Three bodies

Interrogator: Name?

Ye Wenjie: Ye Wenjie.

Interrogator: Date of birth?

Ye Wenjie: June 1947.

Interrogator: Occupation?

Ye Wenjie: Professor of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, retired in 2004.

Interrogator: Due to your physical condition, you may request a break during the conversation.

Ye Wenjie: Thank you, no need.

Interrogator: What we are conducting today is an investigation of ordinary criminal cases, and does not involve higher-level content. This is not the main part of this investigation. We hope to end it soon, and hope you can cooperate.

Ye Wenjie: I know what you are referring to, and I will cooperate.

Interrogator: The investigation found that you were suspected of murder while working at the Red Coast base.

Ye Wenjie: I killed two people.

Interrogator: Time?

Ye Wenjie: On the afternoon of October 1979, 10.

Interrogator: Victim's name?

Ye Wenjie: Base political commissar Lei Zhicheng and base engineer and my husband Yang Weining.

Interrogator: Tell us your motive for committing the crime.

Ye Wenjie: Can I... can I assume that you have some understanding of the relevant background at that time?

Interrogator: Basically understand, I will ask questions if I am unclear.

Ye Wenjie: OK.On the day after receiving the alien message and replying to it, I learned that I was not the only one who received the message, Lei Zhicheng also received it.Political Commissar Lei was a typical political cadre at that time, and his political nerves were very sensitive. In the words of the time, the string of class struggle was very tight.Carrying most of the technicians at the Red Shore Base on his back, a small program runs in the background of the main computer for a long time. In this way, the information sent and received by the Hongan system has a backup that only he can read. It is from this backup that he discovered the alien civilization information received by Hongan.On the afternoon of the day I sent the reply message to the rising sun, that is, just after I learned from the infirmary that I was pregnant, Lei Zhicheng called me to his office.I saw that the terminal screen on his desk displayed the information from the Three-Body World that he received last night...

"It has been more than eight hours since you received the first batch of information. Instead of reporting, you deleted or hidden the original information, right?"

I lowered my head and didn't answer.

"I also know your next attempt. You plan to call back. If I didn't find out in time, the entire human civilization will be destroyed in your hands! Of course, this does not mean that we are afraid of the invasion from the universe. If we take a step back, then If such a thing really happens, the alien invaders will inevitably be submerged in the vast ocean of the people's war!"

I understand now that he didn't know that I had sent the call back, and that I had inadvertently bypassed his monitoring program by placing the reply in the transmit buffer using a non-regular file interface.

"Ye Wenjie, you would do such a thing. You have always harbored deep-seated hatred for the party and the people, and you will never miss any chance of revenge. Do you know the consequences of doing so?"

Of course I knew, so I nodded, Lei Zhicheng was silent for a moment, but the following words were beyond my expectation.

"Ye Wenjie, I don't have any sympathy for you. You have always been a class enemy against the people. But Yang Weining and I have been comrades-in-arms for many years. I can't watch him and you completely destroy , let alone watch his child be destroyed, you have a child, don’t you?”

He didn't just say this casually. If the incident happened, in that era, no matter whether my husband had anything to do with the incident, it would be greatly implicated, and of course the unborn child would also be involved.

Lei Zhicheng lowered his voice and said: "Currently, only the two of us know about this matter. What we need to do now is to minimize the impact of this matter. You don't care about anything, just pretend that this matter didn't happen, Don't mention it to anyone, including Yang Weining, let me handle the rest. Xiaoye, please believe me, as long as you cooperate, you can avoid dire consequences."

I immediately understood Lei Zhicheng's intentions: he wanted to be the first person to discover alien civilization, this is indeed a great opportunity to be famous in history.

I said yes and left the office, having made up my mind.

I took a small wrench, walked into the equipment room of the front-end processing module of the receiving system, opened the main cabinet, and carefully loosened the bolt of the ground wire at the bottom. Since I often need to check the equipment, no one paid attention to what I did.At this time, the grounding resistance suddenly rises from 0.6 ohms to 5 ohms, and the interference of the receiving system suddenly increases.

The technician on duty immediately knew it was a fault in the ground wire because it had happened many times before and it was easy to diagnose, but he wouldn't have thought it was the fault at the top of the ground wire because it was well consolidated there and usually no one moved it, and I Just said I saw it by the way.The top of Radar Peak is a very unusual geological structure, covered with a layer of clay more than ten meters thick. It is not good to bury the electrode deeply, because this kind of cement layer has a strong corrosion effect on the wire, and the ground wire may be corroded from the middle after a long time.In the end, the grounding line had to be hung down from the cliff, along the cliff to the place where there is no clay layer, and the grounding electrode was buried at the position on the cliff.Even so, the grounding is still unstable, and the resistance often exceeds the standard. The problem lies in the part of the grounding wire located on the cliff wall. At this time, maintenance personnel have to use ropes to hang it down for repairs.The technician greeted the peripheral maintenance team. A soldier in the team tied a rope to an iron pillar and went down the cliff. After struggling for more than half an hour, he came up sweating profusely and said: Could not find fault.This monitoring operation was about to be affected, so it had to be reported to the base headquarters.I waited beside the iron pillar tied with ropes on the top of the cliff, and as I expected, Lei Zhicheng followed the soldier.

It should be said that Lei Zhicheng is a very dedicated political cadre, and he faithfully followed the requirements of them at that time: mingle with the masses and always stand on the front line.Maybe it was for a gesture, but he did a good job. He is indispensable in the urgent, difficult and dangerous work of the base. In the past, what he did the most was the dangerous and tiring work of rushing to repair the grounding wire.Although this work does not have a high technical content, it requires experience, because the fault may be caused by an imperceptible poor contact caused by the ground wire being exposed to the open air, or it may be caused by the poor conductivity of the buried ground electrode due to dryness and other reasons. Now The group of volunteers in charge of peripheral maintenance has just been changed, and they are all inexperienced, so I guess he will probably come.He buckled up and went down the rope as if I didn't exist.I dismissed the soldier with an excuse, and I was the only one left on the top of the cliff. Then I took out something from my pocket. It was a stack of short hacksaws. together, so that the break of the rope does not appear to be sawn off.

At this moment, my husband Yang Weining came.

After asking about the cause of the incident, he looked down the cliff and said that if he needed to check the grounding electrode, he would need to dig. It would be too much effort for Lao Lei to be down there by himself, so he wanted to go down to help, so he tied the rope left by the soldier. seat belt.I said to take another rope, but he said no, this rope is quite thick and strong, and it is no problem to carry two people.I insisted on taking it, but he said then go ahead.By the time I sprinted to retrieve the other rope back to the top of the cliff, he had already gone down that rope.I looked down and saw that he and Lei Zhicheng had completed the inspection and were climbing up the same rope, with Lei Zhicheng in front.

There was really no chance, so I got out my stack of hacksaws and cut the rope.

Interrogator: Let me ask a question, and the answer will not be recorded.How did you feel?
Ye Wenjie: I did it calmly and without emotion.I've found a cause to which I can devote my life, and the price I pay, my own or someone else's, doesn't matter.At the same time, I also know that all human beings will pay unprecedented and huge sacrifices for this cause, and this is just a trivial beginning.

Interrogator: Okay, go ahead.

Ye Wenjie: I heard two or three short screams, and then the sound of my body falling onto the rocks at the bottom of the cliff. After waiting for a while, I saw that the stream flowing from the bottom of the cliff turned red... About this matter , that's all I can say.

Interrogator: Okay, this is the record, please read it carefully, and if it is correct, please sign it here.