Chapter 241 A protracted struggle!

As Luo Yinxi and her group launched their attack, hundreds of thousands of Earth Trisolarans arrived at Far Traveler II via the insect bridge. The sunken ship relayed a message to them...

"Gentlemen, your mission is to bring back all the Trisolaran natives who participated in the collection of the lower-level resources,"

“Those newly converted Trisolarans are your assistants. Their identity information is more valid than yours. With them around, our plan to liberate the Trisolaran civilization is more credible.”

"Chief Zhang has already ordered the command legions to divert all the attention on the mainland. We must bring back most of the lower-level Trisolaran workers before the leader can react!"

"They have endured the longest period of exploitation, are the people who most yearn for liberation, and are the force we should most strive to win over!"

"Go! Go find them and implant mental barriers that represent freedom into their minds!"

"Welcome them to the liberation ranks!"

The Yuanyou II seemed to transform into a mother hive of star insects, with countless transport ships carrying Trisolarans and Trisolarans heading straight to various star systems. After they left, an equal number of Trisolarans from Earth crossed the insect bridge from the solar system!

Shen Zhou said almost the same thing to them.
This is a race against time to recruit people. All of the more than two million Trisolarans on Earth have to join in. With exponential expansion and a huge base, the conversion efficiency is frighteningly high!
The resources stored up by human civilization are rapidly decreasing at a rate of tens of millions of tons consumed every day. Although there was no war in the solar system, its situation is almost a one-to-one replica of that of the Trisolaran system.
The only difference was that the combat ships were replaced with transport ships, and the systems of human civilization were mobilized at a glance!

More than four billion people entered a state of wartime production. Under Xiling's unified command, a massive number of warplanes were being sent to the Trisolaran system every day to sustain Luo Yinxi and others' consumption of the Trisolaran homeland.

If the resource quantities of human civilization and Trisolaran civilization were represented by numerical bars, you would see that both sides' resource bars are rapidly decreasing at this point!
Two months after the start of the war,
The industrial governor and the reserve governor reported to the head of state simultaneously.
"Your Majesty, if we continue fighting like this, we will soon run out of resources."

"The entire domestic industrial system was hit hard. Although it was not destroyed, production was forced to stop due to insufficient resource supply!"

The head of state was very agitated and looked at the military governor and the scientific governor.
"Haven't you figured out the rebels' stronghold yet? They consume several times more resources than we do, so why are they able to last longer? Where do their resources come from?"

The military governor replied,
"Your Majesty, the rebels have not only blocked space from their homeland outwards, but according to local sheriffs, they are also capturing Trisolarans responsible for resource collection throughout the Trisolaran system."

"This may be one of the reasons why they are not afraid of consuming resources."

The head of state immediately rejected it.
"How could those gatherers possibly have stockpiled more resources than the homeland? But the current situation is that the homeland is about to run out of resources, while the rebel fleet has not decreased in size at all!"

"What exactly is going on? Can the science administrator provide an explanation? Doesn't it take time for them to transport and convert resources?"

Wormhole technology, without regard to energy consumption, can truly disregard spatial distance and compress the survival process time to an extremely low level!
The scientific governor didn't think in this direction, so naturally he couldn't understand why the rebels had so many fleets no matter how hard he racked his brains!
The number of warplanes destroyed during this period is roughly estimated to be over 20 million, and the resources used to produce these warplanes far exceeded the resources consumed in building the First Fleet on the spot.

However, according to data from the monitoring system, the rebels still maintain a force of over five million aircraft, seemingly endless!
These rebel fighter jets aren't powerful, but they can't be ignored. For example, when they launch interceptor missiles that are destroyed outside their own territory, the resource exchange ratio can reach as high as one to five.

Logically, the Trisolarans should have profited more, but the enemy insisted on trading five resources for one, relentlessly harassing their homeland. Their motives are perplexing, and the source of their resources is even more so.

Did the headquarters acquire some kind of fabricated technology from the rebels? That's utterly absurd!

The head of state asked again,

"Scientific Governor, even you can't explain this phenomenon?"

The scientific governing officer, drawing upon his thought process, bowed and replied.

"Your Majesty, I truly cannot understand how the rebels' resources have surpassed the Trisolaran civilization's resource reserves over the years,"

"Where they obtained their resources is a complete mystery, and their production base has yet to be found. Those fighter jets seem to have appeared out of thin air; there is no theory to explain them."

The Führer was filled with both anger and fear, but he could not show it.
"So what should we do next? Let the rebels deplete local resources and then invade our homeland?"

The officials all lowered their heads; this was not a matter for them to discuss, for the rebels' slogans were too loud.

They want to liberate the Trisolaran civilization and end its monarchical system that has existed for countless eras.

Yuanyou No. 2

Chen Zhou also reported to Jiang Fan.

"President Jiang, more than 40 million Trisolarans have already been converted, which accounts for one-fifth of the total number of Trisolarans. If we send them all out to convert the native inhabitants, I believe we can quickly double that number!"

The liberation of the Trisolaran civilization is progressing exceptionally smoothly. The hunting operation commanded by Zhang Beihai has plunged the Trisolaran homeland into a quagmire of resource warfare.

This is a very underhanded tactic; relying on wormhole technology, a massive amount of weaponry can be deployed to the battlefield instantly.
To give a more intuitive example,

In the Battle of Shangganling, if there were unlimited bullets and bombs, those unparalleled warriors like Jiang Cheng and Hu Xiudao could have single-handedly made the Great Beauty Army unable to lift its head!
Although the firepower of the University of Tokyo was not as good as that of the University of Tokyo at that time, it had a large number of weapons, and even if they were inferior, they could still kill people!
Just like the current hunting operation, the White Emperor fighters of Blue Star are indeed no match for the armed forces of the Trisolaran civilization, but the Trisolaran civilization does not dare to let the White Emperor fighters enter its territory, because even if they are inferior, they will still cause damage!
And those wingmen, like poisonous butterflies, are easily destroyed, but they can also cause harm, so the Trisolaran civilization dares not let them come.

This kind of pure numerical firepower suppression will only lead to a protracted war unless the Trisolaran civilization can completely ignore it.

The reason why there were two thousand sounds during the Spring Festival in the original work was twofold: firstly, due to the positioning issue, and secondly, because the water droplets could ignore all human attack methods at that time.

Things are different now. Three thousand commanders are spread out in all directions, and antimatter bombs can destroy things like water droplets, which is very troublesome for the Trisolaran civilization.

For any civilization, defense is far more difficult than offense. Unless the gap between them is as wide as an chasm, even an ant can cause harm to a human!

(End of this chapter)

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