Volume 3: Dance of the Aurora Chapter 11 The Earth Gradually Awakens
Fang Cheng stood there in a daze for a while, and suddenly remembered that there was still various radiations outside, so he immediately went into the house and hid behind the brick wall, closing the doors and windows.
However, the wooden doors and windows of the old house probably don't have much effect in isolating radiation. To block alpha rays, you only need a piece of paper, but to face high-speed neutrons or X-rays, you need metal or concrete walls.
Short-term X-ray radiation will not cause any serious harm, but long-term exposure will definitely cause cancer.
In the early 20th century, when people still had a vague understanding of high-energy rays, some businessmen used direct irradiation from X-ray tubes to perform hair removal surgery, which resulted in widespread cancer incidents.
Fang Cheng decided to walk to the corner of a brick wall and squat down first, trying to reduce his contact area with the air.
He walked into the house on the glass and rubble on the ground, the pain spreading from his knees upwards.
When he entered the room, he saw Xu Xia sitting against the wall, holding the big mountaineering bag in front of his chest, which he always felt took up a lot of space in the dormitory. He buried his head in it and seemed to be asleep.
This position is a little funny, but it may provide a high level of comfort.
Fang Cheng was just wondering why this guy didn't say anything for such a long time. Thinking of this, he was a little dazed and stared at him for a while.
He walked over and used his hand to check his breathing, and found that he was indeed asleep.
At this time, the sky had gradually changed from pure black to a dark blue-black, the twinkling of the stars had also dimmed, and the outlines of the buildings in the distance could be vaguely seen.
It's getting light.
Fang Cheng felt tired and sore all over. His legs and back felt like they were hanging with sandbags, and all the wounds from tossing and turning all night were aching.
He pressed himself against the wall and took a few seconds to find a more comfortable position, his brain working rapidly.
The amount of information he received tonight was too much. As a science and engineering man who couldn't sleep well if he didn't figure out everything, he had to sort out all the doubts.
First of all, it was a weird coincidence. The aliens arrived immediately after he finished the experiment, and they contacted him at the right time as if it had been planned.
If it was really a coincidence, why did he stop right above his head in the synchronous orbit? Or was he actually being watched by the other party? There are more than seven billion people on the earth, why did the other party stare at him?
Fang Cheng didn't think he was a chosen one with the aura of a protagonist. It seemed that he had nothing special except that he was good at exams. He had never encountered any supernatural events such as dreams of gods or system prompts. He was just like other children, studying for exams step by step, never had a love affair, and never encountered any supernatural things.
But now it seems that I am definitely the undisputed protagonist in this story, after all, I even have the golden finger.
Or we can assume that the aliens have the technology of teleportation, and they rushed over immediately after discovering something unusual here, and they just happened to talk to me.
Fang Cheng felt that this assumption was more reasonable. After all, he had never heard of aliens, so he couldn't imagine their technological level.
The second question that follows is, why don’t the aliens solve the crisis themselves?
Assuming that the aliens need to abide by the so-called principle of minimal intervention, wouldn't it be easiest to deal with the monsters quietly? Why would they specifically contact an Earthling and inform us of their existence?
There are two possible explanations for this fact. The first is that aliens cannot do this for the time being. From the conversation, it seems that Keats came alone. He may not have any weapons at hand, or he is not a soldier at all.
After all, if aliens come to invade, they will probably bring some kind of fleet or something, although the fleet setting itself is something that humans imagined through the actions of European colonists.
The Earth is small and fragile, so it shouldn't take any fleet to destroy it.
Fang Cheng recalled that the other party called himself an "observer". Should that be a profession similar to that of a scientific researcher? Or more like a kind of monitor? From his tone, it seemed that they wanted to protect us.
If they really can't resolve the crisis through clean intervention, it seems there is nothing wrong with letting them do the outsourcing, but does this have to be done through direct contact?
The direct phone call was too bizarre and unnecessary. They didn't even keep it confidential. They just told me a lot of facts as if I were chatting casually, which were enough to break the psychological defenses of ordinary people.
Are these things telling us insignificant? Shouldn't civilizations keep themselves hidden? Is there really nothing wrong with such high-profile contact?
He suddenly felt a chill down his spine. Will I be silenced in the end?
Let’s not discuss this issue for now. Even if there is a reason that the crisis really needs to be resolved by humans, they can also do it through suggestion or mind control. Why do they have to go through rational dialogue?
According to the settings in movies or novels, it is normal for aliens to erase the memory of humans after using them. However, since targeted memory erasure can be achieved, wouldn’t it be better to directly control the mind from the beginning, or direct the actions of people through some kind of hypnosis or hallucination, which would be done without anyone noticing.
After all, the other party has demonstrated the technology of manipulating the five senses.
Wait, is it possible that what just happened was all an illusion? Where did the illusion start?
This hypothesis was a bit too much to consider. After all, if the senses could be manipulated, people would not be able to get any useful clues. Fang Cheng decided to believe that everything that happened before was true.
Since aliens do not manipulate humans by directly "taking over" their minds, there are two hypotheses that can explain this: First, it would be difficult for this kind of mind manipulation to complete complex tasks. Second, they may actually want humans to be aware of their existence, or at least they don't care whether humans know it or not.
He recalled carefully and found that from the very beginning the other party had not considered hiding anything. He said that he was an alien as soon as they met, although he did not provide any other information.
Thinking of this, Fang Chengzhang breathed a sigh of relief. At least the possibility of him being silenced was reduced a lot.
The air gradually calmed down from its restlessness, and the smell of smoke and dust became fainter and fainter. Apart from the monotonous alarm sound, other sounds gradually became inaudible.
However, the alarm is already very loud, so it is normal for it to drown out other sounds.
Fang Cheng raised his eyelids and looked around. Blue had filled all four walls. Photons with a wavelength of 400 nanometers came from the surface of a star 150 million kilometers away, piercing the atmosphere first and illuminating this corner.
The earth gradually wakes up, and a ray of morning light breaks the silence of the night.
