Six years had passed since their return from Australia, but the trials of the Great Resettlement and the intervening years seemed to have left no mark on AA. She was like a fresh, resilient plant that allowed the hardships of the past to roll off her smooth leaves. During these six years, Cheng Xin’s company had developed rapidly under AA’s management and become one of the prominent players in near-orbit space construction. But AA didn’t look like a powerful CEO; instead, she retained the look of a lively, fun young woman. Of course, that was not unusual in this age.
从澳大利亚返回已经六年了，但移民的苦难和这六年时光几乎没在AA身上留下痕迹，她就像一株鲜活水灵的植物，岁月和苦难的水珠都从她光滑的叶片上滚落，一点儿都沾不上。这六年，程心的公司在她的运作下飞速发展起来，成为近地轨道太空建筑业的巨头，但她看上去完全不像一家大公司的首席执行官，还是那副活泼女孩儿的样子，不过在这个时代这也很正常。
艾 AA told Cheng Xin that her eyes were even prettier and brighter than before, and perhaps she wasn’t lying. Cheng Xin had been mildly myopic before, but now she saw everything with extreme clarity, as though the world had been given a fresh coat of paint.
艾AA说程心的眼睛比以前更明亮更美丽了，也许她没有说谎。程心以前有中度近视，但现在视野异常清晰，感觉世界像刷新了一样。
The six years hadn’t touched Cheng Xin either — she had spent them in hibernation. After their return from Australia, her blindness had been examined and diagnosed. It had started out as psychosomatic — the result of extreme emotional distress — but later developed into a detached retina followed by necrosis. The recommended treatment was to produce cloned retinas suitable for transplant out of stem cells developed from her DNA, but the process would take five years. Cheng Xin spending five years in complete darkness in her extremely depressed state would have led to total breakdown, and so the doctors allowed her to hibernate.
这六年对程心来说也不存在，她是在短期冬眠中度过的。从澳大利亚回来后，经过诊断，她的失明最初是心因性的，因超强度的精神打击所致，但后来发展成生理病变，导致视网膜剥离并坏死。治疗方法是用她的基因进行不完全克隆，再从克隆体中的干细胞培育出视网膜进行移植，这一过程需要五年左右。程心处于深度抑郁之中，在黑暗中度过五年将使她彻底崩溃，于是医生让她短期冬眠。
Retaliation against the Earth Security Force followed. Objectively speaking, the good done by the ESF far exceeded that done by the Resistance. The ESF had been able to protect the big cities and other basic infrastructure. Although they had done so for the benefit of Trisolaran civilization, their efforts allowed the world to recover economically after the Great Resettlement with minimal delay. During the post-resettlement evacuation of Australia, Australia almost plunged into total chaos multiple times due to the lack of food and electricity, and it was the ESF that maintained order and kept supplies flowing, making it possible to complete the evacuation in four months. During that extraordinary, tumultuous time, if this well-equipped armed force had not been present, the results would have been unimaginably tragic. But none of these accomplishments were taken into account by the tribunals sitting in judgment over them. All ESF members were tried, and half were convicted of crimes against humanity. During the Great Resettlement, many nations revived capital punishment, and this persisted even after the return from Australia. During these five years, many former ESF members were executed, even though many among the cheering crowd had also submitted applications to the ESF.
随之而来的是对地球治安军的疯狂报复。其实从客观上来说，在这场灾难中，治安军起到的正面作用远比抵抗运动多。他们在移民期间保护了城市和其他基础设施，虽然是为即将到来的三体文明保存的，但保证了移民返回后世界经济的快速复苏。在移民返回过程中，由于粮食短缺和电力中断，澳大利亚几度陷入失控的混乱，也是进入澳大利亚的治安军保证了基本的供给并维持了秩序，保证了大疏散在没有重大伤亡的情况下于四个月内完成。在那样的大混乱中，如果没有这支装备精良的武装力量，后果将不堪设想。但这一切均不被法庭考虑，所有的治安军成员都受到审判，有一半被判为反人类罪。大移民期间，大部分国家都恢复了死刑，从澳大利亚返回后也并没有取消。五年中，不断有大批的前治安军成员被处决，而对此欢呼雀跃的人群中，有相当一部分是当初在治安军报名中的落选者。
The world had indeed been refreshed. After receiving news of the gravitational wave universal broadcast, the whole world celebrated. Blue Space and Gravity became salvation ships out of myths, and the two crews became superheroes worshipped by all. The charge that Blue Space had committed suspected murder during the dark battles was withdrawn, and replaced with the affirmation that it had acted in justified self-defense after being attacked. Simultaneously, members of the Earth Resistance Movement who had persisted in a hopeless struggle during the Great Resettlement were also hailed as heroes. When those resistance fighters dressed in rags appeared before the public, everyone felt hot tears in their eyes. Blue Space, Gravity, and the Resistance became symbols of the grandness of the human spirit, and countless worshippers seemed to think that they themselves had also always possessed such spirit.
现在的世界也确实刷新了。得知引力波宇宙广播启动后，全世界此欢呼不已。“蓝色空间”号和“万有引力”号成为神话般的拯救之船，两艘飞船上的成员也成为万众崇拜的超级英雄。“蓝色空间”号在黑暗战役中的谋杀嫌疑被推翻，确认为是受到攻击后的正当自卫。同时成为英雄的还有移民时期在各大陆坚持战斗的地球抵抗运动成员。当那些衣衫槛褛的抵抗战士出现在公众面前时。所有的人都热泪盈眶。一时间，两艘飞船和抵抗战士成为人类伟大精神的象征，而无数的祟拜者在不知不觉之间感觉自己也一直拥有这种精神。
This tranquility was premised on this fact: When Luo Ji had conducted his dark forest experiment, 157 years had passed between when he first broadcast the coordinates of 187J3X1 to the universe and when that star was destroyed. That was equivalent to the life span of a modern human. To be sure, birthrates declined to their lowest levels in recorded history because no one wanted to bring a child into a world doomed to die. But most believed that they would be able to live out the rest of their days in peace and happiness.
这种祥和是建立在这样一个事实的基础上：在罗辑的黑暗森林试验中，从把187J3X1恒星坐标向宇宙广播到该恒星被摧毁，其间有一百五十七年时间，这正好是现代人的平均寿命。这时，人类也出现了有史以来最低的出生率，人们不想把孩子带到一个注定要毁灭的世界上来——但大部分人都认为自己可以平安地度过一生。人们也看到了这样一个事实。
The gravitational wave broadcast was far stronger than the Sun-amplified radio broadcast employed by Luo Ji, but humanity soon found refuge in a new way to comfort themselves: questioning the validity of dark forest theory itself.
引力波的宇宙广播能力比当初的太阳电波放大要强得多。不过。人类很快就找到了一个更大的自找安慰：对黑暗森林理论本身的质疑。
Eventually, peace returned, and people began to rebuild their lives. As the cities and industrial infrastructure remained intact, recovery was rapid. Within two years, the cities had eliminated the scars from the chaotic times and recovered their pre-resettlement prosperity. Everyone resolved to enjoy life.
但一切很快恢复了平静，人们开始重建生活。由于城市和工业设施保存完好，各方面都很快恢复，不到两年，城市的伤痕就完全消失，呈现出移民前灿烂的繁荣，所有人都开始一心一意地享受生活。
The first piece of evidence: Luo Ji’s dark forest experiment that led to the destruction of 187J3X1 and its planetary system. The supposition that the system had been destroyed by some extraterrestrial intelligence had always been controversial. The astronomical community had always voiced the loudest objections. There were two main views: One camp believed that the object observed striking the star at lightspeed was insufficient to destroy the star. The death of 187J3X1 was thus likely the result of a natural supernova. Since there was incomplete predestruction data for this star, it was impossible to say definitively whether the star possessed the requisite conditions for going supernova. Considering the long time that elapsed between Luo Ji’s broadcast and the star’s explosion, there was a high probability that the event was indeed natural. A second camp conceded that a lightspeed object did kill the star, but the “photoid” might very well be a natural phenomenon in the galaxy. Although to date no second photoid had been detected, there had been observations of massive objects being accelerated to extremely high speeds by naturally occurring forces. For instance, a supermassive black hole near the center of the galaxy was perfectly capable of accelerating some small object to near the speed of light. In fact, the center of the galaxy might produce a large number of such projectiles, but due to their small size, they were rarely seen.
疑点一：罗辉的黑暗森林试验导致187J3X1恒星系被摧毁。该星系是否真是由外部的智慧力量所摧毁一直存在争议。最大的质疑来自天文学界，主要观点有两种：一种观点认为，所观察到的击中恒星的光速物体不足以摧毁恒星，187J3X1星系的毁灭可能是一次自然的超新星爆发，由于之前对这颗恒星的参数掌握不足，无法确定它是否具备新星或超新星爆发的条件；但也无法证伪，考虑到由坐标广播到恒星毁灭的时间跨度，这种可能性是相当大的。第二种观点承认该恒星是被光速物体摧毁，但认为光粒可能是银河系中的一种自然现象。虽然迄今为止没有观察到第二个光粒现象，但确实观察到大质量物体被自然力量加速到极高速度的例子，曾经观测到有恒星被星团的引力以极高速度甩出银河系，有学者认为，银河系中心的超级黑洞完全有可能把小质量物体加速到极接近光速，这种光速物体可能在银心大量产生，只是由于其体积很小难以发现。
For sixty-some years — the entirety of the Deterrence Era — dark forest theory formed the backdrop to human history. But scholars had always questioned it, and until the start of the Broadcast Era, there had never been any scientific proof for its validity. The existing few pieces of evidence all lacked rigorous scientific foundation.
虽然自威慑纪元以来的六十多年里，黑暗森林理论已成为人类历史的一个大背景，但学术界对它的真实性的质疑一直存在。直到广播纪元开始时一直没有一个能够从科学角度证明它的确凿证据，已有的几个证据都缺乏坚实的科学基础。
[Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time, Delusions of Cosmic Persecution: The Last Attempt to Invalidate Dark Forest Theory]
【摘自《时间之外的往事》宇宙迫害妄想——对黑暗森林理论的最后质疑】
The second piece of evidence: the terror Trisolaris showed for dark forest deterrence. This was, to date, the most convincing proof for dark forest theory, but humanity knew nothing of the Trisolarans’ own process of derivation and the evidence they relied on; so, scientifically speaking, it was insufficient to constitute direct proof. It was possible that Trisolaris submitted to a state of deterrence balance with humanity for some other unknown reason, and finally gave up the conquest of the Solar System. Many hypotheses were proposed to explain this unknown reason, and although none were absolutely convincing, none could be conclusively disproven, either. Some scholars proposed a new theory of “delusions of cosmic persecution,” which argued that the Trisolarans also had no proof of the validity of dark forest theory. However, due to the extremely harsh environment they had evolved in, the Trisolarans suffered a mass persecution complex against cosmic society. This persecution delusion was similar to Medieval religions on the Earth, and was merely a faith held by a majority of Trisolarans.
疑点二：三体世界对黑暗森林威恨的恐惧。这是迄今为止对黑暗森林理论最有力的证明，但三体世界本身所掌握的证据和其论证的过程一直不得而知，所以在科学上也无法被视为直接的证明。三体世界有可能因为别的未知原因同人类建立起威慑平衡，并且最终放弃对太阳系的占领。对这种未知原因的假说有许多种，虽然没有一种有绝对的说服力，但也都无法证伪。还有学者提出一种“宇宙迫害妄想”学说，认为三体世界本身也并没有掌握黑暗森林理论的确切证据，只是由于其长期所处的极端险恶的环境，使其对宇宙社会产生了一种群体的迫害妄想，这种群体妄想类似于地球中世纪的宗教，被大多数三体人信以为真。
The third piece of evidence: the confirmation of dark forest theory given by the four-dimensional Ring. Clearly, the Ring had obtained the words “dark forest” from the Rosetta System, specifically the section discussing human history. This phrase appeared often in historical records dating from the Deterrence Era, and it was not surprising that the Ring would use it. However, in the dialogue between the Ring and the exploration team, the section where the concept was invoked was very brief and its exact meaning ambiguous. It was not enough to conclude that the Ring really understood the meaning of the words it used.
疑点三：“魔戒”对黑暗森林理论的确认。“魔戒”显然是从发给它的罗塞塔系统中人类历史资料的最后部分得知“黑暗森林”这个词的。这个词在人类威慑纪元的历史资料中频繁出现，被其引用是可以理解的。但在“魔戒”与探险队的对话中，这一部分十分简短含糊，不足以证明“魔戒”确实理解了该词的含义。
Since the Deterrence Era, the study of dark forest theory had developed into its own subject. Other than theoretical research, scholars also conducted large numbers of astronomical observations and built numerous mathematical models. But for most scholars, the theory remained a hypothesis that could be neither confirmed nor disproven. Dark forest theory’s true believers were the politicians and the public, and members of the public mostly chose to believe or disbelieve based on their own situations. After the commencement of the Broadcast Era, more and more people leaned toward treating dark forest theory as merely a delusion of cosmic persecution.
威慑纪元以来，对黑暗森林理论的研究已成为一门独立的学科。除了理论研究外，还进行了大量的宇宙观测和计算机模拟，从不同角度建立了众多的数学模型，但在大部分学者眼中，该理论还只是一个无法证实也无法证伪的假说。真正相信黑暗森林理论的是政治家和公众，而后者显然更多是根据自身所处的境遇，选择是相信还是否定它。在广播纪元开始后，大众越来越倾向于认为黑暗森林理论真的是一个宇宙迫害妄想。
Broadcast Era, Year 7, Cheng Xin
【广播纪元7年，程心】
The election had been a complicated process — public opinion had turned into political pressure exerted on the UN and Fleet International. The public vigorously debated who was ultimately responsible, but almost no one suggested that it was the result dictated by the herd mentality of all involved. Public opinion was relatively forgiving to Cheng Xin herself. Her positive public image provided some measure of protection, and her suffering as an ordinary person during the Great Resettlement gained her some sympathy. Most people tended to think she was also a victim.
这是一个十分复杂的过程，由世界民意形成的政治压力促成了当时联合国和舰队国际的最后决定，人们激烈地争论着该由谁负责，但几乎没有人提出这是所有人的群体意志导致的结果。舆论对程心本人还是相对宽容的，她美好的公众形象为自己提供了一定的保护，同时她作为一个普通移民经历的苦难也博得了同情，人们更多地把她看做一个受害者。
After the dust settled, humanity turned its attention from the universal broadcast to reflecting on the end of the Deterrence Era. A veritable flood of accusations and denunciations against the Swordholder began to appear. If Cheng Xin had activated the broadcast at the start of the droplet attack, then, at a minimum, the disaster of the Great Resettlement could have been avoided. Most of the negative public opinion, however, was concentrated on the process of choosing the Swordholder.
随着一切都尘埃落定，人们的注意力从宁宙广播转移到对威慑纪元结束至今的整体事件的回顾和反思上来。对执剑人的指责和声讨开始铺天盖地地出现，如果在事变之初执剑人就启动宇宙广播，至少可以避免后来的移民灾难。但舆论的主要抨击焦点集中在对执剑人的选择上。
But for Cheng Xin, life had turned into an endless torture. Although her eyes could see again, her heart remained in darkness, sunken in a sea of depression. Although her internal pain was no longer searing and heart-rending, there also was no end in sight. Suffering and depression seemed to suffuse every cell in her body, and she could no longer recall the presence of sunlight in her life. She spoke to no one, did not seek out news about the outside world, and paid no attention even to her growing company. Although AA cared about Cheng Xin, she was busy and could spend little time with Cheng Xin. Fraisse was the only one who provided the support Cheng Xin needed.
但对程心来说，生活却成了无尽的折磨。她的眼睛复明了，心里仍一片黑暗，终日处于抑郁的深海中。精神的痛苦已不再那么灼热、那么撕心裂肿，但变得绵绵无绝期。痛苦和抑郁仿佛是与生俱来地渗透了她的每一个细胞。她不再记得自己的生活中还曾有过阳光。她变得更加沉默寡言，不再接受来自外界的信息，对自己那迅速扩大的公司也毫不关心。AA对程心很关心，但她要忙公司的事务，能陪程心的时间也不多，支撑着程心生活的是弗雷斯。
Overall, the Swordholder’s decision to capitulate made history take a long detour, but didn’t change its overall direction. In the end, the universal broadcast had been initiated, and so the debate over that period of history eventually subsided. Cheng Xin gradually faded from the public consciousness. After all, the most important thing was to enjoy life.
总的来说，执剑人在最后时刻的放弃使历史绕了一个大弯，但并没有改变总体的进程，宇宙广播终究还是启动了，所以对那段历史的讨论很快平息下来，程心也渐渐淡出了人们的视野，毕竟这时最要的事情还是享受生生活。
“Child, I spent the day picking up debris from the shelter-houses. I’d like to see the desert return to how it was before.”
“孩子，我这一整天都在收拾周围乱七八糟的板房，想让沙漠变成原样。”
There was a two-hour time difference between Australia and China, and gradually, Cheng Xin grew used to the daily rhythms of Fraisse’s life. Every time she heard the old man’s voice, she imagined herself also living in that distant forest surrounded by desert, sheltered under a tranquility that kept the rest of the world at bay.
澳大利亚与中国的时差在两个小时左右，程心渐渐适应了老人的作息时间，每当听到老人的声音，她就想象自己也生活在那遥远沙漠中的树林里，被与世隔绝的宁静笼罩着。
These conversations consisted of a few simple sentences: “Child, the sun is rising here.”
每次都是简单地说一两句话：“孩子，这里太阳升起来厂。”
During the dark period at the end of the Great Resettlement, Fraisse and AA had been taken out of Australia together. He lived in Shanghai for a while but didn’t wait for the evacuation to complete before returning to his house near Warburton. After Australia returned to normalcy, he donated his house to the government to be used as an Aboriginal cultural museum. He, on the other hand, went into the woods and built a small tent, and really took up the primitive life of his ancestors. Though he lived in the open, his physical health seemed to improve. The only modern convenience he possessed was a mobile phone, which he used to call Cheng Xin a few times a day.
在移民结束的那个黑暗的时刻，弗雷斯和AA一起被带出澳大利亚，他在上海待了一阵，没等大疏散结束就回到了沃伯顿的家中。澳大利亚重新沉寂下来之后，弗雷斯把自己的房子捐给了政府做土着民俗博物馆，自己在附近的树林中搭了个小帐篷，真的过起了祖先的原始生活。风餐露宿中，老人的身体好像比以前更健壮了。他拥有的唯一一件现代化物品就是移动电话，每天他都给程心打几次电话。
“Child, the sunset is lovely here.”
“孩子，这里晚霞很美。”
“Child, it’s raining. Do you remember the smell of humid air in the desert?”
“孩子，这里下雨了，空气中那种沙漠的潮味，你应该记得的？”
He sounded anxious. “Child, go out and look up in the sky.”
他变得急促而紧张：“孩子，快出去看天上！”
Just that kind of blue light could be seen outside.
现在。外面就是一片这样的蓝光。
Cheng Xin could already tell something unusual was happening. In her uneasy sleep, she had been gripped by a nightmare. The dream was a familiar one: A gigantic tomb stood in the middle of a plain covered by the darkness of night. A bluish glow spilled from within the tomb and illuminated the ground nearby…
其实程心在房间里也发现了外面的异常。刚才艰难的睡眠中，她正在做噩梦，这梦中的情景以前也常出现：夜色笼罩的平原中央有一座巨大的陵墓，一片幽幽的蓝光从陵墓中透出，照亮了附近的地面……
She went onto the balcony and saw a blue star in the sky, brighter than all the other stars. Its fixed position distinguished it from the man-made structures orbiting in near-Earth orbit. It was a star outside the Solar System. Its brightness was still intensifying, and even overpowered the lights of the city around her, casting shadows against the ground. About two minutes later, the brightness reached a peak and was brighter even than a full moon. It was no longer possible to look at it directly, and the color of the light shifted to a harsh white, illuminating the city as though it were daytime.
程心走到阳台上，看到天空中有一颗发出蓝光的星星，其亮度压过了所有的星光，它位置恒定，很容易同运行在近地轨道上的太空设施区分开，是一颗太阳系外的恒星。它的亮度还在急剧增加，很快照出了地面上的人影，使城市的灯海黯然失色。约两分钟，这颗恒星的亮度达到峰值，比满月还亮，使人无法正视，光的色彩也由幽蓝变成惨白，把城市照得亮如白昼。
One night, the telephone roused Cheng Xin from her slumber. She saw that the caller was Fraisse. It was 1:14 A. M. in China, and 3:14 in Australia. Fraisse knew that Cheng Xin suffered from severe insomnia, and without a sleep-aid machine, she could only manage two to three hours of rest a night. Unless it was an emergency, he would never be disturbing her at a time like this.
这天深夜，睡梦中的程心突然被电话铃声惊醒，一看是弗雷斯打来的。这时是凌晨1点14分，在澳大利亚是凌晨3点左右。弗雷斯知道程心处于严重的失眠中，如果不借助催眠器，一天只能睡两三个小时，他平时绝对不会在这时打扰她。这次，他电话中的声音也失去了往常的和缓沉稳。
[Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time, A New Model for the Dark Forest]
【摘自《时间之外的往事》黑暗森林的新模型】
Cheng Xin recognized the star. For almost three centuries, humans had looked at it more than at any other spot in the heavens.
程心知道那是哪里，近三个世纪以来，那是人们仰望夜空时看得最多的一个位置。
Someone screamed in the leaf-building nearby, and there was the sound of something crashing to the floor.
附近的巨树建筑中传来惊叫声，还有什么东西破碎的声音。
The star now began to fade. From white it gradually dimmed to red, and about half an hour later, it went out.
那颗星的光度在达到峰值后渐渐减弱，由白变红，大约半个小时后，完全熄灭了。
A lovely dream had ended: Dark forest theory had received its final confirmation with the annihilation of Trisolaris.
一个可爱的梦想已经结束：黑暗森林理论已经得到了它的最后确认与三个太阳系的湮灭。
Cheng Xin hadn’t brought the phone with her, but the floating communication window had followed her. She could still hear Fraisse’s voice, which had recovered its usual serenity and transcendence. “Child, don’t be afraid. What will happen, will happen.”
程心出来时没拿电话，但通话窗口跟随着她，她仍能听到弗雷斯的声音，这声音又恢复了沉稳和超然：“孩子，不要怕，该发生的总要发生。”安逸的美梦彻底破灭，黑暗森林理论得到了最后的证实，三体世界被摧毁了。
Trisolaris was shattered three years and ten months after the start of the Broadcast Era. No one had expected the attack to come so soon after the gravitational wave broadcast.
三体世界应该是在广播纪元三年零十个月被摧毁的。引力波宇宙广播后这么短的时间就引来了打击，这出乎所有人的预抖。
Since Trisolaris had always been under intense surveillance, plenty of data was captured concerning its extinction. The attack on the Trisolaran system was identical to the attack on Luo Ji’s 187J3X1: A small object traveling near the speed of light struck one of the three stars in the system and destroyed it through its relativistically amplified mass. At the time, Trisolaris had just started to revolve around the star, and the stellar explosion annihilated the planet.
由于三体星系一直处于密切监视之中，所以对这次事件掌握了较为详细的资料。三体星系受到的打击与罗娜进行试验的187J3X1恒星受到的打击完全一样：是一个极端接近光速的小体积物体，借助于相时论效应产生的质量膨胀摧毁恒星。被摧毁的是三体星系三星中的一颗。时机选择得很精确。这颗恒星被击中时，刚刚捕获了三体行星成为它的卫星，恒星爆发时行星被完全摧毁。
When it made the gravitational wave broadcast, Gravity was about three light-years from Trisolaris. Taking into account the lightspeed propagation of gravitational waves, the photoid must have been launched from a point that was even closer to Trisolaris than Gravity — and the launch must have been practically instantaneous after receiving the coordinates. Observations confirmed this: The trail of the photoid traversing the interstellar dust cloud near Trisolaris was clearly recorded, but there were no other solar systems within this zone of space — the only conclusion was that the photoid had been launched from a spacecraft.
当它发出引力波时，引力距离三体星大约3光年。考虑到引力波的光速传播，光速必须是从一个比重力更接近三体的点发射的，而且在接收到坐标后，发射必须是瞬时的。观测结果证实了这一点：在三太阳附近的星际尘埃云上清晰地记录到了光体的轨迹，但在这一空间区域内没有其他太阳系——唯一的结论是，光体是从航天器上发射的。
The old model for dark forest theory had always assumed planetary systems around stars as the foundation. People simply assumed that attacks on systems whose coordinates had been exposed must come from other planetary systems. But once the possibility of attacks from spacecraft entered the scene, the situation became far more complex. While the locations of stars were relatively well known, humans had no information at all concerning spacecraft made by other intelligences — save for the Trisolaran Fleet. How many extraterrestrial spaceships were there? How densely were they deployed in space? How fast did they fly? What were their headings? There were no answers to these questions.
黑暗森林理论以前的模型主要是以恒星系为基础的，人们想当然地认为，对坐标已经被广播的恒星系的打击，都是来自于其他恒星系。如果宇宙飞行器也能够成为打击源，情况便骤然复杂起来。相较于对恒星位置的精确掌握，除三体舰队外，人类根本没有任何关于其他智能体制造的宇宙飞船的信息。有多少艘外星宇宙飞船？它们在太空的部署密度有多大？他们飞得多快？他们的标题是什么？这些问题没有答案。
The possible sources of dark forest attacks could no longer be predicted, and the attacks might come much faster than previously imagined. Other than the surviving stars of the Trisolaran system, the nearest star was six light-years from the Solar System. But the ghostlike alien spaceships could be, at that moment, passing next to the Sun. Death, once only a figure on the horizon, now loomed before our eyes.
黑暗森林袭击的可能来源已经无法预测，而且袭击的速度可能比之前想象的要快得多。除三体星系外，距太阳系最近的恒星也有六光年，但那些幽灵般的异类宇宙飞船可能就从太阳附近穿过。原以为远在天边的死神，赫然出现在眼前。
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