Life in the resettlement zone was difficult. Near the beginning, when few people were there, it was still tolerable. The harassment by other people was far harder to bear than the material deprivations. At first, Cheng Xin and AA had a shelter-house all to themselves. But as additional migrants came, more people were packed into the shelter-house, until eight women in total shared it. The other six women had all been born during the paradise-like Deterrence Era. Here, for the first time in their lives, they encountered rationing of water and food, dead walls that did not come alive with information, rooms with no air-conditioning, public toilets and showers, bunk beds… This was a society of absolute equality: Money had no use here, and everyone received exactly the same ration. They had only ever seen such austerity in historical films, and life in the resettlement zones felt like hell. Naturally, Cheng Xin became the target of their fury. Unprovoked, they would curse at her and accuse her of being a waste of space — after all, she had not been able to deter Trisolaris. Her worst sin had been giving up as soon as she received the warning: Had she activated the gravitational wave broadcast, the Trisolarans would have run away in terror, and at least humanity would enjoy a few more decades of happiness. Even if the broadcast led to the immediate destruction of the Earth, it would be better than the current conditions.
移民区的生活是艰苦的，但在最初的日子里，到来的移民数量不多，还可以忍受。与物质生活的艰苦相比，更糟糕的还是来自人的骚扰。程心和从最初是两个人住一间简易房，但随着移民的增加，房间里的人数渐渐增加到八个。另外六个女人都是在天堂一般的威慑纪元出生的，在这里，到处是她们平生第一次见到的事物：食品和水的定量配给，没有信息墙壁甚至没有空调的房间、公共厕所和公共浴室、上下铺……这是一个绝对平均的社会，钱没有用，所有人得到的配给都完全一样。她们以前只在历史电影中看到过这些，移民区的生活对她们而言是地狱般的折磨，程心自然就成了这些人发泄的对象。她们动不动就对她恶语相向，骂她是废物，没能威慑住三体世界，最该死的是在接到攻击警报后放弃了威慑操作，否则引力波广播一启动，三体人就吓跑了，至少还有几十年的好日子过，即使广播启动后地球立即毁灭，也比到这鬼地方受罪强。
When James Cook had discovered Australia five centuries ago, he could never have imagined that, one day, all of humanity would be gathered on this empty, vast continent.
库克船长在五个世纪前发现澳大利亚时做梦也想不到，有一天全人类会聚集到这块曾经无比空旷的大陆上。
Cheng Xin stood in front of Elder Fraisse’s house and surveyed the Great Victoria Desert shimmering in the heat. Simple, just-completed shelter-houses were packed densely, as far as the eye could see. Under the noonday sun, the plywood and sheet-metal constructions seemed both brand-new and fragile, like origami toys scattered across the sand.
程心站在弗雷斯老人的房前，看着热浪滚滚的维多利亚沙漠，目力所及之处，密布着刚建成的简易住房，在正午的阳光下。这些合成板和薄金属板建成的房子显得崭新而脆弱，像一大片刚扔到沙漠上的折纸玩具。
Cheng Xin and 艾 AA had come to Australia with the earliest wave of forced migrants. Cheng Xin could have gone to a big city like Canberra or Sydney for a relatively comfortable life, but she had insisted on living as an ordinary migrant and gone to the interior resettlement zone in the deserts near Warburton, where conditions were the roughest. She was touched that AA, who could also have gone to a big city, insisted on accompanying her.
程心和艾AA是随最早的一批移民来到澳大利亚的。程心本来可以去堪培拉或悉尼这样的大城市过比较舒适的生活，但她坚持做一个普通移民，来到内陆条件最差的、位于沃伯顿附近沙漠中的移民区。让她无比感动的是，同样可以去大城市的AA坚持要跟着她。
At the beginning, the abuse was merely verbal, but it soon turned physical, and they began to snatch Cheng Xin’s rations away from her. AA did all she could to protect her friend. She fought the other women, sometimes several times a day. Once, she grabbed the meanest one by the hair and slammed her head against a bedpost until blood covered her face. Thereafter, they left her and Cheng Xin alone.
开始她们只是骂，后来发展到对程心动手动脚，甚至抢夺她的配给品。但AA却拼命保护她的朋友，她像个小泼妇一样一天与那六个女人打好几次架，有一次抓住一个最凶女人的头发往上下铺的床柱上撞，把那人撞得血流满面，那几个女人这以后才再不敢轻易惹她和程心了。
This persisted until an old man named Fraisse came and invited her and AA to move into his place. Fraisse was an Aboriginal man, over eighty years of age but still hale and hearty, with a white beard on his black face. As a native, he had been temporarily allowed to keep his own house. During the Common Era, he had been in charge of an organization for Aboriginal cultural preservation, and he had gone into hibernation at the beginning of the Crisis Era in order to continue his task in the future. When he awoke, he saw that his prediction had come true: The Australian Aboriginals and their culture were close to disappearing.
这时一位名叫弗雷斯的老人来找她，请她和AA到自己的房子里去住。弗雷斯是澳大利亚土着，八十多岁了，身体仍很强健，黝黑的脸上长着雪白的胡须。作为本地人，他暂时能够保有自己的房子。他是一个冬眠后苏醒的公元人，在危机纪元前曾是一个土着文化保护组织的负责人，在危机纪元初冬眠，目的是为了在未来继续自己的事业。醒来后他发现，跟自己预料的一样，澳大利亚土着与他们的文化一起，已经接近消失了。
Cheng Xin bore all the abuse with equanimity. Indeed, the abuse even comforted her. As the failed Swordholder, she felt she deserved worse.
对这些，程心都坦然接受了——这些甚至对她是一种安慰，作为失败的执剑人，她觉得自己应该付出比这更大的代价。
But the enmity directed at Cheng Xin wasn’t limited to their roommates: The migrants in the shelter-houses nearby also came to harass her. Sometimes they threw stones at Cheng Xin’s shelter-house; sometimes a mob surrounded the shelter-house and shouted curses at her.
但憎恨程心的并不止这几个人，周围的移民也经常来骚扰，他们有时朝这间房子扔石头，有时一大群人围住房子齐声叫骂。
Fraisse’s house, built back in the twenty-first century, was old but solid and had a nice copse of trees nearby. Once they moved there, Cheng Xin and AA’s lives became much more stable. More importantly, the old man provided them with spiritual tranquility. He did not share the popular searing anger and bone-deep hatred toward the Trisolarans; indeed, he rarely talked about the crisis at all. All he said was, “Whatever people do, the gods remember.”
弗雷斯的房子建于21世纪，很旧但十分坚固，位于一处树丛边缘。迁到这里后，程心和AA的生活安定了许多，但老人给她们最多的还是心灵上的安宁。与大多数人对三体世界撕心裂肺的愤怒和刻骨铭心的仇恨不同，弗雷斯淡然地面对眼前的一切，他很少谈论这危难的时局，只说过一句话：“孩子，人做过的，神都记着。”
True. Even people still remembered whatever people did. Five centuries ago, civilized men of Earth — most of whom had actually been criminals in Europe — stepped onto this continent and shot the Aboriginal peoples in the woods for sport. Later, even when they recognized that their quarries were men and women, not beasts, the slaughter continued. The Aboriginal peoples had lived in this vast land for tens of thousands of years. By the time the white men arrived, the native population was more than a half million, but that number soon diminished to thirty thousand refugees who had to escape to the desolate western deserts to survive…
是的，人做过的别说神，人自己都还记着。五个世纪前，文明的地球人登上了这块大陆（尽管大部分是欧洲的犯人），在丛林中把土着当成野兽射杀，后来发现他们是人不是兽，仍照杀不误。澳大利亚土着已经在这片广阔的土地上生活了几万年。白人来的时候澳大利亚还有五十万土着，但很快就被杀得只剩三万，直至逃到澳大利亚西部的荒凉沙漠中才幸免于难……
Fraisse laughed and shook his head. He explained that AA wasn’t imitating the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, but the Māori of New Zealand. Outsiders sometimes confused the two, but the Aboriginal peoples of Australia were gentle, while the Māori were fierce warriors. And, even so, she wasn’t imitating the Māori dance correctly, and had failed to capture their spirit. Fraisse then painted his own face into an impressive mask and took off his shirt, revealing a dark chest and powerful muscles that seemed incongruous with his advanced age. He picked up a taiaha from the corner of the house and began to dance a real war haka.
弗雷斯笑肴摇摇头，说她跳的不是澳大利亚土着的舞，是毛利人的，外来的人常把这两者搞混，但他们很不同。前者温顺，后者是凶悍的战士；而就算是毛利人的舞她跳得也不对，没把握住儿精神。说着，老人用颜料在自己脸上涂了起来，很决涂成一张生动的脸谱，然后脱下上衣，露出了黝黑的胸膛上与年龄不相称的结实肌肉，从墙角拿了一根货真价实的长矛。为她们跳起了毛利战士的舞蹈。
When she first arrived at Fraisse’s, AA was curious about everything in the old house. It resembled a museum of Aboriginal culture. Everywhere there were rock and bark paintings, musical instruments made of wooden slats and hollow logs, woven grass skirts, boomerangs, spears, and other such objects. AA was most interested in a few pots of paint made of white clay and red and yellow ocher. She knew right away what they were for, and, dipping a finger into the pots, started to paint her own face. Then she began dancing in imitation of tribal dancers she had seen somewhere, making fearsome noises as she danced. “This would have terrified those bitches living with us,” she said.
刚到弗雷斯家里时，AA对那旧房子中的一切都充满了好奇。那里好像是澳大利亚土着文化的博物馆，到处装饰着古老的树皮画和岩画、用木块和空心树干做成的乐器、草辫裙、飞去来器和长矛等。最让AA感兴趣的是几罐用白色黏土、红色和黄色的储石做成的颜料，她立刻知道了那是干什么用的。就用手指蘸着在自己脸上涂了起来，然后跳起她从什么地方看到过的土着舞蹈，嘴里哈哈地叫着，说早点这样就能把之前住的房间里那几个婊子吓住。
When Sophon proclaimed the establishment of “reservations,” people paid attention. It brought to mind the tragic fate of the native peoples of North America, another faraway continent where the arrival of civilized men of Earth brought sorrow.
其实，当智子发表保留地声明时，人们都注意到她用了Reservation这个词，这是当年对印第安保留地的称呼，那是在另一块遥远的大陆上，文明的地球人到达那里后，印第安人的命运比澳大利亚土着更悲惨。
Cheng Xin and AA were mesmerized. Fraisse’s kind everyday demeanor disappeared, and he transformed into a threatening, awe-inspiring demon. His whole body seemed suffused with magnificent force. Every cry and foot stomp made the glass window panes quake in their frames, and the two women trembled. But it was his eyes that shocked them the most: Murderous chill and searing rage spewed from those wide-open orbs, combining the forces of typhoons and thunder in Oceania. His powerful gaze seemed to project earth-shattering shouts: “Do not run away! I will kill you! I will eat you!”
他的表演立刻像勾了魂似的把她们吸引住了，弗雷斯平时的和善宽厚消失得无影无踪，瞬间变成一个咄咄逼人的凶煞恶神，浑身上下充满了雄壮刹悍的攻击力，他的每一声怒吼、每一次跺脚，都使窗玻璃嗡嗡作响，令人不由得发抖。最令她们震撼的还是他的眼睛，睁得滚圆，灼热的怒火和冰冷的杀气喷涌而出，凝聚了大洋洲雷电和腿风的力量，那目光仿佛在惊天动地地大喊：“不要跑！我要杀了你！我要吃了你！”
The haka over, Fraisse went back to his usual kind self. “For a Māori warrior, the key is to hold the enemy’s gaze. He must defeat the enemy first with his eyes, then kill him with the taiaha.” He came back and stood in front of Cheng Xin. “Child, you failed to hold the enemy’s gaze.” Then he patted her gently on the shoulder. “But, it’s not your fault. Really not your fault.”
跳完舞，弗雷斯又恢复了平时的和善模样，他说：“——个毛利勇士，关键是要盯住敌人的眼睛，用眼睛打败他，再用长矛杀死他。”他走到程心面前，意味深长地看着她，“孩子，你没有盯住敌人的眼睛。”他轻轻拍拍程心的肩膀，“但，这不怪你，真的不怪你。”
The next day, Cheng Xin did something that surprised even herself: She went to see Wade.
第二天，程心做了一件连她自己也很难理解的事：她去看了维德。
Thomas Wade was sentenced to 30 years in prison after the attempted murder, and now his prison has just moved to chalville, Australia.
那次谋杀未遂后，托马斯·维德被判刑三十年，现在，他所在的监狱刚迁到澳大利亚的查尔维尔。
As Cheng Xin approached Wade, she was a bit surprised to see that while he was serving his sentence in harsh conditions, he looked much better groomed than the last time they met. He was clean-shaven and his hair was combed neatly. Prisoners in this age no longer wore uniforms, but his white shirt was the cleanest here, even more so than the shirts worn by the guards. Holding a few nails between his lips, he took them out one at a time with his left hand and pounded them into the composite boards with precise, forceful blows from the hammer. He glanced at Cheng Xin without changing his indifferent expression and went on working.
走近维德后，程心有些惊奇地发现，虽然在服刑，还是在这样艰苦的地方，他反而变得比她上次看到时整洁了许多，他的胡子刮得很十净，头发梳得整齐有形。这个时代的犯人已经不穿囚服了，但他的白衬衣是这里最干净的，甚至比那三个狱警都干净。他嘴里含着几颗钉子，每次用左手将一颗钉子按进合成板里，然后拿起锤子利落有力地把钉子敲进去。他看了程心一眼，脸上的冷漠没有丝毫变化，继续在沉默中干活。
Wade was sealing up the windows of a shelter-house with composite boards so that it could be used as a warehouse. One of his sleeves was empty. In this age, it would have been easy for him to acquire a prosthesis indistinguishable from the real thing, but for some reason, he had refused.
当程心见到维德时，他正在干活，把一个用做仓库的简易房的窗子用合成板封住。他的一只袖管是空的，在这个时代，本来很容易接一只功能与正常手臂差不多的假肢的，不知为什么他没有那么做。
Two other prisoners — clearly also Common Era men — whistled at Cheng Xin. But once they realized who Cheng Xin had come to see, they shut up and went back to their work without looking up.
有两个显然也是公元人的男犯人冲程心轻桃地打口哨，但看到程心要找的人后他们立刻变得老实了。都赶紧垂头干活，好像对刚才的举动有些后怕。
“Leave,” he said. He grabbed another handful of nails from the tool chest. He didn’t hand them over to Cheng Xin and didn’t put them in his mouth. Instead, he placed them on the ground next to his feet.
“走吧。”维德说，又从工具箱中抓出一把钉子，这次没有递给程心，也没有咬在嘴里，而是放在脚旁的地L。
Cheng Xin knew right away that he had not given up. His ambitions, ideals, treachery, and whatever else was hidden in his heart, unknown to her — he had given up none of it.
程心看到这人第一眼时就知道，他没有放弃，他的野心和理想，他的阴险，还有许许多多程心从来不知道的东西，什么都没有放弃。
Cheng Xin extended a hand to Wade. He glanced at her again, put down the hammer, spat out the nails, and deposited them in her hand. Then she handed him the nails one by one as he pounded them in, until they were all gone.
程心向维移伸出一只手来，他看了她一眼，放下锤子，把嘴里咬着的钉子放到她手中，然后她递一颗钉子，他就钉一颗，直到程心手中的钉子都钉完了。他才打破沉默。
“I… I just…” Cheng Xin didn’t know what to say.
“我，我只是……”程心一时不知道该说什么。
“I’m telling you to leave Australia.” Wade’s lips barely moved as he whispered. His gaze remained on the composite board. Anyone a little distance away would think he was concentrating on his work. “Hurry, before the resettlement is complete.”
“我是说离开澳人利亚；在移民完成前快走。”维德低声说，他说这话时嘴唇几乎不动，眼睛盯着正在钉的合成板，稍远此的人都会以为他在专心干活。
Like he had many times three centuries ago, Wade had managed to stun Cheng Xin with a single sentence. Each time it was as if he had tossed her a knotted ball of string that she must untangle layer by layer before she could understand the complex meaning hidden within. But this time, Wade’s words made her shiver. She didn’t even have the courage to begin to untangle his riddle.
同三个世纪前的许多次一样，维德又是以一句简短的话让程心呆住了。每次，他都像是扔给她一个致密的线团，她得一段一段把线团拆开才能领会其中复杂的含义。但这一次，维德的话让她立刻不寒而栗，她甚至没有胆量去拆那线团。
Three months after the start of the Great Resettlement, more than a billion people had been relocated to Australia. Simultaneously, the governments of the nations of the world began to relocate to large Australian cities. The UN moved its headquarters to Sydney. Each government directed the resettlement of its own citizens, with the UN Resettlement Commission coordinating the efforts. In their new land, the migrants gathered into districts based on their nation of origin, and Australia became a miniature replica of the whole Earth. Other than the names of the largest cities, old place names were abandoned. Now “New York,” “Tokyo,” and “Shanghai” were nothing more than refugee camps full of basic shelter-houses.
移民进行到第三个月时，迁移到澳大利业的人数已经超过十亿。同时，各国政府也陆续迁往澳大利亚各大城市，联合国迁到悉尼。移民由各国政府领导指挥，联合国移民委员会对全世界的移民行动进行协调。在澳大利亚，移民都按国家分区域聚集，以至于澳大利亚成了一个地球世界的缩小版。除了大城市外，原有的地名已弃之不用，代之以各个国家的名称和各国大城市的名称，现在，纽约、东京和上海都不过是由一片简易房构成的难民营。
“Go.” Wade didn’t give her a chance to ask questions. Then he turned to her and once again revealed his special smirk, like a crack in a frozen-over pond. “Now I’m telling you to get out of this house.”
“走吧。”维德没有给程心提问的时间，紧接着说，然后转向她，短暂地露出他特有的那种冰水般的微笑，‘这次是让你离开这儿。“
On the way back to Warburton, Cheng Xin saw the densely packed shelter-houses stretching to the horizon, saw the busy crowd laboring in the cracks between the shelter-houses. Suddenly, she felt her vision shift, as though she were watching everything from somewhere outside the world, and everything she saw turned into a writhing nest of ants. A nameless terror gripped her and the bright Australian sunlight seemed as cold as rain in winter.
在回沃伯顿的路上，程心看到了大地上密集得望不到边的简易房，看到了在房屋之间的空地上忙碌的密密麻麻的人群。突然，她感到自己的视角发生了变化，像从世界之外看着这一切，而这一切也突然变得像一个熙熙攘攘的蚁窝。这个诡异的视角使她处于一种莫名的恐俱之中一时间，澳大利亚明媚的阳光也带上了冷雨的阴森。
First, there was the problem of shelter. Leaders soon realized that even if all the construction materials in the world were shipped to Australia, and per capita space were limited to the dimensions of a bed, not even one-fifth of the final total population would have a roof over their heads. By the time five hundred million migrants were in Australia, there was no more material for building shelter-houses. They had to resort to erecting large tents, each of which was the size of a stadium and capable of housing more than ten thousand. But under such poor living and sanitation conditions, epidemics were a constant threat.
首先是住房问题，移民领导者们发现，即使把全世界现有的建筑材料都搬到澳大利亚，也只能满足最后移民人数不到五分之一的居住需求，而这时所谓的居住仅仅是每人一张床而已。在移民达到五亿时，已经没有足够的材料建造简易房，只能建造超大型的帐篷，像体育馆一般大小，每个能住上万人，但在这种极其恶劣的居住环境和卫生条件下，大规模传染病随时可能爆发。
There was also the shortage of food. The agricultural factories in Australia were far from sufficient to satisfy the needs of the population, and it was necessary to transport food from across the world. As the population on the continent increased, the distribution of food became more complex and subject to more delays.
粮食开始出现短缺，由于澳大利亚原有的农业工厂远远不能满足移民的需要，粮食必须从世界各地运来，随着移民人口的增加，粮食从调运到分发至移民手中的过程越来越复杂和漫长。
No one had any experience in dealing with resettlement at such a large scale, either in the national governments or the UN, and many difficulties and dangers soon surfaced.
对这样超大规模的人口迁移和聚集。无论是联合国还是各国政府都毫无经验，各种巨大的困难和危险很快浮现出来。
Simultaneously, resettlement was also proceeding in space.
与此同时，太空中的人类移民也正在进行。
At the end of the Deterrence Era, about 1.5 million people were living in space. About half a million spacers belonged to Earth International, living in space stations and space cities orbiting the Earth and bases on the moon. The rest belonged to the Solar System Fleet and were distributed between bases on Mars and around Jupiter, as well as warships patrolling the Solar System.
威慑中止时，太空约有一百五十万人。这些在太空中长期生活的人分成两个部分。其中约五十万人属于地球国际，生活在地球轨道上的太空、空间站以及月球基地中；另一部分则属于太阳系舰队，分布于火星、木星基地和游弋在太阳系的太空战舰中。
But the greatest danger was the prospect of loss of social order. In the resettlement zones, the hyper-information society disappeared. Newcomers poked the walls, bedside stands, or even their own clothes until they realized that everything was dead, un-networked. Even basic communications could not be guaranteed. People could obtain news about the world only through very limited channels. For a population used to a super-networked world full of information, it was as if they had all gone blind. Modern governments lost all their techniques for mass communication and leadership, and were ignorant of how to maintain order in a massively overcrowded society.
但最危险的还是移民社会的失控。在移民区，超信息化社会已经完全消失了，刚来的人还在墙上、床头小桌上甚至自己的衣服上乱点，但立刻发现这些都是没有IT的死东西，甚至基本的通信都不能保障，人们只能从极其有限的渠道得知世界上正在发生的事情，对于这些来自超信息化社会的人来说，这就像失明一般。在这种情况下，现代政府以往的领导手段都失效了，他们不知道怎样维持这样一个超拥挤社会的运行。
The spacers who belonged to Earth International mostly lived below the orbit of the moon. They had no choice but to return to the Earth and migrate to Australia.
属于地球国际的太空人绝大部分都在月球轨道以内，只能返回地面同地球上的所有人一样移民澳大利亚。
The rest moved to the Martian base, which Trisolaris had designated as the second human reservation.
属于太阳系舰队的约一百万人则全部移民至舰队的火星基地，那里是三体世界为人类指定的第二处保留地。
After the Doomsday Battle, the Solar System Fleet had never returned to its former size. Even at the end of the Deterrence Era, the fleet had barely more than one hundred stellar-class warships. Though technology had continued to improve, the maximum speed of the ships never increased, as fusion propulsion had already been pushed to the limit. The overwhelming advantage the Trisolar ships held was not only their ability to reach lightspeed, but, more terrifyingly, their ability to leap into lightspeed without a prolonged process of acceleration. In order to reach even 15 percent of lightspeed, human ships had to accelerate for a year, taking into account fuel consumption rates and the need to reserve fuel for the return voyage. Compared to Trisolaran ships, Earth ships were slow as snails.
自从末日战役后，太阳系舰队再也没有恢复到那样庞大的规模，在威慑中止时，舰队只有一百多艘恒星级战舰。虽然技术在发展，但战舰的速度一直没有提高，似乎核聚变推进已经达到了极限。现在，三体舰队的压倒优势不仅仅在于它们能够达到光速，最可怕之处还在于它们根本不经加速就能够直接跃迁至光速；而人类的战舰如果考虑燃料的消耗以保证返航的话，加速到最高的百分之十五光速可能需要一年的时间，与三体飞船相比，慢得像蜗牛。
When deterrence was dismantled, the stellar-class warships of the Solar System Fleet had a chance to escape into deep space. If the hundred-plus ships had sped away from the Solar System in different directions at maximum power, the eight droplets in the Solar System could not have caught them all. But not a single ship chose to do so; all obeyed Sophon and returned to Mars orbit. The reason for their obedience was simple: Resettlement on Mars was not like settling in Australia on Earth. Within the sealed habitat of the Martian base, a population of one million could maintain a comfortable, civilized existence. The base had been designed to accommodate the long-term needs of such a population. This was, without a doubt, superior to wandering deep space for the rest of their lives.
威慑中止时，太阳系舰队的一百多艘恒星级战舰本来有机会逃脱到外太空，如果当时所有战舰朝不同的方向全速逃离，太阳系中的八个水滴很难追上它们。但没有一艘战舰这样做，都按智子的命令返回了火星轨道，理由很简单：移民到火星，与地球上向澳大利亚的移民不同，一百万人在火星基地的封闭城市中仍能继续文明舒适的生活，因为基地本来的设计就能够容纳这么多人长期生活。与永远流浪外太空相比，这无疑是一个更好的选择。
Trisolaris remained very wary of the humans on Mars. The two droplets recalled from the Kuiper Belt spent most of their time patrolling the space above the Martian city. Unlike the resettlement process on the surface of the Earth, although the Solar System Fleet had essentially been disarmed, people living on Mars still had access to modern technology — required for maintaining the habitability of the city. But the people living on Mars dared not engage in any adventures such as building a gravitational wave transmitter. The sophons certainly would have detected a large-scale venture like that, and people hadn’t forgotten the terror of the Doomsday Battle. The Martian base was as fragile as an eggshell, and the depressurization caused by a single droplet impact would have meant complete disaster.
三体世界对于火星上的人类十分警惕，从柯伊伯带返回的两个水滴长期在火星城市上空盘旋监视，因为与地球移民不同，太阳系舰队虽然已经基本解除武装，但火星基地中的人类仍然掌握着现代技术，否则城市无法生存。不过，火星人类绝对不敢进行制造引力波发射器之类的冒险，建造这样巨大的东西不可能不被智子察觉，半个世纪前末日战役的恐怖历历在目，而火星城市像蛋壳般脆弱，水滴一次掩击造成的减压就可能使所有人陷人灭顶之灾。
From the safety of Fraisse’s house, Cheng Xin could only find out the situation in the larger world through TV. One day, she saw a live broadcast from a food distribution center. The holographic broadcast made her feel as if she were right there. The technology required ultra-broadband connections and was reserved for extremely important news these days. Most news was broadcast via simple 2-D.
在弗雷斯老人的家中。程心也只能从电视中得知外面的情况。这天，她从电视中看到一个食品分发现场的实况，这是一次全息转播，有身临其境之感。现在这种需要超高速带宽的电视广播越来越少了，只在重要新闻时出现，平时只能收到2D画面。
The space resettlement process was completed in three months. Other than the Martian base, there was no more human presence in space in the Solar System, save for empty cities and ships drifting in orbit around the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and through the asteroid belt. They seemed to form a silent, metallic graveyard, where humankind’s glory and dreams were buried.
太空中的移民在三个月内就完成了。月球轨道内的五十万人返问地球进人澳大利亚，太阳系舰队的一百万人移居火星。这时，太阳系的太空中已经没有人了，只有空荡荡的太空城和战舰飘浮在地球、火星和木星轨道上，漂浮在荒凉的小行星带中，仿佛是一片寂静的金属坟墓，埋葬着人类的光荣与梦想。
The distribution center was located in Carnegie, on the edge of the desert. A gigantic tent appeared in the holographic display, like a broken half of an egg dropped in the desert with people spilling out of it like albumen. The crowd was rushing out because a new shipment of food had just arrived. Two flying transports, small but powerful, dangled a huge cube of packed food in nets.
转播的地点是在沙模边缘的卡内基，全息画面中出现了一个巨型帐篷。像是平放在沙漠中的半个巨蛋，而从中拥出的人群则如同巨蛋破裂后滋出的蛋清。人们蜂拥而出是因为来了食品运输机，这种提升力很大而体积很小的运输机一般采用吊运方式运送食品，即把包装成一个人立方体的食品吊在机身下运输。
A figure in green, slender and supple, leapt out of the transport and gracefully landed on the food pile about a dozen meters below. The crowd stopped. They saw that the figure standing atop it was Sophon. She was still dressed in camouflage, and the black scarf around her neck flapped in the hot wind, highlighting her pale face.
这时，一个绿色的身影从运输机中飞出，苗条而矫健，从十几米高处轻盈地落到食品垛上。涌动的人群顿时凝固了，人们看到站在垛顶的是智子，她仍是那身迷彩服打扮，颈上的黑巾在热风中飘荡，更衬托出脸庞的白哲。
The lens zoomed in. People were now snatching food from those who had grabbed it from the pile. The bags of food, like rice grains in a swarm of ants, were quickly torn apart, and the mob fought over whatever tumbled out. The second transport deposited another pile in an empty space a bit farther away. This time, there were no soldiers to provide security at all, and the distribution workers didn’t dare get out of the plane. The crowd swarmed this new pile like iron shavings toward a magnet and quickly covered it.
镜头向地面拉近，可以看见抢到食品的人又面临着周围人的争抢，那一袋袋食品像蚁群中的米粒一般。很快被撕碎扯烂，然后人们又争抢散落在地的东西。另一架运输机则把第二个食品垛放在稍远一些的空地上，这一次根本没有士兵警戒。负责分发的人员也没敢下机，人群立即像被磁铁吸引的铁屑一般蜂拥而来，很快又把食品垛围在中间。
After the first transport gently set down its cargo, the crowd surged like a flood from a burst dam and quickly overwhelmed the food pile. The security barrier formed by a few dozen soldiers collapsed at once, and the few food distribution workers climbed back into the hovering transport in terror. The pile of food disappeared into the crowd like a snowball thrown into muddy waters.
这次来的运输机有两架，第一架运输机刚把吊运的食品垛放到地面上，人群就如决堤的洪水般拥来，很快把食品垛围住淹没，负责维持秩序的几十名士兵构成的警戒线一触即垮，那几名负责分发食品的工作人员吓得又从一架长梯爬回运输机内，这堆食品就如同一块扔进浑水的雪团一样很快融化不见了。
The lens zoomed in again. Sophon’s beautiful eyes glared at the crowd. Her voice was very loud and could be heard over the rumbling of the transport engines. But the crowd below only paused briefly before resuming their agitated motion. Those closest to the pile began to cut through the netting to get at the food bags inside. The crowd became more frenzied, and a few daring ones began to climb up the pile, ignoring Sophon.
镜头拉近，可以看清智子怒视人群的美丽的眼睛，她的声音很大，在运输机的轰鸣声里都能听清。但下面的人群仅被她的出现镇住了一小会儿，很快又骚动起来，靠近食品垛的人开始割断外面的网兜拿食品。接着骚动加剧，人群再次沸腾起来，有几个胆大的丝毫不管，开始向垛顶爬。
“Form a line!” Sophon shouted.
“排队队！”智子对着人群喊道。
The chair of the Resettlement Commission stood at the door of the transport. He held on to the doorframe with one hand for support, and waved his other hand at Sophon, shaking his head helplessly.
舱门口的那几个人中有一位是移民委员会主席，他一只手紧抓着舱门，另一只手对着智子摊了一下，慌乱地摇摇头，表示无能为力。
Sophon unsheathed her katana. Moving faster than the eye could see, she swung it three times and sliced three of the men climbing up the pile into six pieces. The three killing strokes were exactly the same: beginning at the left shoulder and ending at the right hip. The six pieces fell, and the viscera spilled out midair to land with a shower of blood among the rest of the people. Amidst screams of terror, she leapt from the pile and landed with her sword swinging, quickly killing more than a dozen individuals around her. The refugees shied away from her as though a drop of detergent had been deposited into the oil film over a dirty bowl, quickly clearing out a space around her. The bodies left behind in that empty space were also split from the left shoulder to the right hip, a method that guaranteed the maximum spilling of organs and blood.
智子从背后拔出武士刀，以快得几乎让人看不清的动作连挥三下，将刚爬上垛顶的三个人都砍成了两截。那三个人被砍的方式惊人地一致：都是刀从左肩进右肋出，被斜斜地劈开，那六块半截人体向垛下飞去，还在半空，里面的内脏已经滋出散开，同飞扬的血瀑一起，噼里啪啦地落在人群中。在一片恐惧的惊叫和哭号中，智子从垛顶凌空跳下，落到人群中，再次闪电般地砍杀起来，转眼间已经砍倒了十几个人。人群惊恐地后退，很快在她的周围清出了一块空地，就像一滴洗洁精落到盘中的油汤里一般。空地上那十几具尸体也都同前面三人一样，被从左肩到右肋斜斜地劈开，这是让血和内脏最快流出的方式。
“You useless things! Why aren’t you out here keeping order?” Sophon lifted her face and shouted at the transport. In the open door of the transport stood a few shocked officials from the UN Resettlement Commission. “Where are your armies? Your police? What about the weapons we allowed you to bring here? Where is your responsibility?”
“你们这些废物！为什么不维持秩序？！”钾子仰头向悬停在上方的运输机喊道，在运输机敞开的舱门处，站着几个脸色煞白的联合国移民委员会的官员。“你们的军队呢？！警察呢？！允许你们带进来的那些武器呢？！你们的职责呢？！”
Faced with so much gore and blood, many fainted. As Sophon walked forward, people hurried to back away. An invisible force field seemed to surround her, repelling the mob and keeping the space around her clear. She stopped after a few steps and the crowd froze.
在那一大片血红面前，人群中的一部分被吓得晕倒在地。智子向前走去，人们惊慌地闪开，她的身体似乎带着一圈无形的力场，把人群排斥开来，始终在自己周围保持着一圈空地。她走了几步站住了，人群再次凝固。
Sophon jumped back onto the pile and pointed at the line with her bloody katana. “The era for humanity’s degenerate freedom is over. If you want to survive here, you must relearn collectivism and retrieve the dignity of your race!”
智子纵身一跃，跳回了食品垛的顶上。用滴血的长刀指着下面的队列说：“人类自由堕落的时代结束了。要想在这里活下去。就要重新学会集体主义，重新拾起人的尊严！”
“Form a line,” Sophon said. Her voice was soft.
“排队。”智子说，这次声音不高。
Cheng Xin couldn’t sleep that night. Noiselessly, she stepped out of her room.
当天夜里程心失眠了，她轻轻走出房间。
The hour was late, and she could see a flickering light on the steps of the porch: Fraisse was smoking. On his knees lay a didgeridoo, an Aboriginal instrument made from a thick, hollowed-out branch about a meter long. Every night, he played it for a while. The sound made by the didgeridoo was a deep, rich, rumbling whine, not like music, but more akin to the snores of the ground itself. Every night, AA and Cheng Xin fell asleep listening to it.
已是深夜，她看到门厅的台阶上有一闪一闪的火星，那是弗雷斯在抽烟。他的膝上放着一把“迪杰里多”。那是澳大利亚一种土着乐器，用挖空的粗树枝做成，有一米多长。他每天晚上都要坐在这儿吹一会儿。“迪杰里多”发出一种低沉浑厚的呜呜声。不像是音乐，仿佛是大地的鼾声，每天晚上，程心和AA都是在这种声音中人睡。
The chaotic mob quickly organized itself into a long, winding line, as though the people were enacting an array-sorting algorithm. The line extended to the gigantic tent and wound around it.
人群很快变成了长长的队列，仿佛在运行一个数组排序程序一样。队列一直延伸到远处的巨型帐篷那儿，还绕着它转了一圈。
Cheng Xin sat down next to Fraisse. She liked being with the old man. His transcendence in the face of a miserable reality soothed the pain of her broken heart. He never watched TV and seemed to pay no attention to the events of the outside world. At night, he rarely returned to his room, but fell asleep leaning against the doorframe, waking up when the rising sun warmed his body. He did so even on stormy nights, saying that it was more comfortable than sleeping in a bed. Once, he said that if the government bastards ever came to take away his house, he would not move to the resettlement zones; instead, he would go into the woods and build himself a shelter out of woven grass. AA said that with his advanced age, such a plan was not realistic, but he countered that if his ancestors could live that way, then so could he. As early as the fourth ice age, his ancestors had crossed the Pacific from Asia in canoes. That had been forty thousand years ago, when Greece and Egypt didn’t even exist as ideas. Back in the twenty-first century, he had been a wealthy doctor, with his own clinic in Melbourne. After emerging from hibernation in the Deterrence Era, he had also lived the comfortable life of a modern man. But when the Great Resettlement began, something in his body seemed to awaken. He felt himself becoming a creature of the earth and the forest and realized that very few things were truly necessary for life. Sleeping in the open was fine — very comfortable, in fact.
程心走到弗雷斯身边坐下，她很喜欢同老人在一起，他那种对苦难现实的超然犹如镇痛剂一般安抚着她那颗破碎的心。老人从不看电视，也不关心地球上正在发生的任何事。每天夜里，他几乎不回自己的房间，就坐在这里靠着门廊的木柱人睡，直到朝阳照到身上时才醒来。甚至在暴雨之夜他都这样，说这儿比床上睡得舒服。他曾经说。如果有一天政府的那帮杂种来把房子收走，他不会去移民区，在树丛中搭一个遮雨的小草棚就能过下去。AA说，他这把年纪那样不行的，他说，祖先行，他就行。早在第四纪冰河期，他的祖先就从亚洲划着独木舟漂过太平洋来到这里，那可是四万年前，希腊呀埃及呀连影子还没有呢。他说自己在21世纪曾是一名富有的医生，在墨尔本有自己的诊所，威慑纪元苏醒后也一直过着舒适的现代生活，但就在移民开始时，他体内的某种东西复苏了，突然感觉自己其实是大地和丛林中的动物，领悟到生活所需要的东西其实是那么少，感觉睡在露天就很好，很舒服。
“It wasn’t so crowded back then,” said Fraisse. “They say that if a white man wanted to buy land from another white man, he needed only to pay the price of a box of whiskey, and then he would ride out with the sunrise and return at sunset. The area he circumnavigated would belong to him.”
“那时可没这么挤，据说一个白人向另一个白人买牧场，只需付一箱威士忌的钱，然后买家在日出时骑快马跑出去，日落时回来，这一大圈围住的土地就归他了。”
Fraisse said he didn’t know what kind of portent this was.
弗雷斯说，他不知道这是什么兆头。
Cheng Xin’s past impressions of Australia had come from that old film of the same name. In the film, the hero and heroine crossed the spectacular landscape of north Australia on a cattle drive. However, the film wasn’t set during Australia’s age of immigration, but during the Second World War — still the recent past when she was a young woman, but now ancient history. She felt a pang of sorrow as she realized that Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman had both been dead for probably over two centuries. Then she thought about how Wade had resembled the movie’s hero as he labored in the shelter-house.
程心以前对澳大利亚的印象大多来自于那部与这个国家同名的电影，在电影里，男女主人公赶着马群横穿北澳大利亚壮丽的大陆，不过那不是移民时代，是二战时期，是距她度过青春的那个时代不远的过去，放到现在已经是很远的历史了——电影中的休·杰克曼和妮可·基德应该都已经逝去两个多世纪了。程心突然想到，不久前看到维德在简房前干活的样子，很像那个电影中的男主人公。
Cheng Xin gazed at the resettlement zone in the distance. This late at night, the lights were sparse, and the endless rows of shelter-houses gave off a rarely-seen tranquility. A strange feeling seized her, as though she were seeing another age of immigration, the Australia of five centuries ago. The people sleeping in those houses were rough cowboys and ranchers, and she could even smell the fragrance of hay and the odor of horse excrement. Cheng Xin told Fraisse of the odd sensation.
程心看着远处的移民区，已是深夜，那里的灯光稀疏了一些，一望无际的简易房在星光下显出一种难得的静谧。程心突然产生了一种奇异的感觉，仿佛置身于另一个移民时代，那是五个世纪前澳大利亚的移民时代，那片平房中睡着的，都是粗犷的牛仔和牧马人，她甚至嗅到了马粪和牧草的味道。程心把这感觉对弗雷斯说了。
It was true. Leaving Australia now would be very difficult. Not only did the droplets keep watch, but Sophon had recruited her own naval force of humans. Any aircraft or surface ship leaving Australia that was found to harbor resettled individuals would be attacked immediately. In addition, as Sophon’s deadline approached, few wanted to attempt to return to their home countries. Though conditions in Australia were harsh, staying here was better than going back to certain death. A few cases of small-scale smuggling happened here and there, but Cheng Xin was a public figure, and such a path was closed to her.
弗雷斯说的是事实，现在想从澳大利亚出去是很难的。封锁澳大利亚的不仅有水滴，还有智子招募的地球治安军的海上力量。从澳大利亚返回各大陆的飞行器和船舶，如果被查出载有移民，会立刻遭到攻击。同时，随着移民期限的临近，愿意回去的人很少，澳大利亚虽然艰苦，总比回去送命强。零星的小规模偷渡一直存在，但像程心这种备受瞩目的公众人物是不可能这样离开的。
Cheng Xin did not concern herself with these details. No matter what happened, she wasn’t going to leave.
然而这些并不是程心所考虑的，无论怎样，她都不会离开这里。
“I know the man,” Fraisse said. “Child, I can tell you that you should listen to him. But leaving Australia is impossible. Don’t worry about it. It’s useless to ponder what cannot be done.”
“我知道这人。”弗雷斯说，“孩子，我肯定地说你应该听他的，但你又不可能离开澳大利亚，所以不要想这事了。想不可能的事有什么用？”
Thinking of Wade, she repeated to Fraisse what the man had told her. She had been meaning to tell him, but had worried about disturbing his transcendent state of mind.
想到维德，程心就把一个月前维德对她说的那句话告诉了弗雷斯，她早就想对他说这事，但又怕打扰了他超然的心境。
Fraisse seemed to want to change the topic, but Cheng Xin’s silence in the darkness demanded more from him. “I’m an orthopedist. You probably know that when a bone is broken, it heals stronger because a knot forms around the fracture. The body, when given an opportunity to make up for an absence, may do so excessively, and recover to the point where it has more of that quality than those who had never suffered such inadequacy.” He pointed up at the sky. “Compared to humans, the Trisolarans once lacked something. Do you think they also overcompensated? To what extent? No one knows.”
弗雷斯似乎不想再谈这个话题，但看到程心在黑暗中沉默着，似乎期待他发表更多的看法。就接着说：“我是一个骨科医生，你可能知道，断了的骨头长好后，愈合的断裂处长得比原来还粗，这在医学上叫超量恢复，是说如果人体有机会弥补以前缺少的某些东西。那么这些东西可能恢复到比不缺少它们的人更多。与人类相比，他们——”他指指星空。“他们曾经缺什么你是知道的，他们超量恢复了吗？恢复到什么程度？准也不清楚。”
Cheng Xin was stunned by the idea. But Fraisse was not interested in continuing the discussion. He looked up at the star-studded sky and began reciting poetry in a low voice. The poems spoke of dreams of long ago, of broken trust and shattered weapons, of the deaths of peoples and ways of life.
程心被这话震撼了，但弗雷斯似乎没有继续讨论的兴趣，他仰望肴夜空，缓缓吟诵道：“所有的部落都已消失，所有的长矛都已折断。在这里，我们曾经饮露餐花。而你们，却撒下一片砾石。”
Cheng Xin was moved the same way she had been when Fraisse played the didgeridoo.
就像听弗弗雷斯吹响“迪杰里多”一样，程心的心被这首诗触动了。
“That’s the work of Jack Davis, an Aboriginal poet of the twentieth century.”
“这是20世纪一位澳大利亚土着诗人的诗，他叫杰克·戴维斯。”
The elder leaned against the doorframe and, after a few minutes, began to snore. Cheng Xin remained sitting under the stars — which did not deviate one whit from their usual course despite the upheaval in the world below — until dawn arrived in the east.
老人说完。便靠在廊柱上，不一会儿就发出了鼾声。程心坐在夜色中。坐在对这巨变中的世界无动于衷的群星下，直到东方发白。
Buried crises began to come to the forefront. The Canberra Massacre, seven months after the commencement of resettlement, was just the beginning of a string of nightmares.
潜藏的危机开始爆发，移民开始后第七个月发生的堪培拉惨案，成为一连串噩梦开始的标志。
Six months after the commencement of the Great Resettlement, half of the world’s population, or 2.1 billion people, had moved to Australia.
移民开始半年后，世界人口的一半，二十一亿人已经迁移到澳大利亚。
Sophon had demanded that humans resettle “naked.” During the Deterrence Era, hardliners on Earth had also proposed a similar policy to deal with the eventual migration of Trisolarans to the Solar System. Other than construction materials and parts needed to build new agricultural factories, as well as medical equipment and other life necessities, the resettled population was not permitted to bring any heavy equipment for military or civilian use. The military forces dispatched by the various nations to the resettlement zones were only allowed the light weapons needed to maintain order. Humankind was to be completely disarmed.
智子要求人类进行裸移民，这也是威慑纪元中地球世界的鹰派曾对三体世界移民太阳系提出过的设想。除了建筑材料和建造新的农业工厂的大型部件，以及必需的生活用品和医疗设备，移民不得携带任何军用和民用的重型装备，各国前往移民区的军队也只能配备有限的维持秩序用的轻武器，人类被彻底解除了武装。
But the Australian government was exempt — it was allowed to keep everything, including all the hardware for its army, navy, and air force. Thus, this country that had been on the periphery of international affairs since its birth became the hegemon of the world.
但澳大利亚政府除外，他们保留了一切，包括陆海空军的全部装备。于是。这个自诞生以来就一直处于国际事务边缘的国家一跃成为人类世界的霸主。
No one could find fault with the behavior of the Australian government near the beginning of the process. The government and all Australians made every effort to help with the influx of migrants. But as the flood of refugees from around the world poured into Australia, attitudes in this country — which was once the only state to possess an entire continent — changed. Native Australians complained bitterly, and they elected a new government that took a hard-line position against the newcomers. Those in the new government quickly discovered that their advantage over the rest of the world was comparable to the advantage Trisolaris held over the Earth. Late-arriving migrants were resettled in the desolate interior, whereas rich, desirable locations such as coastal New South Wales were “reserved territories” for Australians only. Canberra and Sydney were classified as “reserved cities,” where immigration was similarly prohibited. The only large city in which migrants were permitted to settle was Melbourne. The Australian government also turned dictatorial toward the rest of the world, treating itself as superior to the UN and other national governments.
移民初期，澳大利亚政府是无可指摘的，他们和全体澳大利亚人做出了巨大的努力来安置移民。但随着各大洲的移民如洪水般拥进澳大利亚，这个曾经是地球上唯一独占一块大陆的国家心理开始失衡，澳大利亚原住民社会民怨沸腾，新上台的政府开始对移民奉行强硬政策。他们很快发现，现在澳大利亚联邦对其余国家的优势，与三体对地球世界的优势也差不多了。后来的移民大都被安置在荒凉的内地，像新南威尔士州这样富庶的沿海地带，被划为澳大利亚的“保留领土”，禁止移民，堪培拉和悉尼被划为“保留城市”，也禁止移民定居，于是，移民能够长期居住的大城市只剩下里尔本。澳大利亚政府也开始变得颐指气使，以人类家长自居，渐渐凌驾于联合国和各国政府之上。
Although newcomers were not allowed to settle in New South Wales, it was impossible to prevent them from going there as tourists. Many migrants swarmed to Sydney in order to assuage their intense longing for city life — even if they couldn’t stay, wandering the streets of Sydney homeless felt better than living in the resettlement zones. Here, at least, they felt they were still in civilized society. Sydney soon became overcrowded, and the Australian government decided to forcibly remove all migrants and bar them from visiting there. The police and army clashed with refugees who tarried in the city, and there were casualties.
虽然新南威尔士州禁止移民，但很难阻止内地移民去旅行。出于对刚刚告别的城市生活的向往，移民大量拥人悉尼，虽然不让定居，但就是在街头流浪也比住在移民村里强，至少让人感觉仍然身处文明世界。这使得城市人满为患。澳大利亚政府决定把移民从悉尼市内驱逐出去，以后也禁止外来移民进人城市，这引起了滞留城中的移民和军警的冲突，造成了一些伤亡。
The Sydney Incident set off the pent-up rage of the resettled population against the Australian government, and more than one hundred million people entered New South Wales, heading for Sydney. Facing a sea of rioting humanity, the Australian Army abandoned their positions. Tens of millions flooded Sydney and looted it in the same manner a swarm of ants devours a fresh corpse, leaving behind only a bare skeleton. Sydney was left in flames and lawless, transformed into a forest of terror. Life there, for those who remained, became worse than in the resettlement zones.
悉尼事件引发了移民对澳大利亚政府早已郁积的众怒，有上亿移民拥进新南威尔士州。拥向悉尼。面对眼前铺天盖地的滚滚人海，州和城市的澳大利亚驻军望风而逃。几千万人涌人悉尼，洗劫了城市，像一个巨大的蚁群搜盖了一具新鲜的动物尸体。很快使其变成白骨架。悉尼市内火光冲天，犯罪横行，变成一个由巨树建筑构成的恐怖森林，生存条件还不如移民区了。
Thereafter, the mob of refugees shifted their target to Canberra, about two hundred kilometers away. Since Canberra was the Australian capital, about half of the world’s national governments had relocated there as well. Even the UN had just moved there from Sydney. To keep these governments safe, the army had no choice but to fire on the mob. More than half a million people were killed, most of whom didn’t die at the hands of the Australian Army, but due to hunger, thirst, and the panicked stampede of a hundred million people. During the chaos that lasted more than ten days, tens of millions were completely cut off from food and potable water.
之后。移民大军又把目标转向两百多公里外的堪培拉。由于堪培拉是澳大利亚首都，在移民开始后有一半国家的政府也迁移至此。联合国也刚从悉尼转移到这里，军队不得不进行防守。这一次冲突造成了重大伤亡。死了五十多万人。大部分并非死于军队的火力下，而是死于上亿人的混乱造成的踩踏和饥渴；在这场拼杂续了十多天的大混乱里。有几千万人完全断绝了食物和饮水供应。
The society of resettled populations transformed in profound ways. People realized that, on this crowded, hungry continent, democracy was more terrifying than despotism. Everyone yearned for order and a strong government. The existing social order broke down. All the people cared about was that the government would bring them food, water, and enough space for a bed; nothing else mattered. Gradually, the society of the resettled succumbed to the seduction of totalitarianism, like the surface of a lake caught in a cold spell. Sophon’s words after she killed those people at the food distribution center –“The era for humanity’s degenerate freedom is over”– became a common slogan, and discarded dregs from the history of ideas, including fascism, crawled out of their tombs to the surface and became mainstream. The power of religions also recovered, and people gathered into different faiths and churches. Thus, theocracy, a zombie even more ancient than totalitarianism, reanimated itself.
移民社会也发生着深刻的变化。人们发现。在这块拥挤饥饿的大陆上，民主变成了比专制更可怕的东西。所有人都渴望秩序和强有力的政府。原有的社会体制迅速瓦解，人民只希望政府能给他们带来食物、水和能放一张床的生存空间。别的都不在乎了。聚集在这块大陆上的人类社会像寒流中的湖面一样，一块接一块地冻结在极权专制的坚冰之下。智子砍完人后说的那句话成为主流口号。包括法西斯主义在内的形形色色的垃圾，从被埋葬的深坟中浮上表而成为主流。宗教的力址也在迅速恢复，大批的民众聚集在不同的信仰和教会之下，于是，一个比极权政治更老的僵尸——政教合一的国家政权开始出现。
In those dark days, countless people woke up in the mornings incredulous that this was their reality. Within half a year, human society had regressed so far that one foot was already in the Middle Ages.
在这些阴暗的日子里，无数人早上醒来时都不相信自己真回到了现实。他们发现在仅仅半年的时间里。人类社会倒退了如此长的距离，一只脚甚至已经踏进了中世纪。
War was the inevitable result of totalitarian politics. Conflicts between nations became more frequent. At first, the conflicts were over food and water, but they soon evolved to planned contests over living space. After the Canberra Massacre, the Australian armed forces became a powerful deterrent force within Resettlement International. At the request of the UN, the Australian Army began to maintain international order by force. Without them, an intra-Australia version of a world war would have erupted — and just as someone had predicted during the twentieth century, this one would be fought with sticks and stones. By this time, the armies of the various nations — Australia excepted — couldn’t even manage to equip their personnel with mêlée weapons. The most common weapons were sticks made out of metal frames used for construction, and even ancient swords from museums were put into service again.
作为极权政治的必然产物。战争是不可避免的，国家间的冲突频繁起来。“开始只是为了抢夺食品和水，后来发展到有计划地争夺生存空间。堪培拉惨案后。澳大利亚军队有了很强的威摄力，在联合国的要求下。他们开始以强力手段维持囚际秩序。如果不是这样一场澳大利亚版的世界界大战已径爆发，而且正如20世纪初有人顶言的那样，这场大战是用石头打的。现在除i澳大利亚。各国家军队甚至连冷兵器也不可能做到人手一把。最常见的武器是建筑川金属支架做的棍棒。连博物馆中的古代刀剑都被取出来重新使用。
As the resettlement process continued, cities on continents outside of Australia fell dark one by one, turning into empty, silent shells. It was like a luxurious restaurant turning out the lights after the last diner had left.
随着移民的进行，在澳大利亚以外的地球各大陆的夜晚一座座城市陷人黑暗中，变成了死寂的空城。就像最后的晚餐结束时豪华长厅中一盏接一盏熄灭的灯。
The only thing that prevented individuals and society as a whole from total collapse was the approaching Second Trisolaran Fleet. By now, the fleet had crossed the Kuiper Belt. On clear nights, it was even sometimes possible to see the flames of the decelerating ships with the naked eye. Upon those 415 dim lights now hung the hope of all of humanity. All recalled Sophon’s promise and dreamed that the arrival of the fleet would bring a comfortable, serene life for everyone on this continent. A demon of the past transformed into an angel of salvation, and their only spiritual support. People prayed for their advent.
这时。支撑每个人和整个社会免于全面崩演的，只有一样东西：三体第二舰队。现在，舰队已经越过柯伊伯带，在晴朗的夜晚，有时用肉眼都可以看到舰队减速的光焰。那四百一十五个暗弱的光点，是澳大利亚人类的希望之星。人们牢记着智子的承诺，期望舰队的到来能给这块大陆上的所有人带来安宁舒适的生活，昔日的恶魔变成了拯救天使和唯一的梢神支柱。人们祈盼它快些降临。
By the ninth month of the Great Resettlement, 3.4 billion people lived in Australia. As living conditions continued to deteriorate, the resettlement process had to be halted temporarily. The droplets again attacked cities outside of Australia, and Sophon renewed her threat: Upon the expiration of the one-year period, the extermination of all humans outside of the reservations would begin immediately. Australia now resembled a prison cart heading down a road to a place it would never return from: The cage was already close to bursting from the number of captives aboard, but seven hundred million more still had to be packed in.
移民第九个月时。澳大利亚的人数已经达到三十四亿。由于生存环境的进一步恶化，移民曾经被迫停顿。这时。水滴又开始袭击澳大利亚之外有人居住的城市。智子也再次发出威胁，说一年的期限一到。对保留地之外人类的清除工作立刻开始。现在。澳大利亚就像一辆即将开往不归路的囚车。上面的犯人己经快把车厢挤爆了，却还要把利下的七亿人硬塞进去。
At this point, Australia held the vast majority of the human population: 4.16 billion people. Outside of Australia, there were about eight million more individuals. These were divided into three parts: one million on the Martian base, five million in the Earth Security Force, and about two million in the Earth Resistance Movement. A small number of individuals who couldn’t be resettled for various reasons were scattered around the world, but their exact number was unknown.
这时。澳大利亚聚集了人类的绝大部分——四十一亿六千万人，在澳大利亚之外，只剩下约八百万人类，他们分成三个部分：火星基地一百人，五百万地球治安军和约两百万地球抵抗运动成员，还有少量散落因各种原因没有移民的人。数量无法统计。
Finally, three days before the expiration of the deadline, the last three million refugees left New Zealand on boats and planes and headed for Australia.
终于，在距最后期限三天时，运载着最后一批三百万移民的船队和机相继从新西兰起程前往澳大利亚。
Sophon gave some thought to the difficulties posed by further immigration and proposed a solution: New Zealand and other nearby islands could be used as a buffer zone. Her suggestion worked, and during the next two and a half months, 630 million more refugees were moved into Australia via the buffer zone.
智子也考虑到了继续移民面临的巨大困难，她提出的解决办法是新西兰和大洋洲的一些岛国作为移民的缓冲区。这个措施发挥了作用，在剩下的两个半月里，又有六亿三千万人经过缓冲区迁移到澳大利亚。
Sophon had recruited the Earth Security Force to monitor the resettlement process. She promised those who joined that they would not have to migrate to Australia and could eventually live freely in the Trisolaris-conquered territories of the Earth. Many volunteered eagerly, and, according to the final tally, more than a billion people applied online. Of these, twenty million were offered interviews, and, in the end, five million were accepted into the ESF. These fortunate few paid no attention to the spittle and looks of disdain thrown their way by other humans — they knew that many of those who spat at them had submitted applications as well.
地球治安军是智子为了监督地球移民而招募的人类军队，她许诺参军的人将不参加澳大利亚移民。以后可以自由生活在被三体人占领的世界中。招葬令发出后报名异常踊跃，据后来的统计。网络上总共现了十多亿份入伍申请。其中两千万人参加了面试，最后招募了五百万最后的幸运儿并不在意人们的唾沫和鄙夷的目光。因为他们知道。那些吐唾沫的人中相当一部分是提交过申请的。
The Great Resettlement was complete.
大移民完成了。
Some compared the Earth Security Force to the Earth-Trisolaris Organization from three centuries ago, but the two organizations were fundamentally different. The ETO was formed by warriors of faith, but the ESF recruits merely wanted to avoid resettlement and live in comfort.
有人把地球治安军与三个世纪前的地球三体组织相提并论，其实两者的性质完金不同；ET0的成员都是充满坚定信念的战士，而参加治安军的人不过是为了逃避移民过舒服日子而已。
The ESF was divided into three corps: Asian, European, and North American. They inherited all the military hardware the national armies were forced to leave behind during the resettlement. At the beginning of the process, the ESF behaved with some restraint, only following Sophon’s orders to supervise the progress of emigration in various countries and protect the basic infrastructure in cities and regions from looting and sabotage. But as difficulties in Australia intensified, the resettlement failed to progress at a rate satisfactory to Sophon. Due to her constant demands and threats, the ESF became more crazed, and resorted to large-scale violence to enforce the resettlement. During this time, the ESF killed almost a million people. Finally, after the clock ran out on the resettlement period, Sophon gave the order to exterminate all humans outside of the reservations. The ESF now turned into demons. Riding flying cars and armed with laser sniper rifles, they soared over empty cities and fields like falcons and swooped down to kill anyone they saw.
地球治安军分为亚洲、北美和欧洲三个军团。拥有各大国在移民中遗留下来的精良装备。移民初期，治安军的行为还是比较收敛的，只是按智子的命令督促各国移民的进行，同时保护城市和地区的基础设施不被破坏。但随着澳大利亚困难的加剧。移民进度越来越难以满足智子的要求，在她的命令和威胁下，治安军变得越来越疯狂。不惜大规模动用武力来强迫移民。在世界各地造成了上百万人的死亡。最后，当移民期限过后，智子下达了消灭保留区外所有人类的命令，治安军彻底变成了魔鬼。他们驾驶着飞行车端着激光狙击枪。在空寂的城市和原野_L像猎鹰一样盘旋，见人就杀。
In contrast, the Earth Resistance Movement represented the best of humanity, refined from the furnace of this disaster. This movement consisted of so many loose local branches that the exact number couldn’t be verified. In total, an estimated one and a half to two million individuals participated. Hidden in remote mountains and deep tunnels beneath the cities, they waged guerrilla war against the ESF and waited for a chance to fight the final war against the Trisolaran invaders after their anticipated arrival in four years. Compared to all other resistance movements in human history, the Earth Resistance Movement doubtless made the greatest sacrifice. Because Sophon and the droplets assisted the ESF, every mission by the Earth Resistance Movement was akin to suicide. The conditions under which they fought also prevented them from pooling their forces, which made it possible for the ESF to eliminate them one cell at a time.
与治安军团相反，地球抵抗运动是人类在这场烈火中联储的真金。他们有许多分支，数量很难统计，据估计在一百五十万人至两百万人之间。他们分A散在深山和城市的地下，与治安军展开游击战。井等待着同踏上地球的三体侵略者的最后战斗。在人类历史上所有沦陷区的抵抗组织中。地球抵抗组织付出的牺牲是最大的，因为治安军有水滴和智子的协助，抵抗组织每一次作战行动都近乎于自杀，同时也使得他们不可能进行任何大规模的集结。这就为治安军对他们各个击破创造了条件。
The composition of the Earth Resistance Movement was complex, and included individuals from all strata of society. A large portion were people from the Common Era. The six other candidates for the Swordholder position were all commanders in the resistance. At the end of the resettlement period, three of them had died in action: only Bi Yunfeng, the particle accelerator engineer, Cao Bing, the physicist, and Ivan Antonov, the former Russian vice-admiral, were left.
地球抵抗运动的构成很复杂，包括各个阶层的人，其中有很大比例是公元人、六名执剑人候选人都是抵抗运动的指挥官，移民结束时，其中的三人已经在战斗中牺牲。只剩下加速器工程师毕云峰、物理学家曹彬和原海军中将安东诺夫。
A series of booming rumbles awoke Cheng Xin at dawn. She hadn’t slept well during the night due to the constant noise of newly arrived refugees outside. But she realized that it was no longer thunderstorm season, and, after the rumblings it grew quiet outside. She shivered, rolled out of bed, threw on her clothes, and came outside. She almost tripped over the sleeping figure of Fraisse at the door. He glanced up at her with sleepy eyes and then leaned back against the doorframe to continue his interrupted slumber.
凌晨，程心被一阵轰隆声惊醒。这一夜睡得本来就不安稳，外面人声不断，都是新到的移民。程心突然想到现在已经不是打雷的季节了，而且这轰隆声过后，外面突然安静下来。她不由打了个寒战，猛地从床上坐起来，披衣来到门外。在门廊睡觉的弗雷斯差点绊倒她，老人睡眼蒙陇地抬头看看她。又靠在柱子上继续睡了。
Every member of the resistance understood that they were engaged in a hopeless war. The moment the Second Trisolaran Fleet arrived would mark their complete annihilation. Hungry, dressed in rags, and hidden in caves in the mountains and sewers beneath cities, these warriors fought for the human race’s final shred of dignity. Their existence was the only bright spot in this, the darkest period of humankind’s history.
所有抵抗运动的成员都知道他们在进行的是一场毫无希望的战斗，将来三体舰队到达地球之日，也就是他们全军覆灭之时。这些在深山和城市的下水道中衣衫槛褛饥肠辘辘的战士，是在为人类最后的尊严而战，他们的存在，是人类这段不堪回首的历史中唯一的亮色。
It was barely light outside. Many people stood around anxiously looking toward the east and muttering amongst themselves. Cheng Xin followed the direction of their eyes and saw a thick column of black smoke on the horizon, as though the pale dawn had been ripped apart.
这时天刚蒙蒙亮。外面有很多人，都神情紧张地看着东方低声议论着什么。程心顺着他们的目光看去，只见地平线上升起一道烟柱。很黑很浓。仿佛露出白色晨光的天边被撕开了一道口子。
Cheng Xin eventually managed to learn from the others that, about an hour ago, the ESF had begun a series of aerial raids in Australia. Their main targets seemed to be electrical systems, harbors, and large-scale transportation equipment. The column of smoke came from a destroyed nuclear fusion power plant about five kilometers away. People looked up in fear and saw five white contrails extending across the blue-black sky: ESF bombers.
从人们的口中程心得知，一个小时前治安军开始大规模空袭澳大利亚，主要的打击目标是电力系统、港口和大型运输设备。那道烟住就是从五公里外刚刚被摧毁的一座核聚变发电厂冒出的。人们又惊恐地抬头看天，凌晨蓝黑的天空中有五道雪白的航迹，那是正在掠过的治安军轰炸机。
Cheng Xin went back into the house. AA was up as well and turned on the TV. But Cheng Xin didn’t watch — she didn’t need any more information. For almost a year now, she had been constantly praying that this moment would never come. Her nerves had turned extremely sensitive, and the slightest hint would lead her to the right conclusion. Even as she had been awakened by the rumbling noises, she already knew what had happened.
程心转身回到房间，AA也起床了，正在打开电视，想从新闻中了解发生了什么事。程心没看电视，她不需要更多的信息了。近一年来，她不地祈祷这一刻不要出现。神经变得极度敏感，只要有一点点迹象就能做出准确判断；其实从睡梦中听到那声来自远处的轰响时，她基本上已经确定发生了什么。
Wade was right, again.
维德又对了。
Cheng Xin found that she was prepared for this moment. Without thinking, she knew what she had to do. Telling AA that she needed to visit the city government, she took a bike — the most convenient mode of transportation in the resettlement zones. She also brought some food and water, knowing that she very likely would not be able to accomplish her task and would have to be on the road for a long time.
程心发现自己早对这一刻做好了准备，不假思索就知道该做什么了。她对AA说要去一趟市政府，然后出门从院子里推了一辆自行车，这是现在移民区中最便捷的交通工具了：同时她还带了些食品和水，知道事情多半办不成，自己还要走更长的路。
A large number of refugees had flooded in during the last two weeks in the final push of the resettlement process. There was no time to distribute them to zones that corresponded to their origins, so they were stashed wherever there was room. Cheng Xin’s zone was thus filled with people from other cities, regions, provinces, and even non-Chinese. The seven hundred million refugees shoved into Australia during the last two months made the already-crowded resettlement zones even more unbearable.
连续两周的突击移民，新来的人不断拥人，移民已经不像以前那样按原行政区分配，而是哪里有空就向哪里塞。越来越多的其他城市地区的人拥进来，后面进来的都是其他省份的，甚至还有外国人。在最近的两个月·澳大利亚又拥入了七亿人，移民区已经拥挤不堪。
On both sides of the road, possessions were piled everywhere. The new arrivals had nowhere to live and slept in the open. The earlier explosions had awakened them, and now they looked anxiously in the direction of the column of smoke. The dawn light cast a dim blue glow over everything, making the faces around her even paler. Once again, Cheng Xin experienced the eerie feeling of looking down upon an ant colony. As she pressed between the pale faces, her subconscious mind despaired that the sun would never rise again.
路的两侧人山人海。各种物品一片狼藉。新到的移民没有住处，只能露宿在外，人们现在大多被刚才的爆炸声惊起来，不安地望着烟住升起的方向。晨光把一切都笼罩在一片阴郁的暗蓝中，在这暗蓝之中。气们的面孔更显苍白。程心又有那种从高处看蚁穴的怪异感觉，在这大片的苍白面孔中穿行，她潜意识中感到太阳不会再升起来了。
She wound through the crowded streets, heading for the city government. The various nations had transplanted their own administrative systems to the resettlement zones, and Cheng Xin’s zone was composed of people resettled from a midsized city in northwestern China. The city government was located in a large tent about two kilometers away, and she could see the tent’s white tip.
程心沿着到处拥堵的路向市政厅骑去：各个国家都把自己的各级行政系统原封不动地搬到了移民区，程心所在区的移民主要来自中国西北地区的一个中等城市，现在这个区就以这座已经留在另一个大陆上的城市命名，也由原市政府领导：市政厅就在两公里远处的一个大帐篷里，从这里就可以看到帐篷的白色尖顶。
Cheng Xin thought of another mother, pretty, healthy, and full of life, handing her baby to Cheng Xin in front of the UN building… where were she and her child now?
程心想起了另一位母亲，美丽健康，充满活力，在联合国大厦前把可爱的婴儿放到自己的怀饱里，叫自己圣母……她和那个孩子现在在哪儿？
As she approached the tent housing the city government, Cheng Xin was forced to get off her bike and squeeze through the dense crowd. This place was always crowded, but now, even more people had gathered to find out what had happened. Cheng Xin had to explain who she was to the sentry line blocking the entrance before being allowed through. The officer didn’t know her and had to scan her ID card. When he confirmed her identity, his stare seared itself into Cheng Xin’s memory. Why did we pick you back then?
到市政厅的大帐篷前时，程心不得不下车从人群中挤过去。平时这里人也很多，都是来要住处和食品的，但现在这些聚集的人可能是来确认到底发生了什么事。在通过大门前军警的警戒线时，程心说明了自己是谁才被允许通过，那名军官并不能确定她的身份，扫描了她的身份证后才放行。、当确定她是谁时，他的眼神让程心刻骨铭心，那眼神在说：当初我们为什么选择了你？
A wave of nausea and weakness seized her. She squeezed the brakes, stopped by the side of the road, and retched, bringing tears to her eyes. She dry heaved until her stomach settled. She heard a child crying nearby, and looking up, saw a mother huddled in a bunch of rags hugging her baby. Haggard, hair disheveled, she didn’t move as the child clutched at her, but continued to gaze woodenly toward the east. The dawn lit her eyes, which reflected only loss and numbness.
一阵恶心和虚弱袭来，她刹住了车，靠在路边干呕起来，呕得眼泪都流出来胃才平和下来。她听到近处有孩子在哭，抬头看去，一个坐在路边一堆毯子扣抱着孩子的毋亲，头发蓬乱一脸憔悴，任孩子抓挠一动不动，呆滞地看着东方，晨曦使她的双眼发亮，但透露的只有迷茫和麻木。
In a tiny office formed from composite partitions, Cheng Xin saw the mayor. He was very young, and his feminized, handsome face looked as exhausted as the others. He also looked a bit dazed and adrift, as though the load he had been given was beyond the ability of his fragile generation to bear. A very large information window appeared on one of the walls, showing an image of some city. Most of the buildings in the window looked old and conventional, with only a few tree-buildings sprinkled among them — evidently this was a midsized city. Cheng Xin noticed that the image wasn’t static: Flying cars crossed the air from time to time, and it seemed to also be early morning there. Cheng Xin realized that the display simulated the view out of an office window, so perhaps this was where the mayor had once lived and worked before the Great Resettlement.
在一间用合成板隔起来的小办公室里，程心见到了市长。他很年轻，女性化的清秀而庞上像别人一样满是疲惫。还有一丝迷离和恍惚。眼前的重负，显然不是他们这脆弱的一代能够承受的。墙上有一个很大的信息窗口，里面显示着一座城市的照片，那座城市的建筑大多是传统的地面形。只有不多的几棵树形悬挂式建筑。显示城市的规模为中等。程心注意到画面是动态的，半空不时有车辆飞过，时间看上去也是凌晨，一切都像从办公室的窗子看出去一般，那可能是他移民前生活和工作的城市。
The inside of the city government tent brought back memories of the hyper-information age. Numerous holographic windows floated around the vast space, hovering over various officials and clerks. Many of them had apparently been up all night and looked exhausted, but they were still very busy. A large number of departments were packed in and jostled for space, reminding Cheng Xin of the trading floor on Wall Street back in the Common Era. The workers tapped or wrote inside the windows hovering in front of them, and then the windows automatically floated over to the next worker in the process. These glowing windows were like ghosts of an age that had just ended, and here was their final gathering place.
进入市政厅后，程心找I回了一些超信息代的感觉，她看到在大帐篷中宽阔的空间里。飘浮着许多全息信息窗口，它们悬浮在众多的官员和工作人员上方。这些人显然已彻夜不眠，都显得疲惫不堪，但也都很忙碌。许多部门都集中在这里，显得十分拥挤，让程心想起公元世纪华尔街的股票交易大厅。人们在悬浮于面前的信息窗口上点击书写，然后窗口会自动飘浮到下一个处理程序的人面前，这些发光的窗口像一群来自刚刚消逝的时代的幽灵，这里是它们最后的聚集地。
He looked at Cheng Xin, and his eyes also seemed to say Why did we pick you? Still, he remained polite, and asked Cheng Xin how he could help her.
看到程心，他也露出了那种”我们为什么选择你“的目光，但举止还是很礼貌。问程心有什么需要他帮助的。
“Can you send me to Canberra?”
“能送我去堪培拉吗？”
“I need to contact Sophon,” she said.
“我需要和智子联系。”程心直截了当地说。
“I can’t provide an aircraft, but I can dispatch a ground vehicle. However, that may end up being even slower than walking. Ms. Cheng, I strongly urge you to stay put. There’s chaos everywhere right now, and it’s very dangerous. The cities are being bombed — believe it or not, it’s relatively peaceful here.”
“我不能提供飞机，但可以派地面车辆送你去，可你知道，那也许比步行还慢。程女士，我强烈建议你不要离开，现在到处都非常乱，很危险，城市都在遭受轰炸，我们这里算比较平静的。”
Since there was no wireless power system, flying cars were not usable in the resettlement zones. Only self-powered aircraft and ground vehicles were available, but the roads had become impassable.
由于没有无线供电系统，移民区不能使用飞行车，只能用地面车辆和飞机，但现在地面道路已经很难通行了。
The mayor shook his head, but her unexpected request had chased away some of his exhaustion. He looked serious. “That’s not possible. First, this department is too low level to directly establish contact with her. Even the provincial government doesn’t have such authority. No one knows where on Earth she is now. Also, communication with the outside world is extremely difficult now. We’ve just been cut off from the provincial government, and we’re about to lose electricity here.”
市长摇摇头。但对程心这要求的惊奇多少驱散了一些疲惫。他对这事显得认真了许多，“这不可能。首先，我们这个级别的部门不可能直接与她联系，省政府都不行，谁也不知道她现在在哪个洲哪个大陆。再说，在与外界的联系很困难，我们与省里的联系刚刚中断，这里可能很快就断电了。”
No matter what, she would not give up.
无论如何，这是她能做的最后一件事，不管结果如何，她必须做下去。
The crowd quieted as an immense information window appeared over the city government, almost as wide as the tent itself. This was used only when the government needed to broadcast extremely important news. Since the electric voltage wasn’t stable, the window flickered, but against the dim sky of early dawn, it showed images very clearly.
人群突然安静下来，在市政厅的上方出现了一个宽阔的信息显示窗口，其宽度几乎与大帐篷相当。这个窗口以前也出现过，是市政府发布重要信息用的。由丁电压不稳，窗门有些抖动，但在凌晨暗黑的天空背景前，它显示的图像仍然很清晰。
In the window was Canberra’s Parliament House. Though it was completed in 1988, people still referred to it as the “new” Parliament House. From a distance, the building appeared as a bunker nestled against a hill, and on top of it was possibly the world’s tallest flag mast. The mast, over eighty meters in height, was further elevated by four gigantic steel beams. They were meant to symbolize stability, but they now resembled the frame of a large tent. The UN flag flew from the building: The UN had moved its headquarters here after the Sydney Riots.
在空中显示的图像是堪培拉的国会大厦。它于1988年落成，但直到现在人们仍称之为新国会大厦。从远处看，大厦如同一个依山而建的巨大掩体，在它的上方有一根可能是地球上最高的旗杆，那根高八十多米的旗杆由四根象征着稳固的巨型钢梁支撑在空中，不过现在看来，倒像一个大帐篷的骨架。旗杆上现在飘扬的是联合国国旗，自悉尼动乱以来，迁至堪培拉的联合国就把这里作为总部。
As soon as Cheng Xin left the city government, she heard another explosion. A new column of smoke rose in another direction, and the crowd turned from merely anxious to genuinely agitated. She pushed her way through and found her bike. She would have to ride more than fifty kilometers to reach the provincial government and try to contact Sophon from there. If that didn’t work, she’d try to get to Canberra.
程心刚走出市政厅的门，就又听到一声爆炸，一道新的烟柱从另一个方向升起，人群由不安变得骚动起来。她挤过去，找到了自己的自行车。她决定骑车去五十多公里外的省政府，从那里联系智子，如果不行，再想力祛去堪培拉。
Cheng Xin felt a giant fist close around her heart. She knew that the day of the Last Judgment had arrived.
程心的心像被一只巨掌抓住，她知道，最后审判日到了。
Sophon stood at the dispatch box, still dressed in camouflage and a black scarf, but without the katana. There was no trace on her face of the glamorous cruelty that everyone had grown used to in the past year; instead, she appeared radiant in her beauty. She bowed to the assembled leaders of humanity, and Cheng Xin saw again the gentle hostess practicing the Way of Tea whom she had met two years ago.
智子站在主席台上，她仍身着迷彩服围着黑围巾，但没带武士刀。这一年来。她脸上那种美艳的冷酷消失了，显得容光焕发。她对会场鞠了一躬，程心又看到了两年前那个温柔的茶道女人的影子。
“The Great Resettlement is over!” Sophon bowed again. “Thank you! I’m grateful to all of you. This is a tremendous accomplishment, comparable to the walk out of Africa by your ancestors tens of thousands of years ago. A new era for our two civilizations has begun!”
“移民结束了！”智子再次鞠躬，“谢谢各位，谢谢所有的人！这是一个伟人的壮举，可以和原始人类在几万年前走出非洲相比。两个文明的新纪元开始了！”
The view shifted to inside the House of Representatives, which was filled by all the leaders of Earth International and Fleet International. Sophon had called for an emergency session of the UN General Assembly.
镜头切换到大厦内部的议会大厅，里面已经坐满了人，地球国际和舰队国际的所有首脑都聚集于此，这是由智子紧急召开的联合国大会。
Everyone in the House of Representatives turned their head anxiously as something exploded outside. The four lighting beams hanging from the ceiling swayed, and all the shadows along with them, as though the building was about to collapse. But Sophon continued speaking: “Before the magnificent Trisolaran Fleet arrives to bring you a happy new life, everyone must endure a difficult period lasting three months. I hope humanity will perform as well as it did during the Great Resettlement.
这时，会场的所有人都紧张地抬起头来，外面又传来一声爆炸，会场上方的三盏长条形吊灯摇晃起来，所有的影子也随着晃动，仿佛大厦摇摇欲坠。智子的声音在继续：“在伟大的三体舰队给你们带来美好的新生活之前，所有人还必须经历艰难的三个月。我希望人类的表现像这次移民一样出色！
“The defanging of Earth must proceed. During the next three months, the reservation must be kept in a state of subsistence agriculture. The use of any modern technology, including electricity, is strictly prohibited. As everyone present can see, the Earth Security Force is in the process of systematically eliminating all electricity-generating equipment in Australia.”
“对地球的去威胁化将继续进行，这三个月的时间，保留地必须处于低技术的农业社会状态，禁止使用包括电力在内的任何现代技术。各位都已看到，治安军正在系统地拆除澳大利亚所有的发电设施。”
People around Cheng Xin looked at each other in disbelief, hoping that someone else could help explain what Sophon had just said.
程心周围的人们都互相交换着日光，每个人都希望别人帮助自己把握智子最后一段话中的含义，因为那太令人难以置信了。
“This is genocide!” someone in the House of Representatives cried out. The shadows continued to sway, like corpses dangling from nooses.
“这是屠杀！”会场中有人声嘶力竭地喊道，所有的影子仍在摇晃，像绞架上的尸体。
“I proclaim now the complete severance of the Australian Reservation from the outside world. Seven strong-interaction space probes and the Earth Security Force will enforce an absolute blockade. Anyone attempting to leave Australia will be treated as an invader of Trisolaris and be exterminated without mercy!
“现在我宜布：澳大利亚保留地与外界完全隔绝，七个强互作用力宇宙探测器和地球治安军将对这块大陆实施严密封锁，任何企图离开澳大利亚的人都将被视为三体世界领土的侵略者而坚决消灭！
It was indeed genocide.
这是屠杀。
The prospect of keeping 4.2 billion people alive in Australia was difficult, but not unimaginable. Even after the Great Resettlement, the population density in Australia was only fifty people per square kilometer, lower than the population density of pre-Resettlement Japan.
本来，四十二亿人在澳大利亚生活并不是一件难以想象的事，移民完成后，澳大利亚的人口密度为每平方公里五百多人，比移民前日本的人口密度高不太多。
But the plan had been premised on highly efficient agricultural factories. During the resettlement process, large numbers of agricultural factories had been relocated to Australia, and many of them had been reassembled and put in operation. In these factories, genetically modified crops grew at rates orders of magnitude above traditional crops, but natural lighting was insufficient to power such growth, so ultrabright artificial lights had to be used. This required massive amounts of electricity.
先前设想中，人类在澳大利亚的生存是以高效率生产的侧k习一为4础的，在移民的过程中。有大批农业工厂也迁移到澳大利亚，一部分已经重新装配完成。在农业工厂里，经过基因改造的农作物以高出传作物几十倍的速度生长，但自然的光照不可能为这种生长提供足够量，只能使用人工产生的超强光照，这就需要大量的电力。
The existing food reserve was enough to maintain 4.2 billion people only for one month.
而现有的存粮，只够四十二亿人维持一个月。
“What about food? Where are we going to get food?” someone else shouted. They were no longer terrified of Sophon. All that was left was despair.
“那粮食呢？！粮食从哪里来？！”又有人喊道，他们对智子的恐惧已经消失，只剩下极度的绝望。
Without electricity, the crops in the growth tanks of the factories, dependent on ultraviolet or X-ray light for photosynthesis, would rot in a couple of days.
一旦电力中断，在这些农业工厂的培养槽中，那些能够吸收紫外线甚至X射线进行光合作用的农作物，将在一两天内腐烂。
Sophon scanned the hall, meeting the eyes of everyone present. “Food? Everyone, look around: You are surrounded by food, living food.”
智子环视大厅中所有的人，“粮食？这不都是粮食？每个人看看你们的周围，都是粮食，活生生的粮食。”
“I don’t understand your reaction,” Sophon said to the man who had yelled genocide. Her confusion appeared genuine.
“您的这种理解让我无法理解。”智子对喊“屠杀”的人露出真诚的迷惑表情。
Her tone was serene, as though reminding humanity of a storehouse they had forgotten.
智子是很平静地说出这话的，好像真的是在提醒人们被遗忘的粮仓。
No one said anything. The long-planned process of annihilation had reached its final step. It was too late for words.
没有人说话，一个策划已久的灭绝计划已经走到了最后一步，现在说什么都晚了。
“Mere existence is already the result of incredible luck. Such was the case on Earth in the past, and such has always been the case in this cruel universe. But at some point, humanity began to develop the illusion that they’re entitled to life, that life can be taken for granted. This is the fundamental reason for your defeat. The flag of evolution will be raised once again on this world, and you will now fight for your survival. I hope everyone present will be among the fifty million survivors at the end. I hope that you will eat food, and not be eaten by food.”
“生存本来就是一种幸运，过去的地球上是如此，现在这个冷酷的宇宙中也到处如此。但不知从什么时候起，人类有了一种幻觉，认为生存成了唾手可得的东西，这就是你们失败的根本原因。进化的旗帜将再次在这个世界升起，你们将为生存而战。我希望在座的每个人都在那最后的五千万人之中，希望你们能吃到粮食。而不是被粮食吃掉。”
Sophon continued. “The coming struggle for survival will eliminate most of humanity. By the time the fleet arrives in three months, there should be about thirty to fifty million people left on this continent. These final victors will begin a free and civilized life in the reservation. The fire of Earth civilization will not go out, but it will continue in a reduced form, like the eternal flame at a tomb.”
智子继续说：“在即将到来的生存竞争中，大部分人将被淘汰，三个月后舰队到达之时，这个大陆上将剩下三千万至五千万人，这些最后的胜利者将在保留地开始文明自由的生活。地球文明之火不会熄灭，但也只能维持一个火苗，像陵墓中的长明灯。”
The Australian House of Representatives was modeled on the British House of Commons. The high seats of the public galleries were to the sides, and the benches for the Members of Parliament — where the leaders of the world now sat — were down in the pit in the middle. Those sitting there now felt as if they were in a tomb that was about to be filled in.
澳大利亚联邦议会大厅是模仿英国议会大厅建造的，布局有些奇怪，周围有一圈高高在上的旁听席，中间的各国首脑所在的议员席好像放在一个大坑中，现在，那里的人们一定感觉自己处在一个即将被填理的坟墓里。
“Ahhhhhhh –” A woman in the crowd near Cheng Xin screamed, slicing apart the silence like a sharp blade. But a deathlike hush immediately swallowed her scream.
“啊——”程心不远处的人群中传出一声女人的尖叫，像利刃划破晨空。但立刻被一片死寂吞没了。
Cheng Xin felt the sky and earth tumble around her. She didn’t realize she had fallen down. All she saw was the sky pushing the government tent and the holographic window away, filling her entire field of view, then the ground touched her back, as though it had stood up behind her. The dawn sky appeared as a dim ocean, and the crimson clouds, lit by the rising sun, floated over it in bloody patches. Then a black spot appeared in her vision, spreading quickly, like a sheet of paper set aflame by the candle underneath, until murky shadows covered everything.
程心感到天旋地转，她并未意识到自己倒下，只是看到天空把大帐篷和信息显示窗口挤下去，占据了她的全部视野，然后地面触到她的后背，仿佛是大地在她背后直立起来一样。晨空像是晦暗的海洋，那几缕被朝阳映红的薄云像飘浮在海面上的血。接着，她视野的中心出现了一块黑斑。迅速扩大，就像一张在蜡烛上方展开的纸被烧焦一样，最后黑色覆盖了一切。
She recovered from the loss of consciousness quickly. Her hands found the ground — soft sand — and, pushing off it, she sat up. She grabbed her left arm with her right hand to be sure that she was okay. But the world had disappeared. All was enveloped in gloom. Cheng Xin opened her eyes wide, but she could see nothing but more darkness. She had gone blind.
她昏厥的时间很短，两手很快找到了地面，那是软软的沙地。她撑着地面坐起来，又用右手抓住左臂，确定自己恢复了神志，但世界消失了，只有一片黑暗。程心睁大了双眼，但除了黑暗什么都看不见——她失明了。
“Are you Dr. Cheng Xin?”
“你是程心博士吗？”
In this endless obscurity she seemed to see a pair of eyes. The black eyes melted into the murk, but she could feel their presence, could feel their gaze. Were these the eyes of Yun Tianming? She had fallen into the abyss, where she ought to meet him. She heard Tianming call her name. She tried to push the hallucinatory voice out of her mind, but it persisted. Finally, she was certain that the voice came from reality, as it was a feminized male voice that could only be from this era.
在这无边的黑暗中，她似乎看到了一双眼睛，那黑色的眸子与黑暗融为一体，但她能感觉到它的存在，能感觉到它对自己的注视。那是云天明的眼睛吗？自已已经坠人深渊，应该能见到他了。她听到云天明在叫她的名字，极力想把这幻觉从脑海中赶走，但这声音固执地一遍遍响起。她终于确定声音是来自现实，一个年轻男人的声音，是这个时代那种女性化的男音。
Someone running crashed into her, and she fell. She struggled to sit up. Darkness, only darkness remained before her eyes, thick as pitch. She turned to face what she thought of as the east, but even in her mind she couldn’t see the rising sun. What rose there instead was a gigantic dark wheel, scattering black light across the world.
有跑过的人撞倒了她，她又挣扎着坐起来，黑暗，眼前还是一片黑暗，像沥青一般浓稠的黑暗。她转向自己认为的东方，但即使在想象中也看不到初升的太阳，那里升起的是一个黑色的巨轮，把黑色的光芒洒向世界。
Noises assaulted her; she could not tell which were real and which were illusions: footsteps like a tide, screams, sobs, and indistinct, eerie cries like a gale passing through a dead forest.
各种声音围绕着她，她不知道哪些来自现实，哪些是幻觉。有潮水一般的脚步声，有惊叫声和哭声，还有许多自己分辨不出来的怪啸，像狂风吹过枯林。
She nodded. Or, rather, felt herself nod. Her body seemed to move on its own.
她点点头，或是感觉自己点了头。
“Who are you?”
“你是谁？”
“I’ve been looking for you.”
“我是程心，我一直在找你。”
“Why? Do you still think of yourself as the savior of the world?”
“找我干什么？你还以为自己是救世主吗？”
An object was pushed into her hand — a mobile phone. She put the phone next to her ear and heard Sophon’s voice. “Hello, Swordholder.”
有人把一个东西塞到她手中，是一部移动电话，她把电话凑到耳边，立刻听到了智子的声音：“喂。执剑人吗？”
“I’m the commander of a special team in the Earth Security Force. Sophon sent us to retrieve you from Australia.”
“我是治安军一个特别小分队的指挥官，智子派我们进人澳大利亚接你走。”
Cheng Xin noticed another sound. She thought it was another hallucination at first: the rumbling of a helicopter. Although humanity had learned anti-gravity technology, it consumed too much energy for practical use. Aircraft still mostly relied on traditional propellers. She felt gusts of wind, proof that a helicopter was hovering nearby.
这时，程心又注意到了另一个声音，她原以为那也是幻觉。那是直升机的轰鸣声。人类已经掌握了反重力，但因能耗巨大而无法投人实用，现在大气层内的飞行器大部分仍是传统旋翼式的。她感到了扑面的气流，证实了确实有直升机悬停在附近。
“What happened to your eyes? Can you not see?”
“你的眼睛怎么了？看不到了吗？“
“Can I talk to Sophon?”
“我能和智子通话吗？”
Cheng Xin shook her head slowly. “No. I’ve never thought of myself that way. I just want to save two people. Please?”
程心缓缓摇摇头，“不，我从来都没那么想……我只想救两个人。这总行吧？”
“Anywhere you want. She’ll take care of you. Of course, she said that you have to be willing to go.”
“你想去哪里都行，她会安排好你的生活，当然，她说这得你自愿。”
“Where are you taking me?”
“去哪里？”
Cheng Xin understood that it was a group of aliens that controlled Sophon from four light-years away, but she, like other humans, always thought of Sophon as an individual, a woman. This woman, who was in the process of slaughtering 4.2 billion people, cared about her welfare.
程心当然清楚，在四光年外控制智子的肯定是一个群体。但她与其他人一样，总是把她当成一个个体，一个女人。这个正在杀死四十二亿人的女人却在关心她这一个人。
Cheng Xin was surprised. Sophon had met AA, but how did she know who Fraisse was?
程心很惊讶。智子见过AA，但她怎么知道谁是弗雷斯？
“Which two?”
“哪两个？”
“艾 AA and Fraisse.”
“艾AA和弗雷斯。”
“Ah, your chattering friend and that old Aboriginal? You wanted to find me just for this?”
“就是你那个叽叽喳喳的小朋友和那个土着老头儿？你找我就是为这个？”
“That’s easy. What about you?”
“这容易。你呢？”
“Yes. Have the people you sent bring them away from Australia so that they can live freely.”
“是的，让你派来的人带他们走，让他们离开澳大利亚过自由的生活。”
“I can’t. I can’t see a thing.”
“没有，找的眼睛什么都看不到了。”
“Can’t you see what’s happening?”
“我想你看到了周围的情况。”
“You mean you’ve gone blind? Haven’t you been eating properly?”
“你是说你失明了？你不应该缺少营养吧？”
Cheng Xin, AA, and Fraisse had always been provided adequate rations during the last year, and Fraisse’s house had never been taken away by the government. And once she and AA had moved in, no one had harassed her. Cheng Xin had always thought it was because the local government was protecting her, but now she realized that it was because Sophon had kept watch over her.
程心，AA，弗雷斯，三个人在这一年中确实一直得到了足够的配给，弗雷斯的房子也没有像其他当地人的房子那样被征用，还有，自从她和AA搬进来后，再没有人到这里骚扰过她。程心一直以为这是当地政府对自己的照顾，现在才知道是智子在关心她。
“You don’t need to be concerned about me.”
“你不用管我了。”
“If you remain there, you’ll be eaten by the others.”
“如果你留在那里，最后会被别人吃掉的。”智子说。
“I know.” Cheng Xin’s voice was calm.
“我知道。”程心淡淡地回答。
Cheng Xin said nothing. Not even thank you.
程心沉默了，最终没有说谢谢。
Cheng Xin shook her head. “You know where they are? Good. Please go. Thank you.”
程心摇摇头，“你们走吧。知道他们在哪儿吧？谢谢。”
She listened for the helicopter. The blindness seemed to make her hearing especially acute, like a third eye. She heard the helicopter take off and then land about two kilometers away. A few minutes later, it lifted off again, and gradually flew away.
她凝神听着直升机的声音，失明后听觉变得格外灵敏，几乎像第三只眼一样。她听到直升机飞起，在两公里外弗雷斯的房子那里再次降低悬停，几分钟后再次升空，渐渐远去。
Is that a sigh? “All right. A sophon will stay near you. If you change your mind or need some help, just speak. I’ll hear you.”
似乎有一声叹息，“好吧，有一个智子会一直在你附近，如果你改变主意或需要什么帮助时，直接说出来我就能听到。”
Someone grabbed her by the arm — the Earth Security Force commander. “I’ve been given the order to retrieve those two. It’s best that you leave with us, Dr. Cheng. This place will turn into hell on Earth in no time.”
有人抓住了她的胳膊，是那个治安军指挥官，“我刚接到带那两人走的命令，你放心，程心博士。你还是离开的好，这是我个人的请求，这里很快就变成人间地狱了。”
Cheng Xin closed her eyes, satisfied. Whether she kept them open or not, there was only darkness. Finally, her broken heart had found some peace, bathed in a pool of blood. The impenetrable shadows now became a kind of protection. Outside the darkness was more terror. What had manifested there made even coldness itself shiver, even darkness itself stumble.
程心欣慰地闭上眼睛，其实与睁着一样只有黑暗。现在，她那已经撕裂的心终于在血泊中平静下来，这黑暗竟成为一种保护，因为这黑暗之外是更恐怖的所在，那里正在浮现的某种东西，使寒冷感到冷，使黑暗感到黑。
That’s why most people will die.
所以大部分人将被淘汰。
It was not important whether the fifty million that survived would still be considered human, or become something else. As a concept, “humanity” would disappear.
剩下的那五千万人无论仍然是人还是变成其他什么东西都不重要，人类作为一个概念即将消失。
The frenzy around her intensified: sounds of running, clashing, guns firing, cursing, screaming, dying, crying… Have they already started to eat people? It shouldn’t happen so fast. Cheng Xin believed that even in a month, when there would be no more food, most people would still refuse to eat other people.
周围的骚动剧烈起来，脚步声、冲撞声、枪声、咒骂、惊叫、惨叫、哭号……已经开始吃人了吗？应该不会这么快，程心相信，即使到了三个月后完全断粮之际，大部分人也不会吃人。
A single line could now encompass all of human history: We walked out of Africa; we walked for seventy thousand years; we came into Australia.
现在，可以用一句话来概括人类历史了：走出非洲，走了七万年，走进澳大利亚。
In Australia, humanity returned to its origin. But there would be no new voyage. This was the end.
人类在澳大利亚又回到了起点，但再次起程已不可能，旅行：结束了。
A baby cried nearby. Cheng Xin wanted to wrap her arms around that new life. She recalled the baby she had held in front of the UN building: soft, warm, such a sweet smile. Maternal instinct broke Cheng Xin’s heart. She was afraid that the baby would go hungry.
有婴儿的哭声。程心很想把那个小生命抱在怀中，她又想起了两年前在联合国大厦前抱过的那个宝宝，软软的，暖暖的，孩子的笑那么甜美。母爱让程心的心碎，她怕孩子们饿着。
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