What can survive on Earth for hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of years?

First of all, its shell material must be extremely inactive and not easy to react, and secondly, sufficient energy and perfect redundancy mechanism.

If human beings are asked to find a way to keep a machine for tens of thousands of years and still retain its normal function, then it is necessary to first build a closed metal storage room, and then through air draining, absolute drying, sealing wax and other means, but I still dare not say that it will definitely be possible.

And the 'black shuttle' is to make people believe that it has such an ability.

By chance, an alien machine is still in operation, which stores a lot of advanced knowledge......

However, to be fully convinced, it still has a lot of problems to solve, and fortunately, these problems have been solved by the efforts of the base scientists at any cost.

The three characters on the surface of 'Black Shuttle' are actually formed after the abstraction of Esperanto evolved by a certain world line, which translates to the three words 'karst'.

This is the only text of this pseudo-alien creation, and there is no further text identification on the internal structure, and eventually it will be sealed and cannot be opened by non-violent means.

The shell of the 'Black Shuttle' is covered and insulated by silicon carbide crystals, and inside is a metal film, which is firmly tightened inward under the electromagnetic force leakage of the modified C172 battery, forming an impenetrable overall defense.

Such a completely sealed shell would preclude the possibility of careful disassembly, and any method of detection would be shielded, leaving only a perfect monolithic structure.

The metallic hydrogen battery has enough electricity to keep it in condition for 7 years, and when the power reaches zero, it loses its ability to bind metallic hydrogen, and the entire creation will be completely destroyed by the brutal pressure explosion-deflagration process, and even a few wreckage will not prove anything.

Seven years is enough time for it to complete its mission, and the base at that time will definitely have the ability to decide everything.

Xiao Okada was just checking again whether the internal parts were in place, and once the 'black shuttle' was closed, it could no longer be opened.

Lin Ju also walked to his side at this time, observing together that this may be an unprecedented fake in history.

"Is it powered on, let's try it?"

"Of course, it doesn't have a physical switch and it's already in operation from the moment it's installed."

Xiao Okada explained, moving the tool rack next to it, which is a classic CRT display with signal terminals connected to the receiving antenna.

He twisted the knob to adjust the frequency band, stopped at 3650Mhz, and the display immediately displayed a complex continuous waveform.

"Simple mathematical encryption, any civilization that has entered the radio age can be analyzed, with a self-translation system, after inputting enough text and symbol samples of this civilization, the artificial intelligence of 'Black Shuttle' can understand the language and mathematical system of this civilization, so as to communicate."

The external communication channel of the 'Black Shuttle' is set to radio and gravitational waves, and needless to say, the radio transmitter is also real, which is designed by the base based on the knowledge it has mastered, although it cannot be used at all and lacks the most important antenna material, but it is also decent.

To be sure, even the fabricated so-called 'discoverer's indoctrination of human data is now being transmitted for the AI to learn on its own, and everything is described in its setting.

'It' is the enlightenment of the civilization left on the earth by the alien civilization, and when the civilization develops to a certain height, it will transmit knowledge to a limited extent...... At least that's what the AI of 'Black Shuttle' thinks.

Xiao Okada's object has been replaced by a laptop, and its hard drive contains a mess of various data calculated in terabytes, and the 'Black Shuttle' is rapidly learning the contents.

Lin Ju glanced at the displayed time, even if he could mobilize the Xingchen No. 3 assistance, it would take 4 hours, and it should take longer to count the debugging.

It looks like it's still a sleepless night tonight.

The few people who are resting will wake up after Xiao Okada is forced to sleep and take over his work until the 'Black Shuttle' is completed.

In a dozen hours, when it reappears, it will become an unknown creation that will change the fate of human civilization.

Lin Ju touched its smooth surface with mixed feelings, and sat patiently on the side looking at the researchers who were still busy.

……

“…… Three, two, one, ignition! ”

"Ignition!"

The flames launched by the shuttle still illuminated the faces of the people in the command center, even though they were reflected on the screen thousands of kilometers away, and the whitish flames took up almost the entire screen.

The launch of the Typhoon was not unexpected, if not for its extraordinary significance, which does not even deserve much attention.

Zhong Cheng stood up and applauded vigorously, and couldn't help but glance at Lin Ju, who had a calm face.

The other party only flew to the capital in the morning, although the whole process was very ordinary, but Zhong Cheng's heart beat very hard from time to time from that time, and he felt that something big was going to happen.

When he had time, he wondered if he had neglected something, and by the way, he urged the launch process of the Typhoon more strictly, but so far everything was normal with the space shuttle, and as long as it entered space and did not explode on the spot, it was not a big deal to lose anything.

But that uneasy intuition still didn't disappear, which made Zhong Cheng show a little dignified.

"What's the matter?"

"Nothing."

Thanking the concern of others, Zhong Cheng continued to carry out today's schedule step by step:

Received by leaders, speeches organized by the Academy of Sciences, reports on stage, and media receptions......

It wasn't until about 7 o'clock in the evening that the last public event was about to end, and he breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that it might be normal to stay up too late recently and live an irregular life, resulting in panic or inexplicable rapid heartbeat.

He kept thinking this way until he returned to the Aviation Development Commission building to pack his things and walked to the underground parking lot with his briefcase.

There was a car parked next to his old Accord, and there were people sitting in it.

……

"Zhong Ju, ready to go home?"

Zhong Cheng nodded, he remembered that a few months ago, he was in a similar scene, but it was the other party who was scared that time.

And now, on the contrary, he finally knew where the source of his unease was today.

Seeing that no one else was nearby, Lin Ju knocked on the car door:

"I'll invite you to dinner, you have always invited me in the capital."

Zhong Cheng noticed the words 'in the capital'.

"Where to eat?"

"My family, Manman's cooking skills have improved a lot recently."

"Okay."

Zhong Cheng didn't have time to think more, as if driven by some kind of force, he got into the car, and just sent a simple text message to his lover explaining that he might not be able to come back tonight.

The car drove all the way into the capital airport and stopped next to a C810 that was already ready.

It was still windy at the airport at night, but Zhong Cheng, who was a little swollen in his head, couldn't feel it at all, so he just followed silently.

After 40 minutes, the plane landed on the base runway, more than two thousand kilometers away.

(End of chapter)