The giant corporations that started from Night City

Chapter 503 Luo Ji's curse! The basic axiom of cosmic civilization!
On the Infinity-class aircraft carrier, Paul has received the latest instructions from headquarters through encrypted means. It is a plan designed by Governor Leon himself, and he needs to go and carry it out.

Now there are only more than ten hours left before the water drop reaches the earth, and they must complete all preparations during this time.

"Contact the Asian Fleet immediately and have them escort Dr. Luo Ji here. This is part of the plan. Go quickly."

Paul gave orders to Jonathan, saying that the Wallfacers had unparalleled power, and no matter how absurd the request was, humans had to do their best to fulfill it.

Soon, in less than half an hour, Luo Ji was brought in front of Paul.

Faced with Paul's sudden invitation, Luo Ji was a little confused at first. He had already refused to resume his identity as a wallfacer and wanted to keep a low profile as much as possible in order to carry out his plan.

He didn't expect that Paul, whom he had only met a few times, would ask someone to bring him to the Infinity-class aircraft carrier and didn't even give him the power to refuse.

But this is also a good thing. I can use this opportunity to have a good conversation with this mysterious wall-facer. Maybe it will help me to understand the truth I want to realize.

"Mr. Paul, what do you want to talk to me about?" Luo Ji acted quite calm. It was obvious that the assassination attempt by Chieko earlier did not leave him much psychological trauma.

After all, Luo Ji had experienced the methods of the Trisolarans two centuries ago.

"It's nothing serious. I just called you here to tell you some good news."

Paul smiled, which made Luo Ji look a little confused. The water droplets were almost running to the doorstep of humans, so how could there be any good news?

Could it be that the giant corporation had found a way to destroy the water droplets? But why did they specifically call me here?

"Really? What's the good news?"

Paul looked at him and said, "Before you went into hibernation, you once cast a spell on a star system, transmitting its relative position to the surrounding star systems at stellar power, right?"

Luo Ji blinked, obviously not understanding what Paul wanted to say, "Yes, that is a star system called 187J3X1. Is there any problem?"

In fact, Luo Ji's impression of this incident was already very faint. If Paul hadn't mentioned it specifically, he might never have remembered that he had done this seemingly insignificant thing.

"According to our observations, that star system was destroyed about 51 years ago."

This is the intelligence information given to Paul by the Asian Fleet. The curse that Luo Ji cast on this star system actually destroyed a star.

"What! How do you know that the star was destroyed? Can you determine the cause of its destruction?" Luo Ji asked impatiently, as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw.

The truth of the universe that emerged in his mind was almost revealed. Now all he needed was definite evidence to support it. If the truth of the matter was as he expected, then the theory would be successful!
"The star 187J3X1 is in a stable period and it is impossible for it to suddenly explode in more than a hundred years."

"As for the cause of its destruction, according to observations, it was hit by an object that was traveling at close to the speed of light. That object was very small, so let's call it a light particle for now."

"Although its volume is very small, because it is very close to the speed of light, its mass is also greatly magnified by the relativistic effect. When it hits the target, it has reached one eighth of the star, thus destroying the star instantly."

"The planets around the star were also vaporized and annihilated, and the entire star system fell into death."

Paul's explanation made Luo Ji's face flash with irrepressible ecstasy. This result perfectly verified the theory in his mind.

This spell works!
Paul patted Luo Ji on the shoulder and said to him meaningfully: "Congratulations, Dr. Luo Ji, you have found the most powerful weapon to fight against the Trisolarian civilization."

"Now we hope that you can cast a spell on Centauri where the Trisolaran civilization is located. If everything goes well, this doomsday battle will be completely over."

Luo Ji wanted to nod and agree at first, but he changed his mind and immediately shook his head, saying nervously:
"No, Centaurus is too close to the solar system. This spell is likely to affect us. The star 187J3X1 I chose is nearly 50 light years away from the solar system."

The content of the spell fired by Luo Ji was the relative position of 187J3X1 and the thirty surrounding stars. If it was changed to Centaurus where the Three-Body Civilization was located, the position of the solar system would probably be exposed.

This curse will lead to the destruction of both humanity and the Three-Body Civilization!

"We can use this spell to threaten the Trisolarans."

Paul smiled calmly and said that this was just the beginning of the plan.

Luo Ji stared at the other party. He had also thought about using this method to coerce the Trisolarans, but he really didn't want to use this method unless it was absolutely necessary.

If the global giants could handle Waterdrop, there would be no need to go to this step.

After hesitating for a moment, Luo Ji said to Paul, "It's too late for us. The water droplet only has a dozen hours left to reach the earth."

"But we haven't prepared a spell to deter the Trisolaran civilization. Before we cast the spell, the water droplets can quickly destroy all signal generators on Earth."

If this was really that easy to do, Luo Ji would have done it, but unfortunately it is too late now.

However, the next second, Paul's voice sounded again: "What if I can assure you that your spell can be launched here?"

"What did you say……!"

Luo Ji's eyes widened, his mind working rapidly, and he came up with many possibilities.

In order to allow other civilizations in the universe to receive information, in addition to using stellar bodies such as the sun to amplify signal waves, there is also a method called gravitational wave broadcasting.

There is no need to rely on stellar bodies such as the sun. It can be achieved with a spacecraft equipped with a gravitational wave transmitter.

But the key point is that with current human technology, there is no way to use gravitational wave broadcasting to send information to the outside world.

They could use the sun to send a message, but it was too late to prepare in such a hurry, because their conversation had already been known to Sophon, and the water droplets could turn to the sun for blockade at any time.

"Yes, human civilization at this stage has indeed not developed gravitational wave broadcasting technology, but the Infinity-class aircraft carrier we are on has condensed the cutting-edge technology of other civilizations."

"I plan to use this battleship to send out a gravitational wave broadcast to threaten the Trisolarans to immediately stop advancing into the solar system. In order to buy more time, I decided to have the Infinity-class aircraft carrier leave the Earth first."

Paul remained calm and confident throughout the whole process, as if he had already figured out the Achilles' heel of the Three-Body Civilization.

As early as half a century ago when the Halo universe was conquered, the Cosmos Corporation obtained a sufficiently advanced gravitational field device from the Sojourner Dreadnought.

Because it is not difficult to improve gravitational wave broadcasting.

It comes in handy now.

Luo Ji was surprised by Paul's proposal. He looked around and saw that this warship could actually broadcast gravitational waves. The human technology developed from outside was really extraordinary. "Can you really do it?" Luo Ji was a little bit unbelievable.

Paul just chuckled and didn't answer the other party's question.

In fact, it doesn’t matter whether the Infinity-class aircraft carrier can launch gravitational wave broadcasts or not. Even if there is no such technology, Paul will say that the giant company has mastered this technology.

Only a few days had passed since the emergence of the Universal Corporation, and the Three-Body Civilization had no way of figuring out the origins of the corporation from the limited information available.

Therefore, Paul's words were mostly meant for Sophon to hear, so that the Trisolarans would know that the Universal Corporation held cosmic truths that were enough to destroy the civilizations of both sides.

As for whether the Three-Body Civilization believed it or not, Paul believed that the other party would not gamble.

The Trisolarans are a very rational and civilized species, but humans have never been.

Human emotions can be affected by various factors. Even normal weather conditions can affect a person's mood for the entire day.

As an unstable creature like this, the Trisolarans only think that humans are emotional monsters and bombs that can get out of control at any time. Once they are allowed to control some kind of destructive weapon, it will be tantamount to mutual destruction!
As a shrewd Wallfacer, Luo Ji quickly understood the true meaning from the other party's expression. The Trisolarans did not understand human strategies. Whether this technology existed or not, it already had deterrent power.

The former Three-Body Civilization relied on the ETO organization to destroy humanity's Wallfacer Project, and relied on the almost omnipotent Sophon to destroy humanity's strategic intentions one after another.

But by now, ETO has long been eliminated.

Or rather, they were abandoned by their master, the Trisolarans.

Therefore, Luo Ji and Paul knew very well that these Trisolarans with transparent minds and no knowledge of conspiracy and intrigue could not understand their ideas at all.

At this moment, everything is self-explanatory and all conversations can be communicated through eye contact.

Luo Ji nodded and responded, "I understand. I will go back now to pack up the materials and explain some things. I will stay here and continue working."

"Thank you for your help." Paul smiled. All the plans were going smoothly.

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After returning to the ground, Shi Qiang, who had also awakened from hibernation, learned from Luo Ji that the spell had taken effect.

This super bodyguard and Luo Ji's close partner, who once suffered from leukemia, has cured his disease with the help of future medical technology and is now ready to join a new battle at any time.

When Shi Qiang learned that the spell was effective, he was still a little skeptical: "Is it true that a large star system can be made to disappear with just a spell? My God, what kind of magic is this..."

At this moment, Shi Qiang obviously did not realize the truth about the dark forest, so he felt that this fantastic thing was just like a fairy tale.

"Why, you don't believe it?" Luo Ji asked.

Shi Qiang shook his head like a rattle. This kind of thing was really hard to believe for an educated adult. If he were a three-year-old child now, he might take it seriously.

"Okay, then I'll tell you a few truths. These are the answers I vaguely thought of a long time ago, but I never found any evidence to support them. Now I have enough evidence to show that I am right."

Luo Ji took Shi Qiang to the side of the road. This place was close to the wilderness and there were almost no residents. It was evening and it was already dark. Only the distant stars and street lights illuminated their way.

"Let me make it clear in advance that I'm a rough guy and can't understand so many complicated words. Please try to speak as simply as possible." Shi Qiang muttered.

Luo Ji smiled, and then said directly: "There are two basic axioms of cosmic civilization. The first is that survival is the first need of civilization. The second is that civilization continues to grow and expand, and the total amount of matter in the universe remains unchanged."

Hearing this, Shi Qiang blinked. He thought to himself, isn't this nonsense? Which civilization is not like this? Even the countries on the earth, and even the ants in a few nests, are not they like this?

Seeing that Shi Qiang didn't seem to understand, Luo Ji was not in a hurry and patiently explained to him: "Shi Qiang, the total amount of matter in the universe is constant, but civilization and life are constantly growing. Anything that grows exponentially is extremely terrifying."

"Take the current speed of human travel as an example. In a million years, humans will be able to fill the entire Milky Way. However, a million years is just a blink of an eye in the scale of the universe."

You know, even the genetic evolution of organisms takes tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years, and in terms of geological time, one million years is not surprising.

Hearing this, Shi Qiang realized what Luo Ji wanted to say. He was indeed not very educated, but his mind was quite active.

It only takes a little tap to understand what the other person is saying.

"Are you trying to say that the universe is already packed full? But that doesn't make sense. We've been looking at the universe for so long, and we've only discovered the Trisolarans."

"Besides that, I haven't seen any other alien civilizations..."

Shi Qiang blinked again.

"That's what I'm going to say next, give me a cigarette."

Luo Ji took the cigarette from Shi Qiang, and then asked the other party to light one. Just when Shi Qiang thought that Luo Ji wanted someone to share a cigarette with him, Luo Ji had already walked to a position two or three meters away from him.

In this dark wilderness, the cigarettes in the hands of the two people are like inconspicuous planets in the universe, and this is exactly the environmental image that Luo Ji wants to create.

"What we have in our hands now is equivalent to two civilized planets. There are only these two planets in the entire universe. There is nothing else. Can you feel something now?"

Luo Ji asked out loud.

"Yeah, I totally understand what you mean. It's dark and empty here. It does feel that way." Shi Qiang nodded.

The evening breeze blew gently, and he could already feel the cold chill of the universe.

"Well, let's call these two civilizations Shi Qiang Civilization and Luo Ji Civilization. The distance between the two civilizations will be one hundred light years. Now you have detected my existence, but you don't know the specific situation."

"And I had no idea you existed."

Luo Ji made a series of assumptions, and Shi Qiang just listened quietly to the rules and settings, silently participating in the simple cosmic game created by Luo Ji.

(End of this chapter)