Dow and Carbon-Based Monkey Breeding Guidelines

Chapter 1015 Xiao Tun (Part )

When she heard the word "ship", Jania immediately thought of the night when they went on an adventure at sea. She felt that Chilabin was also secretly observing her with his peripheral vision, and the smile on his face was more like a tacit hint.

"A ship, of course," said Chilabin. "You want a ship. Or, if you prefer, a great ark. But is it really that bad?"

"Not yet, just to be prepared."

"I do have a boat, just as you thought. After all, I have to have a means of transportation when I come to visit. But it is a small device for personal use."

"Does it have independent tunneling capabilities?"

"Unfortunately, no, it can only fly in a warp bubble to a fixed tunnel point we set up earlier. That location, according to your name here, should be called Rutan 726-8."

"UV Ceti?"

"That's right." Chilabin exclaimed, "What a fascinating flaring star! Its mood is changeable and easily explosive, even more dangerous and violent than the pulsating variable stars you call Artemisia type. It was still in the dust one moment, but it suddenly flashed rapidly the next moment. The changes are unpredictable and mysterious..."

“However,” Li Li said, “it is generally fading.”

"Why not?" Chilabin answered cheerfully. He seemed to want to continue to express his views on astronomy, but his companions showed no interest. "UV Cetus is 8.7 light years away from us," Li Li asked, "How long does it take for your equipment to pass through once?"

"According to your calendar, it will take about half a month - sorry, I also have financial considerations, so I use lightweight equipment."

"Where do the fixed tunnel points lead to?"

"We are located in a small base in Chonghong Township. The cosmic conditions here are similar to yours, so there won't be any censorship issues. However, if you consider using this tunnel point to send out a distress signal, I can only apologize to tell you that it is absolutely too late now. It is too late to report the situation to the Wuyuan Base or the representatives of Chonghong Township. I must also emphasize to you that Chonghong Township is currently affected by a serious bureaucratic style. By the time they finish the procedures and send someone over, I'm afraid there will only be leftovers... If you don't mind me saying so."

"In addition," Li Li said, "I guess you also have garrison forces around the tunnel point?"

"Only a few points." Chilabin explained modestly, "After all, we are a spontaneously formed academic organization, or more like a fan club, preferring to solve problems with words rather than force... But considering the pitiful carrying capacity of my ship, I can only say that your concerns are correct. Even if the manpower you can send passes through the tunnel point, there is no possibility of seizing or escaping the base. Therefore, it is unlikely that the disaster report can be sent out."

"What if it's in exchange for your personal safety?"

"Maggie! If my life was really that valuable, I wouldn't have been sent here in the first place, right? Although it's not easy to train a scholar, the funding for maintaining the military equipment can't be thrown away."

"Then there won't be anyone coming to meet you from the tunnel point?"

"In my opinion, it won't. There are many risks in visiting your place rashly: you might run into local law enforcement officers patrolling in the wild; you will definitely run into the city manager who is not good at communicating. He has an asymmetric advantage over our high-precision equipment. We don't want to see this kind of loss the most - ah, of course, this is not a threat now, but the news will not spread so quickly, which involves the problem of the speed of time across the star realm. Calculating the changes in the relative speed of the star layers that have caused major historical changes has always been a difficult problem, and even we can't be particularly accurate. The terminal broadcasting station can give us the answer, but unfortunately there is a delay in the communication between the two ends, and we can't always ask every few seconds. After all, the patient's temper is usually not very good."

Chilabin spoke very fast, as if he didn't even need to breathe. Jania was in a fog; she glanced at Matitao standing opposite her to make sure she wasn't the only one who didn't understand the situation. However, the silence to her left seemed to indicate that the situation was not good. After a moment of silence, Li Li asked without warning, "What do you think of the current situation?"

"I see only one way out for you now."

"Sender."

"It's 'that' transmitter." Chilabin said emphatically, "You should also know the principles of several long-distance communications. Unfortunately, the project is too large. Without materials, equipment, and environment... you can't make a replacement yourself in the short term. You can only rely on the existing one."

"Are you sure that 0312 did not leave a spare transmitter here?"

"We're not sure, actually. Did you find it?"

"not yet."

"I think so," Chilabin said sympathetically, "What a hateful prejudice! The current authorities don't trust you, which makes you short of money; how lazy and negligent! Before they got the title, they obviously wanted to pursue small government, and they didn't care about anything except maintaining the stability of the base. But then again, it's annoying to be disturbed and distracted by wild animals at your doorstep, especially at this critical juncture, it's not too low-key and cautious. Isn't there enough bad luck associated with that title? With the warning of the boss of the dream world, they must be wary of the trap belt, and it's better to have less trouble than more. Although the matter here is also related to them... Alas, after all, they take the relationship of relatives too lightly."

"Since you mentioned it, I'd like to ask you what you think of their fight for the title?"

"The road is full of thorns," Chilabin said. "To be more precise, it is as difficult as climbing to heaven. You should understand what I mean."

Li Li did not respond, as if he was still waiting for his further comments. But Chilabin only showed a satisfied smile, his lips closed like a dead clam. After a moment, Li Li seemed to have forgotten about this matter, and still asked in a tone of inquiry: "Since they have no time to take care of other things, why don't you send more professional field staff?"

"It's not easy. The manager doesn't welcome outsiders. He has the asymmetric advantage I just mentioned, and he also has the right of passage in the city."

"From what I understand, it's not like you don't have allies who are good at dealing with this kind of thing."

"That would make the calculations very difficult," Chilabin said. "Some of us have tried it before. As I said just now, before the city overlapped with your place, it had also connected to other areas and presented other forms. We tried to choose local managers, but we failed in the end. Last time we tried to intervene by force and insert our own people, but somehow the city changed its form and completely cut off contact with that area. Naturally, all the possible enumerations based on that star layer were in vain. What can we say about those of us working below? You see, the mutual The dynamic stage is so annoying; if the audience below gets a little angry, all our carefully planned ideas will be wasted! We must not anger it, but also attract its interest... It is very difficult to grasp the balance between them, because when it sits under the stage, you can't know its reaction from the script at all. Alas, if everyone is a god with the right to create, and can arbitrarily come and change a few strokes on the same performance script, how can the plot be controlled? Who really knows how things will develop? I really hope that there is no prophet in this world, or at most only one. "

"Don't you claim that what you have is the truest one?"

"Of course, of course." Chilabin said, "Sooner or later it will be the only real one!"

He laughed out loud, and Li Li smiled politely in return. They seemed to be in tacit agreement over some unpopular joke, but Jania was puzzled. It was not that she did not pay attention to their conversation, but there were too many bizarre or incoherent things in it, so she began to shift her attention to the surrounding environment. Those who stood by the wall like armor racks, whether wearing headphones or not, all showed no interest in the conversation at the table, but faithfully performed their respective guard duties: two people stared at Chilabin from both sides; two people monitored the window and the door; the reading girl named Parry stared at Jania, with a gentle but warning smile on her face like a kindergarten teacher. With Anthony Kent's example in front of her, Jania had to sit up reluctantly and not think about the things in her pocket.

Chilabin's laughter finally stopped. "You have to admit that our point is valid, Maggie," he said. "If there is more than one omniscient will, it is not true omniscience and omnipotence. It will only be a long-lasting deadlock, repeating itself over and over again, with no end in sight."

"Let's wait and see." Li Li replied.

"Haven't you witnessed enough tragedy?" Chilabin asked. "What do you think will be waiting for you later?"

"I don't have any assumptions, maybe you can give me some hints."

"I can only advise you to take care of yourself."

"How many people can your ship carry? Assuming all non-essential equipment is removed and fuel and supplies are reduced to a minimum, how many people can we cram into your ship?"

"Sent to the tunnel point?"

"No, just send it to the outskirts of our star system, keeping a distance of about ten light years. I think UV Ceti or Sirius can be used as more suitable temporary gravitational fixing points."

"Do you believe that the local managers will arrive before the ship's resources are exhausted?"

"Yes. They may not be watching our planet, but their allies will be watching that city. And once our little world is destroyed, I expect that city will change its form as well."

Chilabin shrugged. "I estimate the limit is 10,000 people, but it will definitely not be very comfortable. If you want to add more, the entire life cycle system will not be able to last too long. I estimate it will be two or three months at most. You have to manage it properly and don't let these people go insane. Just think about it. First, you watch your hometown being destroyed, and then you are squeezed into such a limited space day after day, like a can of sardines floating in the void, and you don't know which mouth you will fall into... Poor people! I have seen many similar cases, all of whom suffer from severe apprehension of the deep space. They may go to destruction before rescue arrives."

"Thanks for the reminder. We will carefully select the people who will board the ship," Li Li said. "But you will probably find that most of them are minors who are small in size and know how to follow the teacher's instructions, so the carrying capacity should be adjusted up a bit."

"Oh, you decided to change your career to become a kindergarten teacher?"

"Mr. Chilabin, I never said I would go on board."

Chilabin suddenly perked up, like a spectator who had discovered that a dull plot was about to take a major turn. "Don't you think this is a bit like being angry?" He asked positively, his tone seemed to express his opposition, but Jania always felt that he was not sincere. "If you can't turn the tide, then just go down with the ship... You also know that this is ineffective. At least I can fit one more box on my ship. You won't ask me to dismantle the core data device and throw it away, right?"

"Please keep it. Its capacity should be enough for us to store our important achievements of civilization. The younger generation on board will be in great need of that information. Since Wuyuan is still pursuing a free-range strategy for the trap belt, it is unlikely to provide excessive technical assistance."

"That's not a problem. But if you ask me, you might as well reduce the number of people on board by one third. This way, you can preserve the small gene pool on board and preserve the gene pool of your species to the greatest extent. You can also bring in some other species! Shouldn't there be a pair of each type of animal on the Ark?"

"I prefer to let more living people go up there," Li Li replied amiably. "But your suggestion is very useful. I will include the gene pool coverage rate in the selection criteria for boarding personnel. As for the larger gene pool, we will try to store it deep underground, or launch it with our own rockets, and then entrust the manager to recover it after the disaster is over."

"So are you planning on going underground or on a rocket?"

“I’m not going to either.”

"Are you a little annoyed?" Chilabin asked.

Jania didn't know how he came to this conclusion. Li Li still spoke in an impeccably polite voice: "Considering the losses you have caused us, it is inevitable that both sides will have hostile feelings. However, if the ship really needs to leave the orbit, I hope you can cooperate with us wholeheartedly and teach us all the relevant operational knowledge. As for where I will go, assuming that the next special operation goes smoothly, I will ask you to continue to be my guest until the manager comes to take over; and if something unexpected happens, theoretically I will be the first to bear the brunt and will inevitably be unavoidable, so as I said, it is unnecessary to reserve a seat for me on the ship. However, I asked you to come here today because I hope to reserve a seat in advance: Miss Jania Dubois, who is sitting on your left, I believe you have already met her based on some information. I believe you don't mind taking her on this trip, and I may also trouble you to answer her questions about the cause of this incident."

"Leave the job of answering questions to me? Isn't that a bit too risky?"

"She will make her own judgment on your account."

"Well, I can understand your keeping a little bit of selfishness for your friends."

"Strictly speaking, this is not for my friend, but for my deceased stepmother." Li Li said, "I think we should leave it here for now. Do you have any other information you can provide for the next action?"

Chilabin looked absentmindedly across the negotiating table. "Maggie," he said finally, "you shouldn't be a person who acts on impulse."

Li Li's head shook slightly, revealing a smile without any joy. The hasty and crude bionic structure made it look more like a sneer, or maybe it really was a sneer. Then she turned her head to Jenny on her right. She didn't say anything more, but Jenny already knew that it was her turn. She had been listening and thinking from just now until now, but the conversation between the two people was too fast, leaving her little time to react. She could only feel the familiar urgency, as if the clock was ticking in her ears again. She was given too little time. It was so little that it was unfair.

"You are the person Anthony is looking for." She stared at him and said, "You are...a person?"

"Yes, you can call me Maggie. Besides, I'm also your brother's friend."

Jania glanced at Chilabin. She decided not to complain about why the whole world suddenly knew her brother. "Do you know where my brother is?" she asked bluntly, "What happened to him during this period of time?"

"I've been looking for him too, and I just found some clues not long ago."

"Where is he?" Jania continued to ask. After a month of running around for private investigations, she was really a little tired of the detective life and couldn't wait to look up the reference answers.

"I'm afraid you can't see him for the time being."

"why?"

"Jennia, this is for your own good."

This sentence sounded exactly like her mother's tone. Jania wanted to retort, but some heavy emotion weighed on her, making her usually clever and clever all the time. "What's wrong with him?" She could only ask repeatedly, looking around with hostile eyes, "What's wrong with him?"

"He may be making a mistake," Li Li said, "and I will stop him, Jania. I will try my best to bring him back, but before that I want to talk about you."

"I have nothing to talk about."

"Just talk about that bag of peanuts."

Jania's eyes widened. Her mind raced, and before she could figure out where she had let herself go, Li Li said, "More than two months ago, your brother came home late at night; he looked suspicious and disheveled, and he pretended to be harassed by a drunk, but you didn't believe him. You also noticed that the half bag of peanuts he brought home didn't come from a supermarket or farmer's market, because the label on the bag looked like a bakery's. You tried to search for it online, but it wasn't a well-known chain brand, and the name wasn't special, so you didn't end up locking it down - in fact, you were very close to the correct answer, Jania, because a local bakery recommendation note you searched for mentioned it, and even mentioned its specific address, but unfortunately you didn't know enough about Chinese characters at the time, and the translation software couldn't remind you of this very well, so you didn't realize that on the Chinese Internet we occasionally omit the radical of the word '菓', which is a common mistake caused by the input method."

"I found out later," Jania said coldly, "'Sweet Fruit House' and 'Sweet Confectionery Shop' mean the same thing. I just can't find the original webpage anymore."

"Because by then I was already online and had blocked it from your device."

"You hacked my tablet?"

"Yes, just as you are trying to persuade Mr. Anthony Kent to do to your brother."

Jania raised her head confidently: "He is my temporary guardian, of course I have the right to know where he is doing."

"I have no objection to this. Otherwise, I would not have given you any clues later on - this would somewhat violate my promise to your brother."

"You sent me those emails advertising desserts and medical products?"

"Just some little tests."

"Oh, so I passed?"

"Faster than I expected. You didn't follow the route I planned. Apparently, halfway through your study of Chinese characters, you realized that selling bags of nuts directly into bakeries is not a common phenomenon in this area, and you could actually use this rare feature to target your target. The query you posted in your local online social circle is indeed likely to get the answer you want, so I blocked it as well."

"What a fair test!" Jania said unkindly, crossing her arms tightly across her chest in anger.

"That's not a big obstacle for you."

"Yeah, but it made me run so hard offline!"

"I considered whether to modify your map navigation software directly." Li Li ignored her angry eyes, "but this kind of trick can't stop you for too long. After encountering several information blockades, I noticed that you no longer trust online channels and rely on field visits and investigations. It's not so easy to control what passers-by reveal to you. I must say that I don't like to see you find the bakery that sells the bag of peanuts so early, lock on to this street, and finally meet with Mr. Anthony Kent in advance. The unpredictability caused by the two of you together is much greater than that of each of you alone, so I had to stop the test in advance."

Jania stared at her face. "Are you wary of your ex-boyfriend?"

"It's human nature," Li Li replied casually. Chilabin nodded happily at Jania, as if to say to her, "This is the world of adults." Jania looked left and right, unsure of which one she should be more wary of. Finally, she had to return to the most concerned issue at the moment: "Where is my brother?"

"If all goes well, I'll bring him back to you before tonight—"

"Why not now?" Janeya interrupted.

"——If I don't come back after dark, Mr. Chilabin next to you will answer your questions. Jania, you must then face all the facts bravely and think about the responsibilities you bear for our species. I don't want to push the responsibilities that should be borne by adults onto young people like you who are inexperienced in the world, but the situation will not change because of people's will. I can only warn you that although Mr. Chilabin is well-informed, he relies on an extremely dangerous and exclusive belief. You must listen to his advice very carefully and never lose your own judgment."

She turned her head to the opposite side: "As for you, Mr. Chilabin, I hope you will abide by the professional ethics of the creator and not reveal any information to Miss Dubois before dark. Just sit here and wait for the final result."

"Can't I say anything?"

"You seem to have been hanging out in theaters and cinemas in various countries over the past few months," Li Li suggested. "If you're willing, talk to her about what you've seen. But I must warn you that I have authorized supervisors to shoot you non-lethally at any time based on their own judgment, and if you show an intention to escape, the authorization will be immediately upgraded to unlimited fire. I would rather try to obtain the location information of the ship from your remaining thinking organs. You know that I have experience in carrying out the Door Project, and I have a lot of experience in how to use the dream instrument in reverse."

"My pleasure," said Chilabin.

Li Li made a move as if he was going to stand up. At this moment, Madi Tao, who had been slowly moving towards the table, finally reached the empty seat. She slipped into the empty space in front of the table and sat down on the last chair. No one else reacted to her action, except Pari, who shook his head slightly at her and made a hushing sound with his mouth.

Maditao pretended not to notice. "Boss," she said in a long voice, "Boss——"

"Please speak your mind, soldier," said Li Li.

"How is my team leader now?"

"Cid is still recuperating."

"Why did he have to rest for so long? Where did he get hurt?"

"He took a strong sedative during the mission, which resulted in an unexpected toxic reaction after contact with another special substance, causing respiratory and cardiovascular system failure, as well as moderate liver damage. Fortunately, he was rescued in time and his life is not in danger, but I'm afraid he won't be on the field again within six months. I think he still needs long-term observation."

"Does this mean I can be the current team leader?"

"Your length of service and qualifications in the field team hardly support this claim."

Maditao's eyes rolled around. "Are we going to face the end of the world?" She said with a smile, "Boss, can you give me some exciting work? Then I will have more experience."

"I'm afraid I don't appreciate this attitude. I hope you can act more carefully. This is also a way to be responsible to your parents."

"I will behave well." Mattitao begged, "Give me a chance!"

"Here is a ready-made opportunity: I need not say more about the importance of Mr. Chilabin, and I specially invited him here not only to facilitate response in certain critical moments, but also out of trust in you. Radumos is currently busy, so I have to leave him and Miss Dubois to you. Before the results of today's operation come out, the two of them must not leave this room."

"I understand." Mattitao said solemnly.

"I will keep monitoring this place," Li Li said, "but we cannot rule out the possibility of temporary signal interruption in certain circumstances. Once this happens, please remain highly alert and keep in mind the several action guidelines I sent you. I have already explained in detail how Mr. Chilabin needs to be protected, but please do not ignore Miss Jane Dubois. As far as I know, she has a very dangerous pet, but I have not found any trace of it in the store yet."

"I left it at home," Jania said rudely, "or you wouldn't have been able to keep me."

"It's possible," Li Li said. "From the public surveillance, it seems that Miss Dubois came here alone today, but I still suggest you stay vigilant. The simplest countermeasure is: lock the doors and windows, block all vents, and don't create any gaps for sneaking in. In addition, if she offers you any drinks or snacks, please refuse them firmly. Miss Dubois once secretly checked her brother's family medicine box, and I'm not sure if she stole anything."

"Hey!" Jania shouted in protest. At the same time, Mattito whistled happily: "Still a naughty boy!"

"Please don't look down on her for this. As the saying goes, little devils are hard to deal with."

"Boss, can I have her in my team in the future?"

"It all depends on your performance, soldier," Li Li said. "If you can't show enough professionalism, I'm afraid you will have to be a member of her team in the future."

Mati Tao stared at Jania as if she was looking for a windfall, and Jania stared back at her. Chilabin was very excited about the gunpowder smell on both sides of him, and was about to express his personal opinion on this, when Li Li suddenly stood up from the table.

"Radumos has locked onto the target location," she said. "Excuse me."

Finally, she bowed across the table and left like the wind.

(End of this chapter)