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"Commander, how should we treat the humans on Earth? Should we exterminate them all?"

Before the battle officially started, some Trisolaran officers believed that they would win, that humans would become slaves of the Trisolaran civilization, and that the Earth would be in their grasp.

The public opinion within the Three-Body Fleet is the same as that of the original Fleet International, and they have sufficient confidence in themselves after the technological explosion.

Even if Sophon disappeared, there is no way to temporarily block the development of human technology, but it is also impossible for human technology to make much progress in a short period of time.

Thanks to the information gap and technological gap controlled by the Three-Body Civilization, there is indeed no suspense in this battle. The only point to consider may be the post-war issues.

How should they deal with these cunning and troublesome humans?

In a sense, humans can be considered the Trisolarans' teachers, but the Trisolarans do not have any traditional concept of respecting teachers.

It only takes a moment for them to acquire and pass on knowledge, as easy as charging a mobile phone.

Scarcity makes things valuable, which also leads to the fact that the Trisolarans' view of their teachers is no different from that of ordinary people. They do not have enough respect for their teachers like humans do.

"I will drive all humans to the southern continent of Australia. This place is big enough for humans to live in."

The fleet commander said calmly.

Nearly 80% of the Australian continent is desert. Apart from the relatively abundant mineral resources underground, other basic materials for human survival are extremely scarce, especially fresh water.

Driving billions of humans to Australia would only lead to extreme chaos and infighting, which is exactly what the Trisolarans want to see.

If the Trisolarans were to personally massacre humans, it would only cause strong resistance from humans, which would be detrimental to the Trisolaran civilization's rule over the human world.

But if we change our thinking, we can just drive humans into a specific area and leave the rest to humans themselves.

The weakness of the human species is extremely obvious. When faced with resource shortages, they do not think about how to expand resources, but instead shrink and reduce consumption.

Only a very small number of people ensure their own survival by plundering other people's resources, and only think about how to expand the pie.

Based on this, the only way to exterminate humans is by themselves.

The Three-Body Civilization is only responsible for blockade.

After learning about the commander's arrangement, the smooth, mirror-like faces of the Trisolaran officers sparkled with excitement. This idea was simply designed to exterminate humanity.

Seeing that his subordinates were full of absolute confidence in this battle, the fleet commander also became proud.

The Three-Body Civilization has experienced hundreds of destructions and rebirths. Compared with the humans on Earth who live in a greenhouse-like environment, this civilization, which is as tough as metal, is more suitable to occupy the peaceful paradise of the solar system.

Fragile and delicate humans do not deserve to occupy such a good home.

"This is the biggest gap between us and humans. The insurmountable gap between the two sides can be reflected in genetic expression. A civilization that grows up in a greenhouse will never learn how to unite its strength."

"They are destined to perish in this vast universe, just like a wave falling into the seabed."

The fleet commander, who had been influenced by human culture, was quite interested in using metaphors that only humans would use. This redundant and cumbersome language style was actually not welcomed by the original culture of the Three-Body Civilization.

In order to ensure absolutely efficient information exchange, the Trisolarans will try their best to simplify their language.

But as the trend of personalization gradually develops, more and more Trisolarans have begun to accept the human style of using words such as metaphors and parallelism to communicate.

Although the metaphors they used were often irrelevant, this personalized word usage quickly became popular within the fleet.

This is just like how humans use some delicate trinkets to decorate themselves. Earrings, necklaces, and bracelets are designed to satisfy human personalized expression.

While the people of the Three-Body Fleet were excitedly looking forward to the start of the war, the nine water droplets were constantly approaching the human's Jupiter orbital base.

As for the Asian fleet that took the initiative to intercept them, the water droplets didn't take it seriously at all.

This is understandable. After all, the 1,300 star-class battleships that formed the European and North American fleets were all destroyed by a drop of water.

The Asian fleet has only 700 ships, and has not undergone any upgrades or modifications. In contrast, the Trisolaran water droplets and warships with light-speed engines show that the Trisolaran civilization has the upper hand.

More importantly, the Infinity-class aircraft carrier of the Universal Corporation did not go with the Asian Fleet, but remained on Earth.

This undoubtedly gave the Trisolarans more confidence in this space battle.

The reason why Paul did not send out the Infinity-class aircraft carrier was to stabilize the people as much as possible. As long as the Infinity-class aircraft carrier is still above the earth's orbit, the people will not feel that they are being abandoned.

The only drawback is that the people have little confidence in the Asian Fleet on the front line. After all, having lost the most critical combat force, the Infinity-class aircraft carrier, the Asian Fleet is probably no match for the Three-Body Fleet.

With just those 700 tiny star-class battleships, there was no way they could withstand a charge from nine water drops.

In short, judging from the current situation, under the double-sided attack of the Three-Body Civilization, one of the Asian Fleet and the Earth will become the victim of the war.

Either the Earth is abandoned, and the Asian fleet leaves the solar system with the spark of hope for mankind, beginning a long wandering life.

Either the Asian fleet is completely wiped out, and humanity has a final battle with the Trisolarans on Earth.

At this moment, fear and panic filled everyone's heart. Everyone knew that this was a critical moment that would determine the fate of mankind. However, Paul, the savior they had placed high hopes on, did not step forward to do anything at this time.

He simply stayed on Earth, commanding the Asian fleet and pacifying the people.

In fact, Paul had no intention of going with the Asian fleet to intercept the water droplets. He wanted to wait here for the arrival of the Three-Body Fleet and directly confront the commander of the Three-Body Fleet.

Near the orbit of Jupiter, the 700 Star-class battleships of the Asiatic Fleet were ready. They no longer squeezed the formation to the point of suffocation like the previous Combined Fleet had done.

Instead, they dispersed the formation as much as possible, stretched the battle line long enough to present a wide fan-shaped state, waiting for the arrival of water drops.

Different from the show-like deployment of troops during the first attack by Fleet International, the Asian Fleet now treated this battle with a life-or-death mentality.

They were ready to sacrifice, and they knew very well that the enemy before them was not an ordinary detector, but the most terrifying strategic weapon of the Trisolaran civilization.

Many soldiers of the Asiatic Fleet did not think that this operation would have much chance of success. They felt in their hearts that this battle would be like the Combined Fleet, which would be defeated by the Water Drop with a devastating force.

But the duty of a soldier is to obey orders and protect the people. The predecessor of this Asian fleet was the People's Liberation Army Space Force established by Chief Chang Weisi. After two hundred years, this team still embodies the military spirit of the Chinese martyrs.

At this moment, nine water droplets left clear flight tracks on the oil film formed by the snow project. Thanks to this project, humans can also lock the flight position information.

As the water droplets got closer, the defense systems on Jupiter's many satellites began to activate one by one.

This is also thanks to the long-term operation and construction of the Jupiter base by the three major fleets in the past, which left many orbital defense weapon base stations here, and each satellite is a steel space fortress.

Apart from the Asian fleet, this is also one of the few things that mankind currently relies on. If water droplets want to reach the earth from this direction, they must pass through here.

You should know that Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system in terms of volume and mass. The mass of Jupiter is equivalent to 2.5 times the total mass of other planets in the solar system combined.

The extremely powerful gravity has also sucked most of the meteorites that would have fallen on Earth to Jupiter. It can be said that Jupiter is the Earth’s most loyal bodyguard.

Now, facing the invasion of the Three-Body Civilization, humans also need the existence of Jupiter to interfere with the water droplets.

Even though the water droplet has an excellent propulsion system, it cannot completely ignore the gravity of Jupiter, so the defense facilities deployed in Jupiter's orbit can also play a role.

This is where the Asian Fleet and the Water Drop will fight to the death, and the survival of the two civilizations depends on this battle.

The commander-in-chief in charge of this combat operation was Lin Yun, the head of the Asian Fleet.

The defection of Natural Selection cast a shadow of cowardice on the Asiatic Fleet. Today, Lin Yun is willing to die heroically in battle to get rid of this shameful title and prove to mankind that the Asiatic Fleet is not a coward.

After two years of contact with Paul, Lin Yun has regarded him as his close friend. The reason why the Asian Fleet was so determined to take the initiative to attack the Water Drop was also partly because Lin Yun had enough trust in Paul.

He believed that Paul must have his own plan in doing this, just like when he first designed the plan to destroy the water droplet with a 1-gram antimatter shell.

"Xiao Guan, to be honest, I kind of regret letting you get on this ship."

Lin Yun looked at the space outside the porthole and sighed softly. After all, they were still ordinary people and did not have any extraordinary powers. They only had flesh and blood bodies.

That seemingly fearless courage is built on fragile and uneasy fear.

"Sir, I have no regrets. Even if you don't let me get on this ship, I will definitely get on it in the future."

Guan Yifan smiled and said that as a scholar aboard the Gravitation, he could have chosen not to participate in this military operation, but when he thought that this was the swan song of human civilization's space power in the universe, he decided to join it.

It is more valuable to die calmly and heroically in the vast sea of ​​stars than to die in fear on Earth.

"I saw with my own eyes how a drop of water destroyed more than a thousand warships. It was like the firecrackers during the Spring Festival, exploding one after another. Two hundred years of human efforts were all gone in less than half an hour."

Lin Yun was not afraid of death, but he couldn't bear to see a young college student like Guan Yifan die.

He had just graduated from college and was still a child, but he had to follow this group of grown men who had already started families and careers to fight the Trisolarans and shed blood and sacrifice his life.

"To the Trisolaran civilization, we may be just bugs, but to ourselves, they are just a speck of dust in the universe."

Guan Yifan was indifferent to the tragic battle situation described by Lin Yun. Human courage might be useless to the Trisolarans, but in the moment of fighting for life and death, countless sages in human history stood behind them.

Huo Qubing, who conquered the Wolf's Lair, howled to the sky in the royal court of Mobei; Wang Yangming, who attained enlightenment in Longchang, saw the vague true nature of the Way of Heaven; Watt, who had his fingers burned by a steam engine, heard the roar of oil tankers in the industrial age.

Einstein looked up at the deep space and saw that the gravity of the planet was like a taut slingshot, throwing a meteorite into a strange galaxy several light years away.

The young Trisolarans saw meteors from the solar system streaking across the sky above their heads.

"They're all here."

Lin Yun murmured to himself.

The nine water droplets finally appeared in the field of vision of the Asian fleet. Within this distance, the water droplets no longer needed to hide their tracks.

Just turn on the thrusters at full power, and a dazzling blue vortex ring appears behind the water droplet.

Against the dark and still background of the starry sky, nine spots of light were rapidly approaching the Asian fleet.

As expected at the beginning, according to the flight trajectory of water droplets observed by the snow project, the water droplets will inevitably pass through the orbit of Jupiter, and then only after getting rid of Jupiter's gravity can they reach the earth smoothly.

Today, the Asian Fleet has become the last line of defense between the Earth and the water droplets. This great wall composed of steel battleships and flesh and blood is defending the dignity of human civilization with its own lives.

Even the commander of the Trisolaran fleet could not understand this decision made by humans.

This is clearly a futile move.

The destruction of the first drop of water was due to the Trisolarans' reckless mistakes and the interference of the giant enterprise's strong gravity device.

Humans have racked their brains and have only been able to solve the first drop of water. Now there is neither the Infinity-class aircraft carrier of the Universal Corporation nor a strong enough gravity device.

The Asian fleet was completely powerless against the rampage of the nine water drops.

Even if humans mastered antimatter technology and could create some antimatter shells, it would be impossible to hit water droplets.

After all, the propulsion technology of water droplets is far beyond the technological level of humans, and their technological theories are completely unable to explain how the water droplets can make sharp turns.

Therefore, the commander of the Three-Body Fleet was very sure that even if humans were equipped with so-called antimatter armor-piercing bombs, they would not be able to successfully hit the water droplets.

The Star-class battleships of the Asian Fleet cannot be compared with the Infinity-class aircraft carriers of the giant enterprises.

From any perspective, this fleet stationed near the orbit of Jupiter is nothing but cannon fodder.

Their only function is to rely on a loose formation to delay the annihilation of the Asian fleet as much as possible, at the cost of their own annihilation, to buy some time for humans on Earth.

But what's the point of doing this?

It would be more reliable to abandon the human beings on Earth, escape from the solar system, and find a new home outside. (End of this chapter)