Cixin Liu The Three Body Problem (The Thr

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.Stone chips and flesh and blood scattered everywhere, an appalling sight.But Wang did not hear the noise made by colliding stones.Around him it was completely silent.Because the atmosphere was gone, there was no more sound.As the bodies drifted, their blood boiled in the vacuum and their inner organs were vomited out, until they turned into strange blobs surrounded by crystalline clouds made from the liquid they exuded.Also, due to the lack of an atmosphere, the sky turned pitch black.Everything that had floated into space from the Three Body world reflected the sunlight and formed a brilliant, starry cloud in space.The cloud then turned into a giant vortex, spiraling toward its final resting place: the sun.Wang now saw the sun changing shape.He understood that he was actually seeing the other two suns, both peeking out from behind the first sun.From this perspective, the three stacked suns formed a bright eye in the universe.Against the background of the three suns in syzygy, text appeared:Civilization Number 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 once more, and progress through the unpredictable world of Three Body.We invite you to log on again.* * *Just as Wang logged out of the game, a stranger called.The voice on the phone was that of a very charismatic man.“Hello! First, we thank you for giving us your real number.I’m a system administrator for the Three Body game.”Wang was both excited and anxious.“Please tell us your age, education, employer, and position.You didn’t fill those out when you registered.”“What do they have to do with the game?”“When you’ve reached this level, you must provide these pieces of information.If you refuse, Three Body will be permanently closed to you.”Wang answered the administrator’s questions truthfully.“Very good, Professor Wang.You satisfy the conditions for continuing in Three Body.”“Thank you.Can I ask you a few questions?”“You may not.But tomorrow night there will be a meet-up for Three Body players.We welcome you to attend.” The administrator gave Wang an address.18Meet-upThe location for the Three Body players’ meet-up was a small, out-of-the-way coffee shop.Wang had always imagined game meet-ups would be lively events full of people, but this meet-up consisted of only seven players, including himself.Like Wang, the other six did not look like gaming enthusiasts.Only two were relatively young.Another three, including a woman, were middle-aged.There was also an old man who appeared to be in his sixties or seventies.Wang had originally thought that as soon as they met they’d begin a lively discussion of Three Body, but he was wrong.The profound but strange content of Three Body had had a psychological impact on the participants.All the players, including Wang himself, couldn’t bring it up easily.They only made simple self-introductions.The old man took out a refined pipe, filled it with tobacco, and smoked as he strolled around, admiring the paintings on the walls.The others sat silently, waiting for the meet-up organizer to show up.They had all come early.Actually, of the six, Wang already knew two.The old man was a famous scholar who had made his name by imbuing Eastern philosophy with the content of modern science.The strangely dressed woman was a famous writer, one of those rare novelists who wrote in an avant-garde style but still had many readers.You could start one of her books on any page.Of the two middle-aged men, one was a vice president at China’s largest software company, plainly and casually dressed so that his status wasn’t obvious at all; and the other was a high-level executive at the State Power Corporation.Of the two young men, one was a reporter with a major media outlet, and the other was a doctoral student in the sciences.Wang now realized that a considerable number of Three Body players were probably social elites like them.The meet-up organizer showed up not long after.Wang’s heart began to beat faster as soon as he saw the man: it was Pan Han, prime suspect for the murder of Shen Yufei.He took out his phone when no one was looking and texted Shi Qiang.“Haha, everyone got here early!” Pan greeted them in a relaxed manner, as though nothing was wrong.Appearing in the media, he usually looked disheveled, like a vagrant, but today, he was dressed sharply in a suit and dress shoes.“You’re just like I imagined.Three Body is intended for people in your class because the common crowd cannot appreciate its meaning and mood.To play it well requires knowledge and understanding that ordinary people do not possess [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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