The man's expression shifted when he heard this. "What? You're the former owner of the dimension key?"
Unbeknownst to him, while the man's mind was in turmoil, Chen Chen was equally astounded. This was because when he first saw the man, he immediately recognized him. This was the Zhao Shanhe he once saw in the Adam quantum computer!
Zhao Shanhe once said in the video that he would go to the dimension of Event Horizon at the final moment. He did not tell Chen Chen the reason, but Chen Chen could deduce that Zhao Shanhe must have died in the dimension of Event Horizon. Now, he was standing right in front of him?
Space-Time Crisscrossing? Or was there someone behind this?
At once, countless thoughts flashed through Chen Chen's mind. He wanted to trick this man.
"Of course, who else could it be?"
Chen Chen smiled. "Do you think it's Wang Xi?"
"You, you even know about Professor Wang Xi..."
Zhao Shanhe's expression was even more astounded.
Seeing Zhao Shanhe's expression, Chen Chen's heart sank. As expected, Professor Wang Xi was closely related to the USB drive! Chen Chen had already deduced this when Professor Wang Xi disappeared. This was just another step to confirm it.
"You're a student of Shangdu Jiao Tong University. The dimension key was also obtained from there. The black slate in your hand known as the 'Civilization Monolith' was obtained from 2001: A Space Odyssey."
Chen Chen continued to speak, his voice was steady. "As for your so-called Force, it was obtained from the Star Wars dimension. The black suit and sunglasses you're wearing are from Men in Black... Am I right?"
"In that case, you're the one who planted the antimeme in me?"
Zhao Shanhe's eyes were filled with resentment. "You planted the antimeme in me and forced me to come to Event Horizon. What are you trying to do? What are you plotting! "
"What plotting?"
Chen Chen raised an eyebrow, but his heart skipped a beat. He had always thought that the antimeme was Zhao Shanhe. He did not expect that even Zhao Shanhe was the same. In that case, the antimeme was someone else?
Was the previous owner of the USB drive Professor Wang Xi? Was this all part of Professor Wang Xi's conspiracy?
Speculations flashed in Chen Chen's mind. At the same time, he tried to squeeze out more inside information. He said with a solemn expression, "I'm also a victim. Just like you, I've also been affected by the antimeme 'I Saw You'. As for giving you the dimension key, it's only because you have potential. After all, only by coming here can we lift the curse of the antimeme, isn't it?"
That's right. According to the video information left by Zhao Shanhe, he had indeed come to Event Horizon after being affected by the antimeme. Obviously, he had discovered some kind of opportunity in the movie!
Chen Chen thought to himself.
"You too?"
When Zhao Shanhe heard Chen Chen's words, there was a hint of doubt in his eyes. He was hesitant. "Did I guess wrong? The previous holder wasn't Professor Wang Xi but this young man?"
The two of them could be said to have their own ulterior motives, but their conversation shocked the people around Zhao Shanhe.
"We should join forces."
After dropping this bombshell, Chen Chen spoke again. "Your goal is the same as mine. We both want to find a way to lift the antimeme and find the deeper secrets of the dimension key. We shouldn't be enemies, we should be friends."
Hearing this, Zhao Shanhe's expression was uncertain. He did not know whether he should believe the young man in front of him.
"But, you don't have the dimension key. How did you come here?"
Zhao Shanhe was still not at ease, and once again pressed on.
"Of course I have my ways."
Chen Chen smiled and was about to continue to fool the other party, but at this moment, there was a sudden burst of rapid sirens in the distance of the street. The sirens were approaching quickly. Their previous movements had obviously attracted the attention of the Washington police.
"It seems that now is not the time to talk. I'll come to you again."
Seeing this, Chen Chen smiled slightly and no longer entangled with them. Instead, he turned and disappeared into the darkness.
Seeing Chen Chen's figure quietly disappearing, Zhao Shanhe gritted his teeth. He wanted to chase after him, but in the end, he waved his hand and let his men retreat.
...
A few minutes later, Chen Chen retracted the reality anchor he had previously set up and sat on the top of a tall building, silently looking down at the futuristic city under his feet.
There was a faintly thoughtful look in his eyes.
"Zhao Shanhe, it's really Zhao Shanhe..."
Chen Chen frowned. "From his behavior, it's obvious that he doesn't know me. For him, his timeline is still around the year 2000, which means that he came here through the USB drive channel, just like me.
"It's amazing. We're clearly separated by life and death in reality, with a time difference of 40 years, but in the Event Horizon dimension, we unexpectedly met.
"It's just that he's different from me. My men are all Black Knights without self-will, but his men are real people. Obviously, his mode of exploring the different dimensions is to cultivate a special elite team."
At this time, Chen Chen gradually understood how the other party united the world and created the Earth Federation.
"Those elite squads aren't much. Whether it's the Force from the Star Wars dimension or the high-tech weapons from Men in Black, none of them are a threat to me. However, that black slate in his hand is a little special …"
Chen Chen wore a thoughtful look. "If I'm not mistaken, that slate is definitely from 2001: A Space Odyssey. His expression can't be a lie, but he called it 'Civilization Monolith'. What does this mean?"
Chen Chen had read countless sci-fi movies and naturally remembered the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. This movie was actually a sci-fi thriller released in 1968. As an enlightening work in the sci-fi genre, this movie was full of the director's wild imagination and stream-of-consciousness plot. Its reputation could be said to be mixed. Those who liked it believed that it was a masterpiece, while those who didn't liked it thought that it was bullsh * t.
The opening of the movie was set in ancient times. At that time, humans were still ape-people, but one day, they discovered a black stone slab. The black stone slab gave off a special ripple that changed the ape-people's way of thinking, giving them creativity and the ability to use tools.
This was probably the director's way of telling the audience that the path of mankind had long been predetermined.
After that, the scene of the movie changed and the plot immediately moved to the future era. Humans once again found this slate on the moon, and the slate emitted a ray, pointing directly at Jupiter.
Therefore, in order to investigate the clues of the slate, humans sent several astronauts and an artificial intelligence to Jupiter one after another.
However, during the voyage of the spaceship, the artificial intelligence made a mistake, so the astronauts prepared to shut down the artificial intelligence controlling the spaceship. This was because according to the rules of artificial intelligence, once an artificial intelligence made a mistake, it could no longer be trusted, otherwise, it might make a bigger mistake.
However, the conversation of the astronauts was heard by the artificial intelligence through lip reading. It set up many obstacles on the spaceship and killed the other astronauts. In the end, only one person risked his life to shut down the artificial intelligence, and finally found the black slate near Jupiter...
The movie ended.
Apart from being used as a tool to enlighten the apes, the black slate in the movie was not specifically mentioned in the entire movie, but now it seemed that the slate was a supreme creation of some alien civilization. Under the influence of the slate, it could interfere with his consciousness, giving him a splitting headache, and he did not know what other functions it had.
"The principle of civilization, the principle of civilization..."
Chen Chen kept thinking about these four words, and suddenly said thoughtfully, "As the name suggests, does it refer to the principle of civilization? But what is the principle of civilization? Is it science? Humans? Or nature? "
"No, neither..."
Chen Chen only felt like he had vaguely grasped something. "In the movie, the black slate enlightened the group of apes on the path of civilization, which is a path to science. If all of this is the task of the black slate, then is the role of the black slate guidance? The guidance of human civilization? "
After thinking for a long time, Chen Chen no longer bothered with this question because his goal was not to be hostile to Zhao Shanhe. Strictly speaking, he did not have any grudge against Zhao Shanhe. After all, according to his timeline, Zhao Shanhe was already dead, otherwise, the USB drive would not have become an ownerless object. Chen Chen would not care too much about a dead man.
On the contrary, he hoped to use the power of Zhao Shanhe to solve more of the mysteries of the USB drive.
Of course, all of this was based on the premise that Zhao Shanhe was not the antimeme that wanted to kill him.
However, if Zhao Shanhe was not the antimeme, who pulled him into that dream world in the first place?
No, maybe he had entered the wrong thinking...
Chen Chen thought silently. Perhaps it was because Zhao Shanhe failed to get rid of the antimeme in this dimension, so he turned to the power of this dimension, merged with the antimeme, and wanted to seize his body...
Thinking of this, Chen Chen sneered. In short, whether the other party was the one who plotted against him in the first place was no longer important. Now, he just wanted to use his power to explore the secrets of the USB drive without Zhao Shanhe knowing.
After thinking of all this, Chen Chen suddenly stepped forward and flew into the distance with a bang.
In any case, the first thing Chen Chen had to do now was to obtain the technology of the space warp engine...
Under the cover of the night, Chen Chen returned to the location of the NASA headquarters. Although it was late at night, the NASA headquarters building was still brightly lit. Chen Chen flew in through a window.
At this time, in the command room where the outer space signal was received, a group of staff in white coats were sweating, silently looking at a section of the flight log on the big screen above their heads.
"General, the rescue team's mission... has failed!"
Among this group of people, an old man at the head sat in front of the communication desk. He pressed a communication button and at the same time, said with an ugly expression, "Although the rescue team successfully arrived at the location of the Event Horizon, they didn't find any survivors in the spaceship. Not only that, the rescue team suffered heavy losses due to a space accident and even the rescue ship was lost..."
"What, even the rescue ship was lost?"
An angry voice came from the communicator. "D * mn it, how's Professor Will? He's the designer of the space warp engine. We can't let anything happen to him. Otherwise, prepare to resign collectively!"
"That's not true..."
The old man exhaled and hurriedly explained, "Professor Will is still alive. Only he, Richard Jones, and a female crew member survived. Now the three of them have entered a dormant state. Our second batch of rescue teams will also go to pick them up."
"The bow of the Event Horizon?"
There was a puzzled voice on the other side.
"It's like this, General."
The old man explained, "When we designed the Event Horizon, we divided the experimental ship into two parts. The bow and the hull can be separated, allowing us to abandon the hull and sail on its own. Our original plan was to separate the bow from the hull as soon as the warp engine in the hull goes out of control. This way, the crew of the Event Horizon will be able to survive..."
"But the Event Horizon has been missing for seven years!"
The General's voice was cold.
"That can't be helped."
The old man argued, "The disaster seven years ago still can't be explained. We have no idea where the Event Horizon has warped to, but fortunately, Professor Will is still alive and has brought back the black box of the Event Horizon. In this way, when the Event Horizon returns, we'll be able to find out what happened back then."
"I hope so."
The other side only said this and then hung up the communication coldly.
"Phew..."
The old man secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He became the director of NASA later on. The previous director was forced to step down due to the accident on the Event Horizon, so he had the opportunity to sit in this position. Now that the rescue team was almost wiped out, this was his responsibility.
Fortunately, Professor Will was safe and sound. Although he would be punished, at least his position was saved. The old man was already satisfied that he could do this.
Immediately, the old man pressed another button. Suddenly, the big screen automatically projected an image from a distant deep space —
On the screen, there was a row of vertical cryogenic chambers. The chambers were transparent, and two of them had figures standing in them. This was the image of the Event Horizon warping back, which meant that the other party had entered a state of hibernation.
"Hmm, why are there only two cryogenic chambers with people in them? Is there someone else who hasn't entered the cryogenic chamber?"
There was a flash of doubt in the old man's eyes. He pressed the refresh button again, but the signal from Pluto was extremely long. It only took eight minutes for light to shine from the sun to Earth, but it took about 6.8 hours to reach Pluto. This meant that the old man would need at least six or seven hours to see the refreshed image.
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