The Trisolaran information did not contain any description of the biological form of the Trisolarans, and it would take more than four hundred years for humans to truly see the Trisolarans. When reading the information, Ye Wenjie could only imagine the Trisolarans as human beings.

Listening Station No. 1379 has existed for thousands of years. There are thousands of listening stations like this in the Trisolaran World. They are listening intently to information about intelligent civilizations that may exist in the universe.

Initially, there were hundreds of monitors in the listening station, but with the advancement of technology, there is now only one person on duty. Monitoring is a humble profession. Although they are in a monitoring room with constant temperature and guaranteed life supply, in the era of chaos,

There is no need for dehydration, but their lives just pass by in this small space, and they can enjoy much less happiness than other people.

Listener No. 1379 looked at the Trisolaran world outside through the small window. It was a dark night in the chaotic era. The giant moon had not yet risen. Most people were in dehydrated hibernation. Even plants were instinctively dehydrated.

They became bundles of lifeless dry fibers attached to the surface of the earth. Under the starlight, the earth looked like a large piece of cold metal.

This is the most lonely moment. In the quiet midnight, the universe shows its listeners the vast desolation. The last thing that monitor No. 1379 wants to see is the slowly moving curve on the monitor. That is the monitoring system

The waveform of the received cosmic radio wave was meaningless noise. He felt that this infinitely long line was the abstraction of the universe, with one end connected to the infinite past and the other end connected to the infinite future, with only irregular and lifeless random ups and downs in the middle.

, the crests of the waves are like grains of sand of varying sizes, and the entire line is like a one-dimensional desert formed by all the sand grains lined up, desolate, lonely, and unbearably long. You can walk along

It goes infinitely far forward and backward, but can never find its destination.

But today, when the monitor glanced at the waveform display, he found something strange. Even for professionals, it is difficult to tell whether the waveform carries information with the naked eye, but the monitor is too familiar with the waveform of cosmic noise.

The waveform seemed to have something indescribable. This undulating thin line seemed to have a soul. He was sure that the radio waves in front of him were intelligently modulated! He rushed to another host terminal and checked the computer.

Judging the recognition degree of the current received content, it was found that the recognition degree is red 10! Before this, the recognition degree of the cosmic radio waves received by the monitoring system has never exceeded blue 2. If it reaches red, the possibility of the band containing intelligent information is

Greater than 90%; if it is red 10, it means that the received information contains a self-decoding system! The interpretation computer is working at full power, it discovered the self-decoding system in the message and successfully used it

, it soon showed that the decoding was completed. The listener opened the result file, and the Trisolaran read the message from another world for the first time:

Best wishes to the world who receive this message.

Through the following information, you will have a basic understanding of earth civilization. After a long period of labor and creation, human beings have established a splendid civilization, emerged with rich and colorful cultures, and have a preliminary understanding of the laws of the operation and development of nature and human society. We

Cherish it all.

However, our world still has great flaws. Hatred, prejudice and war exist. Due to the contradiction between productivity and production relations, the distribution of wealth is seriously uneven, and a considerable number of human beings live in poverty and misery.

Human society is working hard to solve the various difficulties and problems it faces and to create a better future for earth civilization. The cause of the country that sent this message is part of this effort. We are committed to building an ideal society that enables

The labor and value of every human member are fully respected, so that the material and spiritual needs of all people are fully met, making the earth's civilization a more perfect civilization.

With good wishes, we look forward to establishing connections with other civilized societies in the universe, and looking forward to working with you to create a better life in the vast universe.

In the excitement that made him dizzy, the monitor looked at the waveform display. Information was still pouring into the antenna from space. Due to the existence of the self-decoding system, the computer could already achieve real-time decoding, and the received information was immediately

It was displayed. In the next two three-body time, the listener learned about the existence of the earth world, the world that has only one sun and is always in the constant era, and the human civilization that was born in the paradise where the weather is always good.

The information from the solar system ended, and the deciphering computer began to run without results. What the monitoring system heard was the desolate noise of the universe again, but the monitor could be sure that what just happened was not a dream. He also knew that there were many things scattered all over the world.

Thousands of listening stations at the site have also received the information that the Trisolaran civilization has been waiting for for hundreds of millions of years. Two hundred rounds of civilization crawled in the dark tunnel, and now they finally saw a ray of light ahead.

The listener once again read the message from the earth. His thoughts were flying among the earth's never-frozen blue ocean and emerald green forests and fields, feeling the caress of the warm sunshine and cool breeze. What a beautiful world it was.

Ah, the paradise imagined in more than two hundred rounds of civilization actually exists!

The excitement and excitement quickly cooled down, leaving only loss and desolation. During the long lonely time in the past, the listener asked himself more than once: Even if one day he really received a message from an alien civilization, what would he have to do with himself?

What does it matter? That paradise does not belong to me, and my lonely and humble life will not change at all.

But I can at least have it in my dreams... the listener thought, and let himself fall asleep. In the harsh environment, the Trisolarans evolved a sleep switch function that can put themselves to sleep immediately within a few seconds.

But he did not get the dream he wanted. The blue earth did appear in the dream, but under the fire of a huge interstellar fleet, the beautiful continents of the earth began to burn, and the blue ocean boiled and evaporated...

The monitor woke up from a nightmare and saw the huge moon that had just risen casting a beam of cold light into the small window. He looked at the cold earth outside the window and began to review his lonely life. Now, he has lived 600,000 years

During Trisomy, the lifespan of a Trisomic person is generally between 700,000 and 800,000 Trisomy hours. In fact, most people lose their ability to work long before this. At this time, they will be forced to dehydrate. After dehydration, the dry fiber

The body is burned to the ground, and the Trisolaran society cannot support idle people.

Now, the listener suddenly thought of another possibility: It is inaccurate to say that receiving alien information has no impact on him. After the target is determined, Trisolaris will inevitably cut down some listening stations, and the backwardness where he is located

The site must be among the first batch of layoffs, and he will face unemployment at that time. The listener's skills are very simple, just some stylized operations and maintenance, and it is difficult to find other jobs. If after five thousand three-body

If he cannot find a job, he will also face the fate of being forced to dehydrate and then burned.

The only way to escape this fate is to combine with a person of the opposite sex. At this time, the organic substances that make up their bodies will be integrated, and two-thirds of the substances will become the energy source for biochemical reactions, making the remaining one-third

The cells complete a complete renewal and generate a brand new body; then this body will divide and split into three to five new young lives. These are their children. They will inherit part of their parents' memories and become the continuation of their lives.

Start a new life again. But with the humble social status of a monitor, the lonely and closed working environment, and at this age, who of the opposite sex can look up to me?

In the past few years when he was approaching old age, the monitor asked himself thousands of times: Is this my life? He answered thousands of times: Yes, this is your life. All he has in this life is the listening room.

Endless loneliness in this small space.

He couldn't lose that distant paradise, even in a dream.

Listeners know that on a cosmic scale, for low-frequency radio waves from space, because there is no long enough measurement baseline, they can only determine the direction of the emission source, but cannot know its distance; in that direction, it may be a high-power signal from a long distance.

The emission source may also be a low-power emission source at a close distance; there are hundreds of millions of stars in that direction, and each one is set against the background of a sea of ​​stars composed of stars from different distances. Without knowing the distance of the emission source, it is impossible to determine the position.

coordinate.

Distance, the key is distance!

In fact, the method to determine the distance of the emission source is very simple: reply a message to the other party. If the other party answers within a short time after receiving the reply, the distance can be known from the interval time and the speed of light. The question is: Will the other party answer? Or

Answering after a long delay makes it impossible for the Trisolarans to determine how much time the radio signal spends on the road. But since this emission source actively sends a call to the universe, it is very likely that they will receive the information from the Trisolaran world.

Will answer. The listener can be sure that the Trisolaran Government has now issued an order to send a message to that distant world to lure them to answer. The message may have been sent, maybe it has not. If it is the latter, then he has a way to use it.

A chance to burn this humble life of my own.

Like the Red Coast Base on Earth, most of the listening stations in the Trisolaran world are also transmitting messages into space at the same time, calling for possible alien civilizations. Trisolaran scientists have long discovered the amplification function of stars for radio waves. Unfortunately,

The three suns in Centauri are very different from the human sun in structure. There is a large peripheral plasma gas layer (it is this gas layer that causes the sun in the Trisolaran world to suddenly turn into a flying star at a certain distance.

Or manifested by flying stars), this kind of gas layer has a strong shielding effect on electromagnetic waves, so that the power of radio waves reaching the solar energy mirror has a huge threshold, so it is impossible to use the sun as an antenna to transmit information, and only ground antennas can be used

Launch directly at the target. Otherwise, humans would have already known about the existence of Trisolaran civilization.

The monitor rushed to the operation screen, edited a brief message on the computer, and instructed the computer to translate it into the same language as the received earth information. Then, he pointed the transmitting antenna of the listening station in the direction of the source of the earth information, and transmitted

The button is in the shape of a red rectangle, and at this time, the listener's finger is hovering above it.

The fate of the Trisolaran civilization depends on these two slender fingers.

Without hesitation, the monitor pressed the transmit button, and the high-power radio wave flew into the dark space with that brief but potentially saving message for another civilization:

The world received your message.

I am a pacifist in this world, and it is your civilization's good fortune that I first received the message, warning you: Do not answer! Do not answer!! Do not answer!!!

There are tens of millions of stars in your direction. As long as there is no answer, the world will not be able to locate the source of the emission.

If you answer, the source of the emission will be located, your civilization will be invaded, and your world will be occupied!

Don't answer! Don't answer!! Don't answer!!!

We don’t know what the official residence of the head of the Trisolaran world looks like, but we can be sure that there are thick walls between it and the outside world to adapt to the harsh climate of this world. The pyramid in the "Three Body" game is a guess, and another

One possibility is that it is built underground.

Five Trisolar hours ago, the head of state received a report of receiving information from an alien civilization. Two Trisolarian hours ago, he received another report: Listening Station No. 1379 sent a warning message in the direction of the source of the information.

The former did not make him ecstatic, the latter did not make him depressed, and he had no resentment towards the listener who sent the warning message. The above emotions, as well as all other emotions, such as fear, sadness, happiness, beauty, etc.

etc., which Trisolaran civilization strives to avoid and eliminate, because they will cause individuals and society to become mentally fragile, which is not conducive to survival in the harsh environment of this world. The spirit needed in the Trisolaran world is calmness and numbness.

, it can be proved from the history of more than two hundred civilizations in the past that those civilizations with these two spirits as the main body are the ones with the strongest ability to survive.

"Why did you do that?" the head of state asked monitor No. 1379 standing in front of him.

"In order not to waste my life." The monitor replied calmly.

"The warning message you sent may very well cost the Trisolaran civilization a chance to survive."

"But Earth civilization has been given such an opportunity. Head of State, please allow me to tell you this: In the chaotic era about 10,000 Trisolaris time ago, the roving supply truck of the listening station missed station 1379 where I was.

, which meant that I ran out of food for the next hundred Trisolarans. I ate everything edible in the station, even my own clothes. Even so, when the supply truck arrived again, I was still close to death.

I starved to death. Therefore, my superiors gave me the longest vacation in my life. On my way back to the city with the supply truck, I was always controlled by a strong desire, that is, to possess all the food on the truck. Every time I saw

When other people in the car were eating, my heart was filled with hatred and I really wanted to kill that person! I kept stealing food from the car and hiding it in my clothes and under the seats. The staff on the car felt that I

It was very interesting to give me food as a gift. When I got off the bus in the city, I was carrying food far exceeding my own weight..."

"Of course, I later recovered from this psychopathy, but that strong desire to possess left a deep impression on me. The Trisolaran civilization is also a group in the midst of an existential crisis. Its desire to possess living space is inextricably linked to

My desire for food at that time was as strong and endless as it was impossible to share that world with the people on earth. I could only destroy the earth's civilization without hesitation and completely occupy the living space of that planetary system... Am I right?

"

"Yes, there is another reason to eliminate the earth's civilization: they are also a warlike race and are very dangerous. When we coexist with them in the same world, they will learn technology very quickly. If this continues, neither civilization will survive.

Okay. The policy we have determined is: after the Trisolaran fleet occupies the solar system and the earth, it will not interfere too much with the earth's civilization. People on the earth can completely live as before, as if the Trisolaran occupiers did not exist. There is only one thing

One thing is forever forbidden: procreation. Now I ask: Do you want to be the savior of the earth but have no sense of responsibility for your own civilization?"

"I am tired of Trisolaris. There is nothing left in our lives and our spirits except the fight for survival."

"What's wrong with that?"

"Of course there is nothing wrong. Survival is the prerequisite for everything else, but, head of state, please look at our life: everything is for the survival of civilization. For the survival of the entire civilization, respect for individuals is almost non-existent. If individuals cannot work, they must
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