I asked you to write about bugs, and you wrote about the three-body problem on the spot?

(Ten minutes for the sword bearer to decide——

【The water droplets that reached the solar system left four traces on the surface of the Trisolarans......Two followed the"Gravity" to pursue the"Blue Space", and two were followed by human detectors.

As for the remaining six water droplets, the Trisolarans say they have left the solar system....

But humans didn’t believe it!

To humans, Trisolarans are no longer the transparent thinking creatures they used to be.

【They have learned fast in the art of deception and subterfuge over the past two centuries! ]

People are convinced that those six water droplets must be lurking in the solar system.

However, the earth uses oil film material monitoring methods, and the effective radius is 15 million kilometers.

In other words, outside this range is the space where water droplets can move freely.

It only takes ten minutes for the water droplets to rush through these fifteen million kilometers at the highest speed! 】

Ten minutes— that is, once the final moment arrives, the sword holder has the time to make a decision.）

…

Five minutes after Luo Ji left!

The white wall in front of Cheng Xin suddenly turned red, as if it had been burned through by the magma of hell.

This was the color of the highest alarm!

A line of large white characters appeared on a red background, and each word was like a scream of terror:

【Found the water drop!】

【There are six in total, one of which flies towards the Lagrange point between the earth and the sun, and the other five are divided into three formations, one, two and two, and rush towards the earth at a speed of 25,000 kilometers per second.】

【It is expected to arrive on the ground in ten minutes! 】

(Water droplets at the Lagrange point between the earth and the sun can block the solar wave amplification function, just like blocking the sun for the first time.)

The audience was all shocked!

They were all stunned!

For a moment, he didn’t even react!

None of them expected that as soon as Cheng Xin took over as the sword holder, and just five minutes after Luo Ji left, the water droplet would launch an attack on the earth!

They all thought that

Qin Feng's arrangement was not intimidating enough, but Cheng Xin, who was popular among the people, became the sword holder to use the protagonist's aura to meet the requirements of the sword holder and to deter the Trisolarans!

None of them thought that after Qin Feng made Cheng Xin the sword holder, the first thing he did was to let water droplets attack the earth!

They were all shocked by this sudden plot!

Cheng Xin understood one thing first: it was wrong!

I got it all wrong!

Deep in her subconscious, her mission as a sword bearer has always presented a completely wrong image!

She spent all night discussing possible extreme scenarios with the chain of command and strategists, and even imagined scenarios that were worse than the current one.......

But she made a fatal mistake that she did not and could not have noticed.——

【Subconsciously, she didn't believe that what was happening now would happen! ]

It was precisely because of this mistake that she was elected as the second sword holder.

The highest level alarm on the white wall is still reporting:

【The average distance between the three formations of water droplets and the earth is 14 million kilometers, and the nearest distance is 13.5 million kilometers.】

【Arrive on the ground in nine minutes!】

…

In Cheng Xin's subconscious mind, she is a protector, not a destroyer.

She is a woman, not a warrior.

When she faced that distant world as a sword holder, unlike Luo Ji, she didn't feel that it was a life-and-death duel!

She only felt that this was a game of chess. She calmly sat down in front of the chessboard, thought of various openings, assumed the opponent's various chess moves, and thought of ways to deal with them one by one.

She is prepared to spend her whole life playing this game of chess

【But the opponent didn't move a single chess piece. Instead, he grabbed the chessboard and threw it at her head and face! 】

Just five minutes after Luo Ji left, six water droplets began to accelerate toward the earth from their hiding places.

The enemy didn't waste a second longer!

【The average distance between the three formations of water droplets and the earth is 13 million kilometers, and the nearest distance is 12 million kilometers.】

【Reaching the ground in eight minutes! 】

At this time, the audience all held their breath and watched the content on the screen.

Live broadcast room, program hall, holiday villa in Island Province......Everything fell into silence again!

Although my breathing is light, my heartbeat is not slow at all!

【The average distance between the three formations of water droplets and the earth is 11.5 million kilometers, and the nearest distance is 10.5 million kilometers.】

【Reaching the ground in seven minutes! 】

blank!

All blank!

Cheng Xin felt like she was in a vast void, and she couldn't find any support.

【The average distance between a water droplet and the earth is 10 million kilometers, and the nearest distance is 9 million kilometers】

【Reached the ground in six minutes! 】

what to do? what to do?

At this moment, the audience was shouting in their hearts:

Press!

Press the deterrent trigger!

Carry out your duty as a sword bearer!

Draw your sword against the Trisolarans!

Although they were shouting crazily in their hearts, the external environment was still deathly silent!

Everyone is still holding their breath and staring at the screen.

Except for the cry in my heart......

All that was accompanied was the pounding of the heartbeat and the anxiety in the dead air!

【The average distance between the three formations of water droplets and the earth is 9 million kilometers, and the nearest distance is 7.5 million kilometers.】

【Reach the ground in five minutes! 】

The blank space in Cheng Xin's brain disappeared.

Suddenly, a picture of meteorites depositing and forming the earth appeared in front of her eyes.

【The average distance between the three formations of water droplets and the earth is 7.5 million kilometers, and the nearest distance is 6 million kilometers.】

【Arrive on the ground in four minutes! 】

The picture in front of her began to be formed by the earth, and turned into iterations of long years:

Archean Era, Proterozoic Era, Cambrian Era......Jurassic, Cretaceous......

Then humans appeared, just a blink of an eye compared to the long years before!

This journey of 3.5 billion years of wind and rain stopped in front of a small human individual - she held a red switch in her hand!

【The distance between the three formations of water droplets and the earth is 6 million kilometers, and the nearest distance is 4.5 million kilometers.】

【Reach the ground in three minutes! 】

Four billion yearsThe light settled above Cheng Xin, suffocating her!

The picture in front of her began to become crowded with creatures: dinosaurs, mammals including humans, trilobites, ants, birds......

The most terrifying ones are the eyes: the eyes of dinosaurs, the eyes of trilobites and ants, the eyes of birds and butterflies, the eyes of bacteria......

The human eye, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, Einstein......s eyes!

The audience shouted in their hearts:

Don't step on the horse because you don't have eyes!

Click!

Click quickly!

Only three minutes left!

The Trisolaran sword is about to pierce the human throat!

As the sword holder, hurry up and draw your sword at the Trisolarans!

【The average distance between the three formations of water droplets and the earth is 4.5 million kilometers, and the nearest distance is 3 million kilometers.】

【Reach the ground in two minutes!】

【The two formations with a number of two are pointing to Yazhou and Beimei Continent respectively; the formation with a number of one is pointing to Ouzhou Continent. 】

Press the switch and the process of 3.5 billion years will be stopped.

Everything will disappear in the long night of the universe, as if it never existed.

People in the crowd at United Nations Square began to appear in Cheng Xin's eyes.

She saw one of the babies, a soft, warm baby......

Smiling sweetly and calling her mom

【The average distance between the three formations of water droplets and the earth is 3 million kilometers, and the nearest distance is 1.5 million kilometers.】

【is decelerating sharply】

【Reaching the ground in one minute and thirty seconds!】

"No——"

Cheng Xin screamed and threw the switch in her hand.

Watching it slide away into the distance like a devil.

The audience was dumbfounded!

None of them expected that

Cheng Xin would directly threaten the switch and throw it away!

She actually threw it away!

And it’s like looking at the devil, looking at the switch! What's the difference between this and a swordsman who, in a duel with someone, throws away his sword when the enemy stabs him with a sword

, and looks at his sword as if he's looking at a devil ?!

This is an act of suicide!

Incomprehensible behavior!

【The three formations of water droplets have approached the lunar orbit, continue to slow down, and speculate on the attack target based on the extension of their route:】

【Beimei, Ouzhou and Yazhou gravitational wave transmitting stations, gravitational wave cosmic broadcasting system control station zero】

【It is expected to touch the ground in thirty seconds. 】

In the last period of time,

Cheng Xin did not hesitate.

She had almost made her decision.

This decision was not made with thoughts, but was hidden deep in her genes!

【The North Magnesium Gravitational Wave Launching Station was destroyed!】

【The Ouzhou gravitational wave launcher was destroyed!】

【The Yazhou gravitational wave launcher was destroyed!】

【The solar wave amplification function is suppressed in all frequency bands! 】

Then.

These lines of words disappeared, and a line of words reappeared:

【The gravitational wave cosmic broadcast system cannot be restored, and the dark forest deterrence is terminated! 】

The audience was still in silence at this time.

From the time when water droplets attack the earth, to the end of the attack, the dark forest deterrence ends……[]

The whole time, the audience was in silence.

Just like Luo Ji started talking to the Trisolarans and successfully intimidated them.Cheng is the same...

They have been in silence.

The whole process was spent watching the screen with bated breath.

But the emotions in his heart, when establishing a deterrent with Luo Ji,......

But it is completely different!

Even the complete opposite!

One establishes deterrence, the other terminates deterrence...

At this time, the audience did not know what to say.

Deterrence ends!

The deterrence Luo Ji established has ended!

Luo Ji, who had terrorized the Trisolarans for 62 years and held the sword alone for 54 years... had just left for five minutes.......

Just five minutes!

Deterrence ends!

At this time, the emotions in the audience's hearts were extremely complicated!

Mixed feelings!

I want to sigh something, but I don’t know how to sigh!

Everyone was truly speechless...... at last.

Shi Xifeng broke the silence:

"This is not Cheng Xin’s choice. This is not her failure."

"This is the choice of the entire human race, the failure of the entire human race!"

"Cheng Xin fears the deterrent switch because——"

"If you press the deterrent switch, the entire earth will be destroyed."

"All life on earth is destroyed!"

"She is afraid of destroying the earth that has evolved over more than three billion years!"

"She even believes that the entire earth cannot be destroyed because of human survival issues."

"The kindness deep in her heart prevents her from doing such a thing"

"The previous candidate for Sword Holder commented on Cheng Xin - she has nothing but kindness and sense of responsibility!"

"This passage also mentioned that Cheng Xin's final decision was not made with thoughts, but was hidden deep in her genes."

…

Shi Xifeng paused for a moment, then continued:

"Besides, this is the reason for the failure of the entire human race.——"

"It was because of Cheng Xin's kindness that humans chose her to be the sword bearer."

"Let the Trisolaran world be afraid, and let humans not be afraid......Human beings have chosen not to be afraid"

"They believe that the universe will be unified, and they believe that the Trisolaran people and the earth have entered true peace."

"So they chose to choose a person who made them feel good, but was far from intimidating enough to become the sword bearer!"

"It is precisely because of this that humans must have this result!"

"Even if Cheng Xin didn't show up,"

"Human beings will still choose a person who is as kind as Cheng Xin and makes them feel good to be the sword bearer"

"So, this is a failure of the entire human race"

"Humanity,"

"It is bound to fail!"

"It will definitely be attacked by water droplets, causing the deterrence to end!"

…

After another pause,

Shi Xifeng continued:

"In fact, all this is because of human arrogance!"

"Humanity has always been arrogant!"

"When he built two thousand space battleships, he was arrogant and thought that humans surpassed the Trisolarans!"

"Still arrogant now——"

"They believe that as long as the deterrent system is still there, the Trisolarans will not dare to do anything."

"Just like what Cheng Xin understood when the water droplets first launched their attack - she had imagined various extreme situations before, but she subconsciously did not believe that these would happen."

"In fact, Cheng Xin's thoughts are the thoughts of human beings."

"Humans don't believe that the Trisolarans dare to attack!"

"Humans don’t think that the person holding the sword needs a high degree of intimidation."

"It is because of this arrogance that led to this result!"

"A former sword bearer candidate said——【Human beings in the new era are more naive than the children of our time】"

"It's like the human mind has degenerated from adulthood to the cradle"

"but!"

"Their arrogance has never faded! Still the same!"

"What they didn't expect was——"

"The Trisolarans not only dared to attack them,"

"Still five minutes after Luo Ji left, he launched the attack!"

"It takes ten minutes for a water droplet to reach the earth......"

"Luo Ji left for five minutes and came back for five minutes, a total of ten minutes......."

"Therefore, the Trisolarans are not willing to wait for an extra minute!"

…

After the last pause,

Shi Xifeng said the last words:

"Qin Feng’s creative plot once again amazed me!"

"I think that Cheng Xin, who is kind and lacks intimidation, needs the blessing of the protagonist's halo to complete the mission of the sword holder."

"But I didn't expect that Cheng Xin would never complete the mission of the sword bearer!"

"And he didn’t stay even a minute longer!"

"The water droplets impatiently attacked the earth,"

"Qin Feng also couldn't wait to reveal Cheng Xin's failure and the failure of mankind."

"Qin Feng's plot will never fall into the cliche!"

Shi Xifeng's words not only broke the silence, but also opened up everyone's conversation.

A large number of barrages erupted on the quiet screen.

Everyone was discussing crazily, such as:

Cheng Xin's choice is the choice of mankind. Cheng Xin's choice is the choice of mankind. The failure of the heart is also the failure of mankind!

Humanity is still arrogant!

Qin Feng's plot cannot fall into the cliché, and the halo of the protagonist will not be blessed!

It is a pity that despite Luo Ji's efforts, the earth will still be invaded by the Trisolarans Got it!

……

Island province, holiday villa.

The three main Hugo Award judges and the three science fiction giants also discussed the plot and praised Qin Feng.

Finally said

"The end of the deterrence was something I never expected."

"The deterrent that was just built at the end of Three-Body Problem 2 unexpectedly ended shortly after the beginning of Three-Body Problem 3."

"Qin Feng always gives people unexpected plot directions!"

"I am looking forward to it now, what will the subsequent plot be like?! What is the main theme of Three-Body Problem 3?".