May you be happy and prosperous

December 2014, 12, USA, Washington, D.C., 31:9PM.

deep winter.

Less than a week has passed since Christmas, and people seem to be immersed in the relaxation and festiveness of the festival. The more and more crowded vehicles and people on the streets, and the sound of horns one after another seem to declare the fast pace of the city—in this From the perspective of people at that time, night came after day, and they always waited until dawn came after the long night, which seemed to be an eternal truth.

However, in the middle of the night with only two hours and thirty minutes left before the arrival of the new year, the duty room of NASA Space Information Monitoring Center received an external signal with unusual content...

The huge amount of money spent on searching for extraterrestrial intelligent organisms for many years is enough to make everyone who has spent even a second in this office pay great attention to it. When this frequency and channel combination can be described as quite weird signal access , Mike, the attendant on duty, was shocked and overturned the instant black coffee he had just brewed.

One minute later, Mike hurriedly reported the sudden situation layer by layer through the phone in the duty room.

Three hours later, the world's best codebreaker finally woke up from the "standby state" that had stagnated exploration for hundreds of years. There was no distinction of race or nationality. 52 scientific researchers immediately Gathered in the next top-secret conference room of the NASA organization.

After that, there were three consecutive months of sleeplessness and forgetting to eat and sleep.

For the vast majority of researchers involved in this project, this is probably the craziest 92 days in human history.

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公元2015年3月4月1日，美国，华盛顿哥伦比亚特区，4：30AM。

With the last punctuation mark on the translation paper, the three-month silent battle finally came to an end.

The complex and discontinuous unconventional signals were finally organized and planned into three simple and complete English sentences and presented in front of the 52 scientific researchers present-on this day, human beings finally heard the first cordial greeting from the vast universe: [Hello, Earthlings. 】

[Here is the most sincere greeting from the fifth galaxy of the Milky Way, Vatlun Planet. 】【May the friendship with human beings last forever. 】

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