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

The Kunlun Mountains are like a staircase leading from the earth to the heavens.

Centuries ago, countless literati and poets marveled at it, saying, "Three million jade dragons soared up, stirring up the heavens and chilling the earth."

And today, a war that will determine the fate of humanity will also take place here.

The ETO attack came three minutes after Luo Ji awoke. There was no artillery fire as expected; they abandoned their usual terrorist attacks and simply waited quietly in the distance for the outcome.

On the horizon, clouds began to gather continuously, as if someone were reaching out and using the sky as a basin to stir up the entire scene.

All the staff at the Red Coast Third Base looked up at the sky. Such a spectacle gave them a sense that a storm was brewing.

It was truly a sign that a storm was brewing.

"Is it going to rain?"

Luo Ji stretched his somewhat stiff body. His hibernation period hadn't been very long, so he recovered quickly.

The clouds churned and the wind picked up, scattering the snow everywhere and making it hard to open one's eyes.

The base's wind speed detection system detected the anomaly. Data from the sensors showed that the surrounding airflow speed was gradually increasing, rising from the originally calm level 3 to level 5, and there was a possibility that it would continue to increase.

The alarm was activated, and all the doors and windows in the Red Coast base began to lock automatically to prevent them from being blown into the sky by the strong winds.

Countless snowflakes were blown from the ground into the sky, but their flow was strange. Normally, snowflakes blown by the wind should rise in a spiral, but these snowflakes seemed to form a channel that kept rising in the sky.

Starting from the base, it spreads upwards and then converges, forming a fantastical celestial trace in the sky that resembles a cone.

"what is that?"

Shi Qiang looked at the thing above his head and asked Lin Xuan beside him.

"I don't know, but I speculate that it should be a kind of hydrodynamic weapon that can compress and change the direction of wind in a certain area."

Lin Xuan had never seen this thing in the original storyline. It's likely that the Trisolarans transmitted some new technology to ETO, but it was still within the scope of human understanding.

Humans have actually been studying similar hydrodynamic weapons for a long time; the design of firearms involves the field of hydrodynamics.

Humans simply cannot do what the Trisolarans did, directly using the wind field of an entire area as a means of attack.

"Are they going after Luo Ji?"

Shi Qiang was startled.

This sudden attack began after Luo Ji awoke, clearly indicating that the Trisolarans had not given up on assassinating him.

"Is there a way to solve?"

"I'm afraid it will be difficult. It would require us to have machines with equivalent capabilities to change the direction of airflow."

"The Trisolarans were quite ruthless. They used the simplest and most impossible method to assassinate Luo Ji: creating a fluid wind blade."

"According to Bernoulli's theorem that the faster the flow rate, the lower the pressure generated by the fluid, it is as if the air on the ground is being drawn up from the ground, and then forming a wind blade in the air that is strong enough to cut metal."

"This approach is like that 1:4:9 black monolith standing on the moon."

"What black stone tablet?"

Shi Qiang didn't understand.

"A science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, which tells the story of how humans discover a black monolith left behind by a super-civilization on the moon."

“考察者用普通的尺子测量后发现其三边比值为1：4：9。之后，人类用更精确的仪器测量了石碑的三边之比，仍是精确的1：4：9。”

"Later, mankind exhausted all its wisdom and tried its best to measure the ratio with the highest precision, which was always the perfect yet terrifying 1:4:9."

"That civilization conveyed a message to Earth's civilization in the simplest and most violent way."

Lin Xuan suddenly slowed down her speech, and then spoke slowly and deliberately.

"What does your destruction have to do with you?"

As Lin Xuan had predicted, although the Trisolarans did not act themselves but only entrusted the ETO, the technological prowess they displayed was already quite terrifying.

The ground staff had to hold onto the railing with one hand and hold onto the oxygen tank with the other.

The airflow speed at ground level is too fast, causing many people to experience symptoms of oxygen deficiency.

Luo Ji, who was just about to come out to check the situation, was forced to go back inside. The strong wind even uprooted some trees that were more than a meter thick from the ground.

It's as if there's an invisible giant hand in the sky picking vegetables in the field, and the buildings underground are like radishes. If the Red Coast Base hadn't been built with such a solid foundation, it would probably have been blown into the sky by the wind by now.

The entire Kunlun Mountains seemed to be covered by a giant straw, and just when everyone thought that the intensity of this airflow would continue to increase.

Suddenly, the wind stopped.

That's right, it stopped suddenly. Within a second, everything suddenly returned to normal, without any warning.

"Bang bang bang!"

A lot of things fell from the sky: flying stones, leaves, snowflakes...

The impact caused the roof of the entire Red Coast base to rattle loudly.

"it's over?"

Everyone instinctively looked up at the sky, but they saw nothing but a blue sky.

The next second, all they saw was a white dot in the sky.

It was like paint dripped onto a black sheet of paper, making it stand out conspicuously.

Then, the white dot expanded rapidly from the center outwards at an extremely fast speed, eventually forming a white line!

"coming."

Seeing this, Lin Xuan knew that the Trisolarans' attack was finally about to begin.

After seeing the scene in the sky, Ding Yi knew what was about to happen.

He quickly took control of the entire Red Coast base and raised the defense level to the highest level.

Suddenly, centered on the Red Coast Base, two bow-shaped defensive shields made of purple meteorite material slowly rose from the ground.

Ultimately, it enveloped the entire Red Coast base, forming an inverted semi-circular shield over the base.

Upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that the purple meteorites on this defensive shield are not a single entity, but rather an array of interconnected purple meteorites.

This is to maximize the dispersion of external forces when attacked by kinetic weapons.

The white line finally arrived. As they got closer, people realized that it was not a white line at all, but a wind pressure line caused by fluid disturbance, like the guillotine that killed Louis XVI.

"Buzz!"

The white line fell, cutting into the Red Coast Base's defensive shield as easily as slicing a cake.

The defensive array composed of purple meteorites was directly cut open, and the cut was as smooth as a mirror.

The buildings on the ground were also split in two, a large number of cables were cut, and sparks flew throughout the entire base.

"Luo Ji, are you alright?"

Shi Qiang released his grip and looked at Luo Ji, who was completely stunned.

He was currently in a section of a house that had been cut in half.

If Luo Ji had taken another step forward, he might have been killed instantly.

"Damn it, they didn't kill Luo Ji!"

The ETO members were immediately annoyed after receiving the message from Tomoko.

We were just a little short of completing the mission.

Just as Luo Ji was about to be killed, Shi Qiang suddenly rushed out and, as if by magic, pulled Luo Ji backward, thus saving Luo Ji's life.

"Let's do it again. I refuse to believe that Shi Qiang can save Luo Ji a second time after saving him the first time."

However, just as they were about to launch another attack, the voice of Qin Shi Huang came through their earpieces.

"Stop. The mission to assassinate Luo Ji is canceled."

"why?"

Upon hearing this order, all the ETO members were completely dumbfounded.

They were so close to success, why did they suddenly start backing down?

"This is the Lord's decision, come back."

……

a minute ago.

Lin Xuan looked at the mess at the Red Coast Base and felt helpless.

He wasn't actually too worried about Luo Ji's safety. With Shi Qiang around, it would be very difficult for ETO to kill Luo Ji.

But I never expected this weapon to be so powerful.

Damn ETO, how much will it cost to rebuild these things?

Seeing that the time was ripe, Lin Xuan stopped being silent.

"Tomoko."

With his soft call, Zhizi quickly appeared before him, projecting the words into his eyes.

"Observer, what is it?"

Have you forgotten our second deal?

When he agreed to help break through the wall of Diaz, Somogi agreed to two conditions: first, not to interfere with humanity's synchronous orbit defense; and second, not to launch attacks on the Red Coast Third Base and related personnel.

Zhizi paused for a moment before a passage of text reappeared.

"Luo Ji must be killed; this decision is above our deal."

Lin Xuan nodded slightly.

"I don't care if you kill Luo Ji, but you've ruined my base like this. Don't you plan to compensate me in any way?"

"We apologize, this is an unavoidable part of the situation. We will provide you with appropriate compensation in order to continue the previous transaction."

Lin Xuan immediately smiled.

This is what he was waiting for.

The Trisolarans do not yet understand deception, let alone what lies are.

So when they realized that the deal they had agreed to conflicted with what was happening now, they were momentarily stunned.

"Trisolarans, you don't want to break our deal, do you? Then let me rip you off!"