After rebirth, I became a great writer

Chapter 351 The direction of science is the starry sky!

When Chen Tianhong said he wanted to recite a poem, everyone sitting in the auditorium had smiles on their faces, thinking that it was indeed the case, thanks to you, Hongwen! Every acceptance speech must be something special.

But when they heard that it was a poem written in "The Three-Body Problem", everyone was not interested. The poems they had already read were not as fresh as the new poems.

What’s funny is that another sentence and the “second half” came up, and everyone’s interest was piqued again.

In the trilogy of "The Three-Body Problem", there are many famous aphorisms and aphorisms. As for poems, they are only one or two. To be honest, it is not enough for everyone. Now I hear that the author Hongwen wants to write half of the poem. But in ordinary times

Who among those who have watched "The Three-Body Problem" doesn't prick up their ears?

Even Tang Qianqian, who had just listened a little, looked at Chen Tianhong with her big eyes open like a curious baby, looking forward to hearing a poem dedicated to science fiction and romance!

So when the song started to sound and the first line was heard, everyone knew which song Chen Tianhong was talking about. In fact, in "The Three-Body Problem", there is only one song that can be regarded as a poem or a song.

It is said to be poetry because it does meet the standards of modern poetry in terms of meter, style, rhyme, and connotation.

It would be simpler to say it is a song. It comes from a civilization that is more powerful than the Earth and the Three-Body Problem in the book, the singer civilization. It is an ancient song in this civilization. The singer has been humming it while working.

However, many people shuddered when they heard this ballad. In an instant, they seemed to have returned to the deep and terrifying universe outlined in the book, and saw a corner with sparse starlight at the edge of the Milky Way.

a huge star

Within the gravitational field of the star, there is a distant planet rotating around it, and the planet is covered with a thick atmosphere.

Occasionally, weak sunlight shines down from the gaps, like huge beams of light, illuminating the vibrant land, and light yellow clouds float in the deep blue sky.

A lake as quiet as a girl reflects the mountains, with mottled and alienated colors. It resembles Monet's paintings of the civilization of star bombers, which makes people feel fascinated and intoxicated.

This is the world of singers described in the book. There are not many words but it is very beautiful. Unfortunately, it only depicts the classical era, the time of origin. Later, wars with other civilizations in the universe completely destroyed all the beauty!

Because on the tower of the meaning of life, survival is above all else. For the continuation of life, it is nothing if the environment is converted into resources, even if the dimension is reduced to two-dimensional (two-dimensional) to survive.

The real reason that made everyone shiver was another layer of meaning hidden in the ballad. In the ballad, they not only thought of the world of the singer, but also saw the beautiful and terrifying "two-way foil".

The singer sang that it saw "love", what is love, it is the target, the object to be cleaned, the earth!

It drove a spaceship to the "Earth" and gave a gift representing higher civilization. What kind of gift was it?

It is a thin and beautiful piece of film that can freeze time.

This gift can only be accepted by civilizations of the same level as it. Otherwise, not only time will be frozen, but also death!

You can't refuse this gift because it's as soft as "shallow sea mud!" So soft you can't get rid of it!

Even when you die, it will turn into "beautiful stripes" (that is, a unique texture formed after a three-dimensional object becomes two-dimensional). This is the last romance for you!

However, you have the final right to choose, either to "smear time all over your body" (make yourself two-dimensional and continue your life in a two-dimensional space), or to fly away hand in hand with me (the singer) and run to the "gift" to influence

In the outer fringe area, this kind of flight is "lucid"

In the recognition of the majority of readers of "Three-Body", the singer civilization is very powerful, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are devils. They can use technology to cut off the entire history of mankind, and can make everything in the entire solar system return to zero.

Its job is to clean up low-level civilizations, singing songs like a bandit to bring destruction to others. However, in front of god-level civilization, it is just like the low-level civilizations it cleans up. I am nothing more than flesh and blood.

The book "The Three-Body Problem" does not write about the final outcome of the singer civilization, but it can be inferred from a few words that its fate is either a complete failure in the battle with the "edge world", a helpless self-proclaimed duality, or a god-level attack.

Civilized attack, completely reduced to zero

This super civilization, which can even change the laws of the universe, actually only proves that the system of the dark forest of the universe really exists. It is also unable to cope with the cruel interstellar war, and is just another wanderer in the dark universe!

As the last two lines of the song say, for the stars, you and I are both "ghosts". The stars represent all civilized creatures in the universe, and they are also ghosts!

We are all in the majestic dark forest hierarchy, unable to extricate ourselves or transcend!

Therefore, in the end, what spreads in the hearts of readers is just an ancient ballad without a name.

This is the emotion felt by those present who have read the novel "The Three-Body Problem". For a small number of people who have not read "The Three-Body Problem" or who do not understand it deeply, they appreciate it from another perspective.

For example, Tang Qianqian, to be honest, she curled her lips when she heard the first three sentences.

What! It's too ordinary. How is it different from the compositions of primary school students? It is no exaggeration to say that she can do it.

It wasn't until she heard the fourth sentence that Tang Qianqian felt something different, and felt a force penetrating her heart.

According to the literal interpretation of the song, a person sees his love and gives her a gift, but this gift is so extraordinary. It may be the most unique and romantic gift in the world. It is "frozen time"!

So what is solidified?

She didn’t know, didn’t understand, but it didn’t stop her from imagining. In short, it was beautiful. In the end, the gift-giver and the gift-receiver flew to the edge of the world together, with stars reflecting in each other’s eyes, and stars reflecting on them, until

The edge of the universe

"It's so beautiful! It's so romantic! This is the essence of poetry and science fiction. The resulting beauty is breathtaking!"

Stars appeared in Tang Qianqian's eyes, and she murmured to herself like a nymphomaniac.

At this moment, she suddenly believed in love again.

Liu Yifei, who was sitting next to her, turned around and looked at her best friend in surprise after hearing this. She was very scared of the stars and lamented the insignificance of human beings in the universe.

Is this song beautiful?

Well, it is indeed beautiful, but the more untouchable a beautiful thing is, the more deadly it is.

It’s a long story. In fact, only a few minutes have passed since the scene. The scenes described are actually based on the associations in everyone’s minds and feelings in their hearts.

After Chen Tianhong finished reciting the original work in the book, he paused for only five minutes and then continued to speak the second half of the poem.

[Time and space are all sharp wings, and the multi-dimensional universe allows me to roam freely!]

[Fell into two dimensions and turned into nothing, only a string of empty echoes! 】

[The silent life a few epochs ago became so determined with the fireball in hand!]

【Who can keep the grand secret of time, be so sure, and give civilization to the years!】

【Being so determined brings civilization to the years.】

When Chen Tianhong said these lines, he almost turned his recitation into singing. Fortunately, he stopped in time and turned into a high-spirited song. He repeated the last line twice and raised his voice.

After reading the "second half of the poem", Chen Tianhong paused for a moment to give everyone time to react.

There was silence in the auditorium, and the audience in front of computers, mobile phones, and TV sets were also silent. Like the first half of the poem, they started to make associations based on their own understanding. The difference was that this time there were more associations. Unfortunately, few people could make the connections.

, more people looked confused.

They only felt that the second half sounded more like a ballad, and it sounded very uplifting, but what exactly did it mean? I'm sorry, I'm a bad student and don't have enough knowledge.

It is the last sentence that reminds all readers of "The Three-Body Problem" of a famous saying in the book.

[Give time to civilization, not time to civilization!]

However, how many people really understand this sentence?

Fortunately, Chen Tianhong on the stage did not pause for too long and continued to speak.

"At the last award ceremony for "The Three-Body Problem", I once said that science fiction is literature based on imagination. Just as our pioneer science fiction writer, Mr. Kimple Scott, said, "Science fiction works

Based on scientific principles and full of imagination!”

I am honored to receive the Gimple Award. This award is a reward for imagination. Imagination is a human ability that seems to belong only to gods. We can use it to build a world. This ability is as good as

Creator.

But nowadays, many science fiction works are no longer as imaginative about space as Mr. Gimple's era. Because of the development of our real-life science and technology, many things that existed in fantasy in the past have become reality, and we are indeed outside our home planet.

Left footprints.

This has caused many people to withdraw their gaze from the stars, and the imagination of science fiction has changed from the broadness and far-reachingness of Gimple's era to the current narrowness and introversion.

As a science fiction writer, I have been working hard to continue the imagination that belongs to us science fiction writers. The starry sky is always the best place to carry human imagination.

Maybe the universe conceived in "The Three-Body Problem" is not what everyone expects. Some people may even think that it is naive, sinister, inconsistent with the values ​​of today's society, and not the future we long for.

I think everyone should understand that science fiction is not predicting the future. It is just arranging various possibilities for the future for everyone to appreciate and think about. As for which of these countless possible futures will become a reality, this is not

The purpose of writing science fiction is, of course, beyond my capabilities.

But one thing is certain: from a long-term time scale, among the countless possible futures, no matter how prosperous our human civilization has achieved, those futures without space navigation are bleak.

Today, our human living environment is facing new challenges. I think the next biggest difficulty for human civilization is that everyone’s pioneering spirit is worn away by the comfort zone and comfortable life brought by technology. If humans do not expand outwards, in a short time

Yes, according to the time scale of ten thousand years, human beings will encounter catastrophe.

Maybe when we are developing, we will still fall into the grandness of time, so how to keep time?

The second half of the ballad I just recited is just my personal opinion, "Give the years civilization!"

Except for time, nothing is eternal, and this is true for all life in the universe. The brilliance of a civilization is not measured by time. It is better to have a short-term splendid civilization than to live in an ignoble existence.

We must make every moment of our lives wonderful, instead of letting our lives go to waste. As time goes by, we cannot rest in our comfort zone and become complacent. We must make full use of our imagination to explore, expand, and expand again.

Let your imagination keep moving forward, go farther in time and space to find magic, stay ahead of reality, and stay ahead of time, that’s it!

Science fiction helps humans expand their knowledge, and science fiction novels also help us think about the meaning of our existence!

I hope that "The Three-Body Problem" can make everyone face the problems we face and think about the significance of our human civilization's existence in the universe.

Of course, what I said may not be correct, just like "The Three-Body Problem" cannot satisfy everyone, but just like Mr. Kimple's epitaph: "He never grew up, but he never stopped growing."

I want to work hard to grow, and I also want to add different things to science fiction novels as I grow, adding my own understanding.

As long as there are no limits in life, we have unlimited possibilities!

Thank you everyone, I have finished my acceptance speech!

After speaking from the bottom of his heart, Chen Tianhong bowed deeply toward the crowd in the auditorium and toward the camera!

The applause sounded like thunder, and everyone present also applauded and stood up to return the bow. They could not afford this bow, because the young people standing on the stage at this moment thought far more than they did, thinking deeply and deeply.

long!

To say it is a bit exaggerated, based on what he just said, coupled with the novels he created, he even provided scientists with a direction for subsequent development, which is to sail far and explore the starry sky!

"Old Cao, are you going too far? You are Tianhong's teacher! Why are you giving gifts back to students!"

A senior domestic science fiction writer who had been writing for many years said to Cao Xingkui mockingly while applauding.

"Haha, Mr. Li! Aren't you still the same? I was Tianhong's teacher, but today, he is my teacher! Learning has no predecessors, and the master is the teacher! With his current understanding of science fiction, I

Not as good as that!”

Cao Xingkui looked at the students who were still half-bowing on the stage, his cloudy eyes filled with relief and pride!

"Yes! I agree with what Lao Cao said. This child's acceptance speech will definitely be included in the book and become a classic speech of the Gimple Award, and will be remembered by future generations! The development of science fiction novels comes from imagination and science.

The direction of development is the starry sky! It’s amazing!”

Another old man sighed sincerely.

At the same time, there are many writers who have similar sentiments to them, and many of them are even bowing their heads.

Of course, these people do not include Liu Yifei and Tang Qianqian.

Liu Yifei's face turned red with excitement and she clapped hard. This is her boyfriend! How outstanding! How proud!

Although Tang Qianqian also clapped vigorously, her head was a little confused. She hadn't turned around yet. The first half and the second half of the song didn't match what she imagined!

It's such a good romance, but why did it end up talking about great truths? Brother, I'm not very talented and knowledgeable!

However, everyone applauds you, you are awesome! I, Tang Qianqian, am completely convinced this time!

ps: This chapter is written about the pain in the head. Part of it is based on Liu's acceptance speech. The name of the song is "Singer". I will put it in the easter egg chapter. Interested book friends can listen to it.

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