Voyage of the Stars

It was still a ternary signal, and it was still a digital star map like the previous broadcasting spaceship.

"What does it mean?"

"Are you talking by looking at the picture?"

Seeing the pattern on the holographic screen after being processed by the computer, Yue Yuan and others all looked puzzled.

It was fortunate that this unknown civilization could think of using these forms of pictures to start the first step of communication with other civilizations. Although it was just a digital star map, and it was the same star map sent by the previous broadcasting spaceship, it at least sent a message to humans or other civilizations: We are willing to communicate!

Obviously, this is a signal of goodwill, at least it will not let the two unknown civilizations that met for the first time immediately go to war in endless suspicion.

As for what is the meaning of transmitting this star map again now?

This time, Yue Yuan did not directly let the people present speak and speculate, but speculated in his heart. With his intelligence, he quickly thought of two possibilities, one is to ask questions, and the other is to indirectly spy on the depth of human beings in the field of computer technology.

Ask questions. Humans have clearly arrived in this star field, but this unknown civilization still sent the same star map as before. In Yue Yuan's opinion, such behavior is like asking, did you come here because you received the star map we broadcast?

If not, it seems unnecessary to send the same star map when humans have arrived here. It should be regarded as the first encounter between two unknown civilizations, and then send some other information to find a way to communicate, such as starting from mathematics and gradually involving language communication, and finally reaching the point where both sides can communicate with each other.

As for the second possibility, the depth of human computer technology is to see how long it takes humans to reply after receiving the information. It is difficult for those with poor computer skills to arrange and combine the ternary information into a correct digital star map in a short time.

"General, how should we reply?" It seems that someone has considered this, so he reminded Yue Yuan while he was still thinking.

"Reply to them with the same ternary information in the same frequency and in the tachyon way!" Yue Yuan obviously considered it, and when he saw someone asking, he blurted it out.

In this short time, Yue Yuan certainly considered it.

Replying to the message in this way has two meanings. If the other party means to ask, then it is to tell the other party: Yes, we came here because we received the ternary signal from the broadcasting spacecraft. If it is a test, then it is to respond quickly to show that one's computer technology is strong and that we are at the same level of civilization.

Since both parties are within their respective tachyon detection ranges, this way of sending tachyon information is no different from face-to-face communication, and it is also real-time. So the human side just sent the digital star map, and the other side responded within a few seconds.

It is also ternary digital information, the same arrangement and combination, and it is also a picture. The difference is that this time the image is no longer just a star map, but there are some more things on the detailed map of the star system. From the outside, it seems to be a ship.

Because there are enough 0, 1, and 2 in this detailed map, the picture on the holographic screen is like a picture composed of 0, 1, and 2 as pixels, and the overall picture is large, so those spaceships look very vivid.

Although the outside is very different from the spaceships that humans know, and it looks a bit like an irregular building, it can be clearly distinguished as a spaceship, because the picture moves after the "Light of the Milky Way" receives the subsequent tachyon information and processes it and adds it to the picture.

On the holographic screen, humans saw a series of digital flows appearing at the tail of the spacecraft composed of digital pixels. It was very vivid and obviously represented the tail thrusters of the spacecraft.

It was a big job to build such a picture with ternary numbers, and parsing it out also tested the level of computers and artificial intelligence.

It was also thanks to this civilization that they could come up with such a means of communication.

After replying to this message, they continued to output, so humans saw such a dynamic digital picture composed of 0, 1, and 2.

After the spacecraft that looked like a building approached one of the planets in the star system, some spacecraft flew out of the planet and transmitted some numbers to the fleet, and then the fleet left the star system.

Then the numbers in the picture uniformly became 0, and Yue Yuan and others could see that the picture was refreshed. Sure enough, the next moment the picture showed the previous star system picture again, and then another group of spacecraft with different appearances entered from the edge of the image and came to another planet in the star system, and finally the same dynamic picture as before appeared.

After a while, the dynamic image was refreshed again. The appearance of the spacecraft that appeared for the third time was also different, as if telling humans that the spacecrafts represented different civilizations.

Looking at these dynamic images composed of digital pixels, Yue Yuan couldn't help but be speechless. This is really talking by looking at the pictures, and it really uses images as a communication language.

And looking at the meaning of the dynamic image, it seems to say that many civilizations have come here? So what is this place? What is this unknown civilization doing here?

Could it be that this is a place where many civilizations have come and communicated? Uh. Civilization exchange, is it another so-called interstellar trading market?

After thinking for a moment, Yue Yuan spoke directly to the air: "Light of the Sky River, use the same method to compile a three-dimensional dynamic image with digital pixels. The content is that our fleet encountered the broadcasting spaceship 320 light years away. After receiving its signal, we turned here to find out."

The true situation of the human fleet must not be revealed. Having encountered the interstellar trading market pretending to be the Red Flame Civilization, humans are naturally much more vigilant.

I don't know whether this unknown civilization likes to communicate with dynamic images or for some other reason. After the human side compiled Yue Yuan's words into digital pixel images and sent them over, the other party quickly gave a reply message, which was still a dynamic image composed of digital pixels.

However, this time the content seemed a bit difficult for humans, because the content was much more complicated than the previous times. Not only did the dynamic image show the star system map, but also the planets inside were featured. There were also dynamic images composed of numbers on the top of each planet and on the top of each fleet. It seemed to be a mark, but humans obviously couldn't understand what it meant.

Somewhat helpless, such communication is like two people who have never learned sign language signing to each other in the air, with only a partial understanding.

To solve this problem, we need to communicate further, starting from mathematics to cooperate with this image to tell the other party our language information, and then if the other party also cooperates to send the corresponding language information to humans, then a communication system can be established.

So the question now is how to tell this unknown civilization that humans need to communicate further.

The human elites' brains are not rusty, and they soon have a solution, which is to use digital pixel animation to tell the unknown civilization. As for the content of the animation, it is probably a process of several small spaceships separating from the human fleet, then entering the star system, and exchanging "digital" with the planets in the star system.