On December 8, 2009, Curse 1.0 was created during the
financial crisis as a tool for a programmer to drag the reputation of her ex-boyfriend Sa Bi into the mud. Shortly afterwards, science fiction writer Liu Cixin is in
Taiyuan for a business trip and meets fantasy writer Pan Dajiao by chance. Together, they plan an epic story to be written in their different styles. Ten years later, Curse 1.0 is found by internet archaeologists and updated to Curse 2.0. Liu Cixin and Pan Dajiao are now homeless and fighting over discarded instant noodles. In the end, their
Decalogy of Three Thousand Suns for men and
Song of the Ninety Thousand Worlds for women were of no interest to anyone. Fortunately, this pushed their lives as far away from technology as possible. Seven years later, Curse 2.0 is updated to Curse 3.0 by a programmer who is also hurt because of a relationship and intends to cause real harm to Sa Bi in the world completely saturated with technology, who then simply changes his first and last name. Liu Cixin and Pan Dajiao happen to find her discarded laptop, delete all of its parameters and replace them with "*", which allows any input, in order to take revenge on their former readers. However, both argue too violently about gender and the police intervene. Curse 3.0 is thus updated to Curse 4.0, but Liu Cixin and Pan Dajiao forgot the parameters "Taiyuan, Shanxi, China" for the location. Taiyuan is then completely reduced to rubble by the technology present everywhere and thousands of people die. Liu Cixin is shocked and Pan Dajiao is delighted, both now want to change their genre as writers and their depiction of destruction. Ironically, Sa Bi survives the catastrophe, as he has stayed away from the internet all these years because of the curses. In the office of the Artificial Intelligence Security Agency, Curse 4.0 is then updated to Curse 5.0. The parameters for the location are now "*,*,*". == Translations ==