From Terra to Terra, the Star Emperor's Holiday

Under the sweep of the mega-level laser beam, the water droplet ignored the energy consumption issue and continuously created electromagnetic vortex rings at the tail, rapidly increasing its speed.

In order to paralyze humanity and reduce the possibility of humanity giving up on itself and destroying the Earth, the Trisolaran leader had never issued an order to directly attack humanity, and ETO only carried out assassinations.

But this time, the Trisolaran leader directly issued an order to attack the major cities of human civilization. It wanted to use this to intimidate humans and stop their crazy idea of ​​driving the earth.

Unfortunately, although the United Government's defensive weapons were unable to do anything to the water droplets, Si Ye had already made corresponding contingency plans and added fuel to the United Government's planetary shield.

The gift to the United Government is the second-generation planetary shield technology, which is based on the shield generation tower and assisted by a large number of small amplifiers, together forming a joint shield with increased redundancy.

Typically, the second-generation shield technology is divided into an outer rigid shield and an inner charged shield. The rigid shield defends against high-speed entities and slow entities without identification codes, while the charged shield can effectively defend against and disperse energy attacks.

However, after the United Government built the shield, Si Ye added two additional sets of equipment to the shield, upgrading the shield to the third generation level.

It's not that we don't want to give the little broken balls better ones, but their heavy nuclear reactions have limited power. Even if we build more, they can't support the energy consumption of more advanced shield technology.

The two additional systems are the buffer shield that coexists with the rigid layer of the shield and the inner hysteresis layer. The buffer layer is used to reduce the shock and impact caused by the collision of high-momentum weapons with the rigid shield, while the hysteresis layer can effectively slow down or even stop suspicious objects entering the shield, which can buy a lot of time for the shield to restart.

So when the water droplet accelerated madly towards the small broken ball, it first collided head-on with the rigid shield. A large number of sparks exploded on the shield layer, and the integrity of the outer layer of the planetary shield quickly dropped a lot, and then began to repair quickly with sufficient energy supply.

Although the water droplet broke through the first layer of rigid shield, its own speed was also rapidly slowing down. When the water droplet wanted to generate an electromagnetic vortex ring to generate thrust, it found that in the complex energy environment of the planetary shield, its propulsion system was subject to certain interference and could not generate a controllable magnetic field normally.

Fortunately, the water droplet still had enough remaining speed, so the combat computer and the Three-Body Command Post decided to wait until the water droplet rushed out of the shield's stance range before accelerating.

But the next moment, the water droplet was carried directly into the thick shield hysteresis layer.

In the complex energy environment of the shield layer, water droplets cannot generate electromagnetic vortex rings to produce thrust, and their own speed is rapidly consumed by the hysteresis field.

Soon, the light blue hysteresis field permeated the water droplet into the dark blue hysteresis layer that was like gel. The water droplet kept trying to generate an electromagnetic vortex ring at the tail, but kept failing, just like a small insect that fell into the resin and kept struggling.

"call…"

Although they knew that the Pan-Human Community represented by Si Ye had many backup plans on Earth, the top leaders of the United Government still broke into a cold sweat. Only when they saw that the water droplets were successfully delayed and solidified did they breathe a sigh of relief.

With the speed at which the water droplets broke through the rigid shield just now, combined with the extremely strong shell, destroying a city with one impact is no problem.

When the United Government first entered the universe where aliens existed, the fierce reaction of the Trisolarans taught a severe lesson to it, which effectively and fully strengthened its attitude towards the Trisolarans and aliens in the future.

"how…"

"Prince, this technology is very similar to the shield technology used in human culture. Theoretically, it should be impossible to achieve... Humanity must have other forces supporting them."

The Trisolarans were completely panicked.

When the water droplets were captured by unknown technology and became insects in amber, the situation became just like the old saying in human civilization. Now the battle between humans and the Trisolarans has changed from offense to defense.

"Activate emergency plan 114,"

The war consul next to the Trisolaran leader's face changed drastically, but he still gave the order diligently. A start button was placed in front of the Trisolaran leader with extreme solemnity.

"Let the sophon unfold again. I want to speak to human civilization."

On the other hand, the United Government was still studying how to deal with the water droplets. Although they were very interested in the technology contained in the water droplets, the United Government still had the nerve to contact Si Ye.

They knew that the Trisolarans' high-tech detectors were merely controlled by the Star Empire's even higher-tech shields, and were not damaged. However, if they coveted the Trisolarans' technology and took the water droplets out of the hysteresis field without authorization, all humans would get was the ruthless slaughter and destruction of the water droplets.

"The Trisolarans are silent... You're already invincible against them. Do you still need to maneuver the Earth?"

Luo Ji looked at the water droplets in the hysteresis layer with a complicated expression, and lamented the Star Sea Empire's kindness to the United Government.

"According to the Pan-Human Community, your universe is on the brink of destruction due to a conflict between the gods of some advanced civilizations. Therefore, we need to drive the Earth to the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt and wait there for our journey to the Star Sea Empire's cosmic domain."

A secretary of the coalition government explained to Luo Ji,

"This journey is the test we need to endure to join the pan-human community. Although... I feel like Lord Si Ye is using us as bait, in a disguised way, our safety is actually guaranteed."

"There's such a thing...hiss."

Luo Ji scratched his head and was about to ask something when he saw the main control room once again connected to the space surveillance footage.

Chieko once again performed a high-dimensional expansion in front of the small broken ball, but this time it no longer displayed fancy subtitles. Instead, it showed an extremely dark environment like a curtain. A strange creature whose detailed appearance could not be seen was standing in the darkness, and in front of it was a striking red button.

"This is the activation button for the gravitational wave antenna capable of broadcasting the coordinates of the Trisolaran world and the solar system. I believe that you, with your mysterious origins, must have had contact with the Wallfacer Luo Ji and understand what the Dark Forest Law means to a civilization as weak as ours."

The leader of the Three Body Sect was hiding in the darkness, as if he had made up his mind.

"Using this as a deterrent, I, the supreme ruler of the Trisolaran Civilization, speak to the human world!"

Luo Ji scratched his face. Looking at the scene in front of him, he always had a strange feeling, as if he had been plagiarized.

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Chapter 279 Lord, Don’t Care, Star Empire Edition

"Damn it! These Trisolarans copied my plan!"

When he came to his senses, Luo Ji felt a surge of anger at being plagiarized rising to his head.

In fact, the Trisolarans’ desire to survive is no less than that of humans, and they are not very willing to use this deterrent plan that will inevitably result in mutual destruction.

But the Trisolaran social system made them extremely rational, and they understood that when the water droplets could not have any impact on the small broken ball, they had already stepped into a future of failure.

The Trisolarans are trapped by their social and racial characteristics. Although their social cohesion is extremely powerful through two-way transparent communication through brain waves, they have also lost the opportunity for cultural and technological explosion.

Humans, on the other hand, are able to rely on their unique social and racial characteristics to produce a technological explosion under the pressure of the external environment, and in a few decades, advance technology to a level that would take hundreds of years for the Trisolaran civilization to reach. Across interstellar distances spanning hundreds of years, this is enough for human civilization to reach a level capable of defeating and destroying the Trisolaran civilization.

This is also the reason why the Trisolaran civilization uses sophons to lock down Trisolaran human technology, but now facing the small broken ball, they have lost all the means of control they can use.

According to the speed of the small broken ball, humans will meet the Three-Body First Fleet that set out from the Three-Body mother planet four hundred years ago in 77 years. By then, human technology will have reached a new height, while the Three-Body First Fleet, which is still using the technology of 400 years ago and is about to run out of resources, will be crushed to death like a bug.

So there was no other way. The Trisolaran leader could only resort to the method of broadcasting coordinates, hoping to use the law of the dark forest to achieve the ultimate deterrent and try to force the human race, which had already won, back to the negotiation table.

"On behalf of the Trisolaran civilization, I surrender. Sophon will leave the solar system, and the Trisolaran First Fleet will slow down and turn. The Trisolaran civilization swears to human civilization that it will never set foot in the solar system again. Please change the course of your planets to reduce the risk of mutual exposure."

Even though the Trisolaran civilization is a totalitarian society, and even though the Trisolaran leader is the one who has full control over the Trisolaran civilization, for issuing such an order that almost severing the future fate of the Trisolaran First Fleet, the Trisolaran leader may still be tried under the emergency plan.

Of course, it has no choice at this moment.

The Trisolaran leader can only hope that humans have not been blinded by anger and can choose the wise option between a double loss and a small win.

"The Trisolaran civilization attacked us first, starting a war and causing panic. Now they want to suppress it by creating threats?"

If it weren't for the technology provided by Si Ye, the water drop's previous charge would likely have destroyed all the functioning cities on the surface of the human race, and it is not impossible that over 100 million people would have been killed or injured.

Under such circumstances, the anger of the United Government and the people towards the Trisolarans is at its peak. Coupled with Si Ye's hint, the attitude of the United Government is naturally extremely tough.

"On Earth, a great leader once said: 'The enemy decides when war begins, and we decide when it ends.' Trisolaran civilization, you cannot accept war only when you have the upper hand."

“…I can’t understand…”

The Trisolaran leader muttered to himself, and his limbs, which were hanging on the activation button of the gravitational wave antenna, trembled continuously.

Sophon has been watching humans for three centuries, and the Three-Body Civilization has been analyzing humans for three centuries, but the rational-based Trisolarans still cannot understand humans.

At this crucial moment, involving the survival of civilization, humanity still chose a lose-lose situation. Could it be that their hatred for the Trisolarans has reached such a depth?

"If human civilization remains stubborn, then..."

The Trisolaran leader's eyes were fixed on the big red button. As long as it was pressed, both the Trisolaran civilization and human civilization would begin the countdown to extinction. How to continue and preserve civilization would become the most important thing, and fighting would naturally become meaningless.

But their technology is obviously not enough to build a spaceship that can accommodate all the people. 90% or even 95% of the Trisolarans will die in the Dark Forest and the deep Milky Way.

So at this moment, the Trisolaran leader, who should have been extremely rational and clear that the conflict between humans and the Trisolaran Empire was irreconcilable and that activating the gravitational wave antenna to broadcast coordinates was the best option, actually hesitated. The weight of civilization was too heavy.

"if…"

"Press it, do you need me to press it for you?"

The Trisolaran leader might still want to talk to the United Government, but Si Ye's slightly playful voice appeared directly in the command room of the Trisolaran mother planet.

When the Three-Body Civilization tried to cause damage to the surface of the small broken planet, it was almost declared dead.

The Burning Heavenly Soldiers of the Fourth Psionic Fleet had already begun warming up their jump engines, intending to jump directly over and kindly help the Trisolarans merge the three stars they feared into one large black hole.

But Si Ye didn't expect that the desperate Trisolarans actually plagiarized Luo Ji's idea and came up with a reverse ultimate deterrent. With the blessing of this good life, Si Ye stopped the Burning Sky Divine Weapon and allowed the Trisolaran civilization to live for a few more minutes.

However, it is obvious that the Trisolarans have always had the upper hand in the conflict between the Trisolarans and humans. They are not mentally prepared to admit defeat or even lose both sides. The hesitation of the Trisolaran leader is the best proof of this.

This won't do. Si Ye didn't send the Burning Sky Divine Soldiers to deliver the surprise because the Three-Body Civilization was planning to act as bait. How can you not press it?

"...You are secretly supporting the existence of human civilization... Why..."

Upon hearing Si Ye's voice, the entire Trisolaran command center was in an uproar. The transparency of thoughts also led to the mutual transmission of emotions, and the Trisolarans instantly fell into a sea of ​​fear.

The same goes for the Three-Body Leader, but it was able to reach this position, obviously it still had some extraordinary qualities. It quickly controlled its emotions and revealed Si Ye's origins.

When the water droplet was captured by unknown technology, it was already a consensus among the Trisolarans that humans were secretly supported by a higher civilization. Although they did not know why human civilization received such help, this did not prevent the Trisolaran leader from expressing doubts.

"A bunch of alien bugs actually want to set foot on our precious Earth. Why do you think that is?"

"...If we completely surrender, the Trisolarans will surrender all their technology, even becoming servants of human civilization. Can this buy us a chance to survive..."

Si Ye's words were quite different, sounding more like the words of the Holy Guard. The Trisolaran leader knew that his fate was not in his own hands, but he still tried to make a final struggle.

"Stop talking nonsense. A fish bait should have its own consciousness. If you don't press it, I will press it for you."

How could the Trisolarans be qualified to negotiate terms with humans? As Si Ye finished speaking, the Trisolarans' branch-like gravitational wave antenna in low-Earth orbit quickly activated, exposing the coordinates of the solar system and the Trisolaran mother planet. At the same time, Si Ye added leisurely:

"Ahem, test the mic, test the mic, and reply if you hear anything."

An invisible wave spread out, as if plucking an invisible string, announcing its existence to the entire universe.

"You! If you do this, won't humanity perish?"

The Trisolaran leader had never expected that his own gravitational wave antenna could be manipulated at will by this advanced civilization. The fear in his heart finally collapsed, and his body, which had no bones to begin with, fell completely to the ground.

"Whether it's bait or fish, for humans, they are just playthings in the palm of their hands."

Looking at the chaotic and decadent Trisolaran civilization, Si Ye added, "To borrow a phrase you've all said, the Dark Forest, or anything else in this universe, 'I don't care.'"

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Chapter 280: Burning Heaven Divine Weapon

"Don't you care..."

The head of the Three-Body State knows that the Three-Body Civilization has not been able to glimpse the true capabilities of the advanced civilizations in the universe, and they do not know whether the Dark Forest Law is invalid for the advanced civilizations behind human civilization. But the head of the Three-Body State knows that it cannot accept its fate now, and it needs to continue to command for the survival of civilization.

"Everyone calm down!!!"

Under the angry roar of the Three-Body Leader, the chaotic command center gradually returned to order and orders were issued one after another.