“The solar system, along with many other minor star systems, was listed by us as potentially harboring life. The little girl was very interested in the solar system; the eight planets and the asteroid belt, which looked like a silver chain, seemed incredibly beautiful to her. So, whenever she had time, she studied the solar system, naming the planets from 1 to 8. At some point, she began to feel that the trajectories of these planets were mysterious. She drew the star charts into various patterns, immersing herself in them. The first pattern she discovered represented addition, but this didn’t mean much; it was just part of the endless imagination of the little girl. Perhaps for fun, she started exploring along this line of thought, looking for a pattern that could make subtraction work. After some time, she found it, and she could hardly believe it herself. Soon, multiplication and division also worked. She made her discovery public, and after verification by the Supreme Academy of Science, the entire civilization of Weimu Star was turned upside down.”
“Overturned?” I asked, puzzled. Zhang Ming gave a bitter smile and nodded. “Yes, overturned. The Supreme Academy of Science, after verifying the little girl’s findings, immediately fell into chaos. Famous scientists and research institutions kept proposing various theories, only to be refuted by facts time and again. This couldn’t be a natural phenomenon, and to attribute it to technological prowess was even harder to believe. Not just then, even now, we can’t believe that any civilization could develop technology to such an extent as to create star systems. That’s not something mortals could achieve. Moreover, no technological civilization would mark out addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in the cosmos in such a way. Lifeforms following a biological civilization path would find it even more impossible. Therefore, the concept of ‘god,’ which hadn’t been mentioned since Weimu Star left its primitive era, became popular again. People’s faith in science collapsed, they started doubting their own existence, and various sects emerged. This miracle of the distant solar system, we call it the ‘God’s Code.'”
