Three Body 1: Earth's Past

Chapter 12 History
Da Shi sat down next to Wang Miao, and handed him a car key, "Just stop at Dongdankou, and I'll be dragged away by the traffic police if I'm too late."

Da Shi, knowing that you have been following me, at least I will have some comfort.Wang Miao said in his heart, but his self-esteem kept him from saying it.He took a cigarette from Da Shi, lit it, and took his first puff after quitting smoking for several years.

"How about it, brother, can't you bear it? I said you can't do it, you still pretend to have six toes."

"You won't understand." Wang Miao said, taking a few puffs of cigarette.

"You understand too well...well, let's go eat."

"I do not want to eat."

"Then go drink, I invite you!"

So Wang Miao got into Da Shi's car and drove to a small restaurant nearby. It was still early and there was no one in the restaurant.

"Two pounds of belly, a bottle of Erguotou!" Da Shi shouted, without looking up, obviously familiar with this place.

Seeing the two large trays of black things brought up, Wang Miao's empty stomach churned and he almost vomited.Da Shi asked him for soy milk and pancakes again. Wang Miao forced himself to eat some, and then drank one cup after another with Da Shi.He felt light and light, and he talked more, and told Da Shi all the things of the past three days, although he knew that Da Shi probably knew everything, or even knew more than him.

"You mean, the universe is blinking at you?" Da Shi asked, looking up after swallowing half a plate of belly belly like eating noodles.

"It's a good analogy."

"Bullshit."

"Your fearlessness comes from ignorance."

"It's still nonsense, come on, do it!"

After Wang Miao drank this cup, he felt that the world was revolving around him. Only Da Shi, who was eating his belly, was very stable. He said, "Da Shi, have you considered some ultimate philosophical issues? Oh, for example, human beings have never Where did it come from, where is it going; where did the universe come from, where is it going to go, etc.”

"No."

"there has never been?"

"there has never been."

"You have always seen the starry sky, haven't you felt a little awe and curiosity?"

"I never look at the sky at night."

"How is it possible? Don't you often work the night shift?"

"Brother, if I look up at the sky when I squat at night, what should I do if the target of surveillance slips away?"

"We really don't have to talk, do it!"

"Actually, even if I look at the stars in the sky, I won't think about your ultimate philosophies. I have a lot of things to worry about. I have to pay for the house, my children have to go to college, not to mention the endless cases... I am a straight person who can see the asshole from the mouth at a glance, so naturally I can't please the leaders. After retiring from the army, I have been working for many years. Yes, I still have the mind to look at the stars and think about philosophy?"

"That's right, come on, do it!"

"However, I actually invented an ultimate theorem."

"Tell me."

"It's so evil that there must be ghosts in the house."

"You are... what kind of bullshit theorem!"

"When I say 'ghosts' I mean there are no ghosts, there are people doing the tricks."

"If you have some basic scientific knowledge, you can't imagine what kind of power it is to do these two things, especially the latter one. On the scale of the entire universe, not only can't be explained by the existing science of mankind, but it can't even be explained by science. I can't imagine anything else. It's not even supernatural, I don't know what it is..."

"It's still the same sentence: nonsense! I've seen too many evil things."

"Then give me a suggestion, what should I do next?"

"Keep drinking and go to bed after drinking."

……

Wang Miao didn't know how she got back to her car. She lay on the back seat and fell into a dreamless sleep. It didn't take long, but when she opened her eyes, she saw that the sun was about to set on the west side of the city. .He got out of the car, feeling better even though he was still sluggish from his morning drink.He saw that he was in a corner of the Forbidden City, the setting sun shone on the ancient imperial palace, and pieces of gold appeared in the moat. In his eyes, the world had returned to classical and stable.Wang Miao enjoyed the long-lost tranquility like this, until it got dark, and the black Santana he was familiar with got out of the traffic on the street, drove straight to the brakes, and Da Shi got off.

"Did you sleep well?" Da Shiweng asked in a low voice.

"Yes, what should we do next?"

"Who, are you? Go to dinner, drink some more, and go to bed after drinking."

"and then?"

"Then? You have to go to work tomorrow, right?"

"The countdown has been reduced to... 1091 hours."

"Fuck the countdown, you have to make sure you stand up straight and don't get down before you can say anything else."

"Da Shi, can't you tell me some truth? I beg you."

Da Shi stared at Wang Miao for a while, then looked up to the sky and smiled, "I've said this to Chang Weisi a few times, we are brothers and sisters. To tell you the truth, I don't know anything, I'm low-level, and they Don't tell me, sometimes it's like a nightmare."

"But you know more than I do."

"Well, I'll tell you all the extras now." Da Shi pointed to the edge of the moat, where the two found a place to sit down.It was already dark, and behind them was the river of headlights. They watched their own shadows change from long to short on the river.

"What we do is actually connecting many seemingly unrelated things together. If the stringing is correct, the truth will come out. A lot of things happened a while ago, and crimes against scientific research institutions and academia have increased sharply. Something that has never happened before. Of course you know about the bombing at the Liangxiang accelerator site, and the killing of the Nobel Prize-winning scholar... The motives of the criminals are very strange, not for money, not for revenge , and have no political background, pure destruction. There are other things besides crimes, such as 'science boundaries' and the suicides of those scholars, etc. Environmentalists have also been overly active recently, gathering at the construction site to stop the reservoir and The construction of nuclear power plants, and what kind of experimental society will return to nature in a while... There are other things that seem trivial—have you watched a movie recently?"

"Basically don't read."

"The last few blockbuster films are full of scum, with green mountains and green waters above. I don't know what era handsome men and beautiful girls live comfortably in them. In the words of the director, they show the beautiful life before being raped by technology. For example, "Peach Blossom Spring" was obviously filmed and no one watched it, but someone forced several hundred million into it. There is also a science fiction essay contest, with the highest prize of 500 million. Whoever writes the most disgusting future will win. awards, and then poured in a few hundred million to make those novels into movies... Weird cults have also popped up, and every leader has a lot of money..."

"What does this have to do with what you said earlier?"

"I have to string them together. Of course, I didn't have to worry about this before, but after being transferred from the serious case unit to the combat center, this is my job. I can string them together, which is my God." Even Chang Weisi has to give in."

"What's the conclusion?"

"All of this has one and only one backstage, and it wants to bring scientific research down."

"Who?"

"I don't know, I really don't know, but I can feel its plan, a very grand and comprehensive plan: destroy scientific research facilities, kill scientists; or make you commit suicide, make you crazy...but mainly let you go astray Think, so that you become more stupid than ordinary people."

"Your last sentence is really incisive!"

"At the same time, it is necessary to discredit science in society. Of course, there have been people doing this before, but this time it is definitely organized."

"I believe what you say."

"Huh, that's right now. What you scientific elites can't see, is actually seen by me, a big boss who graduated from a junior college? After I said this idea, I was often laughed at by leaders and scholars."

"Even if you said this to me at the time, I would definitely not laugh at you. You know something about pseudoscience, do you know who those who engage in pseudoscience are most afraid of?"

"Scientists."

"Wrong, there are many first-class scholars in the world who have been deceived by pseudoscience, and finally waved their flags for it. But pseudoscience is most afraid of another kind of person, and they are difficult to be deceived: magicians. In fact, a large number of pseudoscience scams , were debunked by magicians. Your years of policing and social experience are clearly better equipped to detect such mass crimes than a scientific nerd."

"In fact, there are still people smarter than me. This kind of thing has been noticed by the superiors. I was laughed at at the beginning because I didn't look for the right place. Later, I was recruited here by the old company commander, but it was just doing some errands. . . . Well, that's what I know better than you."

"There is a question: what does this have to do with the military?"

"I wondered too. When I asked them, they said that the war broke out. Of course, the war is about the army. Like you, I thought they were talking in their dreams at first, but they were not joking. The army is indeed in a state of war. We There are more than 20 such combat centers around the world, and there is another level above, but no one knows what it is."

"Who is the enemy?"

"I don't know. NATO officers have been stationed in the war room of the General Staff, and there are also a large group of People's Liberation Army in the Pentagon. Who the hell knows who is the enemy?"

"This is too bizarre, what you said is true?!"

"Several of my old comrades in the army are now generals, so I know something."

"Such a big event, the news media didn't respond at all?"

"This is another amazing phenomenon: all countries keep secrets at the same time, and they are so strict. I can be sure of one thing now: the enemy is a ruthless character, and the higher ups are scared! I am too familiar with Chang Weisi, and I can see it from him. Come out, he is a person who is not afraid of the sky falling, but now it may not only be the sky falling. They were so scared that they didn't have the confidence to defeat that enemy."

"That would be terrible."

"But everyone has something to be afraid of, and so does that ruthless character; the more powerful the character is, the more deadly it is afraid of."

"Then what is it afraid of?"

"I'm afraid of you, afraid of scientists. And the strange thing is, the more useless the things you study, the more wild and unconscionable, like Yang Dong's, the more afraid it is, more afraid than you are afraid of the universe blinking, so it is Such a ruthless shot. If killing you was useful, it would have killed you all long ago, but the most effective way is to disturb your thinking. When people die, there will be others, but if thinking is messed up, science will be over."

"You mean it's afraid of basic science?"

"Yes, basic science."

"My research and Yang Dong's research is very different. Nanomaterials are not basic science, but a high-strength material. What kind of power can it threaten?!"

"You are really a special case. People like you who are engaged in applied research usually don't bother. Maybe there is something in your materials that scares them."

"so what should I do?"

"Go to work and continue to study, this is the biggest blow to it, don't care about the dick countdown. If you want to relax after work, you can also play that game again. It is best to get through it."

"Game? "Three-Body Problem"? Does it have something to do with these?!"

"It doesn't matter. I see that several experts in the combat center are also playing. It's not an ordinary game. An ignorant and fearless person like me can't play it. You really need to be as knowledgeable as you."

"Oh, nothing else?"

"No, sometimes I'll tell you to keep your phone on all the time. Brother, you have to stand up straight! When you're scared, just think about my ultimate theorem."

Before Wang Miao even had time to say thank you, Da Shi got into the car and left.

(End of this chapter)