Liu Cixin: 6

"Red Shore?"

Hearing Xu Yun speak,

Yang Zhenning unconsciously repeated the name under his breath, then asked Xu Yun with some puzzlement:

"Little Xu, the name you chose. Does it have some special meaning?"

"Meaning?"

Xu Yun's mind immediately conjured up the Big Face of Ci Xin Liu from the future. He curled his lips with a hint of mischief.

"Red Shore—just as the words suggest, it's short for 'red other shore.'"

"Our earthly civilization is like a great ship adrift, sailing cautiously through the dark, with the captain, first mate, and chief engineer all at odds with one another."

"But no matter how long the voyage, the day will eventually come when we reach shore—that is, when we unite. At the very least, we'll have someone to lead us."

"What Red Shore means is that when we finally set foot on that other shore, I hope we'll find nothing but red flags waving in the wind."

Yang Zhenning gave a slight nod, his expression solemn with respect.

"I see."

He pondered for a moment, then decided to return to the original topic and continued:

"Little Xu, according to what you said earlier, detecting pulsars is only one part of the Red Shore Base, right?"

"And the main purpose of this base is to explore the universe. In other words, its other projects must also be related to the stars. But..."

"Are there really so many projects in the universe that can—and need to—be studied at such great expense?"

The universe.

Since ancient times, it had been a mysterious place that human civilization explored tirelessly.

For example, Huaxia had long had legends of constellations and the Heavenly Dog devouring the sun. Egyptian civilization had discovered Algol very early on and used that star system to measure time.

Later, Galileo invented