stjorthotic Chapter 163, The Dark Secret - Fish In The Puddle
Chapter 163, The Dark Secret - Fish In The Puddle
Soon, the three people applied to the mothership for permission to communicate with the [Lord of the Rings], and at the same time handed over two million words of information on the natural history of the earth and human civilization to the [Lord of the Rings].
Three minutes after Gravity sent the text message using a neutrino signal, the spacecraft received a series of dot patterns from the "Lord of the Rings."
The first picture is a very neat 8x8 dot matrix, with a total of sixty-four points. In the second picture, one point is missing from the corner of the dot matrix, leaving sixty-three. In the third picture, there are a few less points.
Sixty-two left...
"This is a countdown, which is also equivalent to a progress bar. It may mean that it has received the data and is interpreting it. Let us wait." West said.
"But why is it sixty-four?"
"When using binary, it's just a number that's not too big or too small. When written in base, it's about the same as a hundred.
Zhuo Wen and Guan Yifan were very lucky to bring West here. Psychologists are indeed very talented in establishing communication with unknown intelligent entities.
When the countdown reached fifty-seven, something exciting happened: the next count was not represented by a dot matrix, and the picture sent by "The Lord of the Rings" clearly showed the human Arabic numeral 56!
"You learn so fast!" Guan Yifan praised.
The number continues to decrease, decreasing by 1 every ten seconds or so. After a few minutes, the number decreases to 0. The latest picture sent shows four Chinese characters:
【I am a cemetery. 】
The information system uses a mixture of Chinese and English characters. [Lord of the Rings] must also use this kind of characters, but this sentence happens to be in Chinese characters.
Guan Yifan entered a question into the communication window and started a conversation between humans and [The Lord of the Rings]:
【Whose cemetery?】
[The cemetery of the builder of this cemetery. 】
【Is this a spaceship?】
【It used to be a spaceship, but after death it becomes a cemetery. 】
【Who are you? Who is talking to us?】
[I am the cemetery, the cemetery is talking to you, I am dead. 】
[Are you saying that you are the spacecraft itself with the dead crew, or the control system of the spacecraft? 】
(no answer.)
[There are many objects in the nearby area. Are they also cemeteries? 】
[Most of them are cemeteries and will soon become cemeteries. I don’t recognize them. 】
【Did you come from far away, or have you always been here?】
[I come from afar, and they come from afar, and from different distances. 】
【Where does it come from?】
【ocean. 】
【Did you build this four-dimensional space? 】
(no answer.)
【You say you come from the sea, did you build the sea?】
(no answer)
[So, to you, or to your builders, is this four-dimensional space something similar to the ocean? 】
This time, [Lord of the Rings] finally replied:
【It’s a puddle, sea 1
[Why are there so many spaceships, or cemeteries, gathered in such a small space? 】
[When the sea dries up, the fish will gather in the puddles. The puddles will also dry up, and the fish will disappear. 】
【Are all the fish here?】
[The fish that dried up the sea is not here. 】
[Sorry, this is very confusing. 】
[The fish that dried the sea landed on land before the sea dried up, running from one dark forest to another. 】
The last two identical words in this sentence were like two thunderbolts, making the three people on the spaceship and the people listening through weak signals on the two mother ships in the distance shiver.
【Dark Forest...What does it mean?】
[That’s what it means in your information. 】
【Then will you attack us?】
[I am a cemetery, I am dead, no one will attack me. There is no dark forest between different dimensions, low dimensions do not threaten high dimensions, and low-dimensional resources are of no use to high dimensions. But the ones in the same dimension are all dark forests. 】
【Can you give us some suggestions?】
[Get out of the puddle quickly, you are thin paintings, you are fragile, and the puddle will soon turn into a cemetery... Yeah, there seems to be fish in your boat. 】
Guan Yifan was stunned for several seconds before he realized that there was really a fish on the spaceship. It was a small ecological ball he carried with him, slightly larger than his fist.
There appears to be only a small fish and a few pieces of seaweed in the glass ball, but it is actually a carefully designed small closed ecosystem. This was Guan Yifan's favorite thing. He specially brought it with him before setting off. If he couldn't go back, this thing would be his burial object.
【I like fish, can you give it to me?】
Lord of the Rings asked.
【How to send?】
[Throw it over. 】
The three people put on the helmets of their space suits and opened the hatch of the space capsule. Guan Yifan raised the ecological ball in front of his eyes, carefully held the outer glass wall from the three-dimensional direction in the fourth dimension, and took one last look.
Viewed from four dimensions, the infinite details of the ecological ball are revealed, making this small living world appear extremely colorful.
………Please give me flowers…
Guan Yifan waved his arm and threw the ecological ball in the direction of the "Lord of the Rings", watching the small transparent ball disappear into the four-dimensional space. Then they closed the hatch and continued the conversation:
【Is this the only puddle in the universe?】
(no answer.)
After that, [Lord of the Rings] became completely silent and no longer responded to any contact.
At this time, a message came from the mothership that the "Blue Space" was attacked by a micrometeorite again. Various floating objects around the two ships also increased rapidly, and small four-dimensional objects appeared, suspected to be from spaceships or buildings. fragments.
Chu Yan ordered them to return immediately, and the plan to board the [Lord of the Rings] was cancelled.
Due to the mastery of the distance, the spacecraft's speed more than doubled when it returned. It only took more than two hours to return to the vicinity of the mothership, and successfully found the warp point and returned to the "Blue Space".
0.0
The expedition became heroes and received a warm welcome, even though their findings had no practical significance for the future of the two ships.
"Dr. Guan, what do you think of the last question asked to [Lord of the Rings]?" Zhu Yan asked with great interest.
Guan Yifan thought for a moment and replied: "It is more intuitive to use our metaphor. On a large piece of paper with a diameter of 16 billion light-years, there is a small soap bubble with a diameter of only a few dozen astronomical units."
"But we happened to climb into the bubble. This probability is so small that it can be ignored. You can be sure that there are other soap bubbles stuck to the paper, maybe many."
"In other words, we will meet again in the future."
"There is a more fascinating question: Have you encountered it before? For example, the earth has been orbiting in space for billions of years. Isn't it possible that it has entered the fourth-dimensional fragment?"
"It would be really scary if that happened. It could only have happened in the age of dinosaurs or earlier. I don't think humans have ever experienced it. The question is, can dinosaurs find warp?"
"The key question now is: Why are there soap bubbles? Why are there so many four-dimensional fragments in the three-dimensional universe?"
"It's really a huge secret."
"Colonel, now I feel that this may still be a dark secret."
The conversation between the two reminds the audience of the lucky woman present at the fall of Constantinople.
If that high-dimensional fragment had stayed on Earth for one more day, human history might have been completely rewritten!
It has to be lamented that fate is sometimes so full of drama. .