When the binary digits of n were expanded to the 2.2 trillionth place after the decimal point, the vast stream of data finally began to reveal something as the decoder read it.
Just as Lu Zhou had suspected, the civilization that had sent these mathematical formulas to Earth had been observing Earth Civilization for quite some time and already understood how information was exchanged on Earth.
Even more astonishingly, all this immense information had been compressed into an irrational number that occupied less than a single byte.
Though amazed by how they had sent this irrational number to Earth, Lu Zhou was even more eager to know how they had managed to release so much information from a single number...
In the underground laboratory of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.
Lying flat on a bed, Lu Zhou put on the latest holographic helmet.
Though deeply concerned about the safety of this data, Xiao Ai obeyed Lu Zhou's instructions and started the program.
Soon, a space filled with white light descended.
A world indistinguishable from System Space appeared before Lu Zhou.
Unlike System Space, however, what stood within it was not the familiar holographic panel, but a man... apparently modeled after Lu Zhou himself.
Still, although this was a "copy" based on him, a closer look revealed that both the facial features and various details had been adjusted to some degree.
It was said that humans more readily felt affection toward individuals who resembled them, but instinctively rejected people who looked exactly like them without being their twins.
Lu Zhou did not know whether that was why the man had chosen this form to meet him. He was no psychologist, much less capable of analyzing the mind of this envoy who seemingly came from an advanced civilization.
All he could