Yougege still remembers the day when he first came into contact with "Forerunner 3".
Through the thick closed glass, Yougege saw the "Forerunner 3" sitting in the middle of the closed room.
Its posture is very strange, with one leg crossed and the other bent to form a triangle with the ground.
Holding a glass ball in his hand, he stroked it carefully and continuously.
This was the first time that Yugege observed "Forerunner 3" with her naked eyes without the help of observation equipment. She couldn't help but get closer to it.
As if sensing Yugege's presence, "Forerunner 3" stopped its movements and raised its head to "look" at Yougege.
Although "Forerunner 3" has no eyes, at that moment Yugege felt that it saw him, and its expression was focused.
The temperature in the closed room is constant at 22 degrees Celsius, which is a relatively cool temperature for humans.
"Forerunner 3" seemed to like it very much. After looking at Yogurt for a while, he lay down comfortably, stretched out his crossed legs freely, and casually hugged a puppet, just like a child.
Yougege moved around the closed room. When she came to the side, she once again "came eye to eye" with "Forerunner 3".
This time, "Forerunner 3" seemed a little curious.
Who is she? Why is she here? Why is she staring at me?
These ideas were guessed by Yougege himself.
"Forerunner 3" and Yougege "looked at each other" for a long time, then slowly sat up.
After confirming that Forerunner 3's attention was on him, Yugege raised his left hand and pressed it against the glass of the closed room.
"Forerunner 3" did not move, he "watched" Yu Gege with all his attention.
Until Yougege received the reminder and left in a hurry, he did not move his "eyes" away again.
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The first day of contact seems fruitless to outsiders.
But in Yougege's heart, he felt very fulfilled.
Because she felt that "Forerunner 3" noticed her and even remembered her. This was very important and a good start.
On the second day of the contact plan, Yougege still came to the closed room alone.
Guo Xingcai is in charge of security in the observation room in China District.
Today's "Forerunner 3" is a little more lively than in the past.
Although it has the body of an adult, every move it makes looks like an innocent child.
At this time, he was arranging a group of Russian matryoshka dolls in order of size.
Such actions started in the morning, and researchers from all divisions were very excited about this, because it proved that "Forerunner 3" is an intelligent life form, and it can judge that the inherent characteristics of specific things are the best.
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However, "Forerunner 3" seemed a bit awkward in the arrangement at first.
Not only was the size order wrong many times, the matryoshka dolls were not aligned on the same line, and the spacing was completely different.
In this regard, American experts are not optimistic. They believe that although "Forerunner 3" may be intelligent, its ability to move is extremely low and it is a primitive and backward life.
Russian experts have also expressed dissatisfaction with the Americans' unoptimistic attitude. They believe that just because "Forerunner 3" does not understand the things created by humans, it cannot be concluded that it is primitive, because everything is relative.
, maybe we are the ones who are truly primitive, and "Forerunner 3" is just trying to lower its profile with us.
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For these two views, Yougege can be said to have no concern at all. In her eyes, "Forerunner 3" is not only not clumsy, but also very smart, because it just played with the matryoshka doll a few times, and it made the two major countries on the earth
experts are embroiled in controversy.
It's like a man and a woman watching monkeys in the zoo. When they found the monkey drawing on the ground, one person praised the monkey for being smart, but the other person said that no matter how smart it was, it was just a monkey.
But they didn't know that the monkey was scolding the two fools for commenting on it by drawing circles.
Thinking of this, You Gege couldn't help but smile.
Guo Xingcai on the side watched carefully, but he didn't know why You Gege was laughing.
That night, when the server was restarted, many researchers did not leave the observation room. Apparently they were very concerned about "Forerunner 3" and the matryoshka dolls.
However, "Forerunner 3", which was originally very interested in matryoshka dolls, suddenly put down the things in its hands, turned around and faced a certain direction, and sat there motionless.
Researchers are very puzzled by this move of "Forerunner 3".
Experts in the United States took advantage of the trend to sneer and belittle "Forerunner 3".
The Russian experts argued hard, and the two parties went to the restaurant noisily, and soon everyone in the observation room was gone.
Only You Gege and Guo Xingcai stayed.
And only Yougege knew why "Forerunner 3" was staring in one direction.
Because she knew that "Forerunner 3" was waiting for her.
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Although it was the second time he came to the enclosed room, Yugege's heartbeat still accelerated involuntarily.
Because she felt that she was really lucky to have the opportunity to come into contact with an unprecedented life form like "Forerunner 3".
So when she came to "Forerunner 3", her face was full of smiles.
"Forerunner 3" sat there blankly and looked at Yu Gege.
Yugege was also looking at it.
Two intelligent beings peered at each other through a closed glass.
Although he was just looking at it like this, the attentive Yougege discovered that "Forerunner 3" was closer today than yesterday.
And what excited Yougege the most was that after looking at each other for about five minutes, Forerunner 3 actually raised his left hand and opened his palm.
That action was almost exactly the same as Yu Gege’s yesterday.
Guo Xingcai in the observation room noticed this and immediately started recording and made a separate backup.
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Yougege came outside the glass of the closed room. She also raised her left hand and pressed it on the glass. At the same time, she asked: "Can you understand what I said?"
"Forerunner 3" did not respond. It slowly put down its left hand, then stretched out its right hand to take the matryoshka doll not far away.
Seeing this situation, Yougege realized that maybe Forerunner 3 was less interested in her.
So Yougege raised his fingers and tapped lightly on the glass of the closed room.
The rhythmic knocking sound really made "Forerunner 3" interested again.
He looked over "confused", then stood up and walked to a position very close to You Gege.
When she saw it approaching, Yougege subconsciously wanted to retreat, but she suddenly realized that if she showed fear at this moment, it would most likely cause "Forerunner 3" to lose trust in her, so
She forced herself to stay calm and not retreat.
However, Yougege's heartbeat still accelerated to 140 beats per minute.
This is an exaggeration for the weak Yougege.
After Guo Xingcai noticed the behavior of "Forerunner 3", he couldn't help but become nervous.
She reminded: "Miss You, I suggest you not to have close contact with it for the time being. It is too dangerous."
Listening to the reminder in his ears, Yougege replied softly: "Don't worry, I can feel it. It has no malice, it's just curious."
Just as she was talking, Yougege saw a white palm that was slightly larger than hers pressed against the safety glass of the closed room.
At that moment, despite being separated by reinforced safety glass with a thickness of more than fifteen centimeters, Yugege could vaguely feel the temperature of the palm of "Forerunner 3".
After the tall, all-white man sat down, he slowly raised his fingers and beat the beat according to Yugege's rhythm just now. And inexplicably, Yugege felt that it was not imitating, but expecting to communicate.
After Yugege realized this, he started tapping again while "Forerunner 3" stopped his fingers.
This time, Yougege chose a Chinese folk song, imitated the intro drum beat of that folk song with his fingers, and tapped the rhythmic music on the glass.
"Forerunner 3" put down his hand and listened quietly.
But after listening to it, it didn't "imitate" anymore, and just looked at Yougege like this.
Yougege didn't know what it was thinking at this time, but she felt that the big man in front of her must have understood it, and now it was thinking, examining, and hesitating...
As for what she was thinking about, what she was examining, and why she was hesitating...she didn't know, and she had no specific ideas.
But it felt very real.
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On the third day, Yougege did not show up.
She was sick. After all, Antarctica is an extremely cold area at high altitudes. Her body did not allow her to stay awake all day long thinking about how to establish a stronger mutual trust with Forerunner 3.
During the days when Yugege was unconscious due to high fever, Yugege did not know that "Forerunner 3" was also "sick".
It's just that its "disease" is not physical, but mental.
After researchers from many countries discovered that "Forerunner 3" began to actively approach the glass of the closed room, they speculated that "Forerunner 3" had become interested in the outside world, and that its understanding of space was improving, and accordingly urged construction workers to speed up its origin.
The construction progress of Experimental Base No. 1.
But this does not include researchers from China, because they all know that the reason why "Forerunner 3" behaves so abnormally is because it is waiting for her to appear.
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Exactly one week had passed when Yougege woke up.
A lot happened during this week.
First of all, Takahashi-san, who originally discovered the "door", also passed away. The cause of death was sudden myocardial infarction.
At present, officials have ruled out human factors.
Yougege could only accept the bad news...
Attending a funeral in Antarctica is a strange experience...
There is a vast and empty plain around Lake Don Juan, which is not completely covered by snow.
Looking at the cemetery piled with rubble in front of him, although he knew that there was no body of Takahashi Yamaya there, Yu Gege still stood there in front of the tombstone for a long time.
During this period, Guo Xingcai was worried about You Gege's health and reminded her several times to return to the camp, but she was refused by You Gege.