Only then did Wang Miao and Ding Yi discover that the fields were covered with a thick layer of locusts each straw was covered with several and on the ground more locusts were wriggling looking like a sticky liquid Is there a plague of locusts in this place Wang Miao drove away the locusts on a small piece of land on the ridge of the field and sat down Like a sandstorm it happened ten years ago but this year is the worst So what Dashi Small Geared Motors it doesn't matter Ding Yi said with lingering drunkenness I just want to ask you two to think about a question Is there a big gap in the technical level between the earth people and the Trisolarians or is there a big gap in the technical level between the locusts and us The question was like a bottle of cold water poured on the heads of two drunken scientists who stared at the piles of locusts in front of them their expressions gradually becoming solemn and they soon understood what Dashi meant Look this is the bug their technology and our gap far greater than our gap with the three-body civilization Humans do their best to destroy them using all kinds of poisons spraying them with airplanes introducing and cultivating their natural enemies searching for and destroying their eggs genetically modifying them to sterilize them; burning them flooding them with water having a pest agent to deal with them in every home having a weapon like a fly swatter under every desk

This long war has accompanied the whole human civilization and now the outcome is still uncertain Insects have not been exterminated they are still proud between heaven and earth and their number is no less than before the emergence of human beings Trisolarians who see humans as bugs seem to be oblivious to the fact that bugs are never really defeated The sun was hidden by a small black cloud casting a moving shadow on the earth It was not a general cloud but a large swarm of locusts that had just arrived They soon began to descend on the nearby fields The three men bathed in the rainstorm of life and felt the dignity of life on earth Ding Yi and Johnson slowly sprinkled the two bottles of wine in their hands on the North China Plain at their feet which was a tribute to insects Thank you Dashi Wang Miao stretched out his hand to Dashi I thank you too Ding Yi took Dashi's other hand Let's go back quickly There's a lot of work to do Wang Miao said The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin "Ural Science Fiction Network" ARK Project

Archive website www Wulali Info 35 Epilogue · Ruins No one believed that Ye Wenjie could climb Radar Peak again with her own physical strength but she finally sat there without being helped along the way micro gear motor but rested twice in the abandoned sentry box on the mountainside She is consuming her non-renewable life force without pity After learning the truth of the three-body civilization Ye Wenjie was silent and seldom spoke She only made one request she wanted to go back to the ruins of the Red Bank Base When a group of people climbed up the mountain the top of Radar Peak had just emerged from the clouds After a day's walking in the haze and fog they suddenly saw the sun shining brightly in the western sky and the clear blue sky It was like entering another world As far as the eye can see from the peak the sea of clouds is silvery white in the sunshine and the undulating shape seems to be a metaphysical abstract reproduction of the Great Hinggan Mountains under the clouds The imaginary ruins do not exist the base has been completely demolished the peak is only a piece of grass the foundation and roads are covered under it it looks like a wilderness everything on the Red Bank seems to have never happened But Ye Wenjie soon found a relic She went to the edge of a tall rock and pulled back the vines on it revealing the mottled rust Others realized that the "rock" was a huge metal base This is the base of the antenna Ye Wenjie said The first call of the Earth civilization heard by the alien world was sent to the sun through the antenna on the base and then amplified by the sun and transmitted to the whole universe A small stone tablet was found beside the pedestal almost completely buried by weeds Letter The original site of the Red Bank base （1968～1987） Chinese Academy of Sciences 19890321 The monument is so small that it is not so much to commemorate as to forget Ye Wenjie walked to the edge of the cliff where she had personally ended the lives of two soldiers

She did not look at the sea of clouds like other people in the same trade but focused her eyes in one direction Under that cloud there was a small village called Qijiatun Ye Wenjie's heart beat hard like a string about to break black fog began to appear in front of her eyes she used the last energy of her life to insist before everything sank into the eternal darkness she wanted to see the sunset of the Red Bank base again In the western Small Dc Gear Motor sky the sunset sinking in the sea of clouds seemed to be melted and the blood of the sun spread out in the sea of clouds and the sky reflecting a large area of magnificent blood red This is the sunset of the people Ye Wenjie said softly (End of full text) The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin "Ural Science Fiction Network" ARK Project Archive website www Wulali Info Postscript

If there is an alien civilization is there a common moral code in the universe At best this is a question of great interest to science fiction fans; at worst it may be a matter of life and death for human civilization In the 1980s domestic science fiction writers tended to answer in the affirmative In science fiction at that time aliens appeared as benevolent images guiding the lost lambs of human beings with the kindness and tolerance of heavenly fathers In Moonlight Island by Jin Tao aliens soothe the wounded hearts of human beings; in Distant Love by Tong Sizheng the love between human beings and aliens is beautiful and magnificent; in Mirror Image of Her Ball by Zheng Wenguang the low morality of human beings even scares away the alien civilization whose technology is several orders of magnitude higher than that of Yongping but which has the heart of a Bodhisattva! However the saying that "human nature is good at the beginning" is very suspicious in the human world and it is impossible to put it in the universe ichgearmotor.com