Chapter 133: Plans cannot catch up with changes.
Kukan Underground City, Outer City.
The emergency communication initiated by Director Moore has ended.
Chen Fan looked at the slowly dissipating holographic projection in front of him and fell into deep thought.
Beside him, Isa's pretty face was full of solemnity, and her delicate mechanical left eye was flashing with a flickering scarlet light.
Only Gao Yuan was looking at Chen Fan and Isa with a blank face.
Finally, Gao Yuan couldn't bear the depressing atmosphere in the shanty house, and leaned over slightly to ask Isa beside him: "Isa, did you understand their conversation?"
Isa said without any hesitation, "Of course not."
Gao Yuan: "......?"
Isa nodded her head: "I think it must be a big deal to make Mr. Chen Fan so worried."
Gao Yuan took a breath and suddenly realized: "What you said... makes sense."
Seeing Gao Yuan's face was also stern, Chen Fan finally couldn't hold it anymore: "You two, if you really have nothing to do, go to the side and do some questions."
"Have you finished reading the Human Union for 50,000 years? Have you memorized the Civilization Investigation Code?"
"I just know you're just making jokes here!"
As he said that, he waved his hand and called up two holographic images full of text in front of the two people - this is actually a hard requirement of the Administration. As an assistant to the investigator, you naturally have to master all kinds of basic information and professional knowledge of the Human Union.
There are even regular corresponding assessments.
Seeing Gao Yuan and Isa's spirits collapsing in an instant, Chen Fan smiled.
As a senior who had experienced the same hardships, Chen Fan had only one idea:
when the stable wormhole was opened, he must apply for two sets of intelligent terminals for these two people to study!
...
Isa was right. After this communication, his heart was indeed full of countless confusions.
An unknown civilization suspected to have reached level nine, a strange cross-universe broadcast containing some unknown information that could be heard by carbon-based life forms...
Chen Fan's eyes moved slightly, and he immediately thought of the abnormal behavior and self-evolution of the intelligent machine.
According to Moore's previous statement, there may be a powerful existence behind the intelligent machine that guides its self-evolution.
Is there any connection between the two?
How could a level nine civilization focus on a low-level civilization that has not yet left its home planet?
Countless mysteries and confusions rose in Chen Fan's mind.
As Moore said, the breakthrough point of all mysteries lies in that string of unknown characters!
As long as there are enough samples, the Human Union may be able to decipher this strange text and solve a series of mysteries!
But...
there is no rule for resonance. God knows when he can hear the obscure whisper again-besides, after learning about the harmfulness of the five-dimensional space, Chen Fan inevitably felt a little fear in his heart.
If we put aside the resonance, where else can we get these strange characters?
Chen Fan subconsciously thought of those who suffered from "madness".
They will also resonate and hear that obscure whisper.
It's just that compared with Chen Fan, they hear less information and the side effects are more serious.
But the relatively large base and long time can definitely make up for this shortcoming-for such a long time, there must be a few gifted people who can hear some new "words", right?
As long as all these "words" are collected...
Yi's electronic synthesized voice sounded, pouring cold water on Chen Fan: "This machine thinks this is not a good method."
Chen Fan looked at the smart terminal on his right hand with some confusion: "Why?"
"Information preservation ability." Yi quickly explained, "For a civilization, the ability to preserve large-scale information is a very important hidden indicator."
"This will affect the inheritance and development of civilization from the root."
"For example, if you want to preserve a few simple words as long as possible, what are you going to do?"
Chen Fan thought for a while and gave the answer: "Of course, engrave it on the stone."
Solid-state hard drives or USB flash drives can only be preserved for a few years, magnetic tapes for only a dozen years, and even mechanical disks have a shelf life of only 20 to 30 years.
Going further, optical disks may be a relatively safe means of preservation. Some optical disks made of special materials can preserve information for hundreds of years or even thousands of years.
And the inconspicuous paper, if properly preserved, can preserve information for tens of thousands of years.
As for stone...it can even record information from hundreds of millions or even billions of years ago!
In Chen Fan's concept, this is already a long enough time.
"What if it's a book?"
Before Chen Fan could answer, Isa, who was doing exercises on the side, raised her hand cheerfully and gave the answer: "I know this, find a bigger stone."
Chen Fan: "..."
Yi: "..."
Looking at the man and the machine who fell into silence at the same time, Isa's big eyes revealed a bit of guilt, and she weakly put down the raised mechanical hand: "What I said... is not right?"
Chen Fan grinned: "Apart from the facts, it actually makes sense."
"It's the machine's fault." Yi's voice was full of helplessness, "Let me put it another way, what if it's all the books in the library?"
Chen Fan thought about it seriously, and then...
"Find a bigger stone, convert the text information into binary data, compress it multiple times, and then engrave it."
"...You're fucking picking on the stone, right? What if it's all the information of an entire civilization?"
"This... is a bigger stone?"
Faced with Yi's continuous questioning, Chen Fan finally fell silent.
At this point, he actually understood what Yi meant.
"Once a civilization loses the means to preserve large-scale information for a long time, decline becomes an inevitable result."
"Unfortunately, considering the current situation, the Varela civilization has fallen into a vicious death spiral of civilization decline."
"In this case, this machine believes that they are no longer able to preserve these seemingly unimportant trivial information."
Chen Fan was silent.
Yi was right.
According to the underground city's understanding of madness, coupled with this special era when human life is worth less than grass, it is estimated that the strange words written by these people before they died will not attract people's attention at all!
Correspondingly, there will naturally be no record and preservation.
"Then..."
Chen Fan's face was full of helplessness: "According to this, this investigation mission can only depend on luck?"
When will resonance appear, and when will the corresponding investigation begin?
This is too fucked up
, right? "This machine thinks that perhaps you can consider the prosperous era."
"If there is a certain connection between inter-universe broadcasting and artificial intelligence, then there must be corresponding resonance events in the prosperous era."
A word awakened the dreamer.
Yi's words directly awakened Chen Fan who was deeply trapped in the quagmire of thinking!
Instead of trusting these primitive people living in high-tech cities, it is better to pin our hopes on the prosperous era that has already disappeared!
The holographic projection automatically unfolded in front of Chen Fan.
The concrete dome building photographed by the drone was clearly presented.
Looking at the dome building in front of him, Chen Fan took a deep breath.
It seems that the plan has to be changed again.
The aftermath of the resistance and the disaster-stricken civilization will be put aside for a while, and the mastermind behind the scenes is the first priority task.
After going around in circles, the problem returned to the original starting point - transportation.
Chen Fan still remembers the suffering he suffered in the forest.
Thinking that the destination is still 150 kilometers away, he shuddered violently.
It is definitely not feasible to rely on Route 11, and there is no sign of the promised starship...
Chen Fan's eyes moved slightly, and he set his sights on Hong Chengdong and the resistance fighters.
...
More than ten minutes later.
Chen Fan looked at Hong Chengdong and the two resistance fighters in front of him with a painful face.
There are indeed cars in the underground city, and there are quite a few of them.
But none of them can adapt to the complex environment on the surface - it's normal. When these cars were first made, no one thought that the top of their heads would become a primeval forest full of mutant plants!
Fortunately, Hong Chengdong gave an alternative plan:
go through the underground city.
Each underground city is connected by rails. These trains that have been working diligently for hundreds of years are still reliable. Although they cannot accurately send Chen Fan to his destination, they can at least save a lot of distance.
Choosing this route can at least save Chen Fan 100 kilometers of distance.
The other 50 kilometers will naturally be solved by Chen Fan himself.
In addition, the situation in other underground cities is relatively complicated.
According to Hong Chengdong, they may pass through an underground city that has a close relationship with the Mechanic Cult.
The two rebel fighters also gave their suggestions: go through the rebel tunnel.
In addition to the tunnel that has just been opened, the rest of the tunnels are actually equipped with a simple track system - similar to the old-fashioned mine carts that enter the underground city.
The rebel tunnels are connected in all directions. Not to mention accurately sending to the destination, at least Chen Fan and others can be sent to the vicinity of the destination.
The only drawback is that there is no route map and no road condition information.
To be precise, the two rebels in front of them were not aware of the conditions of other tunnels, so they might encounter various inexplicable situations if they chose this route.
Including but not limited to tunnel collapse, track failure, taking the wrong turn...
Not to mention Chen Fan, even Isa and Gao Yuan fell silent after hearing these possible situations.
Chen Fan grinned and silently protested in his heart:
'Yi, help me urge Song Ziliang again! '
'If there is no reliable support, I will go on strike! '
"Bang!"
Before Yi could reply, a loud noise came from the platform where the mine cars were parked in the distance.
Startled, Chen Fan cast an inquiring look at Hong Chengdong.
"Maybe some bastard made a mistake when operating the mine car."
Hong Chengdong waved his hand nonchalantly: "It's not a big problem. Those mine cars are quite safe. No one will die under normal circumstances."
Chen Fan: "?"
Do you have any misunderstanding about the word safety?
(End of this chapter)
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