Chapter 17 Three-Body Copernicus Cosmic Football Three-Day Volley

After coming out of Ye Wenjie's house, Wang Miao was in a difficult state of mind. The experiences of the past two days and the story of Hong'an were two unrelated things entangled together, making the world become extremely strange overnight.

After returning home, in order to get rid of this mood, he turned on the computer, put on the V suit, and entered "The Three-Body Problem" for the third time. His mentality adjustment was successful. When the login interface appeared, Wang Miao seemed to be a different person.

, and his heart was immediately filled with inexplicable excitement. Different from the previous two times, Wang Miao came in with a mission this time. He wanted to reveal the secrets of this virtual world. He re-registered an ID that matched this: Gebai

Ni.

After logging into "Three-Body", Wang Miao stood on the vast plain again, facing the strange dawn of the Three-Body world. A huge pyramid appeared in the east, but Wang Miao immediately discovered that it was not the one of King Zhou and Mozi.

The pyramid has a Gothic-style top that reaches straight into the early morning sky, reminding him of the Romanesque church he saw in Wangfujing yesterday morning. But if that church were placed next to the pyramid, it would be just a small part of it.

It was just a gate pavilion. He also saw many buildings in the distance that were obviously dry warehouses, but their shapes had also changed into Gothic buildings, with slender spires, as if they were many thorns growing out of the earth.

Wang Miao saw a cave door on the pyramid with a faint light of fire, and walked in. On the wall inside the cave, there was a row of blackened statues of the Olympian gods holding torches. Walking into the main hall,

He found that it was even darker than in the doorway. Only the candles on the two silver candlesticks on a long marble table were dimly lit. There were several people sitting at the table. The dim light allowed Wang Miao to only see.

Looking at the outline of their faces, their eyes were hidden in the shadows of the deep eye sockets, but Wang Miao could feel the eyes focused on him. These people seemed to be wearing medieval robes. If you look carefully, you can see that one or two people's robes are simpler.

It was in the ancient Greek style. Sitting at one end of the long table was a tall and thin man. The golden crown on his head was the only shining thing in the hall apart from the candles. Wang Miao struggled to see in the light of the candles,

The robe on him is different from the others in that it is red.

At this point, Wang Miao confirmed his judgment: this game opens a separate process for each player, and the current European medieval copy is selected by the software based on his ID.

"You are late. The meeting has already started for a long time." The man wearing a gold crown and red robe said, "I am Pope Gregory."

Wang Miao tried hard to recall the history of the European Middle Ages, which he was not familiar with, and wanted to infer the degree of evolution of this civilization from this name. However, thinking of the historical chaos in the Trisolaran world, he felt that this effort was meaningless.

"You changed your ID, but we all know you. In the two previous civilizations, you seemed to have traveled to the East. Oh, I am Aristotle." said the man in ancient Greek robes, who had white hair.

of curly hair.

"Yes," Wang Miao nodded, "I witnessed the destruction of two civilizations there, one by the severe cold and the other by the scorching sun. I also saw the great efforts made by Eastern scholars to grasp the laws of the sun's movement.

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"Hi!" A man with an upturned goatee and thinner than the Pope said in the shadows, "Oriental scholars, trying to understand the secrets of the sun's movement through meditation, epiphany or even sleepwalking, are extremely ridiculous!"

"This is Galileo." Aristotle introduced. "He advocated that the world should be understood through experiments and observations. He was a craftsman-like thinker, but we still have to face up to the results he has achieved."

"Mozi also conducted experiments and observations," Wang Miao said.

Galileo sneered again, "Mozi's thoughts are still Eastern. He is just a metaphysician in the guise of science. He has never taken his observation results seriously. He just builds a full simulation model of the universe based on subjective conjecture.

Ridiculous! What a pity for those sophisticated equipment. We are different. We make rigorous inferences based on a large number of observations and experiments, establish a model of the universe, and then return to experiments and observations to test it."

"That's correct," Wang Miao nodded, "that's exactly how I think."

"Did you also bring a perpetual calendar?" the Pope said sarcastically.

"I don't have a perpetual calendar. I only brought a universe model based on observational data. However, I want to point out that even if this model is correct, it may not be possible to use it to grasp the precise laws of the sun's movement and compile a perpetual calendar. But after all,

It’s the first step that must be taken.”

A few lonely applause echoed in the cold hall. This applause belonged to Galileo. "Very good, Copernicus, very good. Your realistic and experimental scientific ideas are not what most scholars have.

For this reason, your theory is worth listening to."

The Pope nodded to Wang Miao, "Let's talk about it."

Wang Miao walked to the other end of the long table, calmed himself down, and said, "It's actually very simple: the reason why the sun moves irregularly is because there are three suns in our world, and they move under the influence of mutual gravity.

It is undergoing unpredictable three-body motion. When our planet orbits one of the suns stably, it is a constant epoch; when the other one or two suns move within a certain distance, their gravity will pull the planet away from it.

snatched away from the sun, causing it to wander indefinitely within the gravitational range of the three suns, which is the chaotic era; after an uncertain period of time, our planet is captured by a certain sun again, and a stable orbit is temporarily established, which is the constant era.

It starts again. This is a cosmic football game, the players are the three suns, and our world is the ball!"

Several dry laughs sounded in the dim hall. "Burn him." The Pope said expressionlessly. The two soldiers standing in front of the door wearing rusty full-body armor immediately turned toward Wang Miao like two clumsy robots.

Come.

"Burn it." Galileo sighed and waved his hand, "I had hope in you, but it turns out you are just another metaphysician or wizard."

"Such people have now become a public nuisance." Aristotle nodded in agreement.

"You have to let me finish my sentence!" Wang Miao pushed away the iron gloves of the two soldiers who captured him.

"Have you ever seen three suns? Or has anyone else seen them?" Galileo asked, tilting his head.

"Everyone has seen it."

"So, apart from the sun that appeared in the Era of Chaos and the Era of Constant Era, where are the other two?"

"First of all, we need to explain that what we see at different times may not be the same sun, but one of three. The other two suns are flying stars. When they travel to long distances, they look like stars."

"You lack basic scientific training." Galileo shook his head disapprovingly, "The sun continues to travel to long distances, and it is impossible to jump over, so according to your hypothesis, there should be a third situation: the sun is smaller than normal.

But it is larger than a meteor. It should gradually become the size of a meteor during its operation, but we have never seen such a sun."

"Since you have received scientific training, you should have some understanding of the structure of the sun during observations."

"This is the discovery I'm most proud of: the sun is made of a deep but thin gaseous outer layer and a dense, hot core."

"That's right, but you obviously haven't discovered the strange optical interaction between the gaseous outer layer of the sun and the atmosphere of our planet. This is a phenomenon similar to polarization, so that when the sun is beyond a certain distance, when observed from our atmosphere,

The gaseous outer layer of the sun suddenly becomes transparent and invisible, and only its luminous core can be seen. At this time, the sun suddenly shrinks to the size of its core in our field of vision and turns into a flying star. It is this phenomenon that confuses people

Researchers from various civilizations throughout history have made them unaware of the existence of the three suns. Now you understand why the appearance of the three flying stars heralds a long period of severe cold, because at this time the three suns are all far away."

There was a brief silence, everyone was thinking. Aristotle spoke first: "You lack basic logical training. Yes, it is possible for us to see three flying stars, and their appearance is always accompanied by destruction.

The severe cold. But according to your theory, it should be possible for us to see three normal-sized suns. This has never happened before, and it has never happened in the records left by all civilizations!"

"Wait a minute!" A man wearing a strange-shaped hat and a long beard stood up and spoke for the first time. "History seems to have records that a civilization saw two suns, and that civilization was immediately destroyed on the double sun.

in the flames, but the record is very vague. Oh, I am Leonardo da Vinci."

"We are talking about three suns, not two!" Galileo shouted. "According to his theory, three suns will definitely appear, just like three flying stars!"

"Three suns have appeared before," Wang Miao said calmly, "and some people have seen them, but it is impossible for those who saw them to pass down the information, because when they saw this great scene, they could only live again.

For a few seconds, it is impossible to escape and survive. The 'Three-Day Volley' is the most terrifying disaster in the Trisolaran world. At that time, the planet's surface will turn into a smelting furnace in an instant, and the high temperature can melt rocks. In the 'Three-Day Volley'

It will take a long time for a destroyed world to regain life and civilization, which is why there are no historical records."

There was silence, and everyone looked at the Pope.

"Burn him to death." The pope said gently. The smile on his face looked familiar to Wang Miao. It was the smile of King Zhou.

The hall immediately became lively, and everyone seemed to have encountered something happy. Galileo and others happily moved a cross and a burning rack from a dark corner. They took down a charred corpse on the rack and threw it aside, then erected the burning rack.

Others were stacking firewood excitedly. Only Leonardo da Vinci was indifferent to all this, sitting at the table and thinking, calculating something on the table with a pen from time to time.

"Bruno," Aristotle said, pointing to the charred corpse, "was here talking nonsense like you."

"Use a gentle fire," the Pope said feebly.

Two soldiers tied Wang Miao to the stake with fire-resistant asbestos ropes. Wang Miao pointed at the Pope with his movable hand and said: "You must be a program. As for the rest of you, either programs or idiots, I will still log in."

Come back!"

"You can't come back, you will disappear forever in the three-body world." Galileo said with a strange smile.

"Then you must be a program. It's impossible for a normal person to not even have this bit of network knowledge. Just write down my MAC number and change the ID on another computer. I will announce who I am at that time.

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"The system has recorded your retinal characteristics through the V device." Da Vinci raised his head and glanced at Wang Miao and said, then buried his head and continued his calculations.

Wang Miao suddenly felt an inexplicable fear and shouted: "Don't do this! Let me down! I'm telling the truth!!"

"If you tell the truth, you won't be burned to death. The game is open to those who follow the right path." Aristotle smiled evilly, took out a silver Zippo lighter, and played a complicated trick.

The trick ignited with a clang.

Just as he reached out to light a fire on the firewood pile, a bright red light shot in from the doorway, and then a heat wave carrying smoke and dust poured in. A horse ran into the hall through the bright light, and the horse's body was burning.

, has become a ball of fire, and the flames roar as it runs. There is a man riding on the horse, a medieval knight wearing heavy armor. His armor has been burned red, and he is dragging a stream of white smoke as he runs.

"The world has just been destroyed! The world has just been destroyed! Dehydration! Dehydration!!" the knight shouted wildly, and the burning mount fell to the ground with a plop and turned into a big bonfire. The knight was thrown far away and rolled to the ground.

Under the torture rack, the red-hot armor remained motionless, with only thick white smoke rising continuously. The human oil flowing out of the armor burned and spread on the ground, as if the armor had sprouted a pair of wings of fire.

Everyone in the hall rushed to the cave door and swarmed out, quickly disappearing in the red light coming from outside the door. Wang Miao struggled to break free from the rope, bypassed the burning knight and horse, ran through the empty hall, and

The hot porch, coming outside.

The earth has been burned red like an iron plate in a furnace. Bright streams of magma flow on the dark red light, weaving into a bright fire network stretching to the horizon. The red earth has

Countless slender pillars of fire were rising high. This was a burning dry warehouse. The dehydrated people in the warehouse dyed the fire pillar a strange blue-green color. Wang Miao saw a dozen small pillars of the same color not far away.

Pillar of Fire, these are a dozen people who just ran out of the pyramid: Pope, Galileo, Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci... The blue-green pillar of fire surrounding them is transparent, and you can see their faces and bodies.

Slowly deforming in the fire, they focused their attention on Wang Miao who had just emerged. They all maintained the same posture, raised their flaming arms toward the sky, and chanted in unison with a singing voice:

"Three days of volleying——"

Wang Miao looked up and saw three huge suns slowly rotating around an invisible origin in the sky, like a huge fan blowing the wind of death to the earth. For three days, they occupied almost the entire sky.

It is moving westward, and soon half of it sank below the horizon. The "fan" is still rotating, and a brilliant blade draws out the horizon from time to time, bringing brief sunrises and sunsets to this destroyed world.

The backward and scorching earth emits a dark red light, and the fleeting sunrise drowns everything with its strong flat light. After three days of complete sunset, the thick clouds formed by the rising water vapor from the earth are still scattering its light, and the sky

It was burning, showing a crazy beauty of hell. When the ruined sunset finally disappeared, and there was only a layer of blood-red in the clouds smeared by the hell fire of the earth, a few lines of large characters appeared:

Civilization No. 183 was destroyed in the "Three Days Volley", and the civilization evolved to the medieval level.

After a long time, life and civilization will restart and begin their unpredictable evolution in the Trisolaran world again.

But in this civilization, Copernicus successfully revealed the basic structure of the universe, the Trisolaran civilization will make its first leap, and the game will enter the second level.

Welcome to log in to the second level of "Three Body".
Chapter completed!