However, after a pause, Ji Zhuo withdrew his gaze and continued to wash.

After washing, I picked up my mobile phone and walked into the study, and replied to a few messages by the way.

"Clumsy and extraordinary: Okay, thank you, big guy.

Squid: You're welcome, you're welcome. ”

"Clumsy and extraordinary: Okay, thank you, big guy.

Editor-in-Chief: Yes. ”

Whether this anime is popular or not has little impact on Ji Zhuo,

It's naturally good if it's hot, and it's not bad if it's not hot.

looked at the news of the bombing in the book friend group,

Ji Zhuo put his mobile phone aside and sat at the desk in the study.

Even if he was going to see how about this anime adapted from "Mortal Cultivation of Immortals",

We'll have to wait until the evening.

At this moment, Ji Zhuo turned on the computer and prepared to start today's codeword work.

……

Open the codeword software,

Ji Zhuo didn't start the code words directly, but took a cursory look at the chapters that had been written a few days ago.

The protagonist of this sci-fi is somewhat special,

It's not like other science fiction, he's not a scientist, and he's not a leader-type character.

Or a science scientist who is more in line with the science fiction theme.

The main character, Wu Mu, is a historical researcher who is about to become an associate professor at university...... Well, not bad.

However, it is questionable what role a scholar of history can play in the context of science fiction.

The opening paragraph,

briefly explained Wu Mu's identity, and wrote that Wu Mu was a little sleepless because he was about to be hired as an associate professor in the history department of the university on the second day.

And further down,

The plot also gradually began to kick off.

“…… At the same time, there are many people who can't sleep.

At the Yushan Observatory of the Capital Observatory, because the time had come to the second half of the night, the two researchers on duty at the observatory tonight were inevitably a little sleepy.

They are responsible for monitoring the antique equipment of the Capital Observatory 'Tianwen-1', and from the excitement and anticipation at the beginning to the accumulation of time, only to see the signal of countless cosmic noise background radiation, which has also consumed most of their enthusiasm.

However, Tianwen is still tirelessly searching for and receiving signals from outside the sky, and converting these signals into data and transmitting them back to the central control computer, which will store these data and analyze whether there are characteristic signals through the program.

And these two are guarding 'Tianwen' in the middle of the night, and their only job is to see the very occasional alarm of the central control computer analysis program, whether it is some accident, such as a pulsar signal that has not been eliminated, or whether there are really some laws and data containing some information.

"Drop! Drip! ”

A short, shrill alarm sounded from the central control computer, waking up the two researchers at once, and their originally sleepy and hazy thoughts became clear in an instant. ”

"Lao Chen, the central control computer has called the police. Let's see if our 'old antique' has surprised us. ”

After only briefly waking up, one of the researchers smiled and said to the other researcher next to him.

"I don't like any 'surprises', I'd rather it be because I haven't observed a pulsar signal before, than because our old man's observation receiver is out of order."

The researcher named Lao Chen also replied with a smile.

However, while the two were talking, they still went to the central control computer.

On the display screen of the central control computer, some regular signals are still being recorded.

The smiles on the faces of the two converged, and they carefully called up the data and began to roughly review the analysis,

But it didn't take long for the two of them to suddenly become serious, and they sank deeper and deeper.

“…… Old Chen, I don't think it's like a pulse signal. ”

“…… I don't believe it either, and this data hasn't stopped until now, and it's a lot of data......"

The two spoke one after another, followed by the surprise of each other's words, and turned their heads to look at each other.

"The background radiation has been eliminated and is not a pulsed signal...... So what is this signal that has a certain pattern? ”

“…… Notify the webmaster! We've received regular signals from outside the sky, and they're still going on. ”

meanwhile

Many other astronomical stations at home and abroad have also received the same direction in the same direction.

For example, the largest radio telescope in China, the monitoring station located here is much more lively.

Even in the middle of the night and early in the morning, there are still a large number of researchers working.

They also noticed the peculiarities and anomalies of these signals for the first time.

“…… Align all the receivers of the observatory that can receive electromagnetic signals in that direction. ”

“…… What do you say are the signals of these patterns? ”

“…… I don't know, webmaster. But they're so special......"

The plot progresses here,

Almost all observatories in many places have received and observed special wireless signals from outside the sky.

And the possibility of some cosmic celestial movements and background radiation is ruled out.

This is the end of the first chapter of the new book.

……

Then comes the second chapter.

After the observatories pointed the receiving equipment in this direction, a large amount of data was received and recorded.

It was also found that after the observatory observed these signals, the data of these signals were repeated three times in total, and then stopped.

In total, 0.7 petabytes of data were recorded.

And these signals also have obvious regular characteristics.

All kinds of possibilities point to one possibility—extraterrestrial civilizations.

thereupon

After the news is reported by the observatories,

The countries in the book immediately organized a large number of top cryptographers, linguists, and mathematicians.

Try to decode this information.

And again, unexpectedly,

The decryption of these signal data went extremely smoothly.

According to one of the mathematicians in the book,

"This unknown extraterrestrial civilization seems to be afraid that we will not be able to decode this huge amount of data, so it just uses a number of extremely simple mathematical coding methods."

That's just 0.7 petabytes of signal data after being decoded.

The information contained in these signal data is roughly divided into three parts.

The first part should be a dictionary of words, probably the civilization that sent the signal in order to make it easier for the civilization to understand this part of the information.

It even contains a mathematically presented pattern or picture corresponding to the word.

The second part seems to be the message, or what it wants to say, from the civilization that sends electromagnetic signals to the receiving civilization.

And the third part is the data that is still chaotic, and humans still don't know what it is for the time being. It seems that the previous decoding method did not use this part of the data.

Among them, the third part has the largest data, the second part is second, and the first part is the least.

And because of the dictionary of words sent by the extraterrestrial civilization along with the electromagnetic wave signal, the translation of these data is also going smoothly.

So the plot of the second chapter,

It will probably be up to the initial translation of some of the data received.

On the other hand, the protagonist Wu Mu is still attending the appointment ceremony of an associate professor at his university.

“…… Monarch. The decoding translation team has already translated and received some of the information contained in the data. ”

"I'll look at ......"

……

"Mr. Wu Mu is hereby appointed as an associate professor in the Department of History of Capital University."

“…… Professor Wu congratulates and hopes that Professor Wu can contribute more to the school in the future. ”

"Thank you, Headmaster."

……

Then the plot continues to unfold.

The protagonist Wu Mu also began to intervene in this incident of receiving the extraterrestrial civilization.

Because of the successful decoding and translation of the electromagnetic wave signal data of the extraterrestrial civilization,

The state organized a high-level and highly confidential meeting, which brought together a large number of experts and scholars in various fields to participate.

Wu Mu, a scholar of history, is among them.

The next plot basically unfolds from the perspective of the protagonist Wu Mu,

Wu Mu was drunk at a celebration banquet with a group of colleagues,

The next day, when it was almost noon, they were still asleep in bed.

But he was woken up by a sharp knock on the door.

The people who came were two people with obvious military style, like two officers.

"Mr. Wu Mu, we are official personnel, and this is our ID. For a number of reasons, we invite you to a special meeting. We hope you will accompany us. ”

The visitor showed Wu Mu his ID, which showed that he was a staff officer of the military staff.

This made Wu Mu feel a little inexplicable.

However, after calling and inquiring about the school college, I found out that the person who came was real.

However, the college and the school did not know what the meeting was.

What special meetings does the military need to participate in as a historian and a professor of history?

Exploded some ancient tomb during the drill?

Wu Mu laughed at himself in his heart,

But now that the identity of the visitor has been confirmed, he will follow the visitor to that special meeting.

The car carrying Wu Mu quickly left the city,

Then I drove more and more away, and finally I came to a place.

It's more like a secret military base.

After entering the meeting room,

Wu Mu found that there were also a large number of experts in other fields who attended the meeting.

Physics field, mathematics field, aerospace field and other fields of the bull.

Some are names that Wu Mu, a historian has heard,

There are also some familiar ones, who are professors at Capital University with Wu Mutong, and they have had some shallow intersections by chance on weekdays.

However, there is only one authority in the field of historical research, except for Wu Mu.

This made Wu Mu feel very strange,

What to discuss in such a high-profile conference room?

If there is a scientific problem to be discussed, what is he going to do with another professor in the field of historical research?

If it is a question of history, then why are there so many experts in physics and mathematics?

This question,

It lasted until the official start of the meeting.

And the person who presided over this meeting made the protagonist Wu Mu feel surprised and shocked.

The person presiding over the meeting turned out to be the person who often appears in the news, the Führer.

And with this comes deeper doubts,

And the same doubts also exist in the minds of some other experts and professors who are not yet unaware.

finally

The meeting begins.

“…… Ladies and gentlemen, I am Shao Guoan. ”

“…… You may wonder why you are here, including physicists, mathematicians, astronomers, astronauts, cryptographers, sociologists and historians. ”

“……”

"Two days ago, in the middle of the night, we were at various observatories, and the monitoring stations were all in the same direction at the same time, and they received electromagnetic wave signals with certain laws."

Listening to the Führer's speech,

And the specifications of the meeting at the moment,

The hearts of the experts and professors who were still unaware of the meeting jumped suddenly,

Including the protagonist Wu Mu.

"Our astronomers and researchers have ruled out that the signal is caused by cosmic background radiation and the movement of some celestial body. After the relevant features pointed to the 'extraterrestrial civilization', we organized a large number of cryptographers, linguists and mathematicians to interpret and decode the received signal data. ”

"It soon became clear that the way the signal data was encoded was extremely simple. Because of this, we were able to decode these signals very quickly. Got some data information. ”

"We received a total of 0.7 petabytes of data, which is a huge number."

"The information contained in this data is about three parts, the dictionary, what this 'extraterrestrial civilization' says to us, and the vast amount of information that is still in chaos and has not been decoded."

"This morning, the preliminary decoding and translation of the second part of the information has been completed, which is why the experts and professors have been summoned."

The Führer's voice fell.

The entire conference room fell silent.

The sheer volume of information constantly stimulates the nerves of the participants.

Wu Mu couldn't help but feel the nerves on his temples beat a few times with his heart when he listened.

Humanity has received a message from an alien civilization! The existence of extraterrestrial civilizations is directly confirmed.

However, while his heart was shaking, Wu Mu once again had some doubts.

If it is the revelation of the traces of an alien civilization that brings about the crisis, what is he to do as a historian?

What can he do?

"Now, you can get this part of the translated information, which is the words given to us by this extraterrestrial civilization."

Accompanied by the Führer's speech,

Paper materials were distributed to all the participating experts.

Wu Mu also got this information,

The first time he got it, he looked down like the other professors in the meeting.

“…… The birds in a cage (cage: some kind of enclosed space in the original text. Bird: Refers to an ornamental creature in the original text. We are out-of-cage observers. (Outside the cage: the meaning in the original text is outside a certain space).

Congratulations, you are qualified to receive information from us (which may mean the ability to receive electromagnetic signals from the universe).

This means that your civilization has reached the threshold of joining us. (We: This is a special noun in the original text, which should refer to the civilization or the alliance of civilizations).

Do you feel the loneliness of the universe (loneliness: the meaning of loneliness, loneliness in the original text. Beyond your galaxy is our curtain (curtain: the word in the original text means false. You are the birds we protect (protection: the original text may mean to nurture, to feed. ）。

Breaking through the tipping point, you have the qualifications to join the civilization of the universe.

We have set up two puzzles (questions) for you to solve. The curtain (false) disappears. ”

The whole translation seems to be tight on time and a little rough.

There are a lot of words that don't make sense. But I can already basically understand the meaning.

This unknown extraterrestrial civilization says that they are observers beyond the solar system or beyond.

And human civilization is just a weak civilization in a relatively large cage, and human beings have been developing since the development of astronomy.

The observed stars outside the solar system are just a huge curtain, and those distant stars are fake, like virtual projections.

That's why mankind hasn't found an extraterrestrial civilization for so long.

And if human civilization can solve the puzzle of this self-proclaimed observer civilization, it will be eligible to join the real universe, or the civilization level will be increased to become a more powerful civilization.

And it didn't say that if it can't be solved, what will happen to human civilization, and it may die out? Or maybe forever in this cage.

Wu Mu then looked down.

I saw the problem that had been translated.

"(Question 1) Proof of the Riemann conjecture."

"What is the greatest value (advantage) of (human) civilization?"

Seeing these two questions, especially the second one,

Wu Mu seemed to understand the reason for his participation in this meeting as a historian.

The first problem is the problems and tests of academics, mathematics, or science and technology.

The second question seems to be a humanistic question, a philosophical question, and it is a good direction to look for the answer from history.

And the scholar who chose him as an associate professor may be because of his teacher Academician Qian, who is an authoritative teacher in the direction of history.

Academician Qian passed away a few months ago.

And Wu Mu is his best student.

Anyway, Academician Qian always said so before his death,

Wu Mu didn't know what was good about him.

But

Looking at it now, the problems of these two extraterrestrial civilizations are more like a test, and even point out the future direction of human civilization?