Chapter 2 Chapter One A Piece of Ice Sent from Antarctica

That day, at a banquet, a beautiful lady suddenly said to me: "You guys are really good storytellers. It seems that you can meet all kinds of weird characters, and anyone can appear in your novels." I just laughed and didn't answer. It's hard to explain a more complicated question to a lady who is full of jewelry and has become obese because she refuses to sacrifice a little in food, and has a further tendency to become bloated.Perhaps her intelligence is very high, but due to her long-term too affluent life, she has no chance to use her brain, so she will naturally become less sensitive.

When I say this, I definitely do not mean to belittle such women, but to point out the facts. And the other point of fact is that the beautiful lady was very beautiful indeed, and her beauty far surpassed the excess of expensive ornaments she wore on her body, but she obviously didn't know it, because she was doing everything possible. Intentionally or unintentionally, she was showing off a huge emerald ring on her hand, while ignoring her childish and charming smile. I didn't say anything, but a man here rebutted for me: "Actually, the characters in Mr. Wei's works are just ordinary people, but he discovered strange things in an ordinary person."

The beautiful lady was unconvinced: "Ordinary? He even knows gods, and he still says ordinary?" The man obviously knew who the "immortal" the other party was referring to, so he immediately replied: "You mean Jia Yuzhen? When Mr. Wei met Jia Yuzhen, he was not an immortal, but an antique dealer. If Mr. Wei I sold that screen to him at a low price, so if anything happens in the future, it will naturally have nothing to do with Mr. Wei." The beautiful lady is obviously used to people agreeing to her opinions when she says anything, so once she encounters a rebuttal, she looks quite uncomfortable. She raised her hand: "Really? That means, even if Mr. Wei meets you A strange story can be found in the most ordinary person?"

I didn't like this kind of debate very much. While drinking, I said, "I'm a bit like China during the Russo-Japanese War." The man laughed, he understood what I said, but the lady's eyes were wide open, she clearly didn't understand, and I didn't bother to explain. It seemed quite difficult to tell her that Japan was at war with Russia, but the battlefield was in China. , but the lady still refused to let it go: "Mr. Wei, I don't think you can find any strange stories from my husband." I smiled and said, "I'm afraid not." In fact, I have no idea what the husband of this beautiful and rich lady does, or even who she is, and I say this in passing, not wanting to continue the subject at all.

But the lady didn't even understand such a hint, and looked like a winner: "Look, don't you?" The man wanted to play a prank on the lady, so he asked, "Is your husband..." The mouth of the beautiful lady immediately became an exaggerated circle, as if people didn't know who her husband was, which was a kind of extreme ignorance. There was another elder in the banquet who looked quite gentle, and said at this moment: "Mrs. Wen is the third young lady of the Wen family." The man and I couldn't help laughing together, what the hell is "the third young lady of the Wen family"?This seems to be a common problem of some people. They think that if they have some money, the whole world should know who they are.Of course, when it comes to Onassis, Howard or Rockefeller, they have the right to do so, but some small businessmen, really, please forgive them, but they still can't help laughing.

The man and I laughed and raised our glasses to each other to show that we both understood what we were laughing at. The old man said again: "The Wen family opened Wen Yuqingtang." I blinked: "It sounds like a Chinese medicine store." The man also followed my example and blinked his eyes: "Most of them also sell some Zhuge Xingjun powder, which is a unique medicine that can cure all diseases." The man said, laughing presumptuously and rudely, and hugged me: "Mr. Wei, the shopkeeper of the Chinese medicine store, I admit that I'm afraid you can't find any strange stories from the cicada slough, platycodon, and windproof." Alright, I guess I was wrong!"

The man showed obvious contempt in his words, which made everyone in the seat look pale, and the beautiful lady was even more green and white, unable to get off the stage. I had no choice but to help her out: "That's not necessarily true. In fact, anyone can have a strange experience." The man said: "Really? The shopkeeper of the Chinese medicine store, haha###!" While smiling, he stood up, drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, and said to me: "Nice to meet you, my name is Luo, and my name is Luo Kai." When the man said his name, I was shocked.This man's name means nothing to anyone else here, but I know that he is a legendary figure with a weird nickname that is not what modern people should have: "Asian Eagle".He also has many amazing experiences, I really want to know this person.

Originally, I was quite disapproving of his unscrupulous expression, but now that I know who he is, for a person like him, he is naturally qualified to do so. I also stood up and reached out to him, we held hands, he smiled, he had a very handsome and deep face, and his words were even more blunt: "Mr Wei, I think we can find another place to talk , I am free today." I immediately said, "Okay, I'm very glad to meet you." I came to this banquet only because the host of the banquet is a distant relative of Bai Su, and I was asked to come here. Dull.Unexpectedly, I will meet Luo Kai, who is known as the "Asian Eagle", here. This is really an unexpected joy.

The rest naturally don't need to say hello anymore, Luo Kai turned around and went out first, I also took a step, but at this moment, someone grabbed the corner of my clothes, at the same time, I also heard a young man shouting Me: "Mr. Wei, Mr. Wei." I looked back and saw a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy looking at me with wide-eyed eyes.He is a very handsome young man, and looking at the expression on his face, it seems to be full of countless questions. I was about to ask him what's the matter, but the beautiful lady said in a beautiful voice: "A Bao, let go, Mr. Wei might be in a hurry to meet the aliens, why are you holding him back?" ?”

I frowned and looked over to the beautiful lady, who was staring at the teenager authoritatively. The boy looked very embarrassed: "Mom, I..." The beautiful Third Young Mistress shouted again: "Let go!" The boy let go, and I patted him on the shoulder: "Don't be sad, kid, I've seen a lot of people who want to impose their own ignorance on the next generation, but I can tell you that they won't succeed." .” At that time, I was eager to have a chat with Luo Kai, a legendary figure, and I didn't know what was going on with this young man from the Wen family, so I just wanted to get away, and what I said made the third young lady's expression so ugly that even Her beauty is also less than that.

As I spoke, I wanted to leave again, but the young man begged, "Mr. Wei, I want... I want..." I laughed: "I have something to do now, kid, I promise, you can come to me if you have something to do, okay?" He looked a little helpless, biting his lower lip, I ignored him and turned around, but Luo Kai was nowhere to be seen, I hurried out of the restaurant without seeing him. After waiting at the entrance of the hotel for a while, he still didn't show up. This person is really a dragon! Standing outside the glass door, I was naturally not very happy, because a legendary figure like Luo Kai is erratic, and there are not so many chances to meet him by chance.I missed this opportunity, and I don't know when and what month I will see you again. I was not sure whether to go back to look for him again, and half turned around while hesitating, only to see the young man who had held me back just now was running out quickly, almost rushing to the door at once. Because he rushed forward at an extremely fast speed, the glass door opened and closed automatically, and the speed of opening the door could not match. Seeing that he was about to hit the door heavily, the Si Yan by the door uttered a scream, and was frightened, unable to understand. How to stop this boy. I was outside the glass door, completely helpless, although there were still a few people by the door, they were all just in a daze.I knew that slamming into a glass door with such force could cause quite serious damage, but I just watched. At this moment, a person flashed out from nowhere with extremely fast movement, and squeezed into the space less than half a meter between the boy and the glass door. The young man slammed into that person's body heavily, and the man was hit, his body didn't even move, his hands had already pressed down on the young man's shoulders. Although at this time, the person was only facing away from me, but I could already recognize that this person was Luo Kai.At this time, the glass door behind him opened, and the young man said something to him, then hurried out of the door and walked towards me. Luo Kai also turned around, I raised my hand to him, but he gestured to me quickly, I recognized at a glance that he was speaking to me with the gestures of a deaf-mute, he was telling me , Suddenly, something important happened, so we had to have a long talk next time. After gesturing, he turned around and strode away, turning the corner and out of sight. At that time, the young man had already come to my side, raised his head, and fixed his gaze on me. There was reproach in my voice: "It wasn't that gentleman just now, you have already hit the glass." The young man gasped: "I... I'm afraid you've already left, I'm anxious... so———" I waved my hand: "No need to explain, do you have something to tell me?" The boy nodded vigorously.I took a few steps forward and gave birth by a fountain at the entrance of the hotel.The boy came to me and rubbed his hands. I looked at him, and he suddenly asked without thinking: "Are there many things in this pool that we can't see and don't understand?" I was stunned for a moment, and for a moment, I really didn't know what he meant by asking. He added: "I mean, is every corner and every space in the world full of things that we can't see and don't know?" It is said that people's thoughts gradually become mature with age, but I always think that when people's thoughts are "immature", they have more weird ideas.This kind of weird idea even appears in children's words and deeds. Many adults will not approve or like it, and blame it as unrealistic. However, this kind of weird idea, in many cases, promotes the progress of human thinking and behavior. The driving force. The boy in front of me obviously has his own thoughts, he is not an ordinary boy with no brains, the question he asked has been repeated twice, I still don't quite understand what he wants to ask, but seeing him ask so seriously , I never want to be perfunctory. (At this time, I quite naturally thought of a person, this person is Li Yixin. When he was a teenager, his words and deeds seemed incomprehensible and grotesque, and even he himself could not understand. But when Later, when the truth of the matter became clear, I realized that he had a great mission, which left a deep impression on me.) (About Li Yixin is recorded in the story "Dongtian".) This made me dare not neglect the young man in front of me: "What exactly do you want to ask? I don't quite understand." The young man looked at me with an expression of disbelief, moved his lips twice, and said, "Mr. Wei, don't you know everything?" I spread my hands: "I have never claimed to know everything, and there is absolutely no one in the world who knows everything. If you want to know something, then you must at least clarify the question when you ask someone." The boy showed a very disappointed expression: "I think I've made it clear enough." I couldn't help feeling a little angry, and was about to say a few more words to him when his mother, the beautiful third young lady of the Wen family, had already appeared at the door of the restaurant, calling out, "Ah Bao." Although she is slightly fat, which fits the body of a soprano singer, the people nearby obviously did not expect that she would make such a loud and terrifying cry, so that everyone within 20 meters stopped, He looked at her with a look of astonishment.But she remained calm, and let out a second, more exaggerated cry. The boy frowned, and hurriedly said: "I have asked clearly enough, I mean..." I interrupted his words: "Go quickly, otherwise, your mother will yell a few more times, and this thirty-storey building may be shaken down by her yelling." The boy smiled wryly, turned around, and walked towards his mother. A large motorhome driven by a driver drove over. The two of them, mother and son, got into the car, and the car drove away.I saw the boy waving to me in the car, but his mother pulled his waving hand down with all her strength. I was a little touched, that boy named "A Bao" had his own ideas, but his mother!Although he grew up in a very wealthy family, he was not necessarily happy, at least, there was no one with whom he could discuss his weird thoughts. I stood up slowly, looked at the fountain, and thought about the boy's question just now, but still didn't understand what he wanted to know.What he asked was: Is every space full of things that we can't see and don't understand?This kind of statement is quite vague. What is "something you can't see and don't understand"?Can refer to almost anything!For example, the bacteria in the air cannot be seen, and we don't necessarily know much about them.Bacteria can also be seen through a microscope, they have a shape, and in space, there are more things without a shape, such as electric waves, radio waves, and so on.Or what does not have a body cannot be called a "thing"; then, what exactly does it refer to?I was still thinking about it on the way home.I was somewhat sorry that I had not been able to satisfy him that he was desperate for an answer to my question. Back home, I talked about this boy with Bai Su, and Bai Su thought for a moment: "Young people have many wonderful ideas, but they don't have a systematic concept, so they can't be translated into words or words, so that others can understand what they are. What are you thinking?" She paused for a while: "We have all been teenagers, what did you miss most when you were teenagers?" I took a breath: "In our era, young people's thoughts were relatively simple. I just wanted to be able to fly, to be invisible, and to be a knight who helped the weak. How about you?" Bai Su rested his head on his hand, and said slowly: "I just want to know what is beyond the universe." I stuck out my tongue: "It's really great. I'm afraid there will be no answer to this question in a hundred thousand years." Bai Su sighed lowly: "People live on the earth, and the earth is an insignificant speck of dust in the universe, but human thoughts have long been exploring how big the universe is and what is beyond the universe? Who said that human thoughts are influenced by Environmental constraints?" I also sighed: "Of course, human thoughts are infinite, just like the universe is infinite." After talking with Bai Su for a while, I still don't know what the boy wants to understand. Naturally, I have various things to do. I can't keep the problem of a young man's unclear words on my mind for a long time. For a few days, I forgot about it. About seven or eight days later, that night, I encountered an indescribable incident, which took me almost an afternoon.When I got home, the car drove to the door of the residence, and I saw a big RV parked at the door, and I knew there were guests coming. At this time, I was making a lot of assumptions about that incident. Because the incident itself was a bit unimaginable, I was dizzy and didn't want to see the guests, so I thought about whether to stop the car and enter through the back door. You can avoid people. But at this moment, the door opened, Bai Su heard the sound of the car, and knew that I was back, she made a gesture to me at the door, signaling me to go in.I got out of the car and walked towards the door, feeling very impatient: "Who is it? I don't want to see anyone." Bai Su smiled: "A couple, I'm afraid you must see them, they accuse you of instigating their son to steal." I was stunned, when did I instigate someone else's son to steal?As he thought about it, he walked in and saw that beautiful lady at a glance. She hadn't seen her for more than ten days, and her weight seemed to have improved a lot.What's worse is that she doesn't know yet, wearing a bright green dress that is too narrow, she looks very weird. In addition to her, there was a middle-aged man who looked very honest and dull, with his hands clasped tightly and his brows frowning. When I saw that beautiful lady, I thought of that young man. Could it be that young man stole something from someone else? If I didn't have something to do, I could help them persuade the young man, but now, I am being entangled in that strange incident, and I have no interest in being a voluntary youth probation team member. I glanced at them, and went straight to the stairs, the man stood up: "Mr. Wei, I am Wen Dafu, Wen Baoyu's father." I muttered in my heart, "It's none of my business." I stepped up the stairs without looking back: "We don't seem to know each other. I'm sorry, I have something to do and I don't have time to accompany you." While talking, he had already walked up the stairs. Mr. Wen didn't say anything, but Mrs. Wen yelled: "A Bao said that you taught him to steal. Mr. Wei, you are too much." Although this lady is beautiful, her words really made people angry. I still walked up and waited until I reached the stairs before I turned around, pointed at the door, and shouted: "Get out." I didn't add the word "scroll" on top of "get out", that would be too polite. The lady stood up abruptly, still maintaining that high-pitched voice: "We can call the police." I couldn't bear it anymore: "Then please go quickly." Of course, I would never waste any more words, and immediately went into the study and closed the door. Here, the unspeakable incident should be described first.Because of this matter, it is much more interesting than a boy from a wealthy family stealing things, and the boy's parents are in a panic, messing with people. Moreover, I'm sure that Bai Su can deal with that couple, if they don't know how to play, Bai Su can throw them into the street in half a second. It happened at noon, and I was in my study, looking up some information about the Siberian oil field, which was a large oil field in the Soviet Union, and its oil production accounted for more than half of the total output of the Soviet Union—why did I suddenly look up information about this oil field? It's another story. At that moment, a phone in the drawer rang.I have a phone in a drawer. Only a few very close friends know the number of this phone, so only they will call me.I opened the drawer and picked up the phone, but I heard a strange man's voice: "Excuse me, is Mr. Wesley in?" I frowned, and replied: "You are..." As I asked, I was already extremely upset, wondering why this phone number was in the hands of a stranger. The voice over there hurriedly said: "My surname is Hu, and Mr. Zhang Jian asked me to call you." I immediately said "oh", Zhang Jian, the scientist who has lived in Antarctica for many years, is my good friend. He is the most difficult to contact. Never found him. Zhang Jian usually goes to the ice and snow far away from the base, or in a small submarine, and this small submarine sails under the ice layer tens of feet thick in Antarctica. No one even knows whether he will still be alive again. There, because of his actions, every second, could be in danger of being killed. Last time, his younger brother Zhang Qiang died in Japan, and we couldn't inform him until he contacted me that we told him the sad news.But he still refused to leave Antarctica. If he is happy, he will contact me from time to time, but my whereabouts are also uncertain, and it is not easy for him to find me, so I have not heard from him for many years, and he asked someone to call me. This kind of thing is the first time Second-rate. Therefore, as soon as I heard the other party say that, I knew that something unusual must have happened. I hurriedly said, "Ah, Zhang Jian, what's the matter with him?" The other party hesitated for a moment before saying: "Mr. Wei, I think you're going to come to my place once. I really can't understand you on the phone." I said, "It's always okay to give a brief summary." The other party hesitated again——I don't like people who hesitate to speak very much, so I hummed impatiently, and the other party said: "Zhang Jian handed me something, and this thing has changed. Zhang Jian When he sent me something, he said that if there is any change in the things he sent me, he must notify you." I snorted again. "What did he send you? What changed?" The other party sighed, "Mr. Wei, I don't know, you must come and take a look." I thought to myself that it would be a waste of time to talk on the phone with this kind of talkative person. For Zhang Jian's sake, I might as well go for a walk, so I asked him for the address. This person is not very happy with his speech, but he is quite good at urging people: "Mr. Wei, please hurry up as soon as possible." I put down the phone, pressed a long paperweight on top of the messy documents so as not to make a mess when I continued to check, and left the residence.When I left, Bai Su wasn't there, and I didn't leave a note, because I was thinking that it doesn't matter if I go and come back. The address the man gave me was at a seaside in the suburbs. He specifically said, "That's a research institute I run, specializing in the reproduction process of marine organisms. I'm an aquatic scientist." As I drove to the site, I couldn't figure out what relationship there would be between Antarctic explorers and aquatic scientists. The location of the man's research institute is quite remote, and it is a long way to go from the city. The car sped forward along the road by the sea, and when I reached the destination, I was surprised: the scale of this research institute was huge, far beyond my imagination. Almost five kilometers away, signs can be seen erected everywhere on the seashore, with warning words: "This is the research site of the Institute of Marine Biology, please do not do any damage." In the city where I live, there is such a large-scale marine biological research institute, which is beyond my expectation.When I looked towards the coast, I could see many facilities, some of which surrounded the seabed of the coast with dikes to form rectangular pools to raise shellfish.Some have built a rather long embankment, leading directly to the sea. At the end of the embankment, there is a house, which is of course designed for observing marine life living in the deep sea. Also, there are strings of rafts floating on the sea quite far from the shore, and some seabeds are surrounded by dikes. Obviously, all the seawater has been sucked out, leaving only the shore rocks on the seabed exposed to the air. middle. The car drove through the two large iron gates, and I was even more surprised when I saw the building of this research institute.The building itself cannot be considered magnificent, but it occupies an extremely large area.There are also many cars parked in the parking lot outside, which shows that there are quite a lot of people working in this research institute. I stopped for a while in front of the reception room, and an employee immediately let me drive in. When I reached the gate, a man in his thirties and wearing a white lab coat came up to me, and said to me as soon as he saw me. : "I am Hu Huaiyu, Zhang Jian's friend." I got out of the car, shook hands with him, and found that his hands were quite cold. I made a joke: "Zhang Jian has been in Antarctica for many years, and his friends also got infected? Why are your hands so cold?" Hu Huaiyu rubbed his hands a little embarrassedly, with an anxious expression, "Please follow me." I followed him into the building, and said sincerely: "I am really ignorant. I don't even know that there is such a large-scale research institute." Hu Huaiyu doesn't seem to be very good at dealing with it, and is a little shy: "Our work... is very remote, so it is not noticed by people, and it was not long ago, although the personnel and equipment are excellent, but there is no achievement, and of course no one knows about it. " I casually asked: "The host of the institute is..." Hu Huaiyu smiled, he had a pale childish face, and when he smiled, he looked younger. He smiled and said, "It's me." That was beyond my expectation. At that time, I must have shown a look of surprise, so he said: "Of course I am not very qualified, so some accomplished aquatic scientists are not willing to come here." Come to do research work, but all the equipment here is absolutely world-class. There are only five research institutes with similar equipment in the world, all of which are supported by the state or universities." What he said surprised me even more: "You mean, this... research institute is a private institution?" Hu Huaiyu actually nodded: "Yes, all the funds come from the inheritance of my late father, my late father..." When he spoke up to this point, he looked a little shy, hesitated for a while, and didn't go on. I saw that it was a bit difficult to say, so I thought about the name of the rich man surnamed Hu in my heart.To rely on private power to support a research institute of this scale, one must be extremely wealthy to be rich in financial resources.I didn't ask any more questions, and I didn't think about it any further, because it wasn't something I was interested in. I turned to the topic: "What did Zhang Jian send you?" He frowned: "It's hard to say, what he sent was a piece of ice." I immediately widened my eyes, Zhang Jian was acting inexplicably, but sending a piece of ice from Antarctica to a friend, this kind of behavior is no longer inexplicable, it is simply an idiot. Moreover, how can a piece of ice be sent thousands of miles away?Won't the ice melt in transit? My expression at that time must have been weird and inexplicable, so Hu Huaiyu hurriedly said: "Those ice cubes were not actually sent by mail, but delivered by a company that specializes in transporting valuables for people. Please see, this is Boxes for those ice cubes." At this time, he had already pushed open the door of a room, and pointed to a rather large box, which was one meter cubic in size. , with a layer of space, which looks like an insurance layer. The central part of the box is very small, about 20 centimeters square. Hu Huaiyu continued to explain: "Zhang Jian specified that after leaving the Antarctic range, this box must be transported in a freezer at minus 50 degrees Celsius. The transportation company has also done this, so until the box arrives, I opened it in the laboratory, and the ice cubes in the box are exactly the same as when he put them in." I said "hmm" and listened patiently to his explanation. Hu Huaiyu came to a table, opened the drawer, and took out a letter: "Those ice cubes are three in total, and each piece is only the size of half a sugar cube we use every day, very crystal clear, like crystal. About those ice cubes, Zhang Jian wrote a detailed explanation in his letter, I think it’s much better for you to read his letter than for me to repeat it.” As he spoke, he handed the letter into my hand, and I recognized it was written by Zhang Jian when I saw the scribbled handwriting that was almost illegible.In credit English writing, no matter how scribbled anyone's handwriting is, he will not be like him. One of the lines, even from the beginning to the end, is almost a straight line, but there is a slight bend at the beginning of each word. I couldn't help smiling bitterly. At this time, I had already become very interested in the three small ice cubes that Hu Huaiyu said.Just think about it, from the Antarctic tens of thousands of kilometers away, it took so much manpower and material resources to transport three ice cubes the size of half candy here, why? Unless Zhang Jian is a lunatic, otherwise, it is necessary to explore why he did that.So, I really wanted to read Zhang Jian's letter right away, but after two minutes, I gave up. At the same time, I raised my head and asked in a doubtful tone: "You... can understand this letter ?” Hu Huaiyu said: "Yes, his handwriting is a bit scribbled." I yelled: "What's a little scribbled, it's not a word at all, it's not even as good as a sketch." Hu Huaiyu defended Zhang Jian: "It's like this. There are a lot of technical terms in the letter. Those who are familiar with it can know what they are at once, and there is no need to write them out neatly." I was helpless: "Then, please read that letter." Hu Huaiyu came over and said, "Zhang Jian doesn't like to talk politely, so there is no nonsense in the letter. At the beginning, he said: I have sent three ice cubes. I have strictly ordered the relevant parties to deliver them at low temperature. , although the box itself can also keep the low temperature for more than 30 hours, I hope they can do it. I once carved very shallow patterns on three small pieces of ice, which are my signature. If the temperature exceeds minus 50 degrees Celsius, these shallow If so, immediately put three small ice cubes into the stove, because I have no way of knowing what kind of life is conceived in these small ice cubes." While reading the letter, Hu Huaiyu pointed to the lines of illegible cursive characters on the letter.As soon as he read it out, I could vaguely recognize that Zhang Jian's letter was indeed written like this, especially the last sentence of that paragraph: "What kind of life is conceived." I frowned: "Zhang Jian has been a scientist for a long time, and he forgot how to use words. What does it mean to conceive life? Ice cubes can't conceive, how can they conceive life?" Hu Huaiyu glared at me immediately, disapproving, making me know that I must have said something wrong.He said: "Ice cubes can naturally breed life. In a small piece of ice, there can be hundreds of millions of different kinds of life." Naturally, I immediately understood what Hu Huaiyu meant. The word "life" has a wide range of meanings. Man is the spirit of all things, and nature is life. In the ocean, the huge blue whale weighing twenty tons is life, and the tiny mayfly creature, It is also life. Under a high-magnification electron microscope, there can be hundreds of millions of lives in a drop of water. This is what scientists say. I didn’t think of this for a while. Of course it was my fault, so I nodded in agreement. While making a gesture, he asked him to continue. Hu Huaiyu continued to read the letter: "You must open the box containing the ice cubes in the cryogenic laboratory, and check the small ice cubes for my signature." After reading this, he added: "I did exactly what he said. The temperature of the three small ice cubes was never higher than the temperature he specified during the transportation process, so the light lines on the ice cubes were very clear." I clicked Nodding his head, he only hoped that he would read it quickly so that he could understand what Zhang Jian's purpose was for transporting the small ice cubes thousands of miles away. Hu Huaiyu took a breath and pointed to the letter paper: "These small ice cubes are the specimens I collected in the thick ice layer of Antarctica. My recent research topic has changed to the origin of life on the earth. I have a bold idea. The hypothesis is that the original form of life originated from the low temperature at the two poles. I have such a hypothesis because there have been many examples that prove that life can be extended almost unlimitedly under low temperature..." I waved my hand and interrupted Hu Huaiyu's reading: "I don't understand this sentence, can you explain it briefly?" Hu Huaiyu nodded: "Some scientists have been able to store the newly formed embryos at low temperature for more than ten years. Under low temperature storage, the development process of the original embryos stops. Thaw, increase the temperature step by step, until the appropriate temperature for the embryo to resume activity, the development will continue." I said "hmm": "Yes, I have read such records, the white mouse embryos after fertilization were taken out and refrigerated. At that time, the embryos only had four or eight cells. After many years of refrigerated, the temperature was raised again. The embryo continues to change and finally becomes a guinea pig." Hu Huaiyu nodded: "That's it. This is not only a theory, but also a practice." At that moment, I suddenly thought of the words "Ice cubes breed life" in Zhang Jian's belief, and I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart. I realized that the unusual thing might be far beyond my imagination. For a while, I didn't say anything, Hu Huaiyu waited for a while, and continued to read Zhang Jian's letter: "So, I assume that in the low temperature at the two poles, there may be natural conditions, the earliest form of life preserved, and I continue to collect everything. For possible specimens, use a detector designed by myself to detect the collected ice cubes. Those specimens are all collected from extremely low temperature regions, minus 50 degrees Celsius or even worse. Among these three small ice cubes, I detected that there is a faint life information..." Hu Huaiyu looked at me and saw the puzzled look on my face. Before I could ask, he explained: "Life has life..." 他讲了这一句话之后，立即意识到自己这样的解释，词意太模糊，说了等于没说，所以他不好意思地笑了一下：“我的意思是，生命是活动的，即使它的活动再微弱，精密的探测，还是可以感觉到它的存在，一个单细胞的分裂过程，它的活动，真是微乎其微，可是一样可以被测得到。” 他这样解释，我自然再明白也没有。胡怀玉手指在信纸上移动：“这发现使我极度兴奋，可是我这里全然没有培育设备，无法知道冰中孕育的生命，在进一步发展之后是甚么。可能是蜉蝣生物，可能是水螅，可能是任何生物，也有可能是早已绝了种的史前生物。所以我要把冰块送到你的研究所来，你那里有完善的设备，可供冰块中生命的原始形态继续发展下去。” “由于我们对生命所知实在太少，所以我提议一有意外，立即停止，如果意外已到了不可控制的阶段，那么尽快和我的一个朋友联络，他的名字是卫斯理，电话是……” 胡怀玉念到这里，我已经大吃一惊。张坚的信上说“如果意外已到了不可控制的阶段”，就要胡怀玉和我联络。如今胡怀玉找到了我，当然是有了意外，而且已经到了“不可控制的阶段”了，这令人吃惊，难道胡怀玉已经从那三块小冰块中，培育了甚么怪物来了吗？ 这倒真有点像早期神怪片中的情节了：科学家的实验室中，培育出了怪物，怪物不可遏制地生长，变得硕大无朋，捣毁了实验室，冲进大城市，为祸人间。 我本来真的十分吃惊，可是一联想到了这样的场面，不禁笑了起来，如果真是这样的话，那真是滑稽诙谐之至。卫斯理大战史前怪物！真是去他妈的！ 所以，我立时恢复了镇定：“那么，现在，出现了甚么不能控制的意外？” 胡怀玉皱了皱眉，像是一时之间，十分难以解绎，我耐心等了他一会，他才道：“还是一步一步说，比较容易明白。”