mesbooks Chapter 207 The Code from the Stars (2)
Chapter 207 The Code from the Stars (2)
After NASA received the first response to the declaration of war in 2031, the observatory received many more responses. Some they deciphered were anti-war declarations from other life forms, while others they could not decipher, but none of that mattered.
Importantly, they were absolutely certain that there were other life forms in the world besides humans on Earth.
Because they only received a response to signals about war, they began sending out these signals in large quantities and intensively. They needed more feedback to more accurately decipher the codes from the stars.
Until they received a very long signal, which was different from any of the signals they had received before, they were excited, thinking it might be a reply from a higher intelligence. However, they could not find any matching signals and were completely unable to decipher it.
At this time, the Global Space Alliance contacted Li He. They broke down the signal, fabricated its origin, and asked Li He and his team to decipher it. Of course, due to the limited data, Li He did not actually decipher it at the time, but only made some general judgments about some frequently occurring frequency bands.
The general meanings of these frequency bands are quite simple, so the head of the Global Space Alliance at the time did not take this signal seriously.
Although Li He didn't take this matter seriously, out of personal interest, he kept the several disassembled audio signals he obtained and would study them when he had nothing else to do. Later, he even published some basic insights and judgments on some of their specialized scientific research websites.
In 2034, the allied nations of Project Star began sending more detailed declarations of war into space. In modern terms, this was suicidal, and they successfully angered other beings in space, who began to receive numerous signal responses, including this undecipherable frequency band.
It was only through extensive signal feedback that the Global Space Alliance realized they had made a grave mistake.
"Isn't this a joke? Imagine someone repeatedly saying to you, 'Come and hit me!'" Jiang Xing shook his head helplessly, recalling Li He's description, and continued, "The first few times you might not care, but if it happens repeatedly, and then he even points a gun at you and says, 'Come and hit me! If you hit me, I'll shoot you dead!' Tell me, wouldn't you be angry? Of course you'd be furious!"
"I can't stand it twice!" Pei Sihao curled his lips. He probably wouldn't stand it twice even if Gu Nanfeng said it, and he would want to punch him.
"Because of the declarations of war from a huge number of extraterrestrial life forms, and the many undecipherable frequency bands, all the countries in this alliance are very nervous. In order to fully understand these signals, they gathered all their talents together and also discovered several articles that Li He had published a few years ago about that signal. At that time, they decided not to let China participate, but to let Li He join the project." Jiang Xing continued to narrate unhurriedly.
After Li He woke up, he reported the war declaration about extraterrestrial life forms that he had deciphered to the country. Only then did China learn about the "Star Project". It was at this time that the "Star Project" became a global alliance project, because no country could break away from interstellar warfare.
"At the end of 2035, the 'Star Project' appeared at a regular UN meeting. At this time, the 'Star Project' was no longer just a project that recklessly provoked extraterrestrial life forms, but was expanded in all aspects, including global starships, combat AI, mechs, air warships and other projects, as well as the 'Human Enhancement Project'..." At this point, Jiang Xing finally stopped.
"So this 'Human Enhancement Project' is actually the source of the zombie virus?" Ji Lang asked.
“That’s right. As one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, we were forced into this. We couldn’t possibly refuse to participate in Project Star. China has the largest population on Earth. What do you think would happen to all our citizens if we didn’t participate in this project?” Jiang Xing wiped away the tears welling up in his eyes.
"Then what is the 'Star Sea Project'?" Lin Yun understood that China could not remain unaffected by such a situation.
"In the second year after our country joined the 'Star Project,' research institutes discovered that the 'Human Enhancement Project' was fundamentally flawed. The frequent outbreaks of various infectious diseases in recent years are all related to this project. Therefore, after several high-intensity infectious virus outbreaks within a year, the 'Star Sea Project' was born, spearheaded by the East China Aeronautical Research Institute." Jiang Xing spoke with a bit more confidence now, "Our country is independently researching new materials to serve as raw materials for Chinese mechs. These materials can enhance the combat effectiveness and physical fitness of our people through physical means, so even if we truly enter interstellar warfare, we won't need to rely on drugs to improve ourselves."
“No wonder you approved Wei Cheng and Li Minze, those two chuunibyous, to do mecha research.” Pei Sihao suddenly understood. It wasn’t because Li Minze and Wei Cheng were creative, but because this kind of research was something China was urgently doing. However, due to the sudden outbreak of the zombie virus, they had just finished researching new materials. As for mecha, it’s not that there was no research at all; there were many research directions, so one more wouldn’t make a difference.
"So what exactly is in that box in the underground laboratory of the Beijing Research Institute?" Gu Nanfeng returned to the beginning of their conversation.
“It’s the fifty-third batch of the ‘Human Enhancement Project’,” Jiang Xing sighed. “Actually, starting with the first batch, each batch of the drug was distributed to various countries for human trials, but we destroyed them all. After the fifty-third batch arrived, because it was completely different from the previous batches, the lab kept it, intending to conduct further research, but we haven’t had time to…”
"Our country's virus didn't break out because of this?" Lin Yun thought that if Jiang Xing's statement was true and there wasn't enough time, then maybe the box hadn't been opened yet. How could the virus have broken out in China at the same time?
“This batch of drugs was distributed at the joint meeting. I don’t know if a researcher from one of the countries didn’t store it properly, or if someone did it on purpose. All the participants at this joint meeting should have been infected with the virus. It’s just that the instability of this virus caused the outbreak to take some time to occur.” Jiang Xing said, then shook his head. “Actually, it wasn’t a simultaneous outbreak globally. Some countries probably had cases much earlier, but they didn’t disclose the information, which made it impossible for other countries to defend against it.”