Chapter 8 Chapter 7 A Letter from an Alien

It would be like a man in a well-suited stomach growling with hunger if he landed on Mars and still couldn't manage to prevent a storm. Dr. Teng paused for a moment, and seeing that no one objected to his words, he continued: "I arrived here and immediately devoted myself to research. I found that the information here can almost accurately predict the time and place of every earthquake that will occur!" "Also, people from other planets have put forward a theory that the earth will be destroyed sooner or later." Obviously, even Robert hadn't heard Dr. Vine's words, because he also opened his eyes wide.

Dr. Fuji continued: "The biggest crisis of the earth is that its rotation speed will slow down. The inertial force minus the friction force and the sun's suction will make the earth's rotation inertia disappear. It is like spinning a ball. The ball will always It will stop." I interjected: "I know that in the past two thousand years, the rotation of the earth has slowed down by 0.008 seconds per revolution, which is eight thousandths of a second. It would take hundreds of thousands of years to stop the earth. Years." Dr. Fuji said: "Yes, but another crisis can be said to be imminent."

Neither of us made a sound. Dr. Fuji's complexion became very serious. He said: "Everyone knows the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction. The earth was originally a mass of lava. Later, the surface gradually cooled to form the ground and rocks, and the core of the earth is still lava." "The stratum is gradually thickening, which is formed by the cooling of lava. At the same time, it also forms a kind of pressure, which is pressed against the lava in the center of the earth. The lava in the center of the earth is under strong pressure. One day, it will not be able to withstand the pressure. And make a large-scale eruption——At that time, the earth will be divided and become countless small planets. Our earth may have been produced by such an explosion of its stars not long ago."

Neither of us made a sound. Dr. Fuji explained a very profound question so plainly that we can all understand it. Dr. Fuji paused for a long time before saying in a deep voice: "According to the information here, such a big explosion will happen in 2083." Robert shouted: "In 2083, there are only more than a hundred years there, this is impossible." Dr. Fuji said: "It's true that no one on earth would have thought of this, but I believe the calculations here." We didn't make a sound, this was obviously something that no one expected.People on the earth have never thought that the earth they live on is a catastrophe. The destruction of the earth does not come from the impact of other planets, but from self-explosion!

Dr. Fuji continued: "One thing is very strange, that is, there is a report here that estimates the degree of scientific progress of the earth people. According to this report, by 2080, human beings will Discover this crisis, and from then on, mankind will make every effort to prevent this crisis, and mankind will be able to achieve its goal." "This report has never been sent out, and we don't know what the purpose is, and I don't know what the purpose of the astronauts who built the aerial platform here is to study the earth in such detail." Professor Jefferson interjected: "Their purpose is very obvious. It is to make the crisis a reality before human beings understand it in 2080. In other words, they want to Explode the earth into pieces and destroy all living things on the earth!"

I looked at Jefferson and began to wonder: Am I wrong about Jefferson?Isn't he the kind of villain I imagined?Is everything he said true? In my head, it can be messed up. Jefferson looked at me as if he knew what was going on in my heart: "We have been studying here for several years, and we have been able to manipulate some of these instruments. Among many instruments, the most important one is a machine that can produce The magnetic wave instrument with great power, the pressure exerted by the earth's crust on the center of the earth is about 17 million tons per square meter, but after using that magnetic wave instrument, the pressure can be increased by ten times!"

Dr. Fuji went on to say: "If there are other instruments to cooperate, such a large pressure will make the lava in the earth's core break through the earth's crust at any time and eject outwards. That is to say, it can destroy any corner of the earth at will. , or destroy the entire planet." I took a breath: "So, what have you guys been working on these past few years?" Fuji Qingquan said: "We have preliminarily mastered the magnetic wave instrument with enhanced pressure, but the result of our slightly increased pressure is that earthquakes always occur on the bottom of the South Pole. This is a very ideal thing, so that all the magma in the center of the earth If it is vented on the bottom of the Antarctic, then the so-called crisis will no longer exist, and the earth will be saved."

Jefferson continued: "However, the continuous eruption of magma will melt the ice in Antarctica. At that time, an unimaginable flood will form on the surface of the earth!" I stayed for a moment: "Then what are you looking for?" Jefferson said: "We are looking for a place where the magma in the earth's core erupts. We don't need all the lava in the earth's core to erupt, only a very small part, one in tens of thousands. There is a very small gap between the lava, and that small gap can keep the earth safe for hundreds of years. At that time, human beings must have a way to save their own planet, or simply abandon the earth and migrate to other planets went up to live."

Zhang Jian spread his hands: "Then what are you waiting for?" Jefferson smiled wryly: "According to Dr. Fuji's opinion, the most suitable place on earth for lava to vent is near Iceland. The lava that leaks can form a new island near Iceland, but we There is no way to do this, because we cannot control the direction of the lava eruption in the center of the earth, and we dare not strengthen the magnetic wave pressure too much, for fear that the lava will be erupted elsewhere." When Jefferson talked about this, he turned his head and looked at Robert: "Robert is an expert in the study of Antarctic ice sheets. From the information we have here, we have learned that a major earthquake will occur in Boston. We want to save this earthquake and save it. The earthquake was transferred to the Antarctic, but we didn't know the specific situation of the Antarctic ice, so we had to invite Robert in such an emergency. As a result, we saved Boston, and thanks to Robert's help, the Antarctic The ice layer has never completely broken up."

He smiled wryly: "It's just that because of acting too hastily, all the people on the same plane as Robert were killed." I thought to myself: It seems that I have to believe Jefferson's words, because looking at it calmly, he really doesn't seem like a person who betrayed the earth. He cares about the fate of the earth far more than us! Jefferson added: "I always thought that we couldn't control the lava eruption in the center of the earth with our minds. It must be people from other planets, because they didn't do this research, but now I know, it must be people from other planets. In addition to this aerial platform, there is another place where other instruments are placed, but we have not discovered it yet."

There was a sudden movement in my heart, and I thought of the ice cave and the dead weirdo in the ice cave. I know Jefferson's estimate is right. But I still asked: "Then, why did you suddenly have such an idea?" Jefferson said, "That was the accident." I asked, "What accident?" Jefferson said, "It was the accident that destroyed the base of Scott's expedition." Zhang Jian told me about this matter many times, but I still didn't understand what it meant. Until now, I still don't understand. Jefferson didn't wait for me to ask a question, and said: "I was beaten by you outside your tent. Naturally, I was very angry. When I was in the spaceship, I kept cursing that I would destroy the whole world. The base, as a result, something really happened, the ground fire lava broke through the ice layer, erupted out, and destroyed the base." I still don't get it: "What does that mean?" Jefferson said: "It's very simple. My thoughts become brain waves, which are received by the cyborgs. After the cyborgs receive an order, one of them will use a certain instrument to make the lava in the center of the earth flow in the cyborg. The designated place erupted, so I said, there must be another place other than this sky platform, which is similar to this place." I said: "That's not interesting, you can use your thoughts to order the cyborg to erupt lava from the core of the earth near Iceland." Jefferson laughed: "This is the simplest thing, but you, my friend, have troubled my thoughts. I must first ask you to understand me." I shrugged: "Actually, one can figure out a person's moral character after a long time." When I say this, I am saying that my previous understanding of Jefferson was very wrong. Jefferson was very happy when he heard this: "We can not only save the earth from the danger of destruction, but also enable human beings to obtain permanent peace." Peace." I asked suspiciously: "How can this be?" Jefferson said: "Nowadays, all countries in the world are desperately making weapons to kill people, but no matter what weapon, can it compare with the eruption power of the lava in the center of the earth? We have mastered the power of lava eruption in the center of the earth, which is the most powerful weapon. Weapons can punish warlike aggressors!" I let out a sigh of relief: "Is this what you call the policy of using switchblade fingers to frighten night walkers?" Jefferson smiled: "Your memory is really good." I said: "Okay, now your thoughts are not disturbed, you can use your thoughts to order the cyborg to act quickly." Jefferson said: "Hurry up? We have nearly a hundred years." I said: "We Chinese have a saying, that is, the night is long and the dreams are many──" I have just said this, and before I have time to explain the meaning of "Night Changed and Dreams", suddenly I heard a very strange sound coming from outside, that sound is extremely indescribable.I quickly jumped up and opened the door, Jefferson has also jumped in front of the door. We all looked out the door, and Jefferson paled and shouted: "My God, what's going on?" No one could answer him, because no one knew what it was.All I saw outside the door was a pile of cyborgs lying in disorder. And inside the copper mask, there was a series of sparks bursting out, a strange sound that sounded like metal explosions, coming from the cyborg's body. I hurriedly said, "Jefferson, quickly restore them to normal." Jefferson shook his hands again and again: "No, no, can't you see? All the electronic tubes are broken and turned into waste!" By the time he uttered these words, the sound and sparks had all stopped. Robert rushed out between me and Jefferson, lifted a cyborg, the copper mask fell down, and a large cloud of metal debris and a burnt smell came out. I looked at Jefferson and said, "Have you ever thought about destroying these cyborgs?" Jefferson shook his head and said repeatedly: "How could I? How could I do this?" I said: "Then there must be some external force that destroyed these cyborgs." Zhang Jian suddenly yelled: "Oops, the man driving the spaceship is a cyborg, can we leave this aerial platform?" Jefferson smiled bitterly: "It's very easy to leave the sky platform. But who else has the ability to make the lava in the center of the earth erupt near Iceland?" Seeing Jefferson's extremely frustrated expression, I couldn't help feeling sympathetic to him, and hurriedly said, "Don't be discouraged, we can work hard." Jefferson waved his hand: "That's not something we can do, and hard work is useless." I smiled: "For example, I know where the other control is located?" Jefferson looked at me: "What do you mean?" I fell into the sea of ​​ice, struggled on the ice field, and found the ice cave, and told it again. Jefferson yelled: "My God, what you saw on the TV screen must be lava from the center of the earth!" I stayed for a moment, recalling the situation at that time, the pictures I saw and the sounds I heard at that time, it seemed that I was placed in a huge furnace! Of course there will not be such a big furnace on the earth, if there is one, it will be the center of the earth.I really can't imagine how the green man ingested the lava from the center of the earth and burned it. Robert looked at me suspiciously: "You said they, those two people look like green people, breathing chlorine gas?" I said, "I'm not sure if it's chlorine gas, but that dark green gas has a strange smell and is heavier than air." Robert sighed: "Our knowledge is too shallow. Where did these two green people come from?" I took out the rolled photo again and said, "Of course they come from this planet. You see, almost all of them are green, and there is no other color except green." At the same time, I took out the piece of paper from my close-fitting pocket: "I took this from one of the two weirdos. That man still held this piece of paper until he died, so it must be very important." , Professor Jefferson, can you understand the strange text on it?" Professor Jefferson took it over: "I can't understand it. It seems to me that the symbols are completely the same. When we enter the computer translator, the translated meaning is completely different. We can immediately translate the strange symbols on this paper to the computer translator." text translated." When he was talking here, he paused for a while, raised the piece of paper, and said: "According to my experience, the words on this paper, after being translated into English, may have about a thousand words. They are highly civilized Creatures, their characters are much more advanced than those on Earth, and a symbol can represent many, many meanings." Zhang Jian said: "Then let's translate the words on this piece of paper first, maybe the things written on it will help us understand these people." The words Zhang Jian said at that time were of course just conjectures, but what he said unexpectedly was true. Everything recorded on that piece of paper really helped us understand the green man. At that time, we followed Jefferson to another room where there was a medium-sized computer. Jefferson pressed a few switches, and many lights on the computer flickered continuously. Jefferson turned his head and said to me: "The almost never-ending power source here is this aerial platform, which is also supported by an unknown source of electricity. This electricity is transmitted wirelessly and comes from the sea surface. I doubt that the green man has built a power station in the sea, and the method of wireless transmission is also known on the earth, but it is only in the experimental stage." As he said that, he stuffed my piece of paper into a very narrow hole. The paper was immediately rolled into a roll and fed in. Various arrays of electric lights shone even more rapidly. Dazzling to see. In less than two minutes, at the other end, a strip of paper stretched out automatically, and the strip was full of small holes. It is the same as our common computer writing, inserting a long strip of paper into the electric typewriter attached to the computer, the keys of the typewriter are constantly beating, and the English words appear on the paper. A few of us leaned together next to the typewriter to read the translated English. It was a letter. Because from the very beginning, it was a title, and the title was: human, earthling. "Maybe you will never see this letter, maybe you will, we are human too, but from a very distant planet! "It is meaningless to you to tell the name of our planet, because people on earth know too little about things beyond the earth. The Milky Way is the limit of your astronomical knowledge, and our planet is far from the edge of the Milky Way." , there are still seven million light-years away, you can't imagine it!" The few of us looked at each other in blank dismay, this is indeed too unimaginable. "The history of our planet is much longer than yours, because our science has developed far beyond yours. We use spaceships as commonly as you use bicycles. We live happily and highly Civilization, so that we have almost everything we want, this kind of life is what the people of the earth dream of." "But we also have a disturbing place, that is, we have discovered that in a distant place, there is a planet with creatures on it, and the science of this creature is advancing by leaps and bounds. One day, they will be like us and will Found us. It is you, the earth, and the earth people who make us worry. We are not bloodthirsty, but we know that the earth people are bloodthirsty, so we have to destroy the earth first. "The two of us, sent to Earth, were on a single order, and even we couldn't keep in touch at such a distance—our science has not yet reached this point. We were ordered to destroy After the earth, we go back to our own planet. We came in an extremely large spaceship. After entering the earth’s atmosphere, we moved the air platform out of the spaceship. On the platform, there are all the equipment. "Using the principle of magnetic repulsion and attraction on the earth, we made the air platform stay over the extremely magnetic South Pole. We assembled the cyborgs and began to collect information about the earth. Soon, we discovered that the plan to destroy the earth The best way is to strengthen the pressure of the earth's crust, so that the lava inside the earth can't bear the pressure and explode. That is the most thorough and clean way to destroy the earth. "The two of us walked along this road, and our work went very smoothly. We have been able to control the eruption of lava in the center of the earth. Our first test site is San Francisco in the United States. "This is our first experiment, and it is also our last experiment. Our long-distance TV equipment allows us to see the tragedy of the San Francisco earthquake and the sorrow of people crying and crying after the earthquake. "We are highly civilized creatures. In our lifetime, there is no such thing as 'killing'. On our own planet, we respect each other, love each other, live happily, and enjoy a peaceful and harmonious life. life, but we are here on earth, and we make death, which makes both of us deeply condemned by conscience!" When we saw this, we raised our heads involuntarily and looked at each other.A highly civilized creature must have a high "sense of conscience", this is a certain thing. We continued to look at the words on the paper that rose from the reel of the automatic computer typewriter: "If we stop doing this, we can do nothing to our own planet. If we do that, then we really can't do it." If we continue, there is absolutely no way for us to continue. We cannot destroy the earth, because the people on the earth are actually exactly the same as us. For thousands of years, you may feel the ignorance and cruelty of war, and you may no longer be keen on killing each other." "So we made a decision: we sacrificed ourselves. We ended our own lives. That way, we don't have to continue to hurt the people of the earth, and we don't have to be ashamed of our own planet." When we saw this, Professor Jefferson murmured: "Great, great, what a great personality!" Dr. Teng said in a deep voice: "I believe that the two of them are just ordinary people, but they can have such a high level of integrity. They are indeed more advanced than us!" The letter is not over yet: "According to our statistics, the earth itself will have a major crisis in 2083, so when we end our own lives, we leave everything behind. We can discover the equipment we left behind to save the earth. The cyborgs we left behind can accept extremely weak radio wave commands, and there must be some people on earth whose radio waves will adapt to this weak radio wave frequency. "If there is such a person, then he can command the cyborg, but we have also made precautions, that is, when the person's mind is not to save the earth, but to save the earth for his own selfishness. When the cyborg is ordered to manipulate the eruption of the molten lava in the earth's core, the frequency of his brain waves will change slightly. "This kind of change, after the cyborg accepts a wrong command, all the electronic tubes will burst and become invalid. I hope that such a situation will not happen, and I hope that although such a situation occurs, no one will be hurt." Professor Jefferson suddenly sighed, "Wesley, I am so ashamed. When I was beaten by you and I was furious, all I thought was to destroy the base of the expedition team, but unexpectedly, That ruined those cyborgs." I smiled wryly: "It's my fault at all, I hit you, can you blame you for being angry?" Jefferson sighed. The letter was coming to an end: "Man, Earthlings, I wish you good luck in escaping the catastrophe of 2083. It is really unnecessary for our planet to send us to destroy the Earth, because Earthlings When our civilization advances enough to discover our existence, the characters of the people on Earth will definitely become as kind as ours, and they will never attack us, but will only be as happy as having a brother!" The signature at the end of the letter was only translated into meaningless pinyin, which is very difficult to read, and there are so many syllables, it doesn't make sense for me to write it out. After we finished reading this letter, everyone's heart was very heavy, and we sat down without saying a word. The two hideous and terrifying monsters I saw in the ice cave deep in the ice crevasse turned out to be planetary beings with such a noble character.They were ordered to destroy the earth.But their consciences were condemned, causing them to take their own lives. Not only that, but they also left behind all the equipment to enable the earthlings to save the earth's major crisis——a major crisis in which the lava in the center of the earth bursts out due to the increase in the pressure of the earth's crust. They are even more concerned that these devices will fall into the hands of ambitious people. Therefore, when the frequency of Jefferson's brain waves is slightly changed due to a strong sense of selfishness and revenge, the cyborg will automatically be damaged and become a cyborg. A pile of rubbish. The five of us sat quietly, just looking at each other, but no one spoke.