Scholar's Advanced Technological System

Chapter 1518: The Missing Crew

Space station.

A small transport ship approached slowly and docked next to the port.

The gangway lowered, and several soldiers in officer uniforms walked down the gangway under the escort of the guards.

Li Gaoliang looked at the officers coming towards him. He then handed over the work to his subordinates and stepped forward to salute.

In response to the military salute, Yang Wu, chief consultant of the Pan-Asia First Fleet, looked around and asked, “What is the situation here?”

“I made people search inside and out, but we still didn’t find any traces of pirate activity,” said Li Gaoliang. A strange expression appeared on Li Gaoliang’s face as he said, “But strangely, I’m sure that someone stayed here before. We found many leftover personal belongings in the dormitory section of the space station.”

Yang Wu frowned.

“Personal belongings?”

Li Gaoliang nodded his head and said, “Yes... Although I’m not sure if it was the space pirates, there were indeed people living here.”

Yang Wu immediately spoke.

“Take me there and show me.”

Li Gaoliang nodded solemnly.

“Okay.”

...

The dormitory area was located next to the power room of the space station. It consisted of eight single rooms and sixty-four beds and was directly connected to the observation room by a long and narrow corridor.

This was an old-fashioned space station design.

Most of the current space stations no longer required a large number of permanent staff, so each staff member usually had their own room.

Yang Wu still remembered that, in the 2050s, before he participated in the reinforcement plan for the future, although the space station at that time was somewhat different in form, most of them were designed similar to this space station.

As for when this design was changed, he couldn’t remember clearly. After all, a lot of things happened during the years he was dormant.

As Yang Wu looked at the soldiers taking photos nearby, he asked, “Is there anything from here that can prove the identity of these people... or can prove where they went?”

Li Gaoliang shook his head and spoke.

“I haven’t found anything yet.”

“Sir!” A soldier armed with an exoskeleton stepped forward, showing his paper notebook excitedly. “Sir, I found this from dormitory 07!”

Li Gaoliang was a bit embarrassed.

He gave the soldier a fierce look.

“Why didn’t you tell me sooner?!”

After being reprimanded, the soldier looked dumbfounded. He didn’t know what to say for a while.

Yang Wu smiled and shook his head. Without making any comments, he reached out his right hand.

“Let me see.”

He took the notebook from the soldier’s hand and flipped through it.

To be precise, this was a diary, and it was written in special ink. The way of writing on paper made Yang Wu feel a little curious. After all, in this era, there were not many people who could write a diary completely by hand.

The date of the diary was not consistent. Sometimes it was not updated for a week or even a month. Judging from the date on the last page, the last day of this diary was twenty years ago, which was about 2095.

Of course, what really surprised Yang Wu was not the time of the diary, but the identity of the owner of the diary and his unfortunate experience.

The name of the owner of the diary was Dong Bin, and he was not a space pirate. His true identity was actually a miner.

50 years ago, in a pirate incident at a mining station in the asteroid belt, he was unfortunately captured as a resident employee of the mining station.

Originally, there was not much worry in his heart. After all, most pirates were only looking for money. As long as he didn’t do something that irritated them and that he could pay the ransom, he would be fine.

As a normal person, he obviously wouldn’t die for a company’s property, so he obediently followed the space pirates on the ship.

However, what he didn’t expect was that after the space pirates brought him to their base, they didn’t immediately ask him to record a video asking for a ransom, but instead, they put him in a dormant cabin.

When he woke up again, it was more than 30 years later, which was when the diary began.

[The people on the space station are very friendly, and most of them are also victims... Among us are engineers, doctors, soldiers, and a mathematics professor. Everyone seems to have a different profession. I learned that some of them came here because of a strange job, some were because they thought they had won a trip, and some people even completely forgot their memories before coming to the space station... I’m the only one who came here 30 years ago.

[No one knows why we are here... Although I feel that some of them may not be telling the whole truth, thinking about it now is of no use.

[Frankly speaking, we are trapped. Although the space station has sufficient living materials and key energy sources, we cannot get in touch with the outside world. The sixty-four people on the space station are like a small independent society. We are abandoned by the human society and even begin to doubt whether Earth still exists... However, when we started to try to accept the situation, someone secretly told me that there is a robot among us.

[Who is it? I was surprised, there is only one thing I can be sure of, and that is that this robot is definitely not me. I woke up from a dormant cabin, I have a complete family... Regardless of whether they still remember me or not.]

“... This sounds like a scary story?” Standing next to Yang Wu, Li Gaoliang touched his chin and said, “A robot disguised as a human... So what is the meaning of the existence of this space station?”

“Perhaps it was to conduct some evil experiment. This kind of thing is rare, but it’s not uncommon.” Turning the diary to the last few pages, a dignified look appeared on Yang Wu’s face. “Anyway, this Dong Bin may be a breakthrough... If you can find out about his identity, the next step should be much easier.”

Turning the diary to the last page, Yang Wu suddenly froze for a moment.

He didn’t notice before.

In a small corner of the footer, a few scribbled lines of formulas were written.

If he didn’t read it carefully, he would have thought that it was something that the owner randomly scribbled.

For some reason, the moment he saw these lines of formulas, Yang Wu suddenly had a hunch that he was getting closer and closer to the truth.

Li Gaoliang touched his chin with a hint of curiosity in his eyes.

“These formulas are...”

“I don’t know.” Yang Wu shook his head and said, “It’s kind of like a physics formula... Maybe it’s mathematics.”

Li Gaoliang frowned and said, “Why does it appear in such a place? In the diary of an ordinary miner.”

“Maybe the owner of the diary is a math enthusiast, or... at least he thinks he is.” After taking a few photos of the note, Yang Wujiang returned the notebook to the soldier, then looked at Li Gaoliang and said, “I will ask an expert about the meaning of these formulas.”

Li Gaoliang suddenly thought and said, “I happen to know an expert, do you need a recommendation?”

“Who is that?”

“Academician Lu!” Li Gaoliang said with a hearty smile, “From what I know, he is very enthusiastic and helpful!”

Helpful?

The person who turned the tide on flight N-117 suddenly appeared in his mind.

“I know who you are talking about, I will visit him in person if I have the opportunity.”

A layer of light blue text was suddenly printed on the screen of Yang Wu’s helmet.

The moment he saw this line of text, he was stunned.

Noting the change in expression on Yang Wu’s face, Li Gaoliang immediately asked, “What happened?”

“There is news from the commander tower.” A strange expression appeared in Yang Wu’s eyes as he continued, “A trace of electromagnetic wave transmission was found on Ceres.

“And judging from the frequency and shape of the waveform...

“It was man-made.”