Chapter 55: The Movie (20)

"Yes, so I say: God is bless our civilization." The Führer looked at everyone's expressions, his brows furrowed, and his face that had not moved all year round collapsed: "I have ordered our fleet to sail to this star, but things are not as rosy as you think, according to the current situation, the fleet is sailing to its own grave. ”

All the viewers watching this scene were stunned and somewhat incomprehensible.

All the archons fell silent in an instant, like a large plate of cold water poured down.

"Does anyone understand what I mean?" The Führer asked.

"I understand." One of them, full of harmonious beauty, stepped forward, and the audience knew from the narrator that he was the Archon of Science, "We have all carefully studied the first messages we received from Earth, the most notable of which is the history of their civilization. Consider the following facts: It took more than 100,000 earth years for humans to go from the age of hunting to the age of agriculture; It took thousands of earth years from the agricultural age to the industrial age; From the industrial age to the atomic age, it took only 200 earth years; After that, it took only a few dozen Earth years for them to enter the information age. ”

"This civilization has a terrifying ability to accelerate evolution! In the three-body world, none of the 200 civilizations that have existed, including ours, have experienced this kind of accelerated development, and the scientific and technological progress of all three-body civilizations has been at a constant speed or even slowed down. Every technological era in our world requires basically the same long period of development. ”

The Führer nodded and continued: "The reality is that after four and a half million hours, when our fleet arrives in the planetary system where the Earth is located, the technological level of that civilization has far surpassed us in the accelerated development! ”

"After such a long voyage, our fleet has to pass through two interstellar dust belts in between, and it is likely that only half of the ships will reach the solar system, and the rest will be lost in the long voyage. At that time, the fleet will be vulnerable in the face of the civilization of the earth - we will not go on an expedition, but to die! ”

"If that is the case, Führer, there is an even more terrible ......," the military consul trembled.

The Führer looked helpless and said sadly: "Yes, this is easy to think. The location of the Three-Body Civilization has been revealed, and in order to eliminate future threats, Earth's Starfleet will counterattack our galaxy. It is likely that the Three-Body Civilization had been wiped out by the earthlings before the expanding sun engulfed the planet. ”

Some viewers saw the despair of these people hoping to rise and fall into the abyss, but others saw that it was wrong because these aliens were too smart.

Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles.

This is a truth that has been passed down for 2,000 years.

The Führer shouted to everyone: "What we need to do next is to curb the scientific development of the earth's civilization. As early as the first messages were received, we began to develop plans for this. Now, a very favorable condition has arisen for the realization of these plans: the answer we have received this time has been sent by a betrayer of the Earth civilization, and then we have reason to guess that there are quite a few alien forces within the Earth civilization, and we must make full use of this power. ”

Someone shook his head: "Führer, how easy is it to say, our connection with the earth is as thin as a gossamer, and it takes more than 80,000 hours to complete an answer." ”

The Führer explained blandly: "Not necessarily, just like us, the Earth world learning of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations is a huge shock to the entire society, which will have a profound impact on the internal civilization." It is reasonable to predict that alien forces within the civilization of the planet will converge and grow. ”

The consuls in the field began to ask, "What can they do?" Carry out sabotage"

The Führer raised his head and said confidently: "In a time span of 40,000 hours, any traditional war and terrorist activities are of little strategic significance and can be restored. In such a long span of time, there is only one way to effectively contain the development of a civilization and disarm it, and that is the science that kills them. Now, I would like to ask the Archon of Science to give you a brief overview of the three plans we have already developed. ”

"The first project was codenamed 'Dyeing.'" After a pause, the Science Archon explained, "The Dyeing Project will take full advantage of the side effects of science and technology that have created a fear and aversion to science in the public, such as the environmental problems caused by technological developments in our world, which presumably also exist on Earth." ”

"The second project is codenamed 'Miracles.'" That is, a demonstration of supernatural power to earthlings, this project seeks to build a false universe that cannot be explained by scientific logic through a series of 'miracles'. When this illusion lasts for a certain period of time, it will be possible to make the three-body civilization become the object of worship of religious believers in that world, and in the earth's ideological circles, non-scientific ways of thinking will overwhelm scientific thinking, which will lead to the collapse of the entire scientific system of thought. ”

"How do miracles happen?" Someone asked.

"The key to a miracle being a miracle is that it is something that earthlings can never see. This may require us to import some technology above their current level to the alien forces on Earth. The Archon of Science smiled.

"It's too risky, and who's going to get the technology in the end? It's just playing with fire! Some people shouted their objections.

The Archon of Science shook his head and said, "Of course, what level of technology to input to produce miracles remains to be further studied by us......

"Archon of Science, please, stop!" A man with a straight spine walked out, he was a military consul, and saluted the Führer: "Führer, I want to make my opinion clear: these two plans will hardly do anything to kill the science of mankind. ”

"But it's better to do than not to do it." The scientific consul was loud and-for-tat, refuting the military consul before the marshal wanted to speak.

"That's all." The military consul squinted his eyes slightly, and a smile appeared on his lips to express his contempt.

"I agree with you that the two programs, 'dyeing' and 'miracles', can only interfere with the development of earth science." The Führer nodded to the military consuls, then opened his hands and said to all the consuls present: "We need a decisive action to completely suffocate the science of the earth and lock it up at its current level. ”

"Here, we need to grasp the key point: the comprehensive development of science and technology depends on the development of basic science, and the foundation of basic science lies in the exploration of the deep structure of matter, if there is no progress in this field, science and technology as a whole cannot produce a major breakthrough."