From the Translator
I know you may think this is a book full of pornographic contents; reader discretion is advised. You can also view this book as a sci-fi somniloquy after sessions of hypnosis for healing mental trauma, as the author lived a bad life for many years being considered a psychopath. But if you really have an open mind, you're in for some food for thought. This book is the experience of a Chinese farmer abducted by a technologically advanced extraterrestrial race. From his memory, Zhang Xiangqian (Qian) described a civilization capable of combining the advantages of aquatic and terrestrial lifeforms to turn their own body into actinian-like humanoids with their consciousness uploaded to the Cloud in order to achieve immortality thanks to their artificial field technology and excessive IT infrastructure. However, the Guoker race appears to be spending no effort exploring the spiritual world, so the life experience is prioritized over all other factors, and they fully embrace their inner dark side without any restrictions we humans need to comply with every day for our lifetime. Zhang was experimented on and tortured but also freed himself from indulging in the obscene Guoker lifestyle during his visit. You may have the feeling that Guoker is a race far from benevolent, but I suggest the point that this book allows us to view a possible future of our human race - how our society, especially the economy, power structure, and lifestyle of everybody, would look like or evolve should we manage to have the technological capability of science fiction. Whenever we choose a set of technologies, our culture, society, lifestyle, and even the meaning of existence for our very civilization, may be completely restructured and become solely dependent on it. My dear readers, what's your choice for the future?
Zhang Xiangqian is not an easy person to talk with. I do not know Zhang personally and I was quite disregarded by him as we talked a few times on WeChat. If you are interested in contacting Zhang personally, please be tolerant. Zhang only knows how to point out your mistakes and never tells you if he agrees with you. Don't get frustrated if he says you're wrong.
About the translation, the truly weird part is that his writing style is quite a middle-school standard, and he often makes spelling mistakes unintentionally whereas his scientific and logical wordings are mostly very accurate. (I mean using the wrong Chinese characters, which is interestingly common among Chinese UFO contactees. I don't think it's because of his dialect despite his Mandarin sounds quite bad to me.) You'll see that in the translation as I almost didn't elaborate or turn his words to be more understandable, which sometimes you may feel awkward about the way he expresses his ideas. It's quite hard to understand why and how he thinks that way, being stubborn and arrogant sometimes, and somehow mind-twisted against others.
YANG Yang
02/2024