I became a god by treasure hunting after arriving 500 years early

Chapter 69: Chapter 66 Human, have you really contacted me?

Though it was early spring, the season of birdsong and fragrant flowers, it felt as if it had reverted to the cold of late winter.

This may be what they call a 'spring chill,' thought Lu Yuan, shivering all over. All he wanted was to hurry home and warm himself by the fire.

He noticed something was off about himself and let out a wry smile, "Comfort and laziness truly are the enemies of civilization. My humans, the strongest civilization, the 18th civilization, have degenerated from terrifying upright apes who solo hunted Fire Lizards to dogs that tremble at the sight of monsters within less than a year."

"Everyone mocks the Meida Civilization, yet everyone is the Meida Civilization."

Lu Yuan felt fear, yet also an inexplicable excitement, as his heart beat powerfully.

A mere glance from that monster had frightened him.

That sent his adrenaline surging frantically.

For some strange reason, Lu Yuan started to chuckle softly, not even sure why he was laughing, unable to describe his state of mind.

Old Wolf, following behind, sniffed the air and sensed an inexplicable change in his master.

This state of mind resembled that of his master when he used to hunt Fire Lizards, instilling an indefinable fear in him.

Old Wolf shook the fur on his body and nibbled on the spring turf, after all, it was carefree.

As Lu Yuan laughed, he fiddled with the Superior dagger in his hand, with pebbles crunching under his feet,

And just like that, while deep in thought, he finally arrived at the refuge.

He piled the firewood he'd picked up on his way into the storage room.

Even though there had been some risks, he still subconsciously collected a good amount of trash.

There was no helping it; it was a habit, and coming home empty-handed wasn't his style.

"Buzz—" Just as he turned to leave, the great metal ball suddenly vibrated!!

"Eh, acting up again?"

Actually, after all this time, Lu Yuan's interest in the big metal ball had slowly waned, and he used it only as a clock.

He still needed to know what time it was, though.

He was just about to shut it off when the metal ball emitted a very strange alarm sound:"déng~!~!"

Lu Yuan paused for a moment.

That sound was very strange...

It was really strange!

It resembled the jumping sound of the little character in the Super Mario game.

Because this sound was so peculiar, Lu Yuan's hand, which had been halfway to turning the device off, suddenly froze in place.

He furrowed his brows and waited a long time.

The hope that had long since dissipated was slowly resurfacing in his mind.

"What's going on?"

After roughly fifteen minutes, the metal ball emitted a "ding-ling" sound again.

It was somewhat crisp, somewhat like a telephone ring, but not quite standard.

He waited a long time again, looking at the metal ball from all angles.

Maybe half an hour.

The metal ball made a "ding" sound, much like the sound of collecting a Gold Coin in the Super Mario game!

If once could be a coincidence, and twice might also be coincidence, but thrice, that's a pattern.

Lu Yuan's pupils dilated as he thought of a possibility, his body beginning to heat up: "What's going on?"

"Have the humans really made contact with me?"

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"He finally understands what we are trying to express!"

"He hasn't shut it off!"

Seeing that Lu Yuan had not turned off the giant iron ball, everyone in the research institute let out cries of pleasant surprise!

The essence of sound is actually waves.

And the alarm's vibration channel can only emit a limited number of waveforms, specifically triangular waves and square waves, meaning that the sounds that can be imitated are also limited.

The frequency of the vibration is limited as well, capable of transmitting only 1 to 2 syllables, so attempting to transmit something like music is pretty much out of the question.

It took scientists hundreds, even thousands of attempts to produce the sound of a "Super Mario" jump using these two types of sound waves.

After all, that sound is too iconic; with a "déng~~," a little lift of the behind, and the character starts to jump on the TV screen.

It's full of imagery!

It's something every young person in the 21st century has heard.

Moreover, that sound is unquestionably man-made, a synthetic sound almost non-existent in nature.

Furthermore, staff in Yunhai City even specifically investigated and confirmed that Lu Yuan's home had a game console with Mario games, guaranteeing that Lu Yuan had heard it before!

And the message conveyed by this sound was: it's a human-made signal, so please do not turn off the machine!

Using a single sound to convey so much information, plus the alien civilization's hardware being different from humans, truly required a lot of effort to produce this sound.

Subsequently, they transmitted the sound of a phone ringing and collecting Gold Coins, to reinforce the message that "this is a signal from humans."

In this way, they could let Lu Yuan know that he had made contact with humans.

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"Why are they making those sounds? Are they really trying to contact me?"

Lu Yuan, skeptical and wary, fiddled with the metal ball.

His heart was ablaze with passion, but now he started to feel anxious; he had faced so many hardships that lowering expectations wasn't a bad thing—setting them too high could easily lead to disappointment.

Just then, Lu Yuan had a sudden epiphany, recalling a document he had read before: "Eight years ago, meteorites fell from the sky, starting the Supernatural era in the Pangu Continent..."

On Earth, there were similar news reports, but Earth's Supernatural era began 10 years ago, when the meteorites fell, giving rise to numerous Superpower users like bamboo shoots after a rain.

Lu Yuan initially didn't think much of it, considering the "meteorite fall" as an inevitable phenomenon before the opening of the Pangu Continent.

But now, in a flash, all these clues interconnected in his mind.

What meteorite fall?!

Actually, what fell were these giant metal balls!

The governments simply concealed the information and conducted secret research... After all, the existence of aliens wasn't something any country would announce broadly, right?

Even if there were some theories online, they were dismissed as rumors.

No one believed them.

So, humans did have these metal spheres, and humans were truly trying to communicate with me!!

"That makes sense."

Grasping this possibility, Lu Yuan leaped up from the ground, his heart pounding wildly.

Every hair on his body stood on end as he stood in front of a crystal screen, shouting, "Humans, can you see this?"

"Quickly connect to human civilization, the code is… what's the code again… 7812HSKKJ-1 to 7812HSKKJ-17!!"

"If you can hear this, please make that Gold Coin sound again!"

Deep breaths, deep breaths.

The waiting time was agonizing; time on the human side passed slowly, and I had to wait.

The emotional rollercoaster made it easier for one to become restless.

Lu Yuan felt that his current mood was like the second before the college entrance exam results came out, always hoping for a spectacular performance, but the actual results... well, Ah-Lu's results were not ideal.

"I can accept it even if I can't make contact."

"Please let there be no contact, it was just garbage that could only tell the time! Its other functions have completely failed, it must be misleading me."

A Yuan kept feeding himself this crippling doubt.