Chapter 127: Events 9 years ago
Nineteen years ago, at a space station in the Gemini constellation——
“Didi didi——
The three astronauts were busy operating something on the console.
"Kenjiro!"
"Kinosaki!"
"Come and see!"
The captain was a handsome young man named Koichi Yamaguchi when he was young; his colleagues serving in the space station included 23-year-old Kenjiro and 26-year-old Shirosaki. He was the youngest of the three of them, at only 21 years old.
Both of them were attracted by Hongyi's shout and hurried to the control panel. Chengqi stepped forward and stared at the display screen. He saw a series of mysterious waves that looked like the beating of an electrocardiogram. His originally expressionless face suddenly showed a slight change.
The three of them narrowed their eyes and looked at the display screen: "What is this?"
"What a strange frequency!"
Kenjiro frowned slightly: "Is it the language of a new alien civilization?"
"See if you can decipher it..."
As he spoke, Shirosaki stepped forward, took over Koichi's control panel, and then tapped on the sophisticated instrument with his fingers smoothly.
"Tattoo..."
"If this is indeed a message sent by a new alien civilization, then this will be another major breakthrough in human exploration!"
Shirosaki's tone became more and more excited, and a light seemed to be flashing from his eyes.
"The TPC archive contains all kinds of strange sounds that humans have discovered and received in their exploration of the universe so far. I'm trying to compare this wave frequency."
"TPC Archives?" Hongyi asked suspiciously, "Isn't that accessible only to those with the highest level of permission?"
Hearing this, Kenjiro looked at Hongyi with a little surprise: "Hey, don't you know?"
Hongyi looked confused: "Know what?"
"Hongyi, you don't even know about the V66 plan."
“Didn’t they ask you these questions?”
Kenjiro talked freely and joined Kinosaki's team. He was a little surprised that Hiroichi knew nothing about the V66 plan. After all, in his opinion, this was something every astronaut must know.
The so-called V66 Project is a cross-era plan designed by the United Nations in 2066 for the concept of space exploration, attempting to thoroughly explore the solar system and achieve a 23% breakthrough in the exploration of the universe before the 2rd century.
Because there is no air in the universe, sound cannot propagate in the universe, but wave frequencies can, and the distance and integrity of wave frequency propagation are relatively high; so at that time, in order to facilitate the identification and storage of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations in the universe, all astronauts in the space station had certain permissions to enter the TPC archives to retrieve some special wave frequencies for deciphering...
Although the rapid advancement of new technologies has helped humans complete many explorations, it has also changed some things to a corresponding extent.
"Joisaki, Koichi, have you heard anything recently?"
"I heard from the astronauts who returned to Earth that a giant creature called 'Monster' has appeared on Earth recently."
"I've never seen one before. I really want to see what these monsters look like if I have the chance."
Kenjiro said, and suddenly turned his head to look at the two of them, and asked curiously: "Hey, do you think this monster has its own language and civilization?"
"Every creature has its own language and civilization, but we just can't understand other creatures'."
As he was speaking, Shirosaki's eyes suddenly lit up and he said in delight, "I've cracked it!"
With the technology at the time, the decoded wave frequency would be converted into Hertz, which means it would be played back in the form of a replica of the sound.
"Ow—"
As the finger pressed, a sharp bird song sound played over and over again from the audio.
“Bird sounds?”
The three of them couldn't help but frown when they heard the voice, all of them looked puzzled:
“How can there be birds singing in the universe?”
Back and forth, that sound, which lasted only a few seconds, was played in a loop in the space station.
"Could it be that there is a problem with the decoding?" Hongyi said casually, which made the three of them feel puzzled.
"Tsk..."
"No way, how could this go wrong?"
"Let's try again." Shirosaki sighed helplessly and said to the two of them.
"Come on, try again."
With that, the three of them started their respective decryption work again.
Zizi...zizi...drip...
Not long after they deciphered the code again, the peaceful space station suddenly shook slightly.
"rumble--
The three were interrupted by the sudden jolt of the space station. They looked around in confusion and asked, "What's going on?"
"Hit a meteorite?"
However, before they could put their doubts to rest, the space station suddenly shook violently, and the three of them fell down unexpectedly.
Logically speaking, the space station would not experience such huge turbulence unless it was hit by a meteorite, but the radar did not show any trace of a meteorite.
The jolts were endless and were getting more intense.
“Boom boom boom—
The interior of the space station seemed to be falling apart, with a constant and noisy sound of metal colliding.
"Ah!" Hongyi slammed into the pillar and shouted through gritted teeth: "What happened?"
As he spoke, he stood up with difficulty, then looked at Kenjiro who was closest to him. When he saw the horrified look on his face, he shouted again: "Kenjiro, what's wrong?"
"Joisaki, Koichi, look! What is that!"
Following Kenjiro's horrified eyes, the two saw through the glass that there was a huge belly in front of the space station; and on that belly was a giant pentagonal mouth, which was slowly opening in an attempt to swallow the space station.
This is a strange cosmic bird with a head similar to that of a bird, very sharp yellow-green claws on its head and hands, and a pentagonal organ similar to a beak on its abdomen.
"Monster!?"
The moment Shirosaki saw the creature, he was so shocked that he almost blurted out words; and at the side, the moment he saw the strange bird in the universe, Hiro suddenly realized: it turned out that the message they had just deciphered was the sound made by this strange bird!
Just as the three were helpless and watched the space station being swallowed bit by bit by the monster bird, they suddenly saw a flash of colorful light behind the monster bird; then they could clearly feel a mysterious force pulling the half-swallowed space station out of the monster bird's mouth.
The cosmic bird was repelled by this mysterious force and finally released its sharp claws that were tightly hooked on the space station.
When everyone looked up through the glass, a giant with a huge body and wrapped in light appeared in everyone's eyes.
"what!"
"This is?!"
The three of them's eyes suddenly narrowed and they couldn't help but gasp.
The giant also looked down at the three people in the space station, as if to confirm their safety.
When the light gradually faded, the giant's appearance was fully revealed:
The body is filled with mysterious silver and black tones, with several red and blue lines interspersed between the silver and black, just like the arteries and veins of the human body; however, the most conspicuous feature of the giant is the blue, horn-like energy scab on his head.