Strange Mission
Shi Yan's Diary
The weather is clear on the day of the month
Opening the diary, I found myself in a satellite city thousands of miles away from the capital. A question pestered me and tortured me all day, making me absent-minded. "Are there aliens?" Aliens were only characters described in science fiction. Earth's human civilization that explored outer space had yet to confirm the existence of aliens. But the mission I accepted today is closely related to aliens. This is the task that the highest leader of C Nation personally assigned to me.
This morning, my superior, Dean Jin of the XXX Language Translation Research Institute, brought me to the office of the head of C Nation. I was surprised to hear that there was something I could do to answer the call of the head of C Nation and enjoy this rare honor.
After the head of C Nation warmly led us to our seats, he asked bluntly,"Did you guys watch TV the day before yesterday?”
Dean Jin replied," The day before yesterday, was it the live broadcast of the space shuttle launch on satellite television?”
"That's right! What do you think?"
"However, we saw the satellite base being attacked. The live broadcast was cut off halfway through. We all thought there was a war. The news report said that the rocket malfunctioned and delayed the launch.”
"We weren't attacked, and the rocket didn't malfunction. The actual situation was that a spaceship had landed in the satellite city base. We caught three aliens."
"Aliens!" Dean Jin and I exclaimed in unison.
"Aliens." The head of C Nation nodded affirmatively and continued," Our space shuttle launch experiment marks a key step in our country's space technology development. At this moment, the aliens came knocking on the door. The fact that they could cross the vast interstellar space to come to Earth meant that they had mastered advanced science and technology. This is exactly what we need." The head of C Nation paused for a moment and said earnestly," Now, three aliens are here with us. We urgently need to learn and master their science and technology in order to better enter the space field and fly into the universe. But we have difficulties communicating with them. Therefore, finding both parties to communicate was the most urgent and important task at the moment. It was also an important link. We had an impromptu meeting and decided to send a languist to contact the aliens. We would start with language communication to find a way for both sides to communicate and open up a communication channel for us to learn alien science and technology as soon as possible. So, I invited you here."
Just like that, I accepted a strange mission. Contact the aliens, learn the alien language, and find a channel for communication between Earthlings and aliens.
The weather is clear on the day of the month
I couldn't bear the urgency of seeing the aliens earlier. When I arrived at the alien's place, I immediately asked Director Lu Quan, who was fully responsible for the safety of the aliens, to take me to the alien's residence.
Before I met the aliens, I had imagined various images of aliens in my mind. These aliens, who had mastered advanced science and technology and could cross the interstellar space to come to Earth, might have unique skills and unique appearances. The three aliens that appeared in front of me were completely beyond my expectations.
Was this an alien? I silently observed them. The excitement of meeting the aliens earlier was thrown out of the clouds, replaced by a full of questions. It was more convincing to say that there were three Earthlings instead of three aliens. Their bodies, facial features, and expressions are almost no different from those of us on Earth. It was especially similar to our country's ethnic group. Only the older alien had light brown hair. At this moment, I couldn't think of them as aliens. If it wasn't for the fact that the leader of C Nation personally gave me the mission, I might have misunderstood that the three prisoners were captured there.
Division Chief Lu Quan introduced them politely. He didn't care if the aliens understood or what they meant. He just gave me a few instructions and left.
Only then did I calmly and seriously examine the three aliens in front of me again. The three of them sat on the edge of a big bed in the room and watched me together. The one with light brown hair looked older, and the other was younger. The youngest alien looked at me angrily. What I saw in their eyes was hostility filled with suspicion. However, I remembered my glorious mission, to learn the alien language and open up a language channel to communicate with the aliens. I believe that these three people in front of me, with my talent in language and solid foundation, will quickly solve this problem.
The two sides were in a stalemate, and there was silence. I tapped my fingers on the table to break the silence and attract the alien's attention. At the same time, I smiled and said a long string of greetings. However, after doing so, the aliens did not react at all. I knocked harder on the table, and this time I used body language and gestures to invite them to the table for a discussion.
I've achieved my goal. The three of them stood up. Only then did he see the three of them. The youngest was also the tallest, about 1.8 meters tall. He took a few steps to the seat on my right. Before he sat down, he suddenly grabbed my wrist and pressed it against the table. After I came to my senses, I quickly resisted. I used to be a famous boxer in university. After working, I practiced less, but my developed muscles still contained strength. After a while, I gradually couldn't hold on. He was about to be twisted.
At this moment, the brown-haired alien rushed over and stopped the youngest alien. He patted my hand with a smile and sat on the right seat, pushing the youngest alien to the seat opposite me. Across the table, the young alien sat down casually and rubbed his palms together to show his strength. The other alien silently sat down on the seat to my left. The three aliens and I finally sat around the table. The deadlock has been broken, and the exchange is about to begin. I am full of hope that this is a good start.
However, after a lot of effort, I could only understand the names of three aliens before lunch. The young one was called Lin Shi, the older one with light brown hair was called Gu Er, and the other middle-aged alien was called Li Mo. They also knew that my name was "Shi Yan", and they learned my tongue quite accurately. Other than that, there was no progress.
This was because the three aliens had been talking to each other for the entire morning, as if they were discussing problems. They didn't have any intention of cooperating with me. I didn't learn any more individual words. If one did not learn a single word and accumulate a certain number of words, it would be difficult to understand a whole sentence. Communication is difficult, and this poses a considerable challenge to my work.
Just as I was lamenting this unsatisfactory scene, the waiter brought over a sumptuous lunch. When I saw the chopsticks on the table, my heart skipped a beat. This habit of using chopsticks is a characteristic of our country's eastern people. Many Westerners couldn't learn it yet. This was worth observing. However, I was immediately stunned. The three aliens skillfully waved the chopsticks in their hands, picking up the dishes and stirring the rice. Their movements were nimble and agile. We've been training since we were young, and that's how we're able to reach this level of skill. Could it be that their planet also used chopsticks since they were young and lived the same customs as us? I thought about a lot of assumptions and refuted them one by one. The facts in front of him showed that the living habits of aliens and the Easterners on Earth were similar. I wonder if I can find a breakthrough from this. On second thought, the chopsticks alone did not prove anything. Perhaps they could use knives and forks too. This was the life style of the western people on Earth. Yes, he instructed the kitchen to prepare western food for dinner.
Communication was very difficult, and the aliens did not cooperate with my work. There was almost no progress in the afternoon. It was finally dinnertime.
When the waiter was setting up the cutlery, I saw a flash of surprise on the faces of the three aliens. I remained calm and acted as the host, taking the initiative to invite them to eat. The alien named Lin Shi imitated me and played with the knife and fork. The alien named Gu Er, on the other hand, turned the knife and fork with his hand and admired it for a while. Not long after, the three of them used their skilled knife skills to make me dumbfounded. Judging from the way they used knives and forks, it was not inferior to using chopsticks. This way, it will be very difficult for me to determine their attributes from this aspect. I wondered. Did their planet have a similar life scene as Earth?
As I wrote in my diary, the question was still churning in my mind." Are there aliens?”The answer was yes. There were three living people in front of him-aliens. However, they were so much like Earthlings in all aspects. What kind of aliens were they?。
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