In the early morning of the third day, Ye Huo opened his eyes from the drowsiness, drowsy and drowsy.

"So fast, and it's still the middle of the night?"

He walked out of the cell door blankly, looked around, and saw the commissioner of the committee standing in the doorway waiting.

"An hour ago, the lab made its official presentation. The commissioner said, "The captain is waiting for you." ”

"Well, thank you. ”

Ye Huo nodded and followed behind. As he went out, he heard the disdainful spitting of the guards, and he didn't have eyes behind his back, but he could guess that the eyes of those people were not so friendly to him.

Along the way, the faces of everyone on the side of the road showed a trace of gloom, and they did not see the joy and joy of a few days ago.

Stand to reason.

The crew who had originally found a new land were extinguished by a sudden accident after being ignited with hope. At this moment, not to mention lifeless on the ship, if you can avoid a mutiny, you can already be the captain of the ship.

And as Ye Huo, who single-handedly caused an accident, he can naturally understand everyone's anger and hatred towards him.

Even in confinement, he had heard numerous rumors on board.

I don't know how many bizarre hypotheses are circulating among the crew about the mysterious 'unknown substance'.

Some say it's a conspiracy of other migrant ships, some say it's a faked accident, and some are even more, thinking it's an alien weapon, an attack on humanity.

As for why they attacked, some people simply moved out of the Dark Forest Theory that was hundreds of years old.

The science fiction that had long been forgotten in the database has also been revealed, and the debate about whether there is a mysterious weapon that can turn the universe into a piece of paper is not uncommon, even in the virtual space......

Even if it has reached the present era, even if human beings have been floating in the sea of stars for fifty years, even if everyone has never seen a single alien hair so far......

Along the way, Ye Huo was thinking crankily in his mind.

It wasn't until the elevator door opened that he realized, "We're on the wrong track." ”

"That's right. ”

The commissioner stood in the doorway and replied with a blank face, "This is it." ”

Now, there is a bad thing, a good thing, and a thing that I don't know if it's good or bad but makes him very uneasy in front of Ye Xuan.

They should go to the conference room, but unfortunately, this is not the way to the conference room.

Thankfully, it doesn't lead to the 'clean zone' either - after the worst violations of the ordinance, the crew is sent in after a committee vote, trapped in an iron chair, injected with a tranquilizer, drooling, waiting for someone in the other room to press a button, and then he will be broken into particles, thrown into the incinerator, and vanished.

And that's what unsettled him.

It is not an exaggeration to make the mistake he made and was secretly executed, but now, he is not going to the conference room where the sentence is pronounced, nor is it the clean area where the secret death penalty is carried out.

Rather, it leads to the captain's private domain.

- Bridge.

With the emigration ship, there is no such thing as a first mate and a second officer, and if the things on board are agreed by the crew committee, then how to sail the ship is up to the captain.

No one even sailed, and the Eastern Princes, the Nibelungen, and Hermes would coordinate with each other to drive the ship down in peace.

Most of the time, it's autopiloting, and the captain only has to make decisions.

Because of this, the bridge is the highest expression of the captain's authority.

Not to mention Ye Xuan, even the members of the other committees could not enter this layer of space without permission, let alone enter the bridge.

Now, the commissioner sends himself here......

Ye Xuan's head started to move.

He doesn't like political struggles, but that doesn't mean he's not good at it. He is the person in charge of the mental control room, and it is instinctive to profile and monitor people's minds.

Well, now there are two possibilities.

The biggest possibility is that someone wants to kill themselves, and use the topic to play and create some trouble, or ...... Riot?

His scalp tightened.

Riots are possible.

The catastrophe that occurred on the new land made everyone's mood depressed and irritable to the extreme, like a powder keg, only one spark was missing.

But he didn't want to be the victim of the first shot of change.

What's more, he felt that the current government on the ship was good - especially after seeing the dictatorship on another ship. Steve's miserable behavior of being guarded against even if he drank a sip of water, and he didn't want to repeat it to himself.

Even if you're dead by then.

But what about the eldest grandson?

So, who wants to take advantage of themselves? Or rather...... Kill yourself?

That nasty guy is indeed possible in the end, but that guy lacks IQ anywhere else except for technology. I've always been used as a gun, my brain IQ is limited, and I can't get used to seeing myself and just think that psychology is pseudoscience, and I'm a guy who cheats and eats and drinks, and I can't work hard to kill myself.

So, Liu Dongli, he wanted to put the mental monitoring room under the medical agency for a day or two, or rather, Zhao Qian? That guy was smiling when he saw everyone, and he looked like he was good at dancing with long sleeves, but he was an extremely narcissistic personality in his heart, and he didn't care about anyone at all.

Or is it ......

Standing in silence, the commissioner waited quietly outside the elevator, but Ye Xuan did not move.

Until the sound of the elevator prompt sounds.

Ye Xuan still didn't move.

"I'm sorry, my stomach hurts a little. ”

Ye Xuan smiled: "I want to go to the toilet." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, Ye Xuan, use your brain where it should be. ”

Captain Xiao Huan's voice sounded from the elevator radio: "Either come in, or get out quickly." I don't want to spend my time waiting for a wreck. ”

Well, the last possibility, the one who wants to kill himself is the captain.

Ye Xuan shrugged helplessly.

Then I really can't help it.

Xiao still wanted to kill himself, and he didn't even need a look.

In short, there is no escaping the disaster......

He sighed, ready for the commissioner to pull the trigger on the back of his head at any moment, and strode to the bridge.

When the bridge door opened, his head hadn't exploded.

Congratulations, congratulations.

Then, he saw a huge starry sky.

Behind the suffocatingly wide floor-to-ceiling portholes, the pitch-black universe was dotted with endless stars, and directly opposite, the massive planetary earth shone with a silvery glow.

The silver light flowed, churning the ocean, showing the brilliant iridescent to outsiders.

It was as if it had awakened from its long sleep, and it was no longer silent.

"It's beautiful. ”

Xiao was still sitting in the chair next to the porthole, looking back at him, "Isn't it?"

"Is there hot water?"

Ye Huo found a place to sit down by himself, and pulled two tissues to wipe his nose.

Take things as they come.

Besides, he was still very curious about why the captain had suddenly summoned himself to the bridge.

"Beaten?" Xiao also saw the black blue on his face, gloating: "Do you want someone to arrange a single room for you?"

"Forget it, I'm at least feeling better now that I've been beaten a few times. ”

Ye Huo sighed: "But what do you think? The emotions of the crew have reached the warning line, right? According to the conventional way of dealing with it, it should have started to force emotional stability a long time ago." ”

"Isn't it because someone in the Mind Management Room is locked up in a confinement room? Even if the committee passes the vote and enforces stabilization, let alone let you get an injection, the crew will riot just by seeing your face, right?"

"My bad. ”

Ye Huo sighed.

As a psychiatrist, when you are seen as an enemy by your patients, you have completely failed. Although treatment can be mandatory when necessary. But Ye Huo was really not interested in that set.

If psychotherapy is regarded by him as art, then electric shocks and lobotomies are explosives that destroy art, and damage to personality and consciousness is no different from murder.

Perhaps, I should have chosen a successor earlier?

He thought inexplicably.

Anyway, after this incident, he won't be able to do the work of the mental monitoring room for long. I'm afraid I can only look through the information of the hibernation talent pool and find someone who can take over, right?

"You'll talk about that later. ”

Xiao also snuffed out the cigarette roll, "Let's get down to business first." ”

A thick pile of information was placed in front of Ye Xuan.

Just got off the printer and still had the heat.

It's a pity that Ye Xuan's eyes hurt when he looked at the large number of professional terms on the cover. As technology evolves, so does each branch of the study. To some extent, it's no longer interlaced like mountains, and there are a few more solar systems in between.

"I don't understand. ”

Ye Xuan rolled his eyes: "Captain, can you say anything simply and straightforwardly?"

"I'm here to hear about the lab's analysis of the 'unknown substance'. Xiao also said calmly: "I think you should be interested." ”

"I'm the only one?" Ye Xuan looked at the empty surroundings: "What is this? ”

The captain did not answer his question head-on, but simply knocked on the table:

"Don't worry, I've got someone to explain it to you. ”

As a result, the floor cracked.

A massive vessel rose from beneath the floor, a vacuum containment vessel almost three meters tall and two meters wide.

Through the heavy glass, he could see the 'unknown substances' collected from the lander, which had been deposited on the base like falling snow, with a metallic texture and a luster of mercury.

No signs of activity are visible.

A rickety researcher walked in from outside the door, as if he hadn't been active for a long time, his eyes were black, and he was skinny, which perfectly matched Ye Xuan's impression of the people in the research room.

A huge screen was projected from the dome, beside him.

"I have already heard the specific briefing from the Nibelungen, and this time I will mainly introduce it to you, if there is anything you don't understand, you can ask directly. ”

Xiao also finished speaking to Ye Xuan, re-lit a cigarette, and waved to the researcher: "Time is running out, Mr. Roland, let's start." ”

"Let me, then, explain to both of you what a great miracle the discovery of an unknown substance is. ”

The thin researcher picked up the information in his hand, and his eyes became fanatical: "Believe me, gentlemen, how compared to it, even if the sacrifice in the early stage is ten times more, no, a hundred times is acceptable!"

Ye Huo frowned.

I thought about it and didn't speak.

Although it can be seen that the other party is excusing his mistakes, no matter what, he is not happy in his heart.

Don't say tenfold......

If the eldest grandson dies, I am afraid that I will not be able to forgive myself for the rest of my life.

Xiao also knocked on the table, interrupting Roland's excited state:

"It's better to say less irrelevant things. ”

"Ahem, then I'm going to get started. ”

The researcher coughed awkwardly twice, and after pondering his words, he spoke: "At the beginning, the laboratory actually guessed that the unknown material covering the entire planet was a weapon created by an alien civilization, as many people imagined.

In fact, this conjecture was rejected at the beginning of the study, so don't worry. ”

Not an alien weapon?

Although he had long scoffed at this set of hypotheses, hearing this, Ye Xuan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and a big stone fell in his heart.

It's nice that it's not an alien conspiracy.

Thankfully, fortunately.

If Yuan Eryi's gorilla was here, he would definitely be upset. He's been looking forward to finding some enemies to fight.

And Ye Xuan also relaxed a little.

Although he is restrained on the surface, his curiosity about unknown substances in his heart is not inferior to that of anyone.

"As long as it's not a Zenith weapon, otherwise we'll have to choose a little girl to sing 'Have You Ever Remember Love'. When he relaxed, he began to make some bad jokes that no one knew.

"Well, correct your opinion. ”

Roland said seriously, "As for unknown substances, they are actually ...... The alien civilization itself!"

Quiescence.

Ye Xuan hadn't reacted yet, he looked at him blankly, and then looked at Xiao Huan.

Didn't understand what it meant.

"Although their individuals are almost identical under high-powered microscopy without any differences, they are not essentially self-reproducing machines like the 'von Neumann machine'. ”

Roland Says:

"—they are living beings. ”

"Aliens?"

In an instant, Ye Xuan almost bounced up from his chair, dumbfounded, and pointed to the vacuum dish in the middle of the room.

"This thing is the alien we talked about in the deceptive story when we were kids?"

He looked at Xiao Huan, and finally at Roland, and lost his temper rarely: "Are you joking?"

He had waited for this answer for so long, and he had made many conjectures in his heart, and he was even prepared that he would not live to the day when the answer appeared.

As a result, after solving the mystery, you, like those authors who liked to cheat hundreds of years ago, told me: are they all aliens?

“Are you kidding me?”

Roland coughed twice in embarrassment, and continued: "Mr. Ye, the word aliens is not accurate, although they are extraterrestrial creatures, they do not meet the definition of human beings, and they are also ......"

Xiao was still impatient, and slapped the table to interrupt him: "Let's get straight to the point!"

"Yes, yes......"

Roland nodded in a panic, and then began to continue to pull out a large number of headache-inducing technical terms, interspersed with some words that were slightly understandable:

“...... After careful research and testing, we believe that the 'unknown substance' is a silicon-based organism that is completely different from all carbon-based organisms we know today.

Look at the screen, you see, unlike all the organisms, cells, and bacteria in the earth's sphere, it has its own unique base, structure......

Rest assured, for ordinary people, this is just a new bacterium, nothing to worry about. ”

After half an hour of rambling, that's all there is to it.

Ye Xuan, who had long been impatient, took a rare cigarette and sorted out his chaotic thoughts.

"Well, let's admit that they're creatures...... The natives of the New Land, well, are like the Indians of history...... So, why are they attacking us? Because we're going to cut their scalps?"

"It's not an attack. ”

"It's just their normal 'eating'. ”

"They eat people?!"

The impulse brought by a moment was even better than just now, and the terrifying tremor from the heels and the back of the head almost made Ye Xuan scream.

"No, no, no, listen to me!"

The researcher hastened to add: They are so small that they don't even have any digestive system, and the so-called eating is nothing more than ingesting energy, and the source of energy they take in is 'sound'.

According to our guess, it is precisely because of this that the landing of the probe ship will cause such a terrifying aftermath.

Therefore, I think that your harsh accusation against Mr. Ye is innocent, even if it is not for him, it will be a matter of time before such a disaster is triggered. ”

Finally said something human!

Ye Huo's chaotic mood suddenly relaxed a little.

Not because he regained his innocence, but because he caused the eldest grandson to become like that, not himself.

Otherwise, he really didn't have the face to face the eldest grandson again.

"You'll talk about that later. ”

Xiao glanced at him, then said to the researcher, "You continue." ”

"Ahem, the introduction continued...... We don't know what kind of environment formed their particular form, but I'm afraid it's a coincidence that is difficult to guess and reconstruct.

But there is no doubt that they are the races that occupy the majority of the planet. ”

Roland said: "Because of their existence, the sound on the entire planet has been attenuated, only the seaside area is still active because of the tide, and the rest of the area has all fallen into a state similar to hibernation." ”

Until now, Ye Xuan's mood finally calmed down.

Well, a little calmer.

As a human and a colonizer of the New World, the first thing that came to his mind was a question.

"So, is there a possibility of extinction and eradication?"

"Why extermination?"

The researcher was stunned for a moment, then his voice rose several degrees, and then he became more and more excited, and his voice increased: "No!

We, no, the future of humanity will be changed by this discovery!"

"But you also say that its food is sound, right? Well, it will be a nuisance to humans. ”

Ye Xuan asked curiously: "Regardless of the sound of speaking, human internal organs have different frequencies, and just being alive will cause this kind of thing to move." The circulation and balance of the human body are very fragile, what happens if this kind of thing gets into the internal organs of the person?

And what about the sound and infrasound released by our large engineering equipment, or even the engines of spaceships?

If just the take-off and landing of a landing ship causes a disaster of this magnitude, what will happen to the sound of a large mining rig running? And what about all kinds of other super-giant equipment? It will simply become a natural disaster when the time comes?!"

The researcher's face turned pale, and he stammered, "Although it is indeed possible to form some unknown change in calculations and simulations...... But, but ...... It can also be used by humans...... I mean......"

He looked at the captain as if he were pleading for help.

Xiao also nodded: "I said it, give Ye Xuan all the right to know, show him that." ”

Roland nodded in ecstasy and ran to the vacuum dish to adjust the parameters.

The operation is cumbersome.

"In our research, we found that they all respond differently to different frequencies of sound, and there are fixed patterns that we don't understand, like a formula that is entered into parameters and then gets a fixed answer. It's like ...... It's like ......"

Roland searched for adjectives, but could not find a suitable description, until someone next to him added a sentence for him.

"Language. ”

Ye Huo said.

"Yes, language!" the researcher nodded excitedly, "It's like language! we can influence them with sound, like a 0 and 1 to a computer!"

He finally got in the way, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and pressed the touchscreen.

At that moment, a low melody sounded from the bridge.

It's the sound of the piano.

Like running water.

“《Gymnopedies》？”

Ye Huo blurted out.

Because part of the psychotherapy includes classical music, he knew about it, but he didn't expect to come across it here.

Sensing Xiao's curious gaze, he opened his mouth to explain:

"This is a piano piece created by the classical musician Satie more than 400 years ago, which can be literally translated as 'naked-body song and dance'.

Taken from even more ancient times, the melody of the Greeks when they sacrificed to the gods. Naked young men, anointed with holy oil, perform a dance ...... in front of the temple for the deity."

Before he finished speaking, he came to an abrupt end.

Because in front of everyone, in the glass cover, the 'unknown substance' that was as silent as falling snow lit up.

They float slowly from the bottom and float in the center of the vessel, converging and expanding on each other...... Like a snowflake multiply, it forms magnificent crystals, and the faint glow extends in all directions......

In the pure glow, a beauty peculiar to mathematics and topology is revealed.

"Please bring this. ”

Roland handed them two heavy glasses, which were specially made, and even had a cable to be plugged into the wet socket at the back of everyone's head to connect to the brain.

Although he didn't know why, Ye Xuan still put on his eyes.

Plugin launch.

The shrill sound of the seat rubbing against the floor rang out.

Ye Xuan got up from his seat, stepped back in shock, staggered, and almost fell to the ground.

"It's ...... What?"

His voice trembled.

With the help of special equipment, he was able to overcome the visual obstruction and observe the true changes of the 'unknown substance'.

It was a magnificent crystallization that seemed to cover the whole world.

After the huge hexahedron crossed the dimension, a magnificent projection descended from the high-level elements that were difficult for humans to reach, and 'condescension' formed an insignificant shape in the human world.

The world is contained in its glow.

With the naked eye, what they could see was only a shadow descended from the behemoth, and at this moment, with the help of mechanical perception, they were able to glimpse its changes.

Just staring, it's already dizzy and incomprehensible.

Freed from the limitations of length, width, number, and temperature, its form slowly stretched out in a higher dimension, like a brief awakening from a long sleep.

But when the piano music stopped, the magnificent glow finally dissipated, and the massive silhouette of the sudden explosion was hidden from the upper dimension, collapsing into less than a millimeter of 'snow powder'.

There was a long silence.

Ye Xuan took off his glasses.

"What's that?"

"That's what the unknown substance really looks like. ”

No matter how many times he saw it, Roland still couldn't hide his excitement, and said in a trembling voice: "They 'unfolded'." They...... Entered the high-level dimension. ”

There was silence.

"Don't you understand? Mr. Ye, unlike us humans who are limited by sight, hearing, and touch, they are not three-dimensional creatures!

They have a world of their own.

Their perception and interference are even able to enter higher dimensions. What you have just perceived is not even a ten-thousandth of what you perceive on your own...... For them to fully awaken, space, and even time, are meaningless!

- They themselves are the crystallization of 'string theory' and 'quantum physics', the miracle of evolution!"

Speaking of this, the researcher became more and more fanatical: "Not only that, but according to our tests, they are also an excellent medium for storing information!"

Although the ability to store information individually is not outstanding, their storage space is based on the number of individuals present, and they can make a power jump!

And the interaction between them takes place through a high-level dimension, even theoretically, without any delay!

As long as the most basic network and structure are built through their deep connections and interactions, we will not only get a new land, but also an unprecedented planetary-level chaos operation model!"

"Soul ......"

Ye Xuan muttered softly.