After the Nuclear War
The head of C Nation led the professor in.
When Xiao Jing saw this, he immediately rushed over and hugged Professor Hao, shouting,"Grandpa."
Professor Hao kindly patted Xiaojing's head and said lovingly,""Good child, you're back. You've suffered.”The professor studied Xiao Jing for a long time.
Xiao Jing took his grandfather's hand and excitedly introduced the alien to him. "This is Uncle Li, this is Grandpa Gu, and this is Uncle Xiao Lin.”
Professor Hao shook hands with the three aliens and could not help but scrutinize them. These three aliens were just like ordinary people. There was nothing special about them. However, they were able to fly across the stars and possessed superb science and technology, attracting the attention of the leaders of C Nation.
"Hello, Professor Hao." The three aliens held Professor Hao's hand tightly. Gu Er also praised Little Jing,"Little Jing is a good child."”
Professor Hao was shocked when he heard the alien's words.
"I've been communicating with them during this period of time," Shi Yan quickly explained. Now, both sides can basically use our language to have a simple conversation. Xiao Jing could also speak some of their language and became a small translator.”
After Professor Hao shook hands with Zhuo Yue, Gao Daqing, and Ying Hua, the head of C Nation led everyone to their seats.
Shi Yan introduced the ancient characters that the aliens had discovered in the Henggu Temple, and then said to Professor Hao,""We also know that you have studied this ancient language. It's all thanks to Xiao Jing's presence. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to find you for a while. We need your help."
Li Mo immediately handed the two ancient scriptures to Professor Hao and asked,""Professor, you know ancient words. Can you interpret them?”
Professor Hao took the scripture, flipped through it, and said,"I can understand it. As for reading, he knew a little. However, he was afraid that his pronunciation was not accurate.”
Professor Hao pointed at an ancient scripture and tried to recite a sentence.
Li Mo immediately sat beside Professor Hao and asked him to read it again. After listening, he pointed to the same sentence and read it himself. Then he said happily,"Professor Hao, your pronunciation is quite accurate. I do not know how you interpret our words without help.”
"I first study the meaning of the words, and then I guess and interpret them myself. I wonder if I read it correctly just now?”Professor Hao said modestly.
"Basically correct." Li Mo praised him with certainty." That's not simple."”He helped Professor Hao correct the pronunciation of some words. Li Mo pointed at the ancient scripture and recited, and Professor Hao followed suit.
Soon, Professor Hao grasped the pronunciation pattern and could read the ancient scriptures accurately and fluently.
Li Mo smiled and said in his own language,""Professor Hao, you can already interpret our words. We are very happy to find you on Earth. You can help us solve many problems. Now I have a few questions to ask you.”
Professor Hao looked up at the C Nation leader. He didn't know what language to use to communicate with the aliens. Most of the people present didn't understand ancient characters. Seeing the encouraging gaze of the C Nation leader, he decided to use the ancient language to communicate with the aliens.
Shi Yan finally realized that he had neglected a very important part of this work. Why didn't he think about discussing it from the perspective of words earlier? The simple conversation in daily life could not be solved when it came to professional terms. As he regretted it, he listened to the conversation between Professor Hao and Li Mo, trying to identify some unfamiliar words.
The other people present couldn't understand and could only guess and observe the development of the situation.
"Professor Hao, is there anyone else who is familiar with ancient characters?" Li Mo asked.”
"There's one more person." Professor Hao replied.
"Really? That was great. For us now, the more people who are familiar with ancient characters, the better. Where is he?" Li Mo asked.
"He is my student. Unfortunately, he had an air crash the day before yesterday and passed away.”Professor Hao was a little sad.
Shi Yan understood these words and translated them to the leaders of C Nation and the others. The head of C Nation also briefly explained the air crash. A sorrowful atmosphere swept over everyone's hearts and enveloped the living room.
Professor Hao looked up at Li Mo." But I'm still happy." My research was not in vain. Now that I've met you, I can prove my research value in this area. How difficult it was for me to climb in this field alone. There were a few times when she wanted to back out. The sense of responsibility for history prompted me to persevere.”
" Professor Hao," Li Mo asked with interest," why do you want to study our language, your so-called ancient language?"”
"It's a long story." Professor Hao said proudly," I'm a historian who studies ancient society. In my research, I discovered that there was a gap in human history around the New Era. However, the discovery of a small number of cultural relics from before the New Era showed that the society at that time was very advanced. However, he had never found any written materials from that time. I found a piece of non-wet paper in a bottle during a fishing trip at the bottom of the sea. There were some words on it. After comparing it with the words of other countries, I denied that it was the words of other countries on Earth. I think this cultural relic has great value. I began to look for materials for this type of writing. I did find some similar writing symbols on some stone walls in various parts of our country. I copied them and accumulated a lot. "Later, I accidentally found a scripture with the same language in the Eternal Ancient Temple. The monks in the temple said that it was an ancient scripture. I found a huge treasure trove. Just like that, I began to study this language that no one cared about. It had been more than twenty years.”
"These words have been cut off. Then how do you interpret it?" Li Mo asked again.
"I'll study the meaning of the words first, then interpret the syllables according to the meaning of the words. Those were all scriptures that were very particular about pronunciation. There were various mouth shapes that described how to pronounce in detail. This is how I imitate the shape of the mouth to guess the pronunciation.”Professor Hao talked about his research experience." I studied ancient characters to solve the problem of disjointed history. But I'm old and I'm worried that I won't be able to solve this problem in my lifetime. My student, Xu Yun, chose my research topic. I'm glad that I have a successor. I didn't expect him to…" As Professor Hao spoke, he felt a wave of sadness.
Li Mo was deeply moved by Professor Hao's spirit of exploration and scientific research. The path of scientific research was so bumpy, lonely, and long. It required scientists to have amazing perseverance to persevere. He thought of the three of them's space exploration and praised them emotionally.
Gul interrupted,"History is interrupted. No wonder we couldn't connect with you.”
Lin Shi sighed sadly. He recalled the two romantic love stories. There was a break in the middle, just like human history, leaving a blank space. Not only was he missing his girlfriend, Zhao Antian, but he was also thinking about the girl he had just met.
"Professor Hao, can the problem you mentioned be solved?" Li Mo asked with concern.”
"Yes. It seems that it can be resolved today." Professor Hao said confidently," I found a breakthrough from you guys. Please tell me how you know our ancient characters. Why would your planet have the ancient characters of Earth?”
Li Mo smiled and said," Your ancient characters are the ones we are familiar with. They are our mother tongue." We are also Earthlings. However, he was not an Earthling now, but an Earthling from a long time ago. We are your ancestors. When we returned from our space exploration, we didn't expect Earth to be completely different. The language is different, and the characters are different. We can't contact you. It's as if we've landed in the wrong place, on an unfamiliar planet.”Li Mo looked at Professor Hao sternly.
"It's like we've returned to our ancient times," Gu Er added.”
"I don't know why you've become so backward. According to normal development, you should be more advanced than us.”Li Mo said.
"Falling behind? No!" Professor Hao replied in a tough tone," Our current science and technology are relatively advanced in the world. We're already doing space shuttle launch experiments.”
" What's a space shuttle?" Gu Er asked jokingly.
"It's a plane that flies into space."
"Can it fly out of the solar system?" Gu Er asked.
"Ah, I'm not sure. They could only fly out of Earth and not reach the other planets in the solar system. That's the next step." Professor Hao replied.
" But we flew out of the solar system," Li Mo said." We flew past a few large galaxies. He inspected the X and Y constellations, all the way to the vicinity of the R nebula. He flew for five light years. We also took a detour to inspect a few asteroids in the T galaxy before returning to the solar system and Earth. It took ten light years.”
"Ah, I'm not sure. Truly not simple. We still don't know how long it will take us to reach your level.”Professor Hao praised. Remembering that they were astronauts exploring the universe, he couldn't help but look back at Zhuo Yue and the other two.
At Professor Hao's request, Li Mo and Gu Er described the social situation of their time. Humans had advanced technology. They had started to have automatic cars driven by computers. Robots had started to do production work. Intelligent robots had begun to enter the field of household labor. There were also laser weapons and the production of light speed rockets. The main achievement was that humans had mastered and used all kinds of fields, including magnetic fields, electric fields, gravity fields, and various forms of mass fields.
Professor Hao couldn't help but praise,""You are indeed a highly developed society. However, on the same planet, your era was an advanced and developed society, and now we are a backward society. There must be a big turning point between the two. I study history to find the reason behind this. It is speculated that after your expedition, a huge catastrophe may have occurred on Earth, causing the interruption of Earth's civilization.”
"Even if civilization was interrupted, it wouldn't have become so backward.”Gu Er sighed.
Professor Hao sighed as if he had guessed something."Perhaps a nuclear war broke out on Earth and completely destroyed human civilization.”
There was a long silence. Li Mo, Gu Er, and Lin Shi were all weighing the weight of Professor Hao's words.
" There hasn't been a war in our era for more than 400 years," Li Mo said after some thought. Although all countries were very developed and advanced, and their level of civilization was also very high. But we have an international coordinating organization called the Global Human Development Alliance, which plays a huge role in dealing with problems between countries. The possibility of a nuclear war was low.”
"As far as I know, human history is a history of struggle. Mankind developed in the struggle. First, it was the struggle between man and nature. With the development of science and technology, as well as the development of society and culture, this kind of struggle slowly expanded to between people and evolved into war. It became a way for humans to kill each other, and the scale was also getting bigger and bigger.”" I'm not sure." The professor began to talk about the relationship between war and human history." Under the premise of certain science and technology, war has a fundamentally different impact on human civilization. We're just speculating now. With high technology, or the mastery and utilization of nuclear energy, as the boundary, the wars before this could solve the problem of promoting the development of human productivity and promote the development of society. Every war would cause great changes to human civilization, social organization, science and technology. At the nuclear power stage, due to the development of science and technology, the power of weapons would increase by a hundredfold. Once a war broke out, it would bring devastating damage to mankind, causing mankind to regress. Don't you think so?" Finally, Professor Hao asked Li Mo and the other two.
There was silence. " That is to say, nuclear war is the real culprit behind the decline of human civilization," Gul said." That is why we are unable to connect with you. However, the difference shouldn't be so big.”
Professor Hao thought for a moment and said," We can assume that after the devastating attack, cities, villages, and high-tech technologies were all destroyed. The population was almost extinct, and the earth was in ruins. Only the few people in the remote areas were motivated to rebuild the civilization of mankind, which was why it was on such a scale today. Although his descendants were unworthy, he was able to develop without being discouraged. This kind of spirit was also very admirable. How long would it take to evolve a new human civilization on a planet?”
"Yes, I am. Yes, I am." The three of them could not help but sigh.
"We seem to understand, but we also seem to not understand," said Li Mo. To us, war seems to have become distant history. There was no war in the era we lived in. Our spaceship is the product of the fusion of the most advanced science and technology by scientists from all over the world. It's a huge crystallization of all kinds of wisdom.”
"My problem is solved. I believe that you are earthlings, earthlings from a long time ago, the ancestors of mankind. I also figured out my problem. I finally connected the broken history. However, this was a mocking connection. God was playing a big joke on mankind.”Professor Hao heaved a sigh of relief and smiled at Li Mo, Gu Er, and Lin Shi.
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