Chapter 1426 Calling

In view of the specific situation of Tarrond and the practical problems in the production cycle, Gao Wen conceived a set of adjustment plans for the downgrading and transformation of the Gorgon aerial platform. In Rebecca's view, the Gorgon air platform after the downgrade Compared with the original version, the youth version is really far behind, but in Gao Wen's eyes, even after such a downgrade and adjustment, the Gorgon platform is more than enough to be used as a communication node in Tarrond - even "surplus" too much up.

After all, it was only used as a communication node - the communication node is equipped with anti-aircraft guns, alloy armor and small aircraft take-off and landing platforms, which is outrageous enough...

"When these Gorgon platforms are in place, the communications between Tallond and Loren will be fully restored. Only then can our alliance be said to be 'one body'," Gawain breathed a sigh of relief. With a relaxed and happy expression, he said to Rebecca, who was studying the materials with her head down, "In addition, we can also benefit from the order from Tarrond, which can more or less make up for the construction of the Dawn of the World and the standard version of Gogo." The huge consumption of Ergon Fortress..."

Speaking of this, he couldn't help laughing, and a certain great-granddaughter who always looked resentful recently appeared in his mind: "And this way, Hetty can also sleep well."

"Eh..." As soon as Gawain finished speaking, Rebecca showed a hesitant expression. The girl scratched her hair and said nervously, "Actually, I just wanted to tell you that the Magic Technology Department After exploring the test data of Dawn of Earth and Gorgon, we have some new ideas. We plan to build a batch of ultra-high-altitude anti-gravity platforms, and set up several semi-permanent planetary and atmospheric monitoring stations on the top of the magic turbulence layer. To do some research work..."

Speaking of this, she was obviously a little guilty, and after observing Gao Wen's face, she quickly continued to explain: "You see, our research in this area is indeed lacking. and meteorological institutions, but we have never built such a research facility in an ultra-high-altitude environment. If there had been such a thing, let alone research assistance, even the actions of those cultists in the wasteland have been controlled from the very beginning. Can't escape our eyes... um, and..."

Rebecca racked her brains to think of any more convincing reasons for the ancestor to support her "spending money plan", but before she could finish speaking, she heard Gawain's voice from the opposite side: " It’s really fascinating—you go back and draw up a complete proposal, and I’ll work with experts from your technology department to see what to do.”

"You agree?" Rebecca's eyes widened in surprise, and then an uncontrollable smile appeared on her face, "Yes!!"

"Don't be so busy, I just said that we can study and study, and we can only approve this plan after confirming the value of this semi-permanent platform." Gawain glanced at the already excited Rebecca, but despite what he said, But the girl obviously couldn't listen to it anymore, she already knew that the matter was pretty sure based on her knowledge of her ancestors, Gao Wen could only sigh helplessly when he saw this, and said to himself that this silly roe deer was indeed Hetty's lifelong enemy ...

He just sighed in his mind,

Then I heard a burst of rhythmic footsteps in the corridor, followed by a knock on the door, and Hetty's voice came into the room: "Ancestor, is it convenient for you now?"

Gawain glanced at Rebecca, who was still immersed in happiness, as if she hadn't heard the movement around her at all, looked up at the door and said, "Come in."

The door of the study room was pushed open immediately, and Hetty walked in wearing a new dark purple dress—perhaps because of the Victory Day celebration, she had a confident and happy smile on her face, and her footsteps were also more than usual Be brisk, as she walked towards the desk, she noticed Rebecca standing in the room, and a look of surprise appeared on her face: "Rebecca? You're here too...why do you have a silly smile on your face, what happened? "

It was only at this time that Rebecca noticed her aunt appeared, and she shrank her neck immediately, her face was visible to the naked eye and became embarrassed. Gawain next to him quickly waved to Hetty: "You will know later, Rebecca has a new research plan."

Hetty: "...?"

Then, before her aunt could react, Rebecca turned around and rushed towards the door of the study. In the next second, only her farther and farther voice came from the direction of the corridor: "Master Ancestor, Aunt, I'll go back and draw up a plan first." Book!"

Hetty looked at the direction of Rebecca's departure expressionlessly, and after a while, she silently summoned the hand of evocation and closed the door of the study room. After the door was closed, she let out a long and helpless sigh: "Alas..."

Seeing this, Gao Wen couldn't help laughing and teasing her: "When I saw you summoning the Evocation Hand, I thought you were planning to bring her back and beat her up."

"Now...she can no longer be treated like an ignorant child—although she really hasn't made much progress in many aspects." Hetty shook her head with a tired face, "Forget it, look back and see what she plans to do Well, let's hope it's no more 'summon a hundred fire elementals and put a swear talker in the middle of them and see if that makes a giant incendiary incendiary bomb' or 'shoot another supercritical accelerator with a supercritical accelerator and see if it works "Working" is fine... but since you have no objection, then her idea shouldn't be too weird this time..."

Gao Wenwan didn't expect that Rebecca would propose such a weird project plan, and he didn't expect that Hetty was not only the big butler of the empire, but also the brake disc of the empire - responsible for turning the crazy head of the empire's steel ball Forcibly pressed into the three views of normal human beings, but when he sighed in his heart, he couldn't help touching his chin and muttering: "You said that, I'm really a little curious about the impact of using a supercritical accelerator to launch another supercritical accelerator. How about...if the track and the mechanical structure can hold it..."

Just as he was muttering halfway, Hetty screamed: "Ancestor!!"

"Well, I was just joking," Gao Wen smiled and glanced at the pale great-granddaughter, "Don't worry, this time Rebecca just wants to launch a few ultra-high-altitude detection platforms to conduct surface and atmospheric surveys. Environmental research, this can be regarded as a good thing that benefits the country and the people in the long run—let’s not talk about this, why do you come to me?"

Hetty coughed lightly immediately, her face became a little serious.

"Yes, this is a document just sent from Ogulei's Ancestral Peak listening station," she put the folder she was carrying in front of Gao Wen, and pulled out one of the pages, "I think the contents on it are You need to see it yourself."

"Ancestor's Peak listening station?" Gao Wen frowned slightly, and immediately realized the origin of this document, "Is it the 'starry sky signal'—they captured new content?"

Since the initial discovery of the signal among the stars, Gao Wen personally promoted the establishment of a large number of listening stations at home and abroad to capture those occasional "star sea communications", and the Ancestral Peak listening station located in the territory of the Ogulei Tribal State is the most The site with the most "achievements" once puzzled scholars, but recent information shows that the peak of the ancestors is very likely to be a very special "spot" on this planet, and there may be a deep blue site in its deep layer. At the same time, due to the influence of this well, the time-space structure of the entire Ancestor Peak is unusual, which makes it seem that it is easier to receive "messages from afar" than other places on the planet, and now, After a lapse of nearly a year, the region has indeed captured the call of the stars again.

And this time the "call" it captures is obviously very different from before.

Gao Wen glanced at the overview at the beginning of the file, which included the working status of the listening station and the original signal graphics when the signal was captured this time, while Hetty's voice came from the side: "...the After the interference subsided completely, the local listening station had resumed operation, and the local goblins were the first to notice the abnormality in the antenna—these signals seemed to have switched to a new transmission method, and their transmission efficiency was higher than before, and the content was also different. It is more complicated than before, and we are not yet sure whether this is a targeted adjustment or just due to the technical upgrade of the sender...

"About two days ago, after adapting to the new signal mode, the goblin technicians of the Ogure tribal country successfully recorded a relatively clear and complete communication, and then according to the 'dictionary' brought back by General Philip from the Vipland Observatory ’, academics have attempted to translate this communication, and we have found some ... definite words, the content of which is somewhat tense.”

Gao Wen's eyes scanned the document slowly, and the translated text printed out in bold font came into view clearly and sharply:

"...Calling the unknown civilization Alpha... This message will be sent on a regular basis. If you do exist and have the ability to respond, please answer...The period is approaching, the message left by the sailor...There is evidence that the stars are about to twinkle... We need each other...call the unknown civilization Alpha, if you really exist at the target location, please answer, call...please answer..."

Gao Wen fell into a long silence, as if he was in deep thought, until a few minutes later he broke the silence in a low voice: "There are many unreadable parts on it."

"Yes, this is the limit that the current 'star breakers' can do," Hetty nodded and said, "Although the 'dictionary' brought back by General Philip can theoretically decipher alien characters, but in actual use We find that the languages ​​and scripts used in these interstellar communications have... changed slightly, and just as our scripts change as society develops, 'their' scripts have obviously changed over the centuries. But This is only a secondary reason, and the more important reason is that 'their' language logic is different from ours, and it will take time to fully adapt."

Starbreaker - This dreamy name comes from ancient Eldar legends, the Eldar ancestors used poems to describe the days of thorns and thorns, and called "Starbreaker" the oldest seers and wise men in the forest .

They were the first meteorologists and astronomers, and in many of Augury's poems, these first people who looked up to the sky are described as being able to predict rain or shine by observing the trajectory of the stars, and listening to the hidden echoes in the sky to judge For good and bad, after a long time, these once regarded as "miraculous" predictive abilities have gradually been summarized and evolved into the meteorological and astronomical knowledge that modern people are familiar with, but the name of the star solver is still handed down to this day in poetry. , and has been given new meaning today.

After Philip found the ruins of the Viplandon Observatory from the wasteland of Gondor, and brought back the "Alien Dictionary" left by Sir Scott from the ancient observatory, Gawain ordered the establishment of a special A team of scholars came to study this legacy and based it on the translation of the "alien signal". This work is boring and difficult. Learning an "alien language" from scratch is no easy task. What's more, this alien civilization is very different from the intelligent creatures on this planet in terms of language logic, and what scholars have in their hands is only a dictionary that has been outdated for several centuries, and occasionally captured by listening stations around the world. It is nothing more than a "newsletter" that is completely composed of mathematical language and abstract symbols.

Victoria, the Duchess of the North, is familiar with the ancient legends of various countries. After the formation of this team of scholars, she proposed the name "Star Breaker". Now Star Breaker not only refers to the group of scholars established by the Cecil Empire, It also refers to the "translation teams" established by Typhon and the Silver Empire, as well as the scholars who are dedicated to analyzing alien signals in transnational projects.

Although the war has just ended, this work has started since Philip found the "dictionary", and it has been going on for half a year. thing.

"Only from the parts that have been translated, I can roughly understand the meaning of this information," Gao Wen breathed out slowly, calming down his somewhat turbulent mood, "...the intention of 'active communication' is very obvious, never before This has happened."

"Yes," Hetty nodded lightly, with a very serious expression, "The star breakers have translated all the information received by our listening stations over the years—although there are still many contents that have not been deciphered, but only From the parts that have been translated so far, it is not difficult to judge that the signals sent by 'they' before are all the purest 'information', the basic mathematical symbols, the basic coordinates, the basic character list, as if they are simply announcing themselves existence, or rather like..."

Hetty frowned, as if she didn't know how to accurately describe her thoughts at the moment, but Gawain understood her meaning and said, "It's like standing on the only stage in the dark, facing the empty and silent audience Xi introduced himself over and over again, and now—"

As he spoke, he tapped the document on the table with his fingers.

"They seem to have discovered ... that there is an 'audience' under the stage."

"This is what makes people a little nervous," Hetty said in a deep voice, "The goblin scholars in charge of the Ancestral Peak listening station have already had a heated discussion on this matter, and our scholars are similar— The signaling civilization seems to be just now suddenly aware of the possible presence of an 'audience' within range of their broadcast, no one knows if that's a good thing or a bad thing, and..."

"And it's not sure if the 'unknown civilization Alpha' mentioned above refers to us," Gawain looked into Hetty's eyes, "after all, there are indications that 'their' signals are just a non-directional global Broadcasting, the starry sky is vast and full of stars, our family may not be the only intelligent creatures within the range of this broadcast."

"Ancestor, do you think..."

"This matter is not only related to ourselves," Gao Wen said in a deep voice, "We need a high-level meeting - send an urgent message to Typhon and Baiyin."