Chapter 165 Mission
Faced with the huge threat of force, the mermaids had to retreat despite their reluctance. Rong Yuan returned to Yusuo with the star map and calmly returned to land.
On the surface, this star map is just a finely crafted crystal ball, without even a button. At Wandou's suggestion, Rong Yuan exchanged an instruction manual from the Merit Mall.
For ordinary books, as long as they are already on Earth, no matter how precious they are, they are mostly worth only one merit point. But if they are not on Earth, they are much more expensive. Even if this manual does not contain any technical details, it still requires 100 merit points. In fact, this thin three-page booklet, two of which are advertising for the company that makes the star map, and only one page has simple operating steps.
There are two ways to operate the star map. One is to use an operating handle, and Rong Yuan did not see that thing; the other is voice control. Because Pako is a Piqiu star, the control language is the common language on Piqiu star.
Opening the star map, a panoramic three-dimensional image of the Milky Way appeared in front of Rong Yuan. Although it was not very large, he could already see the large and small planets in it. There was a flashing red light on the Earth where Rong Yuan was. If he clicked on other planets, the name of the planet would appear, and some even had a brief introduction.
In the star map, different colors are used to mark the differences between the planets. The bright white ones are stars, the green ones are habitable stars, the gold ones are mineral stars, the silver ones are mechanical stars, the blue ones are trade stars, the gray ones are garbage stars, the black ones are chaotic areas, the brown ones are unexplored areas... There are also planets of other colors. Rong Yuan does not have time to identify them one by one. There are hundreds of billions of stars and planets ten times more than stars in the star map. It is almost an impossible task to find a specific target among them.
Rong Yuan said in the bhikkhu language: "Mark out the route to Bhikkhu Star."
A thin white dotted line starts from the Earth, extends outward in a crooked way, suddenly breaks, and then reappears about tens of light years away from the Earth, extends a short distance, breaks , and reappears after a few light years, twisting like a snake and pointing to a green habitable star.
[Pilgrimage, planet, third-level habitable planet, mass... diameter... surface temperature... surface gravitational acceleration... escape velocity... rotation period... orbital period... magnetism... mineral resources... intelligent life forms... species... technological level...] In the star map, habitable planets like Piqiu are probably the ones that have always been inhabited and are the most well-known. The information is the most detailed, and some introductions contain as many as hundreds of items. At the end, there is often a short message that is either funny, domineering, or incomprehensible, which attracts people to their planet like an advertisement. For example, for Piqiu, it is written at the end: "Constant temperature planet, paradise for aquatic creatures!" or something like that.
The value of this star map is far more than a simple route map. If the appearance of Octopus Paco is like drilling a hole in the wall between Rongyuan and the alien domain, then this star map is like opening a French window, allowing his eyes to enjoy the scenery outside the window.
The star map was found, but Rong Yuan did not plan to go to Piqiu Star immediately to find Paco. His current merit points were too few, and if there was an emergency, he might not be able to provide enough exchange; he did not comprehend anything useful from the stone, and his own force value was still worrying. If he was exposed to the vacuum, he would die in a few minutes; and since he had obtained this star map, Rong Yuan also wanted to organize the information in it. The more fully prepared he was, the less likely he would be exposed in front of the aliens. If he encountered danger, at least he would know which direction to retreat.
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Only a few people in the Tang Kingdom knew the whole truth about the seismograph research. Only Wei Jie knew a little about it in the research institute. Everyone else was basically kept in the dark. Although there were some rumors in private, they were unconfirmed and everyone was just guessing. Now the three underground floors of the research building where the seismograph is located have been completely sealed off. Only a few "relevant personnel" from special departments who are as tight-lipped as gourds guard it day and night, and occasionally sneak out of the institute with a sealed box.
Therefore, it was not until recently that the people in the institute were completely impressed by "Mr. Rong".
From one day on, the evil aura of "get away" around him suddenly lightened a lot. In Wei Jie's eyes, it was the successful invention of the seismograph that relieved the pressure on his shoulders. In the eyes of other assistants, it was that Mr. Rong finally got out of his middle school years. No matter what, it was a major event worth celebrating.
After getting to know him, I found that "Mr. Rong" seemed to have a supercomputer in his head. He seemed to know everything. Any difficult problem could be solved from him. He was always patient. No matter how stupid the question was or how many times it was asked, he never seemed to get tired of it. Even when a young girl playfully asked a few private questions with hidden traps, he thought carefully and answered them rigorously.
Although he still speaks very little and his answers are always rigid "standard answers", the image of "Mr. Rong" as wise, silent, serious, full of wisdom but very "cute" in life has been deeply rooted in people's hearts. He still looks like he doesn't like to interact with people, but people around him can feel that he is actually very gentle under his surface indifference. They become more and more intimate in front of him, and the deterrent effect that Rong Yuan left behind is almost gone.
Fortunately, the rules that Rong Yuan left behind are still in effect. For example, "Mr. Rong" never changes his work and rest schedule for any reason, does not allow anyone to step into his private space, and is indifferent to unnecessary approaches and unnecessary people. All these "quirks" are silently tolerated and even indulged by the people around him as the scientist's willfulness.
Little A has been a little distressed recently. He feels that he has played the role of his master very well and has fulfilled all the requirements meticulously, even some daily small movements and subtle changes in emotional expressions are exactly the same. But for some reason, his imitation seems to have deviated greatly without him realizing it, and he doesn't even know what's wrong.
After knowing his troubles, Rong Yuan faced Xiao A's question about whether he needed to change his source code. After thinking for a moment, he said, "No, just keep doing it. It's okay to make some innocuous changes appropriately. Imitating me is not everything to you. You can also be yourself appropriately."
——Intelligent life forms all have their own unique personalities, even an intelligent robot is no exception. Forcing it to completely imitate a very different person may result in a strange creature.
Anyway...
Rong Yuan thought without any emotion: People are stupid. Even if they see the changes with their eyes, they will not take them to heart. Even if they have doubts about the changes, if you don’t give them a reason, they will find a reason themselves over time.
Wei Jie and his men were not insensitive or unintelligent, but Rong Yuan was too far away from them, so far that they had no idea what the real Rong Yuan was like. Moreover, the substitute Rong Yuan used was beyond their common sense in both method and reason, so these people who grew up under the red flag and had a scientific mindset could not imagine the real situation.
In the institute, the research on HIV virus has reached a critical moment. The first batch of reagents has been successful, and now it is the clinical trial stage. Twelve people were selected from the 300 patients who applied for experimental treatment for the first batch of clinical trials. Now all of them have been admitted to a sanatorium only 20 kilometers away from the institute. At this time, "Mr. Rong" still did not change his work and rest time, which made everyone admire his calmness and composure.
But "Mr. Rong" himself does not think so. He just believes that compared with the clinical trials that can almost determine the results, the task assigned to them by the master is the most important.
These days, Little A didn't pretend to sleep at night. In the living room, an enlarged star map occupied most of the space. Little A and Noah were sorting out the information of each planet in the star map day and night, and then categorizing it according to the importance. Noah was very excited, and his enthusiasm for this work was far greater than anything else. He kept whispering to Little A all day, muttering about ways to get his owner to take him to an alien planet.
Little A remained silent, only responding once or twice, but somehow, Noah gradually labeled him as a "complaint master".
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Rong Yuan was not interested in doing the tedious work himself. He still had some things to deal with before leaving the earth.
He didn't actually plan to be away for too long on this trip. According to the route distance shown on the star map, the round trip would take about three months - the place where the route was broken was a wormhole that could instantly cross vast distances in the universe - he would stay on Biqiu Star for about another month, and maybe visit some planets along the way, and he would be back in half a year at most.
However, this was only the most ideal situation. In those strange places that he had hardly heard of, there were races and powers that he did not understand. No one knew what unexpected situations would happen. And accidents always existed. Therefore, he could not be sure of his return date.
So before that, he had to take care of all the beginnings and ends.
