Thank you for accepting this gift from a distant and unknown little world. Recorded within it are our languages, images, music, thoughts, and feelings. We are striving to live through our age so that we may enter yours.
This was the final greeting humanity had sent out on the Golden Record back then. Now, those words, along with the Golden Record itself and the multilingual greetings recorded inside it, lay quietly gathering dust in a corner of the history museum of that Unknown Civilization, silently awaiting the great moment when it would be activated again.
And now, the owners of the Golden Record, the Human Civilization called String Pluckers by other civilizations, were working together with Silver Heart, Daya, and the Awakener Civilization to interpret a "Golden Record" from a certain civilization in the two-dimensional world.
In truth, with the technological strength the various civilizations currently possessed, all they had to do was carry out a detailed search near the location where this metal sheet had appeared, and they would most likely discover the civilization in that two-dimensional world. After all, that two-dimensional probe was not particularly fast, and the civilization that launched it was probably somewhere nearby.
But out of curiosity, the civilizations still intended to decipher it.
What was miraculous was that this civilization's line of thought was indeed very similar to humanity's back then. The instructions they had written for this metal sheet also used parameters related to the Hydrogen Atom's spin. Of course, it was not a Hydrogen Atom from the three-dimensional world, but a Hydrogen Atom from the two-dimensional world.
As the instructions were read correctly, the contents of the metal sheet were also read by the civilizations.
The first thing that entered the eyes of the people of the various civilizations was a line