Road to science and technology

It is truly a kind-hearted civilization that repays its kindness. Listening to the whale civilization’s communications, Yue Yuanzhou didn’t know what to say.

Originally, he was thinking about how to concoct these guys and collect special technologies, but now that the whale civilization calls them like this, he is too embarrassed to do anything.

Whatever!

Yue Yuanzhou thought for a moment and responded: "Peace-loving races are always so charming. I accept your data on behalf of the Shenzhou civilization. But I am a little curious about what kind of society can give birth to such an excellent and kind race."

The whale civilization quickly replied: "Like humans, we are also a social race, but there are differences. For example, we still live in the ocean. Because of this, we are well aware of the differences between ourselves and land-based creatures. The living environment is very different, so we seldom communicate with them.”

Living in the sea?

Hearing this statement, Yue Yuanzhou couldn't help but think of the purple fish civilization. A civilization that has been developed in the water is much more difficult to develop than on land. Let’s not talk about anything else, let’s talk about fire and electricity. The difficulty of obtaining these two cornerstones of civilization in water jumps directly from the easy level to the hell level.

"It's incredible how you, who have always lived in the water, entered an advanced civilization." Yue Yuanzhou asked again.

"Hahaha, the great Shenzhou civilization, I think you have misunderstood. We did not say that we developed in the water."

The whale civilization seems to have encountered this situation. They explained without caring: "Life was born in the ocean, and our race is the same. Not only that, our ancestors also landed and adapted to the land environment like other species."

"But this process is somewhat different. As far as we know, most races in the galaxy first landed before evolving intelligence, but we are different. We were born with intelligence in the water."

The communication channel was silent for a moment, and the individual communicating on behalf of the whale civilization seemed to be lost in memories. After more than ten seconds, the signal was transmitted again, and then it was translated into Chinese.

"Thinking about it now, it was such an extraordinary time! Although we living in the ocean at that time had no technology at all, as the only intelligent life on the planet, we quickly occupied the entire ocean through unity and cooperation.

But that's all. In the next million years, we still won't have technology, and society will start over and over again. When there are too many groups of people and the marine biosphere cannot be squeezed in, we restrict births. When the oceans become rich, we encourage births.

Through this method, we maintained the stability of the entire group. Over time, the whales became accustomed to this pattern, and even created a set of theories, believing that everything in the world goes round and round, and that there is no place above the sea. The place you set foot on is the end of the world.

At the same time, whales are prohibited from going there. In fact, there is no need to ban it, because our ancestors simply couldn’t go up.

In such an environment, our ancestors have lived for tens of millions of years or even longer. The way knowledge was transmitted at that time was by rote memorization and oral transmission. We can only give a rough estimate. I'm really sorry.

Well, until one day, a great whale suddenly announced that he confirmed that the world on the water is not the end of the world, and whales can also go there. "

The whale tribe actually talked about a brief history of the development of their own civilization!

Hearing this, Yue Yuanzhou frowned, why didn't these guys play their cards according to the routine?

He originally said that he was curious about the social structure of the Whale Tribe, but he actually wanted to use this as an excuse to contact the Whale Tribe, and then sent the exchange ambassador Tomoko to get a feel for the bottom of this civilization, and by the way, he went inside to collect information on the Whale Tribe's civilization.

Unexpectedly, before the purpose of being curious was revealed, these guys started talking about history.

As expected of an underwater creature, this brain circuit is indeed different.

However, even though the whale clan's civilization was like this, Yue Yuanzhou still didn't want to give up the idea of ​​​​infiltrating into its interior, so he asked cooperatively: "Oh? What a great whale this is! How did he discover it? I think this discovery should be enough to change Isn’t it the fate of your civilization that he was beaten to death by conservatives?”

Since the whale civilization likes to talk, let them talk. Maybe the friendship level will increase while talking, and then it may be logical to ask to visit the other party's society.

People who break the concepts of the old world are great, but such people are often poisoned by the conservatives of the old world, just like Copernicus who proposed the heliocentric theory.

Just when Yue Yuanzhou thought that the whale clan would tell him how the giant whale was discovered and then persecuted to death, the message from the whale clan stunned him.

"Haha, that's not true. Our whale clan is very united and peace-loving, and would not harm our fellow species for such reasons, so he was not persecuted. After our ancestors heard the reasons he said, they all thought he was justified. , so I believed him.”

Yue Yuanzhou responded with a message in time: "One person can convince an entire ethnic group, and his eloquence is truly remarkable."

"That's not eloquence," the whale tribe's civilization immediately denied, and then continued to send a message: "You must also know that during those long years in the sea, our whale tribe ancestors did not have writing, and the way of transmitting knowledge was all by word of mouth. , it is very error-prone to transfer knowledge in this way, because the primitive brain has limited memory, so it is very difficult to transfer knowledge from ancestors in the long history.

But it is precisely because of this that he appears great. Oh, it’s not him to be precise, it’s them, but he’s not wrong either. They are a family. Each generation of whales in this family only does one thing. Every whale that does this thing has the same name, that is #@\u0026amp;amp;amp;* @☆o╥ "

What the hell?

Yue Yuanzhou looked at the translated string of garbled characters with a confused look on his face.

At first, he thought it was the Whale Tribe who was blocking trash talk, but this was the system of the Shenzhou Civilization. He didn't know if the screen was blocking it or not.

Checked the translator, no problem.

Yue Yuanzhou combined the context and knew that the string of garbled characters mentioned by the Whale Clan civilization should be a person's name, but perhaps because of the special relationship between whale names in the Whale Clan, it turned out like this after translation.

No, Yue Yuanzhou thinks that the name is probably like Dalabengba Bandebedib Dobiluong Kuntukutakatikotsuwa Sirasong. It's almost the same.

At this time, Yue Yuanzhou looked at Huo Chi, who was still sitting in front of the coffee table, chewing tea leaves, pulled the projection screen onto the coffee table, pointed at the garbled characters on the screen, and said: "Xiao Huo, you are a science officer, how do you translate this! "

Clam?

Huo Chi, who was sipping soy sauce and munching tea leaves, was stunned when he heard this. He was asked to translate, but he was not a linguist.

But the leader has named him, so how can he say he is not good?

It’s just a name, it’s not a problem for me!

Huo Chi coughed lightly as he thought about this, then took a sip of tea to moisten his throat. After his eyes rolled around for several times, he started talking nonsense seriously: "gdbr, oh no, the first letter is capitalized Gdbr."

Who wants to just finish speaking and the translator will translate it into Gdbr.