Road to science and technology

While waiting, Shang Shaojian and Dr. Banks had already finished a table of food, when two figures appeared on the other side of the mirror.

Yue Yuanzhou looked from a distance and found that the two heptapods were no longer the two before. He thought that the one who came back here should be the knowledgeable one in the heptapods.

Soon, the two heptapods walked to the sight glass with seven elephant legs, and then each sprayed out an ink circle.

"Sir, are they introducing themselves?" Shang Shaojian, who had had a good meal, approached and asked.

Yue Yuanzhou waved his hand and turned all the leftovers from the table into data streams, and then replied: "Yes, the one on the left is called Ben Bo'er Ba, and the one on the right is called Ba Bo'er Ben."

Shang Shaojian: "..."

What kind of strange name is this?

He felt that the two names were familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen them.

Yue Yuanzhou didn't explain, it was just two names, and they were both translations anyway.

Just like the names that Dr. Banks translated for the two heptapods at that time, Banks actually knew the words that the two heptapods introduced themselves to. She just said it casually.

The same is true for Yue Yuanzhou now, it's just a code name, it's harmless.

After introducing the two heptapods, Yue Yuanzhou didn't waste any time and directly taught them simple mathematics. Suddenly, a series of formulas and related explanations appeared on the side of the sight glass.

Different from the previous calculus and variable calculus, these current formulas are very simple, so simple that even Shang Shaojian, a Vice Admiral of the East China Sea Fleet who has not been exposed to mathematics for many years, can understand some of them.

Because the content Yue Yuanzhou sent out was basically mathematics content for the eighth and ninth grade, that is, the content for the second and third grades of junior high school. Most of the people present knew some of these simple algebraic geometry.

However, the two heptapods on the other side of the looking glass were not.

After seeing Yue Yuanzhou's message, the two heptapods began to communicate with each other by making sounds like water splashing. However, they communicated for more than ten minutes but still did not give a mathematical description of these contents of the heptapod civilization. .

It seems that these contents are too difficult for them!

Half an hour later, Yue Yuanzhou discovered that seven or eight more heptapods had arrived at the other end of the viewing mirror. After their arrival, they did not say anything to Yue Yuanzhou and others, but directly participated in the running of Erba and Babo in the foggy environment. During Erben's discussion.

After almost half an hour, they finally gave their mathematical description.

"very good!"

Seeing the result, Yue Yuanzhou praised it, but he didn't give the heptapod time to breathe. He stretched his hands for a while, and a simpler mathematical content appeared again.

According to his estimate, it would take at least one or two hours for the heptapods to completely describe these mathematical contents in their own words.

It was just time, and Yue Yuanzhou had plenty of it. The key was that he had nothing else to do, so he was not in a hurry, and he was also very patient now, because he wanted to know what was going on with these heptapods with abnormal brain circuits.

Sure enough, after more than two hours of calculation and discussion, the heptapods finally described a mathematical formula that humans think is very simple.

However, this is not the end yet. They have just come up with the results. Yue Yuanzhou throws out a bunch of simple mathematical concepts, such as what is a point, what is a line segment, what is a surface, and why 1+1 equals 2 and so on. .

As soon as these questions came up, the heptapods on the other side of the sight glass were really confused, so their discussion team became larger. In the end, not only the heptapods in this spacecraft joined in the thinking and discussion, but also other people Heptapods have been added to the spaceship.

Seeing the discussion in the mirror getting more and more intense, Yue Yuanzhou nodded happily, then waved his hand to reveal a mahjong machine.

"Old Shang, I don't know how long the discussion over the heptapods will last. I have nothing to do. Come and play mahjong." Yue Yuanzhou said and sat down on his seat, then looked at the confused Gary Donnelly and the other four. He smiled and said: "Who among you will come? Four are short of two."

"this"

Several people looked at each other.

In the end, it was the photographer who spoke first: "Oh God, I will not participate. I want to record this historical moment."

As he spoke, he quickly ran away with the camera, and then adjusted the angle in an attempt to include the scene of the discussion between the mahjong table and the heptapods in the shot.

The aliens were discussing simple mathematics with humans over there, while the humans felt bored and played mahjong on this side because the time was too long. He couldn't miss this scene.

"Who is coming among you three?" Shang Shaojian also took his seat, and then he smiled kindly at the three old beauties.

Shang Shaojian never thought of refusing, because he felt that he understood where Yue Yuanzhou came from, so he cherished this kind of time. It was really happy for him, and he knew that there would not be many days like this.

Maybe there won't be any more of these heptapods after they leave.

"I don't know much," Colonel Webb replied.

"That's just right, I'll count you in." Shang Shaojian pointed to the seat to his left. It's better if you don't know how. If you are a master, I won't call you.

"Let me do it!"

Dr. Banks took the last seat without any prompting. Then she looked at Donnelly and nodded to indicate that she would fight.

"Kawama!"

When Yue Yuanzhou saw everyone sitting down, he said very clearly and without refutation: "You have ten minutes to familiarize yourself with the Sichuan and Ma rules, and then we will begin."

"Of course I have to have a mahjong jackpot. I plan to use a thousand years of life as a bargaining chip." Yue Yuanzhou spoke with his own translator, so both Weber and Donnelly could understand him. He looked at the people present: "Of course I don't mean less. Your life span, but whoever wins the most among the three of you in the end, will be rewarded with this genetic modification potion. The time is up until the results are given in the heptapods."

"How could there be such a thing on earth?" Colonel Weber leaned forward and looked at the red potion in Yue Yuanzhou's hand, with a look of hesitation on his face.

Dr. Banks gasped heavily: "Oh God, I bet you are kidding!"

"Oh God, I feel like I almost don't know the world anymore!"

Donnelly stood behind Louise Banks, looking at Yue Yuanzhou intently. There were various ways to create things out of thin air, and now he felt that it was possible for this man to get something beyond imagination.

"The world is still the world you know, but your knowledge is not comprehensive enough." Yue Yuanzhou first looked at the physicist, then raised his hand and shook the potion, and continued: "This is a life gene enhancer. Advanced civilizations use life science and technology to create medicines that, after injection, will extend the activity of human cells to a thousand years, so take advantage of it."

On the one hand, he took out this lottery prize because Yue Yuanzhou was purely on a whim, and on the other hand, he didn't want to miss out on even an old acquaintance when he wanted to come to this world to see it.

After all, there are already many such situations in other worlds.