Starting as a Wallfacer, his defection to the Three-Body Problem shocked the world.

Yun Tianming felt as if he were in a dream.

Before him lay nothingness; an endless expanse of white almost completely filled his field of vision.

This feeling is very strange. Logically speaking, in a dream, a person's thoughts and consciousness should become very blurred, and the content of the dream should be bizarre and illogical.

But not now. Yun Tianming could clearly feel the existence of his consciousness. His body was standing on a white plane. He squatted down and reached out to touch the ground. The icy feeling was transmitted to his whole body through the touch of his fingers.

"so amazing."

Yun Tianming tried taking two steps in the white space.

He originally thought the space would be very small, and that he might bump into the wall if he wasn't careful.

However, no, he started by walking, then switched to running, but no matter how hard he tried, the space in his field of vision remained unchanged.

"You can begin your work now."

Lin Xuan's voice rang out behind Yun Tianming.

Upon hearing this, Yun Tianming turned around and looked at Lin Xuan, who had suddenly appeared behind him.

He knew that this was not a dream, but the interior of a [mega-dream].

After Lin Xuan brought Yun Tianming back to the Red Coast Base, about a few months later, Hines sent over the first experimental gaming helmet.

This thing is quite rudimentary. From its appearance alone, it looks like an iron frame worn on the head, with many complex circuit components integrated on it.

After testing the device and finding it to be safe, Lin Xuan made Yun Tianming the first person to try [Mewtwo].

One end of the device was connected to the large database created by Wang Miao using more than a dozen optical cables, and the other end was connected to Yun Tianming's brain.

After taking a dose of sleeping pills, Yun Tianming fell into a deep sleep.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in that white space.

"How are you feeling? Are you experiencing any discomfort?"

Lin Xuan looked at Yun Tianming in front of her. She had transmitted her information to Yun Tianming's brain through a database terminal, thus projecting herself here.

According to Hines, this technology is quite rudimentary, similar to a form of brain hypnosis, allowing outsiders to communicate with those who have entered the "megadream."

Of course, it's easy for someone inside Mewtwo to send messages to the outside world, but it's very difficult for someone outside to see someone inside Mewtwo.

Lin Xuan could only use the data detected inside [Super Dream] through the human brain information extraction device, and then use a computer to simulate a rough outline.

The simulation results could easily be off by a hair's breadth, but this would also make it extremely difficult for external sophons to guess what is happening inside Mewtwo.

"I am fine, I have no physical discomfort."

Yun Tianming felt that he couldn't be better at this moment.

Since being diagnosed with lung cancer, the disease has tormented his mind and body, but in the world of Mewtwo, his cancer no longer exists.

"Okay, let's start the first experiment. Try calculating a few questions."

Lin Xuan needed to assess Yun Tianming's thought process, and the best way to do that was to have him do math problems.

"Please briefly describe the general method for expanding an analytic function in a circular annulus into a Laurent series according to Laurent's theorem."

"Please briefly describe how Cauchy integrals are applied to complex functions."

"Please state the Laplace transform of the unit step function."

……

All ten questions belong to very simple theorems and formulas in complex functions.

Although Yun Tianming had graduated from the Seven Sons of National Defense many years ago, he still answered this basic question in just one minute after glancing at it.

"Okay, let's move on to the next test. Please imagine a scene that has left the deepest impression on your mind."

As Lin Xuan gave the order, the surrounding scenery began to change.

Suddenly, a beam of sunlight shone down from the sky into the previously empty white space.

Next came the grass, the synthetic running track, the playground, and rows upon rows of school buildings…

More and more scenes are emerging in this space.

This is the undergraduate campus of Kyoto Aerospace University. It was here that Yun Tianming met Cheng Xin and spent the best three years of his life here.

Looking at everything before him, Yun Tianming felt as if he had returned to that summer at Beijing Airlines, with a spring breeze on his face and sunlight shining on him, dispelling the gloom that had lingered over the years.

"Great, it looks much better than I expected."

Lin Xuan looked at the image uploaded from the computer and nodded slightly.

As expected, my previous idea was correct. The one that can depict the most realistic scenes is definitely not those stupid artificial intelligences, but human consciousness itself.

If this were made into a game, it would definitely have the highest graphics quality and the most realistic lighting and textures in the world.

"Okay, let's conduct the last experiment."

Lin Xuan's voice interrupted Yun Tianming, who was lost in thought.

"To verify Newton's first law, I will now remove all unnecessary parameters that may affect the experimental results and give you an ideal physical model."

As he spoke, he adjusted the corresponding parameters on the computer.

Newton's First Law: Every object persists in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an external force.

This law is just a hypothesis, because it is almost impossible to find a physical environment in reality that meets its experimental requirements if we want to verify it experimentally.

But it's different in Mewtwo. Any parameter that affects the experiment can be modified, and the simulation of real physical conditions can be 100% accurate.

After Lin Xuan removed all the variable parameters in the Mewtwo environment, Yun Tianming's body stood still in place.

Then, Lin Xuan applied a forward force to Yun Tianming.

As expected, Yun Tianming's body slid out and remained in a state of uniform linear motion.

Lin Xuan eliminated the influencing parameters such as friction underfoot and the Earth's own gravitational environment. Therefore, Yun Tianming's body now followed Newton's first law and began to glide forward at a constant speed due to inertia until he hit the teaching building in the distance, at which point his body finally stopped.

"Okay."

Lin Xuan severed Yun Tianming's connection to the dream world. After the effects of the sleeping pills wore off, Yun Tianming slowly opened his eyes.

Unlike normal dreams, Yun Tianming still remembered everything that happened in his dream after he woke up.

This is Lin Xuan's vision for the "Super Dream Project".

Since it's impossible to block the detection of sophons on a large scale in reality, it would be better to create a dream world that sophons cannot penetrate. Even if such a thing is not used for scientific calculations, its strategic value alone is extraordinary.

However, due to the current rudimentary nature of the equipment, many functions cannot yet be further realized.

The complete Super Dream Project should be able to enable the interconnection of human brains, constructing something similar to a "metaverse".

Wang Miao even gave this thing a very outrageous name—Brain Network.

“Completing calculations in a dream should be no problem, and I’ve found that because the body is in a coma, the brain’s computing power is even much higher than when you’re awake.”

Lin Xuan looked at the comparison data and said to Yun Tianming behind her.

“My brain isn’t very sharp. You should probably ask Dr. Ding Yi to do this experiment; the results should be better.”

Yun Tianming's words completely baffled Ding Yi, who was watching the commotion from the sidelines.

"Go away, I won't participate in this kind of experiment. Don't even think about messing with my brain until the technology is fully mature."

Lin Xuan didn't speak. He looked at the simplified version of the human brain information extractor on the table. This thing was just Hines' first creation, used for testing, so Hines didn't put much effort into its appearance.

To Lin Xuan's surprise, the gift was not delivered by Hines himself, but by ETO member Hines' wife, Keiko Yamasugi.

"Qin Shi Huang wants to see you."

Lin Xuan was stunned when Yamasugi Keiko said those words.

"see me?"

Lin Xuan was puzzled. He naturally knew who Qin Shi Huang was, the current leader of the Three-Body Organization. However, the two sides had not had much contact before. Why would this guy suddenly change his mind?

"Yes, the time is five days from now, and the location is agreed to be in the Three-Body game. Professor Wang Miao should know how to use that thing."

After explaining everything, Keiko Yamasugi disappeared from Lin Xuan's sight.

It was only then that Lin Xuan realized that she had come to find her alone.

That's really bold of them. Aren't they afraid that I'll turn around and kill them?

However, Lin Xuan quickly realized that if she really did that, the Trisolaran organization might be more pleased to see it.

Keiko Yamasugi's death will definitely anger Hines, and the two Wallfacers will develop hatred because of this. That would be more worthwhile than Keiko Yamasugi's death.

Afterwards, Lin Xuan asked Wang Miao about some details of the Three-Body Problem game. After understanding the general operation of the game, Lin Xuan quietly waited for the arrival of five days later.

At the same time, Yun Tianming contacted Hu Wen.

In the original storyline, Hu Wen made a fortune using the formula given to him by Yun Tianming. Later, the guy had some conscience and gave Yun Tianming about three million.

But at that time, Yun Tianming's lung cancer was already in its late stage, and it was not something that could be cured simply by having money.

So Yun Tianming was desperate, but he didn't want to leave the three million to his father, as that would be no different from giving it to his sister.

Yun Tianming felt that even if he donated all of that money to PDC, he would not want it to end up in his sister's hands. The sister who had wanted to die after being diagnosed with cancer so that money could be saved to buy a wedding house for her.

He won't live much longer, and he can't take this money to his grave anyway.

Suddenly, Yun Tianming saw the [Project Stars].

With just a few million dollars, one can own the property of an extrasolar star.

"Heh, Cheng Xin, I have nothing to give you, so I'll give you a star."

Upon realizing this decision, Yun Tianming did not hesitate to use the three million he had just received from Hu Wen to auction off a star, DX3906!

Cheng Xin received the authorization certificate for the star about three days later. At that time, she was designing the prototype of the [Stairway Project]. When she learned that someone had given her a star, she was first shocked, and then overjoyed!

Cheng Xin thought her childhood dream would never come true, but unexpectedly, it suddenly came true on this day.

"Cheng Xin, you must be the happiest girl in the world. Someone actually sent you a star. How romantic is that!"

After returning home, Cheng Xin couldn't wait to observe the star using the coordinates given in the authorization letter. But it was as if God was deliberately hiding her gift; for several days in a row, Cheng Xin couldn't observe the true appearance of the star.

But Cheng Xin could already imagine what it would look like; it must be a dreamy pink planet!

This completely wiped away the fatigue she had felt over the past few days due to the "Ladder Plan".

The Ladder Project was a potential plan proposed by Cheng Xin to send a probe to the Trisolaran fleet.

Given humanity's current travel speed, sending a probe to the Trisolaran fleet is indeed quite difficult.

The Trisolaran fleet may have already reached Earth, but this probe hasn't even left the solar system yet.

So Cheng Xin devised a plan: to deploy nuclear bombs in space and, during the probe's journey, to propel it to continuous acceleration through a series of explosions.

Because this acceleration increases step by step, like climbing stairs, it was named the "Staircase Project" by PIA.