Saturn Base, Laboratory One.

Laboratory No. 1 is the open code name of the Exoskeleton Research Center.

No. 1 does not refer to the NO.1 of the Saturn base, but the first place in the entire Chinese military!

However, both the military top brass and the Saturn base are keeping this mysterious laboratory a secret, and apart from the actual staff of the laboratory, very few people have the true situation of it.

At this moment, the head of the Saturn base, Lieutenant General Xu Shijie, who holds the highest power of the base, is like being in a fourth-level biological laboratory, his whole body is covered in a closed biochemical suit, and he is slowly walking forward along the corridor with floor-to-ceiling glass on one side, accompanied by Zhou Kuang, the head of the No. 1 laboratory, carefully observing the situation on the other side of the one-way glass as he walks.

Just one wall away is the living quarters of the Exoskeleton Man, and the two Exoskeleton Man sit in the corner in a toad squatting position. Even if you just look at the posture, it is appropriate to describe them as only.

The two of them seemed quiet, their constantly rotating eyes and rapidly throbbing foreheads, revealing their communication.

Xu Shijie quietly stopped, the cloth cover on his big feet eliminated all sounds, he looked at the outer skeleton behind the glass and was silent for a moment, and suddenly asked softly, "How is the research progress?" His voice was isolated by the biosuit and had to be radioed to reach Zhou Kuang's ears.

Zhou Kuang smiled bitterly when he heard this: "It's still the same." "Originally, there were three exoskeletons in the laboratory, but after more than two years of research, one of them was tortured and killed himself, and there are only two in the laboratory at present.

He is very good at studying people, but studying exoskeletons is not Zhou Kuang's strong point, so he has long since withdrawn from actual research work and is currently in charge of the administrative work of the laboratory.

Xu Shijie frowned, and said categorically: "If you want people to give people money and money, I don't care what method you use, you must speed up the progress...... That's an order. His eyes fell on the piles of turquoise objects of unknown size behind the glass, and his eyes were full of heaviness.

The unidentified objects were removed from alien warships, and despite the dispatch of a large number of researchers, and even the fact that they did not hesitate to open up their materials to civilian allies, it was never clear what they were used for.

Obviously, the military wanted to understand the actual function of these unidentified objects in the process of using the Exoskeleton.

"Yes!" Zhou Kuang agreed without hesitation, but immediately showed a look of embarrassment, "Commander, it's not me to negotiate the price, even if you order me to run around the base twice, I won't frown." But studying the outer bones is different from the people next to us, it's not like we can get up quickly if we want to! ”

As a soldier, you must carry out orders to the letter, but there is such a thing as research progress, how can the next order be fast?

Xu Shijie smiled bitterly: "Are you old and confused?" It's not that I want to force you, but it's time to wait. ”

"How?" Zhou Kuang was shocked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Don't ask about that just yet." Xu Shijie waved his hand, "Let me ask you, has there been a breakthrough in the language of the Outer Bone Man?" ”

Zhou Kuang didn't understand why the commander asked this, and replied truthfully in confusion: "The research in this area has always been very stable......

"Don't fool me with clichés." Xu Shijie didn't give any face, and directly interrupted Zhou Kuang's words, "Just tell me, can you talk to the outer bone man." ”

"Can't!"

"For what?" Xu Shijie stared at Zhou Kuang's eyes tightly, "It's been more than two years, give me a detailed explanation." ”

The old general's dissatisfaction was palpable.

"That's right." Zhou Kuang organized the language in his heart, "You also know that from the beginning, we have combined the two aspects of smell and brain waves to study the 'language' of the outer skeleton together, for so long, even if there are still some complex smell molecules that have not been cracked, but the brainwave measurement has already had results, as long as the brainwaves are measured, the meaning of their words is not difficult to crack at all." ”

Xu Shijie nodded with satisfaction: "Then you still say you can't?" ”

Zhou Kuang's face almost didn't come out of bitterness: "My commander, do you want to finish listening to me?" ”

"You say."

Zhou Kuang grinned: "It's easy to understand the meaning of the outer bone people, whether it is to measure brain waves or smell, it is not a problem, the problem is that the odor molecules they use are too complex, we have thousands of commonly used words, they have thousands of commonly used flavors, the same smell, different order of arrangement, the meaning of the representative is not the same......"

"You just say they have grammar too." Xu Shijie pointed out the key point.

"That's right, it's grammar!" Zhou Kuang nodded again and again, "Do you think, this is still commonly used, but not commonly used?" It's been so long, we haven't figured out how many scents they can use to speak, many odor molecules are so complex that everyone has a headache, we've tried many times, but it's only limited to simple smell conversations, and when we encounter slightly more complex molecules, no one knows how to synthesize them quickly......"

Xu Shijie patiently listened to Zhou Kuang's rambling for a long time, and interrupted impatiently: "Okay, I understand what you mean, you just want to say that special smells are not easy to synthesize, just like getting stuck in the middle of the words, right?" ”

"Yes, yes, that's what I meant!" Zhou Kuangda nodded, with a relieved expression.

Xu Shijie sighed faintly, leaned against the wall and leaned against the glass, looked at the two exoskeletons who were still squatting in the corner with extremely complicated eyes and said: "Let's tell you the truth, the combined fleet has caught a few unique exoskeletons, and they will be sent to the base in a few days, and I hope we can find some way to pry their mouths open." At this time, Saturn has already flown away due to its revolution, and the Combined Fleet will return directly to the Celestial Army base on the moon, and then send a spacecraft to send the captives to the Saturn base.

For human beings, the outer backbone is as mysterious as a legend in a mythological story.

Zhou Kuang suddenly realized, no wonder Commander Xu, who had been busy building spaceships, suddenly took time out to come to the laboratory, it turned out to be like this.

Suddenly, a bold idea gradually took shape in his time, Zhou Kuang thought about it, deliberately pretended to be hesitant, and said, "It's not impossible, I have a way to give it a try." ”

Xu Shijie turned around sharply and eagerly grabbed Zhou Kuang's arm, "What way?" Say it! ”

Zhou Kuang hurriedly explained: "We are just short of being able to hear or speak, since we can't synthesize the scent we need, it's better to bypass this trouble directly......"

"Bypass?" Xu Shijie subconsciously repeated, "How can you get around?" ”

"It's easy!" Zhou Kuang suddenly showed a mysterious smile, "We found that although the Outer Bone People don't use sound to communicate, it's not that they can't hear sounds, it's just that the 'ears' of the Outer Bone People are hidden inside the thick bone armor, so they are not as sensitive to sound as humans." Speaking of this, Zhou Kuang took a breath, "We can use the instrument to stimulate the brains of the Outer Bone People, so that they can learn Chinese, and then use the intensity of hundreds of decibels to listen to the Outer Bone People, as long as these two Outer Bone People can understand what we mean, are you afraid that the two of them will not translate to other captives?" When the time comes, we only need to monitor the brainwaves of the new captives, won't we know everything? ”

Xu Shijie's eyes lit up: "Okay! Just do as you say, give me the results as quickly as possible, and when the time comes, I will give you the first credit. ”