Chapter 52 Tonight, four billion people look up at the stars
"Heaven...what is that?!"
The woman's voice is sharp, bright and penetrating.
The news spread all over the river in an instant.
Others also raised their heads, and then hundreds of faces of different ages and styles showed expressions of astonishment at the same time.
"What is this?"
"Why did the moon change color? And the stars, red?"
"Two moons? Look, they look like a pair of eyes."
"That's a face! A human face! Gosh, this is too big?!"
"What's going on? An astronomical phenomenon? Or am I dazzled?"
"Quickly take a photo! Quickly take a photo! I want to post it on Moments!"
"Daddy, look! It seems to be smiling at us! Giggle..."
At this moment, the Songhua River was filled with people. After a brief moment of surprise, there was a clicking sound and dense flashes. It was people taking pictures with their mobile phones.
And it was not just the people on the banks of the Songhua River who saw this scene.
This starry sky is so huge.
It filled the entire night sky.
If nothing unexpected happens, this scene can now be seen in the entire Eastern Hemisphere, in most countries and regions that have entered the dark night range.
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Magic City.
Several men and women who had just finished recording a program at the TV station were walking out of the building talking and laughing.
"Beautiful Lin, how about we go have supper together? Go to the Bund and watch the fireworks!"
An urban white-collar worker with long legs and wavy hair wearing cotton stockings laughed playfully and hugged the female companion beside him.
The TV host, who was wearing a white windproof down jacket, laughed when he heard this and said, "Are there going to be fireworks this year? Didn't we have a policy banning them before?"
"Hey, policies are policies, there are always people who know how to do it, right... Go take a look? If not, you can just eat snacks."
"Oh well."
Those who are still working overtime at the company during the Lantern Festival are mostly young people who are drifting away. At this time, when I go back, I will face an empty room, so it is better to get together.
However, at this moment, an editor next to him suddenly exclaimed: "Look! Heaven! What is that?!"
When everyone heard this, they raised their heads one after another. Immediately, shock appeared on the faces of these young people!
Starry sky!
Unexplained astronomical phenomenon?
Or is it related to aura?
Several people were stunned for a while.
Tens of seconds later, the host named Lin was the first to react and said with a wry smile:
"It seems that our party has to be cancelled. Don't be stunned. Go back to the company to get the shooting machine and prepare to work overtime to produce the manuscript!"
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Imperial Capital.
The location of the capital city, the capital of Xia Kingdom.
In a room on the fourth floor of an official hospitality hotel.
The soft light shone on Yang Congxian's already pale face, shining brightly, and his thin figure dragged a shadow on the ground.
Next to the window of the hotel room, between the thick pale golden curtains and the set of leather sofas, stood a tall figure.
"...This meeting is over, I can finally rest for a few days."
The voice said slightly tiredly.
"Yeah, it's a pity that we didn't catch up with the New Year's Day and Lantern Festival." Yang Congxian smiled and said.
"Hey, what can we do? Hey, by the way, I asked you to contact our students in Division 1 before, how's it going?"
"Everything goes well. They have all been promoted very quickly, especially the girl named Song Jun who was among the first batch of students. She has made several great achievements recently."
Yang Congxian introduced.
The man nodded when he heard this and said leisurely: "Jingli relied on administrative means to forcefully bring all the good talents from major colleges into one department.
Obviously he wants to master it,
But after all, these people were trained by major departments and bureaus.
How can these marks be washed away so easily?"
Yang Congxian nodded and smiled: "The director is right, but this can be considered..."
Halfway through his words, he suddenly saw the director of the Ninth Division in front of him suddenly changed his expression and waved his hand to stop.
Immediately, the director turned to face the window.
The thick and dense floor-to-ceiling curtains suddenly seemed to be pulled by some mysterious force.
Instantly separate to both sides!
Then I saw a faint crimson halo shining in from the window.
The two people in the room looked out in shock, and then their expressions changed drastically at the same time!
"Then...what is it?"
Yang Congxian exclaimed in surprise.
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Ningcheng.
In an ordinary building, the lights are brightly lit.
The Lantern Festival party, which no one was watching, was playing on the TV. In the kitchen, a middle-aged woman wearing a floral apron was opening the lid of the pot.
A stream of white steam gushes out of the pot.
Dozens of round and lovely glutinous rice balls are floating in the boiling water.
On the big sofa in the living room, a fat middle-aged man was holding a bottle of white wine and looking at it.
Sun Xiaohan, who is already in the second grade of junior high school, is a little taller. He is wearing a pink sweater and hammering on the door of a certain room:
"Ah ah ah, Sun Xiao, you big pig's hooves, open the door quickly! Take me to set off fireworks!!"
"Come on, come on, stop knocking!"
As soon as the door opened, Sun Xiao, wearing a formal uniform with small lapels, walked out with a black line on his face.
He was holding some fireworks in his hand.
"Come on, hurry up, the glutinous rice balls are almost ready. I'll be back to eat later." Sun Xiaohan happily pulled him towards the door.
"You just know how to eat..."
Sun Xiao said speechlessly.
Sun Ma in the kitchen glanced here and shouted: "Why are you still wearing those clothes? Put on cotton clothes, it's cold outside!"
Sun Xiao said helplessly: "Mom, there's no need, I'm really not cold."
"If it's not cold, just go ahead and wait until you catch a cold... Huh? This kid."
As Sun's mother was talking, she found that her son and daughter had already run out as soon as the door opened, and she could only sigh.
After going downstairs, Sun Xiao took his sister to the construction site.
There are few people there, so you can put flowers as you like.
More than a year has passed, and no building has been built on that construction site.
Sun Xiao has already graduated and returned to Ningcheng to work.
Seeing this place now, he couldn't help but feel a little sad.
I can't help but think of Cheng Lin...Cheng Lin has disappeared for a year and a half, and Sun Xiao still can't let go.
Take out your mobile phone, the already cold high school class group is particularly lively tonight.
After looking carefully, it turned out that a classmate was handing out red envelopes.
It was still a red envelope with a password. Sun Xiao hurriedly opened it, but was stunned when he saw the password in the red envelope.
The password for the red envelope turned out to be: "Look at the sky! Look!"
"Heaven? What heaven are you looking at?"
Sun Xiao was puzzled.
At this moment, he suddenly heard Sun Xiaohan exclaim: "Ah! Sun Xiao! Look, look to the sky!"
Sun Xiao raised his head when he heard the words. In the night sky, the huge starry sky was looking down at the earth.
The corners of its raised mouth seemed to contain some kind of silent weirdness.
Sun Xiao immediately stared and opened his mouth!
"Fuck!"
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at the same time.
Not just the Xia Kingdom, but almost the entire Eastern Hemisphere, various countries and regions shrouded in darkness.
Someone has discovered the strange phenomenon in the starry sky!
Soviet Russia
Mongolia
Thailand
Malaysia
Singapore
the Philippines
Pakistan
India
Sri Lanka
…
Countless countries and regions all saw the grand and mysterious face in the starry sky on this night.
This unusual celestial phenomenon immediately shocked everyone deeply.
Two moons are eyes.
The Milky Way is the bridge of the nose.
The stars are the corners of the mouth and the face.
Its area is countless times larger than the earth.
No one knows what this is.
Those who believe in science believe that this is some kind of strange astronomical phenomenon.
Some religious believers shout for gods.
No one knows what it is looking at.
Except Cheng Lin...
Standing by the Songhua River in Jiamusi, Cheng Lin, wearing a black down coat, seemed to be standing like a tree.
He knew that the eyes on that sly face were looking at him.
This feeling was sudden, yet extremely clear and certain.
"This...is the existence I provoked by sending my greetings to the universe?"
"This...is the powerful life in the universe that I summoned?"
"Is this... really life?"
Cheng Lin was shocked and asked three questions in succession.
Information appeared in my mind at the right time:
[You stand quietly by the river, your heart is shaking. Your greetings to the universe have finally received a response after a year and a half. You are very happy]
"...I'm not happy at all."
Cheng Lin withdrew his gaze and took a deep breath of the cold northern winter air.
He frowned and said: "This makes no sense. As far as I know, the speed of radio waves in vacuum is equal to the speed of light, which takes more than a year...
How far can it run?
Even if calculated based on the Oort Nebula, the radius of the solar system is approximately 1 light-year.
The radio waves I emit can only barely escape the solar system.
Can this also attract the attention of cosmic-level beings?"
"Furthermore...can the sentence I sent really be regarded as a greeting? Who is greeting? It is clearly a greeting to myself..."
Cheng Lin felt that this deduction was too ridiculous.
[Just like the birth and destruction of civilization is just an accident among millions of possibilities, the powerful life wandering in the universe will also look around blankly, so, at a certain moment, he saw you among the billions of stars]
[Then, He smiles back and greets you]
"Him?"
Cheng Lin keenly caught this wording and his eyes changed slightly.
The word "He" has always been used to refer to gods.
"Could it be said that it is extraterrestrial life that will end civilization this time?"
"And the previous mission was for me to transmit information, be noticed by him, and then trace the source to the coordinates of the earth?"
"So, the radio content transmitted is actually not important, it can be anything..."
Cheng Lin slowly exhaled and regained his composure.
The initial surprise has all disappeared, and now he just wants to leisurely see how this "He" wants to greet the earth.
Direct destruction?
Or is it coming?
No, no, no, since it is a face formed by controlling the stars, then it may be extremely far away from the earth.
Well, it doesn't matter anyway.
"What else will change next?"
Cheng Lin thought curiously.
However, the development of things made him a little disappointed.
The starry sky slowly disappeared after lasting for a few minutes.
The crimson stars returned to their original appearance.
The moon also turned into the only bright and white round again, hanging quietly in the sky.
Cheng Lin heard a sound of disappointment coming from the crowd by the river.
I vaguely heard some people muttering: Why did it disappear so quickly? Really, I didn't even have time to call my friends.
Well, everyone is very calm.
Cheng Lin smiled, turned and walked towards a small vendor's cart not far away.
Then he smiled brightly at the stall owner:
“Boss, let’s have some grilled cold noodles with eggs!”
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ps1: Don’t worry about the chapter name, I know there is definitely not four billion.
ps2: In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Japan and South Korea are not included in the world of this book, and India is basically not mentioned, so it is regarded as a province by default.
ps3: My typing hand hurts so much these days that I cry.