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

Chapter 339 The "Redemption Day" Spaceship (5k)

A ghost, a ghost of cultivation, is drifting over the solar system.

This ghost is flashing at the speed of light within a radius of one billion kilometers around the orbital space of Jupiter.

Within this area, nearly 50 space force personnel remain frozen in the void of space. Ghosts roam the solar system, retrieving individuals one by one and then sending them back to Earth.

In the silent Great Lowland Memorial Plaza, which stretches for tens of kilometers, beams of gentle photons fall, and the light gradually condenses into the space soldiers who fought to the last moment in the war of apocalypse.

Luo Qing's ability to fly at the speed of light mainly comes from the light amber. Through how the light amber controls the movement of photons, he also learned how to temporarily transform matter into pure photons. Therefore, the space army soldiers he saved all turned into a beam of light and descended to Earth.

Dozens of hours later, a total of 497260 space force soldiers transformed into 497260 beams of light and descended upon the Great Depression Memorial Square. Among them were many seriously injured and dying, but as long as their bodies were intact, they were all rescued by Luo Qing.

The banners of the Human Emperor fluttered in the center of the Great Low Valley Plaza, from which emerged approximately 1.72 million golden heroic spirits. These spirits were unaffected by the Ice Cube and stood in the plaza as well.

These are all space force soldiers who have already sacrificed their lives; most of them were gazing at the busy beam of light in the sky.

Luo Qing bowed to everyone.

Amidst the bustling crowd, some people returned the greeting.

Luo Qing then immediately flew into space to begin rescuing the dinosaurs and mushrooms.

In this apocalyptic battle, the greatest losses were undoubtedly suffered by humans, followed by dinosaurs. The planetary-class and Tyrant-class warship fleets were entangled in two droplets during the apocalyptic battle, buying the remaining main force of the solar system fleet a moment to escape, but their losses were also quite severe.

Fortunately, shortly after the Water Drop attacked the Dragon Alliance, the Cold Wave descended, freezing the one-sided massacre.

Even so, the number of dinosaurs killed was still as high as 27000. The vast majority of these dinosaurs came from Carl's Dragon Society and were progressive dinosaurs.

In addition, there are individual Light Speakers. A standard stellar-class warship carries 80 to 100 Light Speakers, while a planetary-class warship carries 10 to 20. These Light Speakers can significantly improve the acceleration efficiency of human nuclear fusion engines by about 15 to 20 percentage points.

In the final battle, more than 20,000 glowing Puji were killed, which is almost one-fifth of the Light Speaker civilization.

More than 20,000 glowing poopi were frozen in Jupiter's orbit.

Ultimately, about 7,000 dinosaurs wearing spacesuits who jumped off the ship and survived, and about 21,000 glowing poopi that were frozen and emitted a dark red light, were also rescued and brought back to the square.

The Great Depression Era Plaza is not a typical plaza with brick and stone surfaces, but a deliberately left 10km x 10km super grass plaza. In the center of the plaza, there is a statue of the Altar of Truth, but instead of the Risk Taker, the Altar of Truth features the physical banner of the Emperor's Banner.

Outside this square, nestled among the most prosperous urban clusters on Earth.

Soon, a glowing, golden spirit emerged from the Emperor's Banner, hopping around aimlessly, followed by the equally bewildered dinosaurs.

Countless wishes converged on Luo Qing, who then drew them into the Heavenly Banner like a torrent, making the nascent form of the Underworld increasingly stable.

But for some reason, the rudimentary form of the underworld, possessing quantum properties, flickered once within a Planck time, as if it had been focused for a moment by the super-observer effect of a strong observer.

Nobody noticed this.

While Luo Qing was busy, the warships of the Galactic Carbon-Based Federation finally arrived above Earth and anchored in lunar orbit, about the size of the moon and emitting a bright glow.

Although the Federation warships are physical entities, their merger has no gravitational effect and therefore will not interfere with the normal operation of the lunar and Earth orbits. Furthermore, since the solar system is in an ice cube state at this time, there is even less impact.

Xiao Qing wanted to jump ship and return to Earth, but hesitated at the last minute.

It realized a problem: it was not the Evil One, but a purely technological simulation object; the real Evil One was still hidden in a high-dimensional fragment 30,000 light-years away.

Looking at the golden sea of ​​the Great Depression Era Square, Li Bai said to the commander of the Carbon-Based Federation fleet beside him, "The blood feud that has lasted for more than two hundred years, the conflict between Earth civilization and Trisolaran civilization is irreconcilable. With Luo Qing here, you can't protect Trisolaran civilization."

The intelligent field of the carbon-based commander tinged with a helpless pale yellow.

After completing all the rescue work, Luo Qing did not rest. Instead, he collected eighteen frozen sophons and then forcibly opened them into a six-dimensional state.

Eighteen sophons were tossed into the plaza from outer space, like yoga balls.

Including the six sophons whose intelligence was destroyed by the Digital Republic using computing power, these twenty-four sophons should be all the sophons in the Trisolaran world.

There is also a sophon on Mars. It previously informed the international community on Earth through the chief official of the Mars base that although the droplet was launched by the Trisolaran First Fleet, its control had been completely transferred to the Trisolaran world from the very beginning of the launch.

This sophon is currently the bridge between humanity and Yun Tianming, and can be kept for the time being. Moreover, this sophon is usually very well-behaved, occasionally entering a three-dimensional unfolding state to allow the defense facilities of the Mars base to determine its location, and has never left the Martian range.

In addition, Luo Qing also caught the nine water droplet detectors one after another, threw them into the memorial square, and they rolled around on the grass.

An ant on the grass stared blankly at this creation from four light-years away.

...

Three-body world.

"All information from the strong interaction force detector has disappeared."

"All twenty-four sophons have also disappeared, and the corresponding twenty-four quantum entangled sophons have also entered a state of confinement, which cannot be awakened by any means."

"what happened?"

Inside the Trisolaran war room, many Trisolarans whispered among their thought membranes.

It was bad enough that one of the sophon operators had suddenly and inexplicably disappeared, but now, all the sophons are out of contact, and even the nine water droplets have lost their connection.

The science administrator sat blankly in his seat, his mind occasionally contorted with meaningless fragments.

Looking at the noisy war room, the Trisolaran leader felt a chill run down his spine as he thought of the complex battle orders he had painstakingly issued, now extinguished like a flickering candle. It was as if this Trisolaran star system, the ancient battlefield where the Trisolaran civilization had struggled for survival for 195 generations, had become his own burial ground.

Inside the operations room, there were still calm Trisolarans trying to figure everything out.

Commander Zhizi: "Try using traditional reconnaissance methods and see if we can see anything."

Cosmic Observer: "Through traditional observation methods, we see a scene from approximately 40,000 years ago, before the Three-Body Era. At that time, Earth was still in a standoff with the Devouring Empire, and hadn't even started fighting yet; it was in the midst of a great standoff." (1 Earth year ≈ 9887 Three-Body Eras)
Commander Zhizi: "...Contact the First Fleet. The First Fleet is closer to the solar system. Try their optical observation methods."

Soon, the Sophons of the First Fleet established a long-distance link with the Sophons of the Trisolaran world.

Commander Zhizi repeated her requirements.

First Fleet Commander: "What we see in the footage is 20,000 cosmic times ago. The Solar System Fleet is engaged in fierce combat with the Devouring Empire. More than 400 star-class warships are circling the Great Ring, intending to accelerate to full speed and achieve a tactical flanking maneuver."

Looking at the data sent back by the commander of the First Fleet, the battle between the Solar System Expeditionary Fleet and the Devouring Empire had reached a fever pitch. Although this kind of cold weapon battlefield was large in scale and comparable to the battle of cavalry charging giants, it was not what the Trisolarans in the war room wanted to see.

Commander Zhizi: "Move the optical observation devices within the fleet to check the solar system beyond Earth. There are no anomalies."

More video footage was sent back to the Three-Body world.

The First Fleet Commander reported truthfully: "No anomalies." The Sophon Commander cut off communication with the First Fleet. It pondered for a moment, and the Trisolarans, observing its thought process, quickly understood what it wanted to ask.

Commander Zhizi: "Can we contact the Second Fleet?"

The Trisolaran leader said: "The Second Fleet has activated its warp drive and entered the light-speed travel phase. Due to the time dilation effect, their perception of the time travel of the Trisolarans at light speed is only a moment. Under these circumstances, the Sophon cannot contact the Second Fleet."

The sophon commander's thought membrane ceased producing content and fell silent.

The Science Administrator seemed to have recovered from the loss of contact with all the sophons and all the probes. It walked to the center of the crowd and came to the side of the Trisolaran leader.

Scientific Admin: "Perhaps it was the super-individual Luo Qing who made the move, who knows?"

The Trisolaran leader said, "You're a scientist, so tell me, aside from the sophons that died in the human computer, what is the relative distance between the remaining 18 sophons and 9 detectors?"

The Science Chief: "The relative distance between these sophons and detectors, the farthest sophon 17 and detector 7 are more than two light-hours apart."

The Trisolaran leader asked, "What was the time difference between when they lost contact?"

Scientific Advisor: "Within 15 light-minutes."

The Trisolaran leader asked: "Assuming that the super-individual Luo Qing can travel at the speed of light, and that his attack spells also move at the speed of light, could he destroy the sophon and the detector, which are two light-hours apart, within 15 minutes?"

Scientific Administrator: "No."

The Trisolaran leader asked: "Assuming that the super-individual Luo Qing can travel faster than light and that his attack spells can move at faster than light, could he destroy the sophon and the detector, which are two light-years apart, within 15 minutes?"

Scientific Administrator: "Okay."

The Trisolaran leader asked, "Then why did he wait until all 4,100 star-class warships were destroyed by the strong interaction probes before he made his move?"

Scientific Administrator: "..."

The Trisolaran leader said: "Don't attribute the unknown to unrelated external factors. This is not scientific reasoning, it's witchcraft."

Scientific Administrator: "Yes."

The Trisolaran leader said, "Moreover, 50,000 years ago, the Sophon completely withdrew from the solar system to implement the strategy of 'feigning weakness to the enemy,' and the intelligence at that time still confirmed that Luo Qing's flight speed could only reach 10% of the speed of light. Even just now, through the optical information reflected by the water droplet mirror, the flight speed of that red streak that was suspected to be Luo Qing was only 16%, which is still far from reaching the speed of light, let alone the unrealistic faster-than-light speed."

Scientific Administrator: "That's right."

The Trisolaran leader said, "Go and find a way to verify all of this. As the scientific governor, you should be responsible for unknown phenomena. If you cannot explain them clearly, you will be guilty."

The scientific governor fell into a new silence, as a flood of information appeared and disappeared in his mind's membrane. Finally, he grasped that crucial flash of inspiration.

"Not counting the six sophons that self-destructed in the human quantum network, summarize the disconnection times of the 18 missing sophons and 9 missing detectors for me, requiring time accuracy at the nanosecond level."

Moments later, the scientific administrator obtained the time of disconnection for all the detectors and sophons. Even at the nanosecond scale, several sophons still had the exact same time of disconnection, which was a rather alarming discovery. The scientific administrator labeled the batch of sophons that disconnected at the same time as A, the second batch as B, and so on, and quickly obtained the precise difference in the time of disconnection for all of them. Then, based on their relative distances, they made bold assumptions and quickly determined the location of the attack source through triangulation.

Jupiter's nucleus.

It is hypothesized that an expansion wave, emitted from the core of Jupiter at the speed of light, could strike every sophon and every droplet precisely in every time sequence.

This may be the truth.

The Trisolaran leader, having learned the truth, remained silent.

The Trisolaran leader said, "I remember that Jupiter's core is a high-density, high-temperature, high-pressure core composed of rock, ice, and metallic hydrogen."

Scientific Administrator: "Yes."

The Trisolaran leader: "How could such a place, where nothing could possibly arise, trigger an attack wave that caused all sophons and probes to lose contact?"

Scientific Administrator: "Yes."

The Trisolaran world: "We should remake more sophons and send them to the human world, at least to find out what happened near Jupiter and what the state of the solar system is."

The science officer did not respond.

The Minister of Land and Resources stepped forward: "Your Majesty, the Trisolaran world has run out of ammunition and resources, and there is not enough to create more sophons."

The Trisolaran leader was furious: "How many resources can a few sophons consume?"

Land and Resources Commissioner: "It's energy."

The Trisolaran leader: "It's just a little bit of energy..."

The Minister of Land Resources interrupted him: "On Trisolaris, the amount of matter capable of undergoing light nuclear fusion is nearly exhausted. The remaining water resources are being used to maintain the minimum standards of the Trisolaran world, and over 85% of the population has entered a state of dehydration and storage. Before dehydration, they were promised that they would awaken by being immersed in the vast Pacific Ocean, the beautiful Amazon River, and the warm Lake Baikal."

And the heavy nuclear fusion resources… Führer, look at our planet. It appears silvery-gray in space, but what is that silvery-gray? It's iron! Iron mountains, iron forests, iron oceans, iron land… The resources on the Trisolaran surface, iron generated through heavy nuclear fusion to withstand countless Trisolaran catastrophes! Endless iron! And this waste iron produced by heavy nuclear fusion can even be sold for money on beautiful Earth… The Second Fleet took away the last bit of resources from the Trisolaran world. Gone, Führer, we have nothing left. Everything has been exhausted.”

After saying this, the land and resources official covered his face and wept. After crying, he carefully collected the teardrops and soaked them back into his body, feeling the slight dampness and saltiness. The land and resources official closed his eyes in pain.

Inside the command center, many Trisolarans turned away in disbelief.

"Then let's not make it, let's not make it."

The Trisolaran leader's thought membrane displayed this line of text intermittently, and then added an extra paragraph: "The Second Fleet will be there soon, it will be there soon."

The last sentence seemed to be an attempt to comfort others, or perhaps to comfort himself, but it had no effect.

The Trisolarans present all knew that their chances of entering Earth as their new home in their lifetime were extremely slim.

After an unknown amount of time, a Trisolaran burst into the command room from outside, breaking the silence.

"Your Majesty, breaking news! The anti-sophon trap we set outside the command center has taken effect. The only sophon stolen by the 'Trisolaran Earth Organization,' led by Listener 1379, has been captured by the powerful electromagnetic cage. This traitor, who escaped from prison 150 million years ago during the Enlightenment and Renaissance, has now lost its last trump card. It can no longer predict our capture plans. It's time to carry out the capture operation on that small spaceship in the Trisolaran system. This is the last stronghold of the 'Trisolaran Earth Organization,' the best opportunity to completely annihilate this traitorous Trisolaran organization!"

The Trisolaran leader snapped out of his emotional turmoil and immediately ordered: "Destroy it with high-powered laser weapons."

Previously, because high-power laser weapons needed to be calibrated, the 'Trisolaran Earth Organization', which possessed a sophon, could always predict this and pilot the 'Redemption Day' interstellar spaceship to hide behind the three suns.

Now that the Redemption Day starship has lost Sophon, it is very vulnerable to being ambushed and destroyed.

The Science Administrator halted the Trisolaran leader's deployment: "Leadership, please withdraw your order. We cannot completely destroy the 'Redemption Day' interstellar spaceship, as it is highly likely that the other side has conducted numerous communications with humanity behind our backs. We need to obtain all the information about the 'Redemption Day' interstellar spaceship; it may contain crucial information about superindividuals, or other intelligence from the solar system."

Therefore, I propose a special military operation to kill all traitors on the Starship Redemption Day while preserving the entire ship and ensuring we can obtain all information from the Starship Redemption Day.”

The Trisolaran leader said, "Then you make the plan. I believe you can come up with a solution that satisfies me."

(End of this chapter)