Road to science and technology

"Thank God, the heptapods came to Earth from distant stars. We already know the mission they shoulder. Now you allow us to experience such a magical journey. I should really thank you, Mr. Yue." Colonel Webb said sincerely, He rarely used honorifics.

"Can we still meet?" Gary asked before leaving.

"Yes, if you can live to three thousand years later!"

Yue Yuanzhou smiled, then raised his hand and said, "Okay, it's time for you to go back."

"Please wait a moment, I'm sorry, I have something to do!" Just when Yue Yuanzhou was about to send the person away, Louise Banks suddenly spoke nervously.

"Say." Yue Yuanzhou said simply, although he already knew what Banks was going to say.

"Is what I'm seeing real? Is she really going to do it?"

Louise opened her mouth, feeling so distressed that she couldn't even speak the word 'death'.

"Don't you already know the answer?" Yue Yuanzhou asked back, but his tone was clearly a declarative sentence.

"Then" Banks opened his mouth.

Before she could say anything, Yue Yuanzhou said: "That is her fate. You have actually learned the heptapod writing now, so how do you understand this? Or how do you understand free will."

Banks was silent for a long time and considered: "I thought I could decide my future. At that time, I had not learned the seventh language. To me, thinking means what is in my heart. In the terms of our language workers, I Thinking and language have phoneme-related characteristics. Generally speaking, my mind is speaking English.

But that’s not necessarily the case. I once participated in a closed Russian language learning course. By the end, the language I used when thinking and dreaming had become Russian. Later, it was the same after I learned Chinese, no matter what language I used. , the pattern is the same, thinking is in the heart and speaks in the inner language. "

Dr. Banks stopped when she said it, and then looked at Yue Yuanzhou, as if she was afraid that Yue Yuanzhou would say that her answer was wrong. After seeing him indicate to continue, she continued:

"It wasn't until I learned some heptagrams, which is Heptapod Language B, that I thought, what would happen if I was thinking in a language without pronunciation? With this in mind, I started to learn When I learned some of Qi Wen, I felt that my thinking was composed of a bunch of pictorial symbols, which was very magical.

I used to think that it should be the same as the feeling of a deaf person learning to write, until one day I suddenly discovered that my thinking was not expressed through my inner voice, but through the study of my soul I saw a bunch of heptapod words. Like mist on a window pane, it gradually unfolds,

That moment was really fascinating. Since then, I started to see some strange scenes. A little girl always appeared in front of me. I felt that I was very familiar with her. At first I thought it was an illusion, but then I slowly discovered that that little girl should be my future daughter. "

Louise Banks, somehow suddenly becoming sincere, continued: "Not only that, sometimes I can foresee what I'm going to do in the next moment, and I thought I could not do what I saw. , but later I found that I couldn’t, so I finally did it, and from that time on I felt like both a participant and a bystander in the event.”

"For this reason, I once asked Guerre about whether it is possible to know the future in advance. It is not a guess, but a real knowledge."

"Yes, I remember you asked me this question, but now I know the reason." At this time, Gary Donnelly interjected with emotion: "I still remember that I answered you like this, the basic laws of physics have Symmetry in time, no matter in the past or present, the physical properties will not change, so it is conceptually true, but it is impossible to say it concretely. It will involve the uncertainty principle, and we cannot know a microscopic The position and momentum of a particle, but you say from your perspective that’s a matter of free will.”

"Yes, now I know that it was the language B of the heptapods that guided my consciousness, causing my thinking to appear in a synchronized mode. At that moment, I felt that I was dominated by the language B of the heptapods, the past and the future. Arriving with a bang."

When speaking as Dr. Banks, he made hand movements with both hands that foreigners like when speaking. It seems that he cannot speak without gesturing. It may also be that English must add gestures to express certain feelings in order to express them clearly.

At this moment, she turned to Yue Yuanzhou and continued to speak with her hands and mouth: "As the teacher said, I seem to have seen my own destiny just like the heptapods. The heptapods have seen their destiny. They do not want to perish, so they seek help from humans. Help, as for me, I don’t want to see my future daughter suffer such a fate, so I want to ask my husband to help me!”

Seeing that Banks had spoken out what was in his heart, Yue Yuanzhou did not refuse, but he also did not agree immediately. Instead, he said: "The heptapods have given mankind a big gift package - new ways of thinking and superb science. Knowledge, what about you?”

"I……"

Banks was speechless for a moment. She thought that with Yue Yuanzhou's god-like method, it would be easy to do it, and it would be easy to help her, but she never imagined that it would be like this.

In fact, it was really easy for Yue Yuanzhou to help her, but help without any price would always make these people feel that their God was helping them.

Yue Yuanzhou looked at Banks, "Since you still have nothing, let me see it this way. When the time comes, you bring your daughter to Shang Shaojian. It's just a terminal illness. He has a way to cure your daughter."

Yes, it's just a terminal illness. Shang Shaojian can cure it by just buying some medicine in the Zhuxia Community Market. Yue Yuanzhou didn't need to take action at all, he only needed to use his words.

He spoke mainly to explain that he wanted to intervene in this matter. With his current existence, as long as he intervened, the fate in the dark would naturally fall apart.

As long as Louise Banks acts according to his instructions, then her fateful cage can be easily broken. After all, she is just an ordinary human being, and her fate is insignificant.

Banks' only role in the future is to translate and publish a dictionary about the seven languages, but this is something she will inevitably do. In the fateful circle of the entire civilization of the heptapods, she is part of the event.

"Thank you," Banks said. Her words were sincere. It seemed that she had also thought that it would be easier to give Shang Shaojian something than Yue Yuanzhou.

So she clearly realized that Yue Yuanzhou's ability to say this was already a great help to her.