Chapter 8 Chapter 1 Bai Su's Weird Gesture

The five paragraphs of wedge have all been explained. Please note that the main characters who have appeared in these five wedges, counted in order of appearance, are: I—Wesley, no need to introduce more. The mysterious long-haired girl in black──I discussed a painting titled "Mang Dian" with me, but I never saw her appearance from the beginning to the end. Killer - a professional killer. The killer's client──A person who finally entrusted the killer to kill after having a conversation with the killer. His identity is unknown. Tao Li──Standard beauty with blonde hair and blue eyes, lively and active.

Green - the rank of major, a highly trained American astronaut. The Countess of Ump - rich, middle-aged, but still very attractive.A celebrity in a European social scene full of mature female charm. Chen Dao, a Chinese-Austrian biologist, stubbornly believes in his own theories, and devotes himself to studying the communication methods between moths. Osugi Saburo──Japanese nine-dan chess player, in the chess world, he is known as a "ghost" master. Shizaozhiren──an unknown novelist who writes fragmentary manuscripts for some magazines. These people are related in each wedge, but not related at all in different wedges.

What kind of story can these people make up? I am the natural protagonist of all stories, so the story begins with me. That day, Bai Su went out for some reason, I chose a jazz drum record, turned the volume up very loudly, and let the thumping drums surround me. The sound of the drum shook the room, and suddenly someone patted me on the shoulder. When I turned around, I saw that Bai Su had returned. She was frowning and talking to me. I hurriedly pressed the button of the remote control volume, and the drum sound disappeared. , I heard Bai Su's voice: "Look at you, the guest is ringing the bell at the door, and you can't hear it even after ringing for twenty minutes!"

Only then did I notice that there was a man standing at the door. The man was wearing a light gray raincoat, which was very wet. I didn't even know it was raining outside.I stood up: "I don't seem to have made an appointment with this gentleman, he is—" The man was turning around and taking off his raincoat when I looked at him, so I didn't see his face. After I finished speaking, he also took off his raincoat and turned around. It was a young man, completely unfamiliar to me, he was about twenty-seven or eight years old, quite handsome, with a worried look on his face.

Seeing that it was a stranger, I couldn't help but glared at Bai Su, a bit blaming her for being meddlesome.If I hear the doorbell, go to the door, and see a stranger, I will never let him in to bother me, and send him away at the door. Bai Su lowered his voice: "This gentleman needs help!" I couldn't help smiling bitterly. At this time, the young man had already walked forward, his expression still anxious, rubbing his hands together: "Mr. I will never trouble you two." When I heard this, I was really angry and funny: "Yes, I provide medical treatment for difficult and miscellaneous diseases here."

The young man was robbed by me, and his face was flushed. He was not very sophisticated, and at that moment, he didn't know how to deal with it.Bai Su stared at me very dissatisfied.I thought to myself, I take care of too many nosy things, I have to get to the bottom of everything, let Bai Su take care of it, anyway, many people think that she is more capable and rational than me.Therefore, I asked Bai Su to deal with this "intractable disease". I winked mischievously at Bai Su, we can already know each other's feelings without talking, Bai Su also immediately raised his eyebrows, saying "I will come as I come."

I smiled and thought in my heart: Don't take things too easily, that young man may say some strange things, then it depends on how you deal with it! As I thought about it, I turned around, but at that moment, the young man had calmed down a bit: "My elder brother told me that if you really can't think of anything else, you can come to Mr. Wei, Mrs. Wei." , He also told me not to bother others until it was an emergency." I walked towards the stairs and heard Bai Su asking: "Who is Brother Ling?" The young man said: "Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. My surname is Zhang, and my name is Shan Qiang. My brother's name is Zhang Jian. He has been working in Antarctica."

I have already stepped on the two poles of the stairs, and I couldn't help being stunned when I heard these two sentences. The young uninvited guest turned out to be Zhang Jian's younger brother!Damn it--why didn't he just say who he was when he came in?If he said that he was Zhang Jian's younger brother, it would be very different, and I would never embarrass him. Zhang Jian is an old friend of mine, and I had a wonderful experience with him ("The Earth's Core Oven"). He is a famous Antarctic explorer with outstanding achievements. What's more admirable is that Zhang Jian is a real scientist, an extremely interesting and admirable person!Although his younger brother may be very boring and uninteresting, since he is Zhang Jian's younger brother, if he comes to him for something, of course he cannot ignore it.

As soon as I thought of this, I was ready to turn around. But at this moment, I heard Bai Su's voice: "Oh, it's Mr. Zhang. Brother Ling is our good friend. How is he? Mr. Wei has been very busy recently. What can you do for me? Say, exactly the same!" When Bai Su said the last sentence, his voice was particularly high.Even if you are not sensitive, you can tell that when she said "exactly the same", she meant that it was better to find her than me. This made me feel very boring, but since the person here is Zhang Jian's younger brother, it is always appropriate to ask about Zhang Jian's recent situation.

So, I turned my head on the stairs: "So you are Zhang Jian's younger brother, how is Zhang Jian?" The young man—Zhang Qiang—appeared to be absent-minded: "My brother? He's fine, and he's in Antarctica." I cursed "nonsense" in my heart, Zhang Jian is not at the South Pole, could he be at the equator? I asked again: "What method should I use to contact him?" This time, Zhang Qiang gave a more specific answer: "You can find him through the Antarctic Scientific Research Institute in New Zealand. They will transfer the phone to Antarctica. They only have it recently!"

I said "hmm": "Yes, using artificial satellites, I should contact him." I purposely asked for something to say, hoping that Zhang Qiang would think that he is Zhang Jian's younger brother, and I would definitely help him.As long as he speaks again and begs me, then I can go downstairs. But Zhang Qiang, a young man, was so stupid, he didn't understand the world at all, so he didn't make a second plea, while Bai Su obviously saw through my heart, and looked at me with a half-smile.I glared at her and continued walking up the stairs. I slowed down my pace a bit, and I heard Bai Su asking: "What's the problem?" Zhang Qiang replied: "I really don't know how to say it, Mrs. Wei──" Bai Su waved his hand: "Call me Bai Su." Zhang Qiang said: "This... this kind of thing is very... strange, alas... I started ten days ago, alas..." Zhang Qiang is such an annoying mother-in-law, what's the problem, I can hear it straight away, but he just hesitates and hesitates, I can't just stay on the stairs. go up! I scolded Zhang Qiang a few times in my heart, and I stopped listening to him in a fit of anger. I quickened my pace, went to the study, sat down at the desk, picked up the phone, dialed the number in New Zealand, and asked for the number of the detection station. , Call again and ask them to transfer to Zhang Jian in Antarctica.After waiting for about 20 minutes, someone answered. I asked for Zhang Jian, but the answer was: "Oh, you are looking for Dr. Zhang. I'm sorry, he can't answer the phone right now." I was a little annoyed, and said: "Tell him to listen, no matter what he is doing." The answer there made me laugh: "Dr. Zhang and his assistants are driving a small submarine under the 20-meter-thick ice layer, completely cut off from the outside world. I'm sorry, but I can't invite him to listen to you." call." I had no choice but to put down the phone and sulk for a while, when I heard the sound of closing and opening the door below, I thought Zhang Qiang had left.If Zhang Qiang leaves, Bai Su should come up to me. I waited for a while, but Bai Su hadn't come up yet.Impatiently, I opened the study door and called twice, but there was no answer.I couldn't help reaching out and hitting myself on the head, how stupid, why I only thought of Zhang Qiang leaving, but didn't think of Bai Su and Zhang Qiang walking together. I went downstairs, and sure enough, there was no one downstairs.Zhang Qiang didn't know what he said to Bai Su, and Bai Su must help him solve the problem.This is nothing at all, Bai Su and I have always been eager to help others. But I saw that in the corner of the living room, there were a few things that shouldn't be there. In that corner, there is a group of quite comfortable sofas. If there are not too many guests, but only one or two, they often sit and talk in that corner. Just now, Bai Su and Zhang Qiang were also talking there. In the middle of a group of sofas is an octagonal coffee table. The things I mean that should not be there are on that coffee table. The so-called "things that shouldn't be there" are by no means weird items. The things themselves are very common, but they should not appear on the coffee table: those are some mirrors! I went closer and found that there were four sides in total, one of which was quite large and rectangular, one was a round mirror, the other was very small and was a small square mirror that women put in their purses, and the other was framed in an open mirror. on the powder container cover. That powder box, made of white franc, with tender green flowers, is very elegant, I can recognize it at a glance, it is something Bai Su is used to.At this time, the powder box was open, and the mirror in the lid of the box had obviously been used. Seeing these four mirrors, I couldn't help being a little dazed, what kind of trick is this?Those three mirrors are not from my house, they must have been brought by Zhang Qiang. When he was taking off the raincoat at the door, I noticed that the bag of his raincoat was very heavy, as if he had something in it.However, even if I was asked to guess at that time, I couldn't guess that it was three mirrors.Men carry three mirrors with them, so weird! Judging from the mirror left on the tea table, the conversation between Zhang Qiang and Bai Su must have something to do with the mirror, otherwise, Bai Su's compact would not be on the table.After a little reasoning, we can come to the conclusion that Zhang Qiang's topic is related to mirrors. While talking, he took out the three mirrors he carried with him.But Bai Su didn't believe it, and took out the mirror beside her. I am confident that the situation that has passed is probably like this.But what is there to study about mirrors? As I thought, I picked up the mirror and looked at it.That's just an ordinary mirror.When I looked in the mirror, I was reflected in the mirror, a bewildered expression. I picked up all four mirrors and took a picture, and the result was naturally the same. When I looked in the mirror, the one who appeared in the mirror must be me, and there would be no unexpected changes. I was very puzzled, put down the mirror, I wanted to find the answer before Bai Su came back.But I thought about it in a daze for a long time, and speculated from various aspects, but I couldn't figure out why. Having doubts in my heart is a very sullen thing, I waited for an hour, like ten hours, ran upstairs and downstairs many times, Bai Su didn't even call. Finally, the phone in the study room rang, I rushed upstairs, picked up the phone, thinking it must be Bai Su's call, but when I picked up the phone, it wasn't Bai Su's voice that came from over there, but Bai Su's voice. It was a voice that sounded extremely excited: "Wesley, come quickly, come right away, I have something unexpected for you to see." The voice must be an acquaintance, but for a while, he couldn't remember who it was. I had no choice but to say: "Please first tell me who your lord is, and where should I go to see that unexpected thing?" The person on the other side of the phone yelled, "God, you can't even hear my voice." I hummed: "Yes, I have recently become deaf." There was a pause over there: "It's me──" After he said two words, he suddenly elongated his tone: "It's not like I hate you──" He only chanted four words, and I remembered who it was. I was really angry and funny: "North and South, I don't believe you will have any accidents for me!" The man laughed "haha". "Nanbei Dongshi" is of course not that person's name, but it's just that acquaintances call him that, because his name is Jiang Louyue.In the song "Picking Mulberries", the first sentence is "Hate the king is not like Jiang Louyue, north and south, east and west, north and south, east and west." Therefore, Mr. Jiang's nickname is "North and South East and West". "South and North East and West" is a computer engineer who has been involved in this industry very early and has participated in the work of many huge computer groups. He has extremely advanced professional knowledge and is a world-renowned authority.But this person is not interesting, rather boring, I don't have much contact with him, and this person is a chess fan, there is no chess he doesn't like, especially Go.And I am not very interested in chess, and my chess skills are even shallower.I guess his so-called "unexpectedness" is mostly because he used a computer to win a game of a famous game or something. So I said, "I'm sorry, I have something to do—" Before I finished speaking, he already yelled strangely: "God! Wesley, you must come and listen to the voice from outer space." I didn't know what he meant by the "voice from outer space", and he said again: "Besides, Dr. Dougal is here with me, he just came from the United States, and he also wants to hear your opinion!" I was stunned for a while. Dr. Dougal needs a little introduction.He is an "astrobiologist", which is a rather unpopular science, specializing in the possibility of biological occurrence on other planets. To be honest, I am not very familiar with this science. Apart from the earth, among the billions of planets in the universe, there must be planets with living things, and the forms of living things must be far more than those in the earth. Things are so advanced, why bother to study whether there is a possibility of living things? I have also read a lot of long-winded treatises written by this Dr. Dougal. I only met him once, at an informal scientific gathering, and the process of meeting him was unpleasant.At that time, he was talking to several people, saying that the surface of Venus is full of chlorine gas and the temperature is high, so it is impossible for living things to exist. After hearing this, he couldn't help but ask: "Doctor, have you ever thought that some organisms, without chlorine and high temperature, are not enough to survive?" The doctor was very happy, raised his head, raised his goatee, and looked at me: "Where is such a creature?" I said: "Of course not on the earth. You just said that the environment of Venus is not suitable for living creatures. It should not be suitable for the survival of living things on Earth. If there are living things on Venus, they must need chlorine and high temperature." The doctor sneered a few times: "That's something in fantasy novels, not the subject of research by scientists." I said, "So, how do scientists study it? We can't be sure until we go to Venus and see living things on the surface of Venus?" The doctor said firmly: "Yes!" My teeth were sharp, and I immediately said: "In fact, it is useless to let unimaginative scientists go to Venus. Even if the surface of Venus is covered with creatures, they would not be able to recognize them, because all life forms and The life forms on earth are the same, how to identify some alien creatures with different forms?" The doctor's reaction was also very fast. He laughed "haha" and said, "When you see something, no matter how weird its shape is, if it moves, you can know it is a living thing." I also immediately laughed out loud: "First, alien creatures may not be able to move. You proposed moving things and used this principle as the standard for identifying creatures. Living things, perhaps, just don't move, and secondly, even on the earth, living things are not necessarily moving—" As I said this, I pointed out.That party was held in a village in the Netherlands.I pointed to the windmill standing outside: "The windmill is constantly moving, so it is not a living thing..." These words made many people laugh out loud, and also made Dr. Dougill's face livid with anger.I would also like to go further, to politely point out that the kind of research work he is engaged in is actually of no value at all, what is important is in the concept, it must be in the vast and boundless universe, and it must be on many, many planets, There are all kinds of creatures. But just when I had settled down and was about to make an impassioned speech, I was forced by the host of the party to look at the tulips planted in his garden.The master complained to me afterwards: "Dr. Dougal is an authority on space creatures, how could you offend him like this?" I was naturally unconvinced: "The authority of space creatures? What space creatures has he dealt with? I have." The master said: "Who knows if those things about you are true or not." My anger rose: "If I had known that you have no freedom of speech at this party, I would not have come." The master had no choice but to smile wryly.This time we broke up badly, and there will be gatherings of the same kind in the future, but I have never received an invitation again.There are a few friends who still participate every year. According to them, Dr. Dougal asks about me every time, and he inquires about me very clearly. When there are many people, he always makes fun of me and blocks me. Title: "Seven Star Fantasy Expert." I don't mind people calling me a "fantasy expert". Dr. Dougal likes to spend his whole life affirming or denying whether there are creatures in extraterrestrials. That is his freedom and no one can interfere. What's interesting is that such a person who is completely opposite to me in terms of concept and is very stubborn, actually made a special trip to see me. Why? I said "Oh", "Is that the goatee?" He is very clear about the ins and outs of what happened between me and Dr. Dougal.He laughed: "It's him, don't talk too much, just come right away!" I thought about it and decided to go and see Jiang Louyue first. What happened to him might be interesting. I said, "Okay, I'll come." I put down the phone, picked up my coat, walked downstairs, and glanced at the mirrors on the coffee table, but still couldn't figure out what it was related to. I drove to Jiang Louyue's house. He lived in the suburbs. The journey was quite long. It was a time of heavy traffic. I followed a long train and drove forward slowly. Suddenly, I heard a rush of car horns. .Following the sound, she saw Bai Su's car in the train of cars coming from the opposite side, and she was the one who honked the horn.When I saw her, she was pressing down on the car window and pointing out the window. At this time, she and I were driving in the opposite direction.Since we have cars at the front and back, it is impossible to stop and we have to keep the car going.When I saw her, the two cars were the closest, and the result of continuing to keep the car moving was getting farther and farther away. I saw Bai Su pointing out the car window, and for a moment, I didn't understand what she wanted me to see, so I pressed the car window and shouted: "What's the matter?" I poked my head out to call, and the car naturally slowed down a bit.The cars behind me honked their horns loudly, drowning out my shouts. Bai Su is obviously smarter than me, she knows that shouting is useless, so she just gestures, still pointing. She was referring to the rear mirror next to the window.What does she mean by pointing at the rear mirror?It immediately occurred to me that it was a mirror. I immediately raised one hand, put it in front of me, and made a gesture of looking in the mirror. Bai Su nodded again and again, and did the same gesture as me. Then, she quickly pointed to herself, nodded, and then pointed to her The hand that was raised, facing a mirror, shook his head again and again. God, sometimes Bai Su and I can understand each other's intentions with simple gestures or even eyes without even talking.But at this time, I couldn't understand what her gesture meant. I wanted to make gestures to ask her again, but there was no chance, because the car was going in the opposite direction, and the distance was getting farther and farther away. I reluctantly turned my head to look at her, but a big driver in the car behind shouted sharply: "While driving, look at her." Front!" As I was driving, I thought, what does Bai Su's gesture mean?She is not an impatient person, but she was anxious to take advantage of such a short opportunity and tell me with gestures, then, this matter must be very important. But I just can't think of what she wants to express? What she wants to tell me must have something to do with the mirror. Her gestures indicate that a person is looking in the mirror. So far, it is easy to understand. But then she pointed at herself and nodded, what does that mean?Do you want to look in the mirror more?Next, she pointed at the hand representing the mirror and shook her head. What does that mean? Does it mean that the mirror is not good?Stop looking in the mirror? No matter how I think about it, I can't think of it. (I can't guess what Bai Su's gestures want to express. It's not that my brain is not flexible enough, but what Bai Su wants to express is too beyond imagination and too weird. Even if she said it in words, the first It’s not easy to understand once again, not to mention just gestures!) Until I drove to the door of Jiang Louyue's house, which was a rather large garden house. When I rang the bell, amidst the barking of dogs, it was Jiang Louyue who opened the door.As soon as I saw him, I immediately repeated Bai Su's gesture: "The hand in front of you represents the mirror. What do these gestures mean?" Jiang Louyue is a thin man, but his head is quite big, and he is not very old, but his bald head is very bald, his forehead is protruding, his eyes are quite big, his eyebrows are quite thick, and his appearance is very strange, especially when his eyes are wide open. What's more strange, at this time, as soon as he heard me ask him this question, he looked at me with this strange look: "What do you mean?" I said, "I'm asking you!" Jiang Louyue still stared and said, "Who made such a strange gesture to you?" I said, "Bai Su!" Jiang Louyue burst out laughing suddenly: "I know!" I wasn't surprised when he said that, because Jiang Louyue was already extremely smart, with the ability to think carefully and quickly, so I hurriedly said, "What does Bai Su want to say?" He smiled and pointed at me: "Mrs. Zun is scolding you. She said that you are Zhu Bajie looking in the mirror. You are not a human being inside and out." I told him that I couldn't laugh or cry, pushed him hard, and cursed: "Fuck you." Jiang Louyue smiled: "Don't pay attention to what her gesture means, go in quickly, someone is waiting for you!" I snorted: "No, there must be something important. I'll call first, and then go see Dr. Dougill." Jiang Louyue was a little helpless, but the phone rang and rang, but no one answered.Jiang Louyue was at the side, very impatient: "Hey, how long do you have to wait, I guarantee that what Dr. Dougal brought will arouse your interest even more!" Bai Su hadn't come home yet, so I had no choice but to put down the phone, went into the study with Jiang Louyue, and saw Dr. Dougal.It has been many years since the last time we met and argued, and the doctor still has that tuft of goatee.As soon as he saw me, he stood up, and I shook hands with him: "Doctor, long time no see, hello." The doctor shook hands with me, a little absent-minded: "Yeah, long time no see." After we all sat down, he regained his spirits: "Mr. Wei, we have different views, so there is no need to argue. This time, something is a little hard to explain. Your experience──" Seeing that he was a little hesitant, I smiled and said, "There is no need to argue about my experiences, exactly." The doctor nodded and said: "Yes, but I think you are qualified to analyze this fact, at least you can have fanciful insights." I stretched my body: "Don't worry about words, what is it?" As soon as the doctor stretched out his hand, he took a briefcase. The briefcase was quite big, and it was obvious at a glance that it was a special briefcase.This kind of briefcase is used to store the most confidential documents. It looks like a leather product. In fact, the leather is the surface layer. Under the skin, it is a one-millimeter-thick synthetic metal. It is extremely strong and cannot be cut by ordinary tools. Moreover, This briefcase also has a special design, which is opened by a password. If a password is wrongly transferred, the entire briefcase will automatically explode. So, as soon as I saw the doctor pick up the briefcase, put it on the table in front of him, and turn the password, I hurriedly said: "Doctor, I hope you must remember the password." The doctor gave me a look, as if to blame me for not being humorous at all. On the briefcase, there are two rows in total, each with six rotatable number keys. The doctor stopped to think about it, and I sweated for him secretly. After he finished turning twelve numbers, he looked up at me, then took out the key, inserted it into the keyhole, and turned it.The briefcase made a "beat" sound.Only then did the doctor say to me: "People say you know everything, it looks good!" I pointed to the briefcase: "I've seen this kind of briefcase several times. The last time I saw it was in a country's space agency, carried by a general." Dr. Dougal nodded and said: "Yes, I have contacted them, so I came to you and listened to your opinion." The other party actually "asked for advice with an open mind", so I naturally had to be polite. During the greetings, he opened the briefcase. The actual volume of the briefcase seemed to be smaller than the actual volume, and there was a flat metal box. It seemed that it would take a lot of effort to open the metal box. I was thinking in my heart that what he was going to show me must be extremely important and extremely secret. The doctor put his hand on the box: "Mr. Wei, what I want to show you, no, it should be said, what I want to show you is a tape." There was a "hmm" in my heart, Jiang Louyue had already said that what the doctor brought was "a voice from space".At this time, I was a little puzzled, if what he brought was a dialogue from an alien, how could I understand it? When I was thinking this way, the doctor said again: "That was a conversation, no, actually, it was just a few sentences." He spoke very solemnly, and it sounded slow.I wanted him to play it out and listen to it quickly, but he said again: "The origin of those few lines of dialogue, its ins and outs, is very complicated. I have to explain it to you in detail before you can understand." His hand has been pressed on the iron box: "Last month, the United States had a space exploration operation. A spaceship driven by three astronauts flew around the earth for fifteen days. The leader of this flight is excellent Spaceman, Major Green." I said "hmm": "Yes, people all over the world know about this flight. The commander, Major Green, said 'I love you' to his wife in space, which became worldwide gossip." The doctor said: "Yes, it was that flight. It was very successful. This flight, we call it Ge Ling's flight, has several additional tasks. Until now, it is still a secret." I understood what he meant, nodded and said, "Don't worry, I won't just say it to everyone." The doctor continued: "In recent years, I have changed my research direction, no longer researching whether there are creatures in aliens. Instead, I affirm that there are, and study what methods they are using to get close to the earth and communicate with the earth." As soon as I heard what he said, I couldn't help applauding enthusiastically: "It should have been like this a long time ago!" The doctor snorted: "Scientific progress takes one step after another. Everyone knows that jet engine aircraft are more advanced than propellers. You can't say: jet engines should have been a long time ago. The development of aircraft must go through the stage of propellers."