This is Yun Tianming's last day.

It's ten o'clock sharp.

He walked into the comfort room.

Before euthanasia, there will be a euthanasia confirmation process:

【Are you going to take your own life? Yes, please press the 5 key; No, please press the 0 key】

【Are you going to take your own life? Yes, please press the 2 button; No, please press the 0 button】

【Are you going to take your own life? Yes, please press 4; No, please press 0】

【...】

……

In the process, memories of a lifetime began to emerge in Yun Tianming's mind.

From parents' divorce to going to school.

From meeting Cheng Xin in college to falling in love with her.

From graduating from college, to joining the workforce... until being diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer.

These twenty-eight years were like an ordinary movie scene.

Maybe that star is the only trace that proves his existence

【Are you going to take your own life? If yes, please press 3 key; if no, please press 0 key. ]

Yun Tianming thought of his own epitaph.

If you have a tombstone, I hope it says——

【Come, love, give her a star, go] and then pressed 3.

………

The audience couldn't help but sigh in their hearts:

Oh, this guy is so romantic!

The epitaphs are all so romantic.

And it’s very chic!

And at the same time Yun Tianming pressed the death button.

The door to the comfort room was knocked open.

Doctors and nurses rushed in.

They turned off the power of the automatic injection machine and pulled out the needle on Yun Tianming's left arm.

Then these people said with relief:

"Fortunately, the liquid has not come out yet."

And Yun Tianming saw the person who lit up his whole world -

Cheng Xin!

But then,

Cheng Xin said something that made him feel extremely absurd.——

"Tianming, do you know? The euthanasia law was passed for you."

………

The audience were all stunned.

I feel like my little head is full of doubts

:"Um?! What's happening here?"

:"What does this last sentence mean?! What's going on?!"

:"Yun Tianming's euthanasia program was suddenly stopped, probably because of Cheng Xin."

:"It's just... when Yun Tianming was about to take the last 15 steps of euthanasia, Cheng Xin stopped it in time, and then said something like this. What was going on?"

…………

【Crisis Era 1-4, Cheng Xin]

When the three-body crisis broke out.

Cheng Xingang finished his studies and joined the work force, joining a research group developing a new generation of rocket engines.

After the outbreak of the three-body crisis.

Cheng Xin was transferred to the Strategic Intelligence Bureau of the Planetary Defense Directorate and served as the aerospace technology assistant to the director of the Intelligence Bureau's Technical Planning Center.

(OSS: Administratively led by the Planetary Defense Council, but mainly composed of personnel sent from various countries)

………

The audience was stunned.

Then it got serious.

Yun Tianming's plot started in Crisis Era Year 4, and it is now Crisis Era 1-4.

It seems that some things in these four years are related to the plot in the previous paragraph that made them feel very confused.

Then, some information about Cheng Xin also began to be established in the minds of the audience:

Excellent aerospace graduates, otherwise they would not join the rocket engine research team after graduation.

Later he joined the Strategic Intelligence Service.

At the same time, everyone is also very concerned about the Strategic Intelligence Bureau.

During Three-Body Problem 2, this organization was not mentioned.

Appearing in Three-Body Problem 3, it seems that this organization has done something that is not important to Three-Body Problem 2, but will play a vital role in the plot of Three-Body Problem!

……

Island province, holiday villa.

Lane, one of the Big Three of science fiction, even extrapolated this from the Office of Strategic Intelligence:

"It seems that the main plot of Three-Body Problem 3 begins after Luo Ji intimidates the Three-Body Man!"

"These current plots are all paving the way for the future!"

The other two among the three giants also nodded.

These three people represent the three highest peaks in the science fiction world.

Needless to say, their strength is natural.

Their vision and opinions are also very vicious and sharp.

………

………

The Strategic Intelligence Service is located not far from the United Nations.

Cheng Xin came here to report and met her immediate boss

, Mikhail Vadim, director of the Intelligence Bureau's Technical Planning Center.

After a brief chat with Vadim,

Vadim told Cheng Xin:

"The director is here too. His office is upstairs. Go and meet him."

"Don't waste too much of his time."

Cheng Xin walked into the director's spacious office and saw

Thomas Vader, the director of the Bureau of Strategic Intelligence.

Vader was much younger than Cheng Xin imagined.

The lines on his face were very classical and expressionless, like a cold statue.

When After Cheng Xin introduced himself,

Wade raised his head. The initial impression his eyes gave her was that of tiredness and laziness, but deep down there was a hint of sharpness that made her uneasy.

A smile appeared on his face, but It didn't make Cheng Xin feel warm or relaxed at all.

The smile was like ice water seeping out of a crack in the ice on the frozen river.

Cheng Xin tried to smile back, but Wade's first words made her smile and the whole Everyone froze.

Wade asked:

"Would you sell Nima to a chicken yard? Cheng

Xin shook her head in horror, not to say that she would not do this, but to wonder if she had heard wrong.

But Wade waved his hand and said:

"Thank you, go about your business."

Then.

After Cheng Xin told Vadim this, Vadim laughed it off:

"This sentence is used by veterans of intelligence work to tease newbies."

"It means: Our industry is the only one on earth where deceit and betrayal are at its core. For some generally accepted norms, we should appropriately......how to say......Be flexible"

"Now the Intelligence Bureau is made up of two people: one is professionals like you, and the other is from the Secret Warfare Department of the Intelligence Bureau and the military."

"These two types of people have very different ways of thinking and behaving. Fortunately, I am familiar with both, and I will help you adapt to each other. Cheng

Xin said:

"But we are directly facing the Trisolaran world. This is not traditional intelligence work.

Vadim:"Some things never change.""

Vader's image has begun to be established in the hearts of the audience: cold!

And there will be no politeness, straight to the point!

Just like Vadim said [Don't waste too much time on him], Vader should be particular about everything. Efficiency.

Otherwise, I would not have asked Cheng Xin questions like that for the first time.

At the same time,

I also gained a preliminary understanding of the Strategic Intelligence Service - recognized norms will be destroyed when necessary!

Although Vaji Mu said it more implicitly:"It can be appropriately flexible", but in fact everyone understood that it meant"it can break the generally accepted norms when necessary"!

For a while, everyone was also a little concerned about the Strategic Intelligence Service.

I want to see what the Strategic Intelligence Bureau will do.

Island province, holiday villa.

Renne, one of the three giants, once again showed his vicious and sharp vision and insights:

"Vader should be an important character in the book"

"You can pay attention to it"

………

………

Two days later.

The first plenary meeting of the Strategic Intelligence Bureau was held. (To read exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

During the entire meeting, Wade, as the director, did not say a word.

After the directors or deputy directors of other departments finished speaking, they asked Wade to speak, but Wade waved them all down.

Throughout the entire meeting,

Wade seemed to be staying out of it.

It wasn't until there were no more officials to speak that he spoke:

"Please ask the aerospace professionals from the Technology Planning Center to stay"

"The meeting is over!"

There were more than a dozen people left, and the venue was much cleaner.

As soon as the door of the conference room was closed,

Wade said the same words like a bullet being fired:

"Everyone, the Office of Strategic Services is going to launch a probe into the Trisolaran fleet."

Everyone was dumbstruck at first, and then looked at each other.

Cheng Xin was also very surprised.

She didn't expect to enter professional work so quickly, so straightforwardly.

Because the Intelligence Bureau has just been established and does not have the conditions to officially start work!

But what shocked Cheng Xin the most , it was the idea itself proposed by Vader, which was incredible, both technically and from other aspects.

Vadim was the only one who remained calm, and he asked:

"Are there any specific indicators?"

Vade:[]

"Now there is only one target that must be reached - let the detector reach one percent of the speed of light!"

A technician said:

"Is the detector used to contact and detect the Trisolaran fleet after entering the deceleration stage?"

"This seems to be something that will be done in the future, right? There are still two or three centuries left before the Trisolaran fleet slows down."

Vade:

"Future technological progress has now become uncertain. If humans have been moving at a snail's pace in space, then we should start climbing as soon as possible." The audience was a little surprised

:"Let me go, Vader actually proposed a probe for the Trisolarans?!"

:"This idea is very advanced. At this time, the wall-facing plan has not been officially launched yet, right? Vader has actually started to propose sending detectors to the Trisolaris?"

:"Moreover, he also considered the factors that human technology is locked and future progress is uncertain, so it is best to do this as soon as possible!"

:"I'm a little obsessed with Vader. Doesn't he feel like he's just an ordinary supporting character?"

:"Yes, I also feel that it is not an ordinary supporting role."

After everyone thought for a moment, someone said:

"Reaching one percent of the speed of light... This is a hundred times increase in the current speed of spaceflight!"

"We cannot expect technological breakthroughs in the short term, so this idea is impossible from basic principles."

Vade firmly hit the table with his fist:

"Don’t forget we have resources!"

"We use resources to change the principle, focus huge resources on that small thing, and use brutal force to push it to one percent of the speed of light. Vadim smiled and shook his head:

"I don't want to offend you"

"Using resources to change principles......"

"It would make people laugh if it got out. It's okay to talk about it here, but don't say it at a meeting of the Planetary Defense Council."

Vade:"I know you are already laughing at me."

Everyone was silent.

Everyone just wanted this discussion to end quickly.

Wade's eyes swept across the conference room and suddenly said:

"Ah, not everyone, she didn't laugh at me. He raised his hand and pointed directly at Cheng Xin:

"Cheng, what do you think?"

Under Vader's sharp gaze,

Cheng Xin felt that what Vader was pointing at her was not a finger, but a sword.

Cheng Xin stood up:

"I have an idea——"

"Bypass the principle!"

"The resource most likely to be exploited at present is nuclear weapons"

"Imagine there is such a spacecraft or detector with a huge radiation sail, which is a thin film similar to a solar sail that can be propelled by radiation."

"Not far behind the radiation sail, nuclear explosions are continuously generated at certain intervals."

"The nuclear bomb is not on the spacecraft. The nuclear bomb is distributed on the initial short route of the spacecraft, and is launched there first using traditional propulsion methods."

"The spacecraft is composed of sails and detectors. It is as light as a feather and can easily be accelerated by the radiation of a nuclear explosion."

"The moment the spacecraft passes each nuclear bomb, the nuclear bomb explodes behind the sail, generating propulsion."

"This route is called the propulsion segment. It only accounts for a very small part of the entire route. It is estimated that one thousand propulsion nuclear bombs can be distributed over the five astronomical units from the Earth to Jupiter."

"Even shorter!"

"Compressing the propulsion segment within the orbit of Mars is achievable with current technology."

Cheng Xin's suggestion immediately plunged the technical staff in the conference room into a heated discussion.

These people were like a group of hungry wolves encountering a piece of fresh meat.

In the end, everyone felt that Cheng Xin's plan could be further developed. Exploring 323.

Just returnAn important indicator is that the mass of the detector must be light enough!

Their preliminary estimate is that the total weight of the detector needs to be reduced to one ton.

This plan is named——

【Ladder plan! 】

The audience was surprised again.

First, he was surprised that Vader seemed to be able to see through people's thoughts.

Second, he was surprised by Cheng Xin’s performance.

:"Hiss, Wade just looked around and knew that Cheng Xin was not laughing at him in his heart, and he could still tell that Cheng Xin had thoughts on this matter."

:"It seems that Vader also has the ability to read people's minds!"

:"Has the third character after Da Shi and Zhang Beihai who can see through people appeared?!"

:"Cheng Xin is not simple at all!"

:"yes! The plan she mentioned actually got everyone's approval."

:"You know, this is the technical planning department of the Strategic Intelligence Service, and its personnel must be elites from various national space agencies."

:"These people don't pay much attention and don't have any good suggestions."

:"But as the director's technical assistant, Cheng Xin came up with a plan that everyone agreed with!"

:"What does this plan mean? I didn’t understand it the first time I read it."

:"Me too, I feel like I need to watch it twice more!"

:"Ask the judges!"

:"Yes, the judges can explain it!"

Bingbing also noticed the barrage on the screen.

So she immediately asked the judges if they could explain the method proposed by Cheng Xin and what it meant?

At the judges' table.

Shi Xifeng picked up the microphone and explained:

"First, let’s talk about a situation"

"We use the racket to shoot the ball straight up. The movement process of the ball is: first it accelerates to fly upward, and when it reaches the highest speed of its upward flight, it starts to slow down.......Then when it reaches the highest point, the ball starts to fall."

"Then we can simply understand Cheng Xin’s method like this——"

"Compare the detector to a small ball and the nuclear explosion to a person swinging a racket."

"Now, we are on the ground and hit the small ball upwards with the racket."

"When the ball reaches its maximum speed......At that position, there will be a person who swings the racket to hit the ball again, allowing the ball to continue flying upward."

"And this swing will also give the ball a new acceleration, allowing it to continue to accelerate."

"The ball continues to fly upward like this, accelerating upward until it reaches the highest speed at this stage.......In that position, there will be a person who continues to swing the racket......"

"Just keep stacking up like this......The ball will keep flying upward and accelerating......"

"The ball accelerates until it reaches one percent of the speed of light, and then it's over!"

……………………

After changing several explanations, this explanation was finally chosen to be the easiest to understand... Although it is still a little rough, but you can roughly understand it.

By the way, what is the image of Vader that everyone has in mind?

What the young author brings in is: Mads Mikkelsen's version of Hannibal..

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