Space station.
A small transport ship slowly approached and docked next to the port.
As the gangway was lowered, several soldiers in officer uniforms, escorted by guards, walked down the gangway.
Li Gaoliang looked at the officers walking towards him. He handed over the work at hand to his subordinates and stepped forward to salute.
After returning a military salute to Li Gaoliang, Yang Wu, chief consultant of the Pan-Asian First Fleet, glanced around and spoke.
"How is the situation here?"
"I asked people to search inside and out, but I still didn't find any traces of space pirate activity." A strange expression appeared on Li Gaoliang's face. "But the strange thing is that I can be sure that someone has been here. We found many personal belongings left behind in the dormitory area of the space station."
Yang Wu frowned.
"Personal belongings?"
Li Gaoliang nodded and said, "Yes … Although I'm not sure if it's space pirates, someone did live here."
Yang Wu's heart thumped and he immediately said.
"Take me there and have a look."
Li Gaoliang nodded with a serious expression.
"Okay."
…
The dormitory area was located next to the space station power room. It consisted of a total of eight single rooms and sixty-four beds, directly connected to the observation room by a long and narrow corridor.
This design belonged to the old-fashioned space station design.
Most of today's space stations no longer required a large number of staff, so each staff member would be arranged with an independent room. At least in Yang Wu's impression.
He still remembered that in the 1950s, that was, before he participated in the future reinforcement plan. Although the space station at that time was somewhat different in shape, most of it was basically designed according to this model.
As for when this design was changed, he didn't remember much. After all, a lot of things happened during his dormancy.
Yang Wu looked at the soldiers taking photos nearby and asked, "Have you found anything here that can prove the identity of these people … or prove where they went?"
Li Gaoliang shook his head and spoke.
"Not yet —"
"Sir!" A soldier armed to the teeth with an exoskeleton walked forward and excitedly showed the hard-cover paper notebook in his hand. "Sir, I found this in dormitory 07!"
Li Gaoliang's expression was a little awkward.
Feeling embarrassed, he glared at the soldier.
"If you found it, why didn't you take it out earlier!"
Dumbfounded by this reprimand, the soldier's face was filled with question marks. For a moment, he did not know what to say.
Yang Wu smiled and shook his head. He did not make any comments and stretched out his right hand.
"Let me see."
As he spoke, he took the notebook from the soldier's hand and flipped through it.
To be precise, it was a diary, and it was written in a special ink. Yang Wu couldn't help but feel a little curious about this method of recording things on paper. After all, in this era, there weren't many people who could write a complete diary by hand, let alone using paper.
The date of the diary was not consistent. Sometimes it was not updated for a week or even a month. Judging from the date on the last page, the last day of the diary was twenty years ago, which was around the year 2095.
Of course, what really surprised Yang Wu was not the date of the diary, but the identity of the diary's owner and his unfortunate encounter.
The owner of the diary was named Dong Bin. He was not a space pirate. His real identity was actually a miner.
50 years ago, in a pirate plundering incident that occurred at a mining station in the asteroid belt, he, as a resident employee of the mining station, was unfortunately captured.
Originally, he didn't feel much apprehension in his heart. After all, most pirates were after money. As long as he didn't do anything that angered them and paid the ransom honestly, there were few incidents such as killing people.
As an ordinary person, he naturally didn't have any consciousness of living with the company's property, so he obediently followed the space pirates onto the ship.
However, what he didn't expect was that after the space pirates took him to the base, they did not immediately ask him to record a video asking for ransom. Instead, they directly locked him in a dormant cabin.
When he woke up again, it was already more than 30 years later, which was the period when the diary began.
[The people on the space station are very friendly. Most of them are also victims … Among us, there are engineers, doctors, a soldier, and a mathematics professor. Everyone's profession seems to be different. I learned from chatting that some of them were here because they received a strange job, some were here because of the TV lottery, and some even completely forgot their memories before coming to the space station … I'm the only one who came from 30 years ago.
[No one knows why we are here … Although I feel that some of us may be hiding some key things, it is useless to think about it now.
[Frankly speaking, we are trapped. Although there are sufficient living materials and key energy sources on the space station, we can't get in touch with the outside world. The 64 people on the space station are like an independent small society. We have been abandoned by human society, and we even began to doubt whether the earth still exists … However, when we began to try to accept the status quo, someone secretly told me that a robot was among us.
[Who could it be? I was surprised because there was only one thing I could be sure of, and that was that this robot was definitely not me. After all, I woke up from a dormant cabin. I have a complete family … Whether they still remember me or not.]
"… Does this sound like a ghost story?" Standing next to Yang Wu, Li Gaoliang touched his chin and said, "A robot disguised as a human … So what is the meaning of the existence of this space station?"
"Maybe it is to carry out some evil experiment. This kind of thing is rare, but it is not impossible." Turning the diary to the last few pages, Yang Wu's eyebrows showed a dignified expression. "Anyway, this Dong Bin may be a breakthrough … If we can find out about his identity, the next thing should be much easier."
Turning the diary to the last page, Yang Wu suddenly froze for a moment.
He didn't notice it before.
In a small corner of the footer of the page, a few strings of scribbled formulas were written with a pen.
If he didn't look carefully, he would even think it was scribbled.
For some reason, the moment he saw these lines of formulas, Yang Wu suddenly had a hunch that he was getting closer and closer to the truth.
Li Gaoliang touched his chin with a trace of curiosity in his eyes.
"These formulas are …"
"I don't know." Yang Wu shook his head and said, "It's a bit like a physics formula … Maybe it's mathematics."
Li Gaoliang frowned and said, "But why would it appear in such a place? It's in the diary of an ordinary miner. "
"Maybe the owner of the diary is a mathematics enthusiast, or … he saw it from somewhere." After taking a few photos of the notebook, Yang Wu returned the notebook to the soldier. He then looked at Li Gaoliang and said, "I will find an expert to ask about the meaning of these lines of formulas."
Li Gaoliang's heart suddenly moved, and he said, "I happen to know an expert, do you need a recommendation?"
"Who?"
"Academician Lu!" Li Gaoliang said with a hearty smile, "I know his character, he is very enthusiastic and willing to help others!"
Willing to help others?
At this time, the figure who turned the tide on flight N-117 suddenly appeared in his mind.
"I know who you are talking to me about. I will visit him in person if I have the chance."
A layer of light blue text was suddenly printed on the screen of Yang Wu's helmet.
The moment he saw this line of text, he was slightly stunned.
Noticing the change of expression on Yang Wu's face, Li Gaoliang immediately asked.
"What happened?"
"There is news from the command tower." A strange expression appeared in Yang Wu's eyes. "Obvious traces of electromagnetic wave transmission have been found on Ceres.
"And judging from the frequency and shape of the waveform …
"It should not be natural."
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