Chapter VII
"What do you know about the 'Third World'?"
The old man carried the bucket into the kitchen, and when he came out, he said to Shi Jie, "I'll handle the fish first, and I'll stay for lunch at noon." You can look around first, it will take a little time. ”
The old man's last seemingly unintentional proposal made Shi Jie nervous and uneasy, and he obviously saw the true purpose of Shi Jie's trip deep down. After the old man finished speaking, he turned and went back to the kitchen, and did not speak again. The old man's empathy was very natural and reasonable, almost seamless, which moved Shi Jie for a while.
Shikki began to look at the small room: there was still some quaint furniture, a dark brown bookshelf full of books, and a cracked reddish-brown bookcase, on which a large part of the paint had fallen off. In addition, Shi Jie inadvertently saw a dark yellow bookcase-like furniture that he couldn't tell what it was, very rough, looking homemade, with a lot of black and white photos on it, and many yellowed notebooks.
Sze walked over to the strange piece of furniture, the frame of the photograph on it was also homemade, crude, and unpainted and unpainted. The first thing Eze notices is a black-and-white photograph of an old man and another foreigner-looking figure standing on what looks like a cliff, and it should be snowing in the sky, smiling. The snow was heavy, with white snow on both shoulders. But the background of the photo is strange, behind the two of them is a mountain range, in the middle of the mountain range is a towering column that looks like a pillar of east and west, showing a different color from the surrounding snow-covered peaks, Shi Jie carefully examines the towering thick pillar, and finds that it should be an antenna antenna or something similar, because it is so tall, its edge extends beyond the lens, directly to the outside of the photograph.
In the photo, Shi Jie can see that although Shang Ji is smiling, his face implies a kind of helplessness and confusion, as if there is something terrible around him. The second thing Shi Jie noticed was a yellowed notebook with two handwritten words on the cover, "Shang Ji", which seemed to be the old man's name. In addition, there is a line written in small letters in pen on the cover: "Recorded at the Astronomical Monitoring and Monitoring Center of Zekalivya in 1992".
Shi Jie was very surprised to see these words, the word "Zekalivya Astronomical Monitoring and Listening Center" he had heard from the mouth of the Russian soldier yesterday, as if it was the place of work of Ivar, the founder of the 'Third World', and it is still in operation today. Shi Jie was very puzzled by this, what does this monk have to do with it? He felt things getting more complicated.
According to the history of "1992 in the Kalivia Astronomical Monitoring and Monitoring Center", it can be inferred that Shang Ji should have been to the Ze Kalivia Astronomical Monitoring and Monitoring Center, and Shang Ji's identity is by no means ordinary, after all, the Kalivia Astronomical Monitoring and Monitoring Center was a very famous astronomical monitoring center in Russia at that time, and many people only knew about this astronomical center, what this astronomical center does, and who works in it.
Moreover, the observation of outer space, especially those organized by the state, exists at the level of top military secrecy in all countries, especially in the former Soviet Union and the United States, and although its importance has declined after the former Soviet Union lost the space race, it is not accessible to ordinary people.
Suddenly, a bold idea came to Shijie's mind: could it be that the person who took the photo with Shang Ji in the photo just now was Ivar or other researchers at the Calivia Astronomical Monitoring and Listening Center?
Thinking of this, Shi Jie stretched out his hand, wanting to pick up the book and take a look, but immediately retracted his hand. After all, this is the property of the old man, and it is very rude to look through it privately. Shi Jie paid attention to the other photographs, and he saw that there were many black and white photographs on top of this cabinet (let's say so), some of which were photos of Shang Ji and others, and some of which were landscape photos, but in all of them, there was a common element: the huge antenna, and in each of the photographs, the tip of the antenna did not appear, and it seemed that the person who took these pictures deliberately avoided the tip of this antenna.
And in the lower right corner of each group photo, there is a date, and the time is on a certain day in a certain month in 1992. However, only some of the landscape photos are dated, and they are all on a certain day of a certain month in 1992. Judging by the date on the photo, Shang Ji should have been at the Zekalivya Astronomical Monitoring and Monitoring Center for almost a year. However, in general scientific research activities, foreign researchers will not be allowed to stay in their own scientific research institutions for such a long time.
Thinking of this, Shi Jie set his eyes on the second floor of the cabinet, where there were many small pieces of paper page by page, which were densely written with words, which looked like some random subplots. At this time, Shi Jie didn't care about any politeness, he carefully took them out one by one, and read out the words written on them in a whisper:
"Now the weather in Russia is getting colder and colder, and the cold winter is coming. Even though they urged me to go back many times, I still wanted to stay here, everything about it attracted me, and I still had many questions. It's really fascinating, and all this unknown is waiting for me to discover. ”
"They pushed me again, but I didn't want to go back. I see a glorious future for human civilization, and they don't understand. ”
"It's amazing, I feel like we're in a realm that humans have never set foot in. It's all so magical, and I feel like the future of humanity is here, right in it. With it, humanity will take a new step. ”
"I'm working on a great project, one that's big enough to change the world. All the secrets of humanity will be discovered by us, and we will solve all the mysteries that humanity encounters. We are changing human civilization, a new civilization is about to be born, and we are its witnesses. ”
"Now, we have stepped onto a new level, the PDA has begun to be formed, and a new civilization is about to be born. PDA will solve all the problems of human civilization and let human beings truly set foot in the starry sky. ”
"I was wrong, everything was wrong, the PDA will not bring peace, it will not create a new civilization, it will only bring danger, stepping into the stars is a mistake, a complete mistake. It wasn't supposed to come into this world, it was a representation of war, and now that I understand everything, it's time for me to leave. ”
"They're right, it's a scourge. We were all wrong. PDAs will destroy the world. ”
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"That's not a good thing for humanity. Whether PDA can continue human civilization depends on the choice of human beings. ”
This is the last word.
After reading this, Shi Jie was immersed in it for a long time and couldn't extricate himself. If yesterday showed him a real world, then what is today shows him a real universe. The amount of information in these notes was so great that Shi Jie felt that he couldn't digest it at all.
"By now, you should know who I am." Shang Ji didn't know when he appeared behind Shi Jie, he held a yellowed book in his hand, and looked at Shi Jie with a smile.
"Shang Lao ......"
"Want to hear my story?" Shang Ji asked, "That was in 1976......