Road to science and technology

"That's your future unborn daughter, and later she"

Before the word death was uttered, Louise Banks collapsed. She backed away in horror and shouted: "Stop it, stop it!"

"How could you know, why do you know, why?!"

She murmured to herself, with an unprecedented look of horror on her face. She really didn't believe that anyone could see into people's hearts, because it was so terrifying. She felt that it was more terrifying than anything she had ever seen before.

If one could understand the human heart, no one would have any secrets in front of this man.

Is he God?

Louise found a little reason to comfort herself.

Seeing her like this, Gary Donnelly on the side quickly went up to hold her shoulders and said anxiously: "Louise, are you okay? Louise, Louise!"

"He, he, how did he know." After Gary's comfort, Louise recovered a little.

"what do you know?"

Gai Lei was puzzled. Yue Yuanzhou just spoke Chinese and he didn't understand a word.

"He, I, I don't know, he seems to be able to read minds." Louise said tremblingly.

Hearing this, Gaile looked at Yue Yuanzhou with wide eyes and said, "You"

"I can't read minds." Yue Yuanzhou replied calmly.

"That"

"I just figured it out."

"you"

"You don't even know how to calculate it."

Gailei opened his mouth, and then heard Yue Yuanzhou say: "Okay, I won't tease you anymore, just tell me."

"What's wrong with Louise?" Gary finally had the chance to speak, and he chose to contact Louise first.

"She was just scared of herself."

Yue Yuanzhou said, but he also knew that the other party was not satisfied with this, so he added: "The future is promising. Because she learned the language of the heptapods, she saw her future, but the future is not determined by her will. And change, or what she thought was free will, made her choose that way, and she couldn't escape the fate she saw in the future."

"Qi Wen? What's going on?" Gai Lei asked alertly.

"You have been studying with Dr. Banks for so long, and you have also watched me communicate with the heptapods for so long. As a physicist, haven't you figured it out yet?" Yue Yuanzhou did not rush to answer, but asked instead.

Gary Donnelly thought hard for a long time before speaking: "Simultaneous thinking? Are you saying that Louise has learned the way of thinking of the heptapods?"

There was concern in his voice.

Seeing him like this, Yue Yuanzhou shook his head, but did not interfere, but said: "Yes, theoretically she has learned it, because she really understands Qi Wen, but you don't have to worry, she actually still maintains Maybe she just hasn't adapted to the normal way of thinking of human beings, so it's actually not harmful to her. When you learn it in the future, you'll know what's going on."

"We.learn?"

Gary was stunned, and Colonel Weber next to him also looked at Yue Yuanzhou, his eyes blazing.

"You must have seen the group of seven weapons they sprayed out at the end on the heptapod spaceship!"

Seeing the two people nodding, Louise's mood became much more stable. Yue Yuanzhou took a sip of tea and motioned for the people to sit down, and then continued: "I know you want to know what that is, that is, the heptapod is here. The gift given to mankind by the earth, which is the words of the heptapod civilization, as long as you learn it, you will acquire the same way of thinking as them, and then you will 'see' your own future, just like Banks saw his future daughter. Same."

From this sentence, several people got a lot of information, but what Colonel Webb cared most about was the gift of the heptapods to mankind.

So he asked, "What about their gifts to humans?"

If it were before, he would have asked Yue Yuanzhou whether he would embezzle all human things, but now he has gained experience.

"Of course they are here with me. I will give them all to you later, but you need to translate them yourself. Anyway, it is still a long time before the heptapods are said. You can translate them slowly." Yue Yuanzhou said with a smile.

"Time, what time?"

"The heptapods need humans to help them. Don't you think they will give humans gifts in vain? Reciprocity is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. Have you never learned it?"

"There are similar proverbs in the West." Weber shrugged, spreading his hands.

"Then you must teach your children and grandchildren well, and remember to help the heptapods three thousand years from now."

"What? How many years?" Gary exclaimed.

Louise Banks said silently: "He said three thousand years later."

"It's unbelievable! What did the heptapods think? How could they be sure that humans would still help them after three thousand years!" Gary shouted that it was impossible.

"I think it will." Louise Banks said with emotion. "The heptapods can neither do whatever they want, nor are they machines without agency. The uniqueness of their modes of consciousness lies not only in their actions. I began to understand the behavior of the heptapods in relation to future events, and insofar as their motivations were consistent with the purpose of future events, and I imagined that humans three thousand years from now would do the same."

"As long as humans learn this." Yue Yuanzhou took out a USB flash drive, shook it and said, "Heptapod text and images are stored here, including their technology. You can take it."

Yue Yuanzhou said, throwing the abridged version with many technologies removed from it to Louise Banks, and then took out another complete version and threw it to Shang Shaojian.

The heptapods were gone, so it was naturally up to Yue Yuanzhou to deal with them, so he showed his partiality openly.

After receiving the USB flash drive, both of them were overjoyed, especially Shang Shaojian. He felt that the journey was really worth it.

After getting this USB flash drive, he will become a major contributor to the advent of civilization.

Because he joined the Zhuxia Community, Shang Shaojian now thinks about more than just the Heptapods. He is even more happy that from now on, the descending civilization will no longer be destitute in the Zhuxia Community. They can completely decipher the heptapod texts. If you sell the technology that comes out, you won’t feel bad if you get it for nothing.

In Shang Shaojian's view, the Zhuxia Community is much more important and more powerful than the heptapods. It is completely acceptable to sell the technology of the heptapods and then buy things that are urgently needed for their own civilization.

Although he doesn't know how technology is sold in the Zhuxia Community, he can ask other people. Those who are responsible for this in the Zhuxia Community will definitely understand.

At this time, Yue Yuanzhou said: "Okay, some information about the heptapods coming to Earth at this time is also in the USB flash drive. Just go back and translate it carefully. I will send you back if nothing happens!"

It is undoubtedly very painful to be able to see the future but not be able to change it, but they have no choice. There is technology of the heptapods in it. As long as they want to get these technologies, they must study and understand the words of the heptapods, and then they will know it without knowing it. Unconsciously, he was imaged by words and acquired a way of thinking like a heptapod.

Of course, they will be trapped in fate like Louise Banks, but there is no way to break the situation. Each of them has this method.

Because that’s how humans think.