The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 179 Existence
When Di Fengyi came to the Garden of Eden with the video sent by Mars, it was a peaceful afternoon.

He saw Jiang Yu half lying in the shade of a tree, staring at the fishing rod not far away.

Yang Dong sat beside Jiang Yu and read a book.

Strangely, neither of them spoke, but the atmosphere between them did not appear indifferent at all.

That sense of tranquility and freedom seemed to wash away all impetuousness in Di Fengyi's heart.

Di Fengyi would not have disturbed Jiang Yu's tranquility if it wasn't a last resort.

He has been by Jiang Yu's side all the time, knowing that Jiang Yu has paid too much for the plan to face the wall, Jiang Yu should take a break long ago.

But, the rest ends here.

Di Fengyi walked over and was about to speak, but Jiang Yu said first: "Wait, let me catch another fish."

Di Fengyi nodded and went back to the cabin to wait for Jiang Yu.

Soon, the fishing rod swayed, Jiang Yu started to reel in the rod, and Yang Dong helped him catch the fish.

Jiang Yu unhooked the fishhook, looked at the lively fish and said with a smile: "I probably won't be able to eat it at night, let's put it away."

Yang Dong nodded and handed the fishing net to Jiang Yu.

Jiang Yu walked into the lake to release life and said, "I'm going to work."

"I'm going to go to hibernation too," Yang Dong said with a smile, "I'm very happy during this period, and I have nothing to regret. Let's regard this period as a good time for us to spend together."

Jiang Yu watched the fish return to the water, and swam away quickly: "Because it is short, it is precious."

After speaking, he returned to the shore, took Yang Dong's hand back to the wooden house, quickly packed his bags, and left this paradise that night.

On the way back to China, Jiang Yu watched the video sent back from Mars.

……

The background of the video is the not very spacious activity room in the Mars base.

The colors of the walls of the activity room and all the applied objects are in cool tones, and the whole environment looks a bit cold.

You Haoming was the first to speak: "We have been searching for the area that sent out the intelligence signal for six months, but we still found nothing."

They tried almost all the methods they could think of, including simple excavation, drilling, even blasting, and detection with various precision instruments.

However, nothing was found.

Rolfo also prayed for more than two hours, asking God to help them, but God did not appear.

You Haoming continued: "The time reserved for us by the other party is only about ten days. Let's discuss it now. Is there any other search method? Or is there any new interpretation for the hint given by the other party?"

Sitting on the left side, Theo, with somewhat greasy short hair, said with a tired face: "The Xichang side speculates that the other party is the ancestor of carbon-based life, and their body structure may far exceed our expectations!
"However, there is another possibility. What if the opponent is not a carbon-based life, but a silicon-based life?

"What about gaseous life that we might not be able to see with our naked eyes?

"Or, they have been separated from the living body, leaving only a set of conscious thinking?"

The unshaven Peshkov, his eyes were a little red, and he looked like he hadn't rested well. He waved his hands and said:
"No matter what kind of creatures they are, we can always observe the devices they use to send electromagnetic signals to the earth!"

Theodore disagrees: "The other party's technology may have far exceeded our imagination, just like when the other party sent a message to the earth for the second time, we mobilized all the satellites, but we couldn't find their sending equipment.

"So you can't look at the other party's technological equipment with the technological level of the earth."

Peshkov frowned: "I don't think so! When the other party contacts the earth for the second time, it is obviously possible to perform space-time manipulation.

"What if the other party has obtained the Grand Unified Theory and opened the door to other dimensions? Then the only way we can find the other party's entry point is to start with their equipment."

Lolfort, who had lost a lot of weight, didn't quite agree with Peshkov's point of view: "We have been looking for it for so long, and it turns out that we cannot observe their equipment!"

Pishkov leaned back in his chair wearily: "Maybe we overlooked something, but their communication facilities are finally a breakthrough.

"If, as you said, the other party's life form is invisible to us, how should we search?"

Theodore and Rolfort were silent, and they looked helplessly at You Haoming, who was crossing his arms and meditating. Peshkov had had enough of arguing, so he drank his water and looked at You Haoming.

You Haoming's mental outlook is the best among astronauts, at least his face is clean and there is no beard.

He noticed the sight of the three, let go of his arms and said, "Everything is unknown, and any hypothesis may be established."

Pishkov and Theodore still stared at You Haoming, and You Haoming smiled: "I don't have an answer on my face, but I just thought of it, in the other party's message to the earth, the phrase 'I don't exist 'What means?"

At this time, Mi Jingtao, who turned his back to the camera, said: "Commander, that may be the ambiguity caused by the different understanding of the concept of 'existence' between the two civilizations."

The meeting room was quiet for a few seconds before You Haoming said: "No, this is a reminder, maybe for us, the other party really doesn't exist!"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and Peshkov said first: "If they don't exist, why do we have to come all the way to find them? They must exist."

You Haoming explained: "I don't mean that. All the search methods we use now are based on our existing technology and thinking level.

"If the other party is giving the earth's civilization a test, do you hope that the earth's civilization will have an epiphany during the test?

"Should we think in a different direction? If the earth's civilization is more advanced than it is now, how will we think about the issue of 'existence'? What methods will we use to find unknown things?"

The other four astronauts fell silent.

You Haoming sighed: "We have too little rational thinking about the future!"

Then he said to Theodore: "Send my idea just now to Xichang, brainstorm and see if they have any better suggestions."

……

You Haoming's guess made PDC fall into Jiang Yu's trap again, so that the last step of "Project Zero" can be taken more calmly.

After returning to Beijing, Yang Dong soon hibernated.

Jiang Yu has almost no negative emotions about this, because he knows that we will meet again in the future.

Immediately, Jiang Yu quickly returned to work, putting all his energy on the finishing touches to "Project Zero".

On the day of receiving the wisdom signal from Mars for one year, all the people in the world will look up to the sky intentionally or unintentionally.

They don't know where Mars is, but they really want to know what the consequences will be if they fail to complete the other party's test?
Many people are already a little disappointed. The help of advanced civilizations is unnecessary, as long as the other party does not pick up the plane and embarrass human beings.

The large radio telescopes on the ground and some satellites in low-Earth orbit are all paying attention to the direction of Mars.

You Haoming and other five Martian astronauts are also at the location where the wisdom signal was sent before, hoping that a miracle will happen and they can find each other at the last moment.

On Earth, at [-] am Beijing time, the radio telescopes on the ground and satellites in low-Earth orbit once again received intelligence signals from Mars.

But the strange thing is that You Haoming and others on the ground of Mars did not receive any information.

　Thanks to [Huang Tang] for the 100 reward points.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)