Abnormal crossing

Chapter 7 Optimal Solution
In fact, not long after regaining consciousness, Gu Wei had already come to a conclusion:
passed by myself.

This is not a difficult thing to determine.

The place where Gu Wei was standing when he woke up was a small platform with a circular base. There were a lot of wires connected around the platform. The number and colors of the wires were various, but there was no sign of chaos.

The platform is located in a large house or place, which looks to be about 300 to 400 square meters with a height of about 6 to 7 meters.

The four walls of the venue are made of some unknown dark blue smooth crystals. There is a warm halo flowing slowly on the walls, and some areas are sometimes transparent and sometimes deep, like breathing.

In the front, which is the area facing Gu Wei's line of sight, there are a large number of operating tables, which are distributed upward in the form of stairs. In the center, there is a huge holographic projection interface.

This holographic interface was suspended in mid-air, like an invisible touch screen. Various texts and data that Gu Wei could not understand were jumping on the interface, some of which were in three-dimensional form.

True.

This kind of sci-fi-style venue could be set up even for some low-cost prank shows with a little money, but some other details that Gu Wei saw forced him to imagine some possibilities - such as the small box falling at a constant speed that he just saw, and the holographic projection interface.

Gu Wei was about forty to fifty meters away from the projection. Unless you were an extremely angry keyboard warrior, it would be difficult for a normal person to see the size 4 characters on the screen with the naked eye at this distance.

But at this moment, Gu Wei could actually see the shapes of the words clearly, and this was still the case even after he took off his glasses.

You know, for a myopic eye with 800 degrees of myopia and 150 degrees of astigmatism, after taking off the glasses, the image 360 centimeters away is basically a p picture.
It is clear.

The screen used some technology that Gu Wei didn't know about, which could project information directly onto his retina or other receiving organs.

The above mentioned situations, combined with Gu Wei's experience of falling into the pit, lead to a natural conclusion:
Either he had an extremely realistic hallucination before he was on the verge of death, or he traveled through time.

To be honest, as an online writer, Gu Wei has written many stories about time travel.

He even imagined that the protagonist of the old book, Xu Lu, traveled back to the early 20th century, found Einstein and rode a bicycle with him, played a homophonic pun of "riding side by side", and discussed the possibility of increasing the dosage for the little boy, so as to expand his network of contacts in a certain island country and make more acquaintances.
Or go back to junior high school to find your first love, and tell her that 20 years later she will ask Xu Lu to tutor her child in physics, while the child's father is standing in Class 6 outside of the four classrooms because he was punished for having long hair.
But this is just a fantasy on the textual level, and Gu Wei never expected it to come true.

The result was unexpected.

Time travel, such an outrageous thing that couldn't be more outrageous, actually happened to me so suddenly?
What’s even more outrageous is that the first thing Gu Wei did after traveling through time was to have dinner with two foreigners (literally).

That's right, the long-haired woman really brought Gu Wei to a table, and even gave him a menu.
Gu Wei had only one expression throughout the whole process:
oO
The plot of aliens slicing up humans and cooking them was very common in old novels and movies, but this was the first time he had encountered aliens who asked humans to order their dishes—even though these two aliens didn’t look alien at all.

But no matter what, compared to falling into a pit and dying, the chance of traveling through time at least seems pretty good. At least I'm still alive.

Then Gu Wei gritted his teeth and picked two dishes that looked like meat, and handed the menu back to the long-haired woman, who casually ordered a few more dishes and pointed to the seat:

"Let's sit down and talk - we only have one and a half cooks here, so I'm afraid it will take some time for the food to be served."

Gu Wei hummed, pulled out a chair and sat down.

After Gu Wei took his seat, the man who had been silent all this time spoke up: "Let me introduce myself. I'm Milo, the captain of the spaceship, and this is Jin, the chief mechanic."

Gu Wei's eyes moved slightly after hearing the word "spaceship": "Gu Wei. Astronomer." "Astronomer, nice to meet you." Milo said politely without much expression, and quickly said: "How should I put it, Gu Wei, as you can see, both of us seem to have encountered some rather special situations."

"So if it's convenient, could you please answer a few questions? In return, Jin and I will try our best to give you the information you want."

Perhaps worried that Gu Wei might have some concerns about his expression, Milo quickly added: "The translation module we use to communicate uses a very advanced attention mechanism and exponential moving average framework. In layman's terms, it is a very cool technology. Except for some content involving the 'definition' level, there will basically be no problems in our regular communication."

Gu Wei had been mentally prepared for this moment when Jin was tinkering with the translator, so he nodded without much hesitation: "No problem."

The two aliens had never shown any hostility from the beginning, and some of their actions could even be considered friendly - although the nature of this friendliness might not be pure, and Gu Wei didn't know how long this atmosphere would last (it was possible that they would turn hostile in a while), but at least there was nothing wrong with their attitude.

In addition to the current complex situation, exchanging information is obviously the optimal solution - but it cannot be called the only solution, after all, there is also the physical solution of remaining silent and then being sliced.

Well, physics in all its senses and solutions.
Gu Wei's answer eased Milo's expression a little. He was actually worried that this uninvited guest was a stubborn person. "In that case, the first question is, are you from the planet Kedas?"

"Kedas?" Gu Wei was slightly startled, and instinctively wanted to answer no, but he changed his words and asked, "Captain, I wonder what kind of planet is the Kedas you are talking about?"

Milo tapped the ground with his index finger after hearing this. His square face made him look quite convincing:

"We are now in the outer orbit of Qedas, a satellite of the gas giant planet Olympus. Its artificially corrected rotation axis makes it not tidally locked. Its radius is about 700 sags - a sag is a universal unit of length in the universe, defined as 210 times the wavelength of excited state radiation in a vacuum during the decay of bismuth-206 into lead-734825.54 atoms."

"Wait, it seems that we haven't matched the concepts of time and length yet. You still don't understand even if I tell you. Um, let me think about whether there is any concept you can understand."

"Don't bother, Mr. Captain."

Before Milo could finish his words, Gu Wei interrupted him. When he heard that Kedas was a satellite of a gas giant planet, he knew that this thing must not be another name for the Earth in the mouths of aliens:

"I can answer you with certainty that I have nothing to do with the planet Qaddas. The place I come from is called Earth."

"Earth?" Hearing Gu Wei's answer, Jin looked at Milo thoughtfully and took over the conversation:
"No wonder the data in that report is not right. Theoretically, even the ordinary people of Kedas would not be so poor. Um, simple layout column..."

"If you are from another planet, then the report makes sense. If I'm not mistaken, the civilization on Earth should not have set foot outside the star system where it is located, right?"

"Yes, not yet." Gu Wei shook his head and did not ask about the so-called report. After all, the level of technology possessed by Jin and Milo was obviously much higher than that of Earth. It was normal for them to produce a test report before he regained consciousness.

"There are more than 200 countries and regions on Earth. So far, the farthest celestial body that life on Earth can reach is just our satellite."

"In addition, there are some sporadic probes, some of which have reached nearby planets, and some have flown a little further. If we use the interaction between stellar wind and interstellar medium, that is, neutral molecular hydrogen, as the definition framework, a probe called Voyager 1 can be considered close to the edge of the star system, but if we discuss it based on the broader and more practical range of stellar gravity, it is still a long way off."

"Oh, a very standard Type II civilization, common, but also lonely." Jin sighed, a trace of reminiscence flashed in his eyes, but he quickly asked Gu Wei: "Besides aerospace? To what extent have you understood the 'world'?"

After saying that, Jin raised her hand and waved it, and a translucent light curtain appeared between Jin and Gu Wei:

"This is the standard framework for the composition of matter. At what level is Earth civilization now? You are an astronomer, so you should know something about this."

(End of this chapter)