In the vast and endless universe, life can exist in any form.
Therefore, before No. 1 and No. 0 met Jiang Lishan, they never knew that there would be life on the blue spectrum star whose temperature was so high that it could almost burn everything; The two stone-like crystals turned out to be intelligent silicon-based organisms.
In the periodic table of elements, silicon is the next element behind carbon. It belongs to the same group and has very similar chemical properties. However, most life in the universe is based on carbon, so silicon-based organisms also exist in the form of carbon-based organisms. big difference.
Most of their bodies are transparent, like chip gems, exquisite and transparent, slightly fluorescent, and many fiberglass-like filaments of light tentacles protrude from their bodies when they move, which makes them look a bit like jellyfish —A soft and fragile carbon-based organism whose body is made up of 90% water.
But in fact silicon-based organisms are not only not soft, on the contrary, their bodies are very hard and can withstand very violent impacts. Even if the body is broken into many pieces, they can slowly reassemble the body through light tentacles. In addition, Their lives are still very long, and they can survive by eating some oxidized iron sheets. It seems that they are relatively tenacious creatures. However, silicon-based creatures also have a fatal weakness-they are afraid of cold and even more afraid of oxygen.
For them, a temperature of 200 degrees or even 400 degrees can make them feel comfortable, and a temperature below 100 degrees is considered cold winter to them. When the temperature is below 0 degrees, they will be frozen to death, and Oxygen oxidizes their bodies, turning them from a transparent crystal to dusty silica, so they can only live in an atmosphere composed of sulfur gas.
This kind of atmosphere is scary to most carbon-based creatures, after all, sulfur gas will corrode their bodies, but silicon-based creatures like it very much, and a small number of carbon-based creatures also like it—Jiang Lishan is one of them, because he I think such a planet is beautiful.
The planets No. 1 and No. 0 live are full of crystal organisms of various colors, blue, purple and pink. Because of the sulfur atmosphere, their sky always presents a magnificent color at dusk and sunset. When Jiang Lishan set foot on this land, he felt that if If he is still alive, he will definitely like such a planet.
It's a pity that he is no longer there.
As long as Jiang Lishan thinks of this, no matter how beautiful the planet is, it will lose the meaning of his stop, so Jiang Lishan just stayed on this planet for a few hours, picked up two beautiful crystals from the ground, and left.
And Number One and Number Zero, who were in deep sleep, were woken up by freezing.
When they wake up, they find that they have left their original planet, but they don't have any feelings and emotions, and naturally they don't have the feeling of "fear". They just follow their instincts and look for the hottest heat source here to survive.
Thanks to the fact that the planet Jiang Lishan lives in has no oxygen, and he doesn't need oxygen to breathe, so his navigation ship is full of inert gas, otherwise No. 1 and No. 0 will never wake up again.
So Jiang Lishan looked at the universe in a daze for a while, and saw that the two crystal stones he took away from that planet had grown some legs, slowly moving them towards the teacup on the table, and finally sticking the legs next to the teacup. I took it back.
Only then did Jiang Lishan realize that they were not stones, but creatures. After thinking for a while, he made a cover to lock them up, and brought them back to Ulbury.
However, Urbury is a planet that imitates the ecological environment of the earth. For silicon-based organisms, it is like a perpetually frozen hell. Before No. 1 and No. 0 were oxidized and frozen to death, No. The intelligent system on the protective suit contacted him, which prevented his death.
Since then, besides Jiang Lishan, Urbury has added two more intelligent creatures, and No. 1 and No. 0 have learned a lot of huge information through the intelligent system.
Later, Jiang Lishan found a boarding body for the two of them. It was a fully enclosed robot. No. 1 and No. 0 could directly control the body of the robot with light-touch arms, and they could even break off a patch from the robot to eat when they were hungry.
"You are very much like an intelligent AI system." As long as they don't destroy the planetary environment, Jiang Lishan rarely cares about these two mobile iron men running around on Urbury, but he can't allow No. 1 and No. 0 to eat up the body of the machine. Having direct sexual contact with the air of Ulbury, "If you eat your body again, I will throw you into the snow when winter comes."
As soon as Number One and Number Zero heard it, they immediately became obedient. For them, the snowy winter is simply too scary.
However, after Jiang Lishan finished speaking, another person sat on the rooftop in a daze with a glass of wine, his eyes always fixedly looking in one direction.
After a long time like this, until No. 1 and No. 0 have digested the information of the Milky Way, there are still only three intelligent creatures on this planet, and Jiang Lishan not only travels every year, but also sends some strange things to Yule. Bury is on the belt, and what he does every day is to stare at the same place in a daze.
Seeing that Jiang Lishan always wears protective clothing and does not make any contact with this planet, he couldn't help but ask him: "Isn't this your planet?"
"This is the planet of me and my lover." Jiang Lishan told it.
"What about your lover?" Number One asked again, it had never seen anyone else on this planet.
"He's not on this planet." Jiang Lishan pointed to the place he had been annotating and said, "He's over there, and I may never see him again."
"Why?" Number Zero also came over, "Because he died?"
No. 1 regretted that he didn't install more systems to improve EQ for No. 0. Because of No. 0's words, Jiang Lishan threw them into the snow for three days.
After being brought back, both number one and number zero felt that they were frozen stupid, while number one, who was installed with a new system by number one, cried and said, "The snow is so cold, I don't dare to do it again."
"He's not dead." However, after Jiang Lishan heard its cries, he spoke hoarsely, not knowing whether he was telling the truth or lying to himself, "He just lied to me... I've been waiting for him return… "
After speaking, Jiang Lishan drank a lot of wine for himself. On that cold winter night, Jiang Lishan talked to them a lot, and even showed them a picture of his lover.
"He is very beautiful. Although his life is short and he ages quickly, I think even if he is old, I will still love him the same..."
Number One and Number Zero have lived on Ulbury for nearly a hundred years, and this is the first time they know about Jiang Lishan's past, and it is also the first time they see him smile.
This planet obviously belongs to him, but he locked himself in a cage called "protective clothing", just like he was a huge dead virus, carefully avoiding this planet.
Under the sparse starlight on a winter night, No. 1 saw Jiang Lishan laughing while talking about his lover, and the hot breath he exhaled made a white mist on the transparent helmet, but in the blur, No. 1 clearly Saw the twinkle in the corner of his eye.
That's something they'll never produce, and a carbon-based creature called a human has a name for it: tears.
They sat on the highest hill in Urbury, looking up at the endless night together, with the soft sound of snowflakes falling in their ears.
There are very few stars that can be seen in Ulbury in winter, not to mention that what Jiang Lishan sees is an asteroid that does not shine. Even if he looks here for thousands of years, the planet where his lover lives will not have The light reached Ulbury, and his thoughts probably couldn't pass through the vast universe and reach that person's heart.
After all, in this world, the most difficult thing to cross is not time, but the distance between life and death.
The person Jiang Lishan loves got rid of the shackles of time and stayed hundreds of years ago, but Jiang Lishan himself can only move forward with the torrent of time, getting closer and closer to the time he is most attached to and the person he loves deeply. Farther and farther away—never to be together again.
After that night, Jiang Lishan became much quieter again, and it was even more difficult for No. 1 to see his emotions from his gray eyes. Even if he could, neither it nor No. 0 could feel his emotions. How sad and hopeless.
However, No. 0 started to invade the database of the Milky Way. Jiang Lishan didn't tell them too many secrets, but No. 0 wanted to find out more information about his lover from the photo of Jiang Lishan and his lover.
After checking the zero number, I found some things.
"There is a perpetual frozen prison under the Earth's Arctic Ocean. I heard that the prisoners in it have been released recently and started a new life on other planets. However, Zero found a human who insisted on staying on Earth who looks exactly like your lover. With that said, No. 1 handed that person's photo to Jiang Lishan, "Tell me, could he be the reincarnation of your lover?"
Number One and Number Zero accidentally learned more about Earth culture, and they are very interested in a culture called "Feudal Superstition".
But when Jiang Lishan saw the person's face clearly, the next moment he almost snatched away the light panel from No. 1's hand, and stroked the person's face with trembling fingers: "Jinzhi... this is not his reincarnation, this is That's him! He's not dead!"
Knowing that his lover came back from the dead, Jiang Lishan immediately got on the sailing ship and ran to the earth.
But what's worse is that his lover doesn't remember him anymore, and what's worse is that his lover won't live long.
Jiang Lishan quietly accompanied his lover to Naxi Port, paid for most of the treatment expenses for him, and planted many flowers outside his ward, but all this could not slow down the death of that person.
"Is there no way to save him?" No. 1 looked at Jiang Lishan through the transparent window, looking at his lover who was being rescued.
Number One told him, "Come on, Number Zero and I will finish the remodeling process in no time."
Jiang Lishan said: "I want to enter the fictional world and accompany him together."
Not thinking, but wanting, such precise and firm words completely revealed his stubbornness.
"Are you sure?" No. 1 was stunned, "You might die."
"Then I also died for him." The man remained unmoved, and placed a soft kiss on his lover's forehead through the transparent helmet, "Even if it is death, I am willing to follow in his footsteps."
No. 1 couldn't help but feel that the love of carbon-based creatures is really touching, but it's a pity that it and No. 0 are destined to be unable to understand this kind of emotion.
Even if it and Zero received their home planet accidentally affected by the interstellar war and destroyed, they can't feel too much pain and sadness, at most they just feel a little blank.
It asked Number Zero: "Are you sad that the mother star is gone?"
"Am I sad?" Zero asked him back, his voice flat.
Looking at his face full of tears, No. 1 asked again: "I'm not sad, why are you crying?"
No. 0 would usually cry and pretend to be pitiful in front of Jiang Lishan's lover, but when it really cried, it didn't make any sound, it just shed tears quietly.
Zero said: "This is the new program you installed for me. When I feel pain, sadness, grievance or special happiness, I will cry. But there are so many reasons that cause me to cry. Why am I crying now? Well, I don’t know, is this just sadness?”
Number one squatted down and wiped away tears for number zero: "I don't know, then do you want to go to the home planet to see?"
"Are you coming with me?" Zero asked it.
"I have to stay and watch Su Jinzhi to make sure there are no sequelae of the treatment." No. 1 handed the key to the starship to No. 0, "Go, go and see what is left on the mother star, and bring those things back to Yule Bury."
"Okay." No. 0 took the key and left Urbury quickly. When Su Jinzhi and Jiang Lishan asked, No. 1 only said that it went to the home planet, and didn't say anything else.
But in fact, No. 0 did not return to the parent star, because its parent star no longer exists, and the once beautiful and beautiful planet has disappeared. No. 0 only found a few broken remnants of the planet.
It fished those remnants to the starship, and soon discovered that these remnants were the solidification of the Rusty River.
The Rusty River is a river on its parent planet. Unlike other rivers, it is a river of iron slurry. What flows inside is not water, but a river of molten iron-red slurry.
It's just that the parent star was destroyed, and the rust river exposed to the low-temperature universe quickly condensed into iron lumps, and several pieces of silica were still seen on the surface of the remnant rocks.
That was its companions who were frozen to death.
No. Zero stood in front of Remnant Stone for a long time. It really wanted to talk to someone, but No. 1 was not there. It was the only one on this starship. At that moment, No. 0 seemed to understand that Jiang Lishan was always alone in the universe. The feeling of wandering.
It was silent for a long time, and finally found a tool to separate the corpse of its companion from the frozen rust river. At the end of the separation, Zero shed tears again—because he found two purple crystals that were still glowing.
They all sank in the depths of the Rusty River, probably because of this, they were the last to be frozen, so they haven't died, but one of them is not in good condition, half of its body has been silicified, in other words Come on - it's dying.
No. 1 hurriedly found a high-temperature box to put the two of them in, and there was a soft cushion underneath for fear that they would be uncomfortable.
The two purple crystals came back to life quickly, their light contacts touched each other, and their voices communicated indistinctly: "Aren't we dead yet?"
"No." Zero hurried over, reaching out to touch them, "I saved you."
The semi-silicified crystal wailed twice again: "Ah... my legs are gone, I feel like I'm going to die..."
"No, no." Zero immediately comforted it, "When we get to Ulbury, we can let Brother One heal you, you won't die."
Zero has been chatting with them all the time. It named the semi-silicified crystal No. 2, and the other crystal in better condition was named No. 3.
It told them many things, from Earth to Ulbury.
"Is that planet really that beautiful?" No. 2 asked No. 0 weakly, its body is still gradually silicified.
"Yes." Zero answered it, "You can wait a little longer, and you will be there soon."
It's just that No. 2 never made it to Ulbury, and its lavender transparent body finally completely turned into off-white opaque silica.
Zero hugged number three, washed number two and other silica and put them into a small bottle, number three touched zero's chin with the light, and trembled when it touched the cold liquid , hung a drop of transparent water and asked it: "It's so cold, is this water? Why are you running?"
The body structure of their silicon-based organisms cannot produce water, and this liquid is too cold for them.
"This is tears." Zero told it, "It is said that it is something that humans shed when they are sad."
"Sad?" Number Three's voice was soft and blank, "But you are not a human being, so how could you be sad?"
"Yeah, I'm not a human, how can I be sad?" Zero murmured, it put number three into a thermos bottle, and fed it some iron oxide, "but my body is modeled after a human. Manufactured and installed a lot of new systems, which is probably why I'm sad."
"You said you were going to make me a new host body." Number Three touched Number Zero with the light.
"Um."
"Does the new host experience tears like you do?"
Zero told it: "It should be. The living environment of the Milky Way is not very friendly to us. You can't live without the Shinjuku body."
"What about the mother planet? Are we not going back in the future?" Number Three asked again.
"I can't go back." Zero hugged the bottle containing number three and rubbed his face against the body of the bottle, "but we still have each other, and brother number one in Urbury, who is waiting for us to go there. Our new home."
"Then let's name the parent planet now." Number Three said.
Number zero and number one originally had no names. This is the name given to them by Jiang Lishan. The planet they are on also has no name. Every silicon-based star on the planet also has no name, because in their original thinking, The noun "name" does not exist.
Zero also felt worried when I heard it, it doesn’t know how to name it, so what should I call it Mother Planet
"Do you have any good suggestions?" It asked number three, and by the way passed a lot of information about the Milky Way to it through light contact.
Three paused for a few seconds, then said, "Call it Opal, I think it's beautiful."
Number Zero was taken aback, then smiled and said, "Okay."
In the message it passed to Number Three, there was a picture of an opal stone.
Opal is a beautiful gem from the ancient earth, which means "the beauty of gemstones".
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The author has something to say: Today is Halloween. After thinking about it, let’s add another episode. From the perspective of No. 1 and No. 0, I will also mention the origin of No. 2 and No. 3. I may write about silicon in the future. The story of the base star is written with No. 3 as the protagonist, a silicon-based creature who does not understand emotions and a carbon-based creature with rich emotions, hehehe.