Gobi Desert
Names: Gobi DesertGobi
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 25 (Deterrence Era, Year 62 November 28, 4:00 P.M. to 4:17 P.M.: Deterrence Center)
Appearances
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Connections
- containsDeterrence Center
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 29Cheng Xin emerges after deterrence ends
Cheng Xin surfaces to the empty plaza and sees the mushroom cloud where the droplet struck. The guards don't yet know what happened.
- Book 3 · Ch 31Antenna destroyed by droplet
A Trisolaran droplet pierced the Gobi crust, destroyed the gravitational wave antenna and caused two eruptions, ending Earth's deterrence.
- Book 3 · Ch 31Sophon confronts Cheng Xin at the crater
Sophon reveals Cheng Xin was kept alive as a safety shield, that Gravity was destroyed, and that Wade would have been feared. She then leaves, telling them to prepare for Australia.