Chapter 133 Position

The white Tianshu star covered with ice and snow.

Suddenly, spots of flames flickered on the surface.

Swoosh!!! Like a giant mountain, the inverted top-shaped cabin No. 18 turned into a starship, emitting a stream of blue flames, breaking away from the first gravitational circle of Tianshu Star and flying out at full speed to the outer circle.

A few minutes later, it connected with the main ship Yao Chi and returned to its original position.

After a series of actions including quarantine, stamp testing, face recognition, and fingerprint recognition, Li Yi and his group returned to the main ship one after another.

The return route is the third dome. Looking up, you can see the twinkling stars behind the transparent shield.

As a group of people walked through the main road of the third dome holding their helmets in one hand, the dim lights suddenly brightened.

Bang Bang Bang!!! After the sound of the salute, colorful ribbons fluttered over.

Represented by the captain-in-chief, the captains of the remaining standing team and other high-tech mecha teams, all the senior mecha divisions, various mechanics, logistics personnel, etc., clapped their hands, lined the way to welcome the heroes, and sent everyone to Cabin 12.

This sense of ceremony and atmosphere made even the members of the logistics team who did not have a strong sense of participation in the rear feel honored, with pride and excitement on their faces.

All the way, there were laughter and joy.

On the way, Cai Xiaodong smiled and said:

"I didn't expect our ship to be so capable. I thought it was just an ordinary return."

His eyes kept moving around, looking at the beautiful female mechanics and female logistics staff on both sides of the main road, and he was very excited.

Li Yi laughed and said, "Cai Xiaodong, do you know that your eyeballs are spinning like a top right now?"

Cai Xiaodong said in a chuckle: "What's wrong with a spinning top? Regardless of whether it's cross-eyed or spinning-top eyes, being able to see a beautiful woman is a good eye!"

Tan Haoran patted Cai Xiaodong on the shoulder and said, "If you feel lonely, find a companion as soon as possible, and don't always think about those things."

"Fuck you, what is loneliness? This is called following your heart."

As they chatted and laughed, the noises around them became increasingly lively.

Behind Li Yi's group, there are substitute members such as Zhou Huize, Lin Susu, Yang Hao, Zhou Qishen, and Fang Tao.

This time they went there, they naturally also participated in several backup sweeps.

Although I didn't play a big role in the overall strategy of the past few days, I did get to see the big scene and participated in the encirclement and capture of some divine creatures, which gave me some experience and gains.

Moreover, he also completed a thorough cleanup of the first five levels in the last few days, allowing the divine mecha to complete the upgrade in the upgrade pool.

Of course, because he caught the last train, he couldn't play much of a role after the upgrade and couldn't earn much military merit.

The team with Li Yi advanced to the next level ahead of time and reaped a lot of rewards, but they are no longer comparable.

But even so, everyone had a smiling face and was quite satisfied with the trip.

Afterwards, another commendation meeting was held on the ship, and the results of the three-ship performance report meeting were broadcast to the entire ship.

For a time, Li Yi's name spread throughout the entire Yao Chi ship and became very famous.

…

On the third day after the return, the Mecha Corps held a low-key space funeral for the fallen mecha divisions and logistics personnel.

Those who participated in the funeral were all members of the major special classes, regular teams, and high-tech mecha teams, without exception.

Not only that, even the captain was present.

The funeral was simple, and mainly invited his elders, relatives, friends, and superiors to talk about his life, describe his character, mourn his past, and remember his character.

Finally, in the presence of everyone, the body was sent to the incinerator, and then the ashes were collected and handed over to relatives for disposal.

If relatives request, the body can also be thrown into deep space, floating in the vast universe, allowing the body to feel eternity and place its hopes on eternity.

Both methods have their own way of expressing thoughts and sadness and romance, but there is no distinction between the two methods that are better or worse.

If there are no relatives, the arrangement will be made by their supervisor.

According to the wishes of their families, the bodies of the fallen soldiers this time should be thrown into deep space.

Off the field, several members of the group were whispering.

Sun Duxiu said: "Brothers, if one day I die in battle, there is no need to contact my relatives, just send my body to drift in space. I would rather become a cold skeleton than just a pile of ash."

Tan Haoran cursed in a low voice: "You kid, you want to die so badly, right? Can't you hope for a little better for yourself?"

Sun Duxiu said: "No, I just felt a little emotional. Everyone has to die since ancient times, unless one can become a god."

Cai Xiaodong said: "We don't even know if there is such a thing as God."

The pharmacist said gently, "If there are gods, perhaps those ancient civilizations who invented divinity were the closest to gods. Unfortunately, they seem to have perished."

As he was speaking, a solemn voice suddenly rang out, covering the entire place: "The ceremony begins!"

At this moment, in silence, all members saluted in front of the altar.

After the ceremony, the long steel coffin was pushed towards the transparent double valve.

Along with the flow of air, under the gaze of everyone, the coffin floated silently into the space, and continued to move away under the airflow thrust of the valve.

This position is the high point of cabin No. 12. Therefore, the coffin soon escaped from the gravitational circle of the Yao Chi ship and parted ways with the Yao Chi ship.

Slowly, slowly, it became as small as a dot or dust in everyone's sight, and then disappeared.

In silence, Captain Teng Baixin spoke:

“Life is long and the universe is vast. I hope you will always be in awe of life and death, nature and the universe. Then, be ambitious and never forget courage and perseverance.”

After saying that, Teng Baixin walked away.

…

At this point, the matter regarding the Tianshu ruins has basically come to an end.

What remains to be done is mainly the organization and summary of some resources, as well as the dating of various corpses and objects and the deciphering of data.

These things naturally have nothing to do with the people in the mecha team.

Of course, Li Yi is still very concerned about items related to the gourd man.

I urged him several times.

Finally, on the fifth day after the return, detailed research information finally came.

Li Yi and Chen Qiongzhi went to the Institute of Ancient Civilization to find out more about the situation.

The Institute of Ancient Civilizations was located right next to the Institute of Languages ​​and Cryptography. The two were familiar with the location and arrived quickly.

The person who received the two was the director, Yang Qitao, a middle-aged man with a very serious dress and expression.

Yang Qitao was also very efficient in his work. As soon as he saw Chen Qiongzhi, he knew the purpose of the visit. He directly took out a large stack of data analysis documents and explained to the two of them: "About these notes."

"Let's ignore the rate of change of matter in the Tianshu Ruins and assume that these notes exist under normal material rules."

"Then, judging from the material of the notes, the first note should have existed for about a thousand years."

"The second note existed for about five hundred years."

"The third note is about a hundred years."

"But if we refer to the material change rate of the fifth level of the ruins, the existence time of the first, second and third notes may be 20,000 years, 10,000 years, or 3,000 years."

"As for how we came to these conclusions, since these materials are quite special, we based our analysis on the decay of their high-energy elements..."

Hearing this, Chen Qiongzhi interrupted quickly and said, "Stop, just have a conclusion. As long as you can ensure that there are no problems in the process, I'm fine with it."

Yang Qitao frowned and said, "Of course there is no problem with the process!"

Chen Qiongzhi could see that Yang Qitao was unhappy, but she didn't want to listen to Yang Qitao's long-winded talk, so she got straight to the point and asked, "Expert Yang, from what you said, you are measuring the existence time of the notes, so the exact time when the notes were written is uncertain, right? Or can we only assume that the time of writing is about the same as the former?"

Hearing this question, Yang Qitao pondered and said, "That's right. There is too little reference information to confirm when the notes were written. We can only preliminarily determine that they were written around the same time. However, the time scale is long enough, so even if there is a little error, it is actually very normal."

Chen Qiongzhi continued to ask: "So, Expert Yang, do you have any other findings or suspicious points regarding these three notes?"

"have."

Yang Qitao opened the file in front of him, turned to the middle, pointed at a tiny data point, and said:

"Have you seen this data? Isn't it a little strange?"

Li Yi and Chen Qiongzhi leaned over and saw a string of meaningless numbers.

Suddenly, three question marks appeared on their faces.

Chen Qiongzhi said, "... Expert Yang, why don't you just speak frankly."

"Can't you see it's so obvious?"

Yang Qitao said disappointedly:

"Xiao Chen, don't just learn about fighting. If you have time, you should also learn some general knowledge."

Li Yi looked at the data summarized on the page and guessed:

"Does that mean that, except for the number pointed out by Expert Yang, all others are prime numbers?"

Yang Qitao's disappointment disappeared, and he raised his voice slightly and said, "Yes, that's what I mean!"

"Guess where these numbers come from?"

Li Yi thought of the translucent paper he had found before, which could record image information losslessly. When he compared these numbers, he suddenly realized:

"Could it be that these numbers are obtained from the microscopic scale of the notes? Just like engraving the information into micron or nanometer scale words, or information encoding?"

Yang Qitao looked at Li Yi with increasing satisfaction and nodded:

"That's right! We found many decimal characters on the micrometer scale on the notes."

"So, after converting the characters into our numbers, it's a series of digital codes like this."

"Every blank page has a decimal character like this."

"In other words, this is most likely a cipher text. Perhaps the gourd text on the note is the original code. The real content of the note needs to be translated through these cipher texts before the true meaning can be deciphered."

"Of course, it's also possible that the code and password didn't exist in the first place, and that they have other meanings."

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

"I also tried to match some possible translations based on these numbers and sent them to colleagues in the next-door institute. They couldn't understand it, so it's hard to say whether it's a code book or not."

After hearing what Yang Qitao said, Li Yi and Chen Qiongzhi looked at each other and both felt that things were becoming complicated.

The experimental notes that I thought I had already deciphered actually have something else hidden? Li Yi looked at the large stack of densely packed numbers and felt overwhelmed.

He thought for a moment and asked, "Then Expert Yang, which position in the notes does that suspicious number correspond to? What do you think this number means?"

Yang Qitao took out the second notebook and pointed it to Li Yi. It was a tiny dot in the upper left corner of the blank page 10.

"It's roughly within this range. The characters are very small. There are hundreds of thousands of characters in such a small area."

"As for what the meaning is, I don't know. There are too few things to refer to. You just asked where it was suspicious, and I pointed it out."

Li Yi nodded: "Okay, thank you for your hard work, Expert Yang. Can you send me the electronic files of these materials? I would like to study them when I have time."

Yang Qitao frowned.

Although I want to ask you what is there for a mecha master to study, but when I think about Li Yi's performance just now, he is at least not as amateur as Chen Qiongzhi.

So he held back the words and immediately agreed: "Okay, add me on the line."

Immediately, the two of them added each other's personal communication methods.

Ding Dong!

Yang Qitao casually clicked to agree, and when he saw the name on the page, he suddenly had an idea.

"Your name is Li Yi?"

"That's right."

After thinking for a while, Yang Qitao asked tentatively:

"There is a genius in the mecha team who has deciphered the Ant-Fly Man's writing. His name is also Li Yi... Could this person be you?"

Li Yi nodded: "Yes, it's me."

Yang Qitao still didn't believe it, and immediately asked a few detailed questions about the translation of the Ant Fly language.

Li Yi answered casually.

Yang Qitao became confused and uncertain.

Li Yi saw Yang Qitao's expression, thought for a moment, and then spoke a few common ant fly words.

Judging from Yang Qitao's appearance, he has probably been researching materials related to the Ant-Fly Man, and has read his paper and listened to the audio material in the appendix of the paper.

Wow!!

Yang Qitao stood up immediately, and the office chair behind him slid backwards and almost fell over.

The wrinkles on his face suddenly wrinkled into a chrysanthemum, and he said:

"So it's you, Expert Li, I'm so sorry. I never thought you could make such a great academic breakthrough at such a young age. I'm really ashamed. Come on, please take a seat."

As he said that, he asked Li Yi to sit on the soft sofa in front, but ignored Chen Qiongzhi.

What? Expert Li? Li Yi finally realized that the series of papers he uploaded earlier had passed the professional title review, and he had the title of senior decryption expert.

He smiled and said modestly, "Expert Yang, I am a junior, why do you have to be so polite?"

Yang Qitao said with a smile: "As it should be. In the academic field, those who are more accomplished come first. I have read your work and it is very well written! It is well-organized, with clear ideas and sufficient evidence."

"Moreover, even with such a complex and brand new language system, you have been able to translate it in such a simple and easy-to-understand way. I have only seen such skill in the late Old Zhang, and you are the only one who can do it."

"Our Institute of Civilization is in great need of a master codebreaker like you. Have you ever considered taking a position here? Don't worry, it won't interfere with your main job. You just need to take the time to review the deciphering of our internal foreign languages ​​or provide reference opinions in your spare time."

"Everything will be easy if you rely on the treatment provided by the affiliate."

"As long as you agree, you can get a basic salary of 100,000 star coins every month. At the same time, your family can be arranged to live in a high-authority area, starting at at least 200 square meters!"

"During the period of employment, if the papers published are certified by star rating, you can get a guaranteed bonus of 200,000 yuan within the institute, with no upper limit."

"In addition, all major databases will also provide you with free access."

"If you have any personal problems that need to be solved, such as marriage, family medical care, authority upgrades, etc., we can solve them for you."

After hearing this series of words, not only Li Yi, but even Chen Qiongzhi was stunned.

So the treatment of research experts is so good? After all, Chen Qiongzhi's work focus is on the mecha team, and she knows a little about the benefits of research work.

But it was the first time I saw someone displaying it all in one go like Yang Qitao did.

Only then did she realize how valuable the certification as a decryption expert Li Yi had obtained was.

Li Yi looked at Chen Qiongzhi and was about to ask if there was a precedent for this.

Chen Qiongzhi immediately said, "Although there is no precedent, you don't have to hesitate. Affiliate with me, and do it vigorously! Not only will their Institute of Civilization receive rewards, I will also apply for corresponding senior talent bonuses and subsidies for you! Don't worry, I will be responsible for all problems."

In that case, Li Yi accepted Yang Qitao's invitation.

Yang Qitao was also very happy. He held Li Yi's hand and said happily:

“With the participation of expert Li, our research problems will surely be solved!”

…

After taking the information away, Li Yi and Chen Qiongzhi walked side by side.

After a long silence, Chen Qiongzhi said:

"Li Yi, take advantage of the benefits of being affiliated with me if you can. If the research task interferes with your daily practice, just ignore it. I'll take care of it for you if anything goes wrong."

Li Yi nodded to express his gratitude.

Chen Qiongzhi continued:

"Also, the Youth Mecha Master Competition will begin in a month. By then, our ship will also send a dozen contestants to participate."

"At that time, we will arrange a small starship to transfer to the Kunlun ship and head to the border star."

“The age range for this competition is under 40 years old.”

"Basically, your opponents will be mostly mid-level elites, and even quite a few upper-level mecha masters. If you run into some old geniuses who have reached the peak of the upper ranks before the age of 40, that may not be impossible."

"So, although you are strong, it is difficult to sweep the whole place. You must train well and prepare well during this period."

Li Yi smiled and said, "Coach, you're not going to participate? Or are you over the age limit?"

Chen Qiongzhi was speechless and said, "You kid, why are you trying to ask about my age in a roundabout way? I can tell you clearly that I can still participate in the competition, but there is no need to go, because I have already been in the top ten once and have been to the ruins of the earth."

Li Yi said: "Instructor, it's not impressive to be in the top ten. Why don't you come with me? If we both take the top three, wouldn't that be a good thing?"

"You're so brave, you just want another sparring partner."

Chen Qiongzhi crossed his arms and sneered.

Li Yi said in a chuckle: "Instructor's words chill my heart."

"Come on, do you still need me to help you practice with Liang Zhishen these days?"

"Yes, Instructor Liang is quite strong. He is much stronger than Instructor Ma. Although I have made great progress, I should be able to gain something from fighting him."

"Okay, that's it. You can put the decryption aside for now and focus on increasing the concentration of your divine genes. This is your only shortcoming right now."

"Don't worry, instructor."

After finishing the explanation, the two of them almost returned to Cabin 18. Chen Qiongzhi no longer traveled with Li Yi. She jumped and fell directly to the ground from the entrance of the first dome.

It’s a distance of three hundred meters, just jump.

Li Yi watched Chen Qiongzhi's figure disappear in mid-air without a trace, and shrugged his shoulders, thinking to himself: "This skill doesn't look like that of an ordinary top-level person. My guess should be correct."

(End of this chapter)