Beneath Deep Space

This is Noah, the astronomical observatory.

A series of information codes appeared on the big screen. Everyone stared at the screen blankly. They all chose to stare motionlessly, and even stopped breathing...

After about a quarter of an hour, the beating on the screen gradually stopped.

These information codes are radio waves sent by extraterrestrial civilizations. If written on human A4 paper, it would be a full 417 pages!

"Report, our side...has not been attacked!"

"Repeat, we are not under attack!"

In the first moment, Yu Yifeng received the news from the Ministry of Security, and his worries were immediately put down.

The Ministry of Security is not just some soldiers, but also a large number of weapons experts, investigators, etc., who are always paying attention to the surrounding situation.

The horror of the light speed strike lies in this. It cannot be detected in advance. Once it is seen... it means that it has been attacked. This makes both parties very suspicious. Unless there is something faster than light, the "light" can be observed in advance.

"Analyze this radio wave immediately! And... you are allowed to use the central supercomputer! Immediately, immediately!" Yu Yifeng shouted loudly, his reaction speed was extremely fast, and he jumped up from his position.

However, the emergence of radio waves means that the probability of war has been greatly reduced. His mood has actually become much more relaxed, and even all the scientists have become much more relaxed. They all hugged each other and celebrated each other.

war? No one wants a war, especially when human beings are still trying to make a fool of themselves...

People were not attacked, but received a series of radio waves. This shows that it is highly possible that the other party wants to communicate peacefully!

From another perspective, mankind's camouflage plan has been very successful so far. The dark forest of the universe does not necessarily exist, and the other party is very likely to be frightened!

Yu Yifeng took a breath. The first hurdle had been overcome, and subsequent difficulties were still coming one after another. The other party has not left, and this scene will continue to play out...

He knew clearly that humans still couldn't relax and couldn't let the other party have any chance to doubt. After all...human beings cannot withstand temptation! They are playing the role of a truly powerful civilization, and every detail needs to be very realistic and must withstand any scrutiny from the other party.

So far people are off to a pretty good start.

But now a big problem lies in front of us, and that is - parsing this piece of information encoding!

If it takes several weeks or even months for humans to analyze a radio wave, then it will be difficult not to be suspected!

"...As soon as possible! As soon as possible!" Yu Yifeng kept urging. Although he knew that this kind of urging would not have much effect, he really couldn't help it. He didn't want to be exposed because of such details.

After only a few minutes, a cryptologist jumped up in surprise: "Mr. Yu, the first part may be a complete dictionary sequence, and the second part... is a short text, a short text!"

"You mean, they don't have encryption?"

"Yes, there is no deliberate encryption, just a simple information encoding. They should want to communicate with us. But... this is a complete language, with as many as 10,000 words alone, and there are various Different usages.”

"The first few hundred pages are the dictionary, and the last page is the text!"

The expert said very anxiously: "What I want to say is... after our computer deciphers this dictionary, it is likely that it will not be able to translate well!"

Yu Yifeng's brows wrinkled, as if this was indeed the case...

Their human translation tools are very low-level, which can also be said to be rubbish, such as Daoge Translation, Wudao Dictionary, Qiandu Translation, etc. The level is relatively low.

Using these translation tools, even if you translate Chinese into English or English into Chinese, it may be messy, and sometimes it even makes no sense.

Even humans' own internal languages ​​cannot be translated well, let alone alien languages.

This is entirely due to the unqualified artificial intelligence system... If there were a truly perfect translation system, the human translator profession would be eliminated.

Yu Yifeng scratched his hair, what to do now? Forced machine translation?

Facing an alien language that has never been exposed to before, we can only use computers to decipher it quickly. It is impossible for humans to slowly learn it for months or even a year!

"You just need to decipher it as quickly as possible, and the time must be fast. We... just need to get a rough idea!"

"Just a rough idea, that should be fine, right?"

"This... we'll try our best. But there shouldn't be any problem with the speed."

The cryptographer immediately confirmed: "Since we received the first alien radio, we have been deciphering it for more than half a month and accumulated a lot of experience. Now that we have a complete dictionary sequence, I think it is super A computer can decipher this short text in an hour!”

The expert was indeed right. It took about forty-five minutes for the alien translation to come out, and a lot of people stood in front of the screen in a hurry to watch.

What kind of translation is this? It’s just a bunch of gibberish!

"...green light civilization...stars...energy...war...peace...destruction..."

What a fucking translation. The first time he saw it, Yu Yifeng cursed in his heart.

In the middle is a large section of unclear and confusing text, which is completely illogical. However, according to the dictionary sequence of the other party, the translation is like this.

Maybe the other person's language doesn't have anything like prepositions at all, and the language structure is different from humans. People can only barely get a rough idea through these few key terms. It's okay to want a more accurate translation, but it will take weeks or even months of research, and people can't wait that long!

Yu Yifeng frowned and said: "Everyone, we must respond to each other as soon as possible! Otherwise, our disguise may have flaws. Tell us, what does this text mean?"

In this case, he must gather the wisdom of everyone before he can make a decision.

Dr. Rimbaud pondered for a while and then said first: "I don't think there is much controversy about the first three keywords. This civilization calls itself the Green Light Civilization, and their purpose is to come to the solar system to replenish the energy of the spacecraft. This is consistent with Our guesses are not that different."

Everyone nodded, even Yu Yifeng himself thought so.

But the last three keywords, "war", "peace" and "destruction", can lead to too many ambiguities!

One way to say it: They are not here for war, but for peaceful coexistence...so we beg humans not to destroy them.

Or another way of saying it: Even if there is a war, they will enter the solar system, and let humans choose between peace and destruction!

These two statements are completely different results. Everyone let go of their thinking and boldly guessed that these three keywords can form at least dozens of different results!

Well, there are different opinions, maybe only one is correct, but people don't know which one...

Yu Yifeng instantly had a headache. The large amount of ambiguity brought about several different possibilities, making it impossible for him to know what the attitude of this "green light civilization" was, and he was unable to make targeted decisions.

He was really angry and hated this garbage machine!

Almost all linguists, information scientists and cryptographers are focusing on overcoming the language difficulties. But he didn't think that a few hours would accomplish anything.

This alien language is completely different from any language on earth. Although the quality of human brain translation is high compared to that of supercomputers, the efficiency is much lower. It will take weeks or even months to complete it.

But they need to reply to each other within a few hours. Of course, the sooner the better. The faster the speed, on the other hand, it proves that human civilization is powerful, and the better their "camouflage" effect is.

In fact, it can be considered that human beings are quite lucky. They have studied the radio waves of alien civilizations for several weeks in advance. Otherwise, it might take a long time to decipher these keywords...

How to do it?