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

Chapter 354 War Reparations

The Trisolaran leader, who was immersed in plenty of water, quickly regained consciousness.

"Your Majesty!" The scientific governor rushed over, tears streaming down his face. He then took the opportunity to bury his head in the soaking tank, stealing several sips of water before finally raising his head again, tears still streaming down his face.

Where did you go?

The officials in charge of parliament, agriculture, industry, military, education, orbital defense, and land resources also completely surrounded him.

Clearly, everyone was filled with great questions about the sudden disappearance and then sudden reappearance of the Trisolaran leader.

The Trisolaran leader trembled, his whole body shaking uncontrollably. Looking at the familiar faces before him, he suddenly realized that he and they were all future casualties of this war. Overwhelmed with grief, he burst into tears.

The Trisolarans were completely stunned by the leader's extremely intense emotional outburst.

This is the supreme leader of the Trisolaran world. Even after the Renaissance Movement, expressing emotions is no longer considered a crime. Yet, this leader burst into tears in front of everyone, revealing such obvious vulnerability.

This Trisolaran leader is unprecedented in history.

"Please don't cry." The science administrator jumped into the water tank and patiently comforted her.

The land and resources official, expressionless, pulled the science official out of the water tank, hung excess water on its body, and then shook it back into the tank.

The science official glared at it fiercely.

Only then did everyone notice a thin, almost transparent order on the Trisolaran leader's body. This order was very similar to a low-dimensional unfolding sophon, but it was far more sophisticated. It seemed to be an atom, engraved with a massive amount of information.

As people took notice of the order.

The order suddenly floated in the air and began to expand, quickly turning into a one-meter square thought membrane. This was clearly not a real thought membrane, but a thought membrane that imitated the transmission of Trisolaran thought waves in the brain. It was made into this shape to facilitate the understanding of the Trisolarans present.

Carbon-based Federation is really thoughtful.

Atomic membrane

The Trisolarans gave it this name.

After this atomic membrane fully expands, the information contained within it, composed of electrons flying around, is also fully revealed.

The Trisolarans looked at the dense Trisolaran script on the atomic membrane with some confusion.

"What's this?"

"Stellar blocks? What kind of unit of measurement is that?"

The note says: One stellar block can be exchanged for the resources of one standard star?

What does it mean that the Trisolaran world owes more than nine hundred star blocks?

"Wait, is this still a discounted price after applying a discount to the Three-Body world?"

"The higher-ups say that the Carbon-Based Federation has already made the price for eight-dimensional space teleportation of the Trisolaran leader (whose body, after dehydration, is approximately 7 × 10⁸ atoms) across four light-years quite affordable. The Trisolaran leader is simply too heavy; eight-dimensional space is generally used for transporting small numbers of particles, rarely for transporting a macroscopic organism." "My God, that consumes the resources of over 900 stars! What on earth happened? What's going on?"

"And what is this so-called war compensation and reparations for the Earth? Why should we import laborers and technology into the Earth to reduce the amount of resource compensation? On what grounds? They are just a bunch of insects."

The Trisolaran rulers looked at each other, their thoughts swirling with various doubts.

"Can you tell me what happened?" the land resources officer asked. Looking at the atomic membrane that was clearly a bill, he sensed something was wrong.

After a long while, the Trisolaran leader finally regained some composure and calm, and revealed the cost of the carbon-based federation and his own delay-free transmission across four light-years.

Upon hearing this, the official in charge of land and resources felt a barely perceptible tremor in his mind.

"Your Majesty, are you saying that the Trisolaran civilization currently owes the super-civilization called the Galactic Carbon-Based Federation resources equivalent to more than 900 stars, right?"

The Trisolaran leader nodded with difficulty.

Upon hearing this, the land and resources official turned and left without looking back.

After a while, a Trisolaran shouted, "The Minister of Land and Resources has jumped off a building!"

The death of the land and resources administrator did not cause much of a stir. Officials like him could be promoted and recruited at any time. Now everyone's attention was focused on the Trisolaran leader.

The Trisolaran leader recounted his journey on Earth in great detail. After about four Trisolaran hours, the leader's thought waves ceased, and the entire hall fell into a deathly silence.

"Are you saying that we have lost this war?" the military governor asked calmly.

The leader nodded: "Yes, the Trisolaran world has been defeated. The voyages of the First and Second Fleets are no longer meaningful. In the current world, there are at least three god-level civilizations in charge. Among them, Mr. Risk Taker and Mr. Li Bai have clearly expressed their support for Earth, not to mention the super-individual Luo Qing."

The military governor's thought process displayed intermittently: "But...but we still have the Second Fleet...the Second Fleet that can fly at the speed of light."

The leader interrupted it: "It's meaningless. Luo Qing's flight speed has increased from 10% of the speed of light to 100% of the speed of light. I saw him dismantle a droplet with his bare hands. With the force field generator still operating, the 2nd Fleet could not possibly be his match."

The science governor couldn't help but ask, "How is this possible? Is his body made of a black hole?"

Upon hearing this, the leader's expression was filled with fear, as if he had recalled something unpleasant.

"Before I was teleported away, I witnessed a battle between the super-individual Luo Qing and the great Li Bai. The two gods seemed to have some kind of dispute and flew to the edge of the solar system at the speed of light. The battle fluctuations they generated could easily destroy and annihilate stars. I saw Luo Qing create a small black hole the size of a human fist with his bare hands, and I also saw Mr. Li Bai easily destroy this black hole... Luo Qing has become a god-level individual. A civilization like ours can never shake the other side... We have been defeated."

After listening, the science official stood frozen in place, his thoughts becoming fragmented.

"But even if... even if they could travel at the speed of light, they shouldn't be able to catch Sotoko, right? All of our Sotokos are fleeing from all directions, there's no way they could catch them. Why can't we even contact Sotoko?"

The leader said, "I don't know what happened in the solar system, but as far as I can see, the entire solar system has been completely frozen in time. Apart from those few god-level individuals and the commander of the carbon-based federation, only a mushroom, a dinosaur, and an ordinary human are able to move freely. Sophons have also been completely frozen in this situation."

...Therefore, the sophons and droplets became spoils of war for Earth. If these sophon and droplet detectors had any purpose, it was that they were given to humanity as compensation, alleviating some of the Trisolaran world's debt of reparations.

(End of this chapter)