Episode 30 recap: Ye Wenjie returned to the Red Coast Base.
In the Three-Body world, there were thousands of listening stations like this one, and there were thousands of scientists like Ye Wenjie. To the listeners, he appeared to be a pacifist in this world. The first message they received was the luck of human civilization, and if they didn't respond, there would be no way for the Trisolarans to lock onto them. The listeners had also betrayed the Trisolarans. Their established policy was that after the Trisolaran fleet occupied the solar system and Earth, humans could continue living as they did before, with one exception—procreation was permanently forbidden.
To Earth, which carried all of humanity's hopes, it seemed fundamentally incapable of being saved. After their journey through the Three-Body game, Shi Qiang and Wang Miao confirmed that the Trisolarans had not imparted higher technological knowledge to Earth, which aligned with Ye Wenjie's speculation. Chang Weisi told everyone that, up to this point, the worlds depicted in the Three-Body game were imagined by members of the Earth Trisolaris Organization based on the information they possessed, and all the real details required careful scrutiny and analysis by each individual.
Wang Miao and Shi Qiang, who reentered the Three-Body game, also understood that what had been sent to Earth was not an ordinary proton in the conventional sense but a modified proton—a supercomputer. They called it the Proton. What was unimaginable was that all of this originated from a single proton. Wang Miao looked at everything before him and found it hard to believe that the internal structure of such a small microscopic particle could be so complex, and this complexity had to be observed from a multi-dimensional perspective. From a four-dimensional perspective, the basic particles were already part of a vast world. Once the perspective reached the ninth dimension, the number and complexity of the internal structures of a basic particle became immense.
In everyone's view, the only way to effectively contain the development and disarm a civilization was to kill their scientific protons. The deployment of Sophon One was quickly initiated, awaiting orders. Chang Weisi also announced to the public that from now on, no secrets would exist, and everything would be exposed to the sunlight for all to see forever.
At this moment, Ding Yi found the technology of the Trisolaran civilization incredibly unbelievable. When Shi Qiang entered the room, he saw Ding Yi and Wang Miao both drunk and collapsed on the floor. When Wang Miao saw Shi Qiang, he immediately hugged him and raised his glass to toast with Shi Qiang.
In a dimly lit room, Ye Wenjie had a worried expression on her face. Her only wish now was to return to the Red Coast Base where she had once stayed and revisit the memories of the past. Shi Qiang and Wang Miao quickly prepared to present their hypothesis. They went to a field and conducted an experiment. After seeing the results of the experiment, Shi Qiang became excited and turned to Wang Miao to tell him that the bugs had not been eradicated. The bugs still roamed freely in the world. In Wang Miao's view, the members of the Trisolaris Organization saw humans as bugs, but they seemed to have forgotten one fact: the so-called bugs had never truly been defeated.
On the other side, accompanied by other police officers and Xu Bing Bing, Ye Wenjie returned to the Red Coast Base where she had once stayed. She had walked a long way, but showed no intention of stopping her steps. In the blink of an eye, she arrived at her destination, where she had cherished memories from her youth. Ye Wenjie didn't feel tired at all. She stood at the edge of a cliff, gazing at everything below. Then she turned and walked through the forest to the monument of the Red Coast Base. Xu Bing Bing followed her.
With a weathered face, Ye Wenjie gently wiped the dust off the monument with her palm. She looked at the bright sun in the sky and carefully raised her head, observing and feeling it with her outstretched hand. She bathed her entire body in the sunlight, as if everything had returned to the past. Through her delicate palm, the sunlight passed through its center. She stood motionless in that spot, stunned. This made Ye Wenjie deeply feel the sunset of humanity, an unprecedented and warm sensation.
(The end of the entire drama)
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