Chapter 4: Adventism
Pang Xuelin looked at Evans, patiently organizing the language.
"Evans, I'm not feeling well lately!"
"What's wrong?"
"I don't know, there's a feeling of indescribability, you know that since I was a child, I've had a natural sensitivity to numbers, but recently I've found that this feeling is gone, I'm tired, and I have a bad premonition."
Evans frowned and said, "Bad premonition? ”
"I don't know how to say, maybe the Lord hasn't been in touch with us for too long, I had a dream last night that our ship was being attacked by a human government as it crossed the Panama Canal."
Evans laughed and said, "Pang, you are too tired, you must know that Zhizi is on the earth, if the human government launches a strike against us, the Lord will definitely give us a warning in advance." ”
Pang Xuelin pondered for a long time and said, "Lord, you haven't been in touch with us for a long time. ”
Evans said: "Three years and nine months! ”
"I want to know why the Lord stopped contacting us."
Evans said, "The Lord has his own considerations, and I don't know why the Lord stopped contacting us. ”
Pang Xuelin looked at Evans and said, "Then, if the human government has sensed our existence and launched an attack on us, are you sure, Lord, will definitely give us an early warning?" ”
The smile on Evans's face gradually retracted, and his originally soft eyes gradually became fierce.
Pang Xuelin's face did not change, and he looked at Evans, he knew that this temptation had reached the most critical moment.
In the original novel, the Three-Body Civilization obtains a lot of information about human civilization through the Earth Three-Body Organization (ETO), and finally they find that there is a very obvious difference between human beings and the Three-Body Civilization at the biological and sociological levels.
Unlike human beings, who communicate through laryngeal vibrations, in the Three-Body Civilization, individuals communicate with each other through brain waves, including but not limited to visible light, and this communication can be presented over considerable distances.
Their thinking and memory can be shown directly to the outside world, "thinking" and "speaking" are the same meaning, and this is a society where thinking is completely transparent.
Each Trisolaran individual can see each other's thoughts, and there are no lies between each other at all.
Therefore, in the three-body civilization, there is no concept of stratagem and lies, and they are not able to carry out complex strategic thinking.
Humans, on the other hand, think through their brains and communicate through their throats.
The human mind is closed.
Many times, people say things differently than they think in their heads.
In the communication with Evans, the three-body civilization initially believed that this was an evolutionary defect of human beings, and the communication method of laryngeal vibration and vocalization was inefficient, and the direct communication method of brain waves was an order of magnitude higher in efficiency.
It wasn't until Evans' repeated explanations that they realized that human beings were able to hide their thinking, which was a huge strategic advantage for the Three-Body Civilization.
The intellectuals of the Trisolaran can observe every move of human beings, but they cannot see through human thoughts.
As a result, the Trisolarans became fearful, and even lost trust in ETO and cut off contact with ETO.
In the second part of the novel, "Dark Forest", human beings are also based on this, and formulate a magnificent "wall-facer" plan to confront the three-body civilization.
"Do you know something?"
Evans looked at Pang Xuelin and said word by word.
Pang Xuelin said: "Some time ago, when the computer center was being maintained, I inadvertently turned over the last chat record between you and the Lord. ”
The deck was quiet again, and Evans was silent for a long time.
The last time he communicated with the Three-Body Civilization was to talk about the differences in the way of communication between humans and the Three-Body Humans, which also led to the fear of the Three-Body People towards ETO, and even took the initiative to cut off the connection with ETO.
Pang Xuelin continued: "Lord, don't trust us, but the Lord needs us. ”
After a long time, Evans said, "What do you want to do?" ”
Pang Xuelin turned around, looked at the direction of the "Judgment Day", and said: "I have a feeling that danger is approaching us, the existence of the Judgment Day is not a secret, at least the salvation faction and the survivor party have a considerable understanding of us, including the commander (Ye Wenjie, the first human to establish contact with the three-body civilization, the spiritual leader of the three-body organization on the earth, was given the title of commander). If the human government was aware of our existence, guess when? ”
Evans turned, and a dark cloud appeared in the distant sky, and a storm seemed to be brewing.
Evans' eyes narrowed slightly, and he said, "If the human government really knows about our existence, then in four days, the Judgment Day will cross the Panama Canal, and it will be the best time for them to make a move!" ”
Pang Xuelin said: "I have a way to verify whether we have been exposed!" ”
"What's the solution?"
"The Judgment Day has been cruising the oceans, and if the human government were to do anything to us, the first target should be the key people of the Salvation and Survivor factions operating on land, capture them, and get the relevant secrets from them before they can do anything to us. Now the commander of the joint system, if you can't contact the commander, then contact Shen Yufei, Pan Han, Keiko Shan and others, if more than a third of these people lose contact, then we are in danger! ”
In the novel, Ye Wenjie has been arrested, Shen Yufei, Pan Han and others have died, and both the salvation faction and the survivor faction have suffered a major blow, and only a few people survive.
Evans glanced at Pang Xuelin deeply, nodded and said, "I'll let someone do it right away!" ”
After speaking, he walked directly past Pang Xuelin and returned to the bridge.
Pang Xuelin looked at the huge clouds that had been completely formed in the distant sky, this conversation just now should still be under Zhizi's observation, but the Trisolarans should not contact ETO for a short time, until the "Wall Project" was launched, and the Trisolarans realized the danger in it, and they would reactivate ETO.
Pang Xuelin muttered to himself: "The storm is coming!" ”
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Pang Xuelin doesn't know how much impact he will have on the plot because of himself, if because of himself, human beings finally failed to get the relevant information of the "Three-Body Civilization", which changed the final historical trend, Pang Xuelin can only say sorry.
For this world, he is always an outsider, and he must first ensure the safety of his own life before he thinks about the survival of human civilization.
In the evening, the storm came.
The 60,000-ton giant ship was drifting in the wind and rain, and Pang Xuelin had no appetite, so he returned to the cabin early to rest.
At eight o'clock in the evening, there was a banging on the hatch.
Pang Xuelin opened the hatch, and Grant stood at the door.
"What's wrong, Grant?"
Grant said, "Pong, Evans asked me to call you to the conference room!" ”
Pang Xuelin was slightly stunned and nodded, it seems that there is already news from Evans's side.
The two of them went one after the other, and soon came to the conference room of the "Judgment Day".
The conference room is not big, and there are already seven people in it, except for Evans, the remaining six are the core of the advent faction, and in the memory instilled in Pang Xuelin by the system, there is the information of these six people.
Of the six, four were men and two women.
Two women, one in his early forties, an Australian, was a former Associated Press reporter who made a name for herself for exposing the abuse of prisoners by U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Another beautiful-looking woman in her thirties is a Korean-American, well-known biologist known for being anti-GMO, who was prosecuted for exposing a multinational pharmaceutical company conducting human trials in Africa, and later escaped the lawsuit with Evans' help and joined the ETO.
There were four men left, two white, one yellow and one black.
One of the two whites is from France, a former executive at a large French multinational corporation who spent five years in prison after being indicted by the U.S. Commerce Department on a mandatory commercial bribery charge.
Another artist from Italy, who is known all over the world, is known for helping Syrian refugees flee the country.
Originally from Japan, Huang Ren is a well-known manga artist who is known for his expertise in dark and apocalyptic comics.
The last black man, Fred, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, was removed from the Navy SEALs for refusing to carry out orders from his superiors to massacre an African tribe in the course of his mission, and is now the commander of the ETO Advent forces and a henchman of Evans.
Pang Xuelin's gaze swept over the six people, and finally focused on the center of the conference table, above a silver metal pedestal, three small balls the size of ping-pong balls were doing irregular three-body movements in the air.
"Alright, everyone is here!"
Evans got up from his seat with a serious expression, and several others got up one after another.
Evans raised his right fist and shouted, "Destroy the tyranny of humanity!" ”
"The world belongs to the three-body problem!"
Pang Xuelin learned from several other people and raised his arms and shouted together.
"Comrades, sit down!"
Evans said, "Gather everyone here today, there is one thing I need to inform you. ”
"At noon today, Comrade Pang Xuelin came to me and told me that he has not been feeling very well lately, and he is worried that our presence will be exposed. So out of prudence, I tried to contact our comrades on land, but in the end we found that we could only contact one-fifth of them, including the commander-in-chief, and the remaining four-fifths of the important comrades in the organization were lost! ”
"What?"
When the words fell, everyone's faces showed horror.
Christina, a journalist-turned-journalist, asked: "Comrade Evans, is the news accurate?" ”
Evans said: "We have activated the backup communication satellite that we have secretly launched, which is an emergency communication channel, and all comrades who receive the news will contact the Judgment Day as soon as possible, but so far, we have only received a very small number of messages from comrades. From this, we can be sure that the three-body organization of the earth has been completely exposed to the human government, and our branches in various countries have been attacked, and even the commanders may be arrested! ”
"What about Tomoko? Why didn't the Lord inform us? ”
"Has the Lord given up on us?"
"The Lord hasn't contacted us for almost four years, Comrade Evans, what happened in the meantime?"
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Many of them had expressions of despair on their faces, and a few questioned Evans.
Evans seemed to be prepared for everyone's doubts, and said lightly: "Lord, you have your own considerations. But I hope that all of you here will not forget our ideals, our program: human beings are an evil species, human civilization has committed heinous crimes against the earth, human beings must be punished, and the real purpose of our request to the Lord is to destroy all mankind! In the face of this goal, any sacrifice is worth it! ”