The X Base Command received an encrypted telegram from Russia's Vostochny Space Base. In the telegram, General Andrei reported the plight of the "Gagarin" and the crew's plan to fly the spacecraft into the "cloud body" to detonate nuclear fuel.
It also said: Although this plan has not been approved by the Eastern Space Base, given the current situation of the spacecraft and the physical and psychological conditions of the crew, it is unnecessary and the consequences will be difficult to control if they continue to stay on Saturn.
Discuss whether to terminate the "Gagarin" mission and let them return.
Li Zhanxiong held the telegram, his heart aching. For more than 50 days, he had been waiting for news about the "Zhurong". The shadows of Gao Tianjun, Ding Yushi and Zhang Nan, his close subordinates, lingered in front of his eyes all day long.
;Although Aisen and Lawrence are not his comrades-in-arms,
He fully understood the loneliness and pain of the "Gagarin" astronauts at this moment, and also fully understood the dilemma of General Andrei. Although the "Amazon Butterfly" plan was jointly formulated and implemented by "N-601", the four space fleets
The spacecraft are still independently commanded by each member country, and the "Zhurong" is only used as the "flagship" of this mission. Now, 2 of the 4 spacecraft have been destroyed, and the "Zhurong" has lost contact again. This time it has attracted global attention
The "Amazon Butterfly" project may have inevitably ended in failure. Under such circumstances, continuing to leave the "Gagarin" in the distant space, allowing it to challenge the threat of the "cloud body" with its small and lonely body, is obviously
It makes no sense and is somewhat inhumane and unfair.
Li Zhanxiong called Andrei back, agreeing with RKA to recall the "Gagarin" and paying tribute to Vera and other astronauts for their great contribution in carrying out this mission.
A few hours later, Li Zhanxiong received a second telegram from Andrei. The telegram contained only two sentences: "Gagarin" will continue to hold on and wait for the return of "Zhurong".
Li Zhanxiong's eyes became moist when he saw the last sentence...
During this period of time, Li Zhanxiong has received dozens of telegrams from all over the world. There are colleagues, friends, and even former Cold War opponents... They are all paying attention to the whereabouts of the "Zhurong". Not only himself.
, not just the X base, not just China! Now, almost the whole world is waiting for the news of the "Zhurong Hao"!
The heroic feat of "Zhurong Hao" is like a real-life myth, which has deeply touched the hearts of billions of people, infected their souls, and changed their ideas.
Two rival countries in the Middle East that have been at war for many years finally signed a peace agreement and established diplomatic relations at the same time. At the signing ceremony, after exchanging the text of the agreement, representatives from both sides paid special tribute to the Chinese representative for the heroic sacrifice of the crew of the "Zhurong"...
Several large pirate organizations active in Northeast Africa and the Western Indian Ocean also released all seized hostages and ships, and at the same time announced that they would permanently lay down their weapons and return to their homes to resume their fishing livelihood with the assistance of the United Nations...
At the latest IMF conference, member units unanimously agreed to reduce the share of the Japanese yen, the US dollar and the euro in the SDR, and significantly increased the share of the RMB, becoming the IMF's largest share in one fell swoop, confirming its currency dominance. At the same time, the IMF
It also solemnly announced to the world that the fundamental mission of the IMF will shift from "providing short-term loans to member states, eliminating competitive currency devaluation and removing obstacles to the development of international trade" to "comprehensively promoting human security and sustainable development".
development and building a community with a shared future for mankind”...
A rapid beep brought Li Zhanxiong back to reality from the rush of thoughts. The beep came from a red phone in front of him. It was a hotline directly connected to the important person in charge of CNSA!
Li Zhanxiong was startled and suddenly felt an ominous premonition in his heart. He was stunned for a few seconds, grabbed the phone, and stood up quickly.
The people around him all turned their attention to Li Zhanxiong, and they felt from his increasingly solemn eyes that something important might be happening.
Li Zhanxiong remained standing and listened quietly. He only said "hmm" briefly a few times and did not speak the whole time. After answering the phone, he stood stiffly holding the receiver in his hand.
"What time is it now?" Li Zhanxiong asked.
"14:45."
"Does anyone know what the weather is like outside?" he asked again.
"I just came back from outside. It seems to be very cloudy..." the communications staff officer replied.
"Come with me outside and take a look!" Li Zhanxiong said and walked out. The others looked at each other and followed quickly.
A group of people walked out of the building and came to an open place. The sky was filled with dark clouds, the light was obscure and dim, and crows were flying across the sky, croaking...
"What's going on?" the communications officer asked.
"Please take advantage of this limited light!" Li Zhanxiong sighed and said seriously, "Darkness will come again soon!"
"Why?!" Everyone looked at it in confusion.
"Just now, CNSA informed on the phone that a large number of 'cloud bodies' have begun to converge towards the Sun-Earth Lagrange L1 point, and they are blocking the sunlight!"
"Ah?...Is there going to be another super 'solar eclipse' like that?!"
"Yes! After tonight, I wonder if we can see the dawn again..."
Jacob felt uneasy, and an ominous premonition was hanging over him. In his hundreds of years of life experience, he had also had this feeling - it was often a subconscious signal before danger arrived, reminding him
Avoid it in time. However, what he felt today was not only danger, but destruction!
He didn't know what celestial phenomena were hidden behind the dark clouds outside the window, let alone what was happening at the distant L1 point of the Sun-Earth Lagrange. He just felt that the sky was very dark and scary.
A strong idea suddenly arose in his heart - he must find Eisen!
Jacob treats Aisen like he treats his own child. Although the two have not been in contact for a long time, Aisen's position in his heart has far exceeded that of other immortals in the Anu Society; moreover, he and Aisen have always
The telepathy ability built up through multiple interactions of thoughts is smoother and more powerful than theirs, and it has reached a state that is completely unrestricted by spatial distance. Aisen is the most talented immortal person he has ever encountered.
Before Eisen entered the "Cloud Body Brain" with the "Zhurong", Jacob asked him when interacting with him: "The wisdom of the 'Cloud Body' is very different from that of humans, how can you influence it?"
"
Eisen said: "No matter how powerful the 'cloud bodies' are, they still have weaknesses. This weakness is the way they use learning - their wisdom only comes from their summary of things in the universe, while humans can draw inferences about other cases.
Something out of nothing!”
Jacob did not fully understand the meaning of Eisen's words at the time, and everything stopped after that. Now he savored it carefully and began to realize that Eisen was referring to something.
"Cloud bodies" come across the endless space of the universe. Whether it is their experience, their knowledge or their accumulated knowledge, they are all out of reach of humans in this corner. However, they are wandering around in front of Eisen.
, stopped moving forward, which shows that they discovered something unknown in Eisen, and this may be exactly what the laws of survival of the universe require them to master!
"'Extracting inferences from one instance and making something out of nothing'?...What exactly does Aisen want to do?" Jacob couldn't figure it out, so he asked to see Li Zhanxiong.
Li Zhanxiong asked his staff to invite Jacob into the control center. The political commissar of the base seemed a little worried, saying that the control center is the core of the X base. Would it be inappropriate to let an outsider, especially a Westerner, in?
"Comrade, we can even open the most advanced technologies such as controllable nuclear fusion and magnetic bubbles to foreign countries. What's wrong with letting an immortal person enter the control center?! Human beings cannot use conventional scientific and technological means to deal with the 'cloud body'
'In this case, Jacob's participation may bring us miracles. We should give him full trust!"
After Jacob entered the control center, he did not show much interest in the environment and facilities here. He came directly to Li Zhanxiong, without any courtesy, and asked directly: "I want to verify that in your understanding, 'making something out of nothing'
'What does it mean?"
"'Create something out of nothing'?" Li Zhanxiong was a little confused, "Why do you ask this?"
"Please explain it first. This will be relevant to our next topic."
"'Creating something out of nothing' is one of our idioms. It means to make something that does not exist appear to exist, which means to fabricate facts out of thin air."
"That's it...is there any other meaning?" Jacob was a little dissatisfied with this explanation.
"The original meaning of the word is like this. However, the application of our Chinese idioms will also vary depending on the situation. It depends on what you want to express."
Jacob told Li Zhanxiong what Aisen meant when he interacted with his mind for the last time.
"I understand the meaning of 'drawing inferences from one instance', but this 'making something out of nothing' doesn't sound like a good idiom. Why does Eisen regard it as an advantage of human cognition?"
Li Zhanxiong thought about it and said: "If this is the case, then what Aisen said may have another meaning! In my country's classical military book "Thirty-Six Strategies", the seventh stratagem is to 'make something out of nothing', and its expression It's: 'It's not a lie, it's actually what it is. Shaoyin, Taiyin, Taiyang'..."
Jacob seemed to be listening to a book from heaven and was completely confused.
"In "Thirty-six Strategies", the strategy of 'creating something out of nothing' means," Li Zhanxiong continued, "using false information to confuse the opponent, but also using false information to hide the true purpose.
To deceive opponents and make them regard the illusion as the truth, so as to catch them by surprise and attack them unprepared."
Jacob pondered for a moment and seemed to suddenly realize it. He said to himself: "Oh! My child! Your thoughts are really far beyond my imagination!"
"Do you know what Eisen thinks? Mr. Jacob?"
"I can basically guess the direction of Eisen's thinking, but I still don't know what his plan is. In short, we should all be happy for Eisen!"
"Can you be more specific?"
"I'm sorry! Please forgive me for not making my judgment public! If Aisen has the chance, he should still contact us, and I will provide help then."
Aisen once again entered a space composed of pure white light. After entering such a space last time with Ding Yushi, he was no longer unfamiliar with it and no longer surprised. His heart was still and his consciousness was very clear, but he didn't know
He has no ability to predict what he will encounter in this space.
He remembered that the "Cloud Brain" once asked him about the detector that entered the three-dimensional space. When he told it that the detector was in the "marginal space", Gao Tianjun, Zhang Nan and the others separated, and then entered this place again.
In the white light.
"I want to go to the 'marginal space'!" This was his true thought at the moment, and it was also the clear intention he sent to the "Cloud Body Brain".
The transparent sphere appeared again, with a mass of darkness inside. The thing gradually grew larger until it filled the entire space. He soon discovered that there was a familiar figure in the darkness - that was Ai Bin!
"Ai Bin!" Aisen shouted.
Ai Bin was wearing a strange jumpsuit and was standing on a dark brown "ice rock", opening his arms towards Aisen.
Eisen ran towards Aibin desperately. In his mind, the ground under his feet was very hard - this was a completely immersive and real feeling - and he was surrounded by endless, mixed...
There are gray-white and dark-brown frozen areas, crisscrossed by ridges and ravines, and uneven heights. The sky is full of stars, and occasionally there are flashes of colorful light...
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The two brothers hugged each other tightly. Eisen felt the warmth from his twin brother, and he could finally believe the reality in front of him. He couldn't help but shed tears.
Hot tears...
"What is this place? Ai Bin, is this a 'marginal space'?"
"This is Pluto." Ai Bin told Eisen while gently patting his back.
"Pluto?!" Eisen was very surprised. He instinctively looked around, "How can there be air here?! This is impossible!" His heart felt cold, and he suspected that everything in front of him was still an illusion.
"We don't need air here! There is enough energy here to sustain us!"
"Can you survive here only on energy? What kind of energy is this?" Aisen let go of Ai Bin's hand, becoming more and more worried that he was still in a dream.
Ai Bin saw Aisen's psychology. He stretched out his hand and grabbed Aisen's shoulder hard: "You should be able to feel the strength of my hand, so there is no need to doubt everything here."
Aisen did feel a slight pain in his shoulder. He was not worried, so he reached out and grabbed Ai Bin's arm again - they often did this to each other when they were children.
"The universe itself is made of energy." Ai Bin then told him, "Air and water are also energy - although they are only a small part of the energy of the universe, they are indispensable elements for the survival of ordinary humans on the earth. However, the earth
However, the human group has formed a narrow understanding of the survival factors of life in the universe based only on the form of its own energy needs. In fact, humans do not understand that life in the universe and their survival factors actually have many forms. We immortal people will
It can completely adapt to a living environment without air and water, because the energy we need to survive is everywhere in the universe."
"Then...is this 'marginal space'? You are the only one here?"
"This is the 'marginal space'. It is very large, unimaginably large, and there are many high-level lives there. For hundreds of millions of years, these lives have migrated from Venus, Mars and the Earth, coexist here, and live forever here.
The people on earth are just the latest group to migrate. Because I only exist in your mind, you can only see me. In fact, all people in the "marginal space" are not physical existences, but it does not affect
Our contact and communication in consciousness is just like the way you and I are now."
"Is it true that intelligent life existed on both Venus and Mars?! They have all reached the 'marginal space'?!" Eisen was shocked. Unexpectedly, the science fiction stories he heard in his childhood were the speculations of mankind for hundreds of years.
and exploration, and found the final answer in the "marginal space"!
"Can I see those Venusians and Martians?"
"You'll see them. But first we have to figure something out together."
"Ai Bin, you haven't contacted me for a long time. Why? Why can I find you again today? Could it be that... the 'cloud body' is also threatening the 'marginal space'? And that star...
That alien probe, where is it now?" Eisen asked a series of questions.
"Eisen, you need to control your thinking... Do you remember the dice game we used to play at Karaoke? You were always fined to drink at that time!"
Eisen instantly understood the hidden meaning in Ai Bin's words...