Chapter 566

Liu Cixin's imagination is indeed boundless, fully displayed in the novel Three Body.

For example, how to solve the problem of discontinuity in a story spanning an extremely long time? The answer is hibernation.

Some characters are forced into hibernation, such as Shi Qiang, who contracted leukemia from radiation while encircling the Earth-Trisolaris Organization, which at the time was incurable.

By choosing to hibernate until the future, he was easily cured.

In the film, Luo Ji actively requests hibernation, wanting to go four hundred years ahead to find his wife and children.

Although he suspected Zhuang Yan was an agent sent by the United Nations, after several years of interaction he could not imagine the scene of his wife and children waking up after the Three Body fleet arrived.

He also truly could not forget Zhuang Yan and enjoy a leisurely, affluent life in this era.

Actually, his good days had indeed come to an end.

Because of Taylor and Radiaz's failures, opposition to the Wallfacer Plan grew loud, with too many people thinking the few Wallfacers were either lunatics or just wasting money.

Luo Ji idled away, enjoying his wealth, and was also criticized by many.

Now he is willing to hibernate straight to four hundred years later, which truly eases the pressure on the United Nations.

At the same time, UN Secretary-General Say told Luo Ji that he was the most likely to succeed among the four Wallfacers, and perhaps in four hundred years he would be more useful than staying in the present.

Luo Ji expressed incomprehension, and Say said, "Because among all humanity, you are the only one the Three Body civilization wants to kill."

"Under normal circumstances, someone like you could never bear any important responsibility, but now one thing outweighs everything: the Three Body world fears you. Please be your own Wallbreaker, find out why."

In an instant, all sorts of past events, like movie scenes, appeared one by one in Luo Ji's mind, and he finally understood why he had repeatedly been targeted for assassination.

Not only because of his identity as a Wallfacer, but the root lies in the Three Body civilization fearing him—and why is that?

Carrying such doubt, Luo Ji began to think, and before hibernation he sent a spell via the sun to the universe, exposing the coordinates of a star fifty light-years away.

However, this spell brought no change when Luo Ji woke up, making him feel he must have been mistaken.

Two hundred years later, when Luo Ji awoke, Earth had changed its appearance; various advanced high-tech products emerged, leaving the audience dazzled.

Yet the most eye-catching was still the massive, shocking Earth space fleet, followed by the scene of a droplet probe easily annihilating the Earth space fleet.

Exactly 2008 star-class warships, like fireworks being set off, were easily destroyed in outer space by the droplet probe.

Even though the audience knows the final outcome is that Luo Ji deterred the Three Body civilization and saved Earth, they still watch with unbearable tension.

A single droplet probe is this powerful, let alone the massive Three Body fleet—human civilization before the Three Body civilization is truly fragile, instantly reduced to dust!

The destruction of the outer space fleet destroyed humanity's confidence; the vast majority became walking corpses, beginning a final revelry.

People on Earth either sought immediate pleasure, went with the flow, or fell into despair, and the world fell into chaos.

Fortunately, the spell Luo Ji sent out earlier finally took effect; before hibernation he had broadcast to the universe the coordinates of a star fifty light-years from Earth, and now it has finally been observed that the star has been cleared.

The dark forest law is thus thoroughly proven, for Luo Ji used the sun to broadcast the location of stars in the universe, hoping a higher civilization would discover that star and eliminate it; this broadcasted information he called a spell. Now the spell has taken effect, showing that humanity is capable of sending more signals into the universe.

There surely exists a civilization higher than Three Body in the universe; now Earth and Three Body peoples mutually know each other's coordinates, and Luo Ji need only transmit the Three Body coordinates into the universe to destroy the Three Body civilization.

Finally, Luo Ji threatened by creating solar flashes through hydrogen bomb explosions, using the flashes to convey the Three Body world's position to the universe, and negotiated with the Three Body world, demanding that the "droplet" probe and the Three Body fleet change course.

Under such mutual destruction threat, the Three Body world was forced to accept the peace agreement, guiding humanity to build a gravitational-wave antenna capable of directly transmitting signals into the universe, lifting the sophon's interference with particle collision results, and imparting to humanity the advanced scientific technology of the Three Body world...

The film ends here, worthy of a grand reunion ending, for Zhuang Yan returns with her child, and the final frame freezes on the shot of Luo Ji embracing Zhuang Yan.

One can say this ending is very much in line with the aesthetics of both domestic and overseas audiences. While saving Earth, it also "redeemed" his family, and then they happily lived together as a family.

Of course, viewers familiar with the original know that Zhuang Yan ultimately leaves Luo Ji.

Perhaps she felt the mission was complete, and there was no need to continue being with someone she does not love!

A young woman in her early twenties, for the ostensible grand goal of saving all humanity, lives with an "old man" she does not particularly like, making a great sacrifice.

Thus, in the film, Zhuang Yan shows a faint sorrow when Luo Ji cannot see her, giving the character greater depth.

After the screening, Jiang Heng led the main creative team back onto the stage to begin an interactive interview.

In a flawless, error-free version!

The audience's reviews were basically positive, can be described as unanimous praise.

After all, this film has substance, has looks, has effects, and also features numerous super shocking grand scenes.

In terms of pacing, Jiang Heng has mastered it to perfection.

Especially the segment where Luo Ji negotiates with the sophon representing the Three Body civilization, filmed with extreme tension, leaving the audience exhilarated.

After the premiere, iQiyi here as usual provided meals.

Most guests attended, surrounding Jiang Heng to say various congratulations and compliments.

Besides that, Chen Kun who played Luo Ji, Zhang Ruozhu who played Zhuang Yan, Ma Dongxi who played Shi Qiang, etc., also received praise.

Jiang Wen even pulled Ma Dongxi for a photo together, and the latter also sensibly called Jiang Wen "big brother".

In the media, that very night various reports came out, all words of praise.

They praised Three Body 2 as the best science fiction film of the past century worldwide, saying there would be nothing better in the previous fifty years nor in the next fifty years.

In self-media, many short-video bloggers also rode the Three Body traffic, giving various explanations and praises, plus box office predictions.

Of course, the audience's favorite reports are still those about Zhang Ruozhu.

The official Weibo of Three Body 2 posted many photos on the day of the premiere, including on-site activity shots and stills of Zhang Ruozhu from the film.

Fans spread it everywhere, her messy hair earning her the title "fairy". (End of chapter)