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

Chapter 396 Supernova Crisis (3k)

Three-body world.

The Trisolaran leader, who was writing his autobiography and will, suddenly looked up at the newcomer.

They are the scientific wall-facers.

"What brings you here, Mr. Wallfacer?"

According to the Three-Body Wallfacer principle, the power of the four Three-Body Wallfacers is no less than that of the Three-Body Leader himself, and may even be higher than that of the Three-Body Leader in some respects.

Normally, the four Wallfacers rarely have any contact with the Trisolaran government, but instead mobilize their own resources and secretly carry out their own tasks and plans.

This scientific Wallfacer is the first person to come directly to the Trisolaran leader like this.

The Science Wallfacer sat opposite the Trisolaran leader; his former identity was that of an elderly theoretical physicist under the Science Administrator.

It easily passed the Wallfacer's rigorous selection process, winning the election as one of the four Wallfacers based on its profound understanding of physics.

These Wallfacers bear the hope for the continuation of the Trisolaran civilization.

Faced with the question from the Trisolaran leader, the thought waves of the Science Wallfacer did not shy away from the possible divine thoughts that might exist in the dark, and stated without reservation: "Leader, I have recently discovered a strange phenomenon in my arrangements in the Trisolaran orbit."

The Science Wallfacer is the most resource-intensive of the four-dimensional Wallfacers. It used the limited orbital resources of Trisolaris to build a massive three-star observation system to observe changes inside the three suns. Moreover, under the guise of "this is part of the plan," it intercepted all observational information and prevented it from flowing to the Trisolaran government.

This is precisely why it was able to notice the sun's anomaly before the Trisolaran government.

The Trisolaran leader asked in bewilderment, "What strange phenomenon is this?"

The scientist facing the wall replied: "The nuclear fusion efficiency of the giant sun is accelerating."

The people of the Trisolaran system simply named the three stars of the Trisolaran system according to their size: large, medium, and small.

The Trisolaran leader exclaimed in surprise: "Has a new round of stellar breathing occurred?"

The Trisolaran world discovered the phenomenon of stellar breathing early on, which is the random expansion of stars. Specifically, the star's atmosphere, the heliosphere, suddenly expands outward in large volume. This is one of the most severe Trisolaran catastrophes in the Trisolaran system. The other three planets in the Trisolaran system were destroyed in repeated random stellar breathing phenomena.

The most obvious sign before stellar breathing occurs is a sudden increase in the efficiency of nuclear fusion inside the star.

The news brought by the scientific wallfacers plunged the Trisolaran leader into panic.

Stellar breathing is an indelible nightmare for the Trisolaran world. The 191st Trisolaran civilization, which had developed to the information age, witnessed firsthand how the penultimate Trisolaran planet was completely swallowed up by the sudden stellar breathing of the giant sun.

The chain reaction caused by the planet's fall into the giant sun, such as the giant coronal mass ejection and super solar storm, easily destroyed the 191st Trisolaran civilization. This is one of the few civilizations in the history of the Trisolaran world that was directly destroyed by something other than the Trisolaran movement.

From that time onward, the nascent Trisolaran civilization had already conceived the prototype of the "Wandering Trisolaran" project, and the Trisolaran civilization did indeed develop the technology corresponding to planetary engines.

Unfortunately, the Trisolaran system's scarce resources meant that the idea of ​​building 10,000 Trisolaran engines could only remain an unrealistic fantasy.

Moreover, trying to escape the unpredictable gravitational pull of the Trisolaran world with only the weak thrust of a planetary engine is as difficult as an ant trying to cross the turbulent Yellow River.

poor.

Just as the Trisolaran leader was engrossed in the nightmare of stellar breathing, the elderly Science Wallfacer's calm thought waves, characteristic of older Trisolarans, quietly emanated from him.

"It's not a stellar breathing phenomenon."

Upon hearing this, the Trisolaran leader suddenly looked up, his eyes filled with joy: "It's not stellar breathing? That's good, that's good... as long as Trisolaris can be preserved..."

The Science Wallfacer impatiently interrupted the Trisolaran leader: "It's a supernova explosion."

"It's a supernova explosion... wait, supernova what?"

The Trisolaran leader stood there in astonishment.

"A supernova explosion."

"How is this possible? This is impossible!" Reason told the Trisolaran leader that this was something that could not possibly happen.

The thought waves of the scientific wall-dweller surge forth:

"Your Majesty, the phenomenon of stellar breathing is mainly manifested as the expansion and changes of the Sun's outer atmosphere. In essence, it is a super-large-scale coronal mass ejection, which only involves nuclear fusion reactions on the Sun's surface."

However, what we are currently detecting is that the nuclear fusion efficiency inside the sun is rapidly increasing, and the core temperature and pressure of the giant sun have risen to about three times the normal level in a very short period of time.

The Trisolaran leader murmured, "What does this mean?" The Science Wallfacer remained calm: "Heavy matter inside the Great Sun is increasing. Light nuclei will eventually fuse into heavy nuclei and, under the pressure of the Great Sun, form the nucleus of a neutron star, a neutron degenerate nucleus composed of iron nuclei."

The Trisolaran leader gritted his teeth: "And then?"

The science observer said: "Because of the increase in pressure and temperature, light nuclei such as hydrogen and helium will be rapidly consumed through fusion. When the fusion of light nuclei is finished, nuclear fusion inside the sun will also stop. At that time, the outer shell of the sun will collapse instantly into the neutron star core under the influence of gravity."

"And then what..." The Trisolaran leader's mind trembled with fear.

The mind of the scientific observer, as if judging with thought waves, displayed five words: "The outer shell will collapse at an extremely high speed, at a rate equivalent to the circumference of a three-body star per second, and will eventually collide with the nucleus of a neutron star, at which point a supernova explosion will occur."

The consequences of a supernova explosion need no further explanation; even if the Trisolaran leader wanted to bury their head in the sand, they had to face this harsh reality.
The dance of the three-body system, which has spanned billions of years, is finally coming to an end.

It ends with a supernova explosion.

It was quite grand.

The Trisolaran leader knew that after the supernova explosion, the middle sun and the small sun would also be violently disturbed and their gravity would become unbalanced, and there was even a chance that they would collide. As for the only Trisolaran star in the entire Trisolaran system, it would disappear without a trace in an instant, like raindrops under the scorching sun.

"How could this be? We've surveyed all three suns countless times. Each sun is in its most stable main sequence phase in history, with enough hydrogen cores inside to sustain the smaller sun for trillions of three-body times. And the larger sun, with ten times the mass of Earth's Sun... it should also have a lifespan of three hundred billion three-body times. Why is this happening?"

The Trisolaran leader trembled uncontrollably. It looked at the will it had written on its desk and suddenly found it utterly ridiculous.

It had originally hoped that after being executed by Luo Qing, it would leave behind a will that would inspire the Trisolaran world to survive the Luo Qing catastrophe and continue to develop towards the future, to give rise to a more brilliant civilization—or even to seek revenge.

But now, with the explosion of a supernova, everything has become meaningless.

The Three-Body world is finished.

In despair, the Trisolaran leader suddenly grasped a flash of inspiration within the thought membrane, as if realizing something, and looked hopefully at the Science Wallfacer.

"This is part of your plan, isn't it?"

The Science Wallfacer chuckled sarcastically: "This is not part of the Wallfacer Project, and I'm not lying to you. The abnormal energy fluctuations of the Great Sun have now appeared on its surface. I believe the Science Governor will be coming to report to you soon."

No sooner had the Science Wallfacer finished speaking than the Science Governor stumbled and crawled into the hall from outside, his thought membrane trembling violently, seemingly carrying an uncontrollable madness and fear.

"Führer... It's terrible! The Great Sun is about to explode as a supernova... We're finished! The entire Trisolaran world will not survive! Civilization will be destroyed! The world will burn!!"

Upon seeing the science administrator, who was crying so hard he was dehydrated, the Trisolaran leader slumped into his chair.

It asked one last question with its eyes closed.

"According to your calculations, how long after the supernova explosion of the great sun will it occur?"

The science wall-facer coldly offered an answer: "20 Three-Body Problems."

Converted to Earth years, that's only 20 years.

The Trisolaran leader then asked, "What caused the supernova explosion? Why would a main-sequence star, whose lifespan is at least 300 billion Trisolaran times (30 million years) remaining, suddenly experience a supernova explosion?"

The science enthusiast who remained silent said, "I don't know."

The Trisolaran leader suddenly realized: "I understand, I understand, it's that Luo Qing. He must have realized the fundamental threat that the Trisolaran world poses to the Earth world. He disdains to communicate with any Trisolaran and has accelerated the fusion of stars in a mysterious way, causing this supernova explosion that should have occurred 300 billion Trisolaran times ahead of schedule."

The scientific governor's thought membrane twitched: "It must be so. As a member of a god-level civilization, Luo Qing must have this ability. He is using this method to punish us."

After everyone had figured this out, the Wallfacer in front of them instantly lost his value in the eyes of the Trisolaran leader.

Since the Trisolaran world is doomed, these four Wallfacers are nothing but a joke. Luo Qing disdains communicating with the Wallfacers and did not even choose to come to the Trisolaran world.

Two hundred thousand years before the Three-Body Problem, the death sentence for the Three-Body world was announced.

"Scientist Wallfacer, Scientific Governor, you two may both return. I will draft a Trisolaran decree to lift the restrictions on the remaining resources of Trisolaris."

Humanities wallfacers have been urging me to loosen the soaking bill, claiming it's part of a plan I've previously opposed as short-sighted, but now I can understand it.

The Wallfacer is right. If the destruction 200,000 years after the Trisolaran invasion cannot be changed, then let the Trisolaran people enjoy some good days in their final moments.

As the supreme leader of the Trisolaran world, I must issue this difficult order.

The Trisolaran leader shed tears: "I will order the soaking."

(End of this chapter)