Wang Chao: "Connect the communication and see what happens." Helena you are ready. ”

Helena frowned: "What am I going to prepare?" I can't really do memetic contamination! You're not going to be fooled yourself, are you? ”

Wang Chao: "Then Lili, you are ready, and you can give eye medicine to the prosthetic body and artificial intelligence on the opposite side at any time." ”

Lily immediately began to practice "ahhhh

At this point, Page picks up the communication and puts the predicted communication delay next to the screen.

Wang Chao "looked" at the picture sent by the Starlight Network, and teased: "At least it is humans who contact us, not subspace demons." ”

On the screen, it is an uncle, who looks very much like the security uncle downstairs of the company before Wang Chao crossed, holding the "leader" thermos cup every day to make tea and brush Douyin, very free.

Nimeth said in the newsletter: "I analyzed this picture, and the probability that it is a real picture is as high as 70%. ”

Wang Chao: "How did you analyze it?" ”

"According to the complexity of the picture, such a complex picture has so many details, and if it is a fake picture, the computing power required is too high. But in the final analysis, this is just speculation, and it is not excluded that people have such strong computing power, and they are stunned to calculate such a picture in real time. ”

Wang Chao: "What about the picture on our side?" ”

"I made one according to the standard template of a science fiction work." Ni Meow also sent the fake picture that was now sent over there to Wang Chao.

In the fake picture, Wang Chao sits in the captain's seat in the center wearing a uniform that seems to have been ripped off from the interstellar travel series, and there are operators wearing the same military uniform sitting at the surrounding workstations.

Wang Chao: "What's the situation with these men in the picture?" ”

"I pinched it with a universal template, what, do you want to add some feminine spices?"

"No, that's fine."

In the newsletter, the uncle saw that the picture sent here was so formal, his mouth twitched, he lowered his head and opened the drawer, and finally found a gold star - yes, the kind of gold worn by the sheriff in the western.

After putting on Venus, he also straightened his collar, straightened his face and said: "The spacecraft has not been announced, this is the São Paulo Colony Satellite Station, please inform you of the name and purpose of the ship." ”

Wang Chao immediately checked the colony called São Paulo in the spaceship's star map, and found that there were as many as seventy.

He couldn't help but complain: "What the hell, does this name express any beautiful vision?" Why are there so many colonies called São Paulo? ”

Gale: "Maybe that race likes to be called Sao Paul, just like people with RB blood like to be called Edo, and Shin Edo is like that." ”

Wang Chao shook his head and responded, "May I ask which St. Paul's colony you are." ”

The uncle spread his hands: "It's St. Paul, are there many São Paulo?" Ah, maybe it's a lot on the galactic scale, but for us it's the only São Paulo. ”

What nonsense is this.

Wang Chao: "We are the new research ship New Jackdaw, we are carrying out the test mission of the new engine, and we came to your place unexpectedly after an accident, and we hope to get the star map to confirm the location at this time." ”

"Star map, ah......" Uncle Badge began to tap on the keyboard.

Wang was shocked, although he had only been traveling for a long time, he had forgotten how to use the keyboard - the human-computer interaction of cyber people is too convenient, and he can communicate with the machine directly with a single thought, and the keyboard is not used at all.

After a while, the uncle said, "I found a star map from more than a hundred years ago, and I will send it to you now." You guys...... I mean, today's starships can still read old versions of machine language, right? ”

Wang Chao frowned: "The star map from more than a hundred years ago? Have you not spoken to the outside world for more than 100 years? ”

The uncle shrugged: "In the past, there were occasional space mails, and my grandfather still had to send and receive postal parcels from time to time, but my father's generation did not have any postal parcels from the beginning, as for merchant ships...... Sorry, my grandfather hasn't seen it. ”

Wang Chao: "Does your colony have LV5 printing capabilities?" ”

Colonies with LV5 printing capabilities only need to import raw materials, and if all the raw materials can be produced by themselves, then there is no need to trade at all, and they can produce everything themselves.

The uncle looked dazed: "What? ”

"The division of printing capacity has only been established in the last 30 years. ”

In other words, it will only be thirty years since this interstellar era entered the era of printing everything......

Just as Wang Chao was communicating with his uncle, Nia reported: "I used the new Jackdaw's detection equipment to telemap the planet next to the space station, there are about 100,000 people living on the planet, and I found a lot of large devices on the planet's ground that look like atmospheric modification devices, but the planet's atmosphere has become completely suitable for human habitation."

"In addition, there are no large-scale printing factories found, and it is speculated that the production capacity of this planet is quite ...... Quite primitive. More specific situations need to be found out closer to the planet. ”

Wang Chao: "Can you detect such a detailed thing?" ”

Before he could be shocked, there was a knock on the door on the other end of the communication.

Uncle Police Badge turned his head and shouted "Come in", so a young man entered the picture: "What's the situation?" Wow! ”

The young man looked at Wang Chao directly - it should be looking at the fake picture sent by Ni Meow.

"A real starship? So does an interstellar society really exist? The young man exclaimed.

Wang Chao and the girls glanced at each other.

The uncle rebuked angrily: "Of course it exists! Otherwise, where did the Galaxy radio you watch come from? ”

Wang Chao: "Galaxy Broadcasting? ”

The young man immediately replied, "It's a radio from a planet called New Eden, the Galactic Singer or something." ”

Everyone on the New Jackdaw looked at Lily.

Lily gestured with a V.

Helena: "Wait a minute, this is a normal radio broadcast, right?" It wasn't like it was hundreds of years ago. Lily, how long has it been since the concept of the Galactic Singer was created? ”

Lily: "About two hundred years, since the founding of the New Eden colony. ”

Wang Chao: "That means that this St. Paul is within 200 light years of New Eden. ”

Electromagnetic waves are generally regarded as propagating at the speed of light in a vacuum, and a program that has only been established for 200 years cannot fly 200 light-years away through ordinary electromagnetic wave broadcasting.

At this point, Nia reported, "I scanned the space station they were on. The structure of this space station...... It's very primitive. Even the technology of a hundred years ago was too primitive. ”

Wang Chao touched his chin: "Are you saying that less than two hundred light-years away from the core area of New Eden, there is a colony that is far away from the entire interstellar society?" ”

Nia: "I don't know ......"

Wang Chao: "São Paulo, we need your star map, please send it to us." ”

"Okay." The uncle started typing on the keyboard again, and after a few seconds he said, "It's been sent, you should have received this by the time you received this from me." ”

Nimeth reported: "Received the star map. The encoding of the star map is very primitive, but there is no big problem with decoding. Decoding is complete. ”

Nimeow suddenly fell silent.

Wang Chao: "Ni Meow? ”

Nimeow: "I must be hell, there are so many unexplored areas on this chart, even from a hundred years ago, there are too many blank areas. ”

Wang Chao frowned, and after a short thought, he said, "Ni Meow, check the timestamp of the star map." ”

"Timestamps? Why check this out...... I'll go, this star map timestamp is 2157 years! This is not a star chart from a hundred years ago, it is a star chart from two hundred and twenty years ago! ”

Nia: "Two hundred and twenty years ago? Comparing past technical data...... The design of the opposing space station is indeed the style of less than a hundred years after the beginning of interstellar colonization! ”

Wang Chao: "So we went back in time because we forcibly jumped in the planetary gravity well?" Is time travel actually possible? ”

Lily: "It must be because we're over eighty-eight miles per hour!" ”

As Lily deserves, she can still play this kind of deep house meme at this time: the critical speed of the time car in the famous movie series "Back to the Future" is 88 miles per hour, and at this speed, it will travel through time.

Helena: "So now we're before the formation of New Eden?" Wouldn't it be okay if we were to be shown before people......"

Page announced: "There is an anomaly in the gravity engine! ”

Nia also shouted, "There is a powerful gravitational wave near us, no, there is chaos around us now!" ”

The next moment, communication was interrupted.

Wang Chao: "What's going on?" Ni Meow? Why did the communication go down? ”

Nimeow: "Because the space station that communicates with us is gone, the colonies, and even the stars are gone. ”

Everyone looked at Nia together.

Nia looked pensive, biting the nail of her right thumb.

Although Wang Chao had a question mark on her stomach, she didn't dare to ask questions to interrupt her thinking.

After a few minutes, Nia said, "Probably because of the forced jump in the gravity well, we may have run the wrong time and space." ”

Wang Chao: "What happened just now?" ”

Nia: "I don't know. Maybe because we didn't belong to this time, we were forcibly squeezed out. Do you know the grandfather paradox? ”

How could such a famous hypothesis not be known!

As soon as he was about to speak, Lily replied, "I know, I know, it's often discussed in time travel works!" You time travel to the past to kill your grandfather, will you still be born? ”

Wang Chao: "It's to kill my grandfather or grandmother who hasn't given birth yet." There are two versions of this paradox. Probably to highlight equality between men and women. ”

Gale: "Is there a 'foreign gunship' version?" ”

No, this paradox was born when helicopter gunships were not yet a gender.

Nia: "I have two guesses, the first is that the world has some kind of mechanism that can pop things out that don't belong in this time; The second one is simpler, we force the jump, so we briefly mess into another time. ”

Helena: "I have a third hypothesis that we had a collective hallucination. ”

"This assumption is not true." Page immediately said, "Because I've also witnessed communication, I'm an artificial intelligence and don't hallucinate." ”

Helena looked at Lily: "If I hadn't touched Lily, and hadn't seen her singing to extend the uptime of the machine, or even improve the lubrication, I might have agreed with you." But now...... Do you really not have hallucinations? ”

Page was silent for a second: "I can't refute your claim. ”

Nimeow: "Nia should have telemetry data for planets and galaxies that can prove that it's not a hallucination." ”

Wang Chao: "There's an easier way to confirm. We know where this colony is, so let's take a look. We're going to New Eden, so let's go to this St. Paul next to New Eden. ”

Nia was thinking about something else: "If you reappear and find a way to stay in that time, it will be the first time travel in human history." Humanity's understanding of the world will go further!

"It is even possible to find something as non-scientific as superpowers within the framework of science!"

Helena said, "If time travel is real, even if it's just a short time trip, or even just a few messages from the past, we can use it to add some credibility to the shocking scam of Organization X!" ”

Wang Chao: "Two professors? You haven't forgotten what we're doing now, have you? ”

Nia looked at him, "Didn't you follow the clues you first came into contact with the Dao, catch the tail of the Adventure Club, and then discover the remains of the unearthed 'Dao'?" ”

Wang Chao snapped his fingers: "It is well summarized!" ”

Ni Meow: "By the way, clean up the prosthetic doctor and middleman who backstabbed Lao Wang, don't forget this." ”

Gale: "And before that, we're going to mine and metallurgy, change the ship's appearance, and disguise it." ”

Wang Chao: "Yes, yes, you are all right. ”

Helena clasped her hands to her chest: "Actually, if we stayed in the universe of that timeline just now, it would be easier to operate." We could even recruit people from that São Paulo colony. ”

At this time, Page reported: "I have just completed the star map comparison, and this St. Paul should be São Paulo, the second core colony of New Eden." ”

Wang Chao: "So isn't that the same name!" ”

Nimeow: "I'll tell you better news - you should know that we're looking for a troublesome middleman's stronghold, in Ophiuman II." ”

Wang Chao immediately compared the star chart and found that St. Paul was also in Ophiuchus. It doesn't even take much helium-three to make a hyperspace jump at such a close distance.

Wang Chao: "Isn't this a coincidence...... Wait a minute, did we report ourselves? ”

Gale: "Father, you have reported it." ”

"I reported it." Wang Chao touched his chin and shaved the rest of his hair, "Wait, do we really need to hide our identities?" ”

Everyone looked at Wang Chao together.

Wang Chao explained: "You see, we asked for a star map in São Paulo, almost two hundred years ago, and this event has left a record. If we don't hide our identities, add the right bootstrap ......"

Helena: "It will make others misunderstand that Project X has mastered the art of time travel!" ”

Wang Chao shook his head: "No, we can't clearly show that we have mastered the technology of time travel, but we have to try our best to pretend that we don't have this technology."

"I've learned the routine, as long as we pretend we don't, others will think we have! Just like Huarong Dao, if you have to light a fire and smoke on the side where there is an ambush, Cao Cao will be fooled! ”

Happy New Year

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