The noises around her quieted down, and Cheng Xin could hear voices coming from the information window over the city government tent. She could tell one of the voices belonged to Sophon, in addition to two others. But she was too far away to make out exactly what they said. She thought their voices cast a spell because the noises around her faded and finally disappeared. The world seemed to be frozen.
程心听到周围的喧闹声突然平息下来，只剩下远处市政厅上方的信息显示窗中的声音。她能听到其中智子的声音，还有另外两个人的讲话声，但由于距离太远听不清说什么，只是感觉他们的话音像咒语一般，使周围的其他声音越来越稀少，最后竟完全消失。在他们说话的间隙，四周一片死寂，仿佛世界被冻住一般。
Then a tsunami erupted around her, and Cheng Xin trembled. She had been blind for a while, and the images of the real world in her mind were being squeezed out bit by bit by illusions. The sudden bedlam made her feel as if the Pacific had risen up all around her and swallowed Australia.
巨大的声浪突然爆发，使程心不由得颤抖了一下。她已经失明了一段时间，大脑中真实世界的图像正在被虚幻的想象一点点挤走，这声浪使她感到周围的太平洋突然一涌而起，喧嚣的巨浪从四面八方把澳大利亚吞没。
It took a few seconds before she understood that the crowd was cheering. What’s there to cheer about? Has everyone gone mad? The clamor did not subside, though it was eventually replaced by speech. So many were talking at once it was as if, after the continent had been flooded, a storm lashed the surface of the sea. She could not tell what anyone was saying in the tumult.
过了几秒钟她才分辨出这竟是欢呼声。有什么可欢呼的？难道是群体大疯狂的开始？声浪久久难以平息，只是欢呼渐渐被高声的话语所取代，说话声很快密集起来，仿佛在大陆被淹没后又有暴雨降到无法平静的海面上。在这声音的暴雨中，她一时无法分辨出人们在说什么。
Cheng Xin whipped her head up. She still couldn’t get used to this stubborn darkness before her wide-open eyes. She tried to make out something, anything. “What?”
这话让程心猛地抬起头来，睁大双眼的黑暗还是让她很不适应，她极力想看清些什么，“什么？”
“No. Everyone’s getting ready to go home. We’re all leaving Australia and going back to where we came from.”
“不是，大家都准备回家了，离开澳大利亚，从哪里来回哪里去。”
“I don’t have a home,” Cheng Xin said. The word “home” stabbed into her heart like a knife, and her heart, numbed by extreme pain, nevertheless convulsed one more time. She thought of that winter night three centuries ago when she left her home, thought of the dawn that had greeted her outside her window… Both of her parents had died before the Great Ravine. They could never have imagined where their daughter had ended up, tempest-tossed by time and fate.
“我没有家。”程心无力地说。家这个词像一把刀子割在她的心上，使她那已在极度的痛苦中麻木的心又抽搐了一下。她想起了三个世前离家时那个冬夜，想起了她在家的窗外迎来的那个黎明……父母都在大低谷前去世，他们绝对想象不到女儿已被时光和命运抛到什么样的地方。
Her hearing gradually recovered its acuity, and she noticed a faint sound amidst the general commotion: footsteps in front of her. She felt someone stop there. “Dr. Cheng Xin, what is wrong with your eyes? Can you not see?” Cheng Xin felt movements disturbing the air. Perhaps the man was waving his hands before her eyes. “The mayor sent me for you. We’re going home, back to China.”
程心被声浪扰乱的听觉渐渐又恢复了敏感，她注意到了另一个微弱的声音，那是自己面前的脚步声，她感觉有人在面前看着她。果然，那人说话了：“程心博士，你眼睛怎么了，看不见了吗？”程心感到一股微弱的气流，可能是那人在她眼前晃手，“是市长派我来找你的，我们要回家了。”
But she picked out “Blue Space” and “Gravity” more than once.
但她一次又一次听到“蓝色空间”和“万有引力”这两个词。
“The location of Trisolaris has been exposed — which of course means the Solar System is exposed as well. The Trisolarans are running away. The Second Fleet has changed direction to head away from the Solar System. All the droplets are gone. Sophon was explaining that there’s no more need to worry about them invading the Solar System. Like the Trisolaran system, this is now a place of death that everyone will want to escape from.”
“三体星系的位置暴露了。当然太阳系也暴露了。三体人要跑了！他们的第二支舰队已经转向，离开太阳系了，所有的水滴也都从地球撤走了。用智子刚才的话说：太阳系再也不用担心入侵，这里和三体星系一样，已经成了全宇宙都避之不及的死亡之地。”
“Gravity initiated the universal broadcast.”
“‘万有引力’号启动了引力波广播！”
How!?
怎么可能？
“We’re going home. Sophon has ordered the Earth Security Force to make every effort to assist with the evacuation of Australia. The process will get faster over time, but moving all the refugees out of Australia will take three to six months. You can leave first. The mayor wants me to take you to the provincial government.”
“我们要回家了，智子已经命令治安军全力疏散澳大利亚的人口，从哪里来回哪里去。疏散速度会越来越快，不过所有移民要全部离开澳大利亚，还得三到六个月时间吧。你可以先走，市长让我送你到省里。”
How is that possible?
“这怎么可能？”
“Was it Blue Space?”
“‘万有引力’号？“
“No one knows the details, not even Sophon. But Trisolaris received the universal broadcast, and it was initiated a year ago, when deterrence failed.”
“具体是怎么回事，谁都不知道，智子也不知道，但三体世界肯定收到了引力波广播，就是在一年多前威慑失败时发出的。”
“Can you let me be by myself for a while?”
“能让我一个人待会儿吗？”
“All right, Dr. Cheng. But you should be happy. They did what you needed to do.”
“好的，程心博士，你应该感到安慰。他们替你把事情做了。”
The man stopped talking, but Cheng Xin could still feel his presence. The commotion around her gradually died down, and was followed by a rainstorm of footsteps. The footsteps grew sparse — everyone must be leaving the city government tent to take care of their own business. Cheng Xin felt the sea retreat around her, revealing solid land beneath. She stood in the middle of an empty continent, the sole survivor after the Flood. Her face felt a trace of warmth: The sun was rising.
那人不再说话了，但程心能感到他还在身边。周围的声浪渐渐消退，接着是暴雨般纷乱的脚步声，这声音也很快稀疏了，好像人们都从市政厅前跑开去忙什么事了。程心感到自己周围的海水正在退去，广阔的大地露了出来，自己就坐在这空旷的大地正中，像大洪水后唯一的幸存者。她脸上感到一丝暖意，是太阳升起来了。
0 条评论