Ten minutes to read the "Three-Body" trilogy: one of the "Earth's Past"

"Liu Cixin single-handedly pulled Chinese science fiction literature to a world-class height!"

It can be said that "The Three-Body Problem" is almost a must-read science fiction for everyone Chinese.

Reading the original book is of course the best choice, but not everyone has time to read nearly a million words.

Moreover, for literary works with plot as the advantage, the gap between reading the compressed version and reading the original work is not as large as imagined.

When I wrote "<三体>Introduction", I had compressed the "Three-Body Problem" by 900,000 words → 15,000 words.

Next, I will send out these 15,000 words for everyone to read.

The Wonders of Once Upon a Time on Earth

One day in 2007.

Nanmaterials expert Wang Miao was called by police officer Shi Qiang to attend a mysterious meeting.

The meeting was chaired by the military, and four foreigners were present: a U.S. Air Force colonel, a British Army colonel, and two CIA officials.

It turned out that they were investigating an organization called the Scientific Frontier Society.

Wang Miao had contact with Scientific Frontiers and had previously been invited to join the organization, but he declined on the grounds of limited energy.

Wang Miao learned at the meeting that a number of top scientists have recently died mysteriously, and they are all suicides, and they have all been more or less connected to the "scientific boundary" before. The congress hoped that Wang Miao would join the "scientific frontier" as an "undercover" and provide the necessary information to the military, and he agreed.

After the meeting, a strange thing happened to him, and a set of numbers began to flash in front of his eyes: Ghost Countdown!

He went to Shen Yufei, a Japanese-Chinese physicist who was a member of the "Scientific Frontier", and Shen Yufei told him that he had stopped the nano research project he was leading, and the countdown naturally disappeared.

He tried it and it worked!

When he asks what's going on, Shin ignores him and just suggests that he play an online game called The Three-Body Problem.

The game depicts a peculiar "three-body" world.

There are three suns above this world; the three suns (stars) have irregular movement due to gravitational action, which makes their cold and hot alternation and seasonal reincarnation very irregular, and the trisolaran people have to live in a harsh natural environment, enduring the repeated alternation of the constant era (the relative law of the alternation of cold and heat, suitable for survival) and the chaotic era (the alternation of cold and heat is very irregular and not suitable for survival); the trisolaran people have evolved extremely strong adaptability, they not only did not become extinct, but also developed advanced science and technology Trisolarans are a special species, they can quickly dehydrate, turn into a soft skin of human form, and can quickly return to their original state in the water, just like pickled vegetables...

Wang Miao encountered many IDs in the game: King Wen of Zhou, King Huan, Mozi, Qin Shi Huang, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, von Neumann and so on.

Because of his outstanding performance in the game, Wang Miao was invited to attend a "Three-Body" netizen gathering. He learned at the party that the three-body world was real! Although the game is simulated with the background of human society, it still reveals some basic facts: there are indeed three suns above the three-body world, and the trisolaran people do have a dehydration function in multiple round civilizations.

The game progresses rapidly: the three-body world will be swallowed up by three suns, the three-body civilization will find a new habitat in space, and the best target is the earth four light-years away from the nearest three-body galaxy...

A line of subtitles appears at the end of the game: Invite game members to an ETO (Earth Trisolaran) party.

It turns out that the ETO is not only a community of game lovers, but also a strict political organization.

Wang Miao witnessed a rebellion within his organization at an ETO party. During the rebellion, the army led by Shi Qiang broke through the door and captured Ye Wenjie, the mother of Yang Dong (one of the scientists who committed suicide) and the commander of the ETO.

What's going on here? It all started forty years ago.