imperial capital.

In an apartment building in a community.

Wang Miao sat alone in the darkroom where the photos were developed.

He sat in his seat in a daze, looking at the stack of photos in his hand, completely lost in thought.

In his vision, there is a ghostly countdown on every photo.

This countdown is extremely regular.

从1200:00:00再到1199:49:33……

It seems that it is the time interval between his photo shoots.

"How could this happen?" Wang Miao grabbed his hair with fear in his eyes.

He thought it was the film, but he used a Leica 1988 camera produced in 2, which was fully mechanical and manual.

There is no automatic function, and it is impossible to overprint numbers such as dates on the film.

Moreover, after re-examining each negative, Wang Miao discovered something strange: these numbers could automatically adapt to the background.

For example, if the background is black, the numbers will become white; if the background is white, the numbers will become black.

As if, it was to create the greatest contrast ratio so that he could see it clearly at a glance.

When he saw the sixteenth film, a chill ran down his spine.

This photo was taken of a dead tree with an old wall as the background. The old wall is mottled and appears in black and white in the photo.

On such a background, it is impossible for the line of numbers to be displayed clearly in a normal position, whether it is black or white.

But it stood up and bent itself, appearing white along the dark body of the dead tree. It looked like a thin snake attached to the dead tree!

This can no longer be explained by products and science.

It was as if something was secretly manipulating these numbers.

Thinking of this, Wang Miao only felt a chill.

He has always been an atheist.

But what happened right now made him unable to find a scientific explanation at all.

He even once suspected that something was wrong with his spirit.

"Perhaps, it's time for me to see a doctor." Wang Miao shook her head with a wry smile.

Although, he knew that his spirit was normal.

However, he couldn't find anyone to talk about and solve the current matter.

He walked out of the dark room in a daze.

now.

His wife Li Yao also came back and was playing with her son in the hall.

Li Yao glanced at Wang Miao and obviously noticed that his face was frighteningly pale. She couldn't help but asked worriedly: "What's wrong with you? You stayed in the darkroom for so long?"

Looking at his wife, Wang Miao suddenly handed over the Leica camera and said, "Come and take some photos for me."

"Shooting what?" Li Yao asked with some doubts.

"Shoot whatever you want, use up the film!" Wang Miao said.

Li Yao was puzzled, but seeing her husband's appearance, she didn't have the heart to refuse, so she said, "Then let me take some pictures of Doudou."

She picked up the camera and pointed it at her son.

Wang Miao suddenly thought of the strange ghost countdown, and hurriedly stopped: "Don't take pictures of Doudou, just take pictures of other things."

The shutter clicked, Li Yao took a picture and said, "Why can't I press it anymore?"

Wang Miao taught his wife to turn the handle: "In this way, you have to rewind every time."

"It's really troublesome."

Li Yao shook her head and started filming again casually.

Soon.

Li Yao finished shooting and handed the camera back to Wang Miao.

Wang Miao, on the other hand, seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and quickly returned to the darkroom, preparing to develop the photos.

He was so busy that the developer and fixer were spilled all over the floor.

Soon, the film was developed.

While praying, Wang Miao looked at the wet films with a magnifying glass.

The countdown is literally gone!

On the negative, there is only a blurry interior picture.

However, Wang Miao felt that these pictures were the most pleasing photos he had ever seen.

To further confirm that the ghost countdown has disappeared.

Wang Miao put another film on the Leica camera, turned on the light in the dark room, and started shooting casually.

The film was quickly developed again.

however--

When Wang Miao saw the photo above, his heart sank to the bottom of the valley again.

Ghost countdown, appeared again!

It can be seen from the screen that the ghost countdown has never stopped at all, it's just that it didn't show on the film taken by Li Yao.

1186:34:13、1186:34:02、1186:33:46、1186:33:35……

Wang Miao rushed out of the dark room, and under the suspicious eyes of his wife, he rushed out of the house and went straight to the neighbor's house next door.

He wanted to borrow a digital camera to see if the same result would occur!

however--

As soon as he went out, two figures walked up to him.

One of them, who looked to be in his twenties, was wearing a white T-shirt, handsome, and had an indescribable calm temperament.

The other person formed a sharp contrast with the young man beside him.

Meat-faced, wearing a dirty black jacket, with a cigarette dangling from his mouth.

Just like a butcher!

Wang Miao stopped, looked towards him and said, "Who are you looking for?"

Lu Cheng looked at Wang Miao and said, "Let me introduce myself, I am a teacher of Beihang University, named Lu Cheng, and the other one is the captain of the anti-terrorist brigade, named Shi Qiang!"

"Dr. Wang, we came here specially to find you this time."

This time.

Chang Weisi did not come over, but arranged for Shi Qiang and some special forces to lead a team to follow.

Because many members of the Earth Trisolaris organization were captured this time, Chang Weisi had to be responsible for interrogating these members.

There are also some aftermath matters that need to be directed by him personally.

It’s impossible to do everything yourself.

Wang Miao couldn't help raising his brows when he saw two irrelevant characters appearing in front of him.

He looked at Lu Cheng and said, "I've heard about you, that you led Ding Yi and the others to develop a new type of energy ark reactor!"

This matter has been widely spread in the academic circles.

It can be said that among all scientific researchers who have something to do with energy and power, there is no one who has not heard of Lu Cheng's name.

Although Wang Miao mainly studies the development of nanomaterials, he and Ding Yi are old friends, so he has naturally heard of Lu Cheng's name.

This is a genius.

It is said that he has been in business for many years, and after going bankrupt, he returned to school to teach.

Within a few months, the Ark Reactor, an energy source that lasted for thousands of years, was developed!

It laid a solid foundation for the rise of China's heavy industry.

Wang Miao's nano industry has also received certain benefits from this project.

after all--

The research on the Ark reactor also needs to rely on nanomaterials.

Lu Cheng said: "It's just a fluke."

Wang Miao was in a very complicated mood now, but she didn't have the time to be polite to Lu Cheng, so she went straight to the point and said, "Mr. Lu, I don't know what you want from me?"

Lu Cheng looked at Wang Miao and said, "I don't know where Dr. Wang is going. Are you free now?"

Shi Qiang took a puff of cigarette, and said from the side: "You guys who are engaged in scientific research are just dawdling. If you have something to say, just say no. If you are free, even if he is not free, he must be free now!"

Wang Miao raised his eyebrows imperceptibly when he heard Shi Qiang's words.

He didn't like the rude man in front of him from the bottom of his heart.

Lu Cheng said: "Captain Shi, Chief Chang has told me that you must listen to me the whole time, please don't interrupt casually."

Shi Qiang waved his hand and exhaled a puff of smoke ring: "Okay, let's chat!"

Only then did Lu Cheng look at Wang Miao, and said, "Professor Wang, I came to see you this time for two things, but it's a long story, can we find a place to talk in detail."

Wang Miao nodded: "Okay, you can sit in the room, but I don't welcome this person."

As he spoke, he glanced at Shi Qiang.

Shi Qiang curled his lips: "I'm too lazy to go in."

He leaned against the wall, smoking and playing with snake.

Wang Miao then led Lu Cheng into the house.

The entire room was decorated very warmly, and there were family portraits of Wang Miao's family hanging on the wall.

Wang Miao looked at his wife in the hall, and said, "Xiaoyao, take Doudou to the room to play."

Li Yao nodded when she saw a guest, and went back to the house with her son in her arms.

Wang Miao made a cup of tea for Lu Cheng in a leisurely manner, and said, "Can we talk now?"

Lu Cheng nodded and said, "First thing, I want to ask Dr. Wang if you have encountered anything strange recently, such as strange numbers appearing in your eyes."

Wang Miao, as the protagonist in "The Three-Body Problem", has outstanding abilities.

The high-strength nanomaterials researched by him have brought new vitality to all walks of life.

Especially the aerospace industry, with the support of high-strength nano-materials, has achieved breakthrough development.

In order to limit the development of material science, sophons set their sights on Wang Miao after their arrival.

By printing numbers on his retina, it caused him a nervous breakdown.

Afterwards, with the help of Shen Yufei, Wang Miao entered the Three-Body Problem game, and assisted the military to defeat the Earth Three-Body Organization and obtain a large amount of information about the Three-Body Planet.

However, this time with Lu Cheng's participation, Wang Miao did not enter the three-body game as in the original book.

Wang Miao looked at Lu Cheng with an unbelievable look in his eyes: "You, do you know about the ghost countdown?"

Lu Cheng said: "Well, I also know why there is such a strange countdown in your eyes."

"Why?!" Wang Miao was short of breath and said impatiently.

Lu Cheng said lightly: "To explain this, you first need to know that there is a planet called Trisolaris 42 light-years away from our solar system..."

He briefly introduced to Wang Miao about the origin and use of sophons!

These were all approved by Chang Weisi and were not considered violations.

Scientists and researchers such as Wang Miao who are well-known in society have the right to know about the Trisolaran planet.

Because, in the later stage, the country must also use these talents.

Listening to Lu Cheng's narration, Wang Miao couldn't help opening his mouth slightly: "You, you mean, the strange numbers I saw were all printed on my retina by Sophon through a special printing method?"

Lu Cheng nodded: "You can understand it that way!"

"No, unbelievable, this is really unbelievable." Wang Miao looked around, "These things are floating around us?"

He was dubious about Lu Cheng's words.

After all, this statement is no less than making him believe that God really exists.

If it were normal, he would definitely think that Lu Cheng was crazy.

However, now that he has come into contact with these weird things, he can't help but not believe it.

Lu Cheng looked around and said lightly: "Actually, sophons exist in low-dimensional space and keep moving at the speed of light. He can borrow energy from the vacuum. In theory, it will never stop. , however, according to the special theory of relativity, from our perspective, it can indeed be said that it is in an absolutely static state.”

"It is precisely because of its speed of light that it can monitor all information on the earth at all times and interfere with various physical experiments."

"Our current conversation will naturally be transmitted back to the Trisolaran planet through Sophon, word for word."

When Wang Miao heard this, he opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

This terrifying power has surpassed all existing technologies on Earth.

This is simply unheard of.

Lu Cheng looked at Wang Miao, and said, "Don't worry too much, the role of sophons is only to lock down human technology, and it is not offensive in itself. If the three-body planet wants to reach the earth, it will take at least 400 years."

"Humanity still has a chance to find a way to compete with the Trisolaran planet."

Wang Miao exhaled and said, "Mr. Lu, what's the second thing you want to say?"

Lu Cheng said: "This is one of the reasons why I came to you. I hope you can speed up the research on high-strength nanomaterials. A space technology I will develop in the future will need your materials, and the same will happen." I hope you can come and help.”

Wang Miao nodded: "As for this, of course I can spare no effort to help."

Lu Cheng smiled: "I don't worry about that. Now, come with me to the Astronomical Observation Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Trisolaran has prepared a miracle for me to see."

Wang Miao pursed her lips: "Okay."

He only had a vague concept about the Trisolaran people.

Therefore, he was eager to learn more information about the Trisolarans.

Wang Miao looked at his wife in the house and said hello: "Xiaoyao, I have something to do tonight, so I won't eat at home."

Lu Cheng led Wang Miao out of the house, looked at Shi Qiang who was standing outside the house and said, "Captain Shi, let's go to the Astronomical Observation Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences."

A group of people quickly drove towards the astronomical observation center in a military vehicle.

Start from Jingmi Road, turn to Heilongtan, and walk a section of winding mountain road.

After more than three hours.

All the talents arrived at the Astronomical Observation Center.

Twenty-eight parabolic antennas with a diameter of nine meters were lined up in the dusk, like a row of spectacular steel plants.

soon.

They found the person in charge of the observation center, Sha Ruishan.

He is Ye Wenjie's student, and he has done in-depth research on celestial observation.

Lu Cheng said: "Dr. Sha, I want to observe the overall isotropic fluctuations of the cosmic 3k microwave background radiation, with an amplitude between one and five percent."

Sha Ruishan had obviously been notified in advance and said: "Okay, but I want to remind Mr. Lu in advance that this is simply impossible to achieve. If this kind of fluctuation is really achieved, it means that the entire universe seems to be broken. It flickers like a fluorescent tube, which is no less than a miracle."

Lu Cheng smiled: "It's okay, just do it, I also want to see if this miracle will happen."

Sha Ruishan said: "Okay, I'm going to debug the equipment. It will take a while."

"Well, we have time now, we can wait."

Time passed by minute by minute.

Until ten o'clock in the evening, the night sky was completely dark.

Sha Ruishan just walked over and said: "The equipment is debugged!"

A group of people came to the laboratory and began to wait for the display on the terminal screen.

Soon.

The fluctuations are formed above.

As soon as the wave appeared, the straight line turned into a curve, with sharp peaks appearing at different intervals, and the color turned red, like a snake that had hibernated and started to squirm with blood.

"It must be a fault with the be satellite!" Sha Ruishan said, staring at the curve in horror.

"Maybe it's not a malfunction." Lu Cheng and Wang Miao stood aside and looked at the miracle in front of them.

"We'll know right away!" Sha Ruishan said, quickly operating on the other two terminals. Soon, he called up the real-time data of the cosmic background radiation from two other satellites and pnck, and displayed its changes as a curve——

The three curves fluctuate synchronously and are exactly the same.

Sha Ruishan shrank his pupils, took out another laptop, started the system in a hurry, plugged in the broadband network cable, and then called the Urumqi Radio Observation Base—and waited.

He didn't explain anything, and stared at the browser on the screen. A few minutes later, a coordinate window appeared on the browser, and a red curve appeared on the window, fluctuating in precise synchronization with the other three.

This time, Sha Ruishan was completely stunned.

Three satellites and a suite of ground-based observations simultaneously confirmed one thing: The universe really is flickering!

Just when he was shocked.

Strange things happened again.

These curves began to change slowly under the eyes of everyone.

Until the end, it became a line of pictographs.

You are all bugs!

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