The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

"I don't know, there's too little intelligence at the moment, but the possibility of the solar system becoming a battleground is highly likely," Domon William answered truthfully.

Everything is unclear now, and Dormont William cannot make a judgment.

However, in any case, once a space war breaks out, it will be much more dangerous in space than on Earth.

Even if not targeted, stray bullets that escape from the battlefield are still extremely dangerous. Planets can at least provide defense against stray bullets from space battles.

Lin Feng replied, "I think it was one of the two industrial fleets that attacked the other."

Upon hearing this, Domon William looked at Lin Feng with great surprise.

Why do you think that way?

Lin Feng said, "First of all, humanity currently only has two industrial fleets involved in the Kuiper Belt, and the Trisolarans have not yet arrived, so the speculation that the attackers are from the Trisolaran fleet can be ruled out first. As for the alien civilization from other star systems, due to the distance, even Barnard's Star, which is the second closest to our solar system, is six light-years away. So if the attackers are from another alien civilization's fleet, their technology level should be more advanced than that of the Trisolarans."

"Logically, there should be no survivors. No matter how fast the industrial fleet runs, it can't outrun gamma rays. With the simple armor of the engineering ship, a low-power gamma ray cannon sweeping through it would kill the operators inside."

Domon William nodded slightly. Lin Feng's analysis made sense, but it raised another question.

"But they have absolutely no reason to do so. What benefit would they gain from attacking another industrial fleet?"

"do not know."

Lin Feng shrugged. Based on the current intelligence, he could only deduce that humans were behind it all.

……

On Earth, an old man with a grim expression was holding a hammer and hitting a small wooden stool.

At first glance, onlookers might think he was repairing a stool.

But in reality, the old man was burning with anger and needed to vent his emotions through brute force.

“Alexander, have you gone mad? Everything is unprepared. Going to war with humanity is just courting death!” King Wen of Zhou, Ji Chang, questioned Alexander, an ETO member brought by Kuiper.

Alexander's reply appeared in the old man's pupils.

"We need to make humanity aware as soon as possible that there are dangerous forces in the Kuiper Belt, and that entering the Kuiper Belt rashly is fraught with danger to life."

"Only in this way can we ensure that human industrial power will not recklessly penetrate the Kuiper Belt, because it is very dangerous there."

ETO has been developing in the Kuiper Belt for too short a time, making it physically difficult to prevent humans from expanding into the Kuiper Belt. The only way to stop humans from advancing into the Kuiper Belt is to make them regard the Kuiper Belt as an 'unstable and dangerous zone'.

The Kuiper Belt is very large, making it extremely difficult to create the feeling that 'the Kuiper Belt is an unstable and dangerous area'.

However, if we use Zhizi, the difficulty can be reduced significantly.

ETO does not need to patrol the vast Kuiper Belt; it only needs to learn from the Sophons where human ships enter the Kuiper Belt and then ambush and destroy them there.

After all the ships that entered the Kuiper Belt were destroyed by ETO, humanity in the solar system almost developed the illusion that 'enemies are everywhere in the Kuiper Belt'.

After reviewing Alexander's explanation, King Wen of Zhou, Ji Chang, felt his expression improve somewhat.

However, he was still very dissatisfied because he felt it was too early to attack humanity now, as Kuiper's ETO was not ready at all.

"That shouldn't be now. The human world will send a fleet over. How are you going to deal with the three major fleets? With just those engineering ships you have?"

King Wen of Zhou, Ji Chang, questioned him, continuing to strike the wooden stool with the hammer in his hand, but no longer with the same violence as before.

Alexander replied, "At most there will be two. One will be left to guard Earth and major space cities. The Kuiper Belt is very large, and we can use the observation of the sophons to avoid the human fleet. It is not a problem for us to develop and grow our strength normally."

"Moreover, we also spread false information. If humanity believes that there are surviving engineering ships hiding on Pluto after the attack, a human fleet will inevitably be severely damaged by falling into our trap."

King Wen of Zhou, Ji Chang, shook his head slightly and relayed the conversation between Lin Feng and Domon William to Alexander.

"The traps you set were too obvious. Feng Taylor saw through them immediately, let alone those people on Earth," said King Wen of Zhou, Ji Chang.

Alexander, however, was not alarmed. With billions of humans, and ETOs being the only ones with brains, it was only natural that they would notice something amiss.

Even if we can perceive it, so what? Humans have their weaknesses.

“It’s alright, even if they sense something is wrong, they’ll still go over,” Alexander replied.

"People know that reality is surreal. Unless there is direct evidence that Pluto is a trap, the human fleet will have to go there to carry out a rescue. They have to do it, otherwise the purpose of establishing the space force will be lost."

"Those of you on Earth should take advantage of this momentum and try to get closer to the PDC decision-making level, vigorously exaggerating the threat of the Kuiper Belt. With our combined efforts from within and without, humanity will never leave the solar system before solving the Kuiper Belt problem."

"When everything is already set in stone, Feng Taylor is nothing more than an insignificant clown. No matter how he manipulates politics or what plans he implements, he can no longer change anything."

In the Kuiper Belt, Alexander, standing by the porthole gazing at the sun, wore a hearty smile.

Chapter 146 The Chaotic State of Human Society

The attack on Kuiper's industrial fleet caused a great sensation in human society.

Various speculations abound. Some say that after the Trisolaran civilization continuously observed human society through sophons, its technology experienced rapid development. The Trisolaran homeworld then transmitted technological knowledge to the Trisolaran fleet during its voyage through sophons. The Trisolaran fleet then dismantled some of its ships to create wormhole generators. By creating wormholes in the open space between the solar system and the Trisolaran system, they shortened their journey and arrived in the solar system ahead of schedule, thus bringing forward the apocalyptic battle between humanity and the Trisolaran fleet.

Some say that this is another alien force besides the Trisolarans, from other star systems besides the Trisolaran system. They set sail much earlier than the Trisolarans, so they arrived in the solar system earlier. Considering their aggressiveness and the fact that humans were still in the Stone Age a few thousand years ago, the purpose of this third alien force is likely the same as that of the Trisolarans: to colonize the solar system.

Some say this is the result of infighting between the two industrial fleets, due to corruption in some space cities that led to the embezzlement of food from both fleets.

Due to prior camouflage, both industrial fleets only discovered a severe shortage of food supplies upon arriving in the Kuiper Belt, ultimately forcing them to choose to attack the other side.

Of course, some more optimistic scholars speculate that this was just an accident caused by a meteorite shower.

The Kuiper Belt is a vast meteorite belt. In the past, observations by satellites and telescopes led people to assume that it contained only large meteorites and dwarf planets. However, in reality, it contains many small meteorites, just like the asteroid belt in our solar system.

Because these small meteorites travel very fast and are far away, they are difficult to be captured by the gravity of large meteorites or dwarf planets, but they do not exceed the third cosmic velocity and eventually remain in the Kuiper Belt.

The two industrial fleets encountered a meteor shower composed of small meteorites. In such a sudden attack, it is difficult to distinguish between meteorites and solid shells, especially since the outer armor of the spaceships is being impacted by high-speed solid objects. Who has the time to go to the spaceship's deck to see whether what is hitting the hull is a meteorite or a shell?

It is not impossible that the situation was misjudged. Based on this, there are quite a few supporters of the meteorite attack theory, who believe that the intelligence reported by the engineering ship that survived on Pluto contained subjective errors.

Since there was no further intelligence to verify these speculations, the human decision-makers could not determine the true situation. Communication with the remaining engineering ships on Pluto had been lost. The explanation from the other side was that they needed to conserve enough energy to ensure the normal operation of the life support system, and they would hide near Pluto, waiting for human rescue.

Regardless of the actual situation, the human fleet must set sail for the Kuiper Belt to investigate. Even if it was just a misjudgment, an accident caused by a meteor shower, humanity has an obligation to bring back the surviving engineering ships in the Kuiper Belt that are awaiting human rescue.

After intensive preparations, two days after receiving information about the attack on the Kuiper Belt Industrial Fleet, the European Fleet set off from its space base in Earth orbit toward the Kuiper Belt to carry out a rescue operation on Pluto.

The Asian fleet, on the other hand, headed to the location where the two industrial fleets had been attacked.

If an enemy is encountered, the first engagement will commence; if no enemy is encountered, the scene will be investigated to obtain detailed intelligence on the attack on the two industrial fleets.

Along with the two human fleets, two industrial fleets and two transport fleets also set sail. These four fleets can handle the logistics of the two human fleets and, if necessary, can also share firepower with the two combat fleets.

This is also the result of virtual space exercises. In the original work, humanity did not consider building logistics into a fleet and deploying it to the front line.

It was the players' clever maneuvers that made the space force realize through virtual space exercises that relying on planets as fleet logistics would seriously affect the mobility of human fleets. If industrial and transport fleets were added to the combat fleets, the fleet's combat power would immediately double.

The power of a single warship is not very meaningful in space warfare. Space warfare is similar to naval warfare, which also emphasizes the coordination between different types of forces. A fleet composed entirely of aircraft carriers is far less effective than an aircraft carrier battle group.

On the day the fleet set sail, Lin Feng used a stand-in robot located on Earth to personally witness the departure of the two human fleets.

Towering skyscrapers lay horizontally, heading towards the distant sea of ​​stars, like dragons emerging from the abyss, having entered the land of Jiuyou.

The American fleet did not head to the Kuiper Belt. This fleet was tasked with guarding the safety of the solar system to prevent enemies from bypassing the departing European and Asian fleets and attacking humanity within the solar system.

However, the presence of this fleet did not bring humanity any sense of security.

If the enemy is one that the human fleet cannot eliminate immediately, then the entire solar system will become a battlefield. Planetary surfaces are much safer than space cities because they are more robust and less likely to suffer a devastating fate from a stray bullet on the battlefield.

Earth and Mars, the two planets inhabited by humans, have both experienced a surge in the return of spacefaring humans.

Of these, the largest number of humans flocked to Earth. Although Mars is also a planet inhabited by humans, its environment, even after half a century of transformation, is still harsher than the Sahara Desert. Compared to Mars, Earth is practically a paradise.

However, both Earth and Mars populations have refused to allow extraterrestrial humans to return to their planets.

It's not a matter of resources. Humanity's resource reserves are quite abundant due to the development of the solar system. Just considering the current reserves on Earth, even without engaging in production, it's enough for all of humanity to live normally for ten years.

The reason for this is that if humans become overly concentrated on the planetary surface, both Mars and Earth will become prime targets for enemy attacks.

The virtual space exercise was public, so humans naturally knew that antimatter bombs, terrifying weapons capable of destroying celestial bodies, would be highly likely to become targets of military strikes even if there were no military facilities on Earth or Mars, since almost all of humanity was concentrated there.

Earthlings and Martians have the same attitude towards extraterrestrials: get as far away from us as possible and don't come to the surface! It will drag us down with you!

The Taylor Group and other space powers received a large number of warship construction orders from PDC.

However, it takes at least a year for a warship to go from construction to sea trials, even for civilian ships. The construction time cannot be shortened because that would compromise the safety of the spacecraft. In addition to construction time, necessary safety monitoring is also essential.

Otherwise, if the acceleration is too rapid, the electric field power that confines nuclear fusion will be insufficient, causing the plasma to come into contact with the outer wall of the reactor. In that case, the ship would be destroyed and everyone would die without even having to fight the enemy.

Therefore, it is not feasible to follow the Soviet Union's early strategy of using low-quality warships to deal with the enemy. If a tank breaks down, the crew is fine, but if a spacecraft breaks down, it is like nuclear fusion going out of control.

Domon Williams seized the opportunity and called for the formation of an expanded combat-ready space fleet in the space politics circle. He argued that the American fleet alone was insufficient to protect humanity in the solar system and offered a compromise: armed civilian ships.

Chapter 147 The majority is the law

Equip existing civilian ships with weapons to give them a certain combat capability.

To ensure the safety of space travel, the PDC originally prohibited civilian ships from being equipped with lethal weapons. Only engineering ships working in the asteroid belt were equipped with some medium-power lasers to protect against meteorite attacks.

Domon Williams' proposed solution is to equip existing engineering and transport ships with military electromagnetic guns and lasers to compensate for short-term deficiencies in combat capability.

Building warships is complicated, but weapons are not. Weapons like lasers and electromagnetic guns are all about how to launch and constrain attacks, which is on a completely different level from building warships.

Driven by fears of space warfare and opposition from Earth and Mars to the return of extraterrestrial humans to Earth, Domon Williams' proposal quickly gained acceptance within the entire space politics community.

Under pressure from the space politics community, PDC had no choice but to open up military rights and allow civilian ships to be equipped with military weapons.

PDC cannot stop it because the humans in the various space cities rely on this method to ensure their own safety and reduce their sense of crisis. If PDC were to stop it, the various space cities would probably choose to go independent.

Humans in the space city also want to survive, and people will do anything to survive.

In addition to the compromise proposed by Domon William, major space cities, space farms, and space farms began to move away from the locations where the two industrial fleets were attacked.

According to the plans of the major space cities, the enemy will enter the solar system from one side of the Kuiper Belt, so that side is very likely to become a space battlefield. Once they arrive on the other side of the solar system, they will be less likely to be hit by stray bullets.

If the situation turns bad, they can cross the Kuiper Belt and escape to the outer solar system. The enemy's expedition to the solar system and its engagement with the human fleet will inevitably result in significant losses. Even if they were to pursue these scattered and fleeing space cities, how many could they possibly catch?

Crucially, these space cities also possess armed civilian ships, giving them a certain degree of resistance capability.

In other words, it is more economical and less strenuous to directly negotiate a political peace with the space city and accept its unconditional surrender, rather than pursuing and defeating the enemy human fleet.

This ensures the safety of humans in the space city.

Of course, this idea was somewhat presumptuous, and Lin Feng scoffed at it when he found out.

However, considering that humans in space cities don't have many choices, Lin Feng can understand why the decision-makers of various space cities think this way.

When faced with an extreme sense of powerlessness, people always need a psychological support, even if that support is extremely slim.

Regarding the shift in the space political sphere, there are many voices on Earth and Mars criticizing it as "escapism," but these voices cannot stop the relocation of major space facilities, nor can they affect the decisions of the PDC.

The people in the space city moved these space facilities to survive. Now that they can't return to Earth or Mars, and can't move the space facilities to a safe place, isn't this just asking all the humans in space to die?