From Terra to Terra, the Star Emperor's Holiday

"We can definitely handle it. Even the most advanced civilizations in this universe can't achieve superluminal speed. The Xinghai Empire alone can crush them."

If there is a civilization in the Three-Body Universe that can master superluminal speed, or even just superluminal communication, there will be no Dark Forest Law in this universe.

For the Star Sea Empire, which has mastered the ability of superluminal speed, or even several types of superluminal speed, it has become invincible in this world.

"It seems that besides agricultural books, I should read more books other than these. But as long as you are confident, it's good. Since Su Xing mastered the power, this is the first time I have felt so powerless."

Shu smiled and nodded, the maternal glow in her body almost overflowing.

"Si Ye, you are a great benefactor to us. If I see you in trouble and I am unable to help you, I will be ashamed."

"That's too formal, isn't it? We are just friends, right?"

Just as Si Ye was chatting and laughing with Shu, a small Star Sea Empire probe came flying in from the boundary gate coordinates.

"The channel is stable, and the coordinates are correct. Your Majesty, it is indeed as you said. It is a problem with the world's structure."

When Huifeng's voice came, Shu subconsciously sat up straight. Si Ye also shook his neck and began to listen carefully to Huifeng's report.

"Through parameter analysis and experiments with the portal, it appears this world is a world of glued-together cells. The probe that entered from the left side of the portal was unaffected and reached Earth on the other side without incident. The probe to the right appeared near Mercury's orbit, and the signals were out of sync. This confirms that this portal leads to two worlds simultaneously."

So this world should not be called The Wandering Earth or The Three-Body Problem, but should be called Liu Cixin's World, right?

There are indeed many wonders in this world. There is even such a good thing as opening a door to connect two worlds.

"So world coordinates are fine, right?"

"Yes,"

"Very good, let me think about how to develop this world..."

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Chapter 252: The Changing Protagonists, the Unchanging Ding Yi

One minute,

In one minute and eighteen seconds, Shu witnessed with his own eyes how the "water droplet" highlighted by the shuttle transformed into a stream of light with an extremely agile gesture, piercing through the 100 neatly arranged space battleships, turning them into an insignificant spark in the vast deep space of the universe.

When a shield cannot be penetrated, it is also the strongest spear.

The Earth United Fleet couldn't even effectively capture the suddenly accelerating 'water droplets'. After the battleship exploded, they poured fire in vain in the direction they thought was the attack.

Red-hot lasers, electromagnetic accelerator cannons, and deep-space bombs were thrown out, but they could not stop the tiny "water drop" from raising the scythe of death and turning battleships into semi-molten space junk in deep space.

"A one-sided battle..."

Looking at the combined fleet exploding one after another on the screen and repeatedly doing useless work, Shu was surprised at the one-sided trend of this battle and lamented the visual impact brought by this indescribable picture.

"Aren't we going to do something?"

Don't get me wrong, this is not because Shu has any sympathy for these people he has never met. As a giant beast, he can remember a thousand years at a glance, and Shu's emotions are often only felt for his family and rare friends.

The reason she spoke was simply because the 'water drop' easily destroyed a warship that was much larger than it. Under this visual impact, the maternal Shu subconsciously felt a little worried.

"Don't panic. I'm using the stealth module. Even if the 'water drop' hits us, the strong interaction material the Trisolarans used some tricks to create isn't as strong as genuine Zero Prime Armor. Besides, the shuttle has a shield."

Although it was a bit funny, it was good to have someone worrying about her. Si Ye answered Shu's questions and eased her concerns.

"It seems I was worrying too much..."

After losing one-third of its warships in a short moment, the Combined Fleet was still confused, but the well-trained captains started their engines and began meaningless maneuvers.

The combined fleet, which was no longer in neat formation, prevented the water drop from destroying nearly a hundred warships in a single collision. Although the speed of warship destruction slowed down, new warship hulls were still being melted and destroyed every moment, and the shut-down nuclear fusion engines turned into new nuclear fireballs in deep space due to collapse and overload.

"Siya, what were you doing when you reached out over there earlier?"

Shu looked at the increasingly magnificent scene on the screen, as if she remembered something. She remembered that when the 'water drops' on the monitor suddenly went from silent to accelerated, Si Ye seemed to reach out and do something.

"Oh, you discovered it."

Si Ye actually initially considered whether to just pick up the water droplets and keep them as a collection, but since there would be no 2000 fireworks to watch if he took the water droplets away, he chose to pick up something else.

He opened his palm, and saw a little man in a space suit that was wrapped in nano-circulation and shrunk hundreds of times. He was being held still in his palm by Si Ye's psychic power. The old man's face under the space helmet was extremely hideous, and he seemed to be roaring and shouting something.

"one person?"

Since it was worthy of Si Ye's effort, Shu naturally wouldn't think that the little man in Si Ye's hand was just a toy.

It was most likely some kind of method like "Buddha Kingdom in the Palm" or "The World in the Sleeve" that allowed Si Ye to rescue the person from a long distance before the chaotic battle between the water drop and the huge joint fleet took place.

"Yes, this is the scientist from the research vessel that captured the inactive 'water droplet'."

Relying on the unreasonable mental power of psychic energy and cooperating with the Gray Wind clone, Si Ye directly pulled Ding Yi, a frequent visitor to the Liu Cixin universe, out of the high-temperature electric field vortex ring generated by the water droplet propulsion, across billions of kilometers.

"Maybe it's because I had smoother communication with the researchers from the previous civilization on Terra? Compared to dealing with politicians or soldiers, scientists are probably more efficient in answering questions."

With a casual throw, accompanied by the surge of spiritual energy and nano-metal, the small Ding Yi in the palm of the hand was quickly enlarged to its original size.

“…Silly boy! Run!???”

Ding Yi's voice was a little hoarse. He had just understood the meaning of "destroying you is none of your business", but he was still deeply trapped in the fear brought about by the technological gap, and was frantically trying to alert the combined fleet.

But there was a complete simulated gravity inside the shuttle, and the heavy space suit caused Ding Yi to suddenly lose his balance and fall onto the seat, which made his hoarse shouting come to a halt.

The vortex ring produced by the pointed tail of the water droplet was dazzling, and the heat still lingered on Ding Yi's body. The temperature sensor on his space suit, which was reporting errors frantically, clearly told him that it was not an illusion.

He should have been instantly reduced to ashes by the high temperature of the electromagnetic vortex ring, becoming a meaningless speck of dust in deep space, but now...

"I…"

Ding Yi subconsciously scanned the surrounding environment.

The simple silver-white environment has portholes for directly observing the external environment. Outside is still the universe, still in a near-stellar orbit.

The electromagnets on the bottom of the space suit shoes did not respond, but the heavy space suit made it difficult for him to breathe, and there was gravity in the surrounding environment.

Simulated gravity? For humans today, this is a luxury that is only available on large space stations. Ordinary spacecraft, due to size and stability reasons, only use shoes with electromagnetic adsorption to replace simulated gravity.

Looking at the man in front of him who kept looking at him, the black and red uniform on him had a 20th century Sandezi style. This was not the standard uniform of the existing Fleet International or any joint government, and Ding Yi could not recognize any of the logos on his body.

Could it be that the water droplet failed to pose a threat to the combined fleet, and was merely seriously injured and then woke up from hibernation?

There were already a lot of malfunctions in the space suit, and even the life support system had problems. Ding Yi was thinking about it one by one. Due to lack of oxygen, he felt a little dizzy.

In a daze, Ding Yi saw a young woman walking next to the man in military uniform. Not to mention her long, dyed hair that did not comply with aviation standards at all, just the other person's pointed ears, dragon horns, and dragon tail made Ding Yi think that he was probably hallucinating due to lack of oxygen.

The nano-torrent swept through, and the damaged space suit on Ding Yi was quickly decomposed, revealing the dark gray cabin space suit on the thin old man.

The autonomous machine inside the shuttle floated forward and completed a medical scan on the stunned Ding Yi.

Ding Yi had no other injuries except for the increase in blood pressure caused by emotional excitement and the fatigue caused by the disappearance of adrenaline. The old man was surprisingly in good health. No wonder he was able to go to space and become the first person to come into contact with a "water droplet".

"Wake up, you're not allowed to sleep here."

Si Ye turned off his psychic powers to enable the universal translation effect, and spoke Chinese with a slight smile, causing the dazed Ding Yi to open his eyes wide.

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Chapter 253 Ball Lightning and the Three Bodies

"Are you human too? Or..."

Si Ye finally gave Ding Yi a medical injection to prevent the elderly scientist from having a cerebral blood vessel burst due to his repeated emotional ups and downs.

After confirming that he was not in a near-death state due to carbon dioxide poisoning, Ding Yi took another look at his surroundings and the people in front of him.

The blockade of sophons has prevented humanity's cutting-edge science from making progress for hundreds of years. As a physicist who was dormant two or even three centuries ago, he can still teach cutting-edge physics at a university 300 years later.

Ding Yi thought he was already very clear about the current technological level of human civilization. The spaceship in front of him, which was filled with a large number of equipment that he could not understand, was definitely not a creation of humans on Earth.

But the Si Ye in front of him spoke standard Mandarin, which made Ding Yi feel as if he was in another world.

"I thought you'd think I was a Fleet International rescue ship, or something."

This is why Si Ye likes to communicate with smart people. Smart people can always sort out environmental information and infer some things by themselves, which can save Si Ye a lot of trouble.

"...nanobots were the ones dismantling the spacesuit? Haha, humans' use of nanotechnology is even inferior to that of children. I won't flatter them."

Perhaps due to the calming effect of the treatment needle, Ding Yi seemed extremely calm. He laughed twice in self-deprecating style, then sat up straight and looked at Si Ye.

"If possible, let me see your true form. I'm very interested in the evolution of alien species. There's no need to communicate with me in a human-like form. The lady behind you was a bit too forceful. My country does have the concept of a dragon totem, but to put it bluntly, it's simply the product of mythology and the evolution of totems."

Obviously, the shuttle, an overly obvious high-tech creation, made Ding Yi regard Si Ye and Shu as aliens. Although in a sense he was right to think so, Si Ye always felt a little unhappy.

"...It's a shame, Mr. Ding Yi, you can't expel me from the human race. I am a human, and my female companion is truly a dragon."

Si Ye spread his hands and gave Shu a look. The other party cooperated and turned into a white dragon. It swam beside Si Ye for a long time and then turned into a human form and landed on the ground.

"... "

Ding Yi shook his head. The existence of the "water drop" already demonstrated humanity's technological backwardness. He believed that the millet transforming into a white dragon in front of him was nothing more than a projection or some more advanced visual intervention technology.

"Don't make fun of me... Please tell me your purpose directly. Although I don't know what use an old man is to you."

That being said, there was clearly a determination to die in Ding Yi's eyes.

As a hibernator from an old era, he has far more faith than the humans on Earth today. If aliens want to get any information from him that threatens humans, he will definitely refuse to do so even at death.

"Lin Yun, I just want to confirm whether Lin Yun existed."

Liu Cixin has many works, and sometimes the names of characters are repeated, but most of the time they are separate individual stories. However, The Three-Body Problem and Ball Lightning, which is regarded as the prequel to The Three-Body Problem, are exceptions.

Lin Yun is the main character in Ball Lightning and is mentioned many times by Ding Yi in The Three-Body Problem. She is a female version of Thomas Wade, who is determined, extremely rational but has a passionate ideal. In the end, she transformed herself into a quantum state in macro-fusion and entered a state that is neither alive nor alive.

It can be said that if Lin Yun could intrude into the selection of the Wallfacer or even the Swordbearer, the human beings in the Three-Body World might have had a different ending.

And what Si Ye is concerned about is this quantum state.

Because the Three-Body World is constantly falling into different dimensions, the speed of light has been locked, and superluminal travel is an impossible thing for the civilization of this world.

But if there is a possibility of expanding quantum technology in this world, then in order to prevent the Imperial Fleet from losing its advantage in this world, the jump engine with quantum recombination as its core technology should be avoided in this world to prevent the possibility of technology being obtained and cracked by the few top civilizations, thereby ensuring the absolute advantage of the Empire.

Anyway, the Star Empire has hyperspace engines, psychic jump engines, and the recurved hyperlight created by Si Ye in combination with the universe creation technology. Using one less jump engine is not a problem.

"you…"

Ding Yi's first reaction was that the other party had read his memory, but if his memory had been read, why would he come to him for confirmation? It was a bit contradictory.

“…Why are you asking this…Lin Yun…Lin Yun was a long, long time ago…”