Across the aisle, Jiang Xueming hesitated for a while, and finally asked slowly, "Is this what you said...the most exciting part?"
Bu Liuxing's big watery eyes were full of innocence: "Yes! Otherwise?"
Jiang Xueming asked, "Did you and her talk about anything else?"
Ah Xing: “Let’s chat.”
Jiang Xueming: "What did you talk about?"
Axing: "I almost forgot about it."
Jiang Xueming: "..."
The [Phantom Sun] outside the window shines on Bu Liuxing's face, making this boy look particularly innocent. Coupled with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, he has a rather innocent feeling.
Jiang Xueming took a deep breath, held down the inexplicable pain in his lower abdomen, managed his expression, and continued to ask patiently.
"Think about it carefully, Axing, recall it carefully. I know that the situation was very confusing at that time. You also said that this faceless lady stabbed her tentacles directly into your face, like inserting a mobile hard drive into your face. The USB port on your face seems to be transmitting data to you, so you better think about it..."
"Understood! Understood!" Azing tilted his chin and began to think hard.
Jiang Xueming: "How about I give you a reminder? Find out what you feel?"
Axing asked enthusiastically: "Then you still hug me, right? It's like Madam Faceless hugging me... I don't feel it without that scene..."
Jiang Xueming: "Get lost."
"Just forget it if you don't hug me..." Bu Liuxing pouted, looking aggrieved: "Why are you so fierce..."
After a long time, Ah Xing slowly and seriously talked about the things in his memories.
"To be honest, I really can't remember the messy information...because they flooded into my head in an instant——
——Brother Ming, when we were young, we had to improve our literacy skills year by year, move forward step by step, and read book after book. This is the truth, right? "
Jiang Xueming: "Yeah."
Bu Liuxing covered his forehead and tried to think back.
"But Madam Faceless plugged a USB flash drive into my USB to transfer data. The information was all illogical and out of order. I don't dare to say that I can understand it, and I don't know much that I can remember."
As he was talking, Ah Xing started to have a nosebleed...
Jiang Xueming was in a complicated mood. He kindly handed over a pack of tissues: "Thank you for your hard work...A Xing, the capillaries in your nose burst. Don't be too nervous. This symptom is very common in psychiatry. If your The hippocampus and cerebral cortex undergo drastic changes in a short period of time, remembering or forgetting many, many things, and these intense brain activities will also make you have a nosebleed."
"Do you often go to the psychiatry department? Brother Ming?" Axing took the tissue and wiped the nosebleed.
Jiang Xueming sat back next to Bu Liuxing: "I only understand a little bit."
Bu Liuxing continued: "That's not the reason, then you are wrong. When I was reminiscing just now, I thought of Madam Faceless's slippery legs, and then..."
Jiang Xueming sat back at the small table across the aisle.
Axing asked: "Why are you sitting so far away again?"
Xueming replied: "Go on, drink when you are thirsty."
"Ah... let me clear my mind." Bu Liuxing rubbed his temples, his posture was like a smart one, and suddenly lit up the small 16-watt light bulb in his brain, "I thought of it!"
Xueming remained silent, just holding a notebook to take notes.
He heard Ah Xing's suddenly lowered tone, as if he was seriously describing old events from many years ago.
"In a very, very long time ago, almost before the age of the dinosaurs, ninety-six golden eggs fell from the sky."
The sun's rays reflected in Ah Xing's eyes, and he calmly described the chaotic scene in his mind.
"These golden eggs come from Procyon in the constellation Canis Minor. Their home star is about to die, and Procyon has also changed from the light of light of the home star's civilization to a dark red fireball that brings death.
Kana...Kole...Caron...
It is difficult for me to pronounce this name with human vocal organs. This is the home planet race of Madam Faceless.
In her chaotic memory, she asked me to call her Canaan and call her and her people by this name.
These Canaanites fled to Earth from the constellation Canis Minor and tried to rebuild a new homeland on this land.
However, their physical bodies cannot stand the earth's environment at all, regardless of air pressure or gravity, let alone the ancient viruses that have evolved with the biosphere.
These Canaanites could only maintain their original golden egg form to protect their fragile bodies..."
"Wait..." Jiang Xueming interrupted: "You mean, those egg-like things are not the aircraft of these aliens? But the aliens themselves?"
Bu Liuxing nodded and said: "Originally, their physical bodies were very fragile, just like cells in a petri dish, composed of millions of independent individuals.
To use an analogy - if we look at our human body, every inch of our skin and every hair counts as a life, and we know how to think and express our emotions.
These Canaanite creatures have many cilia, light-sensitive cells, and electrical signal recognition organs. They are like living [water], gathering together in ever-changing forms.
Some individuals have Canaanite communities of tens of billions, and there are also Canaanite individuals that act alone. "
Bu Liuxing took a sip of coffee and explained unhurriedly.
“When the Canaanite civilization faced extinction, they decided to stuff the entire civilization into thousands of golden eggs.
They simply don't have the technology to travel faster than light. The home planet is short of energy and has not ignited thermonuclear technology.
The [golden eggs] they use are actually the product of their own talent for mimicry. Since the size of Canaanite creatures is very small, they imitate other natural creatures in the biosphere of their home planet. He used his own body to create a ceramic-like shell that is resistant to high temperatures and has strong airtightness. Start wandering into the universe.
In the end, there were ninety-six golden eggs. After a long journey, they grew solar sails as wings of the golden eggs. They used the gravitational slingshots of various stars to accelerate, and climbed to the earth like stubborn snails.
The faceless lady we saw once had more than 55 million little Canaans in her body. "
Jiang Xueming: "Once?"
"These Canaanite golden eggs have been on the earth for countless years." Bu Liuxing murmured: "When the Canaanite creatures came to the earth, it was a time of deep water and hot water. It was difficult for them to adapt to the strange star of the sun. ——
——Coupled with the earth's own vegetation environment, the carbon and oxygen balance is broken again and again, and extreme weather will occur every million years.
The Canaanite creatures had just finished their suspended animation and hibernation from space travel. When they arrived on Earth, they immediately hid on the relatively stable deep sea bed and then fell asleep, looking forward to the emergence of a more stable environment.
During the subsequent Carnian flood period, the entire earth turned into a ball of water, and a heavy rain fell for a million years.
Before that, insects also began to curb the wanton growth of plants, and the earth's environment finally stabilized.
In the bottomless sea, the Canaanites endured for hundreds of thousands of generations, experienced the disasters of continental shelves and plate movements, and escaped earthquakes, volcanoes, and changes in water temperature.
The Canaanites seemed to finally be looking forward to good times, but things were not that simple.
They rest and recuperate in golden eggs, and the organisms in the eggshells have been updated for a long time. They are completely different from the original Canaan of Procyon. They originally existed in the form of half energy and half living organisms. However, the energy body is vulnerable to the earth's harsh magnetic field environment and special solar activities.
In order to adapt to the environment, when the Canaanite creatures of the new generation left the golden eggs, they used the talent of mimicry to become pure carbon-based species on the earth, which looked like colorful sea slugs. but......"
Bu Liuxing changed the subject.
“Having a stable physical body also means that these new generation Canaan cannot return to the golden egg. This is a one-way evolution and is irreversible.
After the end of the Carnian Flood, these new generation Canaanites became fossil samples of some mysterious creatures in human history textbooks.
Mother Earth's capricious bad temper is like a cold stepmother, and she will not take special care of this group of alien intelligent life forms at all.
The Canaanite creatures left in the golden egg followed the earth's geographical chronology, and after going extinct one after another——
——The last batch of creatures to leave the Golden Egg and maintain a carbon-based body was the Faceless Lady in Fangfeng Settlement. And the residents of the settlement. "
Jiang Xueming frowned: "If these Canaanite creatures have intelligence, why are they like that?"
"Because their civilization has been eradicated - to be precise, the things that popped out of the golden eggs have little to do with Canaanite creatures." Bu Liuxing explained: "The Canaanite creatures in Procyon originally possessed half energy and half matter. Their physical bodies, their way of reproduction is to exchange information and matter, producing an effect of one plus one being far greater than two."
Ah Xing snapped his fingers.
"For example, if two communities of this kind of creature exchange part of their body units with each other, they can immediately grab energy from the natural environment and add value to create more Canaanite creatures.
It's like something came out of nothing, a talent given to them by the fertile natural environment of their home planet.
Likewise, they don't need anything to store history, not words, not books, not music. Their half-energy, half-material bodies are the best information storage tools.
However, the rules on Earth are different.
More than a hundred years ago, the last batch of new-generation Canaanite creatures that emerged from the golden eggs would lose their energy body when they fixed their physical form, and then completely forgot their racial history. Only a few individuals still remember it. The past events of the stars in tens of millions of years.
The Faceless Lady is one of the relatively complete ancient Canaanite life groups. She chose to leave the Golden Egg during the first industrial revolution of mankind, and chose the human form as the form of her physical body in an attempt to interact with humans.
She went to London to study abroad, studied human history and culture, and used her racial talents to influence the brains of other humans around her, making her, an alien, look ordinary and inconspicuous enough.
In order to leave memories, her transformation was incomplete, so she still retained most of her ancient consciousness, and could change her physical form at will, just like a ball of viscous cells. She paid a heavy price for this. 70% of the Canaanite colonies on her body died. She had to avoid sunlight and strong magnetic and electrical environments all the time. She had to use a black umbrella when going out in broad daylight.
She learned human folk customs, tried to marry another Canaanite creature in the tribe, and used the double helix genetic sequence to have children. However, unfortunately, her husband accidentally contracted the Vita brand when leaving the golden egg. One of his legs was still useless, and his condition worsened. Finally, in the mansion, the husband was afraid of spreading the plague to the faceless lady, so he sunburned himself to death with an ultraviolet headlight, and died in front of the workbench. We have seen That prosthetic leg. "
"No wonder I can't see any books..." Jiang Xueming said with relief: "There are only a few pictures on the wall. They don't need words."
"Speaking of it, this thing is quite romantic." Bu Liuxing said with a smile: "When Madam Faceless talked about these photos with me, she felt very happy.
For the Canaanites, fixed life forms have no meaning. It is difficult for them to understand that an intelligent life must be trapped in a physical prison for its entire life, but...
But when taking pictures with her husband, they both have to stand in front of the camera for thirty seconds and cannot move until the magnesium powder flash lights up.
These thirty seconds of companionship made her feel like she had found a treasure, because her husband was about to leave her and return to the embrace of the star world.
When Canaanite creatures die, they say, energy and thoughts return to the astral realm, from nothing to something and back to nothing.
From the photo, she could see the reflection of herself and her deceased husband in the world. What makes her ecstatic is that she is like a thief who stole the sweet memories from the star world without returning them completely. "
Jiang Xueming thought of the residents in Fangfeng Village again.
"What about the residents in the settlement who have blank eyes and look like primitive people?"
"The Faceless Lady is looking after them. The clothes on these humanoid creatures are all woven stitch by stitch by her dexterous tentacles.
More than a hundred years ago, Madam Faceless spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources to go underground and hid the remaining golden eggs in this underground seabed with sweet sea breeze. The environment here is very similar to the environment where she was born, with volcanoes Activities and geothermal heat can provide relatively stable heat energy to the golden egg, making it a good crib.
Her intended husband was also born here and then became ill.
Later, she believed that the earth's environment still needed to evolve, and it was too early for the compatriots in the egg to become a habitable planet.
But it is strange to say that with the paradigm of the Faceless Lady, when the station's engineering team arrived here, they also awakened some of the Canaanite creatures in the golden eggs.
They followed suit, and began to try to use human forms [to be born], and they were not so honest and peaceful——
——But as Canaanite creatures, these Cenozoic larvae are too young.
Without the shackles of the eggshell and the support of the group consciousness, their physical form was fixed at the moment of incapacitation, and then they lost all memory.
The result is what we see, they are like apes that have not yet developed their intelligence. In addition to having a similar physique to the Faceless Lady, it can basically be regarded as a new species.
Their bodies still flow with blood from the deep sea era, which is blood rich in copper ions that mimics marine organisms, which is the blue blood we see.
Simply put, these aliens can no longer be called aliens. In order to adapt to the earth and continue to survive, it almost paid the price of the extinction of civilization. It forcibly transformed itself irreversibly into the pure carbon-based organisms native to the earth. It is a protected animal. "
"Then what?" Jiang Xueming put the coffee to his mouth and asked curiously: "She chatted with you so much? What else happened after that?"
Bu Liuxing: "I slept with her."
"Poof! -" Xueming sprayed a sip of coffee on Ah Xing's face.
Bu Liuxing wiped his face and explained nonchalantly: "She was the one who made the move first. I'm very reserved, to be honest. She just had this request. In order to adapt to human society and allow her compatriots to get better mimicry bodies, she More DNA samples are needed."
Jiang Xueming held it in for a long time, feeling a little bit speechless.
He choked out one last sentence.
"Is this how you treat protecting animals?"
