Ye Wenjie, watch my moves closely.

Chapter 13 Disheartened

"Extraterrestrial civilization?"

Seeing Lei Zhicheng's expression, Cheng Lihua thought there was some big news. Hearing a cadre in his forties spouting nonsensical words, Cheng Lihua almost laughed in anger.

She was aware of the special mission of the Red Coast Base.

Back then, there were inside sources claiming that NATO and Warsaw Pact countries were actively searching for extraterrestrial civilizations in order to achieve a technological breakthrough for their own nations.

However, this is a contest between two super alliances, or rather, between the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.

Everyone knows that searching for extraterrestrial civilizations is a highly improbable and virtually impossible endeavor.

The Red Coast Base was merely a casual move made by that person after considering the international situation back then.

In more down-to-earth terms, that's called dabbling!

What era are we living in? Soviet satellites are flying around in the sky, and the Americans have even stepped on the gas and landed on the moon, bringing back alien soil.

Humans haven't even discovered aliens, yet your base, built over a decade ago, with just a few broken antennas, supposedly discovered extraterrestrial civilizations?

"well,"

Cheng Lihua nodded, suppressing her temper, and said, "Come, let me see what this alien looks like, where it lives, what it eats, and what it drinks."

Lei Zhicheng took out an even thicker stack of materials, which contained the coordinates of the giant radar at the Red Coast Base on the day Ye Wenjie received the message from the Trisolarans, the power of the electromagnetic wave transmission, the original waveform of the Trisolarans' message, and the content translated by the Red Coast Decoding System.

"Three suns...unstable climate...dehydration, immersion...interstellar migration..."

Cheng Lihua became increasingly speechless as she looked at it.

The entire piece reads like someone's ramblings, filled with baseless imagination.

Looking at the actual date the radio waves were received, it was just over twenty days ago.

Lei Zhicheng has been here for eleven days.

Does this mean that the Red Coast Base translated content from another civilization in less than a few days?

If radio waves from an alien civilization can be translated so easily, then why did it take months to translate intercepted intelligence from the US and the Soviet Union?

She felt that this was a last resort for Lei Zhicheng to save the Red Coast Base.

After all, searching for extraterrestrial civilizations is the special mission of the Red Coast Base. Once it is reported, he will have the opportunity to bypass me and promote the so-called radio telescope array project.

"How did you find out?"

Cheng Lihua asked.

"It was discovered by the duty officer monitoring the universe."

Cheng Lihua flipped through the pages but didn't see the duty officer's signature. She became suspicious and thought, "Comrade Xiao Lei, such a big matter, why didn't the duty officer sign it? This is a matter that will go down in history!"

Lei Zhi deliberately omitted the duty officer's signature in order to hide Ye Wenjie, but he didn't expect to be seen through at a glance. He could only say, "We are all part of the country, there's nothing to sign. If needed, I can make it up when I get back."

"Um,"

Cheng Lihua nodded, feigning casualness, and asked, "Who at the Red Coast Base has such sharp intuition? Is it Xiao Ye, Ye Wenjie?"

Lei Zhicheng reacted quickly, "No, no, Ye Wenjie only did some peripheral work at the base, she wasn't in charge of these things."

Weird.

Today, Cheng Lihua seemed indifferent to everything, only mentioning Ye Wenjie repeatedly.

More than ten years have passed since the bombing incident. Do you really want Ye Wenjie to recant her testimony?

Unbeknownst to him, after Ye Wenjie sent her letter, Cheng Lihua had already reviewed the Red Coast Base data left behind by her predecessor.

It clearly records the meeting where Ye Wenjie was investigated by the organization and transferred to the monitoring department a year after joining Red Coast.

Thinking of her, Cheng Lihua's perception of the material's credibility dropped another notch.

No one understood the hatred in that little bitch's eyes better than she did.

The story about the Trisolaran civilization was very likely fabricated by Ye Wenjie herself.

She wanted to use this incident to get out of the Red Coast Base.

"Xiao Lei, I have a question."

Cheng Lihua pointed to the materials and said, "Look, it doesn't say where these aliens live at all. How are we supposed to contact them?"

Lei Zhicheng was taken aback.

He understood, but Cheng Lihua didn't believe him.

He immediately became anxious.

This is no joke!

"Director Cheng, for some reason, the aliens haven't revealed their star map coordinates, but this is true. Please be sure to report this to your superiors; we can't let the United States and the Soviet Union get there first and cause a technological explosion!"

"Hey!"

Cheng Lihua shrugged, a knowing look on her face. "Xiao Lei, think about it. If you send a registered letter to someone without an address, do you think it will even get through? My superiors will ask me the same question. What do you think?"

Cheng Lihua sighed, "You want me to give a report? How am I supposed to give a report? It doesn't make any sense at all."

Cheng Lihua's repeated questioning made Lei Zhicheng sweat with anxiety. He grabbed Cheng Lihua's hand and said, "Director Cheng, this is absolutely true!! You can go to the Red Coast Base and check the procedures of the monitoring department; you'll see it can't be faked!"

Check the program?

What good would that do?

What she wants to see is something tangible, not a bunch of incomprehensible signals and noise!

Actually, she had seen what Lei Zhicheng was doing years ago.

In her view, the material Lei Zhicheng provided was exactly the same as the situation of launching satellites back then.

Times have changed.

If she submits this irrelevant material, she will undoubtedly become a laughing stock.

She would only report if Lei Zhicheng provided concrete evidence, such as alien spaceships or weapons.

Looking at the time, it's already quite late.

Cheng Lihua had to attend another meeting, so she covered the document with the radio telescope array document and said perfunctorily, "Comrade Xiao Lei, the matter of extraterrestrial civilizations is a big deal, and I need to hold another meeting to study it further."

Lei Zhicheng originally wanted to stay and wait for the results, so he could report any details he needed in person.

Cheng Lihua didn't give him a chance. "Go back first. I'll let you know if there's any news."

Having said that, without giving him a chance to continue, he opened the office door and called his secretary in.

"Xiao Zhang, please see Political Commissar Lei off for me."

After ten long days of waiting, I stayed up all night writing version after version of the materials, pouring countless hours of effort into them.

He cannot say he had no selfish motives.

But he hopes the country can become stronger.

As a result, neither of the two matters was implemented.

Lei Zhicheng didn't know how he left Cheng Lihua's office. When he came to his senses, he was already standing at the gate of his superior unit, watching the bustling main road with the sentry.

During his more than ten years at the Red Coast Base, he was always the first to volunteer for any job, no matter how hard or dirty it was.

I often work through the night, then wash my face and go back to the office to continue the next day.

He never felt tired.

However, what he saw and heard in the city for more than half a month left him extremely exhausted.

He shivered.

Looking up, he noticed that the sun in the city was much weaker than in the mountains, making him feel cold all over.