"You said... is it possible for them to find us?" Xian Qianhua asked.
This question was already asked by Xian Qianhua for the third time since Yan Sichen woke up.
She didn't eat or drink, so she stayed by the window for three days and three nights.
After the sun disappeared from view, the whole world fell into darkness.
"Yes." Different from the previous two answers, Yan Sichen chose to deceive Xian Qianhua this time, and he slowly began to understand the meaning of a white lie.
"You lied to me..." Xian Qianhua was not stupid. Although she was hungry and almost exhausted, she was still awake.
In these three days, she did a lot of things.
Record every minute and every second after the sun "disappears", and then send all these important data back to the earth... which may not be able to receive their signals.
Xian Qianhua learned the art of scientific observation from her when she and Yao Yao slept together.
It's very simple, but requires a lot of patience.
The observation data may not change at all for hours or even days...but if you relax your vigilance, the most critical jump may be ignored by you.
Some people may say, can't these things be left to machines?
Xian Qianhua also asked Yao Yao the same question.
Yao Yao's answer is.
"Listening to the sounds of the universe...don't you think it is a very romantic job?"
Xian Qianhua didn't understand before, it was because she didn't like everything in the space station... The space here is very limited. When the initial novelty disappeared, all that was left were restrictions and constraints like shackles.
No sea...not even a sound...
But now, Xian Qianhua has enough time to listen.
There are many kinds of sounds in the universe, some have gone through a long time, and some have just appeared.
She first had to learn how to find the useful human voices in the noise...
In the past, Yao Yao had told Xian Qianhua the aftertaste of the sound of the Big Bang. The "big bang" was much gentler and deeper than Xian Qianhua had imagined... It was like a gust of wind blowing from deep, deep.
, although you don’t know where these winds blow, but it tells you that this is what the world breathes.
The sound made by the Big Bang gave Xian Qianhua the most profound feeling... It gave Xian Qianhua a sense of intimacy with the cold universe for the first time.
In the past, when she was fishing at the beach and looking at the stars, she always felt so far away, so far away that it was unimaginable and difficult to understand.
But now, she realizes that she exists and is surrounded by this vast universe.
Although she was far away from her hometown now, and even if she transformed into light, she would still have to walk a long way to get home... But she was no longer afraid.
She wanted to enjoy this moment quietly and talk to the great universe as a mortal.
…
February 7th.
Xinghan International Aeronautics and Space Administration China Headquarters.
"Isn't it? It's seaweed again?" Chu Xiaoming, who came to have breakfast excitedly early in the morning, immediately turned bitter when he saw the green mess on the plate.
The aunt who was serving food in the cafeteria tapped her spoon and said, "Next one."
Chu Xiaoming had no choice but to take the plate and leave.
After finding a seat and sitting down, Chu Xiaoming let out a long sigh before eating.
Su Wanxia, a good friend who was sitting across from her and was enjoying her meal, looked up and smiled and said, "What are you doing, sighing?"
Chu Xiaoming glanced at Su Wanxia, then picked up the chopsticks and fiddled with the seaweed a few times. He looked at the sticky mass and said, "Look...does this look like undigested grass in the stomach of a cow?"
Su Wanxia laughed, "You're so funny. I've never seen the grass in a cow's stomach, so I'd better eat it quickly."
Chu Xiaoming shook his head, he couldn't eat it.
"I've lost my appetite. Please help me get rid of it."
"Hey? How can I not eat breakfast? I have to work all morning!" Su Wanxia's face straightened.
Chu Xiaoming closed his eyes, shook his head and said, "Since the Shanhai was destroyed, our data department has been doing nothing all day long. It doesn't hurt to eat less."
Su Wanxia was a little unhappy when she heard this. "What do you mean doing nothing? I heard the minister say that the mysterious signals captured a few days ago were most likely sent back by the survivors of the Shanhai! Are you just a little bit
Don’t you care?”
Chu Xiaoming opened his eyes and looked at the good brother in front of him who was usually very cheerful but was deadly serious when it came to work.
"Don't get excited, brother, ah, don't get excited, of course I care, and I also know very well how much I hope we can save them if they survive the Shanhai incident! But do you know that all signals are rootless?
Grass, we can’t see the beginning but the end, we don’t know where they are sending the signals back from, so how can we find them?”
Su Wanxia was suddenly speechless. He suddenly felt that the food in his mouth no longer tasted good.
Chu Xiaoming added, "Besides... you are from the technical department. You should know better than me how difficult space rescue is... This is not as simple as launching a rocket and sending a few people up... just in case...
"
"What are you two talking about?" While they were talking, a beautiful woman came over.
Su Wanxia looked up and immediately smiled again, "Sister Yinuo, good morning."
"Well, good morning." Shen Yinuo, a perfect combination of beauty and intelligence in the aerospace engine R&D department.
With a height of 1.78 meters and golden proportions, her long legs cannot be hidden even in work clothes.
Chu Xiaoming once regarded Shen Yinuo as his lifelong goal, but facts have proved that the gap is too large and cannot be made up by hard work.
so now
...Chu Xiaoming became Shen Yinuo's personal assistant.
Basically, Chu Xiaoming is responsible for all Shen Yinuo's travel planning, of course... only within the scope of assistant.
When Chu Xiaoming saw his goddess, he finally felt a lot better. He said, "I was talking about the mysterious signals I received a few days ago."
This matter is no longer a secret, even the aunt who cooks in the cafeteria knows about it.
But when all eyes were focused on the data department, the data department said that they had no way to deal with these mysterious signals... which meant that we couldn't understand or analyze them.
As a result, the image of the data department in everyone's minds has plummeted.
Although the general director of the Data Department and the leadership team of the Space Center later gave great support, the staff of the Data Department also worked overtime, and also called in many linguists, historians and other experts to provide support, but
The result is still...nothing.
Gradually, everyone no longer expects the data department to create any miracles.
Shen Yinuo sat down and said, "What? Have you received a new mysterious signal?"
"Yes, and this time it is much stronger than the previous times. The signal content also contains a lot of information, but it is the same as before... it is messy and disorderly... I have no idea what it wants to convey." Chu Xiaoming's description is very appropriate. .
Such are the mysterious signals that can stump a team of experts.
They are chaotic, disordered, and cannot be tracked and positioned in reverse.
Even part of the signal is converted into audio and sounds like the noise of a chair being dragged on the floor...or nails scraping against a blackboard...
Su Wanxia is not a professional. Although he has always been serious and responsible in his work attitude, he does not know how to speak empty and useless official words.
After hearing this, Shen Yinuo nodded thoughtfully and said, "Oh... then, can you give me a copy?"
Chu Xiaoming was a little surprised, "Well... this is against the rules."
Shen Yinuo raised his eyebrows, "I'm asking you if it's okay, not if it's in line with the rules."
Together with Goddess Fan, Chu Xiaoming knew what to do. He hesitated and then said, "Okay, but it will take some time, as you know... No one can get the original disk before the initial copy is shared."
Shen Yinuo nodded, "Well, okay, just tell me after you copy it. In addition...this is for you to eat." After the goddess finished speaking, she gave Chu Xiaoming all the seaweed on the plate, and then she took the empty The plate walked away gracefully.
Chu Xiaoming's eyelids twitched. It was already very difficult for him as a young man to be able to work in the data department obediently. Now let him eat a double seaweed breakfast?!
He looked at Su Wanxia.
His brother's name was more casual than his.
But thinking about who Su Wanxia's grandfather was... Chu Xiaoming felt that it was too casual to be his own old man.
"Uh... Well, Brother Wanxia, I see that you have lost weight recently. You must not have eaten well, right? Here, I'll give it all to you! You're welcome!" With that, Chu Xiaoming was about to put the seaweed on Su Wanxia's plate.
However……
Su Wanxia easily stopped Chu Xiaoming's plastic brother behavior with chopsticks.
"Ahaha, brother Xiaoming, you must have some misunderstanding about fatness and thinness. I think... you are the one who really needs to replenish energy. Come on, open your mouth and feed you for me, brother."
As she spoke, Su Wanxia quickly picked up a piece of seaweed and went straight to Chu Xiaoming's mouth.
Fortunately, Chu Xiaoming reacted quickly enough. He immediately shut up, and at the same time quickly reversed the plate. First, he poured the remaining pile of seaweed on his own plate into Su Wanxia's plate. Then he exerted force with his wrists, using his chopsticks like swords. At an extremely cunning and weird angle, he snatched the seaweed that was about to be stuffed into Su Wanxia's mouth from Su Wanxia's chopsticks, and also dunked! He smashed the seaweed into the home area where Su Wanxia had breakfast!
When the dinner plate was lost, Su Wanxia looked shocked, while Chu Xiaoming's "evil face was revealed", and his proud face was horrifying.
Su Wanxia never expected that this young master, who usually seemed so weak, could hide his secrets so well. Even if he was holding the most ordinary chopsticks, he could still display his kung fu so well. It was really admirable!
However, just when Chu Xiaoming put away his plate and thought the situation was settled, Su Wanxia suddenly spread her arms around the moon and snatched the empty plate from Chu Xiaoming's hand with lightning speed.
Following him, he jumped back and left the battlefield, and said with a smile, "Eat slowly, I'll leave first."
After saying that, Su Wanxia turned her head coolly and left calmly with a victor's smile.
Chu Xiaoming is stupid!
How come it was reversed in the blink of an eye?!
"Holy shit!!! Come back!"
…
One day later, Shen Yinuo got the copy of the signal she wanted from Chu Xiaoming.
"Thank you." Shen Yinuo rarely thanked Chu Xiaoming, but Chu Xiaoming couldn't laugh at all. Since he ate those two lumps of seaweed yesterday, his stomach is still churning, as if he has eaten a lot of bugs. .
Fortunately, his body was not too sensitive, otherwise he might have been hospitalized.
But even so, his face was still frighteningly pale.
When Shen Yinuo saw it, he couldn't help but asked with concern, "Hey, are you okay?"
Chu Xiaoming felt that he was about to vomit. In order not to embarrass himself in front of his goddess, he hurriedly waved his hands and said, "I'm fine, I'll leave first..." Then he ran away.
Shen Yinuo originally wanted to show concern in the past, but now she has more important things to do.
Chu Xiaoming covered his mouth and ran back to the department bathroom, whereupon he vomited into the toilet.
The ferocity was even more brutal than when he drank until he was unconscious on the day of his eighteenth-year-old coming-of-age ceremony...
After vomiting, Chu Xiaoming collapsed on the ground, feeling as if he had vomited everything in his body.
Here he comes... His whole body is paralyzed and he has no strength at all.
Colleagues immediately sent Chu Xiaoming to the medical room after discovering his problem.
The doctor took a look at him and said that everything in his body was normal, especially his stomach, which was very fine and there was no sign of food poisoning.
This is really a surprising result.
Everyone originally agreed that there was something wrong with the edible seaweed the restaurant had recently purchased, and they were trying to use Chu Xiaoming's incident to kick the seaweed out of the menu.
result……
…
"I'll go! Why is there seaweed in lunch?! It's still red!?" Chu Xiaoming, who has left a deep shadow on seaweed, will never eat it again no matter what.
The aunt who was serving food in the cafeteria tapped her spoon again and said, "Next one."
Chu Xiaoming was helpless. He found a familiar seat with his plate and sat down. However, he was surprised to find that Su Wanxia did not arrive at the canteen earlier than him today.
Chu Xiaoming, who had no appetite at all, quietly took out the compressed rations he brought with him from his pocket and planned to make ends meet.
As a result, just as I was about to eat, Su Wanxia came.
As soon as he sat down, he took away all the seaweed on Chu Xiaoming's plate, and also took out a wooden lunch box and placed it in front of Chu Xiaoming.
Chu Xiaoming was stunned, "Hey, why are you pinching my seaweed?"
Su Wanxia ignored him and wiped out all the seaweed in three strokes. After he wiped out all the seaweed, he started to eat other things and said, "If you don't like seaweed, just eat this. My mother taught me how to make it." , I don’t know if it’s to your liking.”
Chu Xiaoming was stunned for a moment, then his eyes heated up and he snorted, "Mind your own business. Who said I don't like eating seaweed?"
Having said this, Chu Xiaoming immediately put away his dry food and hurriedly opened the lunch box Su Wanxia gave him.
As soon as the box is opened, the fragrance hits your nose.
The colleagues dining around them all looked sideways. When they saw it was Chu Xiaoming and Su Wanxia, everyone showed ambiguous expressions.
Chu Xiaoming didn't care at all. He had known for a long time that these gossipy guys were saying behind his back that he and Su Wanxia were a pair of glass brothers.
He used to be willing to find people to argue with, but now he is too lazy to talk to them.
Anyway, in this day and age, this kind of thing is not uncommon.
"Is it delicious? I even added some caviar." Su Wanxia is really a good family man.
Chu Xiaoming had not eaten such a serious and delicious meal for a long time. He gave a thumbs up and said, "It's delicious! Brother, your cooking skills! Oh! No need to ask!"
Su Wanxia was relieved, and he sighed, "As long as it tastes good, I apologize to you. Don't tell me that I'm unjust, brother."
Chu Xiaoming chuckled, "How can that be possible?"
While the two good brothers were eating, Goddess Shen Yinuo came again.
"Hey, Chu Xiaoming, have you finished eating?" Shen Yinuo didn't prepare the meal. When she got close, she looked at Chu Xiaoming coldly.
Chu Xiaoming is in the middle of Operation CD, and the madness is not elegant at all.
Hearing the goddess's voice, Chu Xiaoming was startled. He quickly wiped his mouth and raised his head and said, "Well, after eating, do you have anything to do with me?"
"Well, I asked for leave for you and your boss. You can go out with me in the afternoon. Here are the car keys. You go and drive." After saying that, the goddess turned and left.
Chu Xiaoming's eyes widened when he got the key. He looked at the key blankly and then at Su Wanxia.
Su Wanxia smiled slightly, "Congratulations, I can go out on a date with Sister Yinuo so soon."
Chu Xiaoming came back to his senses, almost grinning and still arguing, "What are you talking about, brother, I just work as a driver for others, don't think too much."
When Su Wanxia saw that the lunch box was empty, he put it away and said, "Then please pay attention to safety."
"Hmm, by the way, brother, do you want to eat anything? I'll bring you some when I come back?"
Su Wanxia shook her head, "No need, you can enjoy your afternoon. I'll leave first." After saying that, Su Wanxia packed up the dishes and left.
Chu Xiaoming immediately scratched his head, looking at Su Wanxia's back, why did he feel colder and more chic than her goddess?
…
In the afternoon, Chu Xiaoming drove Shen Yinuo from the base to the city.
On the way, Shen Yinuo took out yesterday's copy and said, "Do you want to know what message these signals want to convey?"
Chu Xiaoming, who was originally swaying to the music, was stunned when he heard this. He turned off the music, slowed down the speed, and looked at Shen Yinuo blankly, "Have you... decoded the content?"
Shen Yinuo hesitated for a moment and then nodded, "Yes, although there was a lot of surprise, I did successfully decode it."
Chu Xiaoming is stupid again. He has been stupid more times in the past few days than he has been in a year.
"How could it be? There are so many experts, so many people! Yinuo, are you lying to me?"
Shen Yinuo looked forward, "This is a warning, and... I don't know if I should tell you..."
"Huh?" Chu Xiaoming didn't understand.
Shen Yinuo did not continue, she slowly closed her eyes, and then suddenly burst into tears.
Chu Xiaoming had never seen his goddess cry before, and the look of hesitation and helplessness made him instantly heartbroken.
He hurriedly drove the car into the emergency area.
After parking the car, Chu Xiaoming asked eagerly, "Yi Nuo, don't cry, Yi Nuo? What's wrong?"
Shen Yinuo shook her head, her tears couldn't stop falling.
She cried and said, "There is no time... there is no time..."
Chu Xiaoming was even more confused. What did this mean? Why is there no time?
He asked, "Yinuo, is it related to that signal? What is that signal saying?"