Yougege, who had fully adapted to life in the Origin One Dome, took a special car from the China District of the National Security Department to return to the camp near Tang Juan Lake with Guo Xingcai and others.
Yougege, who had not stepped out of the dome for a long time, leaned against the car window and looked at the sky under the polar night environment, feeling inexplicably emotional in his heart.
Zhang Fengyu said on the way: "I heard that the rescue work in the United States failed, and the dozen or so people were trapped under the Antarctic ice sheet forever..."
Guo Xingcai was startled, feeling a bit sad that the rabbit had died and the fox had died.
Yougege also felt very sorry, but there was nothing that could be done about it. At least with the current level of human technology, it would be impossible to save those people.
After arriving at the camp, Zhang Fengyu took Yougege to the logistics department to receive a special exoskeleton device. This was tailor-made for Yougege after she applied for it. With it, Yougege also had direct contact with the "Forerunners"
No. 3" opportunity for contact.
"The main function of Miss You's exoskeleton is to protect the wearer's life, so it is a bit bulky." The staff explained while debugging the data.
Yougege felt fine after moving his hands and feet. I wouldn't call him bulky, but he looked bloated, a bit like an astronaut wearing a space suit.
However, as long as he can have contact with "Forerunner 3", Yougege doesn't care about these details.
After the trial, Guo Xingcai loaded the exoskeleton into the car, while You Gege followed Zhang Fengyu to Li Shaoan's residence.
When he saw Li Shaoan again after three months, Guo Xingcai felt that the man in front of him seemed much older, at least not as sophisticated as when he first saw him.
Li Shaoan has indeed experienced many things in the past three months, and the most distressing thing for him was the disappearance of five elite personnel due to his command errors during the American operation.
This incident is directly related to AOA, an illegal organization that creates panic incidents, and Li Shaoan has basically determined that AOA is the organization name of the "intruder" they are looking for.
"Director, Ms. You is here."
Li Shaoan came back to his senses after hearing this. He took a long breath, put out his cigarette, and then said: "You should go out first. I want to talk to her alone."
Zhang Fengyu was a little surprised, but he didn't ask.
After the door closed, Li Shaoan brought two cups of coffee.
"Sit down, don't be nervous, there are no special tasks to be assigned today."
Yougege was actually not nervous, but she was curious about why Li Shaoan wanted to meet her alone.
After picking up the coffee and taking a sip, Yougege secretly said: 'It's so bitter...'
Li Shaoan sat opposite You Gege. He was silent for a while and then reluctantly wanted to get a cigarette, but stopped halfway and picked up the chewing gum on the table instead.
"Why... why did you start smoking?" Seeing that Li Shao'an was a little distracted, You Gege was a little worried.
Li Shaoan was startled when he heard this, then smiled bitterly and said: "I don't know, maybe smoking can relieve worries."
Yougege couldn't help laughing when she heard this, but she didn't laugh out loud.
"The rescue work in the US area failed... you know this... right?"
Yougege nodded: "Well, Ayu told me on the way."
"Hmm...then did he tell you that the Americans trapped under the Antarctic ice cap discovered another door?"
this?!
Yougege shook his head: "No..."
Li Shaoan smiled, a very cold smile.
"Although the Americans did not make this matter public, the whole world almost knew about it."
"Um?"
Li Shaoan took a sip of coffee and said, "You and Ou Mengya must have heard something in the past few months that the world is not peaceful."
Yougege understood. Li Shaoan was talking about AOA, an extremist organization that spreads the truth and creates panic.
Although they do not directly cause terrorist attacks, the disaster caused by the truth spread by AOA is even more terrifying...
"Those bastards spread the truth recklessly, and then look at the world after the truth is revealed like a joke... What do you think the purpose of these people is?"
ask me?
Yougege was a little surprised, even a little baffled.
"I think... maybe they just want to create panic this way."
"Oh? In other words, in your eyes, AOA is no different from ordinary terrorist organizations?"
Why do you think so in my eyes...
Yougege was a little unhappy, but she didn't show it.
"Well, I don't think they have any deeper purpose."
Li Shaoan nodded, and then said: "But why do they regard your life motto as their belief?"
My life motto?!
"Ah?" Yougege was completely confused. Is it really still involving me?
Li Shaoan took out a photo. Half of the photo was mosaic, and it looked like a corpse lying on the desk.
The corpse is not the point, the point is the book this person is reading.
Yougege didn't need to look carefully to figure out that this was her book.
"Whose book you choose to read is not the author's problem. I also want to believe that you and AOA are not involved. But the enemies we are facing now are unprecedented. They do not belong to this era. They come from the future. It stands to reason that these people
We can't guess what kind of spiritual consciousness he has, but through your book, I suddenly realized that maybe there is a connection, so..." Li Shaoan paused at this point, and he looked at You Gege seriously.
.
Yougege felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by him, but he already understood in his heart that Li Shaoan was not here to raise an army to accuse him, but to find answers.
"Can you tell me why you believe everything is accidental?"
When Yougege heard this, she picked up the coffee cup. Her hands were so cold. Even if the room was warm, her hands would always be cold.
With the warmth of the coffee, Yougege said: "Do you know what the earth has experienced?"
Li Shaoan shook his head: "You tell me and I listen."
After hearing this, Yougege thought for a while and then said: "Actually, at the beginning, the earth we were on was a lifeless and barren land with no atmosphere, no water, and no life. But suddenly one day, a huge comet appeared
It collided with the earth, and the debris of the impact formed the moon, and the earth also began to glow with life from this day... water... core temperature... atmosphere... life... and then many, many years later... humans appeared."
The story of Yougege is very short.
But there are many problems explained.
Li Shaoan is not a professional scientific researcher, and this is the first time he has heard stories like these about the earth's past.
"Accidental appearance, accidental disappearance, it was like this before, it is like this now, and it will be like this in the future, or... it is just like this..." Yougege's words revealed a strong flavor of pessimism.
Li Shaoan finally understood that You
Yu Gege said it, but he always felt that these accidents were really against the nature of human belief. If everyone thought like Yu Gege, would there be a future for mankind?
So he asked: "Are you so sure that all of this is accidental and not inevitable due to some kind of evolution?"
After hearing this, Yougege also responded with a rhetorical question: "If it's not an accident, then...don't you think it's more terrifying?"
More terrifying?
Li Shaoan was a little impatient, but after he calmed down, he suddenly understood.
yes……
If all this is not an accident, the birth of human beings, the Ice Age, the mass extinction of ancient creatures, the disappearance of dinosaurs, the emergence of life, the atmosphere...water...the collision of comets with the earth...
If all this is not accidental, then who shaped this inevitable result?
For a moment, Li Shaoan felt shuddering.
If all of this is like dominoes and only needs a beginning to complete the entire process, then are humans at the end or in the process?
Also, what is this beginning?
Is there a transcendent civilization that can treat the universe as a billiard table, hit a cue ball at random and hit the sub-ball it locks, and then life and civilization will be born there?
Correspondingly, what is human civilization in the face of transcendent civilization?
Is it a random graffiti or an accident?
…
On the way back to the Dome of Origin No. 1, Yougege kept his eyes closed, as if he was asleep.
Actually she didn't, she was thinking about what Li Shaoan said before leaving.
"Although I can't tell you the final result of the Taiji-3 collision, I hope you know that we may not really be by chance. There may always be a higher civilization and a transcendent civilization above us.
, and the forerunners are the traces they left...so...please help us."
Yougege was conceited that he did not have this ability, and he never thought that he would take on such a big responsibility.
But she is also curious, if the world is not accidental, what is the inevitable truth?
…
Returning to the Origin 1 dome, Yugege went straight to the "Forerunner 3" activity area.
The person currently conducting contact research with "Forerunner 3" is an expert from the European Union, a German man who is responsible for direct contact.
Yougege stood in the observation room outside the activity area. From here, he could observe every move of "Forerunner 3" in all directions.
After these three months, Yougege has become very familiar with "Forerunner 3", but after today's conversation with Li Shaoan, Yougege feels that the "Forerunner 3" in front of him is so strange.
After watching "Forerunner 3" silently in the observation room for a while, just as Yugege was about to leave, a scream suddenly came from the activity area.
Yougege's heart trembled, and when he turned around, he saw the German falling down.
And the "Forerunner 3" next to him was covered in blood...
…
The sudden emergency made everyone feel extremely uneasy.
"Forerunner 3" was also put back into the closed isolation cabin, and a large number of security personnel poured into the activity area.
After about ten minutes, the German's body was carried away.
Yugege's attention was not on the corpse, but on "Forerunner 3" in the isolation room.