Chapter XXXIII: Contact of the Fifth Kind
"WIT, decipher the message! What message did this unknown civilization send! Ruan Lin was quite anxious at this time.
If the meaning of the other party's signal is not deciphered in time, this will lead to the Dark Forest Civilization Theory being staged at this time.
This unknown civilization does not know the good and evil of Ruan Lin, and Ruan Lin will also have suspicions of good and evil in this civilization, and if he can't carry out friendly exchanges immediately, the result will be a war between the two civilizations.
At this time, Ruan Lin ordered all ships to stop moving forward and stop at a distance of 3 million kilometers from Proxima B.
Ruan Lin had previously automatically put Proxima Centauri B into the survival standard of ordinary creatures. He had little hope that there would be intelligent life in Proxima Bcentauri.
In the past, when the distance observation showed that its orbital eccentricity was 0, one side was permanently tidally locked by Proxima Centauri, and the one side close to Proxima Centauri was eternal day, and the other side was eternal night, and there was a habitable zone called the morning and dusk circle at the junction of eternal day and eternal night.
According to the test data just now, the temperature of Proxima Centauri B remains around 0 degrees Celsius, and in general, there is almost no liquid water on the surface.
With the help of the Hubble telescope, Ruan Lin quickly began to observe the morning and dusk circles: there were two radio telescopes with an aperture of 100 meters on the surface, but they were surrounded by pure white walls, and there were cracks at intervals, and around them there were a small number of pure white semicircular buildings.
On the side of Eternal Night, there are also a small number of such buildings. It seems that they were originally creatures that lived underground.
"Dr. Nguyen, the decipherment is complete, and an unknown civilization has sent a 325-bit message. Arrange this information into 5 rows and 13 columns to get this two-dimensional picture. ”
I saw that on the screen, this picture seemed to be Tetris, and after the specific conversion of WIT, a different appearance appeared.
At the top, 1-10 are written in order, and below is the outline of the outer body of a creature, which seems to be a reptile on the earth, the Komodo dragon. But the creature was upright.
It is understandable that Proxima Centauri B is too close to Proxima Centauri, and if there are intelligent creatures on this planet, it must have evolved from reptiles or mollusks.
Ruan Lin speculated that the appearance of the intelligent creatures of this civilization must have been covered with thick scales, and in order to resist the powerful radiation in the evolution, their scales also had the effect of protecting against radiation.
Ruan Lin said: "WIT, send them 1,679 bits of information, divided into 73 rows and 23 columns, mainly divided into numbers, basic elements of life, human size and form, and the original data of our solar system. ”
"Now that they have mastered radio telescope technology, they should be able to decipher it as a demonstration of the goodwill of our civilization on Earth."
At the same time, in a large room, dozens of intelligent beings sat around a round table, and they were arguing endlessly.
If Ruan Lin was here, then he would definitely be able to recognize these creatures, they were what he had envisioned them to be. They are the indigenous creatures of Proxima B.
And in their screens, there are photos of the fleets of the earth's civilizations.
"This ship of an unknown civilization is about to fly to the face of our home planet! Their ships are simply overwhelming! It's horrible! They certainly have the power to destroy our home planet! I said it a long time ago, don't send unsolicited messages! We're all exposed! ”
"Could they be pretending to be kind to us and destroying us when our sense of defense is at its weakest?"
“... No! I don't think this civilization has any ill intentions, and if they want to start a war against us, we will have nothing to fight back! We haven't even built the ship of our imagination yet. Kahn bless! Hopefully. ”
And sitting in the center should be the leader of their civilization. He said slowly: "Stop, this civilization has sent us a new message, and your main job is to decipher it!" And not endless bickering. ”
The quarrel in the room stopped in an instant, as if nothing had happened, and they lowered their heads and continued to decipher the message...
Ruan Lin waited for their response while again observing the orbit around Proxima Centauri B with the help of the Hubble telescope, and found only two small probes.
Ruan Lin raised his head: "Wit, I think this civilization has just entered the information age and not long ago, they may have only gotten out of the Malthusian trap while we were traveling, and then experienced a technological explosion in just a few hundred years like the earth." This also explains why their surface buildings are so scarce. ”
"Yes, Dr. Nguyen. If they had already entered the information age, we would have received their signals when we were on Earth. ”
About 5 hours later, the Titan received a new signal, and WIT immediately began a new round of decipherment.
The screen is filled with a myriad of dense characters, as well as abstract pictures, long sentences, and some pronunciation frequencies.
Ruan Lin breathed a sigh of relief: "This should be a comparison table and dictionary of their language, they want us to understand their language!" They have good intentions towards us. ”
He stared at the screen and continued, "Wit, join me to start deciphering it!" We must master their language! ”
This linguistic decipherment brings out the strength of quantum computers – inverse computation.
Ruan Lin quickly mastered their language through computer probabilistic and statistical models and a small number of comparisons.
He walked to the exit of the Titan, "I feel like it's time for an official engagement, I need to get into another Meteor class destroyer to land on their home planet."
WIT, keep all our ships in this position, protect the Titan, and stay on high alert! We can't completely put our minds at ease. ”
"Okay, Dr. Nguyen. Another ship is being called, and I'm going to use the Titan's external manipulator to send this body of yours into the ship. Wit replied.
Once again, I entered another ship, only to see that there were several survey robots on standby inside.
Ruan Lin smiled bitterly: "Okay, you can also be my escort!" ”
The voyage takes 50 minutes to reach the surface of Proxima B.
The closer you get to it, the more you can discover its true appearance: the cracks in the dawn and dusk circles are not caused by geological activity, but the passage to the light of this civilization! It was also the passage they went back to the underground, there was a rectangular passage like this every 1 kilometer, and there was always a semicircular white building next to the passage, which Ruan Lin speculated might be the management station of the passage.
Ships begin to break through Proxima Centauri's atmosphere, which is as thin as the Martian atmosphere.
Below, there are already several intelligent beings of this civilization waiting here.
"Turn off the controllable fusion engine and turn on the thrust reverser."
The plasma sparks behind the meteor-class destroyer gradually disappeared, and the surface was completely visible.
At this moment, Ruan Lin had already looked out of the porthole and was distracted.
"It's spectacular! Three-day volley! ”