Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 203 ETO's Final Mission (Part 2)

The Three-Body Game

"Why are there only a few people?" Liu Xiu asked, frowning.

"Who still plays Three-Body Problem? That crappy game is so old. Virtual reality technology outside is far more advanced than Three-Body Problem now. I bet they're all in other games." Newton said leisurely, leaning against the base of the pendulum clock, a blade of grass dangling from his mouth.

The giant clock in the game is a replica of the giant clock that exists in the Three-Body world. Since Ye Wenjie replied to the Three-Body world in 1979, the Three-Body world has stopped the clock from swinging.

But one day this year, the giant clock, which had been stationary for over 200 years, started swinging again for some unknown reason.

So much so that Newton could clearly feel the vibrations transmitted by the pendulum clock.

'The Lord is confused again.'

Newton sighed inwardly.

Upon hearing Newton's words, Liu Xiu said unhappily, "This is the Three-Body Organization, not a player guild. Go and call them to a meeting! Anyone who dares not to come, I will immediately report their ETO organization affiliation to the United Government! And throw them in jail!"

Newton gave Liu Xiu a thumbs up: "Lord Guangwu, you are probably the only leader in the history of the Three-Body Organization who has threatened its members with official power."

"Go and pass on my message! At 10:00 AM Beijing time, I will immediately report the true identities of all members who are not gathered at the Three-Body Game meeting place to the United Government!" Liu Xiu urged.

Newton had no choice but to go around calling out to everyone.

After a while, 108 beams of white light appeared in the Three-Body game world, and one figure after another appeared.

Of these, about 72 members of the Trisolarans are members of the New Era since the Grassland Era, while the remaining 36 members are mostly elderly people who have been hibernating since the early days of the Crisis Era and have only recently awakened.

Among these elderly people were even three Wallbreakers from the early Crisis Era.

Wallfacer Hines, Wallbreaker: Aristotle

The Wallfacer Luo Ji (Physics) The Wallbreaker: Copernicus
The Wallfacer Luo Qing, the Wallbreaker: Gauguin (original ID: Van Gogh)

All three of them were present.

In addition, there are several ETO members like Hypatia who went into hibernation early in the Crisis Era.

While in hibernation, Hypatia was still in the era of the Council of Seven. After awakening in Crisis Era 193, she learned that her 'benefactor', Mr. Caesar, had been defeated in the internal struggle of ETO, and thus gave up her identity in ETO. For the past seven years, she has had almost no contact with ETO.

But today, she received a message from Newton and, as if possessed, logged in again.

Most of the other elderly people were survivors of the Qin Shi Huang-Hu Hai era. Apart from the few who broke the wall, Hypatia no longer recognized many of them.

The person is gone, and time has passed.

But there was one old man whom Hypatia recognized very well.

Einstein.

This ETO antique, almost the same age as Ye Wenjie, is likely one of the longest-living humans in the world, barring any unforeseen circumstances.

Einstein was very lucky. As early as the 120th year of the Crisis Era, he logged into the Three-Body game under the leadership of Liu Xiu. At that time, the game was already in a state of flux and was on the verge of collapse, but it never actually collapsed completely.

Einstein survived until the breakthrough in gene telomere technology in the 140th year of the Crisis Era, and faced the body-refining method announced by Luo Qing.

They reaped a huge share of the benefits of the times.

Today, Einstein is a 190-year-old martial arts master (not counting hibernation time), approaching the limit of human lifespan.

So much so that when Einstein appeared, the 36 ETO members who had been hibernating in the early stages of the Crisis Era all exclaimed in unison in amazement.

Besides Einstein, some early Adventists have now awakened with the United Government’s full-scale unfreezing plan. However, most of the ETO members that Hypatia knew were either arrested by the United Government during the exposure, died in Kepler’s underground with Hu Hai, or died quietly in the world.

Of the five wallbreakers, only two remain.

Faced with these old-timers awakening from the old era, the new generation of ETO members were not interested in them; their original purposes for joining the ETO were completely different from those of the so-called Adventists, Salvationists, and Liberals.

These newcomers not only didn't recognize these 'ancient ETOs,' but also treated the 36 elderly people quite badly.

In contrast, these ancient ETO members who have awakened from hibernation also look down on these current, useless, and incompetent new-era ETOs.

You've only been a traitor for a few days, why are you putting on airs?

Fortunately, Liu Xiu, the current leader of ETO, is able to balance the relationship between the old and the new, preventing internal strife within ETO.

Since the reign of Hu Hai, Liu Xiu has been like a space force navigator, constantly awakening and hibernating over the past 140 years. With his strong personal will and ability, he has always maintained a firm grip on the ETO organization. Finally, after the invention of gene telomere technology, he simply gave up hibernation and has survived all the way to the present day.

Liu Xiu was already an elderly man in his eighties, in the prime of his life.

As the actual controller of ETO, Liu Xiu, backed by its remotely controlled giant Hibernation Group, also controls abundant resources.

During Liu Xiu's reign, the organization's expansion was extremely difficult due to the loss of the thought imprinting facility and the fact that the Earth Trisolaran Organization didn't sound as 'cool' as the Earth Dinosaur Organization or the Earth Risk Remover Organization.

Especially recently, ETO has not had any new humans join for decades.

If it weren't for Liu Xiu's public exposure some time ago, his courage in visiting the chairman of the United Government alone, and his initiative in handing over the Trisolaran technology transmitted by Sophon, all of humanity would probably have forgotten about this organization completely.

The ETO organization, which once stirred up the world and forced the Wallfacer project to a halt, now occupies only a small part in primary and secondary school history books.

After Liu Xiu saw that the last 108 ETO members had arrived, he nodded and said, leaning on his Han sword.

"Comrades, may I still address you by this title?"

“Yes!” Newton exclaimed.

Sparse responses echoed across the game area, the vast majority of which came from members of the ancient ETOs, while the new ETOs looked at each other in bewilderment.

What is "gay"? Does it mean homosexual?
"Does anyone still remember the slogan of the Earth-Three-Body Organization?" Liu Xiu surveyed the entire room and continued to ask:
"Eradicate human tyranny, and the world belongs to the Three-Body Problem!"

Newton clenched his fist and shouted again.

Everyone cast sidelong glances at Newton.

Liu Xiu looked at him approvingly, and facing this old man from the Qin Dynasty, Liu Xiu asked in a voice loud enough for everyone to hear: "Lord Niu, have you been imprinted with the ideology of the Qin Dynasty?!"

"No! Everything I think, do, and do is completely loyal to the Lord! I don't need any mental seal to reinforce all of this. I know the Lord's power, and both humans and dinosaurs will be annihilated under the Lord's glory!"

"Very good, you will always be my comrade." Liu Xiu, carrying the Han sword, helped Newton up.

Facing the remaining members, Liu Xiu asked, "Among the comrades present, how many have been imprinted with the ideology of Qin Shi Huang?"

Half of the 36 ETO veterans who had come from hibernation raised their hands.

“That’s even better. You are still the backbone of the organization, absolutely trustworthy, and also my comrades.”

Liu Xiu pressed his hands together to calm the restless room. He slowly said, "Since the Wallfacers emerged from seclusion, the Lord, under their coercion, has completely abandoned contact with us. But a few days ago, when the Lord transmitted technology to me through the Sophons, he took the opportunity to issue a final mission to the organization. After completing this mission, our mission as the Earth-Trisolaran Organization will come to an end." "What mission?" a member of the New Age couldn't help but ask.

Liu Xiu's Han sword flashed slightly in the air: "What I said 80 years ago, my last mission is: to prevent any human or dinosaur spaceship from escaping into the solar system!"

Someone reacted quickly, asking, "Does this mission mean that the Lord's fleet can simultaneously destroy and devour both the Empire and the Solar System fleet?"

Liu Xiu nodded, acknowledging this.

The 36 veteran members were mostly quite calm, while the 72 new members were each shocked in their own way.

Most of the new members grew up after the Devouring Crisis. In their memories of growing up, the oppressive feeling of the Devouring Empire covered their growth like a dark cloud. Their joining the ETO organization was just a coincidence under various circumstances.

Without the imprint of their minds, most of them genuinely believed that the weak and slow Trisolaran First Fleet posed little threat to either dinosaurs or humans.

Therefore, these 72 new members belong to the fifth new faction, in addition to the Adventists, the Salvationists, the Liberals, and the Terrorists (Hu Hai era).

—Protectionists.

The ETO organization's protectionists' platform is to protect the Trisolaran fleet that is on a four-light-year expedition, in the face of threats from the Solar System Fleet and the Devouring Empire. They are essentially a very rare group of extreme Trisolaran protectionists.

But now, the members of the protection faction have learned from Liu Xiu that the object they claim to be protecting actually has the ability to destroy the solar system fleet and devour the empire. The shock and worry this brings are immense.

However, the old people who originally belonged to the Adventists and were inoculated with the idea that the Trisolarans would win and humanity would lose were very satisfied with this result.

That should be the case.

An old member asked, "Emperor Guangwu, we will strictly follow the Lord's orders and will not question the Lord's decisions, but I just want to know, what kind of power does the Lord need to destroy both the Devouring Empire and the Solar System Fleet at the same time? We are very skeptical, and how long will it take the Lord to destroy the Solar System Fleet and the Devouring Empire? Only by knowing this information can we study how to prevent the human fleet and the dinosaurs from escaping to the Solar System."

Liu Xiu said, "I don't know exactly how the Lord will destroy the Solar System Fleet and the Devouring Empire. Sophon didn't tell me. But through Sophon's communication, I can see that the Lord doesn't have complete confidence in preventing the human fleet and the dinosaur empire from escaping. This is the premise that the Lord needs our assistance. We must do everything we can to achieve the Lord's goal."

"It's easy to say, but how do we assist?" a veteran member asked. "We used to have Sophon's help, but now Sophon has completely withdrawn from the solar system, and we can only rely on our own strength."

“Our own strength is not weak either,” Liu Xiu said.

"With just these 108 oddballs? If we were in the Song Dynasty and took to Liangshan, we could have become warlords by virtue of our strength as martial artists, even those with innate martial arts skills. But the problem is, this is the interstellar age. We have nothing but our fists." A member of the Trisolaran community who was well-versed in the Water Margin said pessimistically.

Liu Xiu offered no explanation. With a slight slash of his longsword across the sky, a star-class warship pierced through the clouds of the Trisolaran world, slowly descending upon the heavens with an immense sense of oppression.

"Wait, what is that?"

"Oh my God!"

"A stellar-class warship?"

"This is the Three-Body Problem game. What's the purpose of inserting a model of a star-class warship into the Three-Body Problem game?"

"What is the hull number of this stellar-class warship? The hull number is 0101, making it the 101st stellar-class warship. Does anyone know the name of this stellar-class warship?"

"Golden Field!" A warship enthusiast familiar with all warships recognized the warship and shouted loudly.

"Emperor Guangwu of Han, you're not going to tell me that this Golden Plains is under your control, are you?" Newton asked with a look of surprise.

Liu Xiu nodded. Facing all the ETO members, he had nothing to hide. "Before his death, Qin Shi Huang entrusted all the resources in his hands to me instead of his son Huhai. Life Vision Company is one of my subsidiaries. The Golden Plains Stellar-class warship invested in by this warship has been under my control from the beginning. It is currently serving in the American Fleet."

One of the older members questioned, "That's unlikely. With the Solar System Fleet around, how could they allow you to control a star-class warship? Could it be that the 3000 Innate Martial Artists on the Golden Plains are also members of our Trisolaran Organization?"

Liu Xiu shook his head: "Of course they are not. I do not yet have the ability to turn an entire space force against me, but the underlying control program of this warship is in my hands. This is the result of years of hard work by Zhizi and the engineers of Life Vision Company during the construction of this warship."

"You mean this warship is AI-controlled? But are you sure your AI can defeat MOSS?"

Liu Xiu continued to shake his head: "Comrade, you seem to have forgotten that, under normal circumstances, the shipborne AI of a stellar-class warship will not connect to MOSS's solar system internet. After the start of the Doomsday War, I will gain control of a sophon and use it to control this stellar-class warship. This warship will never connect to MOSS's network from beginning to end."

"There are loopholes here too! Your Majesty Emperor Guangwu, those 3000 innate martial arts warriors on the warship are absolutely loyal to the Solar System Fleet. After discovering that the warship has rebelled and is out of control, they will definitely destroy the entire warship from the inside as soon as possible. With their strength as innate martial arts warriors, even if they dismantle the entire warship from the inside, they can survive for a week in the cold, pressureless environment of space without dying!"
Don't forget just how powerful a Xiantian martial artist truly is! I am a Xiantian martial artist myself. I once tried to survive in near-Earth orbit without a spacesuit for three days and three nights. Those late-stage Xiantian space naval crew members could certainly last even longer. Destroying the Golden Plains from the inside would definitely not be difficult for them, since the Golden Plains was certainly not designed with internal sabotage in mind.

“That’s a problem,” Liu Xiu explained to the new member, “but you don’t have to worry about it at all.”

"why?"

Liu Xiu faced the crowd, and with a gentle wave of his Han sword, the massive Golden Plains star-class warship in the sky instantly collapsed and disappeared, while his voice filled the entire venue.

"Because the Trisolarans supported us with more advanced technology."

A barely perceptible glint of excitement flashed in Liu Xiu's eyes.

“But those technologies were all cut down, and you’ve already handed them over to the Solar System Fleet,” Einstein said in a hoarse voice.

"Elder, the technology given to the Solar System Fleet was only partially stripped down. Proton also left me with three additional, un-stripped super technologies, which are specifically designed for the upgrade and modification of the Golden Plains Star-class warship."

"Liu Xiu! You shouldn't have said that! You must not let these three super technologies fall into the hands of Fleet International, otherwise, Liu Xiu, you will be a sinner of ETO!" an old member named Wang Mang warned.

"That's impossible." Liu Xiu scoffed. "These three super technologies are special modifications specifically designed for the Golden Plains. They are only applicable to the Golden Plains. Even if Fleet International obtains these three technologies, they cannot be used on other warships. This backdoor was already in place when the Golden Plains was first built. I have been planning this for 80 years. The Golden Plains will self-destruct after completing its mission. Therefore, Wang Mang, you don't need to worry about the technology being leaked at all."

Someone else asked, "How powerful is the enhanced Golden Plains? After its mutiny, how many other star-class warships of the same level can it destroy?"

Liu Xiu replied, "These three super technologies will respectively enhance the speed, defense, and strength of the Golden Plains. However, I am not entirely clear on the specifics of how these enhancements will be implemented until they are actually applied to the Golden Plains."

However, Zhizi told me that the upgraded Golden Plains would far surpass the European Alliance's flagship, the Paradox Engine, a stellar-class warship. It could even trap three thousand innate martial artists inside, killing them instantly. At that time, if the human fleet were to flee, the Golden Plains, guided by Zhizi, would immediately pursue and kill them!

As he said this, Liu Xiu suddenly brandished his Han sword, as if he couldn't wait to see the scene unfold.

The nun in the corner, dressed in black, watched this scene with her lips tightly pressed together, remaining silent.

“Your Majesty, a single enhanced star-class warship is probably not enough to intercept the escape of human ships, let alone dinosaurs.” Someone else raised a question.

This time, without Liu Xiu's intervention, Newton countered on his behalf: "Comrade, don't forget that escapism is completely illegal in the solar system fleet. Not to mention that many space forces have been indoctrinated with the ideology that humanity will inevitably win and the Trisolarans will inevitably lose. Therefore, the number of escape ships in the human fleet will be very small, and it is very likely that not many warships will choose to escape."

As for the dinosaurs, their speed in swallowing the giant rings was extremely slow. Once the giant rings entered the solar system, turning around to escape would be almost impossible. Furthermore, the hundreds of thousands of dinosaur warships near the giant rings were essentially human planetary warships. Dinosaur ships lacked both a complete ecosystem and the ability for long-distance interstellar travel. Therefore, the Lord wasn't worried about the dinosaurs escaping; what the Lord primarily wanted to intercept was the human fleet.

Liu Xiu applauded Newton. No wonder Qin Shi Huang liked Newton so much; a good straight man is truly essential for a leader.

Liu Xiu praised, "Yes, Lord Niu is right. The number of human ships that will escape in the Doomsday War will not be too many, especially in the face of fierce fighting with the Devouring Empire. It is even more impossible to escape without a fight. The soldiers will fight to the death to uphold the so-called 'glory of the Solar System Fleet'."

Under the deception of the Lord's flawed technology, the Solar System Fleet will enter a period of arrogance as the Lord's technology is enhanced. The arrogant Solar System Fleet will not easily flee when it fights the Devouring Empire. The Lord will also enter the battlefield in a way that we cannot expect, and complete the encirclement and annihilation of the Solar System Fleet and the Devouring Empire.

In the chaos of the battlefield, the Lord will simultaneously slaughter the Solar System fleet and the Devouring Empire with incredible efficiency. Humanity's battlefield awareness might not detect anything amiss, and by the time they do, it will be too late. The Golden Plains' primary mission is to utilize its unprecedented [Advance 5] state to pursue and finish off the fleeing human warships.

After Liu Xiu finished speaking, the entire meeting room erupted in a heated discussion, and they quickly realized that Liu Xiu's statement was entirely feasible.

But Wang Mang, a member of ETO, suddenly made a comment.

"Then, what about the Wallfacers?"

Liu Xiu's face immediately darkened.

(End of this chapter)