Chapter 1: Mysterious Radio Waves

On June 7, 1954, nine years after the end of the Second World War. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In a village in Zhengyang County, Xinyang, Henan Province, Liu Chunyang was mixing pigweed with the silt at the bottom of the river and stepping on it barefoot, while his wife, Fu Qin, sat on a small bench on the side, constantly pulling out a handful of pigweed from a pile and handing it to Liu Chunyang. In the distance, men, women and children were busy together, some lying on the waterwheel and stepping hard, part of the water leaked back, and some of them went into the ditch that had just been dug in the field with the rotating wood pulp leaves; Others were standing on top of the rake dragged by the buffalo, raising the willow branches in their hands and gently pumping them towards the buffalo's strong buttocks, and the mud that had just been soaked in the water was raked thin and flat.

At this time, most of the more than 150 large projects aided by the Soviet Union had not yet been put into production, and there was a shortage of chemical fertilizers in the country, so they could only rely on Liu Chunyang to mix organic fertilizers to fertilize the land.

Seeing the beads of sweat dripping from under the straw hat, Liu Chunyang shouted distressedly: "Rest for a while, beware of being tired, the dog girl next door was busy in the field a few days ago and had a miscarriage." ”

"Don't get in the way, I'm sitting, and it's not the first time I've conceived a cub." Fu Qin watched Liu Chunyang smoke in the sun, scooped a bowl of water from the bucket and handed it over, Liu Chunyang took it and drank it in one gulp, stretched out his sleeve to wipe his mouth, "Scoop me another bowl."

In the distance, there was a sudden sound as a green jeep swayed along the dirt road. The bare-ass child who was helping the adults put down the life in his hand and rushed up, and a man in a green uniform stuck out his head, "Where is Liu Chunyang?" The child pointed his hand in the direction of Liu Chunyang, and Fu Qin saw it from afar, and his heart fluttered.

The jeep drove closer, the green military uniform and a Zhongshan suit with eyes jumped out of the car, the green military uniform took a yellow schoolbag from the Zhongshan suit, and walked towards Liu Chunyang, Fu Qin stopped the pigweed in her hand, and her sharp eyes recognized the five-pointed star she embroidered on the schoolbag. "Comrade Liu Chunyang, defending the country, he died in North Korea to rescue the child who fell into the water." Fu Qin's hand was loosened, and a handful of pigweed was scattered on the ground, and his eyes were black for a while, and he didn't hear anything after that.

When the sun was setting in the west, it was still morning in Manchester, England, thousands of miles away, and a nurse arrived at Turing's apartment with a syringe. Half a century later, when scientists all over the world want to test the quality of their artificial intelligence, they have to use the method invented by Turing to test it. However, Turing could not see that day, and two years ago, he was found to have a tendency to be in a peer relationship, and after a public trial, the court sentenced him to be injected with hormones.

The nurse came to inject him with hormones as usual, she knocked on Turing's door, there was no answer inside, she spared the garden and came to the bedroom window, through the gap in the curtains, she saw Turing lying motionless on the bed, "Mr. Turing, please open the door", the nurse banged on the window. Turing still didn't respond, and the nurse ran to the public phone booth and dialed the police station.

Soon the police came, the police opened the door, and a man went up and touched Turing's neck, and opened Turing's eyelids, "Dead, pervert." He grunted and closed Turing's eyes again. Another policeman searched around, he found an apple on Turing's bedside, he had already bitten it, he picked up the apple and sniffed it, "Take it back for inspection, you also go back to the police station to cooperate with the inspection." The nurse was overwhelmed, and another group of people came in and carried Turing's body into the car.

In the evening, newspapers large and small have already received the news that "Turing, the father of British computers, committed suicide by poisoning" is on the front page of every newspaper without exception, and tomorrow the whole of Britain and even the world will mourn this great scientist.

The green army hat and tunic helped Liu Chunyang send Fu Qin to the health room, guarded for a long time, and finally nothing went wrong, Fu Qin woke up and saw other pens on the pocket of the tunic suit, "Comrade, Chunyang and I are illiterate, the name of Wei Guo was given by Mr. Yin and Yang in the village, I didn't expect to really give my life for the country." You're a literate person, give me a name for this one in my belly. ”

The tunic thought for a while, "I heard that the Panmunjom peace agreement has been signed, since it is a peaceful era, let's call it Weiping, and keep the whole family safe and secure in the future." As soon as the tunic finished speaking, the green army hat corrected worriedly, "That's an armistice agreement, not a peace agreement." ”

Late at night, the door to Turing's apartment had been sealed. Not far from his apartment, on the campus of the University of Manchester, a nondescript warehouse was lit up, and the guards at the door were vigilantly watching the occasional person coming in and out. Walking into the warehouse, the overhead gas lamps shine on the ground as if it were day, rows of huge machines roar, the scorching heat radiated from the red tubes of the filaments is unbearable, countless relays are piled together, male and female engineers wear uniform uniforms and run back and forth between electronic instruments like workers in textile mills, and they carry not spindles, but perforated paper tapes.

This is Turing's giant computer, which will not be known until more than 20 years later, and the world's first electronic computer, Eñac, built by Americans on the other side of the Atlantic, has become famous all over the world. Iñac's use to calculate ballistic trajectories, despite being a killing machine, is above board, and the Giant's mission is not so glorious, so not many people in the world know that the Giant computer has been working at the University of Manchester for ten years.

Let's start with World War II, where coded communication was the most important part of the transmission of military orders, and there have been countless cases of failure due to codebreaking in history.

The earliest Greeks intercepted the messenger of the Persians, found a belt full of letters, sent to the Greek commander, the general knew that this was a secret letter, but could not guess the information, he thought about it and could not see the result, subconsciously put the belt on the short sword, a miracle appeared, there was a complete sentence on one side of the short sword, with this deciphered secret letter, the Greeks did not spend much effort to defeat the Persians, this method of encryption on short sticks of different diameters became popular in Europe.

After the end of World War I, the Germans rearmament, with huge investment, all aspects of technology by leaps and bounds, and communication encryption is no exception.

The Ingmar encryption machine invented by the Germans is impeccable, its principle is similar to the short stick encryption, but its complex design is forgettable and intimidating, first of all, the letters on its keyboard and the letters of the letter wheel correspond to the wiring order is disrupted, this order is only mastered by the sender and receiver, and then use three groups of transmission letter wheels to transform the corresponding order of letters, forward and reverse rotation is different encoding, this direction is only mastered by the sender and receiver, through such encryption, to try to decipher the German cipher one by one, even if the decipher obtains the Ingmar encryption machine, If you try every possible way to crack the code, I am afraid that the war will be over.

Not long after the war began, the Germans' code was deciphered by Turing, which created favorable conditions for the air defense of the Bully Islands.

After the end of the war, Turing's Giant computer was not decommissioned, nor did it enter the civilian field, as early as 1946, after Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, the task of the Giant computer was not to decipher the Ingmar encrypted telegram, but to begin to decrypt the endless stream of secret telegrams east of the Iron Curtain intercepted by the Berlin listening post.

As the number of ciphers from the Berlin listening post grew, the Giant computer grew bigger and bigger, and it grew from a man-high cabinet during World War II to a monster full of warehouses, and the cost of maintaining it was enormous, with thousands of engineers working for him day and night, and MI6 having a large number of agents on the periphery to take care of its secrecy.

Every day, the engineer receives the signal from the Berlin communication station and uses a punch machine to turn it into a perforated paper tape, enters it into the giant computer and lets it calculate, the engineer waits aside, and if the computer fails, it is immediately eliminated, and the decrypted information is sent to the NATO command. If the intelligence couldn't be decrypted, they continued to expand the machine, adding more tubes, and the monster grew bigger and bigger.

This group of engineers has been running around the warehouse for seven hours, and it is almost time to change shifts. A female worker may be so tired that she can't straighten her waist, and she wants to catch her breath with her hands on her knees, when she hears a snap, a row of electron tubes dimmed, and the perforated paper tape running on the machine shaft stopped with a bang, and the one behind rushed up again, and it became a mess.

"Emily, stand up, turn on the light, and get this damn bed bug out for me." A voice shouted,

Emily quickly straightened up, turned on the miner's lamp on her head, got into the huge machine, searched carefully, and soon used a clip to pick out the cockroach that had been electrocuting and threw it into the trash. At that time, the computer integration was very crude, and a small worm flying in it could stop the machine, so a young and attentive female worker like Emily was very important.

"Where's Kerry, get me the fuse!" The voice in front shouted again, and a young man trotted all the way over, opened the fuse box under the relay, and quickly replaced the fuse, the electron tube lit up again, the shaft began to flicker, and the perforated paper tape passed through the photocells like a snake, and the telegraph typewriter at the end of the machine spit out the coded telegram continuously.

Emily and Kerry walked to the back of the machine and whispered, Kerry put his mouth to Emily's ear, "Emily, have you heard, the American Eniac is commercial, their Federal Bureau of Statistics uses this computer to count presidential votes, and one computer does the work of a national statistician for months in a day!" ”

Emily looked away shyly, "So what?" ”

"Look at our giant machine, the computing power is more than a hundred times stronger than that of Aeniak, doing this kind of unsightly thing every day, World War II has been over for so many years, and we have to work day and night like my father and them before, and the salary is only enough to buy some bread to fill my stomach. Emily, if we can go to the United States, we will definitely make a fortune with our ability. Kerry began to encourage Emily.

"Don't you dream, don't you see the agents with guns outside? We are watched to death, and even when we go on vacation, there are people who follow, where is the opportunity to run. Emily looked around warily.

"Now there is an opportunity, two comedy jetliners of overseas airlines have crashed, so we will buy tickets for comets to go to the United States, and these officers of MI6 are definitely not willing to risk their lives to follow us, and they will have no way to take us when they get to the United States." Kerry has been thinking about it for a long time.

"This is too scary, many people have died in Huixing, I don't dare." Emily looked around nervously, but fortunately there was a loud noise of machines in the warehouse, and no one noticed that they were plotting to escape.

"Don't be afraid, my father's friend in the aviation bureau told me that the comet is because of the use of a pressurized cabin, their aircraft has a thin aluminum skin, and the internal high pressure will make the aluminum skin fatigue and the fuselage will explode after a long time, but their route to the Atlantic Ocean will be replaced with a new plane this week, and outsiders don't know yet, we have to seize this opportunity to go." You see, I got all the plane tickets. Kerry pulled out two tickets from his kit, Emily stopped talking, and it looked like the young man and woman were about to elope.

Kerry and Emily quickly went through the leave process, and when they attached the tickets for the comet plane, the censors turned a blind eye, but at the orders of the officials above, he bought the tickets for the comet plane. But when Kerry and Emily boarded the plane, the censors snuck into the car themselves and drove all the way to their Scottish friend's drink.