The Three-body Problem
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The Three-body Problem
10. Da Shi

Shi Qiang (or Da Shi, as his friends call him) reveals that he has been following Wang, which Wang finds strangely comforting. Seeing that Wang is in bad shape, Shi decides to take him out to drinks. While the two men eat fried foods and do shots, Wang explains what has happened to him over the past 24 hours. Shi is not as troubled as Wang is, because he is too busy with the pressures and stresses of daily life to think about the universe; as he puts it “when I work at night, if I look up at the sky, the suspect is going to escape.” Shi encourages Wang to drink more and sleep off his panic.

Wang falls asleep in his car for a few hours, and when he wakes up, he is relieved to see that he has parked near Beijing’s Forbidden City—the world feels “classical and stable” again. Quickly, though, the panic returns, and Shi urges Wang to continue to drink and sleep until he is more capable of facing the facts. When Wang presses Shi for more information, Shi explains that he is also being kept in the dark, but he finally agrees to tell Wang what he knows…

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