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Chapter 486 Dark Forest! Humanity’s Joint Fleet! God Bless the Three!
Chapter 486: Dark Forest! Humanity’s Joint Fleet! God Bless the Trisolarans!
“The Three-Body” universe!
Looking at all the information displayed on the computer screen, Yang Dong, who knew everything, fell into deep despair and helplessness.
From the confidential information left by her mother Ye Wenjie, she learned about the Trisolaran fleet heading towards Earth and the truth about the Sophon’s interference with human technological experiments.
A creature from the microscopic world is wantonly tampering with the cognitive boundaries of human scientists. At this moment, Yang Dong suddenly thought of the stake where Copernicus’ disciples were burned at the stake during the Medieval Inquisition.
As far as the technological development of mankind is concerned, Sophon is also the most brilliant executioner.
The fruitless particle collision experiment, the data records that completely violated the laws of physics, and the culprit behind the scenes turned out to be a Trisolaran civilization that could no longer stay in its hometown…
At this moment, Yang Dong’s inner fear became more and more intense. She was not afraid of the Trisolarans who would arrive in a few hundred years, but she realized that all the physical laws of the universe could be changed at will by advanced civilizations.
Is the nature in the eyes of humans really natural?
Perhaps real physics ceased to exist from the beginning, after the Big Bang.
In an instant, the superstring equation that Yang Dong once regarded as the truth of the universe turned into countless broken strings, emitting a sharp scream in her mind.
Her head ached so badly, and her temples were so swollen that she almost fainted.
Countless fragments of memory emerged, and Yang Dong inexplicably remembered a sentence her mother Ye Wenjie once said to her. She had always regarded this sentence as a poetic poem, but now it seemed so frightening that it made her feel cold all over!
[Some light travels through billions of years to reach Earth just to prove its own death.]
In desperation, the bottle of sleeping pills in Yang Dong’s hand made a crackling sound in her palm. A moment after swallowing the overdose of drugs, Yang Dong seemed to see countless dark hands altering the laws of physics on the super membrane.
The lifelong research of Newton, Gauss, Einstein and countless other scientific pioneers can be summed up in just five words: we were all wrong.
Soon, the drug began to take effect. Severe pain and strong dizziness hit Yang Dong’s nerves. The cramps in her abdomen forced her to bend her body like a shrimp.
Another poem came to her mind, a line from Faust: [All theories are gray, only the tree of life is evergreen.]
In the last bit of consciousness, Yang Dong seemed to see the little girl squatting outside the Red Coast Base counting ants, and the dark forest extending infinitely around her was swallowing her up bit by bit.
Until it ceased to exist completely.
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The War Moon Megastructure No. 007 jumped out of the star gate, then began to slow down and carefully survey the surrounding environment.
This ultra-large megastructure platform, which carries the giant company’s core executives as well as numerous warships and weapon equipment, is considered the giant company’s most advanced space carrier.
The corporate fleet was lucky this time. Soon after leaving the star gate, they discovered a blue planet in the star system. After scanning and identification, they were able to confirm that it was the Earth in the “Three-Body” universe!
Everyone was a little surprised at this situation. After all, it saved them time and effort in searching for the solar system.
After determining their own position, Leon looked back at the closed star gate. From now on they would have no support.
You have to deal with and face all the difficulties on your own, and even sending a distress signal will take a day to get a response.
However, Li Ang is quite confident in the integration of the Three-Body Universe. After all, they have the powerful weapon, the Ether Engine, in their hands. They are at least qualified to negotiate with the god-level civilization.
Immediately, Leon ordered people to park the Moon of War into the orbit of the solar system and turned on the shielding and stealth function to temporarily hide its own tracks.
This shielding technology originated from the HMS Mantle in “Halo”. Most key warships and aircraft carriers are equipped with this function.
As long as the shielding function is turned on, no radar or detector can detect the location of the War Moon.
These established procedures have long been familiar to everyone, and after entering the Three-Body Universe, everyone knows how to do their work according to their duties.
The next thing Leon has to do is to send an advance team to land on the Earth in the Three-Body Universe to see when the current time period has developed.
Has Sophon blocked the Earth? Have the Trisolarans set sail for the solar system?
Just when Morgan Blackhand, V and others were distracted by the Earth, Leon suddenly pointed at Jupiter on the holographic screen, signaling the AI to zoom in on the local image.
The ship-borne AI Loki responded immediately, enlarging the projection of Jupiter to occupy the entire command center. In an instant, the entire headquarters space was shrouded in the orange-yellow Jupiter.
The bottomless hydrogen and helium atmosphere, oceans, and hurricanes blend into psychedelic patterns, but everyone knows how terrifying the situation inside is.
Especially Jupiter’s huge Great Red Spot. When you look at it up close, it feels like being stared at by a giant cosmic beast with its eyes open. Although the size of the War Moon is not small, it is 5 times the size of an ordinary Earth.
But compared to Jupiter, it is still much smaller.
“Boss, is there any new situation on Jupiter?”
V walked forward and asked curiously.
He looked at the surface of Jupiter carefully and did not notice anything wrong. The Jupiter in this universe was still the Jupiter they were familiar with.
At this time, Leon was not looking at Jupiter, but observing the floating objects in Jupiter’s orbit.
Compared with the huge Jupiter, these floating objects are so small and dense that if you don’t magnify them and look carefully, you won’t be able to see clearly what they are.
However, even after magnification, people could only barely see that the floating objects seemed to be extracting fuel gas from Jupiter, and these things were divided into three parts, each occupying a different position.
“Those are three different space fleets, and they are replenishing their energy sources.”
Before everyone sent out detectors for further investigation, Li Ang had already given the answer.
Sure enough, as the screen continued to zoom in, everyone finally saw the full picture of the three fleets. Judging from the number, the number of warships surrounding Jupiter reached at least two thousand.
The average size of these interstellar battleships is about four times that of ordinary aircraft carriers, which is equivalent to the size of a Hyperion. For the Universal Corporation, they can only be used as frigates.
But the rectangular array formed by these two thousand warships when arranged in space is still quite spectacular, at least in terms of momentum.
These three fleets obviously regarded Jupiter as their energy replenishment station, and there were three different giant space stations in the orbit of Jupiter.
This should be the headquarters of the three fleets.
“Has the human civilization in the Three-Body Universe already developed this level of space power? It’s really surprising.”
Morgan Blackhand was not completely sure at first that it was a human warship until he saw English letters and numbers painted on the exterior of the warship.
It must be said that the arrangement of two thousand interstellar battleships did give people a strong visual impact, but as a naval marshal with many war experiences, Morgan Blackhand was more confused. Because in a real space combat environment, it is difficult to exert the full power of the battleships in this arrangement. They only arrange it like this during a military parade.
In addition, the size and scale of these 2,000 warships are all escort-class, and even the largest one does not meet the standards of a destroyer.
As for space carrier-class battleships, there is no need to even think about it.
Then the problem is coming.
A civilization that can build two thousand frigates would have had the industrial capacity to build several matching destroyers or a large aircraft carrier long ago.
But the three fleets on Jupiter are all composed of smaller frigates. Could it be that this is a space tactic designed by humans in the “Three-Body” universe?
Because there are too many details in the Three-Body Universe, Li Ang did not have time to carefully analyze the specific situation of humans on Earth for everyone.
Morgan Blackhand was not quite aware of the consequence of the Trisolaran intelligentsia’s blockade of humanity’s basic physics research, which was that it was difficult to build large space battleships.
These star-class warships, with a tonnage of only 30 to 50 tons, are already at the cutting-edge level of current human technology.
While everyone was commenting on the three different fleets, Leon was already able to determine the current time period.
On the eve of the doomsday battle, in the 205th year of the Crisis Era, 2208 AD!
The world they live in is the Dark Forest chapter of the Three-Body Universe.
The three space fleets in front of them are the Asian Fleet, the European Fleet and the North American Fleet. This joint space force of 2,000 ships is the basis for mankind to fight against the Three-Body Civilization.
It is also the answer given by mankind in the face of the doomsday battle.
It’s a pity that the answer that took humanity nearly two hundred years to come up with was ruthlessly given a scarlet and glaring zero by the Trisolaran water droplets.
Strong interaction materials ruthlessly tore apart human warships, causing human civilization to fall into a desperate situation.
The only thing to be thankful for is that these three human fleets are still there, which means that the doomsday battle that will change the fate of mankind has not yet begun.
But judging from these space fleets that are well prepared and ready to go, this battle for the survival of the two civilizations is about to begin.
Based on these key information, Li Ang was able to quickly infer the situation of both the Three-Body Problem and the Earth.
The Trisolaran fleet is still 2.1 light years away from reaching the solar system, but the pioneer weapon droplets they sent out are about to reach the solar system!
At this time, the basic physics of human civilization on Earth is still being locked by sophons, and these two thousand frigate-class space forces are already the limit of what humans can do.
According to the plot development in the original novel, what will happen next is the tragic Spring Festival 2,000, in which the human fleet will be completely annihilated.
However, the arrival of the world’s giant corporations here will definitely bring some changes to this doomsday battle that is bound to be lost.
But Leon couldn’t be completely sure whether his arrival would cause some other accidents. After all, there were many advanced civilizations in this universe.
The technological might of the Universal Corporation can certainly easily deal with the Trisolaran water drops, but faced with a dimensionality reduction attack weapon like the Two-Dimensional Foil, it can only run away in the Moon of War.
In addition, one must be on guard against sudden attacks from other civilizations, including light particles thrown at oneself. In this dark and cold forest, the last thing lacking is Old Six with a shotgun.
In this dimension where the threat is far greater than that in other universes, Leon must maintain sufficient respect and murderous intent towards any opponent, even the insignificant Trisolarans.
“Go to the meeting room immediately.”
Li Ang gave an order and asked the executives of the giant companies to follow him into the meeting room. He wanted to analyze to everyone the first opponent they would face next – the Trisolarans!
Soon, the executives of the giant companies came to the conference room one by one and received information about the Trisolarans.
In Li Ang’s narration, a civilization from Alpha Centauri, 4 light-years outside the solar system, comes to life on paper. The three stars with no regular operation have caused the Trisolarans to live in an extremely harsh living environment.
The fear of death and the urgent desire to survive led the Trisolarans to invest a lot of resources in exploring other star systems.
In fact, according to the cosmic survival rules of the Dark Forest, all the information and explorations sent out by the Trisolarans will not receive any response.
The end that awaits them is likely to be the exhaustion of resources, and the mother star will be torn apart by the Roche limit caused by the combined gravitational pull of three stars, resulting in the complete destruction of the Three-Body Civilization.
But fate favors the Trisolarans. Ye Wenjie received the signal from the Trisolarans and established contact with them. After learning the specific location of the Earth, the Trisolarans sold everything they had, packed up all their belongings and fled to the solar system.
But the Trisolarans’ interstellar navigation technology is not very strong.
This is because for a long time in the past, the Trisolarans have wasted a lot of resources on shouting out “Is there anyone here?”
This is actually a rather stupid and futile move.
In the vast dark forest universe, the Trisolarans’ actions are as naive as those of the Earthlings who have just entered modern civilization, and will only attract contempt and speechlessness from the senior hunters.
The fact that the Trisolarans were able to find the Earthlings, a more naive civilization, before being exterminated by other civilizations can be said to be God’s blessing.
It can be said that in the Three-Body Universe, only the Three-Body people are the true protagonists!
Not only did they complete their own intellectual evolution and achieve a technological explosion through contact with humans on Earth, they also found a way to create a small universe to avoid natural disasters.
The Trisolarans relied on their microcosmic technology to become a god-level civilization, while the people on Earth tragically became “two-dimensional paper people” after the attack of the two-dimensional foil.
Considering the luck of the Trisolarans, Luo Ji’s spell actually has little effect.
After all, the Trisolarans have been acting crazy and committing suicide. The doom spell cast by Luo Ji was just one of the straws that broke the camel’s back for the Trisolarans. The real cause has always been the Trisolarans themselves.
However, although the Trisolarans often seek death, they have never been arrogant.
They hold on to every chance of survival, constantly learning and improving, seizing even the slightest chance to catch their breath.
Even if they have been the grandchildren of the arrogant and stupid Earthlings for hundreds of years, the Trisolarans will still enjoy it and will soon learn human abstract thinking and art.
So they completed their evolution again and survived until the end of the Three-Body Universe.
Such an outstanding civilization is fully worthy of the reward of becoming a god-level civilization.
Unfortunately, the Trisolarans who had already achieved the clearance achievement did not wait for the ticket to skip reincarnation and enter the beautiful pastoral era. The era passed, and what was left was only endless emptiness and death.
(End of this chapter)