Three-Body 三体 Episode 5

Shi Qiang was hit by a motorcycle. The owner of the car was Mu Xing, a media person. She noticed Shi Qiang's suspension two days ago, and she was also investigating the suicide of a scientist and hoped to cooperate with him. Shi Qiang ignored it, turned off the voice recorder she was carrying and left. Wang Miao went to the base and met Ye Wenjie's student Sha Ruishan. What Shen Yufei said "the whole universe will shine for you", Sha Ruishan thought it was a joke, even if the end of the world would not happen. But if something does fluctuate, it's worth noting it.

Wang Miao waited quietly for one o'clock in the morning. The time was getting closer and there was less than a minute left. At exactly one o'clock in the morning, the green fluctuations that Sha Ruishan said turned red. At first Sha Ruishan thought it was a machine failure, until he found out that the same was true for the other two. Sha Ruishan didn't want to believe that he went completely crazy, but he and Wang Miao had to believe that the universe was flickering! Wang Miao asked Sha Ruishan to print out those red curves, and told him that there were 1,108 hours left according to the numbers deciphered from the Morse code. Forty-seven minutes passed and the universe was already flickering. Sha Ruishan told Wang Miao that he could see all this with 3K glasses. Sha Ruishan knew that Wang Miao must know many things that he didn't know, and hoped that he could tell him what he knew, but Wang Miao told him that the cosmic twinkling would end at five o'clock in the morning, so he didn't need to delve into it.

Wang Miao raced all the way to the planetarium, and got the 3K glasses sent by Sha Ruishan. The moment he turned on the switch, Wang Miao could clearly see everything in front of him emitting red light, which finally gathered into a series of countdown timers approaching him. Wang Miao took off his glasses in a breakdown. Even though everything in front of him returned to normal, he still couldn't calm down. He called Shen Yufei and asked hysterically again and again: What is the end of the countdown! Shen Yufei's answer was only three words, I don't know.

Shi Qiang reappeared, saw him shivering and said that he was going to take him to dinner. Unlike Yang Dong, Wang Miao didn't dare to commit suicide. When it came to breakfast, Wang Miao drank a few glasses of wine and told Shi Qiang the truth, the countdown in his eyes, and the fact that Shen Yufei made the whole universe flicker. Shi Qiang only thought it was nonsense, he was a straightforward person, and he didn't think about the philosophy Wang Miao said. He knew that there must be someone behind this, but Wang Miao said that this cannot be explained by science, and he really wanted to know what the end of the countdown would be. Shi Qiang said vulgarly that it would be a big deal to return to the farming society, if our ancestors could live like that, so can we. Shi Qiang said that Wang Miao should stand up straight and not get down, the more they make you afraid of something, the less you can let them get what they want. They targeted Wang Miao, and Shi Qiang couldn't let him die easily.

Shi Qiang's words were indeed like life-saving straws to Wang Miao. According to what Shi Qiang said, he had breakfast and went back to sleep, and even gave him those photos. Doudou pulled Wang Miao to tell jokes, and Wang Miao showed a long-lost smile. Wang Miao was woken up by Doudou, who asked him if he would go to the school lectures, hoping that he would agree. Wang Miao went to school, told the children simple physics knowledge, and then returned to the laboratory to restart the experiment. The journey to find the truth must not be smooth sailing, but history proves that the pursuit of truth must be correct, let us keep pursuing the truth and never give up.

The experiment restarted and the countdown restarted, but at this moment Wang Miao no longer had fear in his eyes.