Electronic Nezha

Chapter 149 Cat Language
The chubby boy pressed the play button again. This time, in addition to the "sizzling" sound, there were other sounds. At first, there was a gurgling sound, somewhat like a crab or a similar animal blowing bubbles. Then there was a hissing sound of electricity.

With only two or three seconds left before the document finished playing, I was sweating bullets. How was I going to explain this to Sixth Master and the others? I originally thought that with the information I'd gotten from Liu Zhenhua, I could easily make up a few things and get away with it. But the whole document was just a series of crackling and gurgling sounds. I couldn't exactly say it was the theme song for the Qatar World Cup, could I?
After speaking with me, Liu Zhenhua walked towards the computer room, so he heard those sounds. But now, the one who needs to explain is me, not him.

Just then, the last few pages of the document came with a series of crackling sounds, a chaotic yet exhilarating noise. I blurted out, "The Bamboo Killing Order?"

Everyone asked in unison, "What is that?"

"The Bamboo Killing Order is a piece of music, and the composer is a local. The main melodies are all made by striking dry bamboo." I heard this piece once when Liu Zhenhua was working on "The King of Rotten Pieces," but I deleted it later. However, this thing is quite catchy.

The dolphin said, "I've never heard of that before."

I said, word by word, "Because this piece of music hasn't been composed yet."

The chubby boy exclaimed excitedly, just like I had back then, "So, I can hear the music of the future?"

I nodded.

Sixth Master asked, "Is there any explanation for that? What about the ones from before?"

This time I shook my head: "I can't give you any explanation. It might just be a coincidence."

The chubby boy said, "Are all the other things besides the 'Bamboo Killing Order' just noise?"

I said, "Anyway, I can't explain it."

The chubby boy said disappointedly, "I thought it was some kind of unsolved mystery code."

Jinli suddenly said, "Since Brother Feng is here, why bother cracking the code? Let's just ask him for the answer!" He said to me, "Brother Feng, just tell me what high-tech warfare in the future will be like, or describe where the generational gap between future strategic missiles and current ones lies?"

Sixth Master handed me a cigarette, holding a lighter and waiting to light it for me, while asking expectantly, "Is there anything I can say?"

I said speechlessly, "You guys guess."

The old man immediately knew his hopes were dashed, lit a cigarette for himself, and said, "Don't ask such questions again."

I'd like to know more about these things, but someone is keeping it a secret from me.

At this moment, Hao Hao took off his military uniform and returned it to Jinli, saying to us, "I should go back now."

The shark said, "I'll take you."

Hao Hao said, "No need, it's about the same distance I can walk back as you can drive."

"Then I'll see you to the door." Shark said as he walked out with Hao Hao. "I heard from Brother Feng that the chip can unleash a person's maximum potential, so theoretically, if you can do it, I can do it too, right?"

"I don't know much about theoretical things."

The shark grinned and said, "Haohao, can you spit out the chip so I can play with it for a while? I won't mind, don't worry, I'll definitely give it back to you—just for a little while. Hey, why did you jump onto the wall?"

At the same time, the alarm bells blared inside the house, and all the doors and windows were quickly shut.

The chubby boy reluctantly canceled the alarm. The shark walked in from outside, still glancing back, and said to us, "A wall more than three meters high, and that idiot jumped up it with just two running steps. Is the limit of human beings really that amazing?"

Ma Chaoran said, "The frail mother could kick open the security door to save her child trapped inside, but that was her limit, and it was Hao Hao's normal state."

The shark swaggered towards me, shouting, "Brother Feng—"

I asked in a panic, "What are you doing?"

Ma Chaoran chuckled and said, "He's just being affectionate with you."

I pointed at the shark and said, "Remember this state you're in now. If you encounter the Queen in your dreams, do this to her!"

……

When it was time to go to bed, I ran into Liu Zhenhua's room. "What's the explanation?" I asked directly.

“That’s a language,” Liu Zhenhua said without further ado. “That gurgling sound must be the Queen talking to her subordinates.”

"sure?"

"Yes, it is a very regular form of communication, and all systematic languages ​​on Earth have this characteristic."

"Can you translate this?"

Liu Zhenhua said, "We need a basic code."

"What do you mean?"

"To put it simply, it requires simple contact, even if it's just once. We now know that a cat hisses as a warning and purrs as a sign of happiness, because humans have had experience interacting with cats, and based on that, we can interpret a cat's various emotions."

I asked curiously, "Will future AI have figured out cat and dog language?"

"There's a lot of research going on now, and at least expressions like 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'get lost' can be simulated quite well."

"What do you say when two cats made a promise to go to the lake to catch fish together at 2:30 pm the next day after they broke up?"

Liu Zhenhua said speechlessly, "There's no such thing. At most, we'll express our desire to hunt together again when we meet again."

"Meow meow meow, what does that mean?" I said in a straightforward cat language.

"Dad, let's get down to business."

"Uh, okay, to put it more bluntly, how do you need to make contact with the Queen?"

"If the Queen could say 'hello' and 'goodbye' to me in their planet's language and explain the meaning of those two sentences, I could roughly deduce their language system and thus decipher what those 'gurgling' words were trying to convey."

"Then I'll try it next time I see her in my dreams."

"Well, try not to arouse her suspicion. She may not know that their language has been collected by the Sixth Bureau."

I said, "It seems that she and her accomplices did indeed come through the black hole with you. Didn't you say that life couldn't survive in a black hole?"

"They must have survived by sheer luck in a very extreme form. From this perspective, the Latos are a bit more complex than I imagined," Liu Zhenhua added, "but not by much."

"What about the rest? Why were those hissing sounds and the Bamboo Killing Order leaked as well?"

Liu Zhenhua said, "First of all, I didn't leak the Bamboo Killing Order. Then, the hacker guessed correctly, the other voices were someone trying to send information to the world, but they were encrypted—you don't need to ask, I can't crack it either, because the information Sixth Master collected is incomplete."

What he heard and what I heard were indeed two different things...

I don't know why, but I felt a chill run down my spine.

I asked Liu Zhenhua, "Will this be detrimental to you?"

"Probably."

"What should I do?"

Liu Zhenhua said, "Don't worry about it."

"Just ignore it?"

Liu Zhenhua said, "Many things will go wrong if you force them, so letting nature take its course is the best choice."

(End of this chapter)