The detector's solar-powered wings had already been deployed, and now it was like a big bird, slowly drifting towards the starlight of the abyss-like ruins in the canyon, heading towards the center of the ruins.
The camera kept zooming in, and the remains of the ruins gradually became clear.
Huge spaceships were floating in the sky in random directions, and almost none of them was intact. Some were broken from the center, and some had a big hole, but most of them suffered from various collision wounds caused by the impact.
At this time, Director Zhang's voice came to Ye Ming's ears: "Mr. Ye, are you controlling the detector?"
Ye Ming coughed lightly and smiled sheepishly: "I was caught...Yes, I really want to see the alien spacecraft up close."
Director Zhang laughed: "Haha, let me tell you, you are probably the only one who has not slept with the mobile detector yet - come on, let's share the view."
After Ye Ming shared the view of the detector, he chatted with Director Zhang again. Then he realized that not only did he not sleep, but Director Zhang and his group, including the lunar base and even the newly completed space observatory that was just put into trial operation. No one was sleeping, they were all staring at the detector's vision.
Well, that’s understandable and normal.
If everyone can still sleep peacefully at this time, it means that the human scientific community is hopeless.
So next, Ye Ming chatted with Director Zhang, Professor Li Lei and a large group of scientists who couldn't sleep, while sharing the vision of the detector, heading towards the wreckage of the nearest spacecraft.
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"Is that a body?"
"Probably not."
"The corpse cannot be preserved for too long. According to calculations, there will be light coming in, there will be temperature, and there will be anaerobic bacteria - and the corpse will spontaneously hydrolyze in space."
"What if there were space suits?"
"That might take a little longer, but it still depends on the time."
As more and more people gathered around, Ye Ming finally opened a small meeting group, chatting and observing at the same time. At this time, everyone was staring at the corpse wearing a spacesuit in the picture and discussing it in a flurry of words.
"What do you think, Mr. Ye?"
"I don't know, but I think we should not use the experience on Earth first." Ye Ming reminded him when he thought of the previous discussion with Mo Gu: "When it comes to the extraterrestrial biosphere, no matter how cautious you are - even We still have no way of knowing whether the organisms here need oxygen or whether they are carbon-based organisms..."
After Ye Ming's words fell, a group of people immediately started "talking".
Indeed, for a brand new planet where civilization has been born, you definitely can’t just copy the Earth.
But Ye Ming then said: "But I guess... the biosphere of this planet and the earth should be inseparable."
"Why?"
"Because from a physical point of view, the current human beings and the current life system of the earth are the most stable. Well... In other words, under the current scale of the universe and physical rules, the most suitable for the birth of advanced civilization are carbon-based organisms. Even if there is a highly developed civilization that finally achieves digitalization and moves to a silicon-based form... they must have had biological forms before."
"What if the AI rebels?"
"Then we have to wait until the day when the AI rebels." Ye Ming chatted casually while controlling the detector to slowly slow down and hover.
At this point, the detector stayed less than thirty meters away from the wreckage of a spacecraft.
At this time, there was only some residual light reflected from the metal in the sky, as well as the search system of the detector itself.
Under the light, the spacecraft was about one hundred meters long. The head of the spacecraft was hit and a hole of about three meters was opened. Two "corpse" figures wearing space suits hung on the edge of the hole.
Ye Ming calmed down, breathed softly, and began to release the engineering robot.
Immediately afterwards, the vision switched to the camera of the engineering robot.
Gradually, the "corpse" came closer.
In order to avoid contamination, Ye Ming tried his best not to get close to it, but only used ray scanning and cameras to observe it.
Under the camera, the two corpses seemed to be "hanged" on the sharp and dilapidated edges of the spacecraft, with holes in their spacesuits.
Ye Ming was not sure whether there were bones inside, and he did not dare to let the engineering robot touch the body rashly. After taking a photo, he began to control the engineering robot to drill into the spacecraft through the hole.
As they entered the spacecraft, more "corpses" suddenly appeared.
Because of their weightlessness, they floated in random directions in the air, making it difficult to see them clearly.
There was silence in the channel for a long time.
After a while, Director Zhang's voice came slowly.
"It's...tragic."
Everyone sighed silently.
——If they were not sure whether they were corpses before, then after getting closer and seeing the obvious space suits, they were absolutely sure that they were not only corpses, but also the corpses of humanoid creatures.
At the very least, it is a creature that walks upright.
Well...that's actually quite logical.
Because walking upright can free the upper limbs, and then the birth and use of tools can be achieved.
Judging from their attire, they seem to have sensed the crisis and adopted this method of wrapping themselves in space suits - of course, this is thinking from a human perspective.
But how to say it? A person with a highly civilized logical thinking ability must have convergence.
Except for a few people present, including Ye Ming and Director Zhang, almost all the others had been to the sky. They were naturally sad to see the same "alien astronauts" end up like this.
"Well, it seems that they have indeed encountered a war, but I don't know if they have the strength to fight back." Ye Ming was silent for a few seconds: "By the way, everyone, are you afraid?"
His question made everyone startled.
Afraid? Afraid of aliens?
But then, everyone came back to their senses.
The fear here probably does not refer to the scene in front of me...but the encounter of the civilization in front of me!
"What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that the force that will destroy this civilization will come to our earth?" Director Zhang's voice was filled with a smile and a sense of ease.
"Um."
Director Zhang laughed: "Are you afraid it will be useful?"
Everyone laughed together.
Ye Ming also laughed.
Indeed, there is no point in being afraid.
After a moment, he asked Aita to control the engineering robot to turn its vision and head towards the passage ahead.
"Let's find the master controller."
Time passed slowly. While the engineering robot was transmitting back the internal structure of the spacecraft, especially the words and pictures, it headed towards the "main control room" and soon arrived at what looked like a hall.
Here, everyone did not see too many control buttons and screens, the control devices presented by human technology at this time, but instead saw many unknown facilities that looked like electrodes.
Although everyone was surprised, they didn't make any more guesses. They just let the engineering robot use brute force to pry open a control panel, take out a circuit board, and return to the detector while maintaining the power.
Ye Ming's eyes have always stayed on the "circuit board".
At a glance, he felt that this thing was rougher than his handiwork.
…
After sending the engineering robot back to the detector, Ye Ming turned off the channel.
Then, he entered the super simulation space.
"Yin Ta." He shouted to the sky.
"Here it comes!" The next second, Yin Ta's huge two-dimensional image appeared in the super simulation space, then shrank extremely, and finally stopped in front of him.
"Reproduce the circuit that the engineering robot brought back."
"Modeled."
Yin Ta spoke concisely and concisely, and soon, a huge incomplete electrical panel appeared in the void.
Ye Ming looked down at the control circuit - although he didn't know how this circuit worked, as an engineer who followed the physical rules of the universe, he fully believed that this thing would not exceed his knowledge and judgment.
The motherboard of the circuit seems to be rubber or acrylic, but it does not have a multi-layer structure like a human integrated circuit, but is composed of a dense layer of lines similar to gold foil.
After magnification, it seems that there are black residues on these gold foils, and some of the circuits have tiny pipes.
Let's put it this way, it is indeed a very ordinary handmade circuit.
"Did you find any problem?"
"what is the problem?"
"It shouldn't be so rough." Ye Ming was condescending, his eyes burning, as if he was grasping something: "Although the spacecraft needs stability and reliability, no matter how stable and reliable it is, it won't be so rough."
“And, I always felt like, it was missing something.”
"The semiconductor industry is missing." Yinta said humorously.
Ye Ming laughed.
really……
This looks a bit steampunk!
But then, Ye Ming's eyes narrowed!
He quickly looked to the center of all the connections.
That...theoretically, should be the location of the main control chip.
But there was nothing above.
In other words, there is no chip visible on it.
…
Early the next morning, the group of people attending the meeting were all in high spirits, not at all tired from staying up until three in the morning.
At the meeting, everyone talked about what they had discovered last night, leaving the military representatives quite confused.
"Academician Ye, what did you discover yesterday?" General Lu finally couldn't hold back and asked.
"Well... we released the engineering robot and went inside a spacecraft yesterday."
Ye Ming smiled into the microphone while applying the ice cubes Mo Gu gave him to his eyes.
The following events will be long-term, so everyone does not pay so much attention to the ceremony, but chooses online video conferencing for the entire process.
"Oh, what did you find?"
"Well, the testing conditions inside the detector are limited. Aita has only given a simple speculation so far, that is... probably the control center of this spacecraft is highly integrated with living things."
Following his voice, Mo Gu, who was doing work opposite, was slightly stunned, and then immediately sat down next to him, looking at him with stern eyes: "What does it mean to be highly integrated with living things?"
"That is, the control system may be connected to the biological nervous system... because their circuit board design is so rough that you can't even see the chip."
After a pause, Ye Ming continued: "To be precise, they may be taking the biochip path."
As soon as this statement came out, everyone, including last night, was in an uproar.
"Biochip?"
"Is it a biochip as we understand it?"
"Does that mean they don't have a semiconductor industry?"
"Then their computers..."
"No, that means they don't have computers?"
“How could we support the design of such a huge building without computers?”
"Without semiconductors, how could their civilization develop to the stage of cosmic civilization?"
"Mr. Ye, what's going on?"
Listening to the messy sounds on the channel, Ye Ming coughed lightly and knocked on the table again, and the office became slightly quiet.
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"Currently, we really know nothing about this civilization, and the detector's capabilities are indeed limited, so don't rush to conclusions, let alone have high expectations."
"As for whether they can push the height of civilization to such an extent without semiconductors... My opinion is that if their biological route goes smoothly, then I think semiconductors are not necessary."
As he spoke, Ye Ming closed his eyes and exhaled slowly.
The reason why he had to apply ice to his eyes was entirely because...he hadn't slept since last night.
He had been analyzing the retrieved electrical board with Yinta, and the final result was that he did not see the circuit rules of traditional semiconductors.
Of course, there are indeed some words and marks on the electrical board, but after a round of detection last night, the entire engineering robot and detector did not find many symbols, let alone decipher the words.
Well, this also shows that the writing system of this civilization should have been separated from the "book" stage, and all exists in the form of data - at least in space.
The absence of semiconductor circuit rules does not mean that they have mastered a more "advanced" and more powerful set of semiconductor rules, because semiconductors are the application of "electromagnetic force" and an extension of the basic understanding of the universe - even if it is more advanced, The most basic rules must also be followed.
Then there is only one possibility. The civilization is either extremely low-level, or it has embarked on another way to liberate productivity, especially computing power.
Now it seems that there is a high probability that they will embark on the path of biochips and even biological "intelligence".
"Therefore, the most important thing for us at the moment is to continuously adjust our subsequent detection plans based on known findings."
Ye Ming opened his eyes with burning eyes: "So I suggest that we quickly build a fully functional biological research laboratory and send it there as quickly as possible."
Mo Gu on the side immediately agreed: "Agree!"
…
Facts have proven that when confidentiality is not enforced, any information will be quickly leaked.
In less than a day, the news spread from an unknown source that the extraterrestrial civilization was most likely a civilization whose technological tree point had been "skewed" into the biological realm.
It then sparked discussions across the internet.
There is no doubt that any news from the Fairy Group Blue Star will be a hot topic on the Internet.
"Aliens are interested in biotechnology? Does that mean that we who are engaged in biology have no future even if we mix it into an external civilization?"
"I have to say, this wave is so dark and beautiful, old man!"
"I'm curious, to what extent have alien biotechnology developed? Can organisms be genetically enhanced, or can they live longer?"
"Does the biotechnology of alien civilizations strengthen individuals or groups? Or does it strengthen engineering?"
"Wait a minute, what does Academician Ye say now?!"
