The Redemption of Time (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 4)

by Baoshu

On clear nights, he could even see her spaceship orbiting this planet slowly.

Taking a deep breath, he finally revealed to her the secret he had always kept from everyone. “Don’t you understand, AA? The only reason that I could win the trust of the Trisolarans and ‘infiltrate’ their society was because I surrendered. The droplet attack that ended the Deterrence Era was, in large measure, my work.”

He was a traitor ?

To hold on to one’s independent will, to refuse to submit to enslavement, to despise enticements as well as threats—such was the dignity and pride of each individual human being.

You live at one end of the Yangtze, and I the other. I think of you each day, beloved, though we cannot meet. We drink from the same river …

There were many ways to lull humans into thinking that the Trisolarans had been defanged, but the most effective was to build trust and goodwill. In order for humans to trust aliens, the humans had to be made to feel a sense of empathy with the aliens, to think “we are all the same.”

Ok. So that is deceit, therefore they had learned to lie.

It won Best Picture at the Oscars, and Sophon, dressed in an elegant kimono, accepted the award on behalf of Trisolaris.

Wtf

“A man once said, ‘Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.’”

After a while, they said, “If every species in the cosmos believed this, perhaps there would be no dark forest.”

He would endure hatred and contempt all his days, assuming he wasn’t killed soon by an angry mob. He would never see the universe outside the region dominated by the war between Earth and Trisolaris. What was the point of thinking about anything else?

Good point. Thats what one really hope to do

Tianming was as frightened as Zeus was before Athena burst forth from his head. He held his head in pain, moaning uncontrollably.

Again, his mind was slammed by a tsunami of nearly paradoxical ideas: an arid ocean, the end of the Earth, a war between dragons and giants, the treasure of the gods, songs hidden in stones

Even if they left their troubled home world and found a more hospitable environment, they would continue to be merely social insects, albeit insects with civilization and technology.

“Who destroyed that perfect world?” Tianming asked. The Lurker. “The Lurker?” Severe pain seized Tianming’s head again. He understood that he was approaching the limits of understanding, but he refused to give up. “Why did it destroy Eden?” I don’t know. Only the Lurker knows.

Melkor, The devil, always someone hating whats good.

At first, in the perfect world, there was no dark forest as you understand it. But rebellious intelligences brought forth the dark forest … The perfect world collapsed, but the traitors escaped. They are concealed in this universe.

Although she didn’t know what Guan Yifan had told Cheng Xin on the spaceship, she did remember the words of the Ring:

The fish responsible for drying the sea are not here.

She recalled the words of the Ring: When the sea is drying, the fish have to gather into a puddle. The puddle is also drying, and all the fish are going to disappear.

“Human scientists had already discovered that fundamental particles have ten dimensions, though only three dimensions are fully extended, with the rest curled up within the quantum realm. Scientists had proposed many theories explaining this fact, but they never guessed that this was the result of intelligent life waging destructive warfare, which led to the collapse of the fundamental structure of the universe.”

We are moved most not by the grand mysteries of the universe, but by the emotional personal truths that define our individual pasts.

And so, two hundred years later, I carried on the dream of my previous incarnation—” “Why do you keep on using that term?” Tianming asked. “It’s just a habit for us clones. If our donors were still alive at the time of our birth, we’d call them parents; but if our donors were dead, we’d call them previous incarnations.

“There is a cause for every effect, AA, but not all causes are responsible for all effects. To trace all causes and all effects is to end up in a twisted web with no end.

With each lost dimension, time stretched out tens of thousands of times. The Lurker wasn’t crazy, and it wasn’t even evil. It simply wants one thing: time.