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

Chapter 344 Slow Mist, Deadline

"Grace period? No grace period needed."

Lan continued calmly, "Considering the actual capacity of the Trisolaran civilization and the current needs of Earth's civilization for recovery and development, the Carbon-Based Federation can provide a compromise: the Trisolaran civilization can offset this through technology transfer."

Luo Qing: "Oh, technology transfer, that's good."

Technology transfer is something more valuable than simple energy or matter... Earth has the solar system and doesn't need the oddities and flaws of the Trisolaran world.

Lan: "The Trisolaran civilization must fully open its light-speed spaceship engine technology, strong interaction material technology, sophon manufacturing and control technology, and ecological cycle system technology to the Earth civilization. The Earth civilization has the right to send scholars and engineers to the Trisolaran system to learn, and the Trisolaran civilization must unconditionally provide all conveniences and guidance until the Earth civilization has fully mastered and can manufacture them independently."

The Trisolaran leader's mental membrane was almost blurred, and the text in the dialog box became fragmented: "Core...technology...this is somewhat..."

Blue interrupted it: "Regarding technical support, the Trisolaran civilization can consider sending a certain number of engineering ships and scientific researchers to Earth. Moreover, the technical resources can offset a large portion of the compensation time limit. You also need to help Earth's civilization rebuild the solar system's defense system and assist in repairing the Jupiter orbital infrastructure and Kuiper Belt early warning system that were severely damaged in the war. The specific number of people and the length of service will be agreed upon in detail by both parties later."

"Should we send a large number of Trisolarans to Earth?" The old man frowned slightly upon hearing this, but the carbon-based commander's next words dispelled his concerns.

“Furthermore,” Lan’s tone became slightly more serious, “as punishment for the invasion and as a guarantee of future security, the Trisolaran civilization must accept the following behavioral constraints:

1. Immediately recall all fleets sailing towards the solar system, including the First Fleet and the Second Fleet.

Second, the Trisolaran civilization shall not launch any form of probe, sophon, or other device that may be hostile or for reconnaissance purposes toward the solar system.

Third, a non-military buffer zone one light-year wide shall be established between the Trisolaran civilization and the Earth civilization. The Trisolarans shall not deploy military forces exceeding the alert level within this zone, while no restrictions shall be imposed on humanity.

Fourth, the Trisolaran civilization must dismantle all directed-energy weapons with power exceeding LIM-5 level that are pointing towards the solar system from its home planet's orbit.

Fifth, the new Trisolaran leader and decision-making body must undergo a review by the Carbon-Based Federation's mind membrane to ensure that their future decisions will not pose a threat to Earth's civilization again.

Chains were fastened around the necks of the Trisolaran civilization.

The recall of the fleet, the establishment of a buffer zone, and the use of a mind membrane for censorship essentially deprived the Trisolaran civilization of any form of attack capability in the future.

The Trisolaran leader was immersed in increasingly hot water, feeling as if his thoughts were about to be boiled. After a long while, a line of text finally appeared in the dialog box: "After I return, the First Fleet will immediately turn around, but the Second Fleet is traveling at the speed of light and cannot receive our information. We can only turn around after the Second Fleet has left the light-speed travel phase."

Luo Qing asked in confusion, "Can't the light-speed fleet notify us immediately?"

Lan explained to Luo Qing, "Indeed, there is no way to communicate with a spaceship traveling at the speed of light. In the light-speed horizon, the time they experience is only an instant. You may not know this, but because warp drive technology is too simple, many civilizations, or certain groups within civilizations, recklessly travel at the speed of light in the observable universe. This is because they can reach the end of time, the end of the universe, in an extremely short time to participate in that grand cosmic funeral."

Luo Qing: "A bunch of lunatics."

Blue: "They call themselves time travelers."

Luo Qing shook his head: "No wonder civilizations always have such ideological problems. The future of the universe is pessimistic. A civilization that gives up on itself is insane."

Lan: "That's right. But thankfully, the Carbon-Based Federation was prepared. We deployed a large number of thin antimatter clouds within a 15 light-year radius of the Milky Way's outer edge and placed obvious danger warning signs to ensure that time travelers would circumnavigate the Milky Way when they travel. These antimatter cloud barriers can also be used to guard against dark forest attacks launched by other galaxies against the Milky Way."

Luo Qing shook his head: "The Galactic Carbon-Based Federation is great, that's undeniable. Maybe my perspective is too narrow and my vision too limited. Anyway, I'm leaving the Galactic Empire to you. I'm going to intercept and destroy the Second Fleet. From now on, nothing from the Trisolaran world is allowed to enter the Oort Cloud."

Luo Qing got up and prepared to leave.

Unexpectedly, at that moment, Lan, Li Bai, and the Risk Remover Sensor all called out to Luo Qing.

“We don’t recommend you do that,” the three said in unison.

"Why?" Luo Qing didn't understand.

Lan explained, "After a warp drive travels, it leaves a noticeable flattened mark on its tail, within which the speed of light is significantly reduced. If it's a super-powerful warp drive, it can even create a zero-light zone within its wake, enough to trap anything." Luo Qing was startled: "Even if I travel at the speed of light, it won't work?"

Li Bai said, "Don't even mention you. If Entropy Flat Light Amber accidentally entered the death line, it would immediately freeze. Moreover, the spatial scale within the death line is zero, it is zero-dimensional. Even if I accidentally entered the death line, I would not be able to escape through eleven-dimensional space. I would be forced to wait for the death line to gradually spread into low-dimensional slow fog, and then try to find a way to leave."

Could Li Bai, who could freely enter the eleventh dimension, also be trapped by the death line?
Luo Qing was shocked.

The Risk Eliminator Sensor also stated, "Deadlines are one of the most fundamental ways to destroy the structure of the universe. As far as I know, one of the Risk Eliminators has set his life's goal on eliminating deadlines, rather than focusing on vacuum decay like my creator... The ways in which civilizations destroy the universe are truly diverse, alas."

Luo Qing: "The warp drive of the Second Fleet of the Trisolarans can also cause such harm?"

Lan: "That's not the case. The warp drive of the Trisolaran Second Fleet is the most primitive and the lowest power warp drive. At most, it will cause some inconspicuous slow fog, but it won't reach the point of death."

However, I still don't recommend you go. After all, even with a low-powered warp drive, the speed of light within the slow fog might only be a few meters or even tens of meters per second. If you were trapped at that speed, it would take a very long time to escape the slow fog.

Luo Qing silently sat back down in her chair.

Upon seeing this, the Trisolaran leader bit its own forelimb and tore it off. It forced itself not to think about anything in order to prevent its thoughts from being completely transparently exposed to the eyes of these beings.

Seeing the three supreme beings simultaneously trying to dissuade Luo Qing, the leader finally realized that the Trisolaran civilization had no room for negotiation.

Luo Qing has gained the recognition and friendship of two gods and a super civilization, and the war between the Trisolaran world and the Earth world has now come to a complete end.

Unless the Carbon-based Federation is destroyed, Li Bai dies, the Risk Remover sensors disappear, and Luo Qing is wiped out, the Trisolaran world will never be able to achieve this victory over the human insectoids.

The probability of these events occurring simultaneously is infinitely close to 0.

It was unwilling to accept it, it was unwilling to accept it.

They were just some insects... a bunch of insects... that crawled down from the tree.

Moreover, if the conditions proposed by the Carbon-Based Federation Commander are rejected, it means that this terrifying human super-individual will actually destroy the Trisolaran world, and the Carbon-Based Federation will most likely not stop it, and may even acquiesce.

Even the Carbon-Based Federation, which takes protecting carbon-based civilizations as its mission, does not actually want too many carbon-based civilizations to emerge in the Milky Way... After all, like the universe, the Milky Way has a finite amount of matter.

Whether the Trisolaran civilization is destroyed or not, for the Carbon-based Federation, it is likely just a regrettable but ultimately meaningless matter.

Lan looked at the Trisolaran leader again: "Trisolaran leader, these are all the conditions. Are you willing to represent the Trisolaran civilization to accept and sign the peace treaty?"

Three words struggled to emerge from the dialog box above the head of the Trisolaran leader.

"I am willing."

A smile appeared on Blue's face: "Very good. Then, the specific calculation method for the total amount of compensation, the detailed steps for technology transfer, the scale of labor export, and the specific implementation rules for behavioral constraints will be discussed in a special group composed of representatives from both parties. The main framework of this negotiation is hereby determined."

Luo Qing looked at the old man, his eyes full of inquiry: "Mr. Chairman, is that alright?"

The old man commented meaningfully, "A new Treaty of Versailles."

Luo Qing smiled helplessly: "That sounds dangerous. Are we in France or Germany?"

The old man said, "You should already know the answer in your heart."

Luo Qing nodded.

(End of this chapter)