Zhong Cheng listened to Lin Ju's narration, and gradually saw the beginning of the story in his mind:

In the 50s, most of the wilderness was still a no-man's land, and Guo Xiao loved to explore nature, and discovered this huge unidentified object by coincidence.

At first, he thought it was a strange stone, but the eye of an aeronautical engineer allowed him to quickly spot anomalies, and many extraordinary things were found in the delicate shell.

"Karst Black Stone", this is how Guo Xiao first called it, he kept it in his garage as a collector's item, and even hoped to make a fortune through exhibitions.

But one day before he decided to do so, when Guo Xiao was debugging his black-and-white TV, he stumbled upon unknown interference.

After careful debugging, he finally found that it was a high-frequency signal, and the strength was frighteningly high, as if he had installed an antenna in his own home.

But there are not many radio stations or other antennas nearby, not to mention that such frequencies are hardly present in daily life.

Guo Xiao simply recorded the spectrum of the signal and found that its encryption method was not complicated, which was very similar to the modulation method of TV broadcast signals at that time, so he modified his TV set to make it able to receive and interpret the signal of "Karst Blackstone".

"Hello, human."

At that time, the legend of alien civilization had not yet been widely spread, but it did not prevent Guo Xiao from keenly discovering that this ghost thing might have a big origin, so he had the courage to make his own transmitter, and then sent the Morse cipher table in the way of "karst black stone".

In 2005, before falling asleep again, perhaps "Karst" realized that this task was too difficult, lowered it to "send no less than 100 kg of payload to Earth orbit for a period of 369 days", and gave the K120 engine technology for the first time.

"Karst Blackstone" learned this encryption, but it most likely did not know the meaning of the letters.

How do you get 'it' to understand a completely different language?

He was shocked by the results of the analysis: the content of the signal is very simple, it is an introduction to the frequency band and the signal modulation method, which is easy to understand, and it is easy to understand that the connection with the emission source can be established in this way.

In the special context of the sixties, Guo Xiao himself was repeatedly excluded and targeted, how could he accomplish this outrageous task?

At this time, the first artificial satellite had not yet been launched for a few years, and Gagarin was still preparing for his own adventure, so Guo Xiao unsurprisingly failed.

Of course, Guo Xiao thought about reporting to the federal government, but his identity and the situation at the time made him resolutely avoid this choice, but it seems impossible to return to the motherland with "karst".

Numbers and the like can still find a way to correspond one by one, but letters, words, culture, etc., there may be a way, but Guo Xiao definitely does not have this ability, he is not a linguist or a writer.

Since then, he has completely let himself go, sending his greetings, curses, expectations, and pleas for this strange rock in pinyin or English, sometimes losing a musical melody, and later even translating and sending TV programs to the past.

It asked Guo Xiao to build a rocket and put a 10-kilogram payload into Earth orbit for 369 days.

In 1977, the "Karst" woke up again, and it was the same mission, and the small group had made a lot of preparations over the past decade, exhausted their family resources and secretly launched three miniature rockets, and finally completed this task.

He succeeded, and almost immediately received a Morse message from the "Karst Blackstone", and the power was much less.

In the literal sense of the word, it was a more efficient automated control circuit, which corresponded to the work problem that Guo Xiao had entered when he complained about the machine a few months ago, and the engineer's intuition told him that 'karst' was correct.

At that time, he didn't understand the way AI could forcibly crack it through massive samples, and he was unwilling to expose the 'karst black stone', so he could only hide in the basement and find a way to 'feed' it knowledge.

Build your own rockets and spacecraft to send human astronauts into space for 1,107 days.

Six years after the discovery of the "Karst Blackstone", it has finally accumulated enough learning samples through various chaotic channels to accurately express its intentions.

After the greeting, he asked to be contacted by television, and a middle-aged man in his 60s really saw what artificial intelligence is.

In 2002, the 'Karst' Awakening released the mission again, Guo Xiao and other first-generation founders have passed away one after another, and it is difficult for the successors to realize this dream, after all, the impact of Master's encounter with a nose at that time was not fake, but they began to concentrate on the study of ternary technology.

Not to mention how Guo Xiao's team used this overly advanced knowledge, "Karst" followed up and put forward a second task:

In 1981, the mission failed.

In 1990, "Karst" woke up again, and after waiting for three years, it fell silent again, but at this time, Guo Xiao finally saw a glimmer of light in the bloom of private aerospace, and tried to push his nephew Guo Shen to NACA before he died, and began to recruit new members, officially naming the organization "Blackstone".

"Karst" fell silent, and there was no signal to the outside world, so long that Guo Xiao suspected that it was a big stone, and he was delusional about mental illness before.

It was not until almost 9 years later, almost 109 months to be exact, that "Karst" woke up again and issued the same mission.

But before he could take advantage of this opportunity to show his skills, "Karst" began to put forward conditions:

All the letters, numbers and symbols of the Morse code, this is the first reply letter of 'Karst Blackstone', Guo Xiao thought for a long time to understand its meaning.

"Karst Blackstone" rarely replied to his indiscriminate messages, which may have contributed to his presumptuousness.

At the end of 1968, the mission failed again, and this time Guo Xiao contacted several reliable Chinese engineers or scientists, forming a small unnamed group.

And after that, in 2006, Musk's SpecaX successfully launched the "Falcon One", and "Blackstone" finally had enough confidence to start preparing for the next awakening.

'Karst' didn't seem to be in the mood to chat, and after greeting, he taught Guo Xiao a lesson on the screen.

Until one day, it replied to the first telegram with a clear meaning:

After three years of hard work, the crappy quick-track linguist exhausted all sorts of methods outside of work, and one day, perhaps a little self-defeatingly, he simply typed in a text from one of his cartographic books.

Guo Xiao made a rudimentary radio detector and locked on to the "Karst Black Stone" after making a big circle.

“ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789？ /（）-·”

A stone that emits a constant stream of signals?

"Karst" has become a scientific wishing machine, and many of the technical problems entered by Guo Xiao have been solved, but they are limited to the current practical technology, and if it is other questions or theoretical questions, there is no answer.

"Karst" gave generous feedback, catching the wave of integrated circuits and pointing out a very different path of ternary development.

"Blackstone" inherited from the digital rootless duckweed, its successors finally chose the goal of the pioneer, and decided to place the incubator in China while preparing, just in time for the official release of the space market opening regulations in China in 2014.

Xinyuan came, followed by Lin Ju and Guo Shen, who had just resigned from NACA, with the help of years of accumulation, Xinyuan No. 1 finally achieved the second task of 'karst'.

(End of chapter)