Give the universe a little earth shock

Chapter 48 The Talking Star
Just after 10:30.

The bright thin line in the sky has officially kicked off the Perseid meteor shower.

Everyone spread out to all corners of the top of the mountain, looking for the best viewing position.

Li Kaiyang pulled Chen Xing'an to a small hillside with backlight, and the boulder behind him happened to be able to isolate all disturbances.

The sparks of human activities are flashing on the ground far away, and further outside, above the horizon, the Milky Way above the head is like a bead curtain, and the bolides are dancing across the sky, leaving a bright line in the vision, which is its curtain call. .

Even the sleepy Chen Xing'an couldn't help raising his face at this moment, looking at these guests who came all the way from Kuiper.

Tonight's meteor shower will last for two hours, Li Kaiyang took advantage of the time before the traffic peak, straightened up a simple small pot, sizzled fried an egg, then poured in mineral water, cooked a bowl of noodles, handed He gave it to Chen Xingan who was on the side.

"I'm not hungry."

She leaned on the slope of the dense green grass, looked up at the sky, and didn't care.

"It's a custom, you have to eat it on your birthday."

Chen Xingan was startled, sat up, lowered his head silently, and took the noodles.

The hot air clouded her glasses, she took a small sip, her voice was a little hoarse, "It's not good, no salt was added."

Li Kaiyang threw two things wrapped in tinfoil into the embers, leaned on the lawn and looked at the sky, "It's good to have something to eat, but it's very tiring to carry a raw egg to climb a mountain."

"Oh, yes, and chicken legs, eat a chicken leg."

He took out another vacuum-packed pre-made chicken leg and put it in the noodles, "When I go down the mountain later, I will take you to eat real local chicken."

Chen Xing'an didn't eat normally for several days, and after climbing to the top of the mountain, his stagnation eased a lot. He smelled the smell of meat, and finally moved his index finger, snorting to wipe out a bowl of noodles.

After she finished eating, she handed over the bowl, Li Kaiyang glanced at her, "What are you doing?"

Without speaking, she stretched out the bowl again.

Li Kaiyang laughed and scolded, "I'm hungry too! It's gone!"

"Stingy."

Chen Xing'an muttered something in a nasal voice.

The two leaned on the lawn to look at the stars again, and the embers around them silently provided warmth. Li Kaiyang couldn't help laughing when he recalled watching the Leonid meteor shower when he was a child.

"When I was in high school, I was about seven years old. My family was very poor. My parents and I lived in a small bungalow on the first floor. The back door was a stinky ditch, and the front door was a garbage dump. There was only one bedroom in the whole house. , my father can snore, usually stay outside and watch TV, and come in to sleep after we all fall asleep."

"I remember it was November, and it was around this point. He suddenly woke me up, saying that there was a meteor shower tonight in the news, which was rare for decades. My mother struggled to get up, and the two of them hugged me and sat down. Looking at the sky in front of the house, I fell asleep just looking at it.”

"I didn't see any of them. I found out later that he was watching a recording, which was yesterday's news."

"In another two years, my mother will leave, leaving me and him to watch the stars, but I can't sleep anymore."

Li Kaiyang told a bland, not funny story. After finishing speaking, the people around him did not respond, only the sound of heavy breathing.

He handed Lao Wang's camera over and asked, "Will it work? This?"

Chen Xingan took off her glasses and looked at the sky through the observation window. She tried her best to suppress her trembling voice, and made an 'OK' gesture, indicating that she knew how to use it.

A super bright meteor flashed across the sky, it was as bright as day in an instant, and then disappeared in an instant, as if it had never happened, leaving only faint meteor traces scattered in the night sky.

Li Kaiyang stretched out his hand, stroked the Milky Way flickering in the sky, and said slowly, "The stars we see are all dust from countless times away. Maybe they have disappeared long ago when we saw the light. This is the last thing in the universe. Romantic place, endless space, too many stories to imagine."

Speaking of this, the meteor shower began to fall, and the entire Nanshan Mountain was filled with exclamation. Everyone was impressed by the vastness of the universe.

Li Kaiyang continued, "Everything we love, everything we hate, and the most precious things we have ever owned were all born in the first few minutes of the life of the universe, and when these things disappear, these fragments will return to the universe. The universe, under the rearrangement and combination of atoms, enters the cycle of disappearance and rebirth."

"Maybe it turns into stars in the sky, maybe it turns into flowers around you to accompany you. In the infinite universe, we will meet again eventually, so don't worry."

A bright spot suddenly appeared in the starry sky observed by Chen Xing'an's camera, piercing the sky, flashing long and short, flashing long and long. This is a string of Morse code.

She looked at the camera and translated it word by word, "The stars should be laughing, the universe is a remote place anyway."

After reading, the stars in the sky were reflected in her eyes, and tears fell like rain.

Yuan Hui at the other end of Nanshan was wearing Guangbo glasses, holding a wine glass in his hand and laughing loudly, "Good! Good!"

The meteor ends.

Chen Xing'an wiped away her tears, and the sharp-tongued strong woman came back again. She jumped up, took a deep breath, put the camera in her pocket, and said loudly, "Lend me to use it, and return the photos to you after printing. "

Li Kaiyang stepped on the charcoal fire and took out the roasted sweet potato inside, "Remember to return this camera, this camera is very expensive."

The two returned to the bonfire, but when they saw Yuan Hui keep casting affirmative glances at Li Kaiyang, and seeing the glasses in his hand, Li Kaiyang knew that he had also seen the code word.

In fact, Mr. Wu's method of transmitting messages is very simple, using the light of low-altitude satellites as the transmission medium.

From the perspective of the ground, the satellite flies over the earth in a straight trajectory, but the flickering light of the satellite cuts this trajectory into lines of different lengths, which can be used as Morse code.

The members of the Science Council did not think of this level, and neither did Yuan Hui.

Mr. Wu really sent a signal with the stars.

"Brother Kaiyang, you are amazing."

Yuan Hui passed by casually and praised.

Not only did he approve of the method to crack Old Wu's signal, but he could also feel that Professor Xiao Chen was back again, without low pressure, without negative energy, and still the energetic girl.

Looking at the restless crowd, Chen Xing'an teased, "The Imperial Capital Laboratory is really a young man ruled by hormones, a meteor shower is enough to excite him."

Li Kaiyang despised, "I don't know who was crying just now."

At this moment, a sweet voice interrupted their conversation, and Zhang Duoduo walked over with a plate of perfectly toasted marshmallows and skewers, and sat between them.

The talking eyes looked at Li Kaiyang with watery eyes, and said softly, "Kaiyang, long time no see."

(End of this chapter)