Drive more than 100 kilometers west from New York City along Highway 80 and then turn north from Highway 81 to the small city of Ithaca, which is surrounded by mountains, Cornell University is located in the northeast corner, the Falcreek River runs through the campus, widening in the center of the campus, forming a natural lake, and the campus is full of towering trees, and the scenery is very beautiful. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Assanzi and Lin Shuangmian fell in love with this place as soon as they arrived, and compared to the Caribbean, it seemed that it was just a change of place in paradise.

After returning from Japan, he became the project leader, and Lin Shuangmian used the form processing skills he learned at the Polytechnique de Montréal in his early years, and also found an errand in the computer center to help Assanzi do some data post-processing work, and sketch everywhere in Ithaca in his spare time.

Since Liu Siquan's untimely death, Lin Shuangmian has suffered from pregnancy phobia, and the American Dink culture is popular, and the two of them do not have children, and they live a fairy life in Cornell.

Assanzi is particularly keen to analyze data from the Areciwo telescope, and he often fights with other project leaders for resources at the computer center.

The next year, the House of Representatives agreed to allocate $1 billion to connect the supercomputers in the United States with optical fibers, and Cornell was one of them, which allowed the supercomputers to share resources and assign additional tasks when other computers were idle.

"I really don't understand you, staring at those signals every day, what's the fun in it?" Lin Shuangmian finally couldn't hold back his curiosity.

"You don't know, I grew up near the Arecivo telescope when I was a kid, I was born." Assanzi said seriously, "You probably have a demon, maybe you are destined to be the first to come into contact with aliens." Looking at Assanzi's serious demeanor, Lin Shuangmian felt a little funny.

On February 22, 1993, after being elected president, Clinton announced the launch of the National Information Highway Program, which would network all computers in the country and formally establish the Internet on the basis of the ARPA network.

When this exciting news was broadcast on the TV in Assanzi's office, Assanzi excitedly knocked over the water glass on the ground, "With these massive resources connected to the Internet, I am really going to find out!" ”

August 30 is Monday, which is the wedding anniversary of Assanzi and Lin Shuangmian, and Lin Shuangmian did not go to work and stayed at home to pack up and prepare for the candlelight dinner in the evening.

Assanzi came to the office to take a look at the signal processing program, and then began to wait for the end of work, just after lunch, the office came to the office with a few uninvited guests in military uniforms.

"Is that Mr. Assanzi? I'm Adrian from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency." The leader himself sat down, and the people who accompanied him stood behind him.

"I'm Mr. Adrian, do we have an appointment?" Assanzi thought these people were weird.

"There are no appointments, the situation is a bit sudden, I don't think we need to make an appointment." Adrian said, "Mr. Assanzi, you've been working on the Arecivo project for almost twenty years, how do you feel?" I haven't been able to find aliens, right? ”

Assanzi did not answer his questions.

"Now declassified, let's be honest, this project is ostensibly an astronomical project at Cornell University, and the real funder is our Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which used up almost half of our annual budget before the ARPANET, and it was not used to listen to extraterrestrial signals, but to listen to human signals reflected from the ionosphere." Looking at the look of surprise on Assanzi's face, Adrian said, "It seems that Old Kerry's tone is quite tight, but unfortunately, he should have told you the truth earlier, so that you could prepare, even his own son is too cruel." ”

Adrian took a bag of papers from the person next to him and threw it over, "Mr. Assanzi, I now officially inform you that from now on, the Arecivo Observatory will cease to work and will be officially closed within a week, and all the data in the data processing center will be handed over to our Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Ministry of Defense. ”

"Why? Can you let it exist, isn't it always under your control, processing the ionospheric reflections for you? What an observatory, a trick of deception, has less than one percent of the resources used to process signals from outer space! Assanzi angrily asked.

"Old Kerry told you everything?" Adrian took a fresh look at Assanzi.

"Do you think everyone at the observatory is blind and can be toyed with by you? From the day I entered the radio department, I knew there were ghosts inside. Assanzi's heart aches when he thinks that nearly 20 years of hard work will be wasted.

Adrian stood up and prepared to leave Assanzi's office, "Mr. Assanzi, since you know everything and can work on this project for so many years, it is worthy of admiration, then I will also let you completely understand the current reality, the wireless era is over, now is the wired era, all the data on the earth will be exchanged through the Internet, I think you are so smart that you will understand." ”

After saying that, Adrian left the office, and several other people began to check Assanzi's computer, "Mr. Adrian, didn't you notice that now is the time for mobile phones to become popular?" How can we say that the wireless era is over? Assanzi didn't give up, and shouted at Adrian who was about to get into the car, and Adrian waved at him expressionlessly, got into the car and left.

Assanzi leaned against the door, looking up at the sky, countless invisible radio waves filled the vast blue sky, Assanzi seemed to feel that the earth under his feet had disappeared, he and these radio waves had become one, flying into the boundless universe, the Arecivo Observatory was closed, and there was nothing on the earth for him to be nostalgic.

The listless Assanqi returned home, Lin Shuangmian's dining table was ready, she saw that Assanqi looked wrong, and hurriedly asked what was going on, Assanqi sat down, poured some red wine himself, he poured it for Lin Shuangmian again, raised the cup and touched Lin Shuangmian, took a sip of himself, and Lin Shuangmian also lightly soaked.

"Shuangmian, the Arecivo Observatory is closing, and I have to go to Puerto Rico to deal with the aftermath." Lin Shuangmian put his heart down, "I thought something was going on, it turned out that you were going to lose your job, now is not the depression era of five years ago, you see how prosperous the United States is now, what are you afraid of, come to the spirit point, cheers for our silk wedding." Lin Shuangmian thought about how to comfort Assanzi, who looked preoccupied, and a night passed in this dull atmosphere.

The next day, Assanzi left Ithaca and left for New York to fly to Puerto Rico, and Lin Shuangmian drove him to the airport, where he held Lin Shuangmian tightly in his arms at the entrance. When Assanzi's plane took off, Lin Shuangmian drove back to Ithaca in a distraught mood, Assanzi has been strange for the past two days, and the observatory is closed as for this? Lin Shuangmian gradually began to worry.

In the afternoon, Assanzi could see the whole island of Puerto Rico from the porthole, the Arecivo telescope sparkling in the sunlight, like a pearl embedded in the coastline, looking at the largest radar on the planet, Assanzi's mind went back to 1973.

After the signing of the Paris Quadripartite Agreement, Assanzi and his companions landed at Cam Ranh Bay escorted by troop carriers, and the well-informed people in Saigon had already managed to retreat, and the fall of the South Vietnamese regime was just around the corner.

After the landing, Assanzi's squad was sent to the forward position of Buon Ma Thuot in Dak Rak Province to set up an observation post to monitor the movements of North Vietnamese troops. It didn't take long for Assanzi to discover that the truck had brought huge antennas and generators, and then the captain, Captain Skreyel, gave them the task of using the most advanced directional microwave weapons for actual combat verification, destroying the opposing radio station and living forces, and evaluating the combat effect.

"Isn't this a violation of the Paris armistice?" Assanzi was the first to question, "Who would have known that the earth had a weapon like microwaves?" Sklell pointed to the truck, "If we fall into the hands of the enemy, the first task is to blow up the equipment, we didn't fire a single bullet, and no one knows about destroying the equipment." ”

They set up camp in Buon Ma Thuot, trained for months, and after training they advanced to the front, and after several weeks without detecting North Vietnamese radio stations and living forces, the General Staff asked Sklew's squad to remain silent and wait for an opportunity to fight.

Just when they were bored and waiting, the news came that the North Vietnamese troops were moving south along the coastal passage, the South Vietnamese troops were crushed, Cam Ranh Bay fled without a fight, abandoned the city and headed south, and the Sklell supply line on the western plateau was immediately cut off.

Even more terrible things were to come, as the North Vietnamese troops outflanked Buon Ma Thuot to the south of Buon Ma Thuot, and Buon Ma Thuot became an isolated city and lost contact with Saigon. After consulting with the staff, Scklya led the team and equipment to retreat to a rubber plantation on the outskirts of the city.

Entering the rubber plantation, they discovered the North Vietnamese combat radio, and Scklee ordered the antenna to be pointed in the direction of the radio station to transmit high-energy microwaves, and soon the other party's radio station was silent, and the first combat exercise was a success, and the staff immediately called and asked them to find the living forces of North Vietnam to complete the second exercise.

Szalla sent Assanzi and another black boy, Ida, out to observe the situation, and not long after, the two of them retreated back to their positions in a panic, "Captain, the overwhelming North Vietnamese soldiers outside are surrounding, hurry up and retreat!" ”

Skolai himself poked out of the rubber plantation to see, scattered in the distance about 100 people with rifles around him, Scholey secretly screamed badly, also retreated, he waved his hand, and started the truck along the road in the rubber plantation to drive deeper, not long after driving, they found a warehouse for storing rubber, and there were two American-made trucks parked at the door, full of rubber tapping barrels.

Scorley stopped, two Vietnamese came out of the warehouse, a man and a woman looked like father and daughter, the little girl was only a teenager, Scorley desperately gestured to ask if they had any way, the man shook his hand, pulled Sclair down, signaled them to move the radio antenna and generator from the truck to the warehouse, and the soldiers covered the equipment tightly with dried rubber sheets.

The Vietnamese told them to hide in the warehouse, and Sklew, who was not at ease, grabbed the little girl and prepared to take her hostage, the Vietnamese did not find it strange, probably he thought that Sklehla was afraid that the little girl would be in danger when she went out.

After a while, there was a cacophony outside, and after a quarrel, two gunshots rang out, and Sklell covered the little girl's mouth tightly, and the team members pressed their hands on the rifle triggers, ready for the people outside to come in and fight to the death.

The quarrel outside was gone, a puff of smoke came in, followed by the roar of trucks, it seemed that someone was setting a fire outside, the smoke was getting bigger and bigger, everyone couldn't open their eyes, and the little Vietnamese girl fainted.

Scorley stretched out his hand to silence everyone, and everyone was so painfully stuffed in the warehouse, Date couldn't bear it, he lay on the ground, feeling better, he made a gesture, and everyone fell down.

After holding on like this for a while, the smoke spread downward, and Date couldn't stand it anymore, and he rushed out of the gate with his rifle in hand, and Keklai scolded "Damn! I had to run out with a gun.

They went out of the warehouse door and began to breathe heavily, but what they didn't expect was that the truck and the North Vietnamese soldiers had long since disappeared, the Vietnamese man was lying on the ground and was shot twice in the chest, and a few letters were written in blood on the ground, Assanzi had received simple Vietnamese language training before leaving, and he recognized it as if he was a traitor.

The little girl cried when she saw the corpse, and Skorley had to cover her mouth again. After a while, it was confirmed that there was no one, and Scorley turned on the radio and began to contact the staff, asking for a helicopter to be sent to pick them up and retreat, but they didn't expect the voice from the radio to make them helpless, "Please complete the second task and evaluate, please complete the second task and evaluate!" After saying that, the other party turned off the radio.

Assanzi and the others looked at Skorley, who blushed, "Damn, we've all been fooled." ”

"What should I do?" Someone asked, and Skorley turned his gaze to the little girl.

"No, you can't do that, her father just saved us." Assanzi yelled that it was too cruel for him to accept.

"Soldier, there must be no woman's kindness on the battlefield, or you will take her place and rescue us." Skolai yelled at him.

"But she's just a civilian?" Assanzi asked rhetorically.

With a wave of his hand, the soldiers came out of the antenna and the generator, and a soldier walked up and pulled the generator starting rope, and the lights on the radio flashed one by one, and the little girl didn't know what these people were doing, standing there shivering.

Skorley aimed the antenna at the little girl, and Date couldn't stand it, and stood in front of the little girl, "Captain, we can't do this!" ”

Scklee stepped up and threw a left hook at Ida, causing Ida to fall to the ground in pain, and the other team members were scared.

"Captain, you're going to court-martial." Assanzi was also anxious. Szlath pulled out his pistol and pointed it at Assanzi's head, "That's you, soldier, go press that button and see who's going to stand in the dock!" ”