I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 112 Tianwen
But after a short pause, Ji Zhuo withdrew his gaze and continued to wash.

After washing up, he picked up his mobile phone and walked into the study, while replying a few messages by the way.

"Clumsy and Uncommon: Okay, thank you, boss.

Squid: Be polite, be polite. "

"Clumsy and Uncommon: Okay, thank you, boss.

Beginning Editor-in-Chief: Yes. "

Whether this anime is popular or not has little influence on Ji Zhuo.
It's good to be popular, and it's not a loss if it's not popular.

Looking at the news about the explosion in the book friend group,

Ji Zhuo put the phone aside and sat at the desk in the study,
Even if he is going to watch the anime adapted from "Mortal Cultivation",
That will have to wait until night.

At this moment, Ji Zhuo turned on the computer, ready to start today's coding work.

……

Open the coding software,

Ji Zhuo didn't start coding directly, but took a rough look at the chapters that had been written a few days ago.

The protagonist of this science fiction novel is somewhat special,
Not a scientist like other science fiction novels, nor a leader type of character.

In other words, science scholars who are more in line with science fiction themes.

The protagonist Wu Mu is a history researcher who is about to become an associate professor at the university... well, it's not bad.

However, it is doubtful what role scholars of history can play in the context of science fiction.

the very first opening paragraph,
Briefly expounded Wu Mu's identity, and wrote that Wu Muzheng was a little sleepless because he was about to be hired as an associate professor of the history department of the university the next day.

And further down,
The plot also gradually began to draw the curtain.

“…while at the same time, there are many people who cannot sleep.

At the Yushan Observatory of the Capital Astronomical Observatory, the two researchers on duty at the Observatory tonight will inevitably feel a little sleepy because it is already late at night.

They are responsible for monitoring the old and antique equipment of the Capital Observatory "Tianwen No. [-]". From the initial excitement and anticipation to the accumulation of time, they only saw countless cosmic noise background radiation signals, and most of their enthusiasm has been consumed.

However, 'Tianwen' is still tirelessly searching for and receiving signals from outside the sky, and converting these signals into data and sending them back to the central control computer. The central control computer will store these data and analyze whether there are characteristic signals through the program.

And these two are guarding 'Tianwen' in the middle of the night, the only job is to look at the very occasional alarms of the central control computer analysis program, is it a coincidence, such as the pulsar signal that has not been rejected, or is there really some law, Data that contains some information.

"Drip! Drip!"

A short and piercing siren sounded from the central control computer, waking up the two researchers at once, and their drowsy and hazy thinking instantly became clear. "

"Old Chen, the central control computer has alarmed. Let's see if our 'old antique' has brought us any surprises."

He just woke up briefly, and after recovering, one of the researchers smiled and said to another researcher next to him.

"I don't like what's a 'surprise'. I'd rather it's because someone didn't observe the pulsar signal before, and I don't want our old man's observation receiver to malfunction again."

The researcher named Old Chen also responded with a smile.

However, while the two were talking, they still came to the central control computer.

On the display screen of the central control computer, some regular signals are still continuously recorded.

The smiles on the faces of the two converged, and they carefully called out the data, and began to roughly check the analysis,
But not long after, the expressions of the two suddenly became serious, and they sank more and more.

"...Old Chen, I don't think it's a pulse signal."

"...I also don't believe it, and this piece of data has not stopped until now, the amount of data is huge..."

The two spoke one after another, and they were all surprised by each other's words, and turned their heads to look at each other.

"The background radiation has been eliminated, and it's not a pulse signal...then what is this regular signal?"

"...Notify the station master! We have received regular signals from outside the sky, and it is still going on."

at the same time,
Many astronomical stations at home and abroad also received the same direction in the same direction,
For example, the largest radio telescope in China, the monitoring station located here is much more lively,

Even in the middle of the night and early morning, there are still a large number of researchers working,
They also discovered the special and abnormality of these signals for the first time.

"...point all the receivers of the observatory that can receive electromagnetic signals in that direction."

"... What do you think the signals of these laws will be?"

"...I don't know, Station Master. But they are so special..."

The plot progresses here,
Almost all observatories in many places have received and observed special wireless signals from outside the sky.

And ruled out the possibility of some cosmic celestial body movement and background radiation.

The content of the new book Chapter 1 ends here.

……

And then Chapter 2.

After each observatory aligned the receiving equipment in this direction, the reception recorded a large amount of data,
And it was found that after the observatory observed these signals, the data of these signals was repeated three times in total, and then stopped.

The total amount of recorded data is 0.7PB.

These signals also have obvious regular characteristics.

All kinds of possibilities point to one possibility—extraterrestrial civilization.

then,

After each observatory reported the news,
The country in the book immediately organized a large number of top cryptographers, linguists, and mathematicians,
Try to decode this information.

And again unexpectedly,
The decryption of these signal data went very smoothly.

According to one of the mathematicians in the book,
"This unknown extraterrestrial civilization seems to be afraid that we will not be able to decode this huge data information, so it just uses a bunch of extremely simple mathematical coding methods."

And this is enough for 0.7PB of signal data to be decoded.

It is found that the information contained in these signal data can be roughly divided into three parts.

The first part should be a word dictionary, maybe the signaling civilization understands this part of the information for the receiving civilization to understand.

It even contains patterns or pictures in mathematical form corresponding to the words.

The second part seems to be the message that the civilization that sent out the electromagnetic wave signal conveyed to the civilization that received it, or what to say?

And the third part is part of the data that is still chaotic, and human beings still don't know what it is.It seems that the previous decoding method cannot be used for this part of the data.

Among them, the data in the third part is the largest, followed by the second part, and the first part is the least.

And because of the word dictionary sent by the extraterrestrial civilization along with the electromagnetic wave signal, the translation of these data also went smoothly.

So the plot of Chapter 2,

Presumably progress has been made to a preliminary translation of some of these received data.

On the other hand, the protagonist Wu Mu is still participating in the appointment ceremony of an associate professor at his university.

"...The head of state. The decoding translation team has translated some of the information contained in the received data."

"I'll take a look..."

……

"Mr. Wu Mu is hereby appointed as an associate professor in the History Department of Capital University."

"...Congratulations, Professor Wu. I hope Professor Wu can make more contributions to the school in the future."

"Thank you, Headmaster."

……

Then the plot continued to unfold.

The protagonist Wu Mu also began to intervene in the event of receiving extraterrestrial civilization.

Because the data decoding and translation of the electromagnetic wave signal received from the extraterrestrial civilization is partly successful,
The state organized a very high-level and highly confidential meeting, which convened a large number of experts and scholars in various fields to participate.

Wu Mu, a scholar who studies history, is also among them.

The following plot is basically unfolded from the perspective of the protagonist Wu Mu,

Wu Mu was drunk at the celebration banquet with a group of colleagues,

When it was almost noon the next day, I was still lying on the bed and sleeping soundly.

But he was awakened by a sudden knock on the door.

The people who came were two people with obvious military style, like two military officers.

"Mr. Wu Mu, we are official personnel, and this is our certificate. For some reasons, we specially invite you to attend a special meeting. I hope you can accompany us there."

The visitor showed Wu Mu his ID, which showed that he was a staff officer of the military staff department.

This made Wu Mu feel a little inexplicable.

However, after calling and inquiring about the school college, they found out that the person who came was real.

But the academy and the school don't know what kind of meeting it is.

Does the military have any special meetings that require the participation of historians and professors of the history department?
A certain ancient tomb was blown up during the exercise?
Wu Mu laughed at himself,
But now that the identity of the visitor was confirmed, he followed the visitor to that special meeting.

The car carrying Wu Mu quickly left the city,
Then it drove further and further away, and finally reached a place.

More like a secret military base.

After entering the meeting room,

Wu Mu found that there were a large number of experts in other fields attending the meeting,
Big cows in the fields of physics, mathematics, aerospace and other fields.

Some are names that even Kure Mu, a historian, has heard of.

There is also some familiarity, and Wu Mutong is a professor at the Capital University, and they have had some superficial intersections by accident on weekdays.

As for scholars of history, besides Wu Mu, there is only one authority in the field of historical research.

This made Wu Mu feel very strange,
What is there to discuss in such a high-standard conference room?
If it's a technical issue, why should he and another professor in the field of historical studies do it?
If it is a historical issue, then why are there so many experts in physics and mathematics?
this problem,

Continue until the official start of the meeting.

And the person who presided over this meeting surprised and shocked the protagonist Wu Mu even more.

The person who presided over the meeting turned out to be the person who often appears in the news, the head of state.

Accompanied by this is a deeper doubt,
And the same doubts also exist in the minds of some other experts and professors who don't know about it.

at last,

The meeting begins.

"...Everyone, I am Shao Guoan."

"...Maybe you are wondering why you are called here. Among you are physicists, mathematicians, even astronomers, aerospace experts, cryptographers, sociologists and historians."

"..."

"In the middle of the night two days ago, we were in various observatories, and the monitoring stations were all in the same direction at the same time, and received electromagnetic wave signals with certain patterns."

Listening to the speech of the head of state,
And the specification of the meeting at this moment,
The hearts of all the experts and professors who were not aware of the meeting jumped suddenly,
Including the protagonist Wu Mu.

"Our astronomers and related researchers ruled out the cosmic background radiation and the signals brought by some kind of celestial body movement. After the relevant features pointed to 'extraterrestrial civilization', we organized a large number of cryptographers, linguists and mathematicians to investigate These signal data are received for interpretation and decoding."

"And we soon discovered that the encoding method of these signal data is extremely simple. Because of this, we quickly completed the decoding of these signals and obtained some data information."

"We receive a total of 0.7PB of data, which is a huge number."

"The information contained in these data is roughly three parts, the word dictionary, what this 'extraterrestrial civilization' wants to say to us, and a large amount of information that is still in chaos and has not been decoded."

"This morning, the second part of the information has been preliminarily decoded and translated, which is why experts and professors are called together."

The voice of the head of state fell.

The entire conference room fell into dead silence.

The huge amount of information kept stimulating the nerves of the participants.

Hearing this, Wu Mu couldn't help but feel the nerves on his temples beating a few times following his heart.

Human beings have received a message from an alien civilization!It directly confirmed the existence of extraterrestrial civilization.

But while his heart was shaking, Wu Mu had some doubts again.

If the revelation of traces of extraterrestrial civilization brought about a crisis, what would he do as a historian?
What can he do?
"Now, everyone can get this part of the translated information, which is the words given to us by this extraterrestrial civilization."

Accompanied by the head of state's speech,
Copies of paper materials were distributed to all participating experts.

Wu Mu also got this information,

The first time he got it, he looked down like other professors present.

"...the birds in the cage (in the cage: the original text refers to some kind of enclosed space. Birds: the original text refers to some kind of ornamental creatures.), we are the observers outside the cage. (outside the cage: the original text refers to a certain space outside meaning).

Congratulations, you have obtained the qualification to receive our information (qualification may refer to the ability to receive electromagnetic wave signals from the universe).

This means that your civilization has reached the critical point of joining us. (We: here is a special term in the original text, which should refer to the meaning of the civilization or the alliance of civilizations).

Do you feel the loneliness of the universe (solitude: the original text means loneliness, the meaning of loneliness.), the outside of your galaxy is our curtain (the curtain: the original text has a false related meaning.), you are the birds we protect Children (protection: the original text may have the meaning of nurturing, feeding.).

If you break through the critical point, you have the qualification (to exist, to join) the civilization of the universe.

We set up two puzzles (questions) for you to complete the solution.The curtain (false) disappears. "

The whole translation seems to be time-consuming and somewhat rough.

There are many places where the words are not clear.But I can basically understand the meaning of it.

This unknown alien civilization said that they are observers outside the solar system or a larger area,
And human civilization is just a weak civilization in a relatively large cage, and since the development of astronomy, human beings have
The observed stars outside the solar system are just a huge curtain, and those distant stars are all fake, just like virtual projections.
That's why human beings haven't found the existence of alien civilization for so long.

And if human civilization can solve the puzzle of this self-proclaimed observer civilization, it will be eligible to join the real universe, or the level of civilization will be improved, and it will become a more powerful civilization.

And it didn't say that if it can't be solved, what will happen to human civilization, maybe it will die out?Or maybe forever in this cage.

Wu Mu continued to look down.

See the question that has been translated.

"(Problem [-]) Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis."

"(Question [-]) What is the greatest value (advantage) of (human) civilization?"

Seeing these two questions, especially the second one,

Wu Mu seemed to understand why he, a historian, participated in this meeting.

Question [-] is academic, mathematical, or scientific and technical questions and tests,

The second question seems to be a humanistic question, a philosophical question, and looking for an answer from history is also a good direction.

And he, a scholar who is only an associate professor, may be selected because of his authoritative teacher in the field of history, Academician Qian,
Academician Qian passed away a few months ago.

And Wu Mu is his best student.

Anyway, Academician Qian has always said so before his death,
Wu Mu didn't even know what was good about him.

but,

Looking at it now, the question of these two extraterrestrial civilizations is more like a test, and even points out the future direction for human civilization?
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