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What is the name of this game?

Three-Body.

Yeah.

The answer is in the name.

We've been distracted by complicated semblances before,

and have neglected the most important information.

The name?

How can we get the answer from the name?

In the world of Three-Body, there are three suns.

A sun is a flying star.

When it's close enough to us, it looks like the sun.

When it's far enough from us, it looks like a flying star.

The sun that we see at different times may not be the same.

It's only one of the three suns.

Shameless!

Wretch!

He dared to claim that he invented calculus!

Isaac Newton.

From planetary motion to cell division, everything follows the three great laws.

Now, with calculus, the powerful mathematical tool,

it will only be a matter of time before we master the pattern

of the motion of the three suns.

It's not that simple.

Have you considered the amount of calculation?

saw the differential equations you listed,

and I don't think an analytical solution is possible, only a numerical one.

Von Neumann.

Your Majesty, please give me three soldiers.

will demonstrate.

Three?

The two of you will be responsible for signal input.

I'll call you "Input 1" and "Input 2"

You'll be responsible for signal output, and you're "Output".

Like this.

Form a triangle.

Stand in the Wedge Attack Formation.

You should command soldiers with professional orders.

Your Majesty, you're wise.

Here.

Red represents 0; white represents 1

Good. Now, listen to me.

Output, you turn around and look at Input 1 and Input 2.

they both raise white lanterns, you raise the white lantern as well.

It's very simple.

Any common soldier can master the skills after training.

Don't they need to learn more?

No.

The soldiers form AND gates, NOT gates, NAND gates, NOR gates, XOR gates,

XNOR gates, tristate gates and ten million of these gates,

then put the components together into a system.

This system will then be able to carry the calculations we need

and work out those differential equations for predicting the suns' movements.

We could call the system...

Um...

What?

A computer, Your Majesty.

Good.

Computer, that's a great name.

Your Majesty, we have named this computer Qin I.

Look, there in the center is the CPU, the core computing component,

formed from your five best divisions.

The part that's closest to us is the display.

It will show us the main parameters of the computation.

Self-test complete!

Begin boot sequence!

Load operating system!

You also used my cavalry?

Yes.

They're responsible for transmitting information in the whole system.

The passage of the whole formation they will run through

is the bus.

The last part, look further still, you might have to use the telescope.

There's the external storage.

It's formed by three million people with more education than most.

Education?

Are they..

Exactly.

The ones you saved when you buried all those scholars alive.

What can they do?

Each of them holds a notepad and a a pen to record the calculations

and store intermediate calculation results.

Malfunction reason determined.

There was an error with the operation

one of the gates in the CPU status register.

Your Majesty, in order to improve system stability,

you should take certain maintenance measures

with respect to faulty components.

Replace the malfunctioning component.

Yes.

All the soldiers who made up that gate, behead!

Any malfunctions will be dealt with the same way.

Run solar orbit computation software "Three Body 1.0"!

Start the master computing module!

Load the differential calculus module!

Load the spectral method module!

Enter initial condition parameters

and begin calculation!

Europeans criticize me for my tyrannical rule,

claiming that I suppress creativity.

But a large number of men yoked by severe discipline

can also produce great wisdom when bound together as one.

We'll soon welcome the first sunrise of a long Stable Era.

You mean the sun is about to rise?

Yes.

And this Era will last over a year.

Judging by the orbital parameters, the climate will be mild and comfortable.

Please let your empire be rehydrated!

Rehydrate.

just five seconds, Your Majesty, prepare to receive your glory!

Your Majesty, I'm afraid the calculations were in error.

Disaster is about to befall us!

What are you babbling about?

You, a mere astrologer, are questioning His Majesty's grand computer?

Don't you see that the sun is rising at the exact moment

predicted by our precise calculations?

But how many suns do you see?

How many?

Need you ask?

Astrologer, you must at least know how to count.

Of course, there's only one sun.

And the temperature is perfect.

No, Your Majesty.

There are three.

The other two are behind that one!

My greatest, most honorable Emperor, this is the most propitious sign!

Now that the three suns are orbiting around our planet,

your empire becomes the center of the universe.

This is God's reward for our efforts.

Let me double-check the calculations.

I'II... I'll prove this!

Von Neumann, what do you think about this phenomenon?

Your Majesty, it wasn't included in any of the previous calculations.

I'll try to...

Report!

What now?

Sir Newton stole a horse and left.

We lost track of him.

What?

That rat!

How dare he flee!

He's a good-for-nothing!

A coward, a chicken!

Your Majesty, please unsheathe your sword.

What for?

Please try to swing it.

Why is it so light?

The game's V-suit can't simulate the feeling of diminished gravity.

Otherwise, we'd feel that we're much lighter as well.

Look! Down there!

Your Majesty, the three suns are over our planet

in a straight line,

their gravitational forces are added together...

Are the mountains transparent?

They aren't mountains.

They were formed from the ocean attracted into space.

I figured it out! Electronic elements!

Use them to make gate circuits and combine them into computers!

Such computers will be much faster!

(Tri-solar Syzygy.)

(Civilization No. 184 was destroyed by the stacked gravitational attractions)

(of a Tri-solar Syzygy.)

(This civilization had advanced to the Scientific Revolution)

(and the Industrial Revolution.)

(In this civilization, Newton established nonrelativistic classical mechanics.)

(At the same time,)

(due to the invention of calculus and the Von Neumann)

(architecture computer, the foundation was set for the quantitative mathematical analysis)

(of the motion of three bodies.)

(After a long time, life and civilization will begin again,)

(and progress once more through the unpredictable world of Three-Body.)

(We invite you to log on again.)

Yes?

Hello.

First, thanks for giving us your real number.

I'm a system administrator for the Three-Body game.

Please tell me your name, education, occupation, and position.

You left them blank during registration.

What do they have to do with the game?

Now that you've reached this level, we need such information from you.

If you refuse, Three-Body will shut you out permanently.

Name: Wang Miao.

Education: Doctorate.

Occupation: Chief Engineer of the National Nanomaterial Center.

Thank you, Dr. Wang.

You're qualified for continuing in Three-Body.

May I ask you a question?

Sorry, sir.

As a system administrator, I'm unauthorized to answer any questions.

There will be a meet-up for the players soon.

You're welcome to attend if you're gonna continue playing.

We'll send you the information by email once your identity checks out.

The Three-Body Problem is about physics,

but maybe it can be solved by calculation.

So math?

Yes.

A mathematical model.

We're gonna need a complex one.

Someone thought so, too, but beat you to it by a few months.

You know who it was?

Who?

Shen Yufei.

Guess she's been working on a solution

to the Three-Body Problem in the game.

To think that she let you In, half-knowing.

Listen, she's hired over 100 experts, including her husband, Wei Cheng,

(Wei Cheng) to calculate day and night.

I didn't know what they were working on,

but given what you said, it must be the Three-Body Problem.

How did you get in?

Wasn't the door closed?

Terminate your calculation.

Not now.

I've just found my way.

There are many more steps to take.

- said stop it.

It's meaningless.

I don't care.

This is my passion.

Wait outside for Shen Yufei.

Your toy gun looks so real.

Stop it. It's boring.

No, it's not saved!

It's gone!

said

stop it right now.

So, uh, it's not a toy, is it?

It's... it's the real deal.

You know what? You're right.

My... my calculation is meaningless.

Are you gonna kill him in my face?

Although we do things differently, you should know I'll shoot if have to.

Call the cops.

Cops?

Even God can't save you.

Commander was blind to allow devils like you

to join the organization.

Can you tell which side

Commander is on?

Wei Cheng, go back to your room.

OK.

But... but this is... this is my room.

Once the Three-Body Problem is solved, we'll all be saved.

You naive Redemptionists!

"Human society can no longer

rely on its own power to solve its problems."

That's what Commander said.

"Human society can no longer rely on its own power

to restrain its madness.

Therefore, we ask Lord to come to this world,

and with its power, forcefully watch over us and transform us

so as to create a brand-new, perfect human civilization."

That's Commander's original words and our plan, too.

(Yunhe Theater)

Have you attended to a meet-up like this before?

My first time.

I'm a reporter.

Is the old man holding a pipe Mr. Bai, the famous scholar?

Yeah.

That woman is a famous writer who just won the Puli Prize.

I've read her book.

That's a vice president at China's largest software company.

The one next to him is a high-level executive at the State Power Corporation.

None of those players who have reached this level is an average person.

Would you mind telling me

your working field?

I research nanomaterials. I'm Wang Miao.

I'm a student,

studying for a Ph.D. in earth management sci-tech.

As expected,

the people here are all high-level intellectuals.

We're connected by the game.

Everyone got here early.

You're just like I imagined, all social elites.

Three-Body is intended for people in your class

because the common crowd cannot appreciate its meaning and mood.

(The organizer is Pan Han.) To play it well requires

knowledge and understanding

that ordinary people do not possess.

You have the best scores.

I believe that Three-Body has already become an important part of your lives.

No.

It's part of what keeps me alive.

I saw it by accident on my grandson's computer.

He abandoned it after a few tries,

saying it was too abstruse.

But that was what attracted me.

Three-Body has very profound mysteries.

(One new message from Shi Qiang) find it

(We also see him. No worries. Carry on.) strange, terrible,

(Play the fanatic in front of them,)

(but not so much that you can't pull it off.) but also beautiful. It's very logical.

Under the seemingly absurd representation

is hidden much information and amazing data.

That's what makes it spectacular

and fascinating.

Exactly.

like the literary elements of Three-Body.

The rises and falls of Three-Body civilizations

are like magnificent epics.

I'm a bit sick of the real world.

Three-Body is already my second reality.

Compared to vulgar reality,

Three-Body is really more fascinating.

It's too bad that it's only a game.

Very good.

I'm glad you have such a consensus.

have a question that

think everyone wants to know the answer to.

Is Three-Body only a game?

What if the world of Three-Body, or Trisolaris, really exists?

Then where is it?

Some questions I can answer.

Others I cannot.

But if you are meant to be with Trisolaris,

believe all your questions will be answered someday.

If Trisolaris does exist, what do Trisolarans look like?

In every cycle of civilization, the appearance of Trisolarans is different.

Does the game really portray Trisolaris accurately?

The ability of Trisolarans to dehydrate through its many cycles of civilization is real.

In order to adapt to the unpredictable natural environment,

they can completely expel the water in their bodies

and turn into dry, fibrous objects.

That's how they avoid extreme environmental conditions unsuitable for life.

Then, did the Trisolaran-formation computer also exist on Trisolaris?

Yes.

I thought that was the most unrealistic.

conducted a test with more than 100 employees at my company.

Even if the idea worked,

a computer made of people

would probably operate at a speed slower than manual computation.

You're right.

But if of the 30 million soldiers forming the computer,

each is capable of raising and lowering the lamps 100,000 times per second,

and if the cavalry on the main bus can run at several times the speed of sound,

or even faster, the result would be very different.

You asked about the appearance of the Trisolarans.

According to some signs,

the bodies of the Trisolarans who formed the computer

were covered by a purely reflective surface,

which probably evolved as a response to survival under extreme

conditions of sunlight.

The mirror-like surface could be deformed into any shape.

Then, what's the use of deformation?

They could communicate with each other by focusing light with their bodies.

This kind of light-speech could transmit information rapidly

and was the foundation of the Trisolaran-formation computer.

Though it was still a very inefficient machine,

it could complete calculations that couldn't be performed manually.

Think about it.

If the computer first appears as formations of people,

before becoming mechanical and then electronic, isn't it a great idea?

Do the three suns really exist?

Yes, they do.

They're the foundation of the Trisolaran environment.

The game isn't profitable.

What's the goal of it?

The goal is simple and pure,

to gather those of us who have common ideals.

What ideals do we have in common?

If Trisolaran civilization does exist, and they are looking for a new home,

I need to know how you would feel.

Since everyone is

thinking about this question,

think we need to discuss it with a bit more depth.

want to know your impression of the Aztecs.

Dark and bloody.

Blood-drenched pyramids

lit by insidious fires seen through dark forests.

Those are my impressions.

Very good.

Imagine, if the conquistadors didn't intervene,

what would happen to this civilization?

You're calling black white.

The conquistadors who invaded the Americas

were nothing more than murderers and robbers.

Even so,

least they prevented the Aztecs from developing without bound,

turning the Americas into bloody, dark great empire.

Then civilization and democracy in the Americas and the world

wouldn't appear until much later.

Maybe they wouldn't have appeared at all.

This is the key to the question.

No matter what the Trisolaris is like,

its appearance will be good news for human race.

But have you thought that the Aztecs were destroyed

by the so-called

advanced Western civilization?

I think the thoughts we're discussing today are very dangerous.

No.

They're profound!

had the same thought, but I didn't know how to express it.

You said it so well!

Thanks.

If Trisolaran civilization does exist,

and it needs to find a new home, I'll be happy.

I hope that it'll come to the earth.

See for yourself.

See what happened over the years.

I'm completely disappointed with human race.

Human society has come to a hopeless situation.

We cannot achieve improvement or evolution by ourselves.

At this time, we need external forces to reform us.

agree.

What's human race?

What an ugly thing it is!

In the first half of my life, I've been using literature as a scalpel

to expose such ugliness.

Unfortunately,

I'm now tired of exposing it.

I'm yearning for...

I'm yearning for Trisolaran civilization to bring true beauty to this world.

The other six have all given their views.

What about you?

stand with them.

Very good.

The two of you are no longer welcome at this meet-up,

and you are no longer appropriate players for Three-Body.

Your IDs will be deleted.

Please leave now.

Thank you for coming.

Please.

Welcome joining the Earth-Trisolaris Organization.

We are comrades now.

The theme was that advanced civilization

would eventually replace backward civilization.

Where is the advanced civilization?

Trisolaran.

If the game continues and advances to Civilization No. 1,920,

can you imagine what they will evolve into?

Have you been brainwashed?

Are there really Trisolarans?

Aliens?

Before these things happened, if you had asked me whether there were aliens,

as a scientist, I would have told you it was possible, but | wasn't sure.

The most precise and accurate collider on the earth was out of order.

The Battle Command Center,

with the most cutting-edge forces in the world,

couldn't find out who developed the game.

This game, which couldn't be developed by turkeys,

showed us the world of the farmer.

Although the game is fictional, it shows the reason for its existence.

In the game, I witnessed again and again

how civilizations were reborn from destruction.

It was a miracle to us. Every reconstruction was a miracle.

But they turned the miracle into necessity.

Gradually, I began to believe

there was really such a planet in the universe.

And now, I'm sure it exists.

Now, if you ask me whether there are aliens,

I'll say yes with certainty.

They are on a planet surrounded by three suns.

They have great civilizations that don't die out.

You were not brainwashed.

Now I can puzzle out many problems

that I didn't understand before.

Guessing from this perspective,

They just want to make you and the other elites become

Trisolarans through the Frontiers of Science

and the game of Three-Body.

You mean the people of the ETO, Earth-Trisolaris Organization?

You call each other comrade?

Common ideals make the same minds.

The same minds make comrades.

You must be Einstein.

No, you're mistaken.

I'm not him.

I'm a lost soul abandoned by God.

Who are you?

I'm Copernicus.

Distinguished Copernicus, I'd appreciate it if you could stop

for some Mozart.

Then I'll be able to afford lunch.

The Tri-Solar Syzygy destroyed everything,

including the great pyramid over there.

The United Nations Headquarters is there now.

As the sun rises, no more Mozart for me,

but this time, got lucky, you know?

No need to say goodbye to music early.

A giant sun?

Is another destruction coming?

Silvery shine.

Almost no heat.

What is that?

Is it the moon?

A giant moon?

How come I've never seen it before in the game?

Are you aware of the Great Rip?

The Great Rip?

What is that?

The old me, the old civilization, the old universe, all is too painful to recall!

What changed you?

The Great Rip?

Of course not!

No one could see it alive.

It was all too overwhelming!

All our efforts were squashed.

God has given up on us!

Let's hope he won't do the same to you,

though I don't have much faith in that.

The model you, Newton, and the others created in the East

with the help of the human-formation computer

was quite close to being correct.

But that tiny little gap was insurmountable

for Newton and the others.

And your relativity fits right into it.

No. I've always believed that without me,

others would've discovered special relativity eventually,

but general relativity is different.

To be specific, the bit that Newton lacked

was the effect on planetary orbit

from the gravitational perturbation described by general relativity.

The error caused by it was small,

but its impact on the results of the computation was fatal.

True. Adding the correction factor for the perturbation

to the classical equations would get the right mathematical model.

The amount computing power required far exceeds what you accomplished in the East,

but it's easily provided by modern computers.

Have the results of observation been confirmed by astronomy?

If so, do you think I'd be here?

Although aesthetically speaking,

I'm right and the universe is wrong.

God left me and then others followed suit.

Professor Wang.

Dr. Shen.

The Pendulum Initiation Ceremony is about to begin.

Let's go.

saw the pendulums of the Warring States Period.

They were to hypnotize the Sun God.

(The Pendulum Initiation Ceremony is about to begin.)

(Please attend on time.)

Copernicus, I remember you who've gone through five eras!

Please meet the Secretary General of the UN.

Greetings.

Did you see such things back in the Warring States Period?

did.

But why are we building another one now?

It's a monument for Trisolaris, as well as a tombstone.

A tombstone? For whom?

For an aspiration, a striving that lasted through almost 200 civilizations:

the effort to solve the Three-Body Problem,

to find the pattern in the movements of the suns.

As of now, it's completely over.

We're here to help.

I brought a mathematical model that can solve the Three-Body Problem.

Maybe it'll work.

Out of respect for your reputation,

I'll have my science advisor take a look.

An evolutionary algorithm?

Whoever created that is a genius.

It requires superior math skills and incredible imagination.

Has someone already put together such a model?

Yes. There are dozens.

Over half of them are better than yours.

Did they work?

We've got conclusive proof that the Three-Body Problem

is unsolvable.

It's just like we guessed long ago that the Three-Body System is chaotic.

Tiny perturbations can be endlessly amplified.

Its patterns of movement essentially can't be mathematically predicted.

If even a simple arrangement like the Three-Body System

is unpredictable chaos,

how can we have any faith in discovering the laws of the complicated universe?

God has turned his back on Trisolaris.

This civilization seems to be quite advanced.

Yes. We've mastered nuclear power and reached the Information Age.

Then there's still hope.

When civilization reaches new high, even if it's impossible to know

the pattern of the suns' movements, we can survive the Chaotic Eras

by protecting ourselves against the devastating catastrophes.

Those before you thought so, too.

That was one of the motivating forces pushing Trisolaran Civilization

to bounce back over and over.

But the moon made us realize how naive that idea was.

This is probably the first time you've seen this moon.

Actually, it's about a quarter of the size of our planet.

It's no longer a moon,

but a companion to our world resulting from the Great Rip.

The Great Rip?

What exactly is that?

The disaster that killed the last civilization.

Compared with previous civilizations, it had ample warning of the disaster.

Based on surviving records, the astronomers of Civilization No. 191

detected early on a frozen flying star.

Meaning it stopped it moving?

Yes.

frozen flying star boded for several Trisolaran Civilizations.

When a flying star or a distant sun

seems to come to a complete stop against the background starfield…

It'll lead to three possibilities.

First, the suns and the planet are moving at the same speed in the same direction.

Second, they're moving apart from each other.

The last and the worst one is...

The suns are moving toward the planet!

Is that what you call the Great Rip?

Yes.

The people of Civilization No. 191 stood on the ground,

gazing up helplessly at the three frozen flying stars

and the three suns swooping down on their world.

Follow me.

Here it is.

This corridor was built to honor those unforgettable memories.

As one of the suns was moving, its outer gaseous layer became visible.

In the middle of a tranquil night,

the flying star suddenly turned into a blazing sun.

After 30 hours or so, the other two suns also appeared successively.

By the time the last flying star turned into a sun,

the first sun had already swept past the planet at extremely close range.

Right after that, the other two suns

swept past Trisolaris at even closer ranges.

The tidal forces imposed on the planet by the three suns

all exceeded the Roche limit.

In that case, the planet would be torn to pieces.

That's the smaller piece.

With ruins from Civilization No. 191 on it, it is, however,

a lifeless world.

After the planet was torn apart, the two irregularly shaped pieces

returned to spherical form under self-gravitation.

The dense, searing planetary core material gushed to the surface.

When that happened, the oceans would boil over the lava.

The continents would melt.

As they collided, the ground would become as soft as the ocean.

You're right.

Massive mountains of tens of thousands of meters could rise in an hour

and disappear just as quickly.

The two pieces were still connected by streams of molten lava

that coalesced into a space-spanning river.

Then the lava cooled, turning into rings around the planets.

Due to perturbations from the planets, the rings were unstable.

The rocks that formed them fell back

to the surface in a rain of giant stones for centuries.

That was hellish.

The ecological destruction caused by this catastrophe

was the severest in all of history.

All life on the companion planet went extinct,

and the mother planet almost became a lifeless waste as well.

Unexpectedly, the seeds of life sprouted again.

As the geology of the mother planet settled down,

civilization reappeared for the 192nd time.

This process took 90 million years.

Trisolaris's place in the universe is even grimmer than we had imagined.

A recent astronomical discovery

has made us lose all hope for the fate of Trisolaris.

Eventually, our planet will plunge into

the fiery sea of the sun.

Based on the remaining signs in this stellar system,

we learned how the stars and the planets were formed

and discovered that in the distant past,

the Trisolaran Stellar System once had 12 planets.

Yet, only this one remains.

All 11 of them have been destroyed?

Afraid so.

There's only one explanation.

The other 11 planets have all been consumed

by the three suns with time.

Our world is but the sole survivor of a Great Hunt.

Trisolaran Civilization couldn't have been reborn 192 times

solely because of luck, right?

For all we know, that streak has ended.

Also, further study shows that the three stars are breathing.

They're breathing?

The gaseous outer layer of the suns expands and contracts

over cycles lasting eons like breathing.

When the gaseous layer expands, it can grow a dozen times thicker,

greatly increasing the diameter of the sun.

It's like a giant mitt that can catch planets more easily.

It is proven that in the long history of the Trisolaran Stellar System,

every time the gaseous layers expanded, one or two planets were consumed.

Scholars have predicted that the next expansion will happen in

1.5 to 2 million years.

We believed

all our efforts would be in vain.

God walked out on us.

We're the loneliest kids in the universe.

(The Pendulum Initiation Ceremony is about to begin.)

(Please attend on time.)

They're going to activate the Pendulum.

Please join us to witness this historical moment.

(The Pendulum Initiation Ceremony is about to begin.)

(Please attend on time.)

Thanks to you, I was able to see how tenacious this civilization is.

With all hope gone, tenacity could be a curse.

Somehow, I'm thinking of one person.

Who is it?

Yang Dong.

You get her desperation now?

Do you remember her suicide note?

"Physics has never existed and will never exist."

That conclusion is more terrifying than that of humans' existence.

Professor Wang, you're the chosen one to fulfill your mission.

There's nothing else I can do.

I hope you can make a difference.

Dr. Shen...

We have no choice

but to gamble with the universe.

How?

Leave the Trisolaran Stellar System for the wide-open sea of stars.

We must find in the galaxy a new livable habitat.

(Activating the Pendulum.)

Its period isn't stable, but changing constantly.

When the giant moon on this side of the planet,

its gravity offsets that of the planet, causing the pendulum to lose weight.

When it moves to the other side, the gravity of the two is added

and its weight returns to that before the Great Rip.

Does it say the yearning for order or the surrender to chaos?

That's its battle cry.

Trisolaris's indomitable battle cry!

(451 years later, Civilization No. 192 was destroyed)

(by the fiery flames of twin suns.)

(It had reached the Atomic and the Information Ages.)

(Civilization No. 192 was a milestone in Trisolaris.)

(It finally proved that the Three-Body Problem had no solution.)

(It gave up the useless effort that had lasted through 191 cycles)

(and set the course for future civilizations.)

(Thus, the goal of Three-Body has changed.)

(The new goal is: Head for the stars; find a new home.)

(We invite you to log on again.)

Will tears give you a way out?

You tried to use our math to solve the Three-Body Problem.

Don't you find that juvenile?

There are two planets:

one is checkered and broken;

the other is stable and livable.

Are you going to stay where you are, solving the unsolvable problem,

or find a new home?

We have to make a choice,

and as does Lord?

That game was to help you know

and understand Lord,

It has made its choice, OK?

(5 Missed Calls)

(Shi Calling)

What's up?

Did Wei Cheng's model succeed?

No.

He did it wrong?

His model has successfully proven that there is no solution.

What are you thinking about?

Shen Yufei.

She worked to solve the Three-Body Problem,

but in the end, she realized there was no answer.

She sank into despair.

She was going to renovate the dilapidated house for Trisolarans,

but only to realize after all these years that

they planned to invade her planet.

It seems like Shen Yufei was not bad.

In the Three-Body players' meet-up,

Pan Han was always preaching about the coming of Lord.

He never mentioned how to solve the Three-Body Problem.

So, within the ETO,

they hold different opinions about the Lord.

Yeah.

We should have turned Shen Yufei.

Well, last night,

many ETOs were purged around the world.

Let's go.

Where are you going?

Get back to the game.

After being admitted as their comrade,

I want to see if the game will enter a new process.

That's right. Ask them to open a private server.

According to the decoded files, it's a repair diary

from the Three-Body games from which we managed to trace their source.

Attack it.

Which sect are other servers located in?

According to the position, momentarily Europe.

Momentarily?

The server isn't actually located on earth,

but is orbiting on an artificial satellite

24,000 kilometers in space.

Contact the Space Department now.

Contact NASA now.

(Log on Three-Body game Yes No)

(Game manager interface is opened.)

(Are you sure to close the game?)

(Attention.)

(Server of Three-Body will be closed.)

(Free login for the rest of the time.)

(Three-Body will take you to the last scene.)

Great Copernicus, why have you come so late?

What's going on?

Why is everything gone?

The pyramid is gone.

The United Nations Headquarters is gone. Even the huge Pendulum Monument is gone.

Don't feel so bad.

We will have more buildings.

What's that?

Stone?

That's your delusion.

It's people. Hundreds of millions of people.

Almost everyone in the Three-Body world is here.

What are they doing here?

Waiting for the expedition.

Three cycles of civilizations have passed,

and you've missed many great enterprises.

What are these?

Are they stars?

They are greater than stars.

I have never seen such a formation.

More than 30 stars along each edge of the formation.

A total of more than a thousand stars.

They look less like stars and more like artificial formation.

The Trisolaran Interstellar Fleet.

It's about to begin its expedition.

Trisolaran civilization has already achieved the capacity for interstellar flight?

Yes.

All those magnificent ships can reach one-tenth the speed of light.

One-tenth the speed of light?

That is a great accomplishment, as far as I understand it,

but it still seems too slow for interstellar flight.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.

The key is finding the right destination.

What's the fleet's destination?

A star with planets about four light-years away.

That's the closest star to the Trisolaran system.

Four light-years?

The closest star to us is also about four light-years away.

You?

The Earth.

That's not very surprising.

In most regions of the Milky Way, the distribution of stars is fairly even.

It's the result of star clusters acting under the influence of gravity.

The distance between most stars is between three and six light-years.

Three-Body! Three-Body! Three-Body!

People are not willing to leave.

That's their hope.

We wouldn't know the outcome of the launch in our lifetimes,

but four or five hundred years from now,

our descendants will receive the news from a new world.

That'll be the beginning of a new life for the Trisolaran Civilization.

(The Trisolaran Expedition to the new world has begun.)

(The fleet is still in flight.)

(Three-Body is over.)

(When you have returned to the real world,)

(if you remain true to the promise you've made,)

(please attend the meet-up of the Earth-Trisolaris Organization.)

(The address will be in the follow-up e-mail you receive.)

We've managed to block all the signals to and from the satellite.

The Three-Body game

has been shut down.

The members of ETO is eviler than cults.

They are traitors.

I just talked with Wang Miao that

these traitors are divided into different sects.

That's right.

They belong to different sects

and often disagree with other sects.

Some sects slander and even attack each other.

Most of these arrested

were the Redemptionists.

They aim to solve the Three-Body Problem.

So, most game players

belong to the Redemptionists.

Shen Yufei should be a Redemptionist.

Wei Cheng is still calculating for her.

But it turns out there's no solution to the Three-Body Problem.

The Adventists believe the Three-Body Problem has no solution.

This sect claims human race should be destroyed.

They eagerly await the coming of the Lord.

That is, they do this in the hope that

they will be saved from death when the Lord comes.

The Survivors believe the Lord won't kill them.

They are optimistic.

According to our interrogation,

t seems that the other two sects look down on them.

The major divide of ETO exists

in the Redemptionists and the Adventists.

How did they connect with the Lord?

So far, no connection

with the so-called Lord has been found.

The person who can connect with the Lord should be their leader.

There are many sects in ETO.

How can there be no leader?

They mentioned a person.

also doubted this person has something to do with the ETO.

In ETO, they call her

(Commander)

(I was exposed to the data when I worked for my master's degree.)

(I was shocked at first, I and then I tried to change it.)

(I've tried various methods)

(and even participated in the march on environment protection abroad.)

(Then... participated in the march)

(on environmental protection in Country T,)

(a police car passed every 48 minutes on the street.)

(Documentation of BSE)

(OS: The hospital was full because of BSE.)

(File of Researchers)

(OS: In Jinsi Wharf,)

(many people were killed or injured in the explosion.)

(Smoke overhead,)

(obscuring the blue sky.)

(I thought human race would go die.)

(But she appeared.)

(Registration form for basic information of researcher, Ye Wenjie)

(OS: My friend took me to a party)

(to listen to the message of the Lord brought by her.)

At that party, I first learned that)

(the Lord was coming to change the world.)

Commander has listened to the voice of the Lord.

Have you seen her since then?

The last time I saw her was at a lecture at Tsinghua University.

She was as kind as ever.

Kind but powerful.

(Ye Wenjie)

(OS: Mr. Pan.)

(OS: It's not often you admire someone that much, right?)

(Professor of astrophysics)

(Professor of astrophysics)

(OS: I worship the coming of the Lord.)

(Lecturer of Tsinghua University)

(Awards and punishments) (OS: As you learn more about the organization,)

(Self-evaluation) (OS: I'm sure)

(File of Researchers (1996)) (OS: you will become more powerful.)

(OS: This is also the greatness of the Lord.)

The Lord will come.

(1996 Country T Radio wave Astronomy Tsinghua University)

Captain Shi.

The body was dumped over there.

Captain Shi.

The victim's neck was wrung.

She was dead when we found her.

The forensic expert has taken the body away.

That's it.

What else can you think of?

Nothing.

That's the crime scene.

Cabling revamp work underway on this road.

The surveillance was all dismantled.

It wasn't an accident, but an intended crime.

In addition, Mu Xing's digital recorder was gone.

She always brought several digital recorders.

Can I help you?

No. Thank you.

I called the police.

(Who are you?)

(What do you want?)

(l'm sorry.)

(I must protect Commander.)

(You followed me when I searched for the information.)

(Is it because traced Tsinghua University?)

(Ye Wenjie, Astrophysicist)

She tracked down Tsinghua University

before she died.

That's the university Ye Wenjie works in.

Actually, we investigated Chen Xue before

because she was the daughter of Ye's sister

and lived on one floor above Ye's home.

You know her sister, don't you?

She is Ye Wenxue who took the lead in exposing their father, Ye Zhetai.

Chen Xue was a top student in her class

and joined Tsinghua University's independent enrollment,

becoming the only student recommended for direct admission.

But she didn't receive the admission notice

because the person ranked #2 went to Ye Wenxue

and paid an amount of money to buy the admission.

Therefore, Ye Wenxue secretly withdrew Chen Xue's college application.

(Regard me as nonexistent.)

Are you Chen Xue?

I am teaching astrophysics in Tsinghua University.

Has your mother told you

that she has a sister?

And then Chen Xue went to study at MIT

and returned to China in June as a graduate student.

The course of her life looks normal,

So if it weren't because of the two homicide cases,

we would never have noticed her.

All clues point to one person.

I know.

Ye Wenjie.

I admit there are many doubtful points on her,

but there is only one thing

that has been perplexing and confusing me.

Yang Dong was her daughter.

Why does it perplex you?

Why?

How could you be confused by that?

There is nothing to be confused about!

The enemy we're facing now is not a human

but the ETO, the extraterrestrials!

Can you figure it out by a human's logic?

I know you have a strong empathy and like to empathize with everything.

But let me tell you, Wang Miao.

When you try to empathize with your enemy,

your judgement of right and wrong has been overturned. Do you understand?

I'm sorry.

The reason why I said these words is that you're going to attend the ETO's meet-up.

By then, you will face a more complex situation than we expect.

If your judgment is still affected by your feelings,

your kindness will be used,

and you'll be put into a more dangerous situation.

see.

But I have you, right?

Comrades, listen to me.

Pan Han.

Did you murder Shen Yufei?

Yes.

The reason why the Adventists face the crisis today

is that in the midst of us exist some traitors like her.

Who gave you the right to kill her?

did that out of a sense of responsibility to our organization.

Responsibility?

You're a person with malice!

What do you mean by that?

What has the Environment Branch done under your leadership?

Your responsibility is to exploit and create environmental problems

to stir up people's hate to science and modern industry.

However, you'v depended on Lord's technology and predictions

to gain reputations and interests for yourself.

I've never gained reputations for myself.

In my eyes, humans are a pile of trash.

don't care about reputations,

- but I need charisma to channel people's thinking.

You murdered someone and have drawn fire against yourself.

The governments of the world are in the state of war one after another now.

Europe and North America, they're cracking down on the ETO.

Once we come to light,

the Redemptionists will transfer their allegiance to the government,

so what we should do now

is to purge them from our organization.

That's something you should not consider.

Yes.

Of course should be considered by Commander.

But comrades,

I can tell you responsibly that Commander is an Adventist!

No.

You're wrong.

Commander is a Redemptionist.

Comrades, don't trust him.

Don't trust him.

He's talking nonsense and indiscreet in speaking.

We all know Commander's prestige well.

If what you said is true,

the Redemptionists would have already been purged.

What if Commander knows something we don't?

Perhaps that's what the conference today is about.

Comrades, what should we do now?

Global uprising!

Yes.

Global uprising!

Global uprising! Global uprising!

You're asking for death!

Long live the spirit of Trisolaris!

We're tough grasses that resprout after every wildfire!

Revolution can reveal our existence in the political stage in the world.

t will mark the first public appearance of the ETO in human race's history.

As long as the agenda is correct,

believe it will arouse a wide response in the world.

Yes.

Global uprising! Global uprising!

Global uprising!

Silence!

Commander is here!

Eliminate human tyranny.

The world belongs to Trisolaris!

Hello, comrades.

Sit down.

Pan Han.

Commander, I'm here.

You disobeyed the organization's rule seriously.

Commander, our organization is facing a danger of getting swamped.

we don't take decisive measures to cleanse the traitors and enemies,

we'll lose everything.

The ultimate ideal and goal of the ETO is to lose everything.

Everything humans have, including us.

Commander, do you still insist on this ideal?

If so, you're an Adventist.

Please openly announce it now.

It means a lot to us.

This request should haven't been proposed by you.

You've seriously disobeyed our organization's rule.

If you want to appeal, you can do it now.

Otherwise, you have to bear the responsibility.

just asked Wei Cheng and Shen Yufei to stop calculating,

which was decided by Comrade Evans and approved unanimously in the meeting.

If we solve the Three-Body Problem, Lord won't come,

and the enterprise of Trisolaris on the Earth will be ruined.

Let us believe you.

After all, it's not the most important thing now.

hope we can continue to trust you.

Please repeat what you requested to me.

I...

Please openly announce you're an Adventist.

After all, the Adventists' agenda is also your ideal.

Then repeat the agenda.

Human society can no longer rely on its own power to solve its problems,

nor can it restrain its madness.

Therefore, we should ask Lord to come,

and in virtue of its power,

supervise and transform humans by force

to create a bright, new and advanced civilization.

Are the Adventists loyal to this agenda?

Of course, Commander.

Please don't believe false rumors.

No.

It was not a false rumor.

Who are you?

- am Rafael.

know you.

The Adventists believe

that humans are an evil species.

They think that the human civilization

has committed unforgivable crimes against the Earth.

The final goal of the Adventists

is to completely destroy our human down!

The real agenda of the Adventists has already been an open secret.

Yes.

You're right.

But what you all don't know

is that this goal was there

right from the beginning.

It was the life-long dream of Mike Evans,

the mastermind behind the Adventists.

Evans lied to the Organization.

He fooled everyone, including our commander.

And he turned the Adventists

into a terror, a kingdom of terror,

in bringing together extreme environmentalists

and all sorts of madmen that hated humanity.

- didn't learn

Evans' real thoughts until much later.

Even so,

still tried to patch over the differences

to make the ETO

remain united.

However,

some of the other things done by the Adventists

made my efforts impossible.

Commander,

the Adventists are the core power of the ETO.

Without us, there would be no Earth-Trisolaris Movement.

But it's not the reason for you

to monopolize the communication between the Organization and Lord.

We established the Second Red Coast Base,

so of course we should operate it.

That was the condition the Adventists took advantage of

to commit an unforgivable betrayal to the Organization.

You intercepted Lord's messages to the Organization

and passed on only a few of them.

And after distorting,

you sent a lot of messages

that hadn't been checked by the Organization

to Lord through the Second Red Coast Base.

There is much evidence

of the Adventists' betrayal.

Comrade Shen Yufei was one of the providers.

She used to be one of the core members of the Adventists,

but in the deepest bottom of her heart,

she was a firm Redemptionist.

You knew that later.

The reason why she died was that she had known too much.

Men like Evans and you

are incurable.

In order to maintain the agenda and ideal of the ETO,

we'll completely solve the problem of the Adventists.

Wang.

Wang.

Let me introduce you the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,

Professor Wang Miao.

He's my friend and researches nanomaterials,

which is the first technology that Lord wants to extinguish from the Earth.

Professor Ye, why does Lord want to extinguish this technology first?

It starts from the Red Coast.

Many of us have heard about the story of the Red Coast,

but many don't.

In this special moment,

The story of the Red Coast starts now.

The momentum of revolution is unstoppable.

Advance! Advance

Jin the direction of victory.

'Three red flags are fluttering in the wind.

(At 8:00 AM, tomorrow morning, every department's device will be...)

(The Red Coast is in the monitoring state.)

(The target range of monitoring, a radius of 1,000 light-years.)

(Fixed stars are about 20 million.)

(From 9:30 to 10:30..)

It was hard to explore the extraterrestrial intelligence.

Many factors in the universe would interfere the monitoring.

Political Commissar Lei.

Are you working overtime?

How is it? What problem do you meet?

Solar activities plague a lot to the monitoring,

mainly the solar interference.

Follow me.

We asked to transfer Wenjie here because of this report.

(Attempted Mathematical Model the Sun) We should have already used her,

(By Ye Wenjie) We should have already used her,

but you kept her from dealing with the problems in this aspect.

Now, Wenjie found it herself.

How much do you know about the solar interference?

Earth.

Satellite.

Sun.

When they are in a straight line,

and the reception antenna on the surface of the Earth aims at the satellite,

its background will be the sun.

The sun is a giant source of electromagnetic radiation,

so the microwave from the satellite

will be hugely interfered by solar radiation.

Yes.

But the solar interference is different in the Red Coast.

Exactly.

The outer space is a transmission source,

and the Red Coast is a receiver.

The sun, as the interference, is in between.

Therefore, we'll be interfered more severely and frequently

than the communication satellites.

Besides, the monitoring and transmission systems

share the same antennae,

so the time for monitoring is compressed immensely.

Under this circumstance,

the solar interference becomes a more serious problem.

You've mentioned in this essay that the sun is simply composed

by hydrogen and helium.

Although the physical process is violent,

it's just a fusion from hydrogen into helium.

This kind of fusion could be calculated.

You provide us with a new train of thought.

Political Commissar Lei and I simply want to figure out

the rule and characteristics of solar radiation

and filter it digitally so that we won't be interfered.

You want to build the mathematical model of the sun

to predict the sun's activities

from interfering the Red Coast?

(I researched for half a year, and the process was very slow.)

(In other words, saw no glimpse of hope.)

(In the monitoring scope of the Red Coast,)

(solar radiation was unpredictable.)

(There were many phenomena)

(that I couldn't explain depending on my knowledge at that time.)

(After completing a set of cumbersome matrix calculations,)

(a paper in a journal about Jupiter)

(caught my attention.)

(Dr. Harry Peterson published a set of data)

(accidentally obtained on June 12th and July 2nd)

(while observing Jupiter's precession,)

(during which strong electromagnetic radiation was detected,)

(lasting 81 seconds)

(and 76 seconds, respectively.)

(June 12th.)

(July 2nd.)

(I remember those two dates vividly.)

(During those days,)

(Red Coast's Monitoring System also received strong sun outages.)

(The two sun outages occurred 16 minutes and 42 seconds)

(after the arrival)

(of the Jovian radio outbursts on Earth.)

(That 16 minutes and 42 seconds were critical.)

Hello. It's Ye Wenjie of Monitoring.

Contact the National Astronomical Observatories

for Earth's and Jupiter's positions on June 12th and July 2nd.

(From the distance between Earth and Jupiter,)

(it's easy to figure out the time it took)

(for the radio outbursts to travel between the two.)

(Then calculate the time)

(it'd take the radio outbursts to go from Jupiter to the sun,)

(and from the sun to Earth.)

(The difference between the two was exactly 16 minutes and 42 seconds.)

I know I might've bored you,

but feel necessary to tell you every word of it.

Is such a gap related to the sudden fluctuation of solar radiation?

had my guess back in the day.

As you all know,

energy produced by reaction within the solar core

is initially in the form of high-energy gamma rays.

The radiation zone absorbs these high-energy photons

and re-emits them.

Such successive absorption and re-emission go quite a long way

a photon might take 1,000 years to leave the sun.

That's true.

After this lengthy process, gamma rays become X-rays,

extreme ultraviolet, ultraviolet,

then eventually turn into visible light and other forms of radiation.

The frequencies drop gradually.

You can think of it as a slow slope.

However,

my model of the sun led to a new result.

As radiation dropped through different frequencies,

there were boundaries between the subzones.

It's like going down the stairs.

As energy crossed each boundary, from inside out,

the radiation frequency stepped down a grade sharply.

That differs from the traditional view.

Indeed.

also found that these boundaries

would reflect radiation from the lower-frequency side,

and I called them "energy mirrors".

How accurate and fascinating!

One of the most incredible features of those boundary surfaces

is what I call "gain reflectivity".

My theory is the energy mirrors not only

reflect radiation from the lower-frequency side

but also amplify it.

All the mysterious sudden fluctuations

we observed in narrow frequency bands

were the result of other radiation from space being amplified.

But that characteristic was bizarre

and hard to prove

until I discovered that critical time-frame:

16 minutes and 42 seconds.

My guess is after the Jovian radio outbursts reached the sun,

they were re-emitted after being amplified about 100 million times.

Earth received both sets of emissions before and after the amplification,

separated by 16 minutes and 42 seconds.

The sun is an amplifier for radio waves!

But it's receiving electromagnetic radiation from space all the time,

including that from the Earth.

Why were only some of the waves amplified?

Because of the shielding effect of the solar convection zone.

(Sun)

Situated outside the radiation zone,

it's the outermost liquid layer of the sun.

(Solar Convection Zone)

(Space) The radio waves from space

penetrate the convection zone first to reach the radiation zone,

where they'll be amplified

before being reflected back out.

So the waves have to be more powerful than a threshold value.

The vast majority of Earth-based radio sources

(Earth)

can't cross this threshold,

but the Jovian radio outburst crossed it.

(Jupiter)

(Sun)

Red Coast's maximum transmission power

exceeds it, too.

Will this solve solar interference?

Not really,

but an exciting possibility ensues.

That humans can use the sun as a super-antenna,

and through it, broadcast radio waves to the universe.

The waves will be sent with the power of the sun,

hundreds ( millions of times greater than the total usable transmission power

on Earth.

Are you saying

Are you saying

Earth can transmit

at the level of a Kardashev Type Il civilization?

Correct.

Once we compare the waveforms of the two Jovian radio outbursts

with the waveforms of the sun outages

received by Red Coast and they're a match,

that'll be further confirmation of my theory.

What do you need?

Contact Dr. Harry Peterson to obtain the waveform records

of the two Jovian radio outbursts.

we need approval at all levels.

Any lapse

could lead to treason.

There's a shortcut.

I'm listening.

Red Coast can transmit radio waves directly at the sun

(Solar Electromagnetic Radiation Monitored by Red Coast)

Ye Wenjie, you're getting out of line!

Theoretical research is enough.

Why go to such great lengths?

all major discoveries must be confirmed by experiments.

If her theory is proven right,

that'll be unprecedented!

Just this once,

please.

Yes.

Try it once.

It's not too difficult.

Receiving the echoes after transmission

will only take...

A little over ten minutes.

That's right!

Enough for Red Coast to switch from transmission to monitoring mode.

I know it's feasible technically and operationally.

You just don't get it, do you?

Aiming a super-powerful radio beam at the sun?

Have you thought about the potential danger and risk?

Great uncertainty, you know?

Keep working on solar interference.

Forget about this experiment.

Political Commissar Lei's refusal

is beyond reasonable.

I'm sorry.

- wish I could help.

Engineer Zhang, something is wrong again.

It keeps happening.

just finished the overhaul yesterday.

Not again!

I'll do it.

Thank you,

Wenjie.

(I adjusted the test transmission power to exceed the threshold value)

(for my gain-reflective theory)

(and then set the frequency)

(to the value most likely to be amplified by the energy mirror.)

(Finally, under the guise of testing the antenna,)

(I aimed it at the setting sun)

(and transmitted the same content as usual.)

Hey...

Tell...

Tell the base station to monitor the 12,000 MHz channel.

What are we receiving?

Maybe we'll get something.

There's no time to change the system to monitoring mode.

This is Yang Weining.

Monitor the 12,000 MHz channel.

Keep me updated.

Wait!

Given the low sensitivity of that radio,

we can only receive signals from extraterrestrials on the moon.

The signal comes from...

the sun.

You used Red Coast to send a signal to the sun?

Do not tell anyone else about i It can't happen again.

Never!

What's the point anyway?

Even if there's an echo wave,

it'll be too weak to be picked up by our radio.

No.

If my guess is right,

it'll receive an extremely strong echo,

more powerful than we can imagine.

As long as the transmission power exceeds a certain threshold,

the sun can amplify the signal 100 million-fold.

see.

They got nothing.

(The Red Coast Project completed its testing and breaking-in phases.)

(Technical problems became fewer and fewer.)

- (Four years after I came to the base,)

(Happy Marriage) (Yang Weining married me)

(at the cost of his future career.)

(Due to my complicated background, he lost his position as chief engineer.)

(We stayed on the base)

(as ordinary technicians.)

(My life and work became regular)

(and gained inner peace.)

(That said,)

(what had been suppressed by anxiety and fear)

(began to awaken.)

(I started to look with a rational gaze)

(at the madness and hatred that had harmed me)

(and straight at humanity's evil side.)

(I read classics of foreign-language philosophy and history.)

(Philosophers' extraordinary insights)

(led me to the most fundamental)

(and secret aspects of human nature.)

(In reality, the irrationality of the human race)

(was constantly on display.)

The insanity of the human race)

(had reached its historical zenith.)

(Back then,)

(the Cold War was at its height.)

(Under the ground were countless missile silos.)

(Under the sea,)

(nuclear submarines were patrolling like ghosts.)

(Nuclear warfare able to destroy Earth dozens of times)

(might break out at any moment.)

(A single Lafayette)

(or Yankee-class submarine held enough warheads)

(to destroy hundreds of cities)

(and kill hundreds of millions of people.)

(Nuclear Weapons are as powerful as stars.)

(But the universe has even more terrible forces)

(such as black holes, anti-matter, dark matter, and more.)

(Compared with them,)

(a thermonuclear bomb is nothing but a tiny candle.)

(If humans obtained one of those other forces,

(the world might be vaporized instantly.)

In the presence of madness, rationality is powerless.

(I remember I was battling the loss of purpose.)

(I had been an idealist)

(who'd give it her all for a great cause.)

(But then, I found all that I had done was meaningless,)

as would any future endeavor be.

Until 1979,

on October 21 st,

everything was changed.

(Actually, the night shift was easy.)

(1 just needed to check the waves of radio signals from space)

(and listen to the meaningless noise.)

was hard to tell with the naked eye if a waveform carried information.)

(But was so familiar with the waveform) (of the noise of the universe.)

(I realized the wave moving in front of me)

(had been modulated by intelligence.)

(No radio signals we had received exceeded C-level recognizability.)

(Were it an A, the likelihood that the transmission contained intelligent information)

(would be above 90 percent.)

(The rating of that one was AAAAA.)

(That was extremely unusual,)

(which meant that the received transmission)

(used the same coding language as Red Coast's outbound transmission.)

(Do not answer)

"Do not

answer".

"Do not answer"!

(This)

(world)

(has)

(received)

(This world has received your message.)

(I am a pacifist in this world.)

(It is the luck of your civilization)

(that I am the first to receive your message.)

(I am warning you.)

(Do not answer.)

(There are tens of millions of stars in your direction.)

(As long as you do not answer,)

(this world will not be able to ascertain the source of your transmission.)

(But if you do answer, the source will be located right away.)

(Your planet will be invaded.)

Do not answer.

Do not answer.

When I received the first message, no more than nine years had passed

since the time I had sent the message to the sun.

Then the source of this transmission must be around four light-years away.

It could only have come from the closest extra-solar stellar system,

Alpha Centauri.

In the four hours after that day,

for the first time,

I learned of the existence of another world,

(No one noticed this.)

(In the data analysis section of the monitoring system,)

(only the two terminals in front of me)

(could view the recognizability rating of a signal)

(and access the deciphering system.)

(I moved all of the received messages to a multiply-encrypted,)

(invisible subdirectory.)

(Then I copied over a segment of noise received a year ago)

(as a substitute for the transmission received during the last five hours.)

(Later, I went to the main control room of transmission.)

(1979)

(Latitude)

(Longitude)

(Come here.)

(I will help you conquer this world.)

(Our civilization is no longer capable solving its own problems.)

(We need your force to intervene.)

Why don't you tell me?

Wenjie, don't be burdened with thoughts.

You can tell me anything.

We can shoulder everything together.

Do you know how dangerous it was

for you to be unconscious out there?

You've known everything?

You're pregnant. It's such a big deal. Why don't you tell me?

Why?

Wang,

now,

will answer your question.

Why does Lord have to extinguish nanomaterial?

Because it can allow humans to escape gravity

and engage space construction at a much larger scale.

The space elevator?

You immediately think of the space elevator

from Flying Blade.

This may be but a tiny invention.

But for humans on Earth, its meaning would be significant.

If ultrastrong nanomaterials could be mass produced,

(then that would lay the technical foundation)

(for building a space elevator)

(from the ground up to a geostationary point in space.)

(With this technology,)

(humans could easily enter near-Earth space)

(and build up large-scale defensive structures.)

This will affect the advent of the Lord.

Thus, this technology must be extinguished.

This is useless.

This is not basic research.

Based on what we've already found out, someone else can figure out the rest.

It's far more effective to confuse the researchers' minds.

(It is a countdown like this.)

(It is a countdown like this.)

(It goes on and on before my eyes, second by second, without missing a beat.)

What is at the end of the countdown?

What?

Like you point out, this is applied research after all,

not as effective as basic research.

Basic research?

(All the evidence points to a single conclusion.)

(Physics has never existed,)

(and will never exist.)

(I know what I'm doing is irresponsible.)

(But I have no choice.)

Physics does not exist.

Yang Dong.

How did she die?

Indeed, compared to our Lord who possesses peerless strength,

everything we do is meaningless.

(Everything's ready. Please give instructions.)

Move now.

Move.

What happened?

What's wrong?

Everyone, freeze! Keep down!

(Squad One has got in.)

(Report!)

The north side is under control.)

(Squad Two, watch carefully outside.)

(Don't let a single one of them go.)

(Got it.)

(Report!)

(Our observation says there are five to six firearm holders.)

(We don't know yet)

(if they have other weapons.)

(Is Professor Wang safe?)

(Yes.)

Professor Wang.

Professor Wang, follow me.

(Report!)

(All of them are under control.)

(Attention, all units.)

(Except for the five people, including Ye Wenjie and Chen Xue,)

(other people are all under control.)

(Chen Xue and the other two are holding unknown objects.)

(They may be dangerous.)

Don't move!

Keep down! Keep down!

It won't be fun if you move again.

Hand over your weapons.

I swear I'm going to kill the next bonehead who tries anything.

know that none of you is afraid to die, but we're not afraid either.

I'm going to say this up front.

Normal police procedures and laws don't apply to you.

Even the human laws warfare no longer apply to you.

Since you've decided to treat the entire human race as your enemy,

there's no longer anything we wouldn't do to you.

Officers,

we hold in our hands three nuclear bombs.

(Repeat! There are nuclear weapons.)

Don't move.

Keep down!

Everyone, keep down!

Professor Wang, leave here as soon as possible.

Each of them is with a yield of about one point five kilotons.

This is the detonator.

Let Commander go.

Then we can play whatever game you want.

Is it truly a nuclear bomb?

think it's just a ball.

Snipers' sight is obstructed.

The first shoot can't be guaranteed.

There's another way.

We can shoot the sphere.

Won't that set off the bomb?

(The conventional explosives around the outside will go off,)

but it won't lead to a nuclear explosion.

Leave her to me.

What tricks are you trying to play?

We need to have a talk.

Don't move. Don't follow me.

Stop.

Calm down.

Your mom has been found.

Your mother has been found.

Your mom's letter.

Which one of you will come and take it?

(Radiation!)

(Run!)

(Run!)

Radiation! Go!

Go!

Hurry!

Put down the gun!

Put down the gun.

Put down the gun.

How are you?

It's nothing.

Just some superficial injuries. I'm fine.

You call using a pistol against a nuclear bomb nothing?

Do you think it's enough for me to brag about it for ten years?

It's enough for you to brag about for your whole life.

That's worth it then.

Okay.

Are you also hurt?

Have a rest.

Shi Qiang.

That's okay.

Roger.