"Old Ding!"
"No matter what you say this time!"
"The thing that Team Nine salvaged is of great significance. We must not let these amateurs waste it!"
"If it is really an anachronistic relic as they say, do you know how much of a shock this will cause to the entire archaeological community?!"
Longguo, inside the office of the General Administration of Education.
Ding Guoxiang held the receiver of the landline phone far away with a look of disgust.
But even so, an old and powerful voice could still be clearly heard coming from the receiver.
The person on the other end of the phone was none other than himself.
It was the director of the General Administration of Archaeology whom he had just contacted, and also his old classmate, Cao Guorui.
This old man has had a hot temper ever since he was young. I thought he had become more restrained as he got older.
But who knows that this guy is just a superficial effort.
Now when it comes to antiques, the old days come back...
After the other party's roar subsided a little, Ding Guoxiang put the telephone receiver close to his ear:
"Didn't we agree on this before? Our Education Department will be fully responsible for this matter, and your Archaeology Department will not be involved."
"Why, now that you're old you no longer value your credibility? I remember you agreed to this just a few hours ago."
"That's different!" Cao Guorui yelled again. Ding Guoxiang silently took away the receiver and said, "I agreed to it because you told me that they just found a sunken ship in the Bering Strait and there might be nothing worth paying attention to. That's why I agreed to it."
"But it's different now. Do you know what that pile of gears might be?!"
"What could it be?"
Seeing that his old friend was in a very impatient mood, Ding Guoxiang followed up with a question.
But the answer he got made him feel unwell.
"A mechanical computer!"
......
"A mechanical computer?"
"What is that?"
On the deck of Class 9.
After seeing the pile of mechanical gears on the object being cleaned, a noun buried deep in Ren Yan's heart came to his mind and he blurted out.
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This caused everyone in Class Nine, including the drone, to aim at them.
Ren Yan spread his hands helplessly:
"A mechanical computer, as the name suggests, is a computer made of machinery."
"It has another name, called the Difference Engine."
"It is a machine that will appear in the mechanical age, corresponding to our current electronic computers."
"In other words, this thing, strictly speaking, might be a computer made up of machinery?!"
Listening to his teacher's explanation, Wang Yu, the most knowledgeable student in Class 9, exclaimed in shock.
Because he reads a lot of extracurricular books, he has heard of the term "difference engine".
And I was fascinated by it for a while.
The reason is that this thing is too amazing.
Just by turning some gears, complex formulas can be calculated, and there is an incredible sense of wonder everywhere.
But at the same time, Wang Yu also had some doubts:
"Isn't this something that was imagined by our ancestors?"
"I read in a book that this thing is only something that may exist in theory, and there is no possibility of replicating it in reality?"
Hearing this, Ren Yan nodded: "Theoretically speaking, this thing is indeed a fantasy."
"And most of them come from the punk world, a world made entirely of wasteland and machines."
"In that fantasy world, these mechanical computers are indispensable computing tools and are also vital materials for all major forces."
"But you also know..."
"Fantasy or literary works always come from life. Even if they are made up out of thin air, there are always some prototypes."
"Under these conditions, can you confirm that the difference engine depicted in the punk world does not have a real prototype?"
After briefly explaining the origin of the difference engine and answering Wang Yu's question, Ren Yan glanced at all the students in Class 9.
At this moment, they were still in a state of shock.
It was as if a bolt of lightning had struck his nerve endings, and there was even a sense of emptiness in his eyes.
Seeing this, Ren Yan clapped his hands:
"And the most important point..."
“How much do we really know about the true history of the past?”
“Is what exists now necessarily correct?”
"This is the fundamental reason why archaeology exists. We know very little about the world in the past..."
After that, Ren Yan coughed twice angrily, which made everyone in Class 9 come back to their senses. Then, he made a final summary:
"Of course, everything I've said so far is just my own guess."
"If you want to really know what this thing is, you still need to keep looking for more information."
After saying this, Ren Yan let out a long sigh, feeling that this should be able to completely arouse the interest of everyone in Class Nine in exploring.
However, in fact, it was somewhat beyond Ren Yan's expectations.
After a moment of deep shock, the students in Class 9 did not pay attention to Ren Yan's last two sentences, but instead focused all their attention on the differential machine.
Especially classmate Wei, he showed the most concern.
The two originally gray eyeballs immediately burst into amazing color.
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