My name is Chang Weisi.
Let's get started.
Name?
Ye Wenjie.
Birth date?
June 1947.
Employment?
(Professor of Astrophysics at Tsinghua University.)
(Retired in 2004.)
(Professor Ye,)
given your health condition,
you can request a break at any time.
Thank you.
There's no need.
(First, we need to conduct a regular criminal investigation)
(and won't get into more sensitive matters.)
(That's not the major part of this investigation.)
(We would like to finish quickly.)
(We hope you'll cooperate.)
know what you're referring to.
Yes, I'll cooperate.
Our investigation revealed
that while you were working at Red Coast Base,
you were suspected of murder.
did kill two people.
had been eight years since I sent a signal to the earth.)
(On October 21, 1979,)
(Do not answer) (OS: I received a message from Trisolaris.)
"Do not
answer".
(On the day when received the message and replied,)
(Lei Zhicheng called me to his office.)
(I learned that at that time,)
(I wasn't the only one)
(to get the message from Trisolaran Civilization.)
(Lei got it as well.)
(Unbeknownst to everyone, he had been running a secret program)
(on the main computer for a long time.)
(He had a copy of everything)
(Red Coast sent and received.)
(It was from this copy)
(Do not answer) (OS: that he discovered)
(the extraterrestrial message that Red Coast received.)
Ye Wenjie, I really didn't think you would do such a thing.
Eight hours have passed
since you received the first message.
Instead of making a report,
you deleted the original message and maybe hid a copy privately.
Isn't that right?
- know your next move.
You plan to reply, right?
If I hadn't discovered this in time,
could have ruined you all human civilization!
Of course,
I'm not saying that we're afraid of an interstellar invasion.
Even if we assumed the worst and that really did happen,
the outer space invaders
would surely drown in the ocean of the people's righteous war.
This is indisputable.
I realized then that he didn't know that I'd already replied.)
(When I placed the answer into the transmission buffer,)
(I didn't use the regular file interface.)
Ye Wenjie,
to be honest, I have no pity for you at all.
But I cannot bear to see Yang Weining ruined along with you,
and I certainly cannot allow his child to be ruined as well.
You're pregnant, right?
You will soon be a mother.
I'm telling you. Even though Yang Weining had nothing to do with this,
your deeds would certainly implicate him if revealed.
Just like you were implicated by your father your whole life.
And your unborn baby's whole life would also be implicated by you.
Have you thought about these?
Wenjie,
have a seat.
This must be taken care of.
But there's still a silver lining.
Luckily, only you and know what happened.
What we must do is to minimize the impact
of your actions.
From now on, don't mention this to anyone,
including Yang Weining.
- will
take care of the rest.
(At that moment, I knew what Lei Zhicheng was after.)
(He wanted to become)
(the first man to discover extraterrestrial intelligence.)
Once he reported this,
my reply would soon be discovered.
(Humans would exhaust all technological and military power)
(to stop Trisolarans from coming.)
(I assented.)
But at that time,
I'd already decided everything.
(I loosened the bolt that secured the ground wire to the bottom)
(on the main cabinet in the equipment closet.)
(Similar malfunctions happened many times,)
(that was easy to identify.)
(But no one would think that it was the ground wire,)
(Such problems would often involve)
(the part of the wire on the cliff.)
Oh, you came back. Something's wrong with the ground wire.
I'll go check it out.
I'II go. You stay here.
the surveillance is affected, you'll report to the command center.
OK.
How is it going?
(What he did the most)
(was ground wire emergency maintenance,)
(which was a dangerous and exhausting job.)
(My plan was to cut the rope with a short hacksaw that was broken)
(into three pieces,)
(and it wouldn't be obvious that the rope was cut through with the saw.)
Wenjie.
(But I didn't expect that...)
Wenjie.
How is it going?
Who's down there?
Political Commissar Lei.
He's on his own?
That...
That's not right.
It is too hard for him to do it on his own.
I'll help him.
Use another rope.
No, that won't be necessary.
The rope can take the weight of the two of us.
Don't worry.
To shorten the time,
three people descended using only one rope.
He's been down there for quite a while.
Let's not keep him waiting.
need to hurry.
It is a maintenance rule
that two people can't share one rope.
You must use another one.
All right.
Go get one, then.
I'll be here waiting.
Go.
Take it easy.
No running.
(When I got back there,)
Lei Zhicheng and Yang Weining had finished the inspection,)
(and they were ascending using one rope.)
(Yang Weining was on the top,)
(and Lei Zhicheng was under him.)
(1 knew)
(that)
(I would not have another chance.)
(So)
(I took out the hacksaw.)
(I did it calmly,)
(without feeling anything.)
(I heard two or three surprised cries,)
(and then the sound of bodies slamming against the rocks.)
Until you left the base,
you never received anything from Trisolaris ever again?
It would take at least eight years
to receive the reply from Trisolaris.
And after I left the base,
I no longer had any way to receive replies.
How did you cope after you went back?
After all, the time had changed.
Right.
Everybody had changed.
They started to take technology seriously.
They started to approach science,
believe in the good qualities of being hard-working
and down-to-earth.
At the first National Conference on Science,
Guo Moruo declared that it was the season
of rebirth and renewal for China's battered science establishment.
At the time,
- would often ask myself,
"Is this the end
of the madness?
started to have doubt
about the super betrayal.
I tried to numb myself with work
in order to forget the past.
The Red Coast Base was dismantled.
How did you contact the ETO?
To be precise,
it wasn't me who contacted them,
but someone else did.
Who?
Half a year after returned to university,
received an important project
to design a large radio astronomy observatory.
These things look very advanced.
They are all foreign words.
Professor Ye. can you all speak foreign languages?
English?
What?
English?
don't know.
It's a foreign language anyway.
If you guys can speak it, I'll go and get Bethune down,
the team has something to discuss with him.
Bethune?
We don't know how to call him, so we call him that.
Does he treat you?
No.
He's been planting trees on this back hill for almost three years.
Plant trees?
A foreigner came all the way to China
just to plant a tree.
Isn't there something wrong with him?
Or he has some kind of conspiracy.
Bethune.
Hello.
Bethune.
(There)
(I saw him.)
Hi.
Nice to meet you.
am Ye Wenjie.
Mike Evans.
Sorry I can't offer you anything to drink.
We're out of coffee a while ago.
There's water, but...
only have one cup.
No problem.
Ask him what he's doing here.
He was asking what are you really doing here.
Saving lives.
Save the local lives?
It's true.
The ecological conditions here are..
Why are you all like this?
Saving human lives is the only noble act?
Or other species ain't significant?
Who gave humans such a high honor anyway?
No.
Human beings do not need a savior.
They all live a life much
much better than they deserve.
We heard you're trying to save a type of bird.
Yes.
A swallow.
Specifically, a subspecies of the Northwest Brown Swallow.
Every spring, they follow ancient well-established
migration route themselves.
They nest only here.
But as the trees disappear year after year,
they can no longer find a home.
When I first discovered the species, they had less than 10,000 left.
If the trend continues, within five years, they'll be extinct.
Trees I've planted now provide a habitat for some of them.
The population is rising.
must plant more trees
and expand this Eden.
see it.
Not that pretty, right?
Of course, they're not as crowd pleasing as pandas.
Every day on this planet, some species that
don't draw the attention of humans go extinct.
You planted all of these trees yourself?
Mostly.
Initially hired some locals to help out, but I soon ran out of money.
Saplings and irrigation are very expensive here.
I can't understand it at all.
Tell him that he is famous for planting trees here.
The county will reward him.
Tell him to come to the team tomorrow.
He said the government decided to reward you for planting trees here.
Can they reward me with some hands
to help plant some trees?
What did he say?
He said...
Forget it.
Tell him that
I've informed him.
I have work in the field. I'm leaving.
Why are you not going with him?
Evans told me something happened when he was 12 years old.
It was the event
(that changed him forever.)
(Son,)
(do you know how the dinosaurs)
(became extinct in the Cretaceous?)
(Because the asteroid fell to the earth)
(and led the abrupt change in global climate.)
(And do you know)
(the species on the earth now)
(are going extinct even faster and more frightening than in the Cretaceous?)
(And now is truly the age of mass extinction.)
(This is only an insignificant episode in the process of extinction.)
(We can survive without seabirds, but we can not survive without oil.)
(Do you know what oil means to us?)
Your birthday present, that beautiful Ferrari,
and that cruise ship over there, without oil,
it's just a pile of scrap iron.
If you want to visit your grandfather,
you can get there on my private jet and cross the ocean in a dozen hours or so.
But without oil, you'd have to tumble in a sailboat for a month!
This is the rule of civilization.
The priority is to ensure humans' survival
and their comfortable lifestyle.
Everything else is secondary.
(In Evans's view,)
(all humans,)
(including his father, are executioners.)
(At that time,)
(I could understand him.)
He had high hopes for me,
and I just didn't turn out the way he wanted.
After that day, it was like that the eyes of those dying seabirds were
(staring.)
When I was 13, my father asked me what wanted to do when I grow up.
said
just want to save lives.
You have a big dream.
No.
only want to save an endangered species.
It could be a bird that wasn't very pretty,
a dull butterfly, or a beetle
that no one would even notice.
Later, I studied biology specialized in birds and insects.
In my eyes, saving a species of birds and insects
has no difference from saving a human guy.
This is the basic program of species egalitarianism.
(This was the first time I heard)
(the species egalitarianism.)
It is a doctrine founded by Evans himself.
In Evans's view,
human selfishness and hypocrisy
are the reasons for the delay
in achieving species egalitarianism.
So you told him about the existence of the Trisolaran Civilization?
No.
After that, we didn't see each other for a long time.
The site there was not approved.
(One day three years later,)
(I suddenly received a postcard from Evans.)
(Postcard of Chinese People's Post)
(Come here,)
(and tell me how to live.)
(So I went back again)
(to that remote mountain village in the Northwest.)
won't stop.
If stop, I will be crazy.
just walked in
and saw that the trees you planted have grown very tall.
Are these really meaningful?
just came back from abroad.
My dad.
My father
died two months ago.
He left me 4.5 billion dollars. I mean inheritance.
Not even including real estate.
My brother and sister got 5 million each.
5 million.
It's not what expected at all.
Maybe, he deeply thought highly of me.
Or
my ideals.
I also learned another news abroad.
- used to spend a lot of time around the world
planting trees where deforestation rates were high.
But for the past two years, those trees were cut down by more than…
more than 70%.
Years of effort is to be destroyed.
There is no way that I can beat their logging power.
The whole human race is essentially the same.
As long as civilization continues to develop,
the brown swallow, and all the other swallows in this world
sooner or later
go extinct.
It's just
a matter of time.
Do you know why I came to China?
believe and think that
the idea of species egalitarianism
emerged in the ancient East.
Do you mean Buddhism?
Yes.
See? The focus of Christianity is men.
Even though the other species were given a place on Noah's ark,
they were never truly given the same status as humans.
But Buddhism,
it saves all lives.
So
came to the East.
But now it turns out it's the same everywhere.
Where are the pillars of my life?
have 4.5 billion dollars and an international oil company.
So what?
(4.5 billion dollars.)
That is not enough to build an aircraft carrier.
But even if we build 1,000 aircraft carriers,
impossible to stop the madness of man.
Maybe,
humans can no longer rely on their own power to change.
But
are there other forces outside of humans?
If God existed,
he would be dead already.
(Do not answer.)
Yes,
there are other forces.
(Then I completely told him)
(about the Red Coast Base and the Trisolaris.)
So many years have passed,
many details thought.…
thought had forgotten.
But in what I just told you,
it all came back to me.
I even remember
(the temperature of the sun on my face that day.)
Ye, no offense.
can't believe what you said.
After all, it's too
amazing.
I understand.
Luckily,
I have the power to confirm it all.
If what you said is true,
then we are comrades.
After that,
he disappeared for three years
without any news.
didn't know if he was really somewhere in the world
to confirm what I had told him,
or how he would confirm it.
One winter three years later,
(I suddenly received an invitation)
(from an unknown university in Western Europe)
(to be a visiting scholar for six months.)
(After arriving at the airport,)
(a young man came to pick me up.)
(But he didn't take me out of the airport,)
(but returned to the tarmac.)
(The young man told me that)
(the place we were going to)
(was the Second Red Coast Base.)
According to the location and frequency you gave me,
we received a message from Trisolaran.
Everything you said has been confirmed.
(The great Trisolaran Interstellar Fleet has set sail,)
(targeting the solar system,)
and will arrive in 450 years.
What you see now are the first members of the ETO.
Our ideal is to invite the Trisolaran Civilization
(to transform human civilization to curb the madness and evil of human.)
(And make this earth a harmonious, prosperous)
(and sinless world again.)
More and more people agree with our ideals.
Our organization is expanding dramatically.
We have members all over the world.
What I can do?
You will be the Supreme Commander of the Earth-Trisolaris Movement.
All the warriors of the ETO recognize your qualifications.
Eliminate human tyranny!
World belongs to Trisolaris!
Eliminate human tyranny!
World belongs to Trisolaris!
Eliminate human tyranny!
World belongs to Trisolaris!
About the process of the establishment of the ETO,
this is all I know.
And
the Redemptionists, the Adventists, the Survivors and their struggle,
you have already known them in the previous ETO conference.
Did you want to change them?
It turned out
couldn't.
There was little I could do.
(I thought could lead the spirit)
(and make up for mistakes.)
(Then I just understood one thing.)
(A quote from Mike Evans)
(has become the motto of the Adventists.)
We don't know what the extraterrestrial intelligence looks like,
but know humans.
How do you think?
I admit I had expectations of the Trisolaran.
At the ETO conference,
you mentioned that messages sent from the Trisolaris to Earth
were intercepted by the Adventists.
What was the content of that?
don't know.
They are very well organized.
All - know is that they intercepted the messages.
After the Adventists monopolized communications with the Trisolaran,
did you set up the Third Red Coast Base?
- had the plan.
But only finished the receiving part.
(Then the construction stopped.)
(And the equipment and the base were dismantled.)
(Why?)
(Because there were no more messages)
(coming from the direction of Alpha Centauri,)
(not on all bands.)
think you have also confirmed this.
According to what you said, it means that at least four years ago,
Trisolaris had lost contact with the Earth, right?
No.
I guessed they changed to another way to communicate.
And Evans didn't deny it.
Did you change the way you receive and transmit,
or did you just make it up all the time?
The Lord will come.
Am I qualified to make up?
The Lord has known the entire history of human civilization.
Don't ask me how I did it.
It is beyond our knowledge.
Can I understand it this way?
That Evans cheated you.
should be said that he never confided to me
his true innermost thoughts,
(but only expressed)
(his own sense of mission to other species on the Earth.)
(I didn't expect that his hatred for humanity)
(generated by this sense of mission,)
(had reached such an extreme level that)
he regarded the destruction of human civilization
as his ultimate ideal.
With a plan to destroy the Adventists, why not just attack the Judgment Day?
Besides, the Redemptionists forces are loyal to you.
You have the power and the ability to destroy it,
and even take it over.
Lord's messages are stored
on one of the Judgment Day's computers.
(If that ship is attacked,)
(the Adventists will destroy it in the moment of crisis.)
(Those messages are too important for us to lose,)
(just as Christianity can't lose the Bible,)
(and Islam can't lose the Koran.)
I think you will face the same problem.
The Adventists holds the Lord's message hostage.
We can't do anything about the Judgment Day.
So what would you like to tell us?
Nothing.
Did the Trisolaris teach the Adventists some technologies that
above the current level of human science?
Unlikely.
Because these technologies are likely to fall into your hands.
The last but also the most important question.
So far, the Trisolaris
has only sent radio waves to the Earth?
Almost true.
Almost?
Six years ago, in the distant triple star system,
Trisolaris accelerated two hydrogen nuclei
to near the speed of light
(and shot them toward the solar system.)
(These two hydrogen nuclei, or protons,)
(arrived at the solar system two years ago,)
(then reached the Earth.)
Two protons?
They only sent two protons?
That's almost nothing.
General Chang,
you also said "almost".
That's the limit of Trisolaran power.
They can only accelerate something
as small as a proton to near the speed of light.
Over a distance of four light-years,
they can only send two protons.
(At the macroscopic level, two protons are nothing.)
(Even a single cilium on a bacterium)
(would include several billion protons.)
(What's the point?)
They're a lock.
A lock? What are they locking?
The progress of human science.
(During the four and a half centuries)
(until the arrival of the Trisolaran Fleet,)
(due to the existence of the two protons,)
(humanity will not be able to make)
any important scientific developments.
Evans once said that the day of arrival
of the two protons was also the day
that human science died.
(Professor David of Gadayork University,)
(committed suicide a month ago.)
(The astrophysicist of Country A...)
Physics doesn't exist.
The Trisolarans shot two protons at the Earth
from four light-years away
(and they both reached the target.)
(That accuracy is incredible.)
Look what this is.
A cigarette filter.
Looking at this tiny thing from where you stand,
how would you describe it?
It's practically just a point.
If this little sponge is spread open, the adsorbent surface area
can be as large as my living room.
Do you smoke pipes?
I don't smoke.
Pipes use a more advanced filter.
for one. Three yuan
It's filled with active charcoal.
If you take out all the infill, it looks like mouse droppings.
But spread open,
the adsorbent surface formed by the tiny holes inside
is as large as a tennis court.
This is why active charcoal is so adsorbent.
So, what are you trying to say?
Well, the sponge or active charcoal is three-dimensional.
But their adsorbent surfaces are two-dimensional.
can contain a huge low-dimensional structure.
What does all you said
have to do with those two protons?
Ultimately, what can they do?
A single cilium on a bacterium can contain several billion protons.
Even if the two protons turned entirely into energy on the tip of my finger,
at most it would feel like a pinprick.
Even if they turned into energy on a bacterium,
the bacterium probably wouldn't feel anything.
Not to mention you.
Then what were you trying to say?
Nothing.
don't know anything.
What can a turkey know?
Learn from Shi Qiang.
Just do the best within your responsibility.
I'll go drinking and then go back to sleep like a turkey.
Mom. Mom.
Look, Dad is smoking.
When did you come in?
Play outside.
Let Dad do his work.
Mom, don't let Dad smoke.
Go and play.
What's wrong?
Is there a problem with your experiment?
Why do you say that?
The last time you stared at something in a daze was when
the nanomaterial lab was built.
That wasn't worth mentioning.
Is that so serious?
No.
mean I was young back then.
When I had a problem, I always thought it was big.
Now looking back, they were nothing.
All academic problems are a matter of time.
Over time, all problems can be solved.
Dad, it's your turn to tell me a story today.
Doudou, don't disturb Dad.
doesn't matter. happen to be free today.
Come.
Dad will tell you how a magician outwitted a dragon.
Come.
Once upon a time, there was a magician who had been
trying to make magic potions and practice magic.
But one day, a dragon came.
It destroyed the magician's magic hut, knocked over his magic potion,
(and took away the magic fruit that the magician survived on.)
(The magician didn't give up.)
He went through countless hardships to find the dragon's nest,
and declared war on it.
(He dodged the dragon's huge tail, and extinguished the flames it spewed.)
At last, the magician defeated the dragon
and took back his magic fruit.
Dad, you're also a magician.
You magically put the egg in the bottle.
So you are brave, too.
Thanks.
Why did the dragon fight the magician?
Is there any chance that they finally became friends
and fought no more?
Wang Miao, your friend came to see you.
Dad, it must be the dragon.
Be careful.
Dad isn't afraid.
Are you Wang Miao?
Excuse me, you can't smoke here.
The hallway, we can talk in the hallway. You can't smoke there either.
(Please keep the hallway clean and do not smoke)
Are you OK?
Yes.
just recollected the old days.
mean your health.
I'm fine.
Don't worry.
I'm not radioactive anymore.
Because of a tiny nuclear bomb, they've washed me inside and outside
like a flour sack.
No sooner than you left the hospital, you came to knock on my door.
It's urgent.
Come with me.
No, I'm busy this afternoon.
This afternoon, we'll rearrange your schedule.
There's a car waiting downstairs.
Will you come or not?
I want to recall the old days, too.
Will you come or not?
Do I have a choice?
Dr. Ding and I seem to be the only scientists here.
You were not supposed to attend the meeting, not even me
Don't you see they are all military officers?
I insisted on attending the meeting with you.
Why did you insist on doing this?
We can do nothing to help arrest Evans.
Not necessarily.
The first time I saw you, I thought,
perhaps, you're a good knife for murder.
Are you still in the mood to joke?
didn't joke.
Good morning.
I'm sorry to tell you,
the war between alien invaders and humanity has begun.
(Some may say, for now, our opponents are still human.)
(After all, our descendants won't face the Trisolarans)
(for another four and a half centuries.)
We have never faced an enemy
like this.
So our next common objective
is to capture the intercepted Trisolaran messages
stored on Judgment Day?
Yes.
These messages may have great significance
for our survival.
Please look.
This is Judgment Day.
(It has already submitted plans to the Panama Canal Authority)
(to pass through the canal)
in four days.
The purpose of this meeting
is to discuss possible plans of operation,
and then report one to three
of our best suggestions to Central.
This operation is very difficult.
Because any plan
must guarantee one thing,
which is the secure capture of the Trisolaran messages.
According to the information from the captured ETOs,
Judgment Day was rebuilt from an old oil tanker.
(But the superstructure and the interior)
(have been extensively renovated)
(with complex structures, rooms and passage ways.)
(And the crew having lived on the ship for over a month)
(still need a map to navigate some areas,)
(which we don't have.)
The most difficult part is preventing the enemy from erasing
Trisolaran data during our attack.
So basically, we need to clear the ship, its entire crew,
(find the disk or drive,)
(or which we have no idea of its actual location)
(without a map, without causing)
(any substantial damage or raising any alarms)
(all in 10 seconds.)
Do we have any spies on Judgment Day to control or move
the storage equipment elsewhere right before our operation?
No.
What about a neutron bomb?
Also there's a problem.
The radiation from a neutron bomb cannot put them to death immediately.
Another option is nerve gas.
But from the time of our release to the time it'll take to get around the ship,
it's more time than we have,
SO that doesn't meet the general's requirements.
The only other choices are
concussion bombs or infrasonic waves.
I use concussion bombs, the toys, in police work.
They can indeed stun people inside a building into unconsciousness,
but they're only good for a room or two.
Do you have any concussion bombs big enough to stun
a whole ship full of people?
No.
Even if we had, such a large explosive device
would certainly damage equipment inside the ship.
What about infrasonic weapons?
No, it's not ready yet. We're still in testing.
It's not ready for field.
Besides, the power we will need
for a ship that size.
It will barely be enough to cause
some dizzy spews or maybe a bit of nausea.
Can't you translate the word "bullshit"?
The general said time was of the essence.
Hurry up.
Are we going to let the policeman run this?
Are you even qualified?
What do you mean?
I'm a policeman, so what?
A policeman isn't qualified.
So are you even qualified?
You look down upon the police, don't you?
To drop some bombs and turn that ship into smithereens,
you military are the experts.
But to retrieve something out of it without damage,
I don't care how many stars are on your shoulder,
you aren't even as good as a thief.
For this kind of thing, you have to think outside the box.
Out of the box.
You will never be
as good at it as criminals,
masters of out-of-the-box thinking.
And as a criminal cop
who has been playing cat and mouse with them for more than a decade,
I've received the best education and training from them.
Enough.
Tell us your plan.
The middle of the long table is the canal.
The iron frames are the banks.
This is Judgment Day.
I cannot put up with this idiot!
Get out of here!
I'Il be done soon.
One more.
Cigar.
One more.
We set up two pillars on the shores of the canal,
and then between them we string many parallel, thin filaments.
The filaments are the nanomaterial developed by Professor Wang, Flying Knife.
Yeah, Flying Blade.
Nanomaterial.
It can cut clean through iron.
Done.
That's it.
Professor Wang,
is Flying Blade really in the form of filaments?
Given our current molecular construction technique,
the only form we can make is a filament.
The thickness is about one-hundredth the thickness of human hair.
Could we get enough of that in time?
That depends on the width of the canal and the height of the ship.
The narrowest point of the canal is 150 meters wide.
The Judgment Day is 31 meters tall, with a draft of eight meters or so.
There's probably enough.
Probably.
What if the equipment holding the Trisolaran data,
the hard drives, the optical disks, is sliced?
The filaments are extremely sharp,
and the cut surfaces would be very smooth.
The data in those optical disks, hard drives and storage
could probably be recovered.
Yeah.
Anyone got a better idea?
This is our best option so far.
When Judgment Day passes, can those two pillars
bear the force applied against the Flying Blade filaments?
Is there any chance the pillars could be sliced apart first?
Everyone, here is the thing.
The nanomaterial is thick at both ends and thin in the middle.
We have some material that are flat sheets.
We can use them to protect the parts of the column
where the filaments are attached.
In addition, the filaments are too thin to be seen with the naked eye.
So we need to label them with fluorescent.
This way, in a special light,
we can check that whether the filaments are straightened
and arranged neatly.
And the best place to set the trap is one of the three locks along the canal.
(Judgment Day is built Panamax specifications,)
(enough to fill the locks.)
(So we only need about 32 meters,)
(a small distance in between.)
(And it will be easier to erect the pillars and string the filaments,)
(especially for the underwater parts.)
Also, when the ship moves through the locks
(it has to need four mules, electric locomotives on rails, to pull it forward,)
(which moves slowly.)
This is the time when the crew are all on high alert.
(What about the Bridge of the Americas,)
right outside the Miraflores Locks?
(The abutments)
(of the two ends on the beach can serve as the pillars for stringing.)
The distance between the abutments is too wide.
Can I suggest the narrowest part of the Gaillard Cut?
(It's 150 meters in cross.)
(Adding the slack,)
make it better 170 meters for the pillars.
the distance between the two filaments should be at least 50 centimeters.
That is to say, the ship
has to cross the canal during the day.
Why exactly?
People on board have to sleep at night.
(When a person is lying down, the gap of 50 centimeters is too much.)
(No matter whether he is standing, squatting, or sitting during the day,)
(the distance)
is enough.
You are indeed a devil.
How do we ensure the safety of other ships?
(One end of each column is connected to a movable winch.)
(In this way, the nanowires can sink to the bottom of the river)
(through the weight falling on it.)
(When the last ship passes before Judgment Day,)
(we should retrieve the wire.)
(Then we connect and fix the nanowires to the pillars,)
(and finally erect the pillars.)
Yeah.
Good.
Officer.
The best Havanas.
All yours.
Thank you.
Look.
This is the current speed of Judgment Day.
It will soon enter the Gaillard Channel from Gatun Lake.
(The target is 700 meters from the zither.)
The end of Gaillard Channel.
(Ready for the 20-second countdown.)
Professor.
Don't worry.
(Twenty.)
(Eighteen.)
(Seventeen.)
(Ten.)
(Nine.)
(Eight.)
(Seven.)
(Three.)
(Two.)
(One.)
What the..
What's going on?
(There is fire on the ship.)
Do you know Trisolaran Civilization?
No.
We have
very limited information.
In fact, apart from Evans,
none of the core members of the Adventists
who intercepted the Trisolaran information
knew the true and detailed appearance of the Trisolaran Civilization.
Then why do you have such expectations for the Trisolarans?
Do you think they can transform and improve human society?
If they can come to our world
across the stars,
it means that their science
has developed to a considerable height.
A society with such a prosperous science
must have a higher level of civilization and morality.
Do you think your conclusion is scientific?
Professor Ye.
We have obtained all the information about the Trisolarans
intercepted by the Adventists.
How is
Evans?
Dead.
Is there a lot of information?
Yes.
About 28 GB.
No way.
The efficiency of interstellar ultra-long-distance communication is very low.
How is it possible to convey such a large amount of information?
thought so too at first.
But the truth
is beyond our imagination.
Do you know the Three-Body game?
There is a game client in the 28 GB,
just like the game on the server we shut down earlier.
They are all produced by the ETO
based on human imagination.
There are many monitoring and transmitting devices here.
It should be the astronomical observatory of Trisolaran.
But operating such an observatory requires dozens of people.
Why is there no one here?
Did the Chaotic Era suddenly occur again,
and everyone is already dehydrated?
All the materials used in the Listening Post
are constant temperature materials,
which can ensure the supply of life and don't need to be dehydrated.
And it's been hundreds of years
since dozens of people ran a listening post.
Is this a Trisolaran?
This should be the Trisolaran in ETO's imagination.
It seems to have a casing.
Yes.
They should have speculated i based on some data.
Are you a monitor?
Yes.
There are thousands of listening posts like this in Trisolarans' world.
They are attentively listening to
the information of possible intelligent civilizations in the universe.
Thousands of?
Are there thousands of scientists like Ye Wenjie here?
We are not scientists, just monitors.
Monitor is a humble occupation, totally different from a scientist.
We are just watching the monitor screen and living in the dark.
See the desert outside?
It's desolate and lonely.
Totally unbearable.
really wish could turn off this screen.
The recognition degree is ten.
t means that the received information contains a self-interpreting system.
(We extend our best wishes to you, inhabitants of another world.)
(After reading the following message,)
(you should have a basic understanding)
(of civilization on Earth.)
By dint of long toil and creativity, the human race)
(has built a splendid civilization,)
(blossoming with diverse cultures.)
(We're also getting to know the laws of nature)
(and the development of human societies.)
I know this message.
It was sent from Earth in 1971.
It takes four light-years to travel here.
That is now 1975 on the Earth.
Yes.
There is a world with only one sun, always in Stable Era.
Human civilization was born in that well-seasoned paradise.
It's not a dream.
Is it possible for this message to be hidden?
Thousands of listening posts scattered all over the world
have also received this information
that Trisolaran Civilization has been awaited for eons.
Now the government
will definitely send a message to that distant world,
tempting them to answer.
The message may have been sent or maybe not.
If it is the latter,
my humble life can finally burn once.
This world has received your message.
(I am a pacifist in this world.)
(It is the luck of your civilization)
(that I am the first to receive your message.)
(I am warning you. Do not answer.)
(Do not answer.)
(There are tens of millions of stars in your direction.)
as you do not answer,) (As long
(this world will not be able to ascertain the source of your transmission.)
(But if you do answer, the source will be located right away.)
(Your planet will be invaded.)
(Do not answer.)
The launch is complete.
He should be the monitor who sent the warning to Earth.
As long as there is no answer,
the position of Earth cannot be locked by the Trisolaran.
He betrayed Trisolaran.
Why?
The lifespan of Trisolaran is generally
between 700,000 and 800,000 Trisolaran hours.
Today the world of Trisolaran does not require extensive monitoring anymore.
Outdated listening posts like No. 1379 will be eliminated.
will face the fate of being incinerated after forced dehydration.
All I have in my life is the endless solitude
in the little space of the listening post.
Even in my dreams, I don't want to lose that distant paradise.
For this...
For this, I'm willing to stand trial.
Why are you doing this?
In order not to waste my life.
The warning message you sent out may cause Trisolaran Civilization
to lose a chance of survival.
But I gave Earth civilization a chance to survive.
What made you think about betrayal?
Today's Trisolaran Civilization possesses the living space
like a very hungry person's desire for food, strong and endless.
It is absolutely impossible to share that world with earthmen,
but will only destroy the Earth civilization without hesitation,
and completely occupy the living space of that planetary system.
Am I right?
Yes.
There is another reason to wipe out Earth civilization.
They are also a warlike race, so they are way too dangerous.
They will learn technology very quickly when we coexist in a world with them.
Neither civilization can survive this way.
The policy we have established is that
after the Trisolaran Interstellar Fleet occupies the solar system and the Earth,
the earthmen can completely live as before.
Only one thing is forbidden forever,
procreation.
Set sail immediately after the Fleet is built,
and head in that direction.
Chief.
Even directional positioning can't be very accurate
on that receiving frequency.
We have to take the risk.
(The emergency meeting of consuls is about to start.)
(All consuls should assemble at the Pendulum Monument.)
Earth civilization has made a reply.
They're 40,000 light-hours from us.
(They've only just received Ye Wenjie's message.)
(Then right now it should be 1983 on Earth.)
20,000 Trisolaran hours ago, the Trisolaran Fleet has launched.
But the fact is that 4.5 million hours from now,
(that civilization's technology might be developing increasingly fast,)
(and far more advanced than ours.)
By then, the Trisolaran Fleet won't even survive
a single blow from Earth's civilization.
This is not an expedition, but a funeral procession!
(What's more frightening)
(is that the location Trisolaris has been exposed.)
(It's very possible that long before an expanded sun swallows this planet,)
(Trisolaran Civilization will have already been extinguished by earthmen.)
Given a time gap of 40,000 hours,
to effectively contain a civilization's development and disarm it,
there is only one way: kill its science.
To lock down humans' science, they made three plans.
The first plan
is code-named Coloring.
(They'll use the negative effects of science and technology)
(to cause the public to hate and fear science.)
On the earth, dozens of species go extinct every day. Yeah.
That's what Pan Han has been doing.
(The harm of Science to the Environment) Are you not worried that
the public would resist technology after seeing the report?
The second plan is code-named Miracle.
(It's about showing signs of supernatural power to humans,)
(so that unscientific ways of thinking will dominate scientific thinking)
(and lead to the collapse of the entire scientific system of thought.)
These two plans can only cause some interference to our scientific development.
Yeah.
That's why they'll also make a decisive move.
It'll completely suffocate science on Earth
They'll stop our exploration of the deep structure of matter
and curb our basic science, making it impossible for us
to make major breakthroughs in science and technology as a whole.
Chang, Earth is not their only target.
mean, before receiving Ye Wenjie's message,
they had been preparing for this all along.
Two-dimensional unfolding of proton starts.
Princeps, the unfolding is a success.
Look carefully.
(There are two starry skies up there.)
(I see it.)
The other starry sky is circular.
That constellation in there belongs to the southern hemisphere.
(That's our planet.)
That's a mirror.
Yes.
(That mirror is the proton being unfolded.)
(It's a geometric plane without any meaningful depth.)
(Princeps, the proton plane is being bent by our planet's gravity.)
(Those spots of light)
(are electromagnetic beams being sent up from the ground)
(to adjust the curvature of the plane under gravity.)
(The goal is to eventually)
wrap the unfolded proton completely around Trisolaris.
(Afterwards, the electromagnetic beams will continue)
(to hold up and stabilize this enormous sphere, like so many spokes.)
(Thus, Trisolaris will be the workbench to secure the two-dimensional proton,)
(and the work to etch electronic circuits on the surface)
(of the proton plane can begin.)
Will we still get sunlight?
Trisolaris will enter the darkest night in history.
(All sunlight will be reflected back into space.)
(The temperature will drop precipitously.)
(It might reach levels comparable to the appearance of three flying stars.)
(a proton invisible to the naked eye,)
(after being unfolded into 2 dimensions, can actually enfold a planet.)
(Those lights are spaceships)
(etching the integrated circuits on the gargantuan membrane.)
(They're transforming the proton)
(into Sophon, a superintelligent computer.)
(Converted to Earth time, it's about two years.)
(Micro-Intelligence 2.10 loaded.)
(Sophon One ready to accept commands.)
A Sophon has been born.
We have endowed a proton with wisdom.
This is the smallest artificial intelligence we can make.
But right now, it appears as the largest artificial intelligence.
(Princeps,)
(we'll increase the dimensionality of this proton.)
(It will soon become small.)
Adjust dimensionality to six.
Sophon One, enter the control center.
Our control center is deep underground.
Can it go through the ground?
Princeps, it's not exactly going "through".
Rather, it's entering from a higher dimension.
It can enter any enclosed space within our world.
Princeps.
This is just the 6-dimensional body of the proton projected into three-space.
(the construction of Sophon Two, Sophon Three,)
(and Sophon Four have been finished.)
(The continuous dimensionality has been adjusted to 11.)
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Princes, Sophon One and Sophon Two will be launched toward the Earth
their first mission is to locate the high-energy particle accelerators
used by humans for physics research
(and hide within them.)
(They'll take the place of target particles, accept the collision,)
(and deliberately give out wrong and chaotic results.)
They will remain forever in the primitive stage.
The science of Earth has been completely locked down.
(Sophon can also use high-energy particles to expose film,)
(traveling at light speed to project contents onto films)
(even retinas.)
(More than one Sophon, by means of some quantum entanglement,)
(can form a system to sense the macro world,)
(Keeping Sophon Three and Sophon Four here)
(will enable them to receive the information sent back)
(by Sophon One and Sophon Two from Earth.)
(This gives us a way to monitor Earth in real time.)
Comrades, please be aware
that our meeting is probably already
being monitored by Sophons.
From here on out,
there shall be no secrets.
(You)
(are)
(You are bugs)
What dishes did you get?
You drank so much.
You even bit through the beer bottles.
Do you wanna smoke?
I quit it.
I've converted to this.
Hey, how did you come up with that shitty idea?
Those messages..
What difference does it make if we look at them or not?
The result 400 years from now will be the same.
Is it really like you say?
Everything's over?
It's all over!
You can't use the accelerators
and can't study the structure of matter.
That means it's all over?
What do you think?
Technology is still making progress, isn't it?
but hasn't Professor Wang created the Flying Knife?
It's nanomaterial, right?
Imagine an ancient kingdom, if you will.
Their technology is advancing as well.
They might invent better knives, spears, swords,
and auto-repeating crossbows
that can shoot many arrows like our machine guns.
But...
But if they don't know that matter is made from molecules and atoms,
they will never create missiles and satellites.
Right?
They're limited by their level of science.
always knew you were smart.
You just look a bit silly.
The study of the deep structure of matter
is the foundation of the foundations of all other sciences.
If there's no progress here, everything else...
I'll put it your way, is bullshit.
You...
You... You're not bullshit.
You can still research knives, shields, and swords.
What am going to research?
I'm bullshit. I'm bullshit.
This is a good thing.
We will be able to live out the rest of our lives
in this way.
All our despair
and all our decadence can be justified now!
Because we're bugs!
Bugs that are about to go extinct!
Well said!
Long live Sophons!
Long live the end of the world!
Good!
Come on!
Bunch of cowards.
Nano Coward.
I'm talking about you!
Come on!
Get up!
Come!
Let's go!
Where to?
Just come with me.
I'm taking you somewhere.
Good.
Let's go.
(Pursuant to the laws,)
(Ye Wenjie committed crimes against humanity)
(and has now been sentenced to life imprisonment.)
you like to take a break here? Would
No need.
Professor Ye,
you should have some rest.
If you lapse into critical condition,
we won't be able to get you an ambulance.
It's okay.
used to be ready to stay here forever.
Now I care even less.
Let's go over there.
This was the base for the antenna.
(Red Coast Base)
This is sunset for humanity.
Just a matter of time
Should we say goodbye."
Or should we keep it all
Where are we going?
My hometown. Not too far.
With a cost of all
(Fireworks)
You wasted it all just to watch me burn
And on and on and on
What did you bring us here for?
To look at bugs.
There's locust infestation here as well?
Every year.
Like the dust storms.
It started ten years ago. But this year is the worst.
What's this about?
I just want the two of you to think about one thing.
Is the technological gap between humans and Trisolarans
greater than the one between locusts and humans,
or the other way around?
Humans have used everything in their power to extinguish them:
every kind of poison, aerial sprays, and...
And introducing and cultivating their natural predators,
searching for and destroying their eggs,
using genetic modification to sterilize them.
Just like what the Trisolarans did to us humans.
That's right!
We tried to burn them with fire,
drown them with water, bury them with earth.
Every family has bug spray.
Every desk has under it something lethal to them
like a flyswatter.
To them, all those things are nuclear missiles.
The bugs have not been eliminated.
There are scientists among these locusts too.
They're researching how to deal with us.
They're researching how we produce pesticide.
Of course, some of them don't care.
They're unaware of humans' existence.
They live in their own imagination.
There are soldiers among these locusts too, and policemen.
Maybe they even have Battle Command Centers,
which is why even to this day,
they still proudly live between the heavens and the earth,
and their numbers have not diminished from the time before human appeared!
The Trisolarans who deemed the humans bugs
seemed to have forgotten one fact:
the bugs have never been truly defeated.
(The End)
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