Lan Xi
First appears in Book 2: The Dark Forest, chapter 8 (“Yet its engine lights up. We’ve observed that. When it went out for a second time, Blue Shadow wasn’t close enough to capture an image in time, so we don’t know where the light came from.”)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 2: The Dark Forest
- Ch 8Lieutenant Colonel and chief psychologist of Natural Selection, he heads CSD2 and prepared mainly for homesickness, not the real crisis.
- Ch 8After talking to Scott, he reflects, 'eats the fruit of knowledge' and falls into the same darkness as the others.
Connections
- leadsCSD2
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 8Psychological crisis spreads
Senior officers become withdrawn and gloomy, violence erupts on Natural Selection, Scott hints at the 'fruit of knowledge', Lan Xi succumbs, and the captain of Ultimate Law kills himself.