Voyage of the Stars

"That's right. It seems that only by deciphering this message can we know what's going on."

Abandoning useless speculation, all communications experts, cryptography experts, linguists, and related physics and mathematicians on the Hope bridge joined the deciphering work.

A series of jumping information codes on the signal receiver display screen were converted into visual codes by communications experts, and then sent to all personnel involved in deciphering through the internal network.

The coded information is very long. If printed on A4 paper, it would be at least 500 pages.

But things went much smoother than Yue Yuan imagined. In just ten minutes, Talia Sinskaya, who specializes in cryptography, said in surprise: "Mr. Yue, a large part of the code in the unknown signal is most likely to be a A complete dictionary sequence, and a small part at the end should be a short passage."

"Oh? You mean that the other party sent the dictionary before speaking. Has the content been deciphered?"

"Judging from the coding rules, it is likely to be a dictionary, but it is only a preliminary guess that the content cannot be deciphered that fast. My President Yue!" Thalia spoke Chinese with a Russian accent, but her words had a TVB flavor. .

"Chief, although the other party has sent a dictionary, it may take us several weeks or even months to analyze it," Lu Xiaofen added.

"Can't the 'Light of the Galaxy' help?" Yue Yuan asked.

"We should help ourselves in terms of calculations, dictionary logic deduction and text comparison." Lu Xiaofen said, and then started to study the previous part of the dictionary again.

Yue Yuan nodded to show that he understood.

This is the first time that humans have encountered a real extraterrestrial signal. It is already very impressive to be able to immediately tell that it is a dictionary and a paragraph.

And the human artificial intelligence 'Light of the Milky Way', although it is artificial intelligence, is not a real intelligent life after all. It can be used to translate languages ​​​​of various countries or languages ​​that have been recorded by humans, and it is also very accurate, allowing it to be deciphered from scratch. An alien language is nothing more than a dream.

Of course, after humans decipher the dictionary contained in the signal and then enter it into the 'Light of the Milky Way' information database, then the Light of the Milky Way can be used to directly and accurately translate the alien language corresponding to the dictionary without having to use humans every time. Went to look in the dictionary.

"Old Liu, what do you think?" Yue Yuan walked to the porthole, looked into outer space, and said to Liu Miyan, who was walking with him.

Liu Miyan raised his hand and touched the beard on his chin, and responded: "Send a dictionary before speaking, which shows that this message is really broadcast in nature, and there are two things for sure. One: the civilization who sent the message wants us to know the message content. Two: The other party does not grasp our language information."

Yue Yuan first nodded affirmatively, and then added: "There are three more. The opponent is most likely not 'Silver Mist'."

"The commander-in-chief is saying that it is possible for Silvermist to acquire information about us humans by killing humans during the short period of contact with the people who landed there? This is impossible!" Liu Miyan shook his head, seeming to feel what he said The expression was not accurate enough, so he added: "It's not that it's impossible to obtain information by killing humans, but if 'Silver Mist' has this ability, then they are not just mining tools, but intelligent life forms." .

But they are still lying there motionless, still looking like they are controlled by some kind of mining program. So I prefer another existence. We couldn't detect anything before, which can only show that our technological level is too low. Other than that, I can't find any explanation between the current state of the 'Silver Mist' and this strange signal. relationship. "

"That's right." Yue Yuan began to think deeply.

He just suddenly thought of this possibility, and then just said it as a reminder without thinking about it in depth.

In fact, scientists have two explanations for the state of 'silver haze' in recent years.

The first explanation is that Silver Mist has the ability to fly out of the planet, but because no humans in orbit were found, its mining program was not triggered.

There is a loophole in this explanation, that is, since the technological content of the ‘Silver Mist’ is so high, there is no reason why humans in planetary orbit cannot be discovered. For this loophole, the scientists' explanation is that the 'Silver Mist' is likely to be limited by its own mining procedures, and the search scope is only placed on the planet.

The second explanation is that Silver Mist has no ability to fly out of the planet at all. In this explanation, 'Silver Mist' is simply a mining tool, and the civilization that created it did not give it this ability.

For seven years, humans have been making various speculations and explanations about the 'Silver Mist', but due to limited information, no explanation has been finally accepted.

Human beings are indeed afraid of the ‘Silver Mist’, but it is precisely because of their fear that they need to study it in depth.

Liu Miyan thought for a while and then said: "Chief Commander, the signal transmitter sent us a dictionary, indicating that they have not contacted us before, otherwise the other party is likely to use our human signal language directly, which can be used in Ross 154- The technological strength of existences on Planet 4 cannot be worse than that of Silver Mist."

It seems that Liu Miyan does not think that the source of the signal is ‘Silver Mist’, but another existence.

Yue Yuan was noncommittal about this.

After a day passed, humans discovered that the signal every half hour was gone. Regarding this situation, scientists believe that the other party is subject to some kind of restrictions, or to give humans time to analyze.

In the past day, the communication analysis team headed by Zhao Youqin discovered another characteristic of an unknown signal.

That's the signal strength.

Although the signal is very similar to a broadcast, its intensity is obviously not strong enough, and there is no guarantee that it will span light-year distances without distortion. It is very much like an internal broadcast within a star system.

Based on this discovery, scientists concluded that the unknown signal was specifically sent to humans.

This scared everyone so much.

What does this mean? It means that the unknown existence that sent the signal, or an alien or alien civilization, has discovered human beings.

Based on this judgment, Yue Yuan almost decided to lead all mankind on another voyage. However, human beings can no longer withstand the torment. With 1% of the speed of light, even if they run out, they don't know whether they can survive to the next star system.

The existence of the 'Silver Mist' has indeed made it the consensus of all humans to leave this galaxy, but at least we must achieve controllable nuclear fusion before we can leave.

Human beings don’t want to experience that kind of voyage where life and death are uncertain again. Human beings who have no choice but to run away have no other choice but to do their best to speed up development here.

At the same time, I also analyzed unknown signals with curiosity and trepidation.

A week, a month, two months.

With the efforts of hundreds of experts and scholars, it took humans two and a half months to complete the analysis of the unknown signal.

Finally saw the content of the message.

On this day, the bridge of the Hope was once again filled with people.