The Name of the Rose [Interstellar]

〖In the vastness of space and thousands of planets, there is no one to share our loneliness. ——Lauren Eisley, "The Grand Voyage"〗

In the office of the technical department, everything is as usual.

No one seems to realize that three colleagues who get along day and night are missing.The vacancies created by the deaths of the three pilots had been filled quickly and efficiently by the personnel department.In this digital age where everything can be quantified and mass-produced, nothing is irreparable or irreplaceable.

Xue Yuan tried to outline the appearance of the three people in his mind, but there were only three blurred silhouettes in uniforms, no different from the many silhouettes coming and going before his eyes.If one day he himself died, the impression he left on others would be the same.

The only one who cared about it was the Accident Review Board.Every pilot who participated in the mission accepted a long question and recounted the scene over and over again to determine the ultimate responsible person.

The examiner flipped through the materials and stared at the red-haired youth in front of him:

"Mr. Luo Suo, after repeated calculations, we have confirmed that the TOT given by Miss Chi Caifan, the dispatcher, is correct. Could you please explain why you didn't drop the bomb according to the TOT?"

"..." Luo Suo pursed his lips tightly, bowed his head and said nothing.He's been like this since he got back, like a closed shell.

The technical officers who had finished taking notes stood in the corridor, watching the scene in the room.Someone whispered:

"There's nothing to investigate. He must have panicked at the time."

"Or the reaction was slow. Sure enough, he is still a novice, and his quality is not good."

Qin Huan's secretary greeted everyone: "Those who have finished the interview, please go to the psychiatric appraisal. ——Iwan, come here, the minister is calling you." He hooked his index finger to Xue Yuan.

When Xue Yuan turned around, out of the corner of his eye, he vaguely glimpsed that Luo Suo in the room suddenly raised his head and looked straight at him.

This sudden sight made his back go cold, he stopped and looked back, but saw that Luo Suo was still the same as before.

... an illusion?

"Ivan!" the secretary urged again.

Xue Yuan hesitated for a moment, then took a step.

The temperature of the air conditioner was turned a little low, and it was chilly in the office.

"When will Qi Lian's body recover?" Qin Huan asked, constantly touching his bald head.Xue Yuan is very familiar with his habits, whenever he feels pressure in his heart, he will make this action.

Xue Yuan replied cautiously: "If he just accepts the program test, his current physical condition can also bear it. As for physical fitness, we can use a method similar to machine learning to let him train himself. As long as he gets used to the brain-computer combination mode , the progress will be very fast.”

"Okay." Qin Huan nodded, "But remember to inform Joey before the test."

"Yes. I will send him the core code of the program."

"It's not just the core code, it's all the information." Qin Huan added the accent on the word "all", "Anything that involves Qi Lian is no small matter. I hope you two can make decisions together."

Would Qin Huan take the initiative to ask Joey to fully intervene?

Xue Yuan drew a question mark in his heart, and his face was not disturbed: "Understood."

Across the table, Xue Yuan sat down opposite Anna.

Between them was a lie detector.This so-called mental appraisal was actually to filter the content recorded by the inspector just now in the form of a lie detector to ensure its authenticity.

Compared with the 21st century, polygraph technology has not developed much.

The progress of human exploration in various fields is uneven.Compared with the exponential growth of computer and artificial intelligence technology, the research on mind and spirit has progressed extremely slowly, almost stagnating at the level of the last century.Human beings have entered outer space and created artificial life, but they have not yet entered their own hearts.

"You are the last one today. Get rid of you, and I can get off work." Anna leaned back in the chair and stretched her sore neck.

"Don't say it so scary." Xue Yuan made a frightened expression.

"How is Killian today?" Anna went to the hospital several times and knew that she was fine, but she was still worried.

"When I left in the morning, the doctor said that he could be discharged from the hospital tomorrow." The self-healing ability of that body is simply amazing.

"Sorry, I didn't take good care of him." Anna apologized.

"It's not your fault, it's that the trainer is too stupid."

"Speaking of that training officer..." Anna's tone showed gloating elements, and she didn't intend to hide it from Xue Yuan, "I don't know what happened to that guy, he was quite frightened."

"How do you know?" Xue Yuan raised his eyebrows.

"He just called and asked for counseling. But no one wanted to take him."

After the 30G incident, nozuonodie's training officer had a hard time.

Needless to say, the suspension review, the public opinion scolded him like a wave, accusing him fiercely of being a hidden doomsdayist, trying to destroy the only hope for human beings to be saved.

Because he would be smeared with rotten eggs as soon as he went out, he had to stay at home.As a result, all the programmable appliances in the house were paralyzed at the same time, and the suppliers refused to come to him to provide manual services. He couldn't even boil a pot of water to make a bowl of noodles.

Even though he lived among the crowd, he seemed to be exiled to an isolated island. Feeling the malice from the world, his heart almost collapsed.

In desperation, he went to bed hungry, but he almost died—the ventilation and oxygen supply system and access control system in the room were also programmable.He was awakened by the suffocation, and crawled to the door with hands and feet, only to find that the access control was invalid and the door could not be opened.

Fortunately, a technical officer surnamed Xue was not so vicious after all.Just when he was crying and incontinent, the door suddenly opened again.

After that, he refused to step into his room even if he said anything, preferring to have egg pancakes all over his face, and insisted on staying in public places.

Anna looked sideways at Xue Yuan in a joking manner: "This matter must have nothing to do with you, right?" She patted the lie detector on the table, "Don't lie in front of me."

"Of course. I never lie." Xue Yuan looked at the instrument, slightly curling the corners of his lips.

He is no stranger to this kind of instrument.

When he was young, he was naughty by nature, and he took his younger brother to make troubles everywhere.The glass of the east house was broken today, and the flower seedlings of the west house were trampled tomorrow, and the neighbors lined up to complain.

Whenever he refused to admit to those charges and fabricated various reasons to get himself out of trouble, his father, who was a technical officer, would take him to the office and bring out a lie detector.

"Ivan, people will lie for various reasons, but instruments and data will never lie." Father said solemnly.

The basic working principle of the lie detector is as follows: the subject is first asked to answer several questions with obvious answers, such as the subject’s name, the color of an object, etc., to obtain the physiological value range of the other party when telling the truth, as a reference value.If the subject's physiological value when answering other questions does not match this, it is judged to be lying.

This method is highly accurate.Although people can control the words they export, they cannot control their instantaneous physiological reactions.

Xue Yuan suffered a lot because of this.His father hated him for lying the most. Once he was found out, he would definitely be beaten up in all kinds of ways.

At that time, the question he thought about the most was: How can he fool that damned instrument?

Which lie detector my father will use is random every time, and it is impossible to manipulate in advance, not to mention that he did not have this ability at that time.

Since the other party has no flaws, then find a breakthrough from yourself.

He thought hard for a long time.

At last, with the immature wisdom of a child, he thought he had found a perfect way to train himself to be an undetectable liar.To sum it up in eight words, it is "referring to a deer as a horse, believing it to be true".

Every time a polygraph is tested, my father usually asks the first few basic questions in a fixed way: pick up an object on the table and ask him what color it is and what it is called.

Xue Yuan's countermeasure is to rename everything in his father's office.For example, blue is called "red", green is called "black", the cup is called "watch", and the fountain pen is called "chair".

Simply put, it's like this: seeing blue, "red" appears in the mind, but "blue" is still spoken.

To himself, "blue" was a lie, because he made himself think it was "red."

But to others, it's a truth.

Therefore, the benchmark value obtained by the instrument is actually the value when he was lying.After that, all the lies he told would be judged as the truth.

The perseverance of children can sometimes reach astonishing levels.

Xue Yuan used a thick notebook to write down the two sets of nouns, "Real World" and "My World", and collected palettes with various paints. Rename those colors and force yourself to remember.

Using this method, he actually got away with it a few times.Father never imagined that Xue Yuan at that age would be so thoughtful.

But Xue Yuan was not satisfied, because his father would occasionally change the problem.For example, ask him what his name is and how old he is.At this time, his method has failed, and once again it is miserably colorful.

"It would be nice if there were two of me. The other me and the current me, all ideas are opposite, with different names, different ages, different families, different experiences... Usually the other me will hide Wake up and go to bed, and only show up when you need a polygraph..." At that time, he was thinking like this.

……

A fountain pen reached out to his eyes and tapped.Anna's voice said, "Why are you so startled?"

"I'm thinking about Qi Lian." Xue Yuan withdrew his mind and looked at her. "Tomorrow, I'm going to test the program on him. This—" He raised his chin towards the lie detector, "Let's start now. I'm a little tired , need to go home early to rest."

Anna nodded, and turned on the instruments and cameras.

She picked up a sky blue water glass on the table: "What color is this?"

A blush flashed from Xue Yuan's eyes.

He replied calmly, "Blue."

When the doorbell rang, Xue Yuan was soaking in the bathtub.

It is not a pleasant thing to have visitors in the middle of a bath.But from the door mirror, it was clear that the other party was Chi Caifan, and that bit of unhappiness disappeared soon.To him, she was almost half of his family.

So he didn't even bother to put on his clothes, just put on a thin shirt and opened the door for her.

There was only one wall lamp turned on in the room, and the half-bright halo obscured the lines of the muscles all over the body, and only "a trace of crisp double buds, a little bit of small musk navel hidden in spring" could be seen.

If it were someone else, facing such a masculine seductive style, I'm afraid my heart would already be shaken.

However, Chi Caifan is naturally indifferent to Xue Yuan.She admired his beauty, but never loved him for it.

"Well, someone said they wanted to date me, the pilot of the Caucasus. I want to ask your opinion," she said.

"You asked me about your love experience?" Xue Yuan laughed, "You really found the right person. I can teach you a thousand ways to hook up and ten thousand ways to escape, but I am incompetent in the middle link .” He spread his hands.

Chi Cai rolled his eyes at him: "No one is asking about your experience, I'm asking for your opinion. Do you think it's okay for me to date him?"

Xue Yuan was a little puzzled: "What's wrong...oh."

He understood that instead of saying that Chi Caifan was asking for his opinion, it would be better to say that she regarded him as some kind of medium.

The person she liked before was Xue Yuan's friend.Probably in her subconscious mind, if Xue Yuan had no objections, that person would have no objections either.

"Damn, come and ask me about this kind of thing, am I your mother!" Xue Yuan pretended to complain and muttered, "I approve. You should have a good relationship and marry yourself as soon as possible. If he refuses to marry you , you tell me, I will hack his computer and send his photo."

"Get lost." Chi Caifan ended the serious conversation with a resounding word.

Xue Yuan made a gesture to see off the guest, and lamented half-truthfully: "Although I have nothing to do with you from the beginning to the end, but... Alas! The longest-loving person I have ever met has finally officially moved on Don't believe in love anymore, okay?"

Chi Caifan who walked to the door stopped: "That, it's different."

"what?"

"There are some things that have existed. I can't say them, but the feeling is very solid."

She pressed her heart, as if holding something precious.

"They call me Goddess of Miracle, you know best how ironic that is, I'm stupid and cowardly, and I can do simple things wrong. But I just know that no matter what happens, time is up and the world doesn't exist That's right, I always have a little peace of mind in my heart. It's what 'he' left me." She smiled, "What ever existed in your heart will eventually leave something for you."

"Even if it's just a name?"

"Well. Even if it's just a name."

The author has something to say:

☆, loneliness

In the huge laboratory, there were only Qi Lian and Xue Yuan.

According to Qin Huan, Joey should be present to observe Qi Lian's first test.But that guy was temporarily summoned to a meeting by the management and couldn't get away.

Xue Yuan emailed the test code to Qin Huan and copied it to Joey.In this way, he followed Qin Huan's instructions without appearing to be lower than Joey.

"Turn around."

Hearing such instructions, Qi Lian obediently turned around, with his back to Xue Yuan.

His eyesight is still not restored, and his eyes are covered with gauze, which makes him look helpless.

Xue Yuan lowered his tone as if coaxing a child: "It may hurt a little when you insert it for the first time. I will try to be as gentle as possible, so don't move."

Fingers reached the back of Qi Lian's head, groped under the soft hair, found the interface, and slowly inserted an electrode probe into it.The probes go directly to a chip implanted in the cerebral cortex to collect electrical signals of brain activity.These signals are similar to source codes, which are converted into computer codes through a compiler program written by Xue Yuan.

After Qi Lian is familiar with this technique, he can use his brain to connect to the fleet network and control all the programmable hardware, which looks like he is controlling objects with his mind.

Moreover, this process is reversible.Qi Lian can use his brain to control the program, or in turn let the program interfere with his brain and control his body's behavior.

Xue Yuan's fingertips moved down, cruising along the slender neck to Qi Lian's shoulder blades, stroking the firm muscles under the palm.

He imagined what Qi Lian would look like in the future: extraordinary physique and strength, not only the speed and precision of a computer, but also the intuition and complexity of a human being, and never tired like a program.

This is the superhero dream of mankind for 200 years.

And he is the controller of this superhero-both physically|physically and emotionally.

This kind of thought made Xue Yuan feel a strange feeling of conquest.He lowered his eyelids to hide the evil brilliance in his pupils.

His tone was still soft and calm: "Come on, imagine a screen in front of you with a mouse on it, and you use it to draw a straight line and then a circle."

Xue Yuan turned to look at the computer screen beside him.The mouse hesitated, and finally moved clumsily, drawing a zigzag straight line.After a while, a circle between a triangle and a quadrilateral appeared next to the straight line.

Xue Yuan snapped his fingers: "That's right. Although it's ugly, I know you've tried your best."

"...(///︿///)"

"When you have nothing to do in the future, you can practice more by yourself until you can operate this computer with your brain."

"Oh."

Then came the reverse test, using the program to control Qi Lian's behavior.

This is much harder than the previous step.In order to prevent Qi Lian's thoughts from interfering with the program, Xue Yuan chatted with him to divert his attention:

"What does it look like when I'm sleeping?"

"very nice."

"That has to be. Anything else? Have I done anything weird?"

"Hmm..." Qi Lian thought for a while, "You said 'Misha' once."

Xue Yuan's expression darkened: "That's my younger brother's name, I might have dreamed about him. — Is there anything else besides that?"

Qi Lian shook his head: "No, you've been sleeping all the time... Ah." He let out a short cry because he felt that his hand stretched out uncontrollably.

Xue Yuan whistled in satisfaction: "Don't be nervous, I did it." The test was smoother than he imagined, and Qi Lian's body was highly compatible with the program.He controlled Qi Lian to stand up and walk around slowly, like manipulating a delicate humanoid machine.

Qi Lian himself was also very surprised.His eyes can't see yet, but his body has its own opinion and can accurately avoid obstacles.This wonderful feeling made him happy like a child, and he couldn't help asking: "When you use the program, can I still control myself?"

"Do you know about airplanes?" Xue Yuan's voice came from a distance, echoing slightly in the empty room, "There are two operating systems on airplanes, one is manual and the other is automatic. The captain decides when to use which system. Your body now has two operating systems, and you can switch freely according to the situation. Of course, you have to wait until you are more proficient. ——Oh shit !" He saw Qi Lian tripped over a thread on the ground and fell straight down.This guy clearly doesn't understand how to switch his body from autopilot to self-control.

After all, Xue Yuan was born in a special combat unit, and his quick response ability is outstanding.He supported the armrest of the seat with his hands, exerted force on his toes, and his figure jumped out like an electric shock.The white arc flashed in front of Qi Lian in a blink of an eye, barely holding him in his arms before he gnawed on the metal floor.

"It's okay, it's okay." He patted Qi Lian's back and said repeatedly, not knowing whether he was comforting the other party or himself.

"..." Qi Lian turned his head, but his body was still like a stick.

Xue Yuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and poked him on the head: "Hey, there is no program controlling you now. Sit up and move by yourself."

"Oh."

Qi Lian groped and tried to get up.Limbs were entangled, and the soft breath lingered and teased Xue Yuan's ears, like a puppy with shaggy hands and feet.

Xue Yuan suddenly felt as if he was being controlled by some kind of program. Before his brain realized it, his body had already leaned forward slightly, and his lips touched the smooth lips of the other party.

The feeling is cool and calm.

There is neither scorching heat nor aggressive tension.

Qi Lian didn't move, and even held his breath.Xue Yuan could not see his reaction at this moment, nor could he imagine it.

Would he freeze in horror, or would his eyes widen in curiosity?

Or - although this possibility is very small - blushing with embarrassment?

It wasn't until the two of them opened the distance again that Qi Lian breathed out as if suddenly remembering to breathe, and then smiled at Xue Yuan.

It's not a shy smile to cover up, let alone a tacit smile, but just the simple and pure happiness of a child after receiving a reward from an adult.

A subtle sense of loss crept across Xue Yuan's heart.

Yes, how could he forget it.Qi Lian's most expected reaction was that there was no special reaction.

He still doesn't understand anything.Perhaps he thought that this kiss was exactly the same as the comforting kiss that was printed on his forehead before.

Joey quietly turned the fountain pen in his hand under the conference table, listening to the host recite the long and incomprehensible speech.

It's not that I don't know, on this occasion, it's not safe to make such a childish behavior, and it doesn't conform to his usual monolithic and serious image.

But I just couldn't bear it.

Because of boredom, because of loneliness, people can do anything repeatedly.It's as small as constantly turning the pen, as big as constantly searching for extraterrestrial civilizations.

For centuries, humans have used large radio telescopes and radio equipment to search desperately, hoping to prove that they are not the only intelligence in the vast universe, but the results have always been disappointing.

The host was still chattering unceasingly: "...As early as the last century, some science fiction writers proposed in their novels that if there is no cultivation of advanced civilization, human beings will be imprisoned in sub-light speed and three-dimensional space-time for 2000 years, and at least 1000 years will be needed." Only after 2000 years can we master and use annihilation energy, and we can communicate through multidimensional space-time after 5000. As for space travel through hyperspace transitions, it may be 1 years later. At least [-] years before human beings have the ability to join the carbon-based civilization of the Milky Way The minimum conditions for a big family." (*from Liu Cixin's "Rural Teacher")

Since just now, he has quoted a lot of content from science fiction works to support his point of view: there are indeed higher civilizations in the universe, but they disdain to play happily with humans, because humans are too low-level .

Someone finally ran out of patience: "We have read all these works, so you don't need to endorse any more. Please go straight to the topic."

The host's enthusiasm was frustrated, so he had to put down the speech: "Actually, the reason why everyone is called here today is because the science officer has made a major discovery. Perhaps the 'invisible wall' is not here to destroy us, but to destroy us. Higher civilizations extended a helping hand to us. The evidence is—" He pretended to be mysterious and elongated the last word, and hung his index finger in the air.

Joey couldn't bear it anymore, dropped the fountain pen on the table with a "snap", stood up and finished the following directly for him: "An hour ago, we received a set of microwave signals from the 'Invisible Wall'. That is a sentence .”

At the door of the house, Xue Yuan opened the identification panel by the door.

Calling this place "home" is a stretch.At best, this place is just a dormitory for singles. Apart from eating, sleeping, writing programs and masturbating, most of the time I can only stare at the air in the room in a daze.If possible, he would rather spend more time with Qi Lian.

But he has to come back here every now and then to do something, something only he knows.

After releasing the door control through the iris, Xue Yuan lightly turned the doorknob, his eyes suddenly froze: the door was locked.

For the sake of safety, in addition to the iris electronic access control system, the door of each room is also equipped with a traditional spring lock, which is the ordinary door lock that needs to be opened with a key.

Because it is troublesome, most people only use access control, and the spring lock is fixed on the open position, which is useless.But Xue Yuan always used both, and every time before going out, he would tirelessly turn the key in the lock hole twice to lock the door behind him.He has maintained this habit for many years, but "forgot" this morning.

The door was not locked when I left, but it was locked when I came back; the items in the room were moved, but they were carefully restored to their original positions.

This shows that at least two people have been here one after another.

A who came first should not have stayed for long, maybe he just entered the room for a few glances before leaving in a hurry.During this period, another B is hiding nearby and peeping, waiting for A to leave and enter again.

And B is a person who is familiar with Xue Yuan's living habits, and knows that Xue Yuan usually locks the door behind his back.When Ta finds that there is no anti-lock, he mistakenly thinks that it is due to A's carelessness.Therefore, B deliberately locked the door behind him when he left, so that Xue Yuan would not notice something strange when he returned home.But he didn't expect that he was too clever, which just became a flaw that was superfluous.

Xue Yuan can roughly guess A's identity.

The Fleet has regulations that superior supervisors have the right to conduct routine inspections of subordinates' rooms from time to time to search for prohibited personal items.

A did not notice B who was hiding nearby, indicating that he did not sneak in secretly.In other words, from A's point of view, even if his actions are discovered by others, they can be explained with legitimate reasons.

Therefore, if that A is not Qin Huan himself, it is Qin Huan's secretary.

As for that smart-ass B...

A sneer appeared on Xue Yuan's lips.It seems some people are getting more and more interested in him.

He removed the matryoshka doll from the desk and lifted the panel.

Like the rest of the room's furniture, the desk sits snugly against the wall and is fastened to the floor with rivets.In case the artificial gravitational field on the ship fails one day, the furniture will not run around all over the world.

The space in the belly of the table is very large, almost equivalent to a small cabinet, divided into upper and lower layers by partitions.There are some insignificant items on the upper floor, while a few brick-like things are piled up on the lower floor, square and neat.These are the standard compressed food for the fleet, and each piece weighs strictly 500 grams, which can provide the nutrition needed by an adult for a week.

Xue Yuan took out a few of the same "bricks" from the document bag in his hand, put them in, and carefully locked the desk again.

Then, as usual, light the rose essential oil incense lamp and wait for the indoor ventilation system to send the fragrance to where it should go.

"Du Tu." The first light sound came quickly, followed by two more: "Du Tu."

There is a Russian proverb: A fox does not do evil near its den.

He is a fox who does the opposite.

However, the more others suspected that he was doing bad things, the safer the secret he really wanted to protect—the living secret hidden in these four iron walls.

The author has something to say:

☆, loneliness

As soon as Joey finished speaking, the drowsy atmosphere in the conference room was swept away.The participants looked at each other in dismay, confirming the words they had just heard with incredulous eyes.

——Has the invisible wall sent a message to human beings?

Joey made no secrets, and used a slide to project a sentence on the screen.Only four words: don't look back.

"What does this mean?" Someone was puzzled, "Are we afraid that we will be frightened to death when we look back and see the sun is about to burn over?"

Some people let their imaginations run wild: "The Bible says that when God destroyed the city of Sodom, he only notified a righteous man in advance, telling him to run away with his wife, and not to look back no matter what happened. Looking back, it turned out to be a stone on the shore of the Dead Sea."

"But the earth is gone. Even if we want to go back, we can't go back."

For a time, the audience was full of discussions.

However, regardless of whether the meaning of this sentence is good or bad, the act of the other party trying to communicate with humans on Earth is quite strange in itself.

The previous speaker's tirade, while sleepy, was not without merit.

The science officer has long ago pointed out that eight out of ten invisible walls come from high-dimensional space.It is only possible to place something similar to a "brane" on a cosmic brane, only in a higher one-dimensional space.Just like if you want to place another paper on a piece of paper, you must do it in three-dimensional space.

If this is really the work of intelligent life, then the degree of evolution of the other party is beyond the reach of human beings.

It is hard to imagine that such a superior being would attempt to communicate with humans.Just imagine, will humans try to communicate with ants?No one wants to run to the ants while tending their garden, "Hey, I'm going to fix the irrigation system, your nest is going to be flooded, run for your life!"

What is the reason for those advanced civilizations to think that it is necessary to contact human beings?

The discussion was fruitless, and the eyes of the participants refocused on Joey.This handsome young man has an aloof and calm demeanor, which usually arouses the resentment and resistance of others, but he always wants to hear his opinion at critical moments.

Joey waited for everyone to be quiet: "I have communicated with the senior management on this matter. We need to continue to monitor the radio to see if there will be more information from the other side of the wall. At the same time, this matter must be bypassed skillfully Technology department. It is certain that there are doomsdayists in the technology department, but it is still impossible to determine who they are. Once the doomsdayists get in touch with the 'wall' first, the situation of human beings may be in danger."

"But..." Someone questioned hesitantly, "It's probably not realistic to keep this kind of thing from the technology department." He pointed up, down, left, and right, "After all, everything around us is controlled by programs. It is not too much to be under the supervision of the technical department."

"It doesn't matter." Joey said coldly, "We can let them know part of the news. To be precise, I plan to package this news into different encrypted messages and distribute them to different technical officers. Which one will be leaked later? , you will know who the leak is from.”

It was already noon when we left the conference room.

Missing the meal time, Joey bought a cup of hot chocolate and a sandwich from the vending machine, and strolled into the garden landscape corridor.

Painted building pond, willow fireworks fog.The air conditioner blows out a breeze with just the right temperature and oxygen content, making it as cool as a bath.Stepping on the "water" surface, the flexible display screen under your feet simulates liquid ripples, as if you are really riding against the wind.

If you don't think that everything is virtual, then this is really a refreshing Taoyuan fairyland.

The fragrance of flowers is curling up, and the birds are chirping.This is the scenery that can be seen everywhere on the earth, but now it has become a permanent memory.

Joey closed his eyes amidst the soft cry, and cleared his mind.

He was parachuted into the Technology Department. On the surface, it seemed to be for the balance of power and to prevent the "artificial superintelligence supporters" from dominating.

In fact, his real target is only one person: the technical officer with ice blue fox eyes.

Long before the two of them came into contact, he had a clear understanding of Xue Yuan's family background.But the reason was not because of Xue Yuan, but because of his father.

Few people in the fleet know that Xue Yuan's father was one of the first to discover that the sun will turn into a red giant in a short period of time.The name of the fleet "Watership" was also proposed by him. It comes from an allegorical novel "Watership Wasteland", which tells a rabbit version of Exodus, which coincides with the situation of human beings fleeing the earth. .

Perhaps Xue's father should have played a bigger role in this great migration.Regrettably, due to his own personality flaws and being excluded by his peers at work, he suffered from mental illness and finally passed away in a tragic way.Some of his archives were returned to the family as relics, while the rest were sealed.

It wasn't until after escaping from the earth that some people suddenly paid attention to a problem: Xue's father was a computer scientist, and his main research field throughout his life was encryption algorithms.He is neither an astrophysicist nor a radio astronomer. How on earth did he realize that the sun will suddenly accelerate its expansion?

They tried to decipher Xue's father's work records over the past few years, and found that some key content was missing, which should have been returned to the family because they thought it was useless at first.

His widow also died of illness shortly after his death, leaving only two sons.

The second son, Xue Yu, was named Misha in Russian.According to official documents, he disappeared on the eve of the fleet's departure.

Therefore, Xue Yuan, the eldest son who is currently the technical officer, became the only clue.But no matter how hard he searched, no relevant information was found in Xue Yuan's personal belongings.

The greatest possibility is that Xue Yuan has converted those materials into other forms and hid them in front of everyone's eyes - Xue Yuan, like his father, studies encryption algorithms and is suspicious by nature.

Either gain his trust, or crack his encryption algorithm.Either way is not easy to go.

But Joey still holds a trump card that Xue Yuan didn't expect: he knows the whereabouts of his younger brother Xue Yu.When necessary, he is not afraid to use this as a bargaining chip to blackmail the other party.

But after testing Xue Yuan several times, Joey was a little disappointed to find that this guy didn't seem to care much about his missing brother.

Humph, what a ruthless person.

Joey crushed the empty paper cup, threw it into the trash can together with the sandwich wrapping paper, and strode into the office.

Xue Yuan was already sitting at the desk.

From the corner of his eye, he saw Joey approaching. He raised his hand and touched the brim of his military cap as a greeting, without even turning his eyes.