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

Chapter 136 The Darkest Hour [Part 2]

Thomas Wade is dead.

His death was sudden, even somewhat inexplicable.

Immediately after the destruction of the three major fleets, it jumped from the old PIA office building and crashed into a pile of human flesh.

An autopsy determined that "it" died by suicide. Police judged that "it" may have been unable to bear the blow of humanity's defeat and therefore chose to end its own life.

But those who knew Wade found it very strange. Wade was a man who would do anything to get ahead, and he would never choose to end his life by suicide unless it was the very last moment.

No matter how you look at it, this matter is eerily strange.

The Trisolarans also found it baffling.

They were just about to kill Thomas Wade when he inexplicably died, which is really a bit strange.

However, the Trisolarans didn't care too much. As long as he was dead, that was enough. In their eyes, humanity was already the defeated side. Without Lin Xuan and Luo Ji, the rest of humanity was not worth fearing.

But, unbeknownst to anyone, right next to Taylor at the hibernation center, a hibernation machine was suddenly activated, and a figure followed, stepping into the hibernation pod and setting their hibernation time for 61 years to come…

The six water droplets quickly passed the sun. The Trisolarans left one droplet behind as a "relay station" to interfere with the sun's signal, while the remaining five droplets continued their journey toward Earth.

Just as it was about to reach Earth, one of the water droplets suddenly accelerated and crashed head-on into the Reach space station.

At first, the space station did not react at all, but soon it shattered like porcelain.

Starting from the point where Reach was struck, the surrounding ring-shaped bands broke apart, disintegrating into pieces that continuously detached from the space station.

A series of explosions also occurred along the central axis of the space station, and countless fragments were derailed from their original orbits and flung out like cannonballs by Earth's gravity, destroying several surrounding space stations.

The space elevators connected to Reach were also severely damaged. Elevator 1, 2, and 3 broke in the middle, like an ice pop being snapped in two.

Without these three supporting pillars, the entire Reach space station was dragged by Earth's immense gravity and crashed directly into the Earth below.

Due to its excessive mass, as it fell through Earth's atmosphere, the metal plates on the space station rapidly heated up due to friction with the air, eventually forming a fireball that emitted a series of ear-piercing sonic booms.

However, this sound can only be heard on spaceplanes, which are also part of the atmosphere; it takes some distance to reach the ground.

From the perspective of Earth's surface, it looked like a huge meteorite had fallen into the sky, and it was so bright that it looked like a second sun had appeared!

As Reach falls, it continuously emits a pulse of light, which is dozens of times brighter than the moon.

These light pulses heat natural insulators, and the heat from these heated objects creates pressure waves in the surrounding air.

Continuous light pulses generate continuous pressure waves, causing surrounding leaves, grass, dark clothing, and even dark paint to emit a series of strange noises.

People looked up in horror at the sky, watching the sun gradually sink, along with humanity's hopes, crashing down on the man-made island of Verne located on the equator.

The next second, a mushroom cloud shot into the sky.

Island nations and other coastal countries also suffered from the strongest tsunami in history due to this massive impact.

But that wasn't all. While the droplet was attacking the Reach space station, four other droplets also rushed into Earth and began attacking their designated targets.

Asia: Kunlun Mountains:

A droplet of water crashed directly into the mountainside, the hard rock offering no resistance as it destroyed the Thinker array of over 100,000 clones hidden underground.

Then it turned back and crashed into the interior of the Red Coast Base, burying the huge antenna used for launching from the Red Coast Base, along with the database of the Super Dream World, in the ruins of Kunlun Mountain.

Europe: Northern Scottish Highlands

Based on the accurate information provided by Zhizi, the water droplet accurately hit the array of thinkers hidden in Loch Ness, which took almost no effort.

When the water droplets pierced the metal plates on the Thinker array, the entire Loch Ness began to twist downwards like a flushing toilet. Countless clones were crushed to pieces by the vortex created by the Coriolis force, and the entire Loch Ness became a sea of ​​blood, with clones' severed limbs and torsos visible everywhere.

Africa: Sahara Desert:

A man-made pyramid was easily destroyed by a water droplet. This was the last Thinker array in the SuperDream Database. After it was destroyed, the SuperDream Database's computing power would drop to less than one-thirtieth of its original power.

With this computing power, it might take decades or even a hundred years to build a model structure as before.

Today, humanity has completely lost the ability to broadcast using the sun.

Only then did the officials of Earth International realize what a foolish decision they had made.

No one was surprised that the water droplet attacked Lin Xuan's Mewtwo database, but it also blocked the sun's broadcasting ability. What does this mean?

This shows that besides Lin Xuan, the Trisolarans are also afraid of Luo Ji!

Because Luo Ji's original plan was to use the sun to launch a "curse" outward.

Although no one knows the principle behind this curse, the fact that the Trisolarans are afraid of Luo Ji's plan speaks volumes.

The Trisolarans are not only afraid of Lin Xuan, but also of Luo Ji!

And what did we do?

In order to retaliate against Luo Congmin politically, they personally revoked Luo Ji's Wallfacer status, blocking humanity's last path to survival.

At the time, Luo Ji seemed indifferent to the cancellation of his Wallfacer status, perhaps because he had already guessed that this would be the outcome.

It is a pipe dream to expect humanity to remain rational forever.

Just when everyone was at a loss, Zhizi sent a message to all people on Earth through the internet.

"We will be destroying all dungeons in 12 hours. All dungeon residents, please move to the surface immediately."

Then, a huge death countdown appeared on everyone's phone screen, large enough to fill the entire screen. When the time was up, five water droplets would immediately launch an attack on more than 5 underground cities on Earth.

"Run!"

This was what everyone was thinking. Although they didn't know why the Trisolarans were kindly giving them a warning, the best thing to do was to escape the underground city as soon as possible.