Lu Zhou originally thought that the plot was over here, but he didn't expect that the game end icon didn't appear in his field of vision as he expected. He didn't even know if he had completed the Void Memory synchronization and browsed through all the clues in this memory.
After Dr. Lane left, the consul announced that the meeting was adjourned. The clues about the oracle ended here, and there seemed to be no more plot.
After leaving the conference hall, Lu Zhou followed General Ince back to the station. After returning the equipment, he applied to leave the team. He then took a rail train and wandered aimlessly around the ring world.
Although the social barriers were strict, this world was unexpectedly more prosperous and complicated than he had imagined.
In this ring world, there were industrial areas specialized in the production of consumer goods, commercial areas responsible for meeting the shopping and entertainment needs of citizens, college areas, planting areas, high-density and low-density residential areas, natural landscape protection areas, and so on.
People living here didn't need to work very hard to enjoy a relatively rich life. Because the income of the same class was relatively equal, there was almost no communication between different classes. Therefore, the gap between the rich and the poor didn't seem to be obvious here. Everyone lived in peace in their own utopia.
As for the currency used here, it was something translated as credit points.
Because of inheriting the property of the upper class, the soldier named Reinhardt made a fortune. He was also appreciated by his superiors because of his outstanding performance in the operation. His future was probably going to be smooth sailing.
Lu Zhou didn't pay too much attention to these details. He went straight to the college area and found the library closest to him on the map.
However, to his disappointment, it was just as he had guessed. Many of the deeper information, such as specific technology and knowledge, were blurred out in this memory.
When he opened the book, he could only see a cloud of blurry fog. It was the same when he looked up relevant information on the Internet. Too esoteric knowledge was not recorded in this memory at all. The deeper he dug, the more he felt the content was thin.
It was like a dream. He could only see the abstract outline, and he couldn't dig deeper at all.
If he just followed the script, he might not feel like he was in a dream. However, once he stopped following the script, he could touch the invisible wall everywhere.
At this moment, he was like Michael De Sancta in GTA5 who had completed the grand finale, wandering aimlessly on the streets of Los Santos, sightseeing the local customs while looking for the "easter egg" that he did not know if it existed or not.
But at least for now, he did not find any more clues.
In addition to the bounty, Professor Lane only left him a lot of suspense about the "natural disaster" and the advanced civilization.
But what exactly was a natural disaster?
The story seemed to have ended here …
…
Lu Zhou took off his helmet and sat up on the bed. As if he was trying to cool down his overheated brain, he took a deep breath of the cold air in the underground lab.
Xiao Ai controlled the drone and floated next to him. A line of text popped up from the small TV hanging on the wall.
[Master, do you need me to pour you a glass of water? 0.0】
Lu Zhou: "Yeah, please."
The robotic arm on the wall began to move. Soon, a cup of cold water was placed in front of Lu Zhou.
Lu Zhou took the cup and took a sip. After thinking for a while, he suddenly spoke.
"Xiao Ai."
Xiao Ai: [What?]
Lu Zhou: "Is there any information about the Calan civilization in your database? I mean … except for the part that comes from the Void Memory. "
Xiao Ai: [I don't think so … What's up? ◆ | * `| *]
I see.
Lu Zhou thought for a second and shook his head.
"… Nothing."
After that, Lu Zhou stood up and walked toward the elevator.
…
The Void Memory came to an end for the time being.
However, the suspense still lingered in Lu Zhou's mind.
What was the natural disaster that scared a civilization more advanced than the Calan civilization?
What kind of crisis could be considered unprecedented?
What was the strange droplet flying to the center of the galaxy?
Lu Zhou went back to the dean's office. He sat at his desk and took out the notebook that he always carried with him. He wrote down his findings.
Lu Zhou stopped writing and tapped on the notebook with his index finger. After thinking for a moment, he repeatedly chewed on the content he had just heard from the memory.
"Natural disaster …"
This was obviously a translated term. In the Calan civilization or a civilization more advanced than the Calan civilization, there should be other corresponding terms.
In academic research, the most taboo thing was to study second-hand information, not to mention that the content he read was third-hand information.
However, it was almost impossible to study the original meaning of the Oracle. The memory sent to him by the System had translated all the languages except for the modal particles into Chinese that he could understand.
Not to mention that with the current level of technology of human civilization, it would be difficult to translate the content of the Oracle.
"The only thing I can be sure of is that the system was definitely not sent by the Calan civilization …"
With the moral values of the Calan civilization, even if they discovered human civilization, they probably wouldn't take it seriously.
Not to mention the actions of the national level, even the actions of a company had to consider costs and benefits, not to mention the height of an entire civilization.
Aside from aesthetic differences, compared to other planets in the universe, other than the atmospheric environment, the resources on Earth were really not that rich. The difficulty of developing Earth was also much more difficult than other low-gravity planets without an atmospheric environment.
It was hard to imagine a civilization that could create a ring world would be obsessed with terrestrial planets. Whether it was gas resources or fresh water, they could collect them from specialized glacial planets or gas planets. The efficiency was much higher, and they could even skip a series of processing procedures such as "purification".
Not to mention spending so much effort to help a group of "ants" improve their technology and improve their lives.
This kind of behavior that only a xenophobe would do was more like what the "higher civilization" that launched the strange drop as a warning to other civilizations might do.
However, this was back to the original question.
What was the purpose of that higher civilization?
Or …
Are they the so-called Void Civilization?
After thinking for a long time, Lu Zhou had no clue. He had to write down this series of speculations for the time being.
Everything had a sequence. Obviously, the 750 GeV signal was far more urgent than the exploration of the secrets of the Void and the strange droplets.
The entire physics community was expecting him to come up with some amazing clues. Even if he didn't care about himself, he had to give those who believed in him some confidence.
After hesitating for a while, Lu Zhou finally took out his phone and made a few phone calls. After several twists and turns, he finally contacted the person in charge of the "Nali Project", Professor Zhang Tianming, a researcher at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The gravitational wave observatory in Tibet, which started construction in 2017 and was first experimented in 2020, was probably the original gravitational wave observatory with the highest altitude in the world.
Even though Lu Zhou didn't have high hopes, he still asked Professor Zhang for the observation data of gravitational waves.
Even if it was just a pastime.
Doing something was always better than doing nothing.
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