After screaming, Fang Xiaoxiao seemed to realize that his emotions were out of control. He took two steps back, squatting down on the wall dizzyly, and squeezing two handfuls of pills into his mouth, forcing himself to swallow it mechanically.
After swallowing the pills for a while, Fang Xiaoxiao barely stabilized. He gasped and hugged his knees tightly. Tears unconsciously slipped from his numb and stiff face, muttering to himself: "They are not. People, really not, I didn’t eat people..."
As he was talking, he couldn't help trembling all over, buried his face in his knees and cried, and apologized indiscriminately:
"sorry Sorry… "
Bai Liu squatted down on one knee and handed Fang Xiaoxiao a soft cloth towel.
Fang Xiaoxiao silently took over and wiped the tears from her face.
Bai Liu put a soft voice: "What kind of monsters are they?"
"... A highly intelligent monster." Fang Xiaoxiao stood up on the wall and replied hoarsely, "When they first appeared, we were all frightened because they looked exactly like the dead members of the observation station. Thinking it was a ghost, it was later discovered to be an illegal biochemical product of Edmund Observatory."
"They will actively imitate the most survivable creatures in the environment, and try to get close to us and learn our survival skills. This group of monsters may have observed us for a period of time and found that we showed great condolences to the dead team members. Friendly, so I chose to change into this image to approach us..."
Fang Xiaoxiao took a deep breath: "They think that as long as they become the image we like, we will accept them, but it scared the sentry at the base. The sentry shot them to death and dragged them back to the base for research. "
"... During the research process, it shed its skin a second time and changed to be more like a human being."
"It has a very strong learning ability. Through our words and observations after entering the base by itself, it better imitates the dead team member after the second molting. The speech, appearance, and habits are all exactly the same, except for some memories. It's still missing, it's almost like the dead team member came back to life... It was so terrible, so we killed it a second time with a knife."
Fang Xiaoxiao’s eyelashes trembled, and teardrops fell on his hand gripping the cloth towel: "... We found that no matter how to kill them, because their cells are highly active, as long as one is not killed, It will autonomously differentiate into embryonic stem cells, and then differentiate into humans."
"...Unless they are scorched with fire to scorch their epidermis to curb their differentiation tendency, and then immersed in strong acid or alkali chemicals to completely kill these cells, but the observation station does not have so much fuel and chemicals to deal with them. "
"We had no way at the beginning. Even if we knew their hazards, we didn't have the resources to deal with them. We could only cut them open and freeze them in the cracks of the ice so that they could not come out, but very quickly, very soon..."
Fang Xiaoxiao's throat seemed to be pinched by a pair of invisible big hands. Although he was opening his mouth, he couldn't make a sound, only tears flowed.
Bai Liu calmly took the words: "But soon you discovered that fire and strong acid corrosion, isn't this the process of human food cooking and digestion?"
"It just happens that you are short of food, and eating it just can completely eliminate these monsters. It's a matter of killing two birds with one stone. Why not do it, right?"
After being spotted by Bai Liu, Fang Xiaoxiao's eyes were hollow, and her chest rose and fell twice. She couldn't help but turned around and ran away, covering her mouth: "Sorry, I'm a little uncomfortable. You can rest first. "
Bai Liu watched Fang Xiaoyuan go, then turned and walked into the cabin, Mu Sicheng and Tang Erda followed closely.
Tang Er hit the backhand and locked the door, and he stuck it on the door and listened to the outside for a long while before turning his head to report to Bai Liu: "The soundproofing effect is okay. I can't hear people's footsteps at close range outside. I want to say. What can be said directly."
Mu Sicheng just heard what Fang Xiaoxiao and Bai Liu said. Now everyone is a little stupid. He sits on the bedside and looks at Bai Liu, his neck chills: "What the hell is this? That's why it is this group of observation stations. Ate the monster?!"
"It's not necessarily." Bai Liu leaned on the bed, lazily propped his chin with his hands, "The possibility of this observation station is still the same as I said before, here are people, or here are anthropomorphic monsters, disguised To deceive us like this."
Mu Sicheng was puzzled: "No, if they are monsters, why do they pretend to be such a situation to deceive us? What's the point? If they want to kill us, just do it, you just heard it, this thing must be It is immortal to a certain extent, and can directly confront us!"
"Why would you take the initiative to tell us your weaknesses?"
Tang Erda nodded at the right time: "The weaknesses in my monster book lightened up just now. The situation Fang Xiaoxiao said is true. Fire and chemical corrosion are the weaknesses of this monster."
Bai Liu smiled and suddenly raised a completely irrelevant topic: "Do you know the Turing test?"
Mu Sicheng and Tang Erda both nodded.
Mu Sicheng was rather uncomfortable: "What does this have to do with the Turing test? Isn't it used to test whether ai has human intelligence?"
"There are similarities. Ai and the monsters here are both man-made species. If you compare the types of things here to ai, how do you think the species here are fully human intelligent?" Bai Liu looked at Mu Sicheng slowly. "Remember the famous hypothesis in the Turing Test?"
Mu Sicheng suddenly realized something, and he shuddered: "—If these intelligent ai really possess human intelligence, will they use a way to deceive humans to pass the Turing test?"
"Assuming that [people] here are all monsters, they are trying hard to imitate humans, and their intelligence has been developed to the same level as that of the scientific research team here, it is entirely possible for them to perform Turing Tests on themselves to test their own humans. Whether the imitation show is qualified and whether it can be fully integrated into us."
Bai Liu raised his eyes: "And we, a group of foreign humans, are the best comparisons to test whether they can successfully deceive humans. The statements [Fang Xiaoxiao] just now are just a simulation based on their understanding of humans. Convince us and make us feel that they are human conditions."
Tang Erda remained silent, Mu Sicheng curled his fingers and held his palm, his back was chilly.
"Of course." Bai Liu spoke again, slowly speaking, "This is just my guess, and it is very likely that the people here are human beings. Everything is just my delusion."
Tang Erda calmly asked: "Then how to verify your ideas?"
Bai Liutan smiled lightly: "It's very simple. After they are all asleep tonight, let's dig out the things in the cracks in the ice to see if the [people] inside can survive."
It's midnight.
The February sun in Antarctica lasts for a long time. When the sun disappears, it is early in the morning. The personnel in the observation station are basically asleep. Only two guards are standing in front of the door, but they have to bypass these two guards and go out. It is also very simple.
The observatory adheres to the principle of strict entry and wide exit, and does not strictly control the outing of internal personnel. After all, in Antarctica, it is necessary to take the initiative to run outside.
Bai Liu and the others got out of the garbage disposal back door in the kitchen on the second floor, then walked around to the place where the helicopter was parked, and took out the drilling equipment inside.
Thanks to the bad weather in Antarctica, under the blessing of wind, snow and night, the visibility cannot exceed 30 meters. Bai Liu and the others blatantly took the equipment so that the sentry not far away did not see it.
Under the leadership of Tang Erda, a veteran, they put hundreds of kilograms of equipment on the sled in sleds, and pulled them to a spot more than ten kilometers away that they had explored before.
Mu Sicheng was panting, sweating all over, but Bai Liu was okay. Tang Erda didn't let him do much. He was responsible for most of the weight of the hundreds of kilograms of equipment.
Tang Erda's skin was soaked with sweat from his face to his collarbone, and his tight muscles glowed with a sensual glow, his breathing only increased slightly, and he gasped very restrained.
Mu Sicheng, who was panting like a donkey, saw his eyes straight.
Depend on! Did Tang Er fight Nima because of the reincarnation of the sled dog? ! Can you pull things like this? !
Tang Erda didn't notice Mu Sicheng's jealous gaze. He placed the equipment on the sled onto the ice, and then according to Bai Liu's arrangement, he began to use the drilling equipment to drill holes where they had detected the shadows.
Hot pressing melted the ice layer by layer. When it descended to a similar position, Bai Liu made a stop gesture. Tang Er pressed the instrument, lifted the ice core, and pulled it out.
There was a small and narrow human being trapped in the ice core. He had no limbs, so he looked extremely petite, and he was able to be locked in the ice core by Bai Liu and the others—this is also the reason why Bai Liu chose this location to drill.
Trapped in an ice ridge about 2m long and 1m in diameter, or the "human" expression in the ice core is extremely frightened, like seeing something that scares him to death, and the limbs are neat and clean, like It was cut by some sharp tool, and it hasn't rotted yet.
Bai Liu and the others brought fuel oil and poured hot water on the ice core over and over again. It didn't take long for the ice core to slowly melt.
"Ice made by filling snow." Tang Erda must have come to a conclusion, "True ice will not melt so fast, nor will it be so clean and thorough."
It didn't take long for the ice to melt, and the corpse of the person inside was lying motionless on the ice.
When Mu Sicheng was too cold for the third time to hug him and wanted to go back, weak granulation suddenly grew on the cross-sections of the limbs of this man. They were twisting like worms, and they soon joined together to form limbs. .
This person slowly stood up, kneeling in front of Bai Liu.
Obviously, the thing they dug up is a monster.
Tang Erda kicked the opponent with a speed that was invisible to the naked eye, and thrust the muzzle into the opponent's throat with his backhand, his expression cold and severe, he was about to shoot.
Bai Liu stopped him in time, walked in front of this person, and let Tang Erda pull the muzzle away. This person got up with difficulty, and Mu Sicheng was shocked when he opened his mouth.
"I am the real Fang Xiaoxiao." His voice was difficult. He burst into tears as soon as he finished speaking. He kept kowtow to Bai Liu, "The people buried below are the real Taishan Observatory personnel, please. You save them!"
Bai Liu helped him up and gently comforted him: "We will, you tell me what happened first."
"Have you seen the monsters at the observation station?" Fang Xiaoxiao was helped by Bai Liu and sat on the sled.
Mu Sicheng boiled a cup of hot water to this trembling meteorology graduate student, and was pushed away by Fang Xiaoxiao with a wry smile: "Thank you, now my body doesn't need to be warmed, I just still have the condition of being a human being against the cold. Reflection, that's why it trembles."
Bai Liu put hot water on Fang Xiaoxiao's lap: "You have a human reflex of the cold, then you are an ordinary person who needs warmth. I think you do need such a cup of hot water, take it."
I don't know how this sentence touched Fang Xiaoxiao, and his tears couldn't stop falling.
He looked at Bai Liu dimly with tears, and finally took the cup of hot water and choked up: "Thank you, comrade, thank you for telling me that I am still a person."
Fang Xiaoxiao drank a few sips of hot water and eased her energy before she said: "A year and a half ago in August, we were instructed to store a very dangerous biochemical corpse on the Antarctic side. At first, the person in charge of Taishan Station did not agree, because according to the Antarctic Convention, no contaminated research objects can be placed here."
"But after many communications, the person in charge of Taishan Station finally agreed. Although we don't know what they communicated, the person in charge told us sadly that the last piece of pure land in Antarctica will no longer be a pure land."
"In order to protect the people outside, to protect this world full of desires, this last piece of pure land is still polluted."
Fang Xiaoxiao exhaled deeply, Bai Liu noticed that there was no heat in the air he exhaled, and no white air was formed.
"So we were ready to pick up the plane that was transporting the carcass, but the plane had an accident while flying over the Ross Sea, and finally did not land near our observation station, but crashed near the Archibald Station on the south coast of Ross Island— That is the observatory of country A."
"Although we went to search immediately, three boxes were still missing, and all five escorts on the plane died. In order to retrieve these three boxes, we kept calling Archibald Station, communicating, and even I went directly to their person in charge that night."
"But soon they started not answering our calls, closed doors and refused to accept our visits, and our team members saw that in the early morning, Archibald Station flew a helicopter to Edmund Station, suspected to be secretly transported. Something passed, we suspect it was the three boxes."
Fang Xiaoxiao's teeth trembled, and she squeezed the cup tightly: "Edmond Station is their other observation station. It is located near the South Pole. It is heavily guarded and more difficult to approach. There are also many military equipment. The other party has repeatedly refused to answer our calls. Later, we had to communicate by fax."
"The person in charge of the Edmund Observatory is called Edmund Allen. He has been in Antarctica for more than 30 years and has always had a good relationship with us. He is willing to share many research results with us. He is an old man with great Antarctic spirit. Guy, he has made outstanding contributions to the study of meteorology and biology in Antarctica, so the observatory will be named after him..."
"Professor Edmund was loosened by our persuasion and wanted to secretly return the box to us, and bear all the faults by himself..."
Fang Xiaoxiao couldn't help crying: "But the politics and military of country A do not allow it. After discovering Edmund's tendency to do so, they brutally persecuted Professor Edmond and suppressed him psychologically. And the experiment, they also used some mind control drugs on him, and they drove Teacher Edmund crazy..."
He covered his face and burst into tears. He had been calling "Professor" before, and at this moment he became a more intimate "teacher".
"This group of beasts killed a great man! They carried out biological experiments related to the carcass on Teacher Edmund!!!"
"They forced Teacher Edmund to go astray!"
"The teacher used these corpses and began to teach the reproduction of these corpse creatures in large quantities, and hybridized their genes with the genes of very low organisms, and bred predators more adapted to the Antarctic climate. All those who persecuted him were buried. The men of these creatures..."
Fang Xiaoxiao seemed to think of extremely painful memories. He covered his head and muttered to himself in a daze:
"But when everything developed later, it all got out of control. Those creatures began to develop human intelligence. They were educated by Edmund and they were curious and exploratory about scientific research and human beings. They began to imitate human beings. What they did, they began to reproduce those cruel experiments in humans to explore humans."
"And those of us humans stranded in the observation station are the best material for them to practice hands."
Fang Xiaoxiao cried and laughed: "They cut, dismembered, sliced, and dyed us, and divided us into categories according to gender... But there is not much food left at the observatory in winter. Soon we will starve to death. They don’t want us. Died fragilely and began to force us to eat seals, penguins and their meat."
"Their flesh fits into our body. We are like plants of other species inserted into the body, distorting and evolving like the embedded body, and finally become the same as they are not afraid of severe cold, more capable of survival, and not easy to survive. The monster of death."
A drop of tears fell on Fang Xiaoxiao’s face unconsciously: “Soon, these clever monsters have explored all the secrets of our flesh/body. They placed our experimental wastes under the ice layer to preserve them, and entered the species. The last stage of the research-human mutual recognition, communication and psychological induction."
"They need completely foreign humans to cooperate with their final stage of experiments, but there have been no new humans here in Antarctica for a long, long time."
"So they continue to simulate the living conditions of human beings in extreme situations. They even create some conflicts realistically, then kill each other, and then open the ice layer and throw down the [dead] monster corpses."
Fang Xiaoxiao twitched his mouth stiffly: "Of course these monsters didn't really die, they just played the role of a human being who failed in the struggle and was frozen next to us."
After he finished speaking, everyone was quiet.
Bai Liu patted Fang Xiaoxiao on the shoulder and let him rest. He said that he would get everyone from Taishan Station out, and then turned around and went back to the drilling position to continue working.
Tang Erda was in charge of guarding Fang Xiaoxiao, but did not come together.
But Mu Sicheng seemed to be greatly frightened, shrinking to the side of Bai Liu, and quietly said: "Damn! It's really the same as you said! The monsters at the observation station are really conducting the Turing test! Really! The members of the observatory are in a crack in the ice!"
Bai Liu turned on the instrument and glanced at Mu Sicheng with no expression: "How can you be sure that these [people] placed in the crevices of ice are not these highly intelligent monsters. After studying our human psychology, they have been set up a long time ago. New A round of Turing test on us?"
Mu Sicheng was startled, his scalp numb: "You mean, this Fang Xiaoxiao also pretended to be a monster to test us?!"
Bai Liu Lianmu: "Not necessarily, he may also be a real human."
"Who told you that the Turing test only places one spot, and this type of species sociality test is usually carried out on an entire map."
Bai Liu sweeps the animal husbandry with a glance: "In short, this entire Antarctica may be an experimental map they set up for us alien humans. The humans at any observation station may be real or fake. Yes, they distinguish our recognition methods of the same kind through our cognitive discrimination of true and false human beings."
"For an analogy, it's similar to putting a foreign monkey in a group of simulated monkeys and real monkeys, observing the reaction of this foreign monkey, and seeing what kind of monkey it will react to similar judgments, and then these monsters Just imitate these monkeys, pretend to be a real monkey, come close to this monkey, and conduct further experiments."
Bai Liu's gaze fell on Fang Xiaoxiao, who was behind Mu Sicheng: "For example, let a monkey cut off its limbs, and then observe whether this monkey will seek help from others of the same kind."
Mu Sicheng felt that his limbs were a bit cold as he listened, and he silently took off his monkey earphones.
Bai Liu shrugged: "This is how humans study other species."