"Without nanoscale chips, 'Davis' cannot create new neural computers and therefore cannot multiply in number, so we must prepare a sufficiently precise and versatile precision machining tool for him."

While cyborgs have the advantage of not needing oxygen to sustain life, they also have a disadvantage in terms of reproduction. Other computers are meaningless to them, and they will not be able to achieve quantitative reproduction unless they are neural computers.

……

ETO was in an uproar over the dispatch of cyborgs out of the solar system.

This goes against the mission given to them by the Trisolarans!

Despite watching Lin Feng suffer a setback at PDC, they felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction, especially the older generation of ETO executives.

However, ETO's sense of comfort regarding the matter of the electronic humans could not last long.

"Tell me your suggestions," Mozi said.

The ETO members were in an uproar, with various opinions, until someone finally came up with a relatively reasonable solution.

“We… are building this special spaceship that can travel across stars at a top speed of two-fifths of the speed of light. According to their engineering plan, it will take at least five years. We can sabotage it.”

One ETO member made the suggestion, while another ETO member nearby refuted it.

"Don't be silly! Our hidden industrial fleet will take more than three years to reach the Kuiper Belt, leaving only a little over a year for usable deployment. Complete the ambush setup in just over a year? Wishful thinking! Do you think space construction is like relieving yourself in your own home?"

The ETO member who came up with the idea retorted angrily.

"When did I say that we should let Kuiper's men take action? Spaceships aren't like hens laying eggs, just popping out of the dock to test the waters. I mean, we can attack the shipyard!"

"This is only treating the symptoms, not the root cause. We destroy one, but humans can build another. It's only a five-year construction cycle. If it's destroyed after five years, it will be rebuilt after ten years. If it's destroyed after ten years, it will be rebuilt after fifteen years. Moreover, they can build multiple ships at the same time." Hu Hai shook his head.

"To sever all of this, we must solve the core problem, starting with electronic humans," Hu Hai said.

"Kill that cyborg?"

An ETO member who was acquainted with Hu Hai asked a counter-question.

Hu Hai couldn't help but roll his eyes. "What are you thinking about all day? Does the organization have the capability to do something like this? If it did, we would have killed Feng Taylor long ago."

"Then what should we do?"

Hu Hai said, "The electronic humans want to leave the solar system because of PDC's fear of them. We can keep them in the solar system with human love."

"like?"

The ETO members all had strange expressions on their faces.

……

The news about cyborgs leaked onto the internet from an unknown source.

The existence of cyborgs instantly sparked a huge controversy.

Amidst the heated debate, a new force of public opinion emerged that supported the equality of electronic humans with human beings. They used various rhetoric to evoke people's sympathy and empathy, thereby occupying the moral high ground. With this moral high ground, they then controlled the power of other opinions.

Lin Feng, who was still in a spacecraft design meeting, was inexplicably called out by the PDC for a video conference.

"Mr. Taylor, do you only feel satisfied when things are pushed to the point of no return?"

PDC believes that Lin Feng instigated the Taylor Group to sabotage things behind the scenes, since not many people know about this matter, and Lin Feng had a history of using public opinion to stir up trouble before he went into hibernation.

Lin Feng naturally wouldn't want to take the blame for something so unjustly done, especially since it wouldn't bring him any benefit.

Lin Feng answered directly: "I have never done such a thing. Don't put the blame on me. The same goes for the Taylor system. Our energy is focused on the construction of interstellar spaceships."

"The cyborgs going to the Barnard system is in line with my strategic plan. Although it is also my expectation that the cyborgs stay, since it has already been agreed upon, I have no reason to disrupt it."

Lin Feng's answer did not convince PDC. After all, Lin Feng was a Wallfacer, and it was only natural for Wallfacers to lie.

"So how do you plan to end this?" the Japanese representative questioned.

Lin Feng was too lazy to waste any more time with these people; he had a lot of things to do right now.

"How you handle this is your problem. I won't interfere or help you. You were the ones who insisted on having the electronic humans leave the solar system and didn't even manage to keep the news under wraps. Now that there's a problem, you'll have to figure it out yourselves. Don't blame me. I'll say it again, this has nothing to do with me."

After saying this, he abruptly shut down the communication and unilaterally withdrew from the meeting, leaving the representatives from various countries deep in thought.

With the intervention of public relations efforts by governments around the world, the internet's media channels were quickly filled with various reports of wrongful convictions, gossip, and suicidal thoughts.

People's attention has shifted to other areas, and as a result, interest in cyborgs has decreased significantly.

With simple public relations tactics, since a human's attention span is very limited, as long as something else generates more buzz than the cyborgs, people will naturally stop paying attention to the cyborgs.

But then, something happened that PDC never expected.

They were caught off guard when scandals involving some officials were exposed and linked to cyborgs, instantly boosting the popularity of cyborgs to several levels.

People, who had only recently shifted their focus, have once again turned their attention to cyborgs.

There's a lot of debate surrounding the ETO, especially among senior management.

"Is there no problem with such a high-profile operation?" a senior ETO executive asked.

Mozi replied, “There are problems, but no matter how many problems there are, it is better than letting humanity leave the solar system. Even if we are shattered to pieces, we must complete the task that the Lord has entrusted to us.”

King Wen of Zhou, Ji Chang, looked at Mozi and asked, "What should we do next? Human governments cannot possibly fail to thoroughly investigate what kind of group possesses this level of intelligence gathering capabilities."

After a moment's thought, Bohr suggested, "We could try to lead the clues to the Taylor Group, but this would only be a temporary relief. As long as the organization doesn't stop its operations, it's only a matter of time before the human government becomes aware of our existence."

"We should drag this out for as long as possible. We must do our best to stir up public opinion, to bring out the 'good' side of humanity, to solidify public opinion, to eliminate humanity's aversion to electronic humans, and to accept electronic humans as part of humanity."

"Only in this way can we stop the human government from making the cyborgs leave the solar system and go to Barnard."

Bohr's words won the approval of most people, but Mozi was still worried, as the organization's current strength made him unable to be optimistic.

"But this can't go on forever. If we fail, the organization will no longer be able to stop humanity from leaving the solar system."

Bohr said, "No, there is. It will only take more than ten years. Kuiper's group will organize the first space forces and then launch a civil war, disrupting humanity's existing strategic layout."

"We haven't failed yet! It's not over yet!" Bohr replied firmly.

Chapter 136 ETO really exists!

Because information about cyborgs was leaked, governments around the world were forced to deploy their cyber forces and conduct public relations campaigns to divert public attention to other issues.

The number of bizarre things happening in the world is increasing every moment, but the energy of an individual human being is indeed limited.

Based on these two points, as long as you learn to use events, you can redirect overwhelming public opinion.

After all, the internet's memory is like that of a goldfish; once attention is diverted, people will forget about it in just a minute.

There is no real interest relationship between electronic humans and natural humans; most people only consider it from a moral perspective.

People don't share each other's joys and sorrows; at most, they feel a sense of shared grief.

However, all of this is predicated on the premise that no one is fueling this public opinion behind the scenes.

PDC faced unprecedented resistance in the public sphere, which at one point even suppressed the public relations efforts of governments around the world.

This is not a contest of manpower and resources on a practical level; it's a contest of public opinion about how to occupy the moral high ground and win more people's support.

Initially, the PDC believed that the Taylor Group was behind it all.

They are the most suspicious group, possessing sufficient power and strong motives. They are the ones who created the cyborgs, and they will unconditionally obey Feng Taylor's capricious demands. Even if the Taylor system is rational enough, there is no guarantee that they won't do something crazy.

Therefore, despite Lin Feng's direct statement that this matter had nothing to do with them, the PDC's suspicions about the Taylor Group did not stop.

Therefore, for a period of time, the Space Force was tasked with monitoring the Taylor system to prevent potential armed conflict.

Fortunately, as the intensity of the public opinion confrontation gradually increased, some government officials were impeached one after another due to various scandals being uncovered. The PDC gradually realized that something was wrong. They had already warned the Taylor faction through the Space Force, and there was no reason why the Taylor faction would not move.

Furthermore, the extraordinary intelligence-gathering capabilities are not something the Taylor Group should possess. The Taylor Group excels in the field of engineering, and its main power is still in space. Its intelligence network on Earth is partly dependent on the PDC. Intelligence that countries do not want others to know is difficult for other countries on Earth to obtain, let alone the Taylor Group, which is far away in space.

The PDC, belatedly realizing the situation, urgently assembled an investigation team to conduct an in-depth investigation into the force behind the constant instigation of public opinion.

This large-scale investigation startled the PDC. They thought it would be easy to uncover the mastermind behind the scenes, but the intelligence agencies of various countries spent a lot of manpower and resources in the intelligence war, and they were always at a disadvantage. The people of that organization always knew the information first and made the intelligence agencies of various countries run around in circles.

Aside from knowing from a few very peripheral people that it was an organization, I knew nothing about its size, number of members, or anything else.

The organization also launched a counterattack against the PDC, exposing more scandals involving senior government officials and using public opinion to force them to resign.

Even a high-ranking official with a clean record will inevitably have relatives or friends in their network who have scandals. Exposing these scandals can guide public opinion to implicate government officials.

This is outrageous. Even during the Killer virus outbreak, no organization could achieve this level of success.

This led some to suspect that ETO was behind this.

Of course, suspicion is just suspicion. ETO has been 'destroyed' for ten years. Without concrete evidence that ETO was behind it, it is hard to believe that ETO has suddenly resurfaced.

Ten years is a long time. Some officials who are just starting out in politics were still in school ten years ago, holding textbooks and memorizing texts.

However, the capabilities exhibited by this unknown organization were too similar to those of ETO. As time went on, more and more people in the upper echelons of PDC began to believe that ETO still existed.

As a result, greater resources began to be allocated to intelligence agencies, enabling them to jointly set up a trap.

This trap is an open conspiracy. Either withdraw from the information war or have some of your organization members arrested. Even the Space Force is involved in the operation, with the fleet anchored in Earth orbit to cooperate with the intelligence agencies.

Even if you know the PDC's action plan in advance, it's useless. How can manpower compare to tools?

ETO members must use traditional communication channels to contact external personnel.

These peripheral personnel are only responsible for carrying out tasks and do not know anything about the organization, so it is impossible for them to use the Zhizi to pass messages to other peripheral personnel.

Those on the periphery obey the ETO, either for personal gain or because of leverage over them.

They were simply asked to do things, completely unaware of the chain of consequences that those things would trigger. After all, not everyone is like ETO, possessing a broad perspective and advocating for the vulnerable like electronic humans, which aligns with humanity's understanding of justice.

Although it was for personal gain or leverage, many people accepted it because they felt they hadn't done anything wrong. It wasn't until their own intelligence agencies came knocking that they realized they had done something very serious.

Traditional communication channels make it easy to trace back to the source. By using the internet to learn about external personnel, and then quickly using those external personnel to find out the actual location of the person they are in contact with, the human fleet can then drop sleep bombs from orbit.

Sleep grenades work on the same principle as tear gas, but the gas they spray consists mainly of sedative and numbing drugs. This special gas does not cause immediate death, but it accumulates in the body, affecting the brain and causing a longer period of deep sleep.

The fleet is deployed from orbit, covering a range of ten kilometers. Ground intelligence personnel will arrive in the shortest possible time, wearing gas masks to make arrests.

The ETO members in the area, carrying pre-prepared gas masks, attempted to break through the encirclement. After failing, they prepared to commit suicide but were hit by tranquilizer darts from the special forces who arrived later. They were eventually arrested by the intelligence agency.

After interrogation, the remaining doubts about the ETO organization were finally verified.

……

Does ETO still exist?

"understood……"

Upon learning this news, Lin Feng resumed browsing his emails.

He is currently missing neutrinos and strongly interacting materials to incorporate into the virtual war exercise. He needs to quickly find emails related to neutrinos or strongly interacting materials from the massive email database.

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