don't talk to aliens

At that time, it was 18:32 Beijing time.

It was more than an hour before Chen Zhen got off work that day.

Since there is still a new culture medium to be sent to the research institute tomorrow, he told the two intern assistants to clean up the petri dishes at the bottom, and then swiped his card to go upstairs to pick up the things to be used tomorrow.

Chen Zhen has been passing through this road to the fourth floor of the research institute through many elevators every day recently.

But only today, when he walked through the passage ahead and tried to find the key out of his pocket, he encountered a little problem.

Because the moment he stepped out of the elevator, the key that was pulled out of his pocket accidentally fell under the crack of the elevator.

But just as Chen Zhen bent over to pick up something, his fingers that were about to fall to the ground stopped involuntarily.

"Hu-hu-"

There was no one around at the time.

But in the ear, the constant temperature bellows on the other side of the vent can faintly emit subtle movements similar to those produced by breathing in the human duct.

At the same time, Chen Zhen, who was standing alone at the elevator entrance, noticed that there seemed to be some vague fog marks on the glass floor under his feet.

The imprint left on the ground is vaguely ferocious and messy.

It looked like what was left when the fingers of something were pressed to the ground in extreme fear, and then quickly evaporated by the room temperature.

After carefully looking forward to identify it, Chen Zhen discovered that along the gap of the elevator, there seemed to be a layer of scratch marks left by the front paws of some large animal that were forcibly dragged all the way.

This scene is somewhat unusual in any normal biological research institute.

After all, this is a place for scientific experiments, not a slaughterhouse, and there is no reason why such paw prints of animals that look like they were slaughtered are left here for no reason.

But from his personal and professional point of view, it is impossible for him to identify the strange features like paw prints that disappeared halfway.

At first glance, it looks a bit like a reptile, but there are species characteristics like toes between the fingers.

However, if we actually calculate the other individual unit signs of this creature from the length of the phalanx joints.

But it is at least 120 to [-] kilograms in size, and the bone maturity is only possessed by adult creatures with beast-like attack power.

Such a strange and hybrid creature.

In Chen Zhen's impression, only adult Amazon rainforest creatures on land can match their size and strength, but most research institutes in China are prohibited from conducting experiments on such imported animals. .

In addition, when he went up just now, he also noticed some large incubators opposite to the corner of the laboratory on the fourth floor today.

Although all along, in his impression, these incubators made of frosted shells are empty inside.

After being disinfected every day, it is transported back and forth, and no one knows exactly where it will be used.

But this time, for the first time, he noticed a strange red label paper similar to ancient Sanskrit on these boxes that were usually empty during the day.

[atatal, bovine specimen 1√]

[vitala, banana specimen 2, ×]

This is the first time Chen Zhen has heard of this naming method based on ancient Sanskrit plus species codes.

Rows of brightly colored labels on the box look like they were newly pasted today, and on top of this, a red marker pen is used to mark a vague tick and cross for different situations.

It's just that in the biosphere, which has always recorded most animals and plants in Latin, the so-called atatal is still completely beyond his normal understanding.

It was this matter that Chen Zhen and Lu Yiming were a little distracted when they drove home together.

In the distance, the traffic is rolling and the crowds are changing.

The faces of modern humans are almost hard to recognize at a glance because they are walking on the road. Perhaps in the contemporary era, only the genetic makeup of the body is enough to distinguish the actual differences between most people's normal faces.

This scene also made Chen Zhen more concerned about this matter in his heart.

When the traffic lights were changing, Longjiang City, which was blaring from the horns of cars on the entire road, was also shrouded in a layer of ordinary neon colors.

The signal tower standing in the middle of the Fushi Eastern Star, like a cyclops-shaped defender, let the two blue lights emitted from the top sweep back and forth on the ground.

While highlighting the charm of the technological age, it also shows the huge financial resources of the Fu family in Longjiang over the years.

When he got home, Chen Zhen went to the kitchen to make dinner as usual.

Lu Yiming, who didn't realize that he had any concerns, couldn't cook and couldn't help, so he could only go upstairs and stay there, and waited for a while to come down and eat directly.

But at this moment, a comrade whose real name was Li Mingxie, whom he noted as, dear brother, suddenly sent him a text message.

The content of the text message was roughly asking him how he ate and drank recently and how Chen Zhen was doing, and also explained that he was busy working night shift recently.

Seeing this, Lu Yiming, who had just returned home, found out that it was his mysterious elder brother. He was also 1 excited. He quickly put down what he was doing and called back beforehand.

"...Hello? Brother, you're finally done. I'm fine haha. I eat well and I sleep well. With Chen Zhen around, I'm sure everything will be fine! You should also pay attention to rest when you're busy, don't always be alone It doesn’t matter where you live, drinking and smoking all day long, it’s not good..."

"Yo, okay, my baby brother is cute and knows how to love others, don't worry, brother didn't drink tonight..."

—— Listening to this, it is indeed much more likable than a bad-tempered and difficult to serve, who seemed to come here specially to quarrel with him before.

Thinking about it this way, it was seven or eight o'clock in the evening, and Li Xie, who was still wandering around the steel factory with a fast food box, did not forget to praise him.

At this moment, he was standing alone at the fork in the opposite road.

It was very cold at night, and there were no people outside except for a few supper stalls who were still cooking. He was the only one wandering around here in the middle of the night like a lonely ghost.

Probably, he was scolded by Fu Bailong before.

This time he came downstairs again, so rare that he didn't go down to buy beer, but just bought a hot fast food at the snack bar downstairs.

Although the taste of this roadside stall is basically the same, there are not a few slices of meat in the three dishes.

But at least it was a normal meal, better than the normal health he had before drinking and smoking every day, and it was much better for his crippled body.

Take a little responsibility for yourself——Thinking of this sentence, he felt a little strange at the moment.

But as soon as he entered the house with the bottle of boiling water from the corridor, before he had time to sit down, the temporary communication device installed under the sofa at home flashed blue light.

This is the observation equipment that Li Xie set up during this time to monitor the anomalies of celestial life in the sky above Longjiang City in real time.

As long as it is close to the area of ​​the steel factory and the magnetic field disappears when Fu Bailong was attacked that night again, then the alarm equipment hidden in the corner of the city will actively call the police and remind him.

Li Xie had always wanted to use it to try to find the whereabouts of the 'mutant' Wang Qiang who attacked Fu Bailong in Longjiang City.

But for a few days in a row, he just turned on and didn't call the police like this, which made Li Xie himself start to wonder if he forgot to pay the charging fee at home again, which made these high-tech guys useless .

But according to the current form, it is imminent to follow the national order to find subspecies.

So he thought about it for a while, and he didn't say to touch or track down something for a long time. After thinking about it, he took out something that looked like a motorcycle key from his pocket.

When he opened his fingers quickly, a 'click' sound accompanied by the black light of metal quickly burst out in front of his eyes.

That turned into a circle of dazzling magnetic field current.

At the same time, in the form of a dazzling astrolabe suspended in the air, the black mechanical armor as the original power-on password just wrapped Li Xie's own hands and face.

This almost dazzling transformation scene, if Fu Bailong was here.

You will be shocked to find that this person whose face is half covered by a black metal mask is the mysterious urban hero who appeared behind the steel factory that night and can be transformed into a human machine for a long time.

At the same time, the male mechanical voice that has not been heard seriously for many years also rang along with Li Xie who was slowly moving his arms.

——"Good evening, this is Tai, Taiwei... You Yuanyi, I will report to you now... the situation on the night of the 11th in Longjiang City... the magnetic field... the reaction energy disappears and disappears... the heat source cycle is normal... "

—— "Longjiang City... Newspaper... the temperature continues to drop tonight... there may be... a large thunderstorm coming... the sky over Fangshan..."

This is the information that his artificial intelligence ai—'Taiwei Youyuanyi' was accompanied by a hoarse, bumpy electrical sound in his ears.

This is the first time that Li Xie officially let the AI, which he had locked and shut down for a long time, show its original form in front of him after he was found by the National Bureau of Astronomical Civilization and Meteorology.

But in recent days, Li Xie never came home, and secondly, he always forgot to pay the electricity bill to his family.

So his AI gives people the same feeling at first glance, which is actually the same as his own.

Depressed, with insufficient power supply, even now that he is turned on and connected to the Internet again, he still looks mentally handicapped and can't speak clearly with his big tongue.

But in fact, it is different from the smart AI 'Rachel' who is full of modern technology sense in Fu Bailong's house.

The ai name 'Taiwei Youyuanyi' actually originated from the traditional Chinese astrology legend. It is said that it is the name of an ancient star official in the sky.

From the perspective of modern astronomy, "Taiwei Youyuan [-]" refers to Taiweiyuan among the three walls, meaning the right city wall of Taiweiyuan, which is the most powerful and brightest in this galaxy. stars.

Six years ago, Li Xie had fought with it in human form in the sky and fought side by side countless times.

Back then, he was the incarnation of the most powerful and radiant Taiwei Youyuanyi among all the members of the National Observation Team for Astrophysical Objects and Life. Therefore, his only combat AI was finally named after it by his superiors.

But now, time has passed, and the glory is no longer.

Under the existing scientific and technological means in the national system, the once most powerful and intelligent artificial intelligence ai became a pitiful stammer because his master's daily mud could not support the wall.

As for his master, he spent all day eating and waiting to die, thoroughly implementing the life creed of a retired and semi-disabled rotten man.

"Hey, hey, Taiwei, are you better? Wake up, wake up?"

——"Pricking... pricking... please... please don't continue... hitting Taiwei violently with your hands... Taiwei is not a TV... After hitting... the signal will still be due to insufficient power supply... Interrupt anytime..."

"Hey, what should I do then? If I go down to pay the electricity bill now, it won't be until tomorrow."

Coughing in embarrassment, Li Xie felt really sorry for this naughty face.

——"Stick... stab...suggestion...have gone downstairs...buy two...AAA batteries...otherwise it will be too small...will completely interrupt the...signal for the master..."

Right now, Comrade Li Xie, the owner of the poor Taiwei Youyuanyi, finally walked out of the house again after six years, went downstairs to buy a fast food as usual, and went to the small shop next to him to buy two AA batteries for his ai .

The broadband lines installed by various houses in the old city above the head are densely packed, and against the starry sky, they seem to be artificially divided into grids.

Big Dipper, Perseus, these ancient and mysterious stars.

In these grids, they silently guarded their own side of the night sky, and this process did not affect Li Xie and Lu Yiming, who were in a good mood tonight, talking to each other.

"Haha, that's good. It's good that you didn't go to drink again. What are you doing now, bro?"

"Oh, I was scolded by someone just now, saying that I am not very good, and I have no sense of responsibility for myself and others, so I won't go out for a walk, and see if I can learn by the way, and save us on the side of the road Earth?"

Brother Li, who spoke every word of truth, stared lazily at the top of his head, opened his eyes and started talking nonsense again.

"Someone? Who is it?"

"..."

"Wow, bro, you didn't tell me that you talked about your girlfriend in private, did you..."

For some reason, Lu Yiming's first reaction was this.

"How is it possible, don't ask, just a stranger, with a bad temper, bad personality, not cute at all, full of food all day and nothing to do, anyway, he can't be your sister-in-law."

Originally, I just thought of someone's severe criticism of "you should be responsible to other people anyway, don't make jokes casually" before someone left, so I made this call today.

Turning around at this moment, Li Xie, who started to kill and hate Mr. Fu himself, completely forgot the illusion that he thought the other party was okay an hour ago, and started turning his face and hurting others non-stop.

Regarding this, Lu Yiming didn't understand what he meant by his words.

But this does not prevent him from saying that he felt that his eldest brother, who was eating and waiting to die all day, seemed to be forced to be educated by someone today, so he said that he was here to talk to him well.

Especially the last sentence, it can't be your sister-in-law, which made the radar in his brain, which was still vague and uncertain, light up all of a sudden.

"I don't believe it, I don't believe it, I don't believe it... I must have a sister-in-law!"

"The sister-in-law in the dream, there is no sister-in-law."

He retorted and immediately turned back. When Li Xie thought of Fu Bailong's appearance, he really felt that he was caught by the boy's misguided words.

"Oh, but without sister-in-law, why are you guilty, why are you going out in the middle of the night... why are you suddenly sneaking around... why are you listening to others..."

"..."

It has to be said that this is a bit of a spine.

Li Xie, who didn't know what he was doing, didn't say anything for a while.

When he said something like he was completely defeated by Lu Yiming, think what you like.

Li Xie didn't seem to want to continue chatting on this boring topic, so he scribbled and rascally added the sentence "I'm home, what should you do yourself, don't go out at night and pay attention to safety, so I just hung up the phone." .