suitable for his age.

Suddenly, a bell interrupted his chaotic thoughts.

Li Pu pulled out his phone from his jacket pocket — something he had bought only a few months ago with a bonus from the city government for righteousness and bravery. Open it and take a look, it is a very familiar number.

"Hey, hey." The boy answered in a nonchalant tone, but there was already a hint of warmth on his face.

For the first time in four years, someone has called him on the occasion of a reunion.

"Hey, it's me." Xia'er's soft voice sounded in the microphone, and he asked cautiously, "That...... What are you doing? ”

"What else can you do, watch the Spring Festival Gala." Li Pu replied as a matter of course.

"Oh...... Is it a person? Qin Xia'er asked. She already knew some time ago that Li Pu was now living alone.

"yes, super free, hahaha." Li Pu deliberately laughed loudly: "Envy you to death!" By the way, I wish you more and more energy in the new year! ”

"Who would envy that!" As usual, Li Pu exploded Xia'er's squad leader with a single sentence, and she said in shame: "And what kind of strange New Year's greetings are you...... Honestly, saying Happy New Year, happiness and peace or something will choke you to death. ”

"There will be many people wishing you a happy, happy and safe New Year these days." Li Pu smiled slightly, "Isn't my kind of blessing even more precious. ”

"I don't want anything more exciting...... Qin Xia'er was already a little worried about her bust, it shook so much when she ran in physical education class, and those male classmates often sneaked over when they went to school, and even ...... Even some male teachers do occasionally!

However, Li Pu made such a gag, and her subtle mood before calling Li Pu disappeared, and she chatted with Li Pu for a while as usual, and only got down to business when she was about to hang up: "That...... Will you be free in a few days? ”

"Free is free. Why, are you looking for me to go out on a date? The boy asked heartlessly.

"Isn't it?" Qin Xia'er immediately explained: "It's just that some classmates have made an appointment to come out to play in a few days, that ...... That's right! I think you're always alone in school, so it's nice to have a chance to come out and try to socialize. ”

"Well, it's fine, I'm idle anyway." Li Pu agreed after a little thought. Then he made an appointment with Qin Xia'er on the time and place. The two of them interrupted the phone call for almost a quarter of an hour.

In addition to Xia'er's squad leader, only the uncle from the field called to greet him a little after a while. Li Pu also lost the nature of continuing to watch the Spring Festival Gala. He walked over to his desk, turned on his computer, and connected to ADSL dial-up — a discarded computer given to him by Wang Shujun to entice him to play online games together, and he only used it occasionally to read the news or something.

He opened the webpage and landed on a website called "MeninBlack". However, this is not the official website of the popular movie "Men in Black" a few years ago, but a consultation and exchange forum held by a group of fans from different countries who are interested in aliens based on the concept of this movie.

Originally, this was just a rather niche science fiction culture station, but because of the "Starship Fall" incident that occurred in July 1999, the "alien culture" really became very popular around the world, and it has not stopped much until now. Many netizens who are interested in aliens have gradually gathered into this website, and there are some masters in different fields, which makes this website more and more influential, and today in 2004, I am afraid it has become a world-famous multinational pop culture station.

The main station of MeninBlack (Men in Black) is of course in the United States, and Li Pu landed on a substation established by Chinese alien cultural enthusiasts. In addition to having his own discussion circle, he often translates some new topics and new inquiries from abroad, which is quite popular even in China.

Li Pu was an occasional discovery of this site some time ago. He has two registered IDs on this website, one is the earliest ID "Accident-kun", but in order to do one thing, he registers another new ID - Time and Space Wanderer.

After logging in to the MeninBlack China branch forum with the ID of "Time Wanderer", Li Pu clicked into the discussion board and browsed some of the posts he would be interested in.

One of the perennial top posts in the main discussion forum is the topic of "The third planet of the solar system welcomes aliens" written in various Chinese languages. This is a tradition from the main station in the United States, expressing the hope that extraterrestrial friends will come to communicate with Yunyun.

Because of the fact that the star ship fell, alien culture is no longer a fantasy topic of the SF system, but a question in front of all earthlings - why did the aliens crash to the earth? Is any of them still alive? Did the powerful countries involved in the salvage get alien technology?

On the Internet, especially in the United States, almost all netizens believe that the U.S. government has obtained the bodies of aliens, even the surviving aliens, but they have not been announced and are contained in military bases such as Area 51. In recent years, a large number of reporters and alien culture lovers have gone to explore, and more conditionally, they have directly tried to find a way to go to the few forbidden sea areas that crashed in the first place to have an adventure.

Many people have claimed that they have found clues to aliens, but unfortunately all of them have not been able to do so. The craze for alien culture is growing, and science fiction writers, Hollywood studios, and the like are getting involved. Last year, there were eight films about aliens in the pipeline, and this year there are even more.

Not to be outdone, netizens on the Chinese side have also strictly sealed off the internal intelligence of the crash site in Haizhou Bay, China. But there will always be some gossip that I don't know whether it's true or not.

For example, in the wreckage of the crashed star boat in Haizhou Bay, it is said that there are several mutilated alien corpses. But this kind of information alone has attracted a group of foreign intelligence agents to gather intelligence on China's "MeninBlack" forum for a long time.

Li Pu himself is also very curious about the extent of the national government's research on extraterrestrial heritage, as well as the Americans, from the government to the people, who are already recognized on the Internet as a group that are a little too enthusiastic about "extraterrestrial heritage".

But every country on the planet, especially those powerful countries that have the strength to get involved, knows very well in their hearts that whoever can parse more extraterrestrial legacies will have a greater chance of becoming the king of the world in the future and building an unprecedented superpower.

Or even the last empire that led human civilization to the universe.

Therefore, the U.S. government, which has a sense of "chosen one" and "savior", uses this argument to launch a unilateral diplomacy of sticks and cheeses, and makes every effort to promote the extraterrestrial heritage development program led by him internationally. In fact, in addition to the wreckage of the Star Boat in Haizhou Bay, China, the United States has already controlled the development of the Star Boat heritage in South Korea and Japan, especially South Korea, which is relatively weak in technology, can almost only give the United States a hand, and even they do not know the specific development progress, which is very humiliating to think about.

The European Union can only look at the distant Pacific Ocean and sigh, while Russia starts from the direction of Sakhalin Island and racks its brains to insert a lever. In this situation, China, the only country that has another "Xingzhou legacy" but has not joined it for a long time, is not under pressure at all.

There are turbulent and turbulent undercurrents in the international arena. Although the Chinese people are not as enthusiastic about this matter as the Americans, they are not low, after all, they also have an "alien heritage" of unknown development.

There are a lot of military fans in the main discussion area who are delusional about alien weapons, and some are interested in alien culture, and even some female fans have written "You from the stars" This kind of online article about falling in love with aliens is actually quite popular.

Li Pu flipped through the old posts and saw a hot post with dozens of pages of follow-ups, which was a post made by a netizen with an ID named "Liu Cixing". The title is "An idea, not necessarily true: Should we really make contact with alien civilizations without reservation?" He went in with interest and saw that the post was of a very high level, and it was a cosmic sociological prediction about the "law of the dark forest" deduced by this forum netizen whose ID was Liu Cixing.

The content is to the effect that there are two basic axioms of the universe, one of which is that "survival is the first need of civilization." The second is that "after reaching a certain level, civilization will grow and expand geometrically, but the total resources in the universe will remain unchanged", so a bunch of logical chains of suspicion and inferences are drawn from these two theories: our entire universe is a cruel and ruthless dark forest with limited resources, and every civilization is a hunter with a gun, sneaking through the forest like a ghost, and there are hunters in the forest who are just like him, and if he finds other life, there is only one thing he can do: shoot and destroy it. In this forest, others are hell, eternal threats, and any life that exposes its existence will be quickly wiped out, and this is the picture of the entire cosmic civilization. No wonder it caused controversy among a large number of forum sailors.

"The theory is pretty good, I remember that the "Elementary Cosmic Encyclopedia" also mentioned that there are local similar situations......" Li Pu in front of the computer smiled secretly, "But as far as I know of those alien civilizations, they are even more undisciplined than you think......"

I really want to describe in this post the glorious deeds of the first big guy in the giant wall of the Sloane Great Wall star cluster, the "Spirit Lord" Shar Shago. Li Pu thought about it for a while, but still endured the bad taste.