“The physicists on the list have committed suicide one after another in the past two months.”
At General Chang Weishi's words, Wang Miao's mind went blank as if he had been struck by a bolt from the blue.
And in that empty space, the black and white landscape photos he had taken came to mind.
Her shadow disappeared from the ground in the photo, and her eyes were erased from the sky.
A world has died.

--- p.20

The photos were developed quickly.
As he was looking through the photos to see if he could enlarge them, he noticed something strange.
There was a white spot at the very bottom center of the photo taken of a small lawn outside a shopping mall.
Looking closely, it was the number '1200:00:00'.
The second picture was dated 1199:49:33.
(……)
He found that the time interval shown in the two photographs matched the actual time interval taken.
It was clear that time was passing at the same speed as reality.
It was a countdown.

--- p.38~39

Wang Miao entered the easy-to-remember game address 'www.threebody.com' into the browser address bar.
(……)
The game started.
He stood in the wilderness where dawn was breaking.
The sky and the earth were completely dark brown, so I couldn't see anything in detail.
A ray of light shone on the distant horizon, and countless stars twinkled in the sky.
With a loud noise, two red-glowing mountain peaks collapsed onto the distant land, spreading a red glow across the wilderness.
Only after the dust that had obscured the sky and the sun had settled could Wang Miao see the letters towering high in the sky.
'The Three-Body Problem (三?)'
--- p.61~62

Silence fell.
The only sound was the antenna shaking in the wind.
The birds in the night sky also returned to the forest.
She looked at the antenna again.
It was like a giant palm spread wide open toward the sky, and it seemed to possess powers beyond this world.
She looked into the night sky where the 'palm' was pointing, but did not see its target, BN20197F.

--- p.138

“Three suns have risen!”
Wang Miao looked up at the sky and saw three huge suns slowly rotating around an invisible center.
It was as if a giant fan was blowing a deadly wind toward the earth.
The three suns that took up most of the sky moved westward and soon sank halfway below the horizon.
The 'fan' still rotated, its dazzling blades occasionally drawing the horizon, bringing brief sunrises and sunsets to the ruined world.

--- p.209

Although the evangelist did not know it, at that very moment, the first sound that Earth's civilization had sent into space became a chirping sound, which spread throughout the universe at the speed of light, centering on the sun.
A powerful radio wave of star-like power was passing through Jupiter's orbit like a giant tide.

At this time, at a frequency of 12,000 megahertz, the Sun became the brightest star in the galaxy.

--- p.303

This world has received your information.
I am a pacifist of this world.
I'm lucky I got your information first.
I warn you.
Don't answer! Don't answer! Don't answer!
(……) If you don’t answer, this world will not be able to determine the location of the transmitter.
But if you answer, the transmitter's location will be identified, your planetary system will be invaded, and your world will be occupied.
Don't answer! Don't answer! Don't answer!
--- p.308

Three seconds later, the Three-Body World made its first contact with humanity outside of Earth's rebels.
Afterwards, they stopped communicating with the Earth Triad rebels' descending faction.
The Three-Body World did not send any information while all attendees were alive.
At this time, information appeared in the eyes of everyone in the operations center, as if Wang Miao had seen a countdown.
The information flashed briefly for about two seconds and then disappeared.
But everyone saw exactly what it said.
It was only six characters.
You are worms.

--- p.433