No one believed that Ye Wenjie could climb Radar Peak by herself, but she did it anyway. She didn’t allow anyone to help her along the way, only resting a couple of times in the abandoned sentry posts. She consumed her own vitality, the vitality that could not be renewed, without pity.
谁也不相信叶文洁能够凭着自己的体力再次登上雷达峰，但她最后还是坐到了，一路上没有让别人搀扶，只是在山腰间已经废弃的岗亭中休息了两次。她在毫不怜惜地消耗着自己已不可再生的生命力。
When the group of visitors ascended Radar Peak, its tip had just emerged from the cloud cover. After walking a whole day in the foggy haze, seeing the bright sun in the west and the clear blue sky was like climbing into a new world. From the top of the peak, the clouds appeared as a silver-white sea, and the rise and fall of the waves seemed like abstractions of the Greater Khingan Mountains below.
当一行人登上山时，雷达峰的峰顶刚刚探出云层，在阴霾的雾气中行走了一天，现在一下子看到了在西天灿烂照耀着的太阳和湛蓝的晴空，真像登入另一个世界。从峰顶上极目望去，云海在阳光下一片银白，那起伏的形状，仿佛是云下的大兴安岭某种形而上的抽象再现。
After learning the truth of Trisolaran civilization, Ye had become silent. She rarely spoke, but did make one request: She wanted to visit the ruins of Red Coast Base.
得知三体文明的真相后，叶文洁沉默了，很少说话，她只提了一个要求：想回红岸基地遗址看看。
The ruins that the visitors had imagined did not exist. The base had been dismantled thoroughly, and only a patch of tall grass was left at the top. The foundations and the roads were buried below, and the whole place appeared to be a desolate wilderness. Red Coast seemed to have never happened.
人们想象中的废墟并不存在，基地被拆除得十分彻底，峰顶只剩下一片荒草，地基和道路都被掩于其下，看上去只是一片荒野，红岸的一切仿佛从未发生过。
CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1989.03.21
中国科学院 1989.03.21
They discovered a small stone tablet next to the base, almost completely lost in the grass.
人们在基座旁发现了一块小小的石碑，它几乎被野草完全埋没。上书：
Ye walked to the lip of the cliff. Here, she had once ended the lives of two soldiers with her own hands. She did not look over the sea of clouds as the others were doing, but focused her gaze in one direction. Below the clouds, there was a small village called Qijiatun.
叶文洁走到悬崖边，她曾在这里亲手结束了两个军人的生命。她并没有像其他同行的人那样眺望云海，而是把目光集中到一个方向，在那一片云层下面，有一个叫齐家屯的小村庄……
“This was the base for the antenna,” Ye said. The first cry from Earth heard by an extraterrestrial world was sent from the antenna that had been here to the sun, and then, amplified, broadcast to the whole universe.
“这是天线的基座。”叶文洁说。地球文明被外星世界听到的第一声呼唤，就是通过这个基座上的天线发向太阳，再由太阳放大后向整个宇宙转发的。
Ye’s heart beat with effort, like a string on some musical instrument about to break. Black fog appeared before her eyes. She used the last bit of her strength to stay upright. Before everything sank into darkness, she wanted to see sunset at Red Coast Base one more time.
叶文洁的心脏艰难地跳动着，像一根即将断裂的琴弦，黑雾开始在她的眼前出现，她用尽生命的最后能量坚持着，在一切都没入永恒的黑暗之前，她想再看—次红岸基地的日落。
But Ye soon discovered something. She walked next to a tall rock and pulled away the vines covering it, revealing the mottled, rusty surface below. Only now did the visitors understand that the rock was actually a large metallic base.
但叶文洁很快发现了一处遗迹，她走到一块高大的岩石边，拉开了上面丛生的藤蔓，露出了斑驳的铁锈，其他人这才发现“岩石”原来是一个巨大的金属基座。
SITE OF RED COAST BASE (1968-1987)
红岸基地原址（1968～1987）
The tablet was so tiny. It didn’t seem so much a memorial as an attempt to forget.
碑是那么小，与其说是为了纪念，更像是为了忘却。
Over the western horizon, the sun that was slowly sinking into the sea of clouds seemed to melt. The ruddy sun dissolved into the clouds and spread over the sky, illuminating a large patch in magnificent, bloody red.
在西方的天际，正在云海中下沉的夕阳仿佛被融化了，太阳的血在云海和天空中弥散开来，映现出一大片壮丽的血红。
“My sunset,” Ye whispered. “And sunset for humanity.”
“这是人们的落日……”叶文洁轻轻地说。
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