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Far away, Tang Chao saw the Kerbal's black monolith.

Really, very far!

Werner told him it was still a kilometer away, but he had already seen the black monolith towering on the earth.

"Holy crap, it's so big?!"

"Yes, BOSS, according to our measurements, it is 100 meters high!" Werner opened his arms and made an exaggerated stretching motion.

"Initially, the height it exposed above the ground was 99 meters. We thought it was buried very deep, but after digging down a bit, it only went 1 meter into the ground."

"When we were preparing to knock it down and transport it back to the space center for research, we couldn't move it at all."

"We even dug down further, hollowing out the area below it, and it just hung there, still not moving at all."

"BOSS, isn't it amazing?"

They had just gone around a mountain to see the black monolith, but in the game, it was actually on flat ground, very easy to find.

If the location hadn't changed, even if the space center hadn't actively searched for it, they should have seen it long ago.

Now that the black monolith was hidden in the mountains, it was no wonder they hadn't found it sooner.

Tang Chao got closer and closer to the black monolith, and his heart beat faster and faster. He didn't know why, but he thought of the black monolith in "2001: A Space Odyssey".

Although the black monolith on Kerbin was definitely bigger than the one in the movie, and much bigger, he just felt it was very similar.

He didn't know why.

In the movie, every time the black monolith appeared, the movie's theme song would play, as if the universe had entered a new chapter.

Now, his ears heard a slight buzzing sound, and he didn't know if it was because he was nervous.

Before the black monolith first appeared in the movie, humans were still ordinary apes, ordinary members of the animal kingdom, with no great advantage in the food chain, and still threatened by other beasts.

After the black monolith appeared, a group of apes touched it, and they seemed to have experienced some kind of sudden "intelligence leap", learning to use tools.

Zebras, which used to be on the same level as them, became food that could be easily hunted, and they could even fight against the beasts that threatened their survival.

The entire tribe, even the entire planet, underwent tremendous changes from that moment on.

In the blink of an eye, this group of humans who could use tools had taken themselves into space.

When the black monolith appeared for the second time, humans had already opened lunar flights, traveling between Earth and lunar cities.

However, after touching the black monolith, humans were still shocked by its mysterious power, which seemed to guide humans to a more distant place.

This time, humanity’s opponent was no longer creatures of nature, but the artificial intelligence they created.

The sense of crisis created by intelligent manufacturing always made fragile humans pessimistic, fearing being replaced and enslaved.

But in this movie, humans won again, turning off the artificial intelligence that had learned to "fear."

Humans seemed to be even stronger.

After an unknown amount of time, the black monolith appeared for the third time, but this time the monolith did not come into contact with humans, but drifted in Jupiter's orbit, incidentally bringing the movie's protagonist to a quaint and gorgeous bedroom.

After that, the movie's protagonist aged rapidly, and just as he was about to die, the black monolith appeared for the fourth time.

When the protagonist slowly raised his hand and pointed his finger at the black monolith, it was very similar to Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam."

In that painting, a person with the same name as the protagonist reached out his finger to touch God.

In the blink of an eye, the movie's protagonist turned into a reborn baby, a baby floating in space.

Slowly, he became huge, and finally stared at the Earth, which was already smaller than himself, seemingly saying that life on Earth had ushered in a new life, or a leap in evolution.

Where the black monolith came from is unknown, after all, it was just a movie. Whether the monolith represented "revelation", "warning", or "milestone", its appearance represented that human civilization had entered a new stage.

Then the black monolith on Kerbin, which recorded super technology, naturally represented that the Kerbals were about to enter a new stage of civilization.

The distance of one kilometer was quickly covered. Arriving in front of the black monolith, Tang Chao felt his hair stand on end.

"Werner, do you hear any sounds?" Tang Chao got out of the car and asked Werner.

"Yes."

Werner said seriously.

"Yes? What do you hear?"

Tang Chao was a little surprised.

"Birdsong," Werner said, with his hands on his hips. "Such a huge black monolith stands here, yet the birds here are not affected at all and are still singing normally. It's a bit strange."

"…"

Tang Chao thought he was going to say something, but he didn't expect him to say this.

The reason he asked was because as he approached the black monolith, the buzzing sound he heard became louder and louder, which was definitely not his imagination.

But this buzzing sound seemed to be only audible to him. Not only did the Kerbals not react, but even the birds didn't react, which was indeed quite unusual.

Strange.

Tang Chao looked at the huge black monolith. The soil below had been dug away, but the monolith still stood firmly in the air. It looked like a game BUG no matter how you looked at it.

According to Werner, this black monolith was made of some unknown material, but the surface was very smooth and the color was a very pure black.

It looked very high-tech, but the way it recorded information was very primitive.

The entire monolith looked unremarkable from a distance, but once you got closer, you would find that it was densely covered with inscriptions.

It was covered with relevant theories and technical data about aerospace.

Despite its enormous size, the black monolith recorded a limited amount of information, so it only presented the basics and core data of aerospace, and the text was very concise.

Most importantly, it wasn't some strange alien script, but standard Chinese.

And it was in regular script!

"Could this thing have been translated too? The translation team is so awesome?"

Tang Chao thought in amazement.

But looking at the black monolith, his hand was a little itchy.

"Have you touched it?" He turned to ask Werner.

"Yes," Werner said easily. "The Kerbals touched it as soon as they found it. It was the explorers from the Kerbal Motion Company. Later, they notified us. We brought the detection equipment over and touched it by the way."

"Then what did you feel?"

"Nothing. Just a little cold."

"Cold?"

Tang Chao clearly felt the heat waves rolling off the black monolith. He was sweating.

Obviously, the black monolith discriminated.

Either against him, or against the Kerbal creatures. It definitely discriminated against one side.

And he felt the buzzing sound, felt the heat, but didn't feel the black monolith rejecting him.

Even the change in the black monolith may have been because he was getting closer and closer.

Then there was no need to say more. The black monolith discriminated against Kerbal creatures.

As if it was a call, he planned to touch the black monolith like the people in "2001: A Space Odyssey".

Although the black monolith was extremely mysterious, all his senses were telling him: there was no danger!

Thinking of this, he did it.

He asked all the Kerbals in the pit to come up, but he walked down.

The closer he got to the black monolith, the more "movement" he felt. When he got to the bottom of the monolith, he looked up and saw that the 100-meter-high pure black monolith was indeed very oppressive.

Taking a deep breath, he felt that the air he breathed in was hot, and then he touched it with his hand.

"Whoosh—"

A gust of wind sounded, and he entered a colorful tunnel...