Back to the Future Sword of Sichen

After removing the covering of the wooden disc, it is covered with complex patterns like vines - mandala flowers. I don’t have much time left, so this is the easiest way, but of course it will lack a bit of adventure and patience. I picked up the pen, found a piece of paper to cover the disk, and used the pen to trace a circle on the paper.

When I close my eyes and relax my consciousness, there will be a force beyond my will pushing my arm. This is a wonderful experience. That force controls my arm, and the tip of the pen draws a pattern I don't know on the paper. I just You can hear the rustle of pen on paper.

Soon, my arms stopped. When I opened my eyes, a strange painting appeared in front of me, just like modern people looking at the murals left by ancient humans - I can't understand it, but it is definitely useful.

Memorizing this painting, I closed my eyes again, a form of meditation. Now, I need to picture the companion star surrounding the white dwarf...

A flash of white appeared in the darkness, gradually spreading. It was a bright beam of light, and as the light spread, the surrounding images gradually became clearer. In this blooming light, I saw a medal podium, and the dazzling spotlight shined on a woman.

There was thunderous applause all around, and the woman's figure gradually became clear. It’s Kumar. She is wearing a pair of tortoiseshell glasses, and her temples have turned white. I rarely see her smile. At this moment, she is slowly walking to the award podium. She is smiling, and the indifferent face in the past is gone. But at this moment, she didn't look like a serious stone.

I interrupted my meditation. This was not the picture I wanted. I concentrated and entered the meditative state again... strange? Why is there the sound of toilet flushing? Inside the toilet, the water flow rotated down, and two black spheres were mixed in the water flow. There was bottomless darkness in the middle... This feeling was very strange, as if I was immersed in it. I felt the coldness of the water against my body. on the skin.

And the movement trajectories of the two spheres were very close to the previous movement trajectory data... I ended the meditation. The progress of this meditation research was not very smooth. There were mainly two external factors that interfered. This is why meditation requires a very Quiet environment, otherwise you may see flying toilets or sharks running on land...

Although these data are similar, it is still a new discovery. I sighed and recorded the data.

Back in the library, I looked through Kumar's observation records. According to her stargazing records, the trajectory of the companion star changes periodically and regularly. From far to near, after the distance reaches the extreme value, all running trajectories will change...

The data is real, it is an honest person who will never lie. According to Kumar's data, what I thought was a supernova explosion was actually an absurd speculation... which meant that all my previous research would become waste paper discarded in the trash can.

But this creates a new problem. If my theory is wrong, why would Kumar hide that data? She could have confronted me, thrown this data in my face, and mercilessly destroyed everything I had studied... What was she afraid of?

It is impossible for a teacher to let students go further and further down the wrong path, unless... I quickly erased this dangerous thought. Judging from her stone-like serious and indifferent character, it was impossible to do such a thing. She would gain nothing.

Since Kumar is unwilling to provide me with the data, I will observe it myself to confirm whether I am right or wrong.

If you want to prove me wrong, you need to observe the companion star on the node day of the cycle, and the node day is... tomorrow? Oh... things happened so suddenly. What happened in the past few days was like a ship floating on the sea, ups and downs. In the end, whether the ship was sunk by the waves or successfully landed... everything depends on the data observed tomorrow.

Now I need to prepare a suitable telescope for observation. Of course, this is a project I am good at.

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Return to the observatory and find the place where the astronomical telescope is stored. As an astronomer, you should know what kind of astronomical telescope to choose under what weather conditions. The black celestial body above my head gradually expanded, and it didn't want me to hesitate for too long. It was so relentless, in fact, that when I saw those astronomical telescopes, I suddenly thought of reminiscing with Kumar.

What happened to her? I once wanted to find her and ask about all this, but she seemed to have disappeared from the world and could not be found. She seemed to be deliberately avoiding me.

The sky was covered with thick dark clouds today, making most telescopes unusable. Only the device called a radio telescope has any value - it can receive information from very distant stars - through radio radiation. Of course, it will not roughly show the appearance of the universe before our eyes like an optical telescope.

However, the radio radiation signal can be processed and converted into a string of characters on paper, which requires a lot of calculations and is the most cumbersome. But now there is no other choice.

Where did this knowledge come from? Of course it was from Kumar. She imparted all her knowledge to me. She didn’t treat others as well as me, so some people privately called me and Kumar “Siamese twins.”

But now...why?

I flip the switch and everything will be verified at this moment.

A few hours later, I returned to the institute. Yes, Kumar is right. I sat down on the armchair. All my strength was disappearing. I just wanted to rest now. The results I had put in these days were all in vain. The research I had done—— is a ridiculous mistake.

ha! Supernova explosion, how is this possible? I smiled bitterly. Kumar had known this for a long time but didn't tell me. Maybe she wanted me to understand the feeling of failure.

The light bulb suddenly went out and everything around him was swallowed up by darkness. Oh, yes, the old circuits in the institute should have been replaced long ago, but everyone is used to it, and even I was not surprised. It seemed that power outages were a reasonable thing.

I was not in a hurry to light the candle. In the darkness, my thoughts became more active. Kumar...I probably know why she did this. From the moment I stepped into the institute, she no longer regarded me as a student...but...as cultivating another self.

Why did she do this? I was a little angry. She already knew the answer, but she watched me fall into the wrong trap. Maybe... this is part of her plan. She wants to cultivate students as good as herself, and she will continue to train and screen until the student who satisfies her appears.

The flames burned in front of my eyes. I put the paper with data on it into the flames. The flames licked the paper, and the ashes floated in the air and finally merged into the darkness. I hope this is Kumar's last lesson for me. At that time, I was afraid that I could no longer be hit again.

The report is about to burn out, just like my dead heart. I can go home, lie on the bed comfortably and fall asleep, no longer think about the research, no longer sit on the cold armchair.

"The orbit of the companion star is stable, but there are abnormal changes in a small amount of observation data. However, the amount of data is too small, so this is judged to be an observation error."

I suddenly thought of something, but the piece of paper instantly turned into ashes and scattered in the air...