Mobius

1.

Milky way, Orion's cantilever, third ring of the solar system, Earth.

I heard from my father that when Lin was born, there was a meteor shower in the constellation Cygnus.

This is the unique romance of their northern constellations. Every time a member dies, a meteor shower will be held to commemorate it.

The Lin family is a resident of 51 Pegasus, and they have teleported to the earth for vacation.

Unlike the silicon-based organisms in the southern constellation, the northern constellation is a colony of carbon-based organisms.

Of course, Earth is an exception.

As the edge of the northern sky constellation and close to the southern sky constellation group, the earth, like an isolated island, has produced a fragile fifth-class civilization.Because the distance is too far and the level is too low, the Northern Sky Alliance's attitude towards the earth is basically a free range, which allows entrepreneurs of high-level civilizations to see business opportunities.

They describe the earth as a "quiet and remote resort", attracting residents of different constellations who love to travel to take a spaceship to jump to the earth for vacation.

Article n765 of the interstellar alliance's inter-civilization code of conduct stipulates that members of a high-level civilization entering a low-level civilization star system must fully integrate into the local culture to avoid panic.

In view of the diversity of creatures in the universe, there are not many residents who come to the earth for vacation. After all, the earth is too far away, and the level of civilization is too low to meet the diverse needs.Most of the tourists who come to the earth for vacation are members of the carbon-based constellation. The silicon-based creatures of the southern sky constellation have come here once or twice, because pica (eating stones, stealing diamonds, etc.) caused panic and was fined for violating the norms of inter-civilizational behavior. Vacation experience very bad.

Lin's father is an interstellar archaeologist, and the purpose of coming to Earth is half for vacation and half to observe the behavior of carbon-based creatures in the fifth-level civilization.

The Pegasus civilization is a first-class civilization, laying eggs and carbon-based organisms.The evolution standard of all carbon-based creatures, translated into the earth language, is the human-like type.All constellations in the entire northern sky star region, no matter what level of civilization they are, are all humanoid residents.Used as a cosmic language... I'm sorry that the two-dimensional earth script cannot write five-dimensional symbols.

2.

Residents of Pegasus are keen on traveling, and their number is not large. The three main stars add up to no more than one billion, plus the scattered residents of the suburban planets, the total is about one billion.These one billion people are scattered in every corner of the Northern Sky constellation, and some residents will not return to their hometowns until they are buried.Fortunately, the characteristics of Pegasus are quite special. The birth population and death population of the galaxy always maintain a dynamic balance, so that it will neither cause civilization to become extinct due to the migration of residents, nor will resources be exhausted due to overbirth.

Let's go back to Lin's story.

The culture of Pegasus residents is a single-parent family. The mother only provides enough genes and blood cells to promote the development of the egg. The complete egg has a hard shell, and the father takes care of it until the shell is broken, and then raises it to adulthood.

Lin's father miscalculated the date of hatching, which caused Lin to break his shell on the earth. Lin's father gave him a commemorative name of two-dimensional characters——Lin, written in the ancient hieroglyphs of the low-level fifth-class civilization, Like a character painting of two trees standing side by side.

Father Lin led Lin to live on Earth for ten years.

Ten years is just a short moment in the long life of Pegasus residents.These high-dimensional creatures are extremely different from the three-dimensional creatures on the earth. People on earth can only perceive three dimensions: length, width, and height. Four-dimensional creatures can perceive time, and five-dimensional creatures can perceive space.Therefore, in the eyes of high-dimensional creatures, human society is simply outrageously simple.

3.

Lin broke his shell on the earth, and is more used to organizing his memories in earth time rather than cosmic time.

In the fifth year of his life on Earth, he met a strange person.

The man sat on the wooden chair by the side of the road for a long time, he should be very old, Lin smelled the dust of the years from him.The little Pegasus stared at the man in bewilderment, the man's historical coordinates were extremely weird, he was born on the earth, went around in a big circle in the northern constellation group and the southern constellation group, and finally returned to the earth, and the man In the timeline falling like a meteor, a big question mark popped out of a small head. The curious little Pegasus resident ran to the wooden chair and asked in standard universal language: "Where are you from?"

"Cygnus D4 star, how about you?" The man has a pair of gentle eyes, with thick black pupils, and there is a hidden nebula streamer between them.

"Pegasus 51, my name is Lin." Lin said, he stretched out his chubby hands and grabbed the corner of the man's clothes, "Is this your battle robe?"

From the perspective of people on earth, the man looks about fifty years old, with a straight back, broad and straight shoulders, and a standard hanger figure. He is wearing a gray khaki windbreaker, paired with jeans, and a pair of boots .His unique temperament is a sense of vicissitudes and frost formed by traveling through the stars in the universe, and this feeling can still be seen on his gray temples.

In Lin's eyes, there are not so many concepts. The little Pegasus man who is in the fifth year of breaking his shell only thinks that the material of the windbreaker is very cool, with cyan and red stardust shimmering, like a linen material with gold sprinkled on it.

"My name is Ryan." The man introduced himself, touched his trench coat, and said, "This is a treasure, you will get it later."

"Really?" Lin looked up, "This looks so expensive, I can't afford it."

"You will be the greatest traveler in the universe in the future, and you can buy countless pieces." Ryan's tone was familiar, as if he and Lin had known each other for many years, "Next time we meet, I will give you a good thing."

"Can I get it now?" Lin asked.

"No." Ryan said, "The North Sky Constellation Resident Regulation stipulates that unfamiliar adult residents cannot give gifts to children without authorization. I don't want to be handcuffed by the patrol police."

"Okay then." Lin pouted, and looked at Ryan's timeline, "The next time we meet... is nine years after the cosmic calendar?" He puffed his cheeks, "It's been too long."

"Excluding the influence of the stellar particle storm, according to the cosmic calendar, you are only one and a half years old now." Ryan pulled back the corner of his clothes from Lin's hand, bent his eyes and made a joke, "Drink more milk to grow taller, brat."

"Forest!"

"Hey." The little Pegasus resident turned around and waved excitedly at his father, "I have a friend!"

"Who is it?" Father Lin came over and picked up the little guy.

"It's just..." Lin stretched out his hand to point, but there was no one on the wooden chair, and the residents of Little Pegasus drooped their heads in frustration, "...he left."

Father Lin patted his son on the back reassuringly: "Have you seen his timeline?"

"I see, he said that I will see him again when I am ten years old, Universal Calendar." Lin said.

Lin's father was keenly aware of something wrong, and he asked again: "Can you see his complete timeline?"

"Yeah." Lin nodded blankly, and said excitedly, "I saw that he was born here too!"

"Son." Lin's father looked into Lin's eyes seriously, "You friend..." he considered his words, "will be your most trusted friend."

At that time, Lin didn't fully understand what his father meant, and he was distracted by the butterflies flying around.

4.

Lin, cosmic calendar, ten years old.

The night before he left the earth, Lin's spirit was much lowered. He and his father had lived in this remote fifth-class civilization for more than 40 years and changed houses many times. His father finally completed his earth investigation report.

Lin is taller, about 1.6 meters when converted to the height of the earth.Looking at the entire Northern Sky constellation, the ten-year-old carbon-based creature with a height of 1.6 meters can be regarded as the middle and upper reaches.The standard height of an adult Pegasus male is about 1.8 meters five when converted to the length of the earth, which is a relatively tall race in the northern constellation.

Lin packed his backpack, threw it into the space box, and shouted into the room: "Father, I'm going out to play!"

"Don't run too far!" Father Lin said.

"It's at the door." Lin put on his watch, and rushed out of the house like a nimble little leopard, and saw a person standing under the street lamp.

The man was younger, about forty years old, he waved to Lin: "Hello."

"Ruian!" The little resident of Pegasus has a very good memory, Lin bounced and ran to the man, "Long time no see."

"Congratulations on turning ten years old." The man spread out his palms, and there was a round stone in his palm. In the center of the stone was a pocket-sized vast nebula slowly rotating. The center was golden, and the exploding nebula dust was mixed in red and purple. "To your."

"This is..." The young boy picked up the round stone, looked left and right, and liked it very much, "Is this the star core?"

"Yes." Ryan nodded, "I snatched 62, the suburban star in the constellation Pavoya in the southern sky, otherwise it would be eaten by those silicon-based big eaters."

"It's beautiful." Lin's eyes were glued to the stone, and the traveling nature of the Pegasus people was aroused. He said, "Let's go to the Peacock constellation together in the future?"

"Okay," Ryan said, "we've been to too many constellations to count."

"Ryan." The young boy put away the star core and asked cautiously, "Why can I see your entire timeline?"

"Because..." Ryan deliberately paused and coughed lightly, "You'll know when you're 20." He reached out and rubbed the little guy's messy hair, "I'm leaving, see you next time."

"When will I see you next time?" Lin asked.

"See you at school." Ryan said with a smile, "I'll wait for you at Futing, don't sleep in class."

The school Ryan is referring to is a collective school on 51 Pegasus. Little travelers enter school at the age of ten and graduate. Only after graduation can they receive their own spaceships to have fun in the universe.

Lin lowered his head: "Okay." He pointed to his head, "I'll show you all my timeline."

"Okay." Ryan's eyes overflowed with pampering emotions. He looked like a man in his 40s with a height of about 1.8 meters [-]. He squatted down, took out a thin chain and handed it to Lin, "This is a stardust rope. The star core is tied to it and worn on the wrist."

Lin was happy again, took the stardust rope, touched the star core, the rope twinkled into the star core ball, hung his head down around his neck, and shook it in front of his chest: "It looks good."

"Well, remember to grow taller." Ryan stretched out his hand and clapped Lin.

"Grow tall!" Lin said.

5.

After two days of dizzy jumping, Father Lin took Lin back to his long-lost home — 51 Pegasus. The spaceship guide announced: "Travelers, welcome home."

"Let's go, I'll show you around our home." Father Lin took Lin's little hand and stepped out of the spaceship.

The spaceship is moored at the largest port on Star 51. There are tens of thousands of spaceships of all kinds, including four-dimensional creatures and five-dimensional creatures.Lin made an admiring voice: "Wow."

"What's that?" Lin pointed to the spaceship that looked like a sea urchin in the distance.

"The spaceship of the silicon-based organisms should belong to the Aurora people." Father Lin said, "They like the thorny shape, which shows their superb cutting skills. Have you seen those transparent thorns? When they When leaving the port, the spaceship will automatically become invisible, and when there are light-wave creatures attacking them, the spaceship can find them in time. The war between the Austronesians and the Microscopes has been going on for more than 100 years."

The excited little guy dragged his father slowly along the port, asking and answering one by one. Before he knew it, four weeks had passed, and Father Lin held down the little boy who had transformed into a hundred thousand why: "Okay, what should we do?" time to eat."

The meals of carbon-based organisms are roughly the same. The main purpose is to supplement carbon water. People on Earth need a lot of protein. The meals of Pegasus people are more refined. They are small tubes of elements. Stay energized for three days.

It's just that Lin's father and Lin just came back from the earth, and the diet needs to be adjusted from three meals a day to one meal every three days.

Lin Xili, who was eating tubular elements for the first time, burped after finishing the drink.

"How do you feel?" Father Lin asked.

Lin patted his belly and said uncertainly: "It's a bit empty."

Father Lin laughed: "It's okay, you may only stay in the Pegasus constellation for eight years in your life, and after you finish your studies, you can go to various constellations to taste different delicacies."