Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 358 Lieutenant Colonel Xizi
"What?" Ding Yi thought he had misheard.

"Time stood still for a week," Tu Hengyu calmly repeated.

"You must have browsed the internet too, right? Did you find that the internet was also a mess? That's because the internet was completely frozen, even the moss was frozen. I don't know how large the area covered by the time freeze is, but the smallest area is at least the solar system."

Ding Yi was completely baffled: "How could time possibly stand still... What kind of physical concept is that? You mean all matter has stopped moving, right? Wait, if time did stand still, how do you know that time has stopped?"

Tu Hengyu: "I guessed it from the live broadcast of the world conference convened by the Chairman of the United Government. The Dinosaur Head and the Mushroom Head were also sitting next to the Chairman. The three of them didn't seem to be affected by the time freeze. They clearly knew a lot of things, but didn't say it outright at the conference. Instead, they convened a small meeting with the leaders of various countries."

It was only after I had the moss analyze the anomalies in the frequency band of sunlight that this conclusion was reached:
During the time standstill, the nuclear fusion reactions taking place inside the sun also immediately ceased, but photons continued to travel normally. Therefore, sunlight experienced a brief period of abnormal radiation, which helped the small moss determine the fact of the time standstill and its duration.

Tu Hengyu further emphasized: "It's not just me who discovered the anomaly; some astronomers have also found jumps in the positions of distant stars and galaxies that deviate from normal orbital motion when observing them. This is because during the week when solar system time stood still, the solar system itself stopped moving relative to the center of the Milky Way and other stars, but other celestial bodies continued to move normally. When time resumed, the solar system suddenly returned to its original position, and this sudden change in position can be captured by high-precision astronomical observation equipment."

After listening, Ding Yi frowned and fell into deep thought.

Ding Yi truthfully informed Tu Hengyu of everything he had seen and heard on the front lines, including the fact that the three-body probe was made of a material with a strong interaction force.

Ding Yi said to Tu Hengyu, "These ten water droplets are all made of strong interaction materials and can reach 8% of the speed of light in a very short time. These two prerequisites alone are enough for the ten water droplet detectors to encircle and annihilate the entire solar system fleet. If nothing unexpected happens, the solar system fleet will be completely wiped out."

Ding Yi emphasized: "There is no need for special attacks, just impact is enough. The water droplet propulsion system is very efficient and can achieve instantaneous turns at extremely small angles."

Upon hearing this, Tu Hengyu gasped.

Ding Yi got up and paced back and forth in the ward: "I guessed it would be like this. This is all due to the gap in basic science. After all, humanity has only been able to open the blockade of protons for five years. Five years... what can you do in five years? In fact, judging from the way the Sophons are wary of MOSS, the only thing between Earth and the Trisolaran world that is not technologically different is computer technology."

After saying that, Ding Yi looked at Tu Hengyu and said, "And you, the computer science trio, deserve great credit for this. Tu, you did a great job."

Tu Hengyu smiled wryly: "Professor Ding, you flatter me. The advancement of computer technology is the result of the joint efforts of countless computer scientists and researchers. The three of us at most played a guiding role, and the most crucial initial quantum data was obtained from Professor Luo Qing."

"There's no need to be modest. Without you and your master, the invention of quantum computers would have been delayed by at least a century."

Is computer technology truly the only technology that humanity can rival the Trisolaran world?

Just how advanced has the technology of the Three-Body world reached...?

Tu Hengyu frowned in thought. Suddenly, the old ideological imprints began to haunt him: the Trisolarans would surely win, and humanity would surely lose. These imprints began to constantly challenge his understanding, coupled with the victory declaration of the United Government Chairman:

"The human world has achieved the final victory over the Trisolaran world."

Tu Hengyu already hated Wu Miaoyuan, who had dragged him into this mess, and his teacher, who had watched helplessly as everything unfolded without being able to stop it. This intense conflict between his perception and reality caused him to lean against Ding Yi's hospital bed, rubbing his temples to ease the pain and forcing himself not to think about these things.

Ding Yi seemed oblivious to Tu Hengyu's unusual behavior. He said, "Before I lost consciousness, it was clear that warships had already relayed all the information about the droplets back to Fleet International. At that time, I saw that almost all the star-class warships had entered the forward four state. As for what happened afterward, I don't know."

Tu Hengyu took a deep breath and said, "The droplet must have destroyed a large number of solar system fleets. According to online reports, large numbers of international fleet soldiers, numbering as many as 400,000 to 500,000, appeared near the 'Great Depression' memorial plazas in Asia, America, and Europe. Because of the time freeze, the cameras did not capture this scene."

I suspect that, barring any unforeseen circumstances, these soldiers were most likely rescued during the time freeze. Who could bring all the survivors back to Earth within a week?

'It can only be Luo Qing...'

Both of them had this answer in their hearts.

"Can you get in touch with Luo Qing?" Tu Hengyu suddenly asked.

Ding Yi recalled the telepathic message he had heard from Luo Qing near Jupiter's orbit. Luo Qing had said that he was fighting a distorted mass of photons near the sun. This mass of photons was trapped in a space and appeared pitch black on the outside. He asked Ding Yi how to solve the problem.

Ding Yi forced himself to get up and, based on Luo Qing's description, made some bold assumptions about the physical properties that the other party might have, and even hypothesized a "flat entropy trap" that only exists in theory.

However, Luo Qing's divine sense quickly became distorted and disappeared, probably because he entered a quantum state, causing his divine sense to completely fail. In order to continue to contact Luo Qing, Ding Yi had Xi Zi find a still-functioning neutrino emitter from the destroyed warship and send all his guesses towards the sun to Luo Qing. This was the last thing he did before falling into a coma.

"I'll try to contact him. All I know is that he ran into some trouble before the war... When did that bastard delete me from his friends list?"

Ding Yi took out his phone and sent a message to Luo Qing. When he saw the big red exclamation mark, he felt as if a red ping-pong ball had been put on his nose.

Ding Yi angrily threw her phone on the ground. The floor tile, struck violently, instantly turned into a screen, displaying an emoticon that said "It hurts!" and generating the message: "Don't litter!"

A round-headed robot vacuum flew into the room, picked up the phone, and after discovering it wasn't trash but an old phone, picked it up with its furry tentacles, wiped it clean, handed it back to Ding Yi, and then happily flew away, waving its broom.

Tu Hengyu chuckled, while Ding Yi reluctantly took the phone.

As the two began to chat about events from the Common Era, a beautiful lieutenant colonel pushed open the door and walked in. Her tall, slender figure, typical of spacefaring humans, clearly identified her.

This is a lieutenant colonel from Fleet International's Space Force.

It is Xi Zi.

(End of this chapter)