Chapter 135 Decoding

This is Noah, the astronomical observatory.

A series of information codes appeared on the big screen, and everyone stared at the screen blankly. They all chose to stare motionlessly, and even stopped breathing...

After about a quarter of an hour, the beating on the screen gradually stopped.

These information codes are radio waves sent by extraterrestrial civilizations. If written on human A4 paper, it would be a full 417 pages!

"Report, our side...has not been attacked!"

"Repeat, we are not under attack!"

The first time Yu Yifeng received the news from the Security Department, he immediately let go of his worries.

The Ministry of Security is not just some soldiers, but also a large number of weapons experts, investigators, etc., who are always paying attention to the surrounding situation.

The horror of the light speed strike lies in this. It cannot be detected in advance. Once it is seen... it means that it has been attacked. This makes both parties very suspicious. Unless there is something faster than light, the "light" can be observed in advance.

"Analyze this radio wave immediately! And... you are allowed to use the central supercomputer! Immediately, immediately!" Yu Yifeng shouted loudly, his reaction speed was extremely fast, and he jumped up from his position.

However, the emergence of radio waves means that the probability of war has been greatly reduced. His mood was actually much more relaxed, and even all the scientists were much more relaxed. They all hugged each other and celebrated each other.

war? No one wants a war, especially when human beings are still trying to make a fool of themselves...

People were not attacked, but received a series of radio waves. This shows that it is highly possible that the other party wants to communicate peacefully!

From another perspective, mankind's camouflage plan has been very successful so far. The dark forest of the universe does not necessarily exist, and the other party is very likely to be frightened!

Yu Yifeng took a breath. The first hurdle has been passed, and subsequent difficulties are still coming one after another. The other party has not left, and this scene will continue to play out...

He knew clearly that humans still couldn't relax and couldn't let the other party have any chance to doubt. After all...human beings cannot withstand temptation! They are playing the role of a truly powerful civilization, and every detail needs to be very realistic and must withstand any scrutiny from the other party.

So far people are off to a pretty good start.

But now a big problem lies in front of us, and that is - parsing this piece of information encoding!

If it takes several weeks or even months for humans to analyze a radio wave, then it will be difficult not to be suspected!

"...As soon as possible! As soon as possible!" Yu Yifeng kept urging. Although he knew that this kind of urging would not have much effect, he really couldn't help it. He didn't want to be exposed because of such details.

After only a few minutes, a cryptologist jumped up in surprise: "Mr. Yu, the first part may be a complete dictionary sequence, and the second part... is a short text, a short text!"

"You mean, they don't have encryption?"

"Yes, there is no deliberate encryption, just a simple information encoding. They should want to communicate with us. But... this is a complete language, with as many as 10,000 words alone, and there are various Different usages.”

"The first few hundred pages are the dictionary, and the last page is the text!"

The expert said very anxiously: "What I want to say is... after our computer deciphers this dictionary, it is likely that it will not be able to translate well!"

Yu Yifeng's brows wrinkled, as if this was indeed the case...

Their human translation tools are very low-level, which can also be said to be rubbish, such as Daoge Translation, Wudao Dictionary, Qiandu Translation, etc. The level is relatively low.

Using these translation tools, even if you translate Chinese into English or English into Chinese, it may be messy, and sometimes even nonsense.

Even humans' own internal languages ​​cannot be translated well, let alone alien languages.

This is entirely due to the unqualified artificial intelligence system... If there were a truly perfect translation system, the human translator profession would be eliminated.

Yu Yifeng scratched his hair, what to do now? Forced machine translation?

Facing an alien language that has never been exposed to before, we can only use computers to decipher it quickly. It is impossible for humans to slowly learn it for months or even a year!

"You just need to decipher it as quickly as possible, and the time must be fast. We... just need to get a rough idea!"

"Just a rough idea, that should be fine, right?"

"This... we'll try our best. But there shouldn't be any problem with the speed."

The cryptographer immediately confirmed: "Since we received the first alien radio, we have been deciphering it for more than half a month and accumulated a lot of experience. Now that we have a complete dictionary sequence, I think it is super A computer can decipher this short text in an hour!”

The expert was indeed right. It took about forty-five minutes for the alien translation to come out, and a lot of people stood in front of the screen in a hurry to watch.

What kind of translation is this? It’s just a bunch of gibberish!

"...green light civilization...stars...energy...war...peace...destruction..."

What a fucking translation. The first time he saw it, Yu Yifeng cursed in his heart.

In the middle is a long paragraph of incomprehensible and messy text, and even the logic is completely incoherent. However, according to the dictionary sequence of the other party, the translation is like this.

Perhaps there is no preposition in the other party's language, and the language structure is different from that of humans. People can only barely get a rough idea through these key nouns. It is okay to want a more accurate translation, but it must be studied for several weeks or even months. People can't wait that long!

Yu Yifeng frowned and said: "Everyone, we must respond to the other party as soon as possible! Otherwise, our disguise may be flawed. Everyone, tell me, what does this text mean?"

In this case, he must gather the wisdom of everyone before making a decision.

Dr. Rambo pondered for a while and said first: "I don't think there is much controversy about the first three keywords. This civilization calls itself the Green Light Civilization, and their purpose is to come to the solar system to replenish the energy of the spacecraft. This is not much different from our guess."

Everyone nodded, even Yu Yifeng himself thought so.

But the last three keywords, "war", "peace", and "destruction", can lead to too many ambiguities!

One statement: They are not here for war, but for peaceful coexistence... so they beg humans not to destroy them.

Or another statement: Even if war breaks out, they will enter the solar system, and let humans choose between peace and destruction!

These two statements have completely different results. Everyone let go of their minds and boldly guessed that these three keywords can form at least dozens of different results!

Well, among the various different statements, perhaps only one is correct, but people don’t know which one it is...

Yu Yifeng instantly had a headache. A large number of ambiguities brought several different possibilities, making it impossible for him to know what the attitude of this "green light civilization" is, and there is no way to make targeted decisions.

He was really angry and really hated this rubbish machine translation!

Almost all linguists, information scientists, and cryptographers are focusing on overcoming the language difficulties. But he doesn't think that a few hours will yield any results.

This alien language is completely different from any language on Earth. Although the quality of human brain translation is higher than that of supercomputers, the efficiency is much worse, and it will take several weeks or even months to get it.

And they need to reply to each other within a few hours, and of course the faster the better. The faster the speed, the stronger the human civilization is, and the better their "camouflage" effect is.

In fact, it can be said that humans are lucky enough to have studied the radio waves of alien civilizations for several weeks in advance. Otherwise, it might take a long time to decipher these keywords...

What should we do?