The giant corporations that started from Night City

Chapter 497 Ding Yi: Silly children! Run!

"Why does that guy say that about us?"

A fleet officer cursed indignantly.

"That's right. We just picked up some junk and assembled a larger spaceship. How dare you look down on us? We have 2,000 warships!"

"Chairman, committee members, I suspect they are not on the human side at all. After the Trisolaran civilization surrenders to us, we must confiscate their spacecraft and weapons as soon as possible."

Another high-ranking member of the fleet spoke up, indignantly.

"It's obvious that they want to seize power. What a bullshit survival theory. Whoever has the strongest fist has the right to survive. If the Universal Corporation is really capable, why doesn't it go outside the solar system to intercept the Trisolaran fleet? It's ridiculous!"

"They think they can take over human civilization with just that shabby ship. It's a pipe dream. If they succeed, anyone who hijacks a star-class battleship will be able to start their own business."

It was obvious that Paul had been met with hostility and dissatisfaction from everyone present, and all the friendliness they had previously shown towards the global giant had disappeared.

In the eyes of Fleet International's top brass, the existence of Universal Corporation is just a nouveau riche coming back to show off their wealth. They are probably pretending to be helping the Earth, but their real purpose is to seize power and occupy territory!
Seeing everyone talking and discussing how to punish the global giant, the representative of the Asian Fleet lowered his head in silence and thought. He saw the shadow of Zhang Beihai in Paul.

These two people are very similar.

What they did is really hard to understand now, and no one can prove that they are right, but for some reason, the representatives of the Asian Fleet always have a strange feeling in their hearts.

That's what Paul said might actually come true...

They will fail, the Trisolaran probe will pass over Jupiter and head straight for Earth!

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After returning to the Infinity-class aircraft carrier, Paul immediately went to check on Agent Lyon's injuries.

Fortunately, the giant company brought an advanced biological repair force field, and now Lyon has recovered as before. He is still in the recuperation stage and will be able to continue his mission soon.

With the current biological genetic technology of the world's giant companies, it is not difficult at all to guard against the genetic missiles developed by Zhizi.

However, Tomoko is not the most difficult trouble, but the Asian fleet that is closely monitoring them.

As many as seven hundred Star-class battleships have returned to Earth orbit from the Jupiter base and are circling around the Infinity-class aircraft carrier. Any other moves by the Infinity-class aircraft carrier will be attacked by these battleships.

Obviously, what Paul said at the joint meeting of Fleet International has angered many officers and senior officials, who ordered to increase vigilance against the Endless class.

At this moment, seven hundred star-class battleships seemed to have cast a magic circle, trapping the Endless-class aircraft carrier in the center, but Paul remained indifferent.

If they really want to break out and leave here, these warships are no match for them at all. The armor plates made of neutron star materials alone can knock open these fragile paper tigers.

But he didn't need to do that, because a good show would start soon.

On the Infinity-class aircraft carrier, Paul was reporting the situation to Morgan Blackhand. After learning about Paul's remarks, Morgan asked him:
"You knew your words would anger them, so why did you do that?"

Morgan thinks Paul was acting on impulse and that they could have kept a low profile until after the Doomsday Battle.

But after Paul did this, their situation would become more troublesome.

In order to assist Paul in completing the task better, Leon specially sent Morgan Blackhand to take over the Infinity-class aircraft carrier, because after the Infinity-class aircraft carrier was exposed, it would definitely be monitored by Sophon.

All the signals they send to the War Moon Headquarters will be intercepted by Sophon, and they can even trace the hidden War Moon megastructure.

So the next task needs to be completed by Morgan Blackhand and Paul together.

"It's part of the plan."

Paul looked at Morgan Blackhand. If his psychic power had not disappeared, he could use telepathy to tell the other party his thoughts silently.

But now he couldn't do that and could only communicate with his eyes.

Since Archon Leon has given him the power of the No. 1 Wallfacer of the Cosmic Corporation, his mission is to play the pig and eat the tiger to lure the Trisolaran fleet to the edge of the solar system and capture the water droplets.

And take over all affairs of human civilization.

Before the mission is completed, the headquarters needs to become as silent as possible and just observe the situation. All they have to do is complete the mission quietly.

This is the only way to deceive the Three-Body Civilization and capture their water droplets.

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At this time, the joint forces composed of the North American and European fleets have approached the Trisolarian probe, and they are preparing to intercept it in the orbit of Jupiter.

The combined fleet's array looked quite dense and neat, like a neat chessboard. This formation would only appear during a military parade.

According to a normal cruising formation, the distance between warships should be maintained at around 500 kilometers, and a distance of 25 kilometers between ships is almost equivalent to sailing sideways in the ocean.

This can easily lead to accidents, especially since it is impossible to evacuate quickly.

There are warships everywhere, front, back, left and right. It takes most of the day to change direction, and it is easy to collide with other warships.

Such an obvious mistake was of course criticized by many fleet commanders, but the reason for doing so was actually to ensure that every warship had the opportunity to participate in the battle.

It is ridiculous in itself for more than a thousand warships to surround a target less than 10 meters long, especially if the array is fully deployed in war mode.

Then the warships at the edge of the fleet will be tens of thousands of kilometers away from the target. If a battle really breaks out, the warships outside will simply not have enough time to enter the battlefield to fight, which will leave them with permanent regrets.

To take into account the participation of each warship in the battle and to send out enough warships to ensure the momentum of the human fleet, there is only one way left.

Compressing the battleship formation into a super-dense formation and keeping all the warships within combat distance can not only present an unparalleled visual impact.

It can also ensure the participation of every star-class battleship in the war and meet the psychological needs of all fleets in fighting against aliens.

It can be said that Fleet International did not take the probe sent by the Trisolarans seriously at all, and this battle was actually more like a pure political show.

In their opinion, this was a great opportunity to show off. Since the main force of the Trisolaran fleet was still two light years away, there was no need to worry about any danger.

However, when Leon at the War Moon Headquarters saw this scene, he couldn't help but shake his head.

What Fleet International is doing is a complete provocation to the Trisolarans.

Back then, Sun Quan led an army of 100,000 to the city of Hefei. In front of Zhang Liao, he led his personal guards to the riverside to worship his ancestors and show off. As a result, he was killed by Zhang Liao and his 800 men. Now the tragedy is about to happen again today, more than 2,000 years later.

Soon, the joint fleet's reconnaissance devices saw a probe coming from space. The object looked like a water droplet, and its surface reflected a mercury-like luster.

It has a round head and a sharp tail, and its surface is an extremely smooth, fully reflective mirror. The entire solar system is reflected on its surface in smooth light patterns.

This is an extremely beautiful creation. At first glance, it looks like liquid water, and there is no mechanical structure inside it.

The overall length of the water droplet is only three meters, while the warships in front of it are behemoths that are hundreds or thousands of times larger than it. The comparison between the two is like an ant trying to shake a tree.

There are 1,300 giant ships like this, but there is only one water drop. The huge difference in quantity, quality and weight makes the water drop look like a lovable little creature.

"These bastards are totally putting their personal interests above the interests of human civilization."

Jack Wells couldn't help cursing when he saw this scene. To intercept such a probe, it would be more than enough to send out a few space fighters.

Even if so many troops are really to be dispatched, the fleet should not be overwhelmed. In case of an accident, these warships will not have time to escape.

I can only stay there and wait for death in despair!
"They used this action as a bargaining chip for their own political game. This is not the first time that humans have done this."

Leon looked at the holographic screen calmly, patiently waiting for the outbreak of the doomsday battle.

He could have stopped it, of course, but there was no need.

Here, Fleet International sent a small unmanned spacecraft named Mantis to approach the water droplet. This is a machine specially designed to collect mineral samples from asteroids.

Its biggest feature is a pair of extra-long robotic arms, which facilitates the collection of materials.

The Mantis was no more than 500 kilometers away from the water droplet. It advanced cautiously throughout the entire journey, stopping every 50 kilometers to conduct an all-round scan using its surveillance system.

Only after confirming that there are no abnormalities will we continue to approach.

In an area more than a thousand kilometers away from the target water droplet, the joint fleet has kept pace with the water droplet's flight speed. Most of the warships have shut down their fusion engines and are slowly floating in space.

The huge metal hulls reflected the faint light of the stars, like silent and cold boulders. The entire fleet was a Stonehenge.

Hundreds of thousands of people in the Combined Fleet breathed slowly and watched patiently as the Mantis got closer and closer to the water droplet. The images and video footage they saw would not be transmitted back to Earth until three hours later.

At this moment, the human world seemed to have stopped breathing. The flying hovercraft could not hover, and every household was watching in front of the TV, watching this scene that was worthy of being recorded in history.

The dungeons in various realms fell into silence.

Even the global Internet became quiet, and all the information and data transmitted came from images and pictures from twenty astronomical units away.

Paul naturally also received the images and live broadcasts sent by the fleet command, and he could see more and clearer perspectives.

Obviously, Fleet International wanted Paul to take a good look at this doomsday battle and how mankind achieved an unprecedented victory.

In the live broadcast, Mantis has extended its super-long robotic arm and touched this object that came from four light years away and has traveled through space for nearly two hundred years.

When the fingers of the robotic arm clamped the water droplet, billions of people on Earth clearly felt their hearts beat.

Immediately afterwards, countless crowds burst into extremely warm and excited cheers, and countless people took to the streets to celebrate the first contact between human civilization and the Three-Body Civilization.

In the live broadcast, Mantis is using its super-long robotic arm to retrieve water droplets.

During this process, people discovered an extremely strange contrast, that is, the human Mantis was nothing more than an assembly of complex mechanical creations and crude industrial products.

But the appearance of a water drop is extremely exquisite. Its crystal clear and smooth surface is truly beautiful, eliminating all complex functionality and technical connotations, leaving only the elegance and detachment of philosophy and art.

The steel claws of the robotic arm grasped the water drop, just like an ancient ape used its hairy hands to grab pearls on the beach millions of years ago.

The water drop looks so fragile and delicate, like a tear in the space, and many people are worried that it will be scratched by the mechanical steel claws.

Fortunately, no accident happened, and the water drop was safely collected by the mechanical steel claws.

When the water droplets were slowly collected into the main cabin of the Mantis and secured, the humans on Earth once again gave a deafening cheer.

After the end of a war that was bound to be won, everyone felt a little unsatisfied. There was no gunfire or exciting battles as imagined. Everything ended quietly.

The only thing people can be sure of is that with the giant ships and cannons of Fleet International, from now on they will be able to face all foreign civilizations with confidence and calmness.

The arrival of the water droplets also caused some subtle emotional changes in many people towards the Three-Body Civilization.

This race, which is on its two-hundred-year journey toward the solar system, is a great, hard-working species that has survived with unimaginable perseverance.

The long four-light-year journey was filled with cosmic disasters that were enough to destroy this civilization. They suffered heavy losses and endured untold hardships just to find a home to survive.

At this moment, human beings' emotions towards the Three-Body World changed from the initial hostility and hatred to sympathy, pity and admiration.

Humans suddenly realized that the ten drops of water sent out by the Trisolarans two centuries ago might have been intended to express their friendliness.

However, the frightened and panicked human beings had their mentality distorted by their bloody history and made a series of wrong actions.

At this moment, some people have begun to fantasize about humans cooperating with the Three-Body Civilization to build the solar system into a beautiful home.

But in the next second, the Mantis, which had just recovered the water droplets, suddenly exploded on its own, and the real doomsday battle had just begun.

At the War Moon headquarters, a detector sent by the Universal Corporation captured a signal that had not been sent out.

Everyone present heard the terrified cry from Dr. Ding Yi on the Mantis, and a pair of invisible hands suddenly clenched their hearts:

[Silly children, run! ! ]

There was a gleam in Li Ang's eyes, and his expression did not change at all. This unprecedented fireworks show was about to bury the arrogance of humans in the Three-Body Universe.

Of course, human arrogance can never be eradicated; it will accompany mankind toward destruction.

"The images that follow are rare, and I hope each of you will remember them in your hearts."

Li Ang spoke to all the executives of the giant companies without turning his head.

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(End of this chapter)