amaotonovel Chapter 256: Returning to the Flagship
Chapter 256: Returning to the Flagship
Zhou Yuan woke Chu Xiaolu up. Chu Xiaolu came out of the tent and was captivated by the scene before her. A half-red sun rose from the sea of clouds in the east, and next to the sun was a bright planet, which was the horizon in the east. In the west, a deep blue planet hung in the sky above the horizon.
"Baby, let's hurry up and pack our things so we can go down the mountain." Zhou Yuan was used to calling Chu Xiaolu "baby" and didn't want to change it to "Xiaolu" or anything like that, since it's not easy to give yourself away when you're used to it.
"Okay." Chu Xiaolu walked over to Zhou Yuan, and the two embraced and kissed for three or four minutes. Chu Xiaolu wished someone could take a picture, capturing their sweetness and the beautiful sunrise in one shot.
"Honey, your eyes are red, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing, they just transmitted radio waves twice more, once in the middle of the night and once in the morning."
Chu Xiaolu touched Zhou Yuan's face. "Let's take turns from now on."
"No need, you're not familiar with that hybrid variable code."
Zhou Yuan and Chu Xiaolu began packing up the radio equipment, putting some into boxes and others into bags, and finally packing up the tent. They then carried their belongings down the mountain, arriving at the RV around 6:30 PM.
Even at 6:30, there were no people or vehicles on the road; this place is a remote mountainous area.
Chu Xiaolu started the car and drove towards the lake. When she arrived at the parking spot where she had parked yesterday afternoon, Chu Xiaolu parked in the same spot and started making breakfast in the car, while Zhou Yuan lay on the bed and dozed off for a while.
To let Zhou Yuan sleep a little longer, Chu Xiaolu didn't wake him up for breakfast until 8:30. After nearly two hours of nap, Zhou Yuan was full of energy again.
After a quick wash, the two sat down at the table to eat. "Honey, I didn't expect your cooking skills to improve so much. It's delicious."
"I guess you're hungry," Chu Xiaolu smiled. "Honey, I felt like there were mosquitoes in the tent last night. Did you hear them?"
"Huh?!" Zhou Yuan was stunned for a moment. "How come I didn't hear that?"
"You must be exhausted. You're sleeping soundly."
"A buzzing sound?"
"Yes, but it doesn't sound like a mosquito. Besides, there shouldn't be any mosquitoes on the mountaintop, right?"
"Like the sound of a bee, isn't it?"
Chu Xiaolu thought about it carefully, "It seems so."
Zhou Yuan thought to himself, this matter must be clarified. Could it be some kind of mini tracking bug from the Western Lands? But it appeared at Uncle Pan's house in the Eastern Lands, so it shouldn't be something from the Western Lands.
"Honey, we need to figure this out tonight."
After breakfast, around 9:15, the RV set off at 9:30, heading towards the city. We encountered many vehicles on the road, all heading towards the lake.
Zhou Yuan and Chu Xiaolu arrived at the west gate of the residential area, emptied the RV, and moved everything into their home. Chu Xiaolu then drove the RV to the rental company, returned it, inspected it, paid, and got a refund. Afterward, Zhou Yuan and Chu Xiaolu had lunch nearby, and then took a taxi to the eWorld electronics mall to inquire about stealth detection equipment. Considering that if it were a small, insect-like tracker, the infrared detection sensitivity would have to be extremely high, and if radar were used, it would be too large and conspicuous to place in their home, after much deliberation, Zhou Yuan spent a considerable sum to purchase a dual-laser-beam ultra-long-range vertical detector. This vertical detector is somewhat like a home theater stereo speaker; one laser beam can detect objects at a very long distance, and the other laser beam can be selected for its special function—laser shooting.
Zhou Yuan and Chu Xiaolu also purchased signal jammers, two sets of laser radiation protection suits, and several large aluminum alloy plates.
At 8:30 p.m., Zhou Yuan turned on the living room light but not the master bedroom light, and the two began to carefully arrange and move around in the master bedroom.
Zhou Yuan and Chu Xiaolu used handheld detection devices, activated laser mode, and found three pinhole cameras in the master bedroom. Chu Xiaolu covered the pinhole camera in the gap of the wardrobe with a sticker. Zhou Yuan turned the lampshade to a different angle to cover the pinhole camera in the bedside lamp. Chu Xiaolu used the set-top box to cover the wireless camera in the wall-mounted TV in the master bedroom.
Zhou Yuan and Chu Xiaolu turned on their handheld detection devices to frequency sweep mode, extended the antennas, and adjusted the power. Soon, their handheld detection devices began to vibrate and the LED lights flashed. The two moved their handheld detection devices back and forth, left and right, up and down, and determined the location of the bugs. There were actually six bugs: one on the side panel of the bedside table drawer, one at the junction of the headboard and the bed board, and the other four on the clothes inside the wardrobe.
Zhou Yuan and Chu Xiaolu placed the dual-laser beam ultra-long-range vertical detector at the foot of the bed, and several large aluminum alloy plates at the head of the bed, using the headboard to clamp the aluminum alloy plates and press them against the wall next to the head of the bed.
After everything was ready, the two took a shower, changed clothes, and did laundry. At 9:30, Zhou Yuan turned on the signal jammer. The two went to bed and made love passionately for more than forty minutes.
Zhou Yuan turned the air conditioner in the master bedroom to the lowest temperature. A dozen minutes later, the two put on laser radiation protection suits. They pretended to be asleep. Zhou Yuan snored softly, while Chu Xiaolu made even breathing sounds. Perhaps due to exhaustion, they couldn't hold on any longer after about an hour and a half and actually fell asleep.
In his hazy state, that familiar buzzing sound started again. Suddenly, a hissing sound came from the headboard. Zhou Yuan woke up with a start, fumbling for the light switch with his right hand. A laser beam was shooting towards the headboard! Above Zhou Yuan's eyes, the laser beam seemed to be blocked by something, emitting a bubbly halo. The halo began to bubble upwards. Zhou Yuan quickly grabbed the remote control from the bedside table and turned off the dual-laser beam ultra-long-range vertical detector.
Chu Xiaolu woke up with a start and stared blankly at the halo, which was indeed in the shape of a little bee!
"Oh my god!" A human voice rang out. Zhou Yuan looked at Chu Xiaolu, and Chu Xiaolu looked at Zhou Yuan, both terrified.
The halo around the little bee gradually disappeared, leaving only its bee form.
Zhou Yuan and Chu Xiaolu leaned against the headboard, staring blankly at the little bee. The little bee fluttered its wings, deliberately acting silly, circling in front of Zhou Yuan once, then circling in front of Chu Xiaolu once.
Zhou Yuan took the opportunity to check the alarm clock; it was already 1:20 a.m.
"Holy Lord, Madam, greetings."
Sure enough, it was that little bee speaking human language.
Zhou Yuan took a deep breath. "Hey, little bee, is that you speaking?"
"Yes, sage."
"A sage?" Zhou Yuan lowered his head in thought.
“My Lord, Madam, this is a long story. Let me take you somewhere.”
Zhou Yuan and Chu Xiaolu exchanged a glance.
"Where to go?"
"Go to your flagship."
"My flagship?"
"Yes, sage."
What should we do now?
"My Lord, Madam, you should take off those clothes. They're making me uneasy."
Zhou Yuan and Chu Xiaolu smiled and took off their protective suits.
"Okay, that's fine. It's okay to wear pajamas. Please get out of bed and stand together."
Zhou Yuan and Chu Xiaolu got out of bed and stood together hand in hand.
"Yes, that's it. Please close your eyes again."
Zhou Yuan and Chu Xiaolu were a little curious, but they didn't ask any questions and simply closed their eyes. When they opened their eyes, they felt a little dizzy, but the dizziness was quickly replaced by surprise. They were astonished to see three holographic light blue spherical laser screens (actually holographic screens) in front of them. The graphic on the middle spherical screen kept changing. Zhou Yuan knew that it was a series of hypercube structure graphics.
“Honey, look.” Following Chu Xiaolu’s directions, Zhou Yuan turned around and was stunned. They saw a huge fireball surrounded by planets of varying sizes. Zhou Yuan counted six, with the two closest large blue planets on the left and right sides looking just like Earth.
"Little bee, where is this place?"
"Sage, this is your flagship, the golden warship. We are now in the flagship command center."
"My flagship?"
"Yes."
"Little Bee, what's going on?" Zhou Yuan and Chu Xiaolu were still confused.
"Nana, you tell us," the little bee called out.
Suddenly, a beam of light and a human figure spun around the flagship's ground, then took shape, and a virtual holographic figure appeared.
"Holy Lord, Matriarch, greetings. I am Nana, the AI holographic representation." A soft, synthesized female voice rang out.
Zhou Yuan and Chu Xiaolu stared at Nana in surprise. Artificial intelligence? Is this the artificial intelligence that Pana was talking about?
"Nana, tell me, what exactly happened?"
"My Lord, Madam, please watch some holographic videos."
Nana activated the central spherical holographic screen, and the hypercube continuously changed. Zhou Yuan and Chu Xiaolu watched the translated text while Nana provided detailed explanations. After the playback ended, Nana's soft, slow voice began to narrate the story of the four-dimensional virtual universe and humanity, which lasted about an hour and a half.
"Are we now inside a six-dimensional black hole?"
"Yes."
"How long have we been inside the six-dimensional black hole?"
"According to the Earth's Star Calendar, it has been about 50,000 years."
Fifty thousand years? Zhou Yuan and Chu Xiaolu were stunned.
Why didn't you show up sooner?
"Sage, it is like this: the four-dimensional virtual machine, or the five-dimensional space intelligent race, created the humans and their consciousness in the three thousand worlds based on the consciousness of the five-dimensional space human race. Your consciousness has also undergone a mirror-symmetric transformation by the five-dimensional space human race."
"So what?"
"Sage, the mirror-symmetric conversion of consciousness is troublesome. My little bee and I experienced a blockage in our communication system with you, meaning we couldn't communicate with any of you previous humans. Later, we studied the consciousness of humans in various reincarnation stages and compared it with our stored database of human consciousness streams in the virtual universe. It took my little bee and me about 50,000 years to solve this problem of mirror-symmetric conversion of consciousness. Now we can finally communicate smoothly with the Sage, the Mistress, and all humans in this world."
Zhou Yuan calmed down, thought for a moment, and looked up at the circle of planets. "Which of the two largest planets in the field of vision, the one on the left or the one on the right, is Earth?"
“Sage, the one on the right is Earth, and the one on the left is the horizon you see to the west of the Western Land.”
"What's so special about this western horizon?" Chu Xiaolu had the same question, since the two planets were being shown in maximized mode.
"The planet on the left also has human civilization."
Zhou Yuan and Chu Xiaolu exchanged glances.
“Sage, it is like this, the Earth on the right is the planet where you, Mistress Chu Xiaolu, Mistress Panna, and Mistress Mei Ruolan are after their consciousness has been transformed.”
"Panna, Mei Ruolan?" Chu Xiaolu couldn't help but ask.
“Yes, Madam.” Zhou Yuan suddenly remembered taking care of Panna at Uncle Pan’s house that night; the little bee should have appeared then too. But Zhou Yuan never imagined that Mei Ruolan, who lived at the National Observatory of the Eastern Land, was also connected to his “past life.”
"Nana, I want to ask, was Ye Xiaomei among the people I loved in my past life?"
"Ye Xiaomei? Saint, I am quite certain that Ye Xiaomei was not among your loved ones in your past life. However, one of your clones may be related to Ye Xiaomei."
Zhou Yuan suddenly felt a headache.