The chilly dawn revealed a bare landscape. There was no pyramid, no United Nations Headquarters, no sign of the Pendulum Monument. Only a dark desert extended to the horizon, just as Wang had seen the first time he had logged in.
寒冷黎明中的大地上空荡荡的一无所有。没有金字塔，没有联合国大厦，巨摆纪念碑也不知去向，只有黑乎乎的戈壁滩延伸到天际，与他第一次进入这个世界时一样。
But Wang soon realized that he was wrong. What he thought were numerous stones arrayed across the desert were not stones at all, but human heads. The ground was filled with a densely packed crowd.
但汪淼很快发现这只是自己的错觉，那戈壁滩上密密麻麻的小石块，竟都是人头！原来大地上站满了人。
The silence of hundreds of millions created a suffocating sense of strangeness. What are they waiting for? Wang looked around and noticed everyone was gazing up at the sky.
寂静笼罩着一切，这几亿人造就的寂静有一种令人窒息的诡异，这黎明中的人海正在等待什么。汪淼看看附近，发现所有的人都在仰望着天空。
From where he stood on a small hill, Wang could see no end to the sea of people. He estimated the number of individuals within his view alone to be in the hundreds of millions. All the Trisolarans on the planet were probably gathered here.
汪淼站在一个稍高些的小丘上向下看，这密密的人海一望无际，汪淼大致估计了一下数量，仅目力所及的范围就可能有几亿人！他知道，三体世界的所有人可能都聚集在这里了。
Wang lifted his face and found the starry sky had been transformed to an astonishing sight: The stars were arrayed in a square formation! However, Wang soon realized that the stars in the formation were in a synchronous orbit above the planet, moving together against the dimmer, more distant background of the Milky Way.
汪淼抬头望去，发现星空发生了不可息议的变化：群星竟然排成了一个严整的正方形阵列！但汪淼很快发现，这一片排成正方形的星星可能只是位于行星同步轨道上，银河系的星海成了后面一个暗淡的背景，这个正方形相对于背景有明显的运行。
“What is that?” Wang asked, pointing at the formation in the sky.
“那是什么？”汪淼指指太空中的星体阵列问。
A man standing next to him nudged him lightly and spoke in a low voice, “Ah, Great Copernicus, why have you come so late? Three cycles of civilizations have passed, and you’ve missed many great enterprises.”
这时，站在旁边的一个男人轻轻推了推他，低声说：“啊，伟大的哥白尼，你怎么来得这样晚？整整过去了三轮文明，你错过了多么伟大的事业啊！”
“Trisolaran civilization has already achieved the capacity for interstellar flight?”
“这么说，三体文明已经具备了星际远航的能力？”
“The Trisolaran Interstellar Fleet. It’s about to begin its expedition.”
“那是伟大的三体星际舰队，马上就要起航远征了。”
“That is a great accomplishment, as far as I understand it, but it still seems too slow for interstellar flight.”
“达到十分之一的光速，至少在我的知识范围内是一个伟大的成就，但对于星际航行来说，还是慢了些。”
The stars in the formation closest to the direction of dawn were also the brightest, shining with a silver light that cast shadows on the ground. The brightness decreased as one moved away from that edge. Wang counted more than thirty stars along each edge of the formation, which meant a total of more than a thousand stars. The slow movement of the obviously artificial formation against the starry universe exuded a solemn power.
正方形阵列中，靠晨光一侧的星体亮度最高，发出的银光能在地面上投出人影，向后面亮度逐渐减弱。汪淼数了数，阵列的一边上有三十多颗星体，那么阵列中的星体．总数是一千左右。这显然是由人造物构成的阵列成一个整体在群星的背景上缓缓移动，看上去充满了庄严约力量感。
“Yes. All those magnificent ships can reach one-tenth the speed of light.”
“是的，那些宏伟的飞船都能达到十分之一光速。”
“What’s the fleet’s destination?”
“舰队的目的地是哪里呢？”
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. The key is finding the right target.”
“千里之行始于足下，”那人说，“关键是要找对目标。”
Wang was surprised. “The closest star to us is also about four light-years away.”
汪淼有些惊奇：“距我们最近的恒星也是四光年。”
“The Earth.”
“地球。”
“A star with planets about four light-years away — the closest star to the Trisolaran system.”
“四光年外的一颗带有行星的恒星，那是距三体世界最近的恒星。”
“You?”
“你们？”
A loud, joyous cry erupted from the crowd. Wang looked up and saw that every star in the square formation was rapidly growing brighter. This was due to the light emitted by the ships themselves. Their combined illumination soon overwhelmed the dawn, and one thousand stars became one thousand little suns. Trisolaris was bathed in glorious daylight, and the crowd raised their hands and formed an endless prairie of uplifted arms.
这时，巨大的欢呼声从人海中爆发。汪淼抬头一看，太空中正方形星阵中，每颗星体的亮度都在急剧增加，这显然是它们本身在发出光来。这光芒很快淹没了天边的展曦，一千颗星体很快变成了一千颗小太阳，三体世界迎来了辉煌的白昼。大地上的人们向着天空都高举双手，形成了一望无际的手臂的草原。
The Trisolaran Fleet began to accelerate, solemnly gliding across the dome of the sky, skimming past the giant, just-risen moon’s tip, casting a dim blue glow against the moon’s mountains and plains.
三体舰队开始加速，庄严地移过苍弯，掠过刚刚升起的巨月顶端，在月面的山脉和平原上投下蔚蓝色的光晕。
“Oh, that’s not very surprising. In most regions of the Milky Way, the distribution of stars is fairly even. It’s the result of star clusters acting under the influence of gravity. The distance between most stars is between three and six light-years.”
“哦，这有没什么可奇怪的，在银河系的大片区域，恒星的密度十分均匀，这是星群引力漫长调节的结果。占相当大比例的恒星，之间的间距就是在三到六光年之间。”
The Trisolaran Expedition to the new world has begun. The fleet is still in flight…
三体文明对新世界的远征开始了，舰队正在航程中……
Three Body is over. When you have returned to the real world, if you remain true to the promise you’ve made, please attend the meet-up of the Earth-Trisolaris Organization. The address will be in the follow-up e-mail you receive.
《三体》游戏结束了，当您回到现实时，如果忠于自己曾做出的的承诺，请按随后发给您的电子邮件中的地址，参加地球三体组织的聚会。
The joyous cry subsided. The people of Trisolaris mutely gazed as their hope gradually shrunk in the western sky. They would not know the outcome of the launch in their lifetimes, but four or five hundred years from now, their descendants would receive the news from a new world, the beginning of a new life for Trisolaran civilization. Wang stood with them, silently gazing, until the phalanx of a thousand stars shrank into a single star, and until that star disappeared in the western night sky. Then the following text appeared:
欢呼声平息了，三体世界的人们默默地看着他们的希望在西方的太空渐渐远去，他们此生看不到结局，但四五百年后，他们的子孙将得到来自新世界的消息，那将是三体文明的新生。汪淼与他们一起默默地遥望着，直到一千颗星星的方阵缩成一颗星，直到这颗星消失在西方的夜空中。字幕出现：
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