Zhang Heng was not very familiar with Cheng Xin, the same person who had survived the previous universe zero cycle, but he was definitely not unfamiliar either.
There was even a period of time when he tried to influence and change this death-like Madonna to prevent the final tragedy from happening.
But it's a pity that at that time, he didn't understand at all that the root of everything was not Cheng Xin. Everything was the choice of human beings.
Besides, he didn't have much ability at that time.
He cannot stop the choice of human nature...
Humanity can drive Luo Ji out of the community, and it can also prevent him from sleeping under the overpass...
Getting back to the topic, after seeing Cheng Xin, Zhang Heng also stopped his subsequent actions.
Because there is no need anymore.
Since this battle star also belonged to a human being, and was still a human being led by Cheng Xin, he did not dare to continue the series of interests he had had in it before.
Are you tired of letting Cheng Xin join your own faction of initiates?
Even to this day, Zhang Heng does not dare to underestimate her.
After giving up the idea of controlling the battle stars, Zhang Heng's remaining targets were only those individuals from fringe civilizations captured by this group of humans.
As long as he showed up and asked Cheng Xin for these prisoners of fringe civilization, Cheng Xin would definitely give them to him.
After much deliberation, Zhang Heng chose this most direct method.
Furthermore, the person who showed up to meet Cheng Xin and demanded prisoners from the fringe civilization was just one of them.
More importantly, Zhang Heng also wanted to find out through Cheng Xin what other people like Yun Tianming and others who had also survived since the last universe zero cycle were doing now and where they were...
However, Zhang Heng did not appear in front of Cheng Xin in a high-profile manner, but waited until there was no one around her before his consciousness appeared around her.
Cheng Xin also had an independent existence with complete consciousness. As soon as Zhang Heng's consciousness appeared around her without any cover-up, she would naturally sense the existence of Zhang Heng's consciousness immediately.
"Who are you?"
After sensing the existence of Zhang Heng's consciousness, Cheng Xin carefully looked at the direction of Zhang Heng's consciousness and asked.
Although in this human civilization under her leadership, in addition to her independent consciousness and body, there are also several people who can also have independent consciousness and body.
However, the consciousness that appeared around her now was not like the other people in the civilization.
Then, it means that this unknown consciousness does not belong to the people of our own civilization, but comes from an unknown civilization.
"Are you a consciousness from a fringe civilization?"
Thinking that her human civilization had just ended its war with the fringe civilization, she couldn't help but ask this question.
However, after thinking about it carefully, she felt something was wrong.
Because the fringe civilizations in today's time period cannot even achieve the technological strength of a small universe, let alone an independent consciousness.
Therefore, this unknown consciousness cannot come from a fringe civilization.
Just when Cheng Xin was puzzled and was about to call on the security forces below to drive away this unknown consciousness with no idea of its purpose, Zhang Heng answered her with action.
Now that he decided to meet Cheng Xin, he must restore his physical body. Otherwise, Cheng Xin might not remember him again just by communicating with his conscious body.
When Zhang Heng returned to his physical body and Cheng Xin saw Zhang Heng's appearance clearly, Cheng Xin immediately stopped preparing to call for security forces.
She didn't recognize Zhang Heng at a glance. The reason why she stopped moving was simply because Zhang Heng's material body was also human.
"Are you human too?"
However, she still asked one more question.
After all, the physical body can also be faked.
A life that has completed the independence of its conscious body will no longer be limited to its original body.
As long as you think about it, the body of any form of life can be used as a body by the independent life of consciousness.
Therefore, she had every reason to suspect that the person in front of her at the moment was a fake human being.
"I am very sure that you do not belong to our group of humans. Where are you from?"
Cheng Xin continued to press.
If the other person can't answer, or the answer doesn't match what she knows, it must be false.
After all, not many people know better than her how many branches of human civilization there are in the entire Trisolaran Universe.
Except for this one on the earth in the solar system, the others all over the three-body universe are all the people who survived the last zero cycle of the universe, their descendants.
As for those people, she had basically met them all when the current cosmic cycle began.
Even if many years have passed, the branches of the people she once met may have changed a lot.
It is also possible that some of them can no longer remember their origins.
However, historical information cannot be faked. Even if the specific origin cannot be remembered, the information recorded in history will also record what a civilization has experienced and in which galaxies it has developed.
Through this information, Cheng Xin was able to determine which branch the other party belonged to based on the direction each branch went when she parted ways with those people.
"My name is Zhang Heng. Take a good look at me and think about where I come from."
At this time, Zhang Heng also replied.
"Zhang Heng?"
Hearing this, Cheng Xin also began to murmur the name on her lips, and tried to recall carefully when she had had deep contact with the person with this name.
However, after thinking for a long time, she still didn't recall anything.
Although there are many people named Zhang Heng in this human civilization under her leadership, they are basically ordinary people and have never had direct contact with her...
Seeing that she really couldn't remember, Zhang Heng had no choice but to remind her: "When you graduated from college, I gave you a model airplane at your graduation ceremony, and I also talked to you a lot..."
After Zhang Heng finished speaking.
At this time, Cheng Xincai finally opened her eyes wide. It seemed that Zhang Heng's reminder was useful and she was really thinking about something.
"Graduation...college...graduation ceremony?"
For a moment, she didn't know whether it was because of excitement or something else, but her tone seemed a little hasty and irregular.
The word "university" is a very distant word for her.
Before Zhang Heng reminded her, when she searched for relevant memories, she didn't think about the previous universe zero cycle.
After all, she had seen everyone who was lucky enough to survive from the previous universe zero cycle to the current cycle at the beginning.
But I didn't expect that there were other survivors?
"you……"
When her memory returned to the last universe zero cycle, she finally remembered: "No, you, you are Professor Zhang?"
Professor Zhang was Zhang Heng’s social identity on earth at that time.
Although he was not a very famous scientist, he was not recognized by the mainstream intellectuals of the society at that time. They thought he was just a person who relied on the wall-facer Luo Ji to become famous and engaged in cheating and drinking.
But it is undeniable that he made a series of contributions that were beneficial to mankind when dealing with the Trisolaran rebels and the Trisolarans.
Many important plans also have their participation.
In the end, he was even listed by the Trisolaran Sophon as a target that must be assassinated at the same level as Luo Ji.
The above was Cheng Xin's limited understanding of Zhang Heng at that time.
"I'm sorry, Professor Zhang, I failed you and I also failed Dr. Luo Ji..."
But when she thought about Zhang Heng and realized that she was facing an elder at this moment, she was not happy at all. She also acted like a child who had done something wrong, lowering her head deeply to her chest. .
She especially remembers that at the graduation ceremony at that time, Professor Zhang, who was not very popular but was quite famous, suddenly appeared in front of her as a little girl.
He also said that he came specially to congratulate her on her graduation and brought her a gift.
At that time, this was the second person she met in her life who gave her a gift.
The first one was Yun Tianming, her classmate at the university before graduation, who gave her a star named DX3906.
However, this classmate Yun Tianming has always been secretly in love with her.
Now this Professor Zhang suddenly gave himself a gift, could it be...
It's not surprising that she would think too much about it. After all, Professor Zhang was famous at the time, but it was mostly gossip news.
Before Dr. Luo Ji, who was the Wall Facer, met his wife Zhuang Yan, he had done a lot of ridiculous things with Professor Zhang.
I heard that Professor Zhang is the favorite among female college students like her...
However, in the subsequent conversation, she gradually discovered that although Professor Zhang was indeed a bit out of character, he was not as bad as the rumors said.
And the motivation for giving her a gift was only because of her major.
Since she majored in aerospace engines, the gift given by Professor Zhang was an exquisite aircraft model.
Although she couldn't say whether she liked or disliked the gift, she still accepted it.
However, in what Professor Zhang said next, she discovered that this gift was not just a model.
"Do you believe that although this is just a model airplane, if you launch it into space, it will immediately turn into a spaceship?"
"Even, as long as some things are added, it will be a spaceship that exceeds the speed of light?"
After delivering the gift, Zhang Heng pointed at the gift and said.
"Professor Zhang, you are really good at joking. I have just graduated and I have not given back the knowledge I have learned to the teacher."
"With our current human technology, can we exceed the speed of light?"
"How can this be?"
Cheng Xin thought Zhang Heng was just joking with her, so she retorted in a joking tone.
You must know that even the Trisolaran civilization, which is far superior to humans and has been giving humans a sense of oppression, their spaceships can only only one-tenth the speed of light at most.
At this speed, it would still take 40 years to reach the solar system from the Trisolaran Galaxy.
If exceeding the speed of light could be achieved so easily, Zhang Heng and she might not have the chance to stand here and joke anymore, and the Trisolarans would have come to kill the humans on the earth long ago.
But Zhang Heng still had a serious expression and continued: "It doesn't matter if you don't believe it now, but I hope that one day in the future, you can recall what I said today and verify this model to see if it will become a A faster-than-light ship.”
"If it can really become a faster-than-light spacecraft, I also hope that when your personal thoughts can determine the future of the entire human civilization, you can take all mankind on it and fly to the universe as soon as possible."
When Zhang Heng said these words at that time, he looked like a magician who claimed that he could meet the future.
It seemed that it was because he had seen the future that he found her, an unremarkable little girl who had just graduated from college.
But at that time, Cheng Xin felt that there was no reason for such a well-known professor to come specifically to make fun of her.
So, I accepted this model despite my doubts.
However, she later forgot what Zhang Heng said to her today.
When she could really determine the fate of the entire human race with her own thoughts, and thus put the entire human civilization in crisis, she could no longer remember where she had thrown this model.
In her later opinion, when Zhang Heng gave her this model, the curvature technology might actually be hidden inside, and it was still intact.
If she still retains this model, even if deterrence fails, humanity can still gain a glimmer of hope.
At least, there will be more people who can escape the two-way foil attack.
But she didn't know that without this model, humans would still have a chance.
However, Vader's more than 60 years of hard work and the only opportunity left for humans to build a faster-than-light spaceship were all in vain!
From this point of view, no matter how many opportunities are given to her, she will always give it up.
In fact, when Zhang Heng gave her the model, he planned to escape from the solar system.
Giving her a model to give humans one more chance to build a super-light spaceship is also treating a dead horse as a living horse.
But the result is that this dead horse still cannot be cured...
This is why, now that Cheng Xin sees Zhang Heng again and confirms Zhang Heng, she will immediately say sorry.
Because the opportunity Zhang Heng once left for her to bring to the entire human civilization was lost by her...
When she said "I'm sorry" in front of Zhang Heng, she was as sincere as she was in front of the aging Luo Ji during the last universe return to zero cycle.
But at that time, Luo Ji said to her nonchalantly: "It was not you who was wrong."
Choose to forgive her.
But Zhang Heng would not say that.
However, with his current mentality, he will no longer dwell on the past.
Although the model he sent was indeed lost by Cheng Xin, this cannot be blamed on all mankind. After all, it was not the choice of all mankind to ask her to get rid of it.
However, before becoming a sword holder, she was really just an ordinary little human girl.
It also requires an ordinary little human girl to be mentally prepared to save humanity from that time on.
Then since the person you sent the model to knows that this thing can save mankind, why don't they get it themselves?
If you can't do it yourself, let others do it. If others fail, then you should blame others?
Therefore, Zhang Heng would not blame Cheng Xin now, and he was not qualified to hold Cheng Xin responsible for this matter.
After all, he started running away at that time...
(End of chapter)
