Dark Star Field [Interstellar]

Thinking about it this way, what is the true identity of "Jijiu" is almost ready to be revealed.

Seeing that Xue Yelai was silent, the man spread out his palms, made a gesture of "please come this way", turned around and walked in front to lead the way.

Walking through an alleyway, the style of mechanical punk becomes more and more distinct.The half-old tin house is crooked, like a rivet box not neatly placed on the pier, and gears of various shapes are exposed under the damaged metal wall.Xue Yelai had a strange association, this planet seemed to be a spaceship, and he was walking in its mechanical cabin now.

Xue Yelai memorized the route as he walked.But he noticed some details: sporadic rubbish squeezed under the corners of some tin houses.Under normal circumstances, garbage will not fall into that kind of place, unless the house has been moved.This shows that these tin houses may be able to change positions like Lego blocks and change the distribution of streets.When they come out, these streets may look different again.

The guide took them into a blue tin house and disappeared.

The interior decoration of the house is completely different from the exterior, and the walls decorated with turquoise wood grain are elegant and pleasant.The space is not big, and it is divided into two parts inside and outside by a screen.On the table outside the screen, there are exquisite fine white porcelain tea sets and several small snacks.

"Master Xue, please have some tea." Someone spoke from behind the screen.The voice is a strange electronic sound, gender and age cannot be distinguished, and it is obviously made through a voice changer.

Xue Ye took a look at the red-gold tea soup in the tea cup, but didn't touch it.

The person behind the screen smiled, "Don't worry, since I invited you here, I don't need to use dirty hands and feet. It is our fate that you found this place. I have no malicious intentions, I just want to chat with Master Xue." After a pause, the voice continued: "I wonder if Young Master Xue is interested in what happened in the past?"

"What happened in the past?"

"Yes. For example, the Su family back then."

"I'm more concerned with what's going to happen in the future than with the past."

"Then you should know more about the past. Because the future is the continuation of the past. The 'effect' that will appear in the future has its 'cause' buried in the past." The voice changed into a rather sad tone, "We Although these people have lived underground like ants for many years, they have always paid attention to everything on the ground. The Su family has given us a lot of help. I am deeply saddened by their unfortunate ending. Some of them are related to you I think I might as well take this rare opportunity to tell you."

Xue Yelai didn't answer, nor did he show any expression.

After a while, the other party said again: "The atmosphere seems a bit dull. I'm sorry, I'm not a person who is good at chatting. That's all right, let me tell a story, as a pastime while drinking tea."

Interesting.Xue Yelai thought to himself, everyone should describe the events of the year in the form of a story.Is it because I don't have confidence in the authenticity of what I said, so I pretend to be a story to cover it up?

The beginning of the story is very old-fashioned: Once upon a time, there was a pair of good friends.They came from two different families and were very close, calling each other brothers.As adults, the two became the patriarchs of the two families respectively.

At this time, the country they are in has revealed a serious crisis.Through some channels, my brother got in touch with another country.That country offered to take in his entire family.

My brother is a very soft-hearted person.He considered that after his family fled, the violent emperor would inevitably blame his younger brother, and his family might suffer as a result.So he quietly told his younger brother about the plan, made an appointment with his younger brother, and planned to escape together.

However, my brother wanted to take away too many people, so the news leaked ahead of time and reached the ears of the emperor.

Speaking of this, the person behind the screen sneered slightly, "Heh. Too much kindness is stupid. ——You can probably guess what happened next, right?"

Xue Yelai still didn't respond.The other party waited for a while, and then continued the conversation: "Your father has learned the news that the emperor has already known. At this time, it is too late to escape. Your father was still very young at that time, but he was extremely decisive and made a decision immediately. Decision: Kill all the insiders of the Su family as quickly as possible, so as not to expose the conspiracy between the two families.

"Of course, I have to say in a fair way that the order to 'destroy the Su family' was issued by the emperor. It is impossible for your father to disobey, otherwise he himself would be killed. But if your father has a trace of kindness in his heart Well, he doesn't have to be so extreme, even if he left a member of the Su family. However, in order to keep his own family, he did not hesitate to kill the Su family himself, not only defending the conspiracy, but also guarding how to escape. secret.

"Maybe the gods wanted to give your father a chance to make amends. There was a female warrior who escaped from the massacre of the Su family and was met by your father. He took her in. But do you think he did it out of kindness? He caused an aircraft crash and killed your mother in the accident. But in fact it was Li Daitao, your mother was secretly sent away by your father long ago, and it was the female soldier who escaped from the Su family who died This poor woman naively believed that your father had a compassionate heart until she died."

The other party stopped, as if waiting for Xue Yelai's reaction.

"Why did you tell me this?" Xue Yelai asked coldly.

"Hmm...why?" The person behind the screen seemed to think for a while, "Probably because of curiosity. Your father is the most hypocritical person I have ever met, and he would do anything to take advantage of others. So I couldn't help being a little curious, What kind of person would you be if you grew up under the influence of your father?"

"Curiosity, understandable." Xue Yelai nodded, "I just happen to be curious about some things, and I have some guesses. Why don't we talk about it together?"

"Please tell me, I'm very interested." The person behind the screen said lightly.Xue Yelai seemed to be able to imagine the slightly raised corners of the other party's mouth when he said this.

"I think the reason why the Su family believed that their entire family could escape smoothly may be because you once promised to assist them. You have always been in contact with the Interstellar Federation, so you have technology that the Star Empire cannot achieve. .But judging from the final outcome, it seems that you have broken your promise, at least you have taken a stand-by attitude when they need help."

"Oh?" The person behind the screen chuckled again, "You mean, the people in our dungeon are undercover agents sent by the Interstellar Federation? A group of undercover agents living in the underground tunnel sounds really high-end."

"Not to mention undercover, I guess you don't have any allegiance to either side. To put it bluntly, you may be speculators. Whichever side can make a living, you go to that side. So you use the porcupine dove to describe yourself, because this is not you The home is just a place to live temporarily."

If the ballad is understood as a signal sent by the dungeon to the Interstellar Federation, its content can be explained to a certain extent.

"Perilla grass, purple flowers bloom", this probably means that the Su family was in a prosperous period at that time, and it was a valuable existence.

"Artemisia grows in the perilla garden", which probably means that the Xue family has a tendency to replace the Su family.

The last two sentences refer to things that haven't happened yet, Xue Yelai is not sure about the specific meaning.But it seems understandable that when the Xue family completely replaces the Su family, a war is about to happen, and the people in the dungeon are also preparing to leave.

However, there is an obvious problem with this explanation: Since the dungeon has such a high level of technology, why doesn't it use information encryption technology to send secret messages to the Interstellar Federation?After all, the information conveyed by ballads is vague, but secret reports are much faster and more informative than ballads.

However, this may be the cleverness of "Jijiu".

Once the Star Domain Empire intercepts the encrypted information, it will definitely attach great importance to it and interpret it repeatedly.No matter how deeply the ciphertext is hidden, it will definitely be cracked.

Taking a step back, even if the ciphertext has not been cracked, the source of information can be traced back. "The dungeon sent an encrypted message to the Interstellar Federation", this incident itself shows that the dungeon has a relationship with the Interstellar Federation, which is enough to put the dungeon in danger.

But a completely public message is different.A widely spread ballad, it is difficult to trace back to its original origin, and few people think seriously about its content.Even if someone has doubts about the content of the ballad, it can only be doubts, and nothing can be concluded from this.

This is the biggest feature of things like "prophecy": it is ambiguous, between intelligible and unintelligible.No one can tell what it really says until it actually happened;

Therefore, through the form of prophecy and ballads, the dungeon can easily transmit this information to the Interstellar Federation without taking any risks or paying costs.