Chapter 9 Chapter 8 The inside of the golden ball is weird and inexplicable

That friend is still a bachelor named Wang Fengyuan. For the convenience of work, he lives in a factory dormitory not far away, and only returns to the villa during the holidays. To my satisfaction, the basement of the villa is a perfect equipment. studio. My friend's factory specializes in making precision instruments, so the tools in his workshop are extremely helpful for me to study this mysterious golden ball. On the first day, I worked hard and achieved certain results. First of all, in the analysis of the metal spectrum, I found that the metal that made the golden ball never existed on the earth.

This helps with my theory - it's from another planet.On another planet, there are metals that do not exist on the earth, which is extremely simple! Next, I used an x-ray machine that can see inside metal to examine the inside of the golden ball, but I failed.Special x-rays can't see through that metal, so I can't get anything. Then, I examine the surface of the golden ball with precision instruments. I believe that the entire golden ball is just a shell, and there should be some instruments inside the golden ball.Since it is a shell, there must be traces of interfaces, welds, etc., so it can be checked out with sophisticated instruments.However, I also failed!

The surface of the golden ball was so smooth that the pointers on all the precision dwarfs all pointed to zero. For the time being, I have nothing to do. I rested for a day, went boating and fishing on the lake with Bai Su, and came home late. My friend was already in the villa. It was Friday, and he could rest until Monday morning. Even when I was rowing, I took the golden ball with me, so when we returned to the villa and immediately entered the studio, my friend Wang Fengyuan saw the mysterious extraterrestrial golden ball for the first time. We first spent an hour talking about the origin of this golden ball and my opinion on this golden ball.Then, we get to work.

He solemnly took out a thin steel pipe from a stainless steel suitcase. The tip of the steel pipe was as thin as a needle. He connected the steel pipe to an instrument before turning his head. Come on, smiled at me triumphantly. "What's that?" I asked. He said: "I brought this back from the factory. In order to borrow this thing, I have to get approval from the factory board." I laughed and said, "What on earth is this? Can he check out the situation inside the golden ball?" Wang Fengyuan nodded and said, "I think it's ok. This is an ultra-small TV camera tube. Let's drill a hole in the golden ball and put the camera tube in. Then, the situation inside the golden ball will be fully displayed on the TV fluorescent tube." On the screen!" He pointed to a fluorescent screen.

I shook my head and said, "That won't work, I've made a deal with them, I can't damage the golden ball." Wang Fengyuan said: "It's not damaged, it's just a small hole, and the diameter of that small hole is only one-seventieth of a centimeter!" I stroked the golden ball: "On the golden ball with such a smooth surface, even if you drill a small hole with a diameter of only one-thousandth of a centimeter, you will still be discovered." Wang Fengyuan hurriedly said: "However, we can patch up this small hole afterwards. I will do it myself. I, the chief engineer of the most sophisticated and advanced instrument factory in the United States, will do it myself!"

I still shook my head: "I admit that you are a superb engineer, and the equipment here is also top-notch, but I still don't think you can afford to repair this small hole." Wang Fengyuan was a little angry, and said, "Why?" I said: "It's very simple. What do you use to fill the small hole that was drilled? You don't know what metal this golden ball is made of. How can you find the same metal to fill the hole?" Wang Fengyuan stared: "God, why don't you even have a point of view of modern industry? The small hole is so small that you can hardly see it. Do you think I'm going to dig a big hole in the golden ball? Don't talk nonsense, except for this There is no other way than to do it.”

If I didn't really want to know what's inside the golden ball, I would never agree with Wang Fengyuan's method.At this time, I still paced back and forth for a long time before I said, "Okay, you can drill." Wang Fengyuan fixed the golden ball on the drilling machine, and began to drill holes in the golden ball with a drill needle as thin as a hair. The metal used to cast the golden ball is obviously extremely hard, because even a stone drill needle sinks into the golden ball very slowly, and it only penetrated about half an inch in half an hour. The instrument shows that the pressure on the drill is gradually decreasing, which means that the drill is about to penetrate.

Finally, the drill penetrated through the golden ball and retracted again. There was already a small hole in the golden ball. My feeling at that time is really indescribable.It's true that the small hole is extremely small, but even such a small hole, because the surface of the golden ball is so smooth, it still looks very glaring.I just smiled wryly and said, "Fengyuan, do you know? I'm going to break my promise." However, Wang Fengyuan was full of enthusiasm: "It doesn't matter, I can mend it seamlessly, don't worry!" He removed the golden ball, fixed it on another bracket, and then started using a "laser beam reaction camera" that he brought back from the factory where he worked.

He aimed the pointed needle at the small hole, and then pressed a button, a very thin beam of light shot straight through the small hole. He hurriedly pressed many other control buttons, and the TV screen also lit up. A minute later, we saw the image on the screen of the TV. It was a very beautiful pattern, all arranged in hexagons, neat and beautiful.And what is that, even a primary school student can answer it immediately: honeycomb! Wang Fengyuan also seemed to feel something was wrong, and he adjusted a few more control buttons to make the picture on the TV screen clearer, but it was still in the same hexagonal arrangement as a honeycomb.

Wang Fengyuan stared at the TV for a while before spreading his hands: "All the instruments are working normally, so I said, that is the situation inside the golden ball. There is nothing inside this golden ball, but it The inner wall of the bee is like a honeycomb. Each hexagon is equal in size, and each side is 0.3 millimeters. It seems that those kind of bees are quite small, don't they?" Wang Fengyuan is still interested and humorous, but I am very depressed. Wang Fengyuan said again: "Let's take a close-up look. What you saw on TV is a hexagonal grid enlarged!"

While he was talking, he adjusted the equipment, and a big hexagonal grid appeared on the TV. When Wang Fengyuan and I looked at the big hexagonal grid carefully, we couldn't help being stunned.The hexagonal grid is not empty, but contains many things. The shapes of those things are so strange that we can't make a name for them. Of course, we don't know what use these things are for. Although the surface of the golden ball is smooth, the inner wall is very rough, so after zooming in, such a situation will appear. However, it is obviously difficult to attribute those strange shapes to the unevenness of the metal surface. Because we also saw that on a pile of things that looked like cow dung, there was a pipe leading to the outside. When Wang Fengyuan adjusted the camera angle of the instrument, we found that this pipe leads to another hexagonal space, and then we found that in each hexagonal space, there are the same pipes, extending in all directions. Elsewhere, in the central part of the golden sphere, there is a hexagonal solid, which is the general hub that connects so many tubes, and in other parts of the tubes, sometimes there is a small bulge. Wang Fengyuan and I stared at the TV screen for a full hour, until our eyes hurt, and we still couldn't figure out what I was seeing. Wang Fengyuan smiled wryly, and turned off the instrument: "It looks like a modern honeycomb, those pipes are like the traffic tunnels in the honeycomb, right?" I smiled wryly, Wang Fengyuan was obviously telling a joke, but Wang Fengyuan's words were not completely unreasonable. The many tubes (actually much thinner than a human hair) intersect in all directions and connect everywhere, but they are not messy at all. They really look like traffic lines. I sat down on the sofa. As I expected, the inside of the golden ball should be equipped with sophisticated instruments, but now it is such an inexplicable thing! What those things are, Wang Fengyuan and I can't tell, and everything inside the golden ball is so small that you have to magnify it hundreds of times to see clearly. Even if you cut the golden ball open, I'm afraid I don't have the patience to study it either. I said: "Okay, top-notch engineer, you can patch up the small hole now." But Wang Fengyuan stared at me strangely: "Hey, why don't you have any scientific opinions at all?" I almost wanted to scold him a few words, but my mind was depressed, so I just said coldly: "What is a scientific point of view?" Wang Fengyuan said: "The scientific point of view is to do one thing, and never stop until it is completely done. Do you now understand what is inside the golden ball? Why do you want me to fill up the small hole?" Although Wang Fengyuan's words were very blunt, they lifted my spirits and I jumped up from the sofa: "Come on, let's continue our research." In the next few days, Wang Fengyuan used his vacation, and he and I were in the studio almost day and night.It took us three days to magnify the golden ball dozens of times and make a model. The interior of the model was made exactly as it appeared on the television screen. After making this model, we will further probe the hair-thin tubes inside the golden sphere, which are hollow.And in the hollow, there is nothing else. Wang Fengyuan broke another thin tube like that on his own initiative, and carefully observed the inside of the tube. I didn't agree with that when he just told me that he broke a pipe, but when the situation inside the pipe was reflected on the TV, we all jumped in surprise! Although the tube is hollow, the hollow part is extremely tiny. However, after zooming in, we found some extremely strange things in the center of the tube!The shape of those things is still extremely strange and messy, but this kind of thing is not fixed inside the tube, but can slide inside the tube! If those pipes extending in all directions are a set of complex and planned traffic lines, then those things in the pipes should be cars! However, are those small hollow pipes really communication tunnels?What kind of "people" are using this traffic channel?All of this is really incredible. And on the fourth night, something even more incredible happened. After resting for a while, when we were about to explore the inside of the golden ball again, we found that the small hole we drilled had disappeared! That small hole was quite dazzling, but at this moment, the surface of the entire golden ball was flat and smooth without any blemishes, and the small hole disappeared without a trace. Wang Fengyuan and I couldn't help but look at each other and smile wryly. In the past few days, each of us, including Bai Su (she took care of our daily life and sometimes participated in our work) tried our best to use our imagination to guess what the golden ball was.But our imagination has not developed to the point that the metal will automatically fill the small holes. The instant we noticed that the golden ball had no holes in its surface, we all thought that the golden ball had been replaced. But we immediately rejected such an idea. Because during these few days, we never left the studio at all. Even if an invisible person sneaks into the studio, we should be able to see the golden ball being picked up. That is to say: the golden ball is still the same golden ball, but the hole in the ball is missing and filled.This means that the metal grows, is a living metal: all these things and questions beyond knowledge make our heads swell up in both of us. The first thing I remembered was that when drilling that small hole, there was some extremely fine gold powder that Wang Fengyuan kept in a small bottle, so I quickly asked him to find it out and have a look. When we saw the gold powder of that little boy, we couldn't help laughing bitterly. It turns out that part of the gold powder is no longer powder, but formed into a very small bead! This proves that this metal does have the ability to move.This situation is like mercury condensing after dispersing.Mercury, however, is a liquid, while the metal that composes this golden ball is solid. We drilled another hole in the gold ball, and then used a high-power electron microscope to observe its metal powder. Under the microscope, the metal powders look like amoebas. I say they are like amoebas because they are indeed moving, moving at a very slow speed. When two particles meet, tentacles slowly stretch out. Finally, two particles of gold powder merge into one one grain. Wang Fengyuan screamed strangely: "God, this is not some kind of metal, it's a living thing!" I nodded. Although Wang Fengyuan's words sound absurd, it cannot be denied because it can move.Can you say that a moving thing is not a living thing?Moreover, the golden ball will move, I can say that I have known it for a long time. It seems that the entire golden sphere is made of an object that has gathered countless microorganisms.That kind of object is a bit like a coral reef, but after this kind of microorganisms are condensed together, they have excellent metal properties. Such a hard creature seems to be impossible.But at that moment, I thought of a plant called "Burma eggplant". There is a kind of yellow attachment on the seed of Burmese eggplant. The attachment is like a layer of cap on the seed. It is extremely hard, like gold and stone, and can be used to carve into various shapes. Isn’t that also a living thing? what?If it is magnified thousands of times, I'm afraid you can see clear cell organization. Then, the entire golden sphere is made up of a kind of microorganism, and it doesn't seem to be too strange. I smiled wryly: "We have to accept this fact: this is made by a living thing, it will grow, if you drill a hole in it, it will slowly return to its original shape." Wang Fengyuan said: "Then, is the hexagonal space inside it also a natural arrangement?" It was difficult for me to answer this question, so I had to say: "Maybe, maybe not." What I said was in vain, and Wang Fengyuan could only smile wryly: "It seems that that kind of microorganism can think, otherwise how could Jinqiu be able to interact with people?" How about an exchange of ideas?" I said, "We can use the entire golden sphere for a microwave experiment." For the microwave experiment, we were busy for a long time, because we could not get any results. Microwave testing instruments are very sensitive, and human brain waves are extremely weak microwave waves, but the numbers that appear on the instrument's instrument are "one, two, four."If the microorganisms that make up the golden ball have the ability to think, they should at least vibrate the pointer a little, but the pointer of the instrument is always pointing at the word "zero". After a busy afternoon, a weird idea suddenly came up in my heart. The work we are doing is to check whether that kind of microorganism has the ability to think. Why didn't we think that there is another kind of creature that was originally in the golden ball, but now it has left the golden ball?This kind of creature may be an extremely advanced creature, with thoughts and intelligence, and can fly to the earth from another star! Human beings cannot imagine the creatures on other planets. Scientists and visionaries have made various descriptions of the creatures on other planets. Some say that Martians can be like octopuses, and some say that other planets The shape of an advanced creature above is simply unimaginable.It is right to be unimaginable, because no matter how rich the human imagination is, it is only based on everything on the earth to expand it.People imagine Martians to have eight legs because Earthlings have two. One would never think that Martians might not have feet at all! The size of alien organisms is also unimaginable. Since the advanced organisms on the earth are quite large, in imagination, people from other planets should be as big as the people on the earth, or bigger.However, why can't the advanced creatures on other planets be very large, as large as a hundred feet high, or so small that they can live in many golden balls with a diameter of one foot, but can live in that kind of tube? Free to come and go, why not like that? I stopped working, sat on the couch with my head in my head, and the more I thought about it, the more likely it was. Wang Fengyuan looked at me for a while: "What are you thinking about?" I said, "Do you think it is possible for an advanced organism on another planet to be as small as an ordinary bacterium on the earth?" Wang Fengyuan is a scientist, so his answer is also very scientific and objective. He said: "For things on other planets, how can I say whether it is possible or impossible!" I didn't make a sound anymore, after a while, Wang Fengyuan said again: "What exactly did you think of, tell me." I said: "I always thought that this golden ball came from another planet other than the earth. At first I thought it was a detection instrument, but now I changed my view. I think it is a spaceship, which contains at least Killed a lot of tiny planet people!" Wang Fengyuan looked at me, and after a while, he said: "What are they doing? Are they immigrating to the earth?" I smiled wryly: "Everything I said is just a hypothesis." Wang Fengyuan shook his head and said: "Your assumption is obviously wrong. If there are many 'planet people' as you said, we should have been able to check them out." I hurriedly said: "My hypothesis can still be called to continue. I assume: they all left, all broke out of the ball, and went to other places instead of being in the golden ball. Those people must have come prepared, they After arriving on Earth with all the equipment, they began to leave one after another..." I just said this, Wang Fengyuan's hands were on my shoulders, shaking desperately, I had to stop. He said: "I won't tell you any more. If you have to say something, you can say it to yourself." I broke his hand forcefully: "I'm going to cut the golden ball open with a knife. I believe that under a high-level microscope, we will be able to find something to support my hypothesis." Wang Fengyuan said: "You are crazy, I want to drill a small hole and you are not willing, but now you want to cut the golden ball?" I shrugged and said, "Anyway, it will grow up on its own, so what are you afraid of? Cut it open!" My words reminded Wang Fengyuan abruptly, and he also jumped up abruptly, shouting loudly: "Cut!" Bai Su just came in at this time, she looked at us and didn't make a sound, because in the past few days, she has long been used to the crazy situations of the two of us.Last night, she made a comment: "Men say women are inexplicable animals, I say men are, huh, a group of old men are in France, trying to make the brandy mellow quickly. You two boys are here, day and night, piled Wood, it's research!" At that time, Wang Fengyuan and I had no room to refute her words! But no matter what, men still have an indomitable drive, so at this time, we did what we said, and started to cut the golden ball with the sharpest scalpel. An hour later, the golden ball was cut open. As careful as we are, we can't help but break those hair-thin tubes a lot.We install the magnifying lens of the electron microscope before the TV camera tube. Our first discovery was: Those strange shapes, in the small hexagonal space, there are many small holes. I pointed to the thing that appeared on the TV screen: "This is the house they live in!" Wang Fengyuan didn't make a sound, he just moved the lens of the microscope very carefully, it was an extremely hard work that required patience. This kind of work continued for many days, but there was no further discovery. We were all very disappointed and had no choice but to give up and not proceed, because the return date of the golden ball was approaching, and Bai Su and I returned to India with it. The golden ball that was cut in half was indeed growing by itself, but its "growth" was very slow. After I returned to India, it hadn't fully "recombined".So I don't dare to return the golden ball to others for the time being. We live in a large rented house, the environment is quite quiet. That morning, when I was stretching my limbs and doing some gymnastics in the garden, I suddenly saw a very large black RV parked at the door.The car door opened, and two young people got out first.Then, the two young men helped down an old man. The old man was old enough to need two people to support him, and he was wearing cassocks, so he could tell at a glance that he was a senior monk. The three of them came to my door together. At this time, I also recognized that the old monk was Zhang Mo.His photo has appeared many times in newspapers because he is the supreme leader's right-hand man. I was very surprised in my heart, I don't know how Zhang Mo and the others knew that I lived here.Because Jin Qiu has not yet "reunited", although I have been to India, I dare not even meet them, and have never had any contact with them.