From all-round academic master to chief scientist

"Five of you, you will become the pride of our people, so please go with peace of mind, we will be waiting for your heroes to return on earth!"

At the entrance of Saturn 9, the president, who had just finished his speech, came here and gave his final encouragement to the five astronauts who landed on the moon.

The five astronauts also stood at attention and saluted, saying in unison: "Promise to complete the mission."

The president nodded with satisfaction, then waved his hand and said: "Very good, then, go ahead, children, and may God bless you."

"yes!"

The five astronauts nodded one after another, then held the space helmets in their hands, stepped into the rocket, and then came to sit in their respective positions.

"Armstrong, how do you feel?"

After they each fastened their seat belts, they started chatting.

And one of them asked the biggest celebrity among the five of them, Jayden Armstrong.

For Jayden Armstrong, he never thought that he would become so famous with his last name.

Although he has been paid attention to by people around him because of his surname before. After all, the name of Armstrong, the first man to land on the moon, is still quite well-known. However, in any case, compared to the simple attention he once received, it is obviously far less than the simple attention he once received. His current situation is attracting the attention of the whole world.

Nowadays, he can easily post a short video on the Internet and get millions of views. He can be said to be a veritable celebrity. As long as he comes back from Mars, he will be able to rely on this kind of fame. Living the life of a capitalist, coupled with the fame of being the first person to climb the fire, it will be both fame and fortune.

He was even designated as the first person to step out of the landing module and the first person to leave footprints on Mars, as the inheritor of their past as the largest space country.

So it can be said that Jayden Armstrong is very popular nowadays.

When he heard his teammates' questions, he snorted and said, "That's it. Anyway, I'm ready to spend a year and a half on that damn Mars as soon as possible."

"Fortunately, NASA has agreed to help update my videos on Mars on my TOKTIK. Otherwise, it's hard to imagine how many fans I will lose in a year and a half."

Hearing Armstrong's words, the other four astronauts burst out laughing, and their eyes looking at Armstrong were filled with envy. Why weren't they called Armstrong?

Even if he is called Gagarin, it will be okay... Although Gagarin is from the former Soviet Union, he is still the first person in space.

And at this time, the voice of the command center came from their communication channel: "Okay, the five of you, let's not talk about these topics anymore. We will record the next calls about you, and we will record them later. The content of the TV broadcast column is broadcast, so you should talk more about words that are conducive to stimulating people's emotions."

"I know, I know." Armstrong said, "You just have to promise to help me update TOKTIK's video."

"Just don't worry about this."

The person in the command center responded, and then said: "Okay, the launch will start in two minutes. You should take this time to say goodbye to the earth."

The five people in the rocket looked at each other, and then started chatting awkwardly.

"Hey Trendo, did you say goodbye to your daughter?"

"Of course, my daughter was very happy when she heard that I was going to be an astronaut. She spent her own savings to buy me jelly that day."

"Oh, that's really enviable."

"Donnas, what do you think Mars is like?"

"I don't care what it looks like, it just needs to wait to be conquered by me."

"..."

Just like that, as time passed, finally, it was time to launch.

"Countdown to launch, ten! Nine! Eight!..."

"Three! Two! One!"

"emission!"

As the ten-second countdown ended, everyone's eyes were fixed on the tail of the rocket.

And soon, the nine huge nozzles at the tail of the huge rocket spurted out violent flames, and at the same time brought up majestic smoke. The smoke instantly filled the entire rocket body, and Then, a rocket head emerged from the top of the smoke. Then, the huge Saturn 9 seemed to be carrying unparalleled momentum, soaring away from the rising smoke, and then plunged straight into the sky.

And everyone in the audience just watched the rocket take off. As time passed by, the arrow did not tilt or shake. In this way, it rose higher and higher, and gradually only a few pieces remained. A small piece.

Then, all the onlookers burst into shocking cheers in an instant.

Every American people present feels as if they have returned to the glorious era at this moment.

At the same time, major media in the United States also announced this news that made them all excited at this moment.

Some media even published a picture comparing Saturn 9 and Tiannian. In this picture, Saturn 9 is a giant, while Tiannian is very inferior. This method is used to slander Tiannian. Number.

It can be said that they put almost all their hopes for this technological marathon on their Mars plan.

On the Chinese side, the launch of the Mars Project has also attracted a certain amount of attention for the time being. Although the Tiannian is large, their Saturn 9 is bigger after all, even though it only takes more than two minutes. The largest first-stage rocket is about to separate, and by then it will not be as big as the Tiannian. However, obviously not all netizens are aware of this.

Therefore, there are still many people who tout the Saturn 9.

However, today’s Chinese netizens are not the same as those ten years ago.

In addition to the cultural self-confidence they once had, today's Chinese netizens also have strong scientific and technological self-confidence. Naturally, they started arguing with those who touted the Saturn 9 on the Internet. In the end, various evidences were used to prove that Tiannian, It is more technical.

Regarding these debates, although Lin Xiao, who is at Dingguang Aerospace Research Institute, has not seen it, he can guess it.

"Americans are quite capable. They managed to deliver such a heavy guy."

When he learned that Saturn 9 had successfully entered orbit, Lin Xiao couldn't help but sigh.

No matter what, it is not easy for people to achieve this level.

Just let them be happy with themselves for a while.

Of course, it’s only for two months.

According to time, their Tiannian will start its voyage to Mars in two months, which is June 1st.

Estimated arrival is late July.

As for the estimated arrival time of Project Mars... it's the end of September.

If it weren't for the purpose of returning Tian Nian to Earth as soon as possible to avoid missing the best return time, otherwise, he even wanted to let Tian Nian stay there until September. After the American rocket arrived, he would first communicate with them Say hello and then leave.

Suddenly, at this moment, Xiaomi's voice suddenly came: "Master! Come and see! I seem to have successfully deciphered a few more words!"

Lin Xiao was stunned for a moment, then quickly turned around and came to the computer, "What? Are you sure?"

The deciphering that Xiaomi is talking about is exactly deciphering the Mayan characters that contain mysterious characters.

Although it is not yet clear whether these mysterious words can be understood by deciphering these Mayan words, no matter what, it is obvious that they only have this method!

"What did you decipher again?"

"These few words in the middle are connected to other contents that have been deciphered before. It means, [a number that can only be identified by itself]. The most critical information in the middle is still not deciphered." Xiaomi replied .

Lin Xiao's brows condensed.

"A number that can only be counted by itself?"

What could it be?

It always feels baffling. Of course, this translation is still in modern language. If it were a literal translation, it would probably be even weirder.

"Could it be a number that can only be divided by itself? Wouldn't that be 1?"

"But there is no requirement that it must be a natural number, nor does it say it must be an integer."

"But judging from its meaning, it is very likely that it is a prime number..."

Lin Xiao's eyes couldn't help but be stunned.

Historical records show that the Mayans were very advanced in mathematics, so it is possible that they began the study of prime numbers very early. It is a pity that that period of history was buried by the colonial rulers.

After all, Euclid also started studying prime numbers very early.

However, the question now is whether this text that needs to be deciphered really represents a prime number.

After all, prime numbers are divisible by 1 and itself, and in Mayan writing, "1" has long been deciphered, and this text does not include the Mayan numeral representing "1".

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shake his head. God knows what those Mayans thought back then.

Then he asked: "How did you decipher this?"

As soon as he asked the question, a picture popped up on the monitor in front of him.

Xiaomi: "Master, look at these pictures that have been uploaded to the Internet. The content on these pictures comes from the ancient Maratha books that may have been inherited."

Lin Xiao frowned, and then saw a book appearing on the picture.

Then Xiaomi said: "The contents in this book were all copied. According to my identification, there is a lot of content in it, which should all belong to Mayan characters, so it is certain that this is a book that was inherited by luck. The classics that record the Mayan civilization.”

Hearing Xiaomi's introduction, Lin Xiao couldn't help but be surprised, "Could it be an unknown manuscript?"

The Mayans were invaded by Spanish colonists in the 16th century. After ruling the area where the Mayans were located, the Spanish colonists burned all the Mayan books that recorded their culture.

The Spanish colonists did this because they saw that the Mayans had their own cultural system, so they wanted to completely destroy this civilization through this method. After all, the New World was only discovered at the end of the fifteenth century, and the brutal colonial rule It is natural for those who want to use all means to interrupt the development of civilization in the New World.

However, this kind of "book burning" incident will eventually slip through the net, so during the excavations of later generations, four surviving manuscripts recording the Mayan civilization were finally discovered.

To this day, these manuscripts are treasured in the countries of the colonizers and are precious historical and cultural relics.

But obviously, the book in the picture is not any of these four books.

At this time, Xiaomi suddenly said: "I found it. The person who took this picture is a Mayan descendant! He is over 70 years old this year. This is passed down from his family."

"In order to prevent the manuscript from rotting completely, he photographed every page of the manuscript and stored it in his personal space."

"However, these photos have been encrypted by him and have not been made public. Probably because he does not want these things to be made public. He is afraid that they will be robbed after they are made public. In addition, he also hates the colonial countries in Europe very much. .”

Lin Xiao's brows suddenly raised, but he didn't expect such a gain.

The Mayan civilization was extinct, but the Mayans were not completely extinct, because for the original Spanish colonists, they wanted to achieve better rule over the Mayans by cutting off the culture of the Mayans, so naturally the Mayans also Descendants of humans survive to this day.

Of course, this kind of hatred that belongs to the annihilation of civilization must not be forgotten by these Mayan descendants.

Therefore, it is natural that some descendants of the Mayans kept the things they inherited secretly and did not disclose them at all.

Lin Xiao immediately couldn't help but guess: "According to this, there are nearly two million Mayan descendants in the world now. Maybe there are just a few of them who are like this person and have passed down some secrets. Mayan cultural relics have been preserved?”

"Well, it's very possible." Xiaomi replied, "I'll search on the Internet again."

Although its computing power is amazing and it can easily scan huge human databases, unfortunately, the premise is that Qiankun One can be completely controlled by it.

At present, it can still only mobilize one percent of the computing power.

And what is involved now is the work that requires identifying pictures, so it still takes a certain amount of time.

Of course, at least the current search scope has been limited to the more than two million remaining Mayan descendants, so for it, it can be regarded as saving the time that it originally needed to search the whole world.

However, Lin Xiao could not help with this matter.

After all, he is not an artificial intelligence.

"However, the pictures of this new manuscript can be given to Professor Ji Yang. Maybe it will be of greater help to his deciphering work?"

Lin Xiao thought this in his mind and then made a decision.

After he saved these pictures into a USB flash drive, he took these things to the Yueshi Division headquarters, and then found Professor Ji Yang's office.

After entering this office, he was stunned.

This office was not very big to begin with, but now it is filled with all kinds of books, making it almost impossible to find where to go.

As for these books, they are all in foreign languages, and some of them look very old.

Lin Xiao picked up a book from the ground, Good Guy, it was published in 1956 by a publishing house in Spain.

"Huh? Chief Lin, why do you have time to visit this old guy like me?"

At this time, an old man appeared among a pile of books, it was Ji Yang. At this time, he was sitting on a pony, wearing reading glasses, probably studying a book in front of him.

Lin Xiao waved his hand and said helplessly: "Professor Ji, is this how you usually study?"

"Haha, I'm used to it. It was like this when I was young."

Ji Yang smiled, then stood up and said to Lin Xiao, "Come in."

Lin Xiao worked hard to find a few places to stay, and finally came to the desk.

"Tell me, Chief Lin shouldn't be here to chat with me, right?"

Lin Xiao nodded and said, "Professor Ji, you must not get excited about what I am going to show you next."

Ji Yang laughed, took off his reading glasses, took a glasses cloth from the side and wiped it slowly, and said at the same time: "I am an old man, there are not so many things that can make me excited."

"That's good."

Lin Xiao nodded, then took out the USB flash drive and opened the contents on the computer in Ji Yang's office. The first thing was the first photo.

"Professor Ji, look at this thing."

Ji Yang nodded and looked at the picture on the display screen with some curiosity. He wanted to know what it was that made Lin Xiao feel excited.

He didn't believe there was anything in this world that could excite an old man in his eighties.

However, when he took his first look, he froze, and then focused his gaze upwards.

Then he quickly took his reading glasses from the side and put them on, then his eyes widened in disbelief and said: "It's not the Paris Codex, the Madrid Codex, or the Glorian Codex." Codex Driston... This is this... this is a new codex of the ancient Greek codex?!"

"Oh my God, is this a miracle?"

His eyes widened in disbelief.

Then he snatched the mouse from Lin Xiao's hand and looked behind him. Every picture in it was the same as the first picture, recording Mayan characters.

For this master of linguistics, especially a master of research on various ancient characters, this kind of thing is a rare treasure that belongs to him.

"And... what is recorded here is actually... some scientific achievements of the Mayans. This is really true..."

Suddenly, Professor Ji Yang turned to look at Lin Xiao, then grabbed Lin Xiao's arm and said, "Chief Lin! Where did you find this thing?"

Lin Xiao shook off the old man's hand, and then said: "When I was studying in France, I met a person of Mayan descent. Then I asked him about it some time ago, and he came from his grandfather's house. Turned out."

Ji Yang was stunned, "Descendants of the Mayans?"

"Yeah." Lin Xiao nodded slightly, and then said: "So, I have reason to believe that among the descendants of the Mayans who still exist in the world, it is very likely that one of them may have some genes inherited from the ancient Mayans. Ancient cultural relics that came down.”

"this……"

After hearing Lin Xiao's words, Ji Yang temporarily forgot to ask about the Mayan descendant Lin Xiao met.

Then Ji Yang nodded and said: "Indeed, what you said is not impossible. No matter how hard the Spanish in the 16th century searched, there was no reason to destroy everything."

"When I was doing archeology abroad, I also met and communicated with some Mayan descendants. My in-depth research on Mayan writing was really thanks to those Mayan descendants, and I did find that some of them had preserved in their homes. I have found some ancient Mayan cultural relics, but I have never seen this kind of classics with written texts before."

"If you say so..."

Thinking of this, Ji Yang's eyes lit up.

Lin Xiao nodded and said, "Well, I think we should try to send people to contact those Mayan descendants. Maybe we will get unexpected gains."

"That's right! It just so happens that I also know some friends of Mayan descent. Maybe I can get their help."

Lin Xiao nodded slightly and said with a smile: "Then I'll trouble you."

"I still have to thank Chief Lin." Ji Yang waved his hand, and then suddenly asked: "By the way, Chief Lin, the Mayan descendant you know..."

"Don't disturb that person. He said that he would give this thing to me in the hope that I could help them spread this glorious history of the Mayans in the future. However, their family does not want others to know that their family has inherited it. Got a book."

Lin Xiao made up the reasons he had already prepared.

When Ji Yang heard what Lin Xiao said, he had no doubts and then nodded solemnly.

"I see."

…

In this way, Yue Shisi began to mobilize resources to try to contact those Mayan descendants.

But after all, they were in their country, so their actions couldn't be too obvious, and they couldn't send too many people, so the progress was very slow at the beginning.

Of course, after all, there are still millions of Mayan descendants, so they are not in a hurry and just proceed slowly.

As for Professor Ji Yang, he also started to translate the new manuscript. The progress of this process was also relatively slow, but it was still proceeding normally.

In this way, time passed quickly.

Until early May.

…

The Mars landing rocket has been flying in space for more than a month.

On the lunar base, the six team members are still living a vacation-like lunar life.

However, at this time, a piece of news from the Chinese Space Administration broke this short-term peace.

[Our country will implement the manned mission plan on June 1st! 】

As soon as this news came out, other countries were dumbfounded.

Now that the window period has passed, how are you going to get on board? !