The giant corporations that started from Night City

Chapter 500: Since ancient times, there has been only one way to reach Mount Hua! Conspiracy!
At this moment, everyone present subconsciously took a breath of cold air. This was indeed a method that could not be more clumsy, a plan that even fools would find ridiculous.

But at the same time, everyone could guess that this was a deliberate cover-up by Paul, a lie to confuse Tomoko.

"You have now officially entered the working state, Mr. Paul." Lin Yun stared at the other party. Like the people present, he also thought that this was a cover-up deliberately made up by Paul.

Although it is crude and ridiculous, it is not completely impossible to do. If you can really deceive the Trisolarans, you can also consume some of their resources to a certain extent.

"I'm not kidding. This is a plan I will definitely carry out." Paul said seriously, but he could also see that these people did not believe that he would do this.

Maybe even the Trisolarans wouldn't believe that he would do this, but it didn't matter. As long as he could hide his inner thoughts, it was enough.

Soon, human news media began to broadcast and publicize around the Wallfacer Paul in order to stabilize the human society that was heading towards collapse and disorder.

The humans in the Three-Body Universe are very delicate and always hope that a great savior will appear to save everything.

The appearance of Paul just fulfilled all their fantasies. In this desperate moment, the Wallfacer Paul was the only god who could bring them hope.

However, after learning about Paul's plan to face the wall, some people couldn't help but raise questions. After all, if this was a plan to cover up the real plan to face the wall, it would be too clumsy.

This outdated plan was rejected as early as two hundred years ago. Now it is being brought up again for discussion. Not to mention humans themselves, even the Trisolarans can see the flaws in it.

"Ten thousand high-energy particle accelerators? Let's not talk about how ridiculous this plan is. Does that guy really think the Trisolarans are so easy to fool? He's crazy."

"This is courting death! The Great Depression was caused by the collapse of the world economy. The Trisolarans haven't arrived yet, and a large number of us humans are going to die first!"

"We must not accept such a ridiculous plan. It's best not to even try it because it's a complete waste of time. Instead of doing useless work, we might as well enjoy a few more good days!"

"Do we really need the Trisolarans to arrange for someone to break the wall? Even I can tell him that the Lord doesn't care."

"..."

No one really thinks that Paul would carry out such a crazy plan. It is too ridiculous and outrageous. Most people prefer to think that this is just a false illusion he uses to cover up his true thoughts.

But what Paul's real purpose was can only be guessed.

Faced with the continuous heated discussions among the public, the United Nations, which had long lost its power, rose again, took over the power of Fleet International and Earth International, and held a hearing on the Wallbreaker Project.

This is to allow Paul to determine the future plan implementation guidelines and ideas.

Whether it is to cover up the real plan or they really want to do it, they must have a specific plan to implement. Otherwise, building 10,000 accelerators will be just empty talk, and the government will not know whether it should do it.

In addition to Paul, there were two wallfacers who came out of hibernation, Luo Ji and Hines, attending the hearing.

Hines is a British scientist with political experience who has been involved in various business activities and scientific research projects. He can be considered an all-round elite.

He invented the ideological stamp to strengthen humanity's belief in victory against the Three-Body Civilization, but in fact, Hines' real purpose was to use the ideological stamp to implant the concept of defeatism and allow humans to escape the solar system as soon as possible.

Hines' plan was successful for a time, but was still broken by his wife. However, the fugitive Zhang Beihai inherited this idea and preserved the spark of hope for mankind with his defeatist belief.

Hines' status as a Wallfacer has now been revoked, and he is only attending this meeting as a former Wallfacer.

As for Luo Ji, he had given up his identity as a wallfacer because of the high pressure. If Jonathan hadn't found him, he would have just wanted to go to the grave to bury human civilization and wait for the end of the world.

But the emergence of global giants seems to have brought some improvement.

In short, Paul will be the only one giving orders on the stage at this hearing, and everyone will listen to his speech from the audience.

"Wallfacer Paul Atreides, I would like to ask whether your Universal Corporation will help humans build these 10,000 high-energy particle accelerators."

"Also, hasn't your technology broken through the current physical constraints? How did you build that Infinity-class aircraft carrier?"

Galnin, Chairman of the United Nations Committee, asked inquiringly.

He is a Russian with a pair of deep and sharp eyes that can always see through people's inner thoughts.

It is not easy to build 10,000 high-energy particle accelerators. Even if it is to conceal the real purpose, the false cover needs to have a certain degree of plausibility.

"That Infinity-class aircraft carrier is all the property of the Universal Corporation. We haven't made any breakthrough progress in physics technology, so we will also help build a high-energy particle accelerator."

Paul's tone and demeanor seemed to indicate that he really intended to carry out this plan, which made Galnin a little disappointed.

If the Wallfacer's plan is such a stupid move, it would be better not to choose this Wallfacer!

"That's impossible. As early as two hundred years ago, the Trisolarans had enough sophons to interfere with our particle experiments. Now the Trisolaran civilization has sent even more sophons."

"It would be of no use if we just built 10,000 or 20,000 high-energy accelerators. Even if we increased the number tenfold, it would be impossible to achieve the goal."

The questions raised by Galnin are also what the general public wants to ask, not to mention whether the huge amount of money spent to build 10,000 or 20,000 high-energy particle accelerators can break through the blockade of the intelligent particles.

Humans can develop technology, so why can't the Trisolaran civilization develop technology too? In the past two hundred years, it's not just humans who can find ways to do it, the Trisolarans are equally smart.

Maybe they have already sent more intelligent particles to block more than 100,000 high-energy particle accelerators.

However, as soon as Galnin finished speaking, Hines shook his head and said, "It is not so easy for the Trisolaran civilization to create more sophistry."

"We learned most of the information about the Trisolaran civilization from the Guzheng Project two centuries ago. Their sophon engineering consumes an extremely huge amount of resources."

"The Trisolaran civilization burned through the resources of its second space fleet just to create the first sophon. If it weren't for the sophon, the Trisolaran fleet we see now would be even larger."

Although Hines also thinks that Paul's proposed method is stupid, in a sense, it is a slow but perhaps effective way.

"So according to you, this plan is feasible?" Galnin frowned. The thinking of these scientists is always so counterintuitive and difficult to understand.

"From an economic perspective, building 10,000 high-energy particle engines will indeed cause trouble for human society and economy. But similarly, the Three-Body Civilization will also encounter such troubles when building sophons."

Hines spoke the truth, which made Luo Ji on the side couldn't help but look at him. He couldn't tell whether the other party really believed it or was cooperating with Paul to hide the real Wallfacer plan.

"Please be more specific."

Galnin looked at Hines.

"The goal of the Trisolaran civilization is very simple, which is to occupy the solar system and complete colonization. Occupation is only the first step. How to migrate the people of the Trisolaran civilization to the solar system is also a big problem." Hines said calmly. To put it bluntly, the sophon is just a proton, and what it can do is quite limited. It is impossible for it to continue to manufacture intelligent machines like the crisis and chaos in the dungeon.

If humans want to make any large-scale construction decisions, the intelligent particles cannot stop them at all and can only make some microscopic interference in the fine areas.

For the Trisolarans, the sophon is definitely a luxury item that is not suitable for mass production.

If the Three-Body Civilization really wants to continue to blockade human technology, spend a lot of resources, and strand the third and fourth space fleets, then where will they get the resources to carry out immigration?

After sorting out this basic logic, it will suddenly become clear that there seems to be nothing wrong with the plan proposed by Paul.

"So I don't think the Trisolaran civilization will send more sophons unless they find out that we really intend to build more than 10,000 accelerators to compete with them for resources."

Hines' explanation caused everyone present to fall into silence.

They didn't expect that the construction process of Zhizi would be so difficult.

It’s not their fault.

After all, the water drop destroyed their proud Fleet International with overwhelming force, shrouding everyone in the shadow of death, and many details were ignored by them.

If the cost of a sophon is equivalent to that of an entire Trisolaran fleet, then this seemingly outrageous plan seems acceptable...

When he said this, Luo Ji's eyes suddenly lit up and he said, "I understand!"

Chairman Galnin was startled and looked at the other party indignantly: "What do you understand? Is this account so easy to settle?"

He still thinks the plan is unlikely to be feasible.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think is the most obvious advantage of humans over the Three-Body Civilization?" Luo Ji asked the congressmen present excitedly, and his gloomy expression finally revealed some light.

What Hines said just now made him think of a point, perhaps this is the key to defeating the Three-Body Civilization!
"You don't mean to say that our thoughts can be hidden, but the thoughts of the Trisolarans are transparent. That's an old saying that has been around for many years."

Hines looked at Luo Ji indifferently. What did the opacity of thinking matter against the absolute technological leadership? It was not uncommon to see examples of force defeating skill.

"No, this is just the reason for the birth of the Wallfacer Project, not our greatest advantage." Luo Ji shook his head with a smile.

"What on earth is that?" Hines frowned. He didn't like people playing tricks in front of him.

"It's resources! We have resources from the entire solar system."

Luo Ji's voice echoed in the conference room and reached everyone's ears: "There are eight planets in the solar system, but we still moved our industrial system to space despite the blockade of sophons."

"Especially the space industry, which is the most polluting and consuming, is basically entirely based on the Jupiter base."

This is an indisputable fact. Fleet International uses Jupiter as its base, builds warships nearby, and relies on Jupiter's hydrogen and helium oceans to provide its own energy.

That's why they can afford two thousand star-class battleships.

If there were no supply of resources from other planets, the Earth would have been hollowed out long ago.

"Keep talking."

Galnin raised his eyebrows, as if he had heard some interesting information.

"Due to the irregular movement of the three stars in the Centaur constellation where the Trisolaran civilization is located, most of the planets with usable resources have been destroyed, leaving only a few."

"So their resources are extremely limited, which is why our number of warships can easily exceed theirs."

"Although the Trisolarans are technologically advanced, they don't have enough resources to join us in this construction competition!"

Luo Ji's words were thought-provoking. For a long time in the past, human civilization had either over-deified the Trisolarans or looked down upon them.

That's why we keep taking detours and making all kinds of mistakes.

It was not until Luo Ji explained this that people were able to truly analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the two civilizations correctly and objectively.

If you want to defeat the Three-Body Civilization, the first step is to learn to seek truth from facts and correctly view the strengths and weaknesses of both sides!
"In that case, this plan is indeed feasible?" Galnin was still a little skeptical, but he couldn't find any point to refute.

After thinking for a moment, Hines nodded silently: "If the question is whether it is possible to break through the blockade of the sophon, then this method is indeed feasible..."

As soon as the words fell, the whole audience was in an uproar.

This is what everyone is most concerned about: whether they can find a way to salvation.

"Everyone, as I said before, humanity's greatest advantage is the eight planets in the solar system. We already have the power to seize these resources."

"Sophon can move at a speed close to the speed of light. The Earth is only a small part of the speed of light, and it takes less than 0.14 seconds to orbit the Earth."

"So Sophon can interfere with 10,000 accelerators on Earth at the same time."

"But if we spread 182 high-energy particle accelerators to various planets, taking Mars, the nearest planet, as an example, it would take 1300 seconds for light to travel from Earth to Mars, and more than seconds at the farthest point."

"It is obvious that Sophon cannot conduct experiments that interfere with both Earth and Mars at the same time."

Having said that, even the dumbest congressman would know what Luo Ji meant.

Humanity’s three major fleets are able to place their bases in the orbit of Jupiter, so would it not be difficult to build several high-energy accelerators on Mars?

"it is good!"

Some congressmen suddenly slammed their hands in excitement. They increasingly believed that Paul's idea, which seemed stupid but actually contained a hidden mystery, was quite ingenious and could even be called a nearly perfect conspiracy.

Even if the Three-Body Civilization knew what they were going to do next, they would probably be helpless.

With so many resources in the solar system left unused, are they going to be given away to the Trisolarans for free?

(End of this chapter)