♪ Countdown counter ♪ ♪ Hidden in eyes ♪ ♪ Explore deep dreams in the dark ♪ ♪ What is waiting for me at the end of the mysterious space-time ♪ ♪ Don't break the hope given to the world ♪ ♪ The sun still sets every day ♪ =Three-Body= =Episode 23=.

What extent had she traced to?

She tracked down Tsinghua University before she died.

Yes.

That's the university Ye Wenjie works in.

Professor Ye.

Actually, we investigated Chen Xue before because she was the daughter of Ye's sister and lived on one floor above Ye's home.

You know her sister, don't you?

She is Ye Wenxue who took the lead in exposing their father, Ye Zhetai.

Chen Xue was a top student in her class and joined Tsinghua University's independent enrollment, becoming the only student recommended for direct admission.

But she didn't receive the admission notice because the person ranked No.

2 went to Ye Wenxue and paid an amount of money to buy the admission.

Therefore, Ye Wenxue secretly withdrew Chen Xue's college application.

(Regard me as nonexistent.)

Are you Chen Xue?

I am teaching astrophysics in Tsinghua University.

Has your mother told you that she has a sister?

And then Chen Xue went to study at MIT and returned to China in June as a graduate student.

The course of her life looks normal, so if it weren't because of the two homicide cases, we would never have noticed her.

All clues point to one person.

I know.

Ye Wenjie.

I admit there are many doubtful points on her, but there is only one thing that has been perplexing and confusing me.

Yang Dong was her daughter.

Why does it perplex you?

Why?

How could you be confused by that?

There is nothing to be confused about!

The enemy we're facing now is not a human but the ETO, the extraterrestrials!

Can you figure it out by a human's logic?

I know you have a strong empathy and like to empathize with everything.

But let me tell you, Wang Miao.

When you try to empathize with your enemy, your judgement of right and wrong has been overturned.

Do you understand?

I'm sorry.

The reason why I said these words is that you're going to attend the ETO's meet-up.

By then, you will face a more complex situation than we expect.

If your judgment is still affected by your feelings, your kindness will be used, and you'll be put into a more dangerous situation.

I see.

But I have you, right?

You're affected by Pan Han.

Yes.

But since he made Mu Xing a scapegoat, she would have posed a threat to you if I hadn't dealt with her.

Our comrades can't be our enemies.

The reason why I agreed to let Evans form the ETO and be the commander was that I hoped they could be guided to be on the right road instead of the anti-human one.

We shouldn't give up easily.

But they've launched the war to us.

Commander, the conference is going to begin soon, and we're waiting for you to send out the confirmation document as well as your final command.

It's confirmed.

Send it out.

The former party of net citizens was used to select members, so the attendees of this meeting must be from the ETO.

We just helped the Adventists to deal with the Redemptionists, and they're going to hold a conference?

They must have something important to discuss, and core members are likely to appear.

I suggest setting up a full deployment so that we may catch some of them.

The ETO is not a normal criminal group, and there may be armed forces on the scene.

General Chang, you must give me enough manpower this time.

Snow Leopard Special Forces and gunships will be always on call, and cooperate with the task.

You're the on-scene commander.

Yes.

♪ I don't know who I am ♪ ♪ And I don't know where I am ♪ ♪ Fly and fly ♪ ♪ Never reaching the sky ♪ ♪ Lost in the forest ♪ ♪ When I can just leave my land ♪ ♪ On my way ♪ (Subject: ETO) (Attachment) ♪ Waiting for your boat ♪ ♪ Can you take me from the old world ♪ ♪ But now we can not stop ♪ ♪ All our life we'll be sailing ♪ ♪ We're stuck in time ♪ (Send) (Sending the e-mail Subject: ETO) (Task accomplished) ♪ We don't stand a chance ♪ ♪ That makes me cry cry ♪ Commander, you forgot it again.

It's not enough to delete them in that way.

Look, all documents deleted into the Recycle Bin could be found here.

You have to shred them completely in case they will be restored.

(Restored) Documents with this tag were restored before.

Were they restored before?

(Restored) (1ETO Sophon Restored) I might have restored them accidentally.

It's late now.

Go back to rest.

I'll do it myself.

Rest early, Commander.

(Earth-Trisolaris Organization) (Tsinghua University) (Beloved Daughter, Yang Dong Mother, Ye Wenjie) (Yang Dong) Repeat what I told you.

First, try to stand by side and by the wall because it's easy to hide once something happens.

Second, they have armed forces.

Don't be nervous or keep staring at them.

Third, Ye Wenjie may appear.

Don't be panicked and try to stay calm.

What if you're caught?

If that happens, I'll fight back desperately.

No.

Wait for the rescue.

Since you often play jokes, I did the same thing.

I'm not going to die.

If anything happens to me, take care of my family for me.

It's said martyrs' children can be arranged to study in universities.

Nonsense!

You won't die.

Comrades, listen to me.

Pan Han.

Did you murder Shen Yufei?

Yes.

The reason why the Adventists face the crisis today is that in the midst of us exist some traitors like her.

Who gave you the right to kill her?

I did that out of a sense of responsibility to our organization.

Responsibility?

You're a person with malice!

What do you mean by that?

What has the Environment Branch done under your leadership?

Your responsibility is to exploit and create environmental problems to stir up people's hate to science and modern industry.

However, you've depended on Lord's technology and predictions to gain reputations and interests for yourself.

I've never gained reputations for myself.

In my eyes, humans are a pile of trash.

I don't care about reputations, but I need charisma to channel people's thinking.

You murdered someone and have drawn fire against yourself.

The governments of the world are in the state of war one after another now.

In Europe and North America, they're cracking down on the ETO.

Once we come to light, the Redemptionists will transfer their allegiance to the government, so what we should do now is to purge them from our organization.

That's something you should not consider.

Yes.

Of course it should be considered by Commander.

But comrades, I can tell you responsibly that Commander is an Adventist!

No.

You're wrong.

Commander is a Redemptionist.

Comrades, don't trust him.

Don't trust him.

He's talking nonsense and indiscreet in speaking.

We all know Commander's prestige well.

If what you said is true, the Redemptionists would have already been purged.

What if Commander knows something we don't?

Perhaps that's what the conference today is about.

Comrades, what should we do now?

Global uprising!

Yes.

Global uprising!

Global uprising!

Global uprising!

Global uprising!

Global uprising!

Global uprising!

Global uprising!

Global uprising!

You're asking for death!

You're asking for death!

You're asking for death!

Long live the spirit of Trisolaris!

We're tough grasses that resprout after every wildfire!

Revolution can reveal our existence in the political stage in the world.

It will mark the first public appearance of the ETO in human race's history.

As long as the agenda is correct, I believe it will arouse a wide response in the world.

Yes.

Global uprising!

Global uprising!

Global uprising!

Global uprising!

Global uprising!

Silence!

Silence!

Commander is here!

Eliminate human tyranny.

The world belongs to Trisolaris!

Hello, comrades.

Sit down.

I've been in poor health recently and haven't met you much.

The situation is very severe now, and I know you're under high pressure.

Commander, take care of yourself.

Commander, please take care of yourself.

- Commander, take care of yourself.

- Before discussing important matters, let's deal with a small thing.

Pan Han.

Commander, I'm here.

You disobeyed the organization's rule seriously.

Commander, our organization is facing a danger of getting swamped.

If we don't take decisive measures to cleanse the traitors and enemies, we'll lose everything.

The ultimate ideal and goal of the ETO is to lose everything.

Everything humans have, including us.

Commander, do you still insist on this ideal?

If so, you're an Adventist.

Please openly announce it now.

It means a lot to us.

This request should haven't been proposed by you.

You've seriously disobeyed our organization's rule.

If you want to appeal, you can do it now.

Otherwise, you have to bear the responsibility.

I just asked Wei Cheng and Shen Yufei to stop calculating, which was decided by Comrade Evans and approved unanimously in the meeting.

If we solve the Three-Body Problem, Lord won't come, and the enterprise of Trisolaris on the Earth will be ruined.

Let us believe you.

After all, it's not the most important thing now.

I hope we can continue to trust you.

Please repeat what you requested to me.

I...

Please openly announce you're an Adventist.

After all, the Adventists' agenda is also your ideal.

Then repeat the agenda.

Human society can no longer rely on its own power to solve its problems, nor can it restrain its madness.

Therefore, we should ask Lord to come, and in virtue of its power, supervise and transform humans by force to create a bright, new and advanced civilization.

Are the Adventists loyal to this agenda?

Of course, Commander.

Please don't believe false rumors.

No.

It was not a false rumor.

Who are you?

I am Rafael.

I know you.

You used to devote to alleviating regional conflicts.

Yes, Commander.

That's me.

Three years ago, my son died in a car accident.

Immediately after, I organized the donation of his kidney to a little girl from a neighboring country.

I wanted to show my hopes of a peaceful coexistence of our two nations.

Many people from revolt sites supported me.

But I was also attacked publicly.

They said I was a traitor of my own nation.

And on the other side, they said I was a manipulator.

My home got cut in the middle.

We witnessed an endless spiral of violence and vengeance.

I had dedicated all my life for the achievement of peace, but in the end, I lost all my faith in humanity.

That was when I decided to join the ETO.

Desperation changed you.

Yes.

Desperation turned me from a pacifist into an extremist.

And I donated so much money to the Organization that it became quite easy for me to join the core members of the Adventists.

And today, as an insider, I want to reveal to you the hidden agenda of the Adventists.

The Adventists believe that humans are an evil species.

They think that the human civilization has committed unforgivable crimes against the Earth.

The final goal of the Adventists is to completely destroy our human down!

The real agenda of the Adventists has already been an open secret.

Yes.

You're right.

But what you all don't know is that this goal was there right from the beginning.

It was the life-long dream of Mike Evans, the mastermind behind the Adventists.

Evans lied to the Organization.

He fooled everyone, including our commander.

And he turned the Adventists into a terror, a kingdom of terror, in bringing together extreme environmentalists and all sorts of madmen that hated humanity.

I didn't learn.

Evans' real thoughts until much later.

Even so, I still tried to patch over the differences to make the ETO remain united.

However, some of the other things done by the Adventists made my efforts impossible.

Commander, the Adventists are the core power of the ETO.

Without us, there would be no Earth-Trisolaris Movement.

But it's not the reason for you to monopolize the communication between the Organization and Lord.

We established the Second Red Coast Base, so of course we should operate it.

That was the condition the Adventists took advantage of to commit an unforgivable betrayal to the Organization.

You intercepted Lord's messages to the Organization and passed on only a few of them.

And after distorting, you sent a lot of messages that hadn't been checked by the Organization to Lord through the Second Red Coast Base.

There is much evidence of the Adventists' betrayal.

Comrade Shen Yufei was one of the providers.

She used to be one of the core members of the Adventists, but in the deepest bottom of her heart, she was a firm Redemptionist.

You knew that later.

The reason why she died was that she had known too much.

Men like Evans and you are incurable.

In order to maintain the agenda and ideal of the ETO, we'll completely solve the problem of the Adventists.

Wang.

Wang.

Let me introduce you the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Wang Miao.

He's my friend and researches nanomaterials, which is the first technology that Lord wants to extinguish from the Earth.

Professor Ye, why does Lord want to extinguish this technology first?

It starts from the Red Coast.

Many of us have heard about the story of the Red Coast, but many don't.

In this special moment, it's necessary for me to review our organization's development and history with you.

The story of the Red Coast starts now.

♪ The momentum of revolution is unstoppable ♪ ♪ Advance!

Advance ♪ ♪ In the direction of victory ♪ ♪ Three red flags are fluttering in the wind ♪ (At 8:00 AM, tomorrow morning, every department's device will be...) (The Red Coast is in the monitoring state.)

(The target range of monitoring, a radius of 1,000 light-years.)

(Fixed stars are about 20 million.)

(From 9:30 to 10:30...) It was hard to explore the extraterrestrial intelligence.

Many factors in the universe would interfere the monitoring.

Political Commissar Lei.

Are you working overtime?

How is it?

What problem do you meet?

Solar activities plague a lot to the monitoring, mainly the solar interference.

Follow me.

♪ Unity means power ♪ ♪ Unity means power ♪ ♪ The power is iron, the power is steel ♪ Political Commissar Lei.

♪ But it is harder and stronger ♪ ♪ Firing at the Fascism, we fight!

♪ Wenjie, come in.

♪ We'll wipe out all the systems not democratic ♪ ♪ Toward the sun ♪ ♪ And freedom ♪ ♪ And new China ♪ What are you looking for?

We asked to transfer Wenjie here because of this report.

(Attempted Mathematical Model of the Sun) We should have already used her, (By Ye Wenjie) We should have already used her, but you kept her from dealing with the problems in this aspect.

Now, Wenjie found it herself.

How much do you know about the solar interference?

The solar interference often appears in communication satellite technology.

Earth.

Satellite.

Sun.

When they are in a straight line, and the reception antenna on the surface of the Earth aims at the satellite, its background will be the sun.

The sun is a giant source of electromagnetic radiation, so the microwave from the satellite will be hugely interfered by solar radiation.

Yes.

But the solar interference is different in the Red Coast.

Exactly.

The outer space is a transmission source, and the Red Coast is a receiver.

The sun, as the interference, is in between.

Therefore, we'll be interfered more severely and frequently than the communication satellites.

Besides, the monitoring and transmission systems share the same antennae, so the time for monitoring is compressed immensely.

Under this circumstance, the solar interference becomes a more serious problem.

You've mentioned in this essay that the sun is simply composed by hydrogen and helium.

Although the physical process is violent, it's just a fusion from hydrogen into helium.

This kind of fusion could be calculated.

You provide us with a new train of thought.

In fact, Political Commissar Lei and I simply want to figure out the rule and characteristics of solar radiation and filter it digitally so that we won't be interfered.

You want to build the mathematical model of the sun to predict the sun's activities and avoid the sun outages from interfering the Red Coast?

But the sun's electromagnetic radiation is only stable within the limited range from NUV to MIR, including visible light.

In other ranges, it's volatile and unpredictable.

Therefore, during the periods of intense solar activities, such as sunspots, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, the solar interference can't be eliminated.

Okay.

Well, let's put the special situation aside, and just study the radio outbursts in the sun's normal activities.

How is it?

Weining and I are professional, but I focus on mental work, and Weining doesn't study astrophysics, so we can't develop much in our major.

That's why we leave this problem to you.

You can tell me whatever problem you meet in the process.

I'll try my best to solve it.

(I researched for half a year, and the process was very slow.)

(In other words, I saw no glimpse of hope.)

(In the monitoring scope of the Red Coast, ) (solar radiation was unpredictable.)

(There were many phenomena) (that I couldn't explain depending on my knowledge at that time.)

(My research was at a standstill, ) (and I couldn't find a way.)

What problem do you have?

I couldn't figure it out or find an explanation for it.

Normally, if solar radiation has a sudden fluctuation, there will be violent activities on the sun's surface.

It's just like this.

When the surface of water waves, there must be wind blowing or a stone throwing into it.

But over thousands of observed data show that when a frequency range has a fluctuation, the surface activities of the sun are as calm as usual.

Do you mean that the surface of the water waves without being blown by the wind or thrown into stones?

And it's a violent fluctuation.

Could this kind of radiation come from the sun's core?

The shortwave and microwave radiation can't pierce through hundreds of thousands of kilometers from the sun's core to its surface.

So it means this situation could only happen on the sun's surface.

According to the present materials of the sun I have, this seems to be the only possibility.

But when the fluctuation happens, we can't monitor the corresponding activity on the sun's surface.

(Then what could cause the fluctuation) (to the narrow frequency ranges?)

♪ I've seen things you people won't believe ♪ ♪ Soon our planet will vanish ♪ ♪ I've known the future you people won't think of ♪ ♪ Soon your planet will be punished ♪ ♪ I've seen things you people won't believe ♪ ♪ Soon our planet will vanish ♪ ♪ I've known the future you people won't think of ♪ ♪ Soon your planet will be punished ♪ ♪ I've seen things you people won't believe ♪ ♪ Soon our planet will vanish ♪ ♪ I've known the future you people won't think of ♪ ♪ Soon your planet will be punished ♪ ♪ I've seen things you people won't believe ♪ ♪ Soon our planet will vanish ♪ ♪ I've known the future you people won't think of ♪ ♪ Soon your planet will be punished ♪ ♪ I've seen things you people won't believe ♪ ♪ Soon our planet will vanish ♪ ♪ I've known the future you people won't think of ♪ ♪ Soon your planet will be punished ♪ =Three-Body=