The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

“We will follow your orders completely,” the core member replied.

Lin Feng shook his head and said, "I need to understand your judgment first before making a decision."

After a moment's thought, the core member of the Taylor system answered truthfully, "The self-awareness you just mentioned can actually be guaranteed in other ways. The current crisis is not stable. According to the framework of physics, the unsteady state will inevitably tilt towards the steady state. This is an inevitable result, and even the Taylor system can hardly guarantee that it can be achieved."

"Do you prefer that the Taylor Group and the Alliance engage in healthy competition through virtual space exercises?" Lin Feng asked.

The core member nodded slightly in acknowledgment, "Yes, because this structure is more stable and can be extended for a longer period of time."

After saying that, the core member added, "However, if you already have an idea in mind, you can ignore my judgment. The Taylor Group exists to help you implement your plan smoothly."

And you?

Lin Feng looked at the others, and their answers, including those of Davis, were all very consistent.

“We share similar ideas with him.”

The core members of the Taylor system do not believe that polarization can prevent the human decision-making level from becoming corrupt. The risk-benefit ratio is too high. There are many ways to prevent the decision-making level from becoming corrupt, but if the polarization pattern is overturned, it will inevitably lead to the outbreak of the second civil war in the solar system. A large amount of human resources will be wasted in this war.

If the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference hadn't forced the Taylor System to relinquish its military power, the Taylor System would have been quite happy to enter a state of peace, since the Taylor System's existence was not purely for the purpose of war.

Lin Feng said, "Since that's the case, let's give it a try. I will hibernate for ten years. If the results after ten years are not ideal and do not meet my expectations, then we will restore the bipolar confrontational pattern."

Chapter 178 Return After Hibernation

The moment hibernation began, Lin Feng entered the familiar darkness, and then even the darkness disappeared, leaving only emptiness.

Time is meaningless in nothingness, because without time, the existence of consciousness also becomes meaningless.

The ripples that arose lasted for an unknown period of time. Darkness gradually emerged from the void, without process or beginning; existence itself was existence.

The frozen consciousness is slowly reviving.

A ray of light pierced through the darkness, and through the blur, Lin Feng saw a figure appear before him.

"Welcome back to the human world, Mr. Taylor."

The woman smiled at Lin Feng. Lin Feng, whose consciousness was still hazy, recalled for a moment and recognized her.

Edith?

Lin Feng didn't say anything, he just opened and closed his mouth.

But Edith, who understood Lin Feng, deciphered what Lin Feng wanted to express.

"It's me. Please rest quietly for a few days. I will report to you on the changes that have taken place in the human world over the past ten years."

Three days later, Lin Feng left the hibernation recovery center.

This time it was no longer a mechanical double, but Lin Feng's own flesh and blood body, which had been completely healed.

As soon as he stepped out, Lin Feng opened his arms and took a deep, greedy breath.

After all these years, it is an incredible luxury for Lin Feng to stand openly in public like this.

For a moment, Lin Feng couldn't help but feel tears welling up in his eyes.

How did he, a wealthy and powerful man, end up in this state?

It's all the Wallfacer's fault! Damn it!

After expressing his feelings, Lin Feng turned to look at Edith, who came out after him.

I'm so glad you've recovered.

"Hehe, thanks to your request to open up cloning technology and the nanoscale neural bridging technology used in medicine, my damaged nerve tissue was able to be repaired," Edith chuckled.

"Let's talk as we walk. This way, please."

With Edith leading the way, Lin Feng looked around.

They were inside a warship. Lin Feng remembered that when he hibernated, it was on the flagship of the Taylor series. He was unsure whether he had been transferred during the ten years he hibernated.

After all, the main flagship of the Taylor series is a space warship used for combat. Although it is the safest place in the entire Taylor series, it is only in comparison to peacetime. During wartime, the warship used for combat is sent to the space battlefield.

"What aspects of the human world would you like to understand first in the ten years since you went into hibernation?" Edith asked, walking ahead of Lin Feng.

"Military matters, I need to know how far behind humanity's current technology is compared to the Trisolaran fleet," Lin Feng said seriously.

Edith was not surprised that Lin Feng would ask this first; she knew Lin Feng well.

Edith explained, "During the ten years you were in hibernation, military weapons underwent new innovations, such as infrasound weapons. These weapons use hydrogen bombs to explode outside the spacecraft, inducing infrasound waves to be generated on the spacecraft's outer armor, thus eliminating the crew inside the spacecraft without damaging the spacecraft itself."

"High-power microwave weapons use electromagnetic catapults to launch a special projectile. After the projectile penetrates the outer armor, it releases high-power microwaves into the warship's interior, burning out the ship's electrical components and causing mental confusion, behavioral abnormalities, blindness, cardiopulmonary failure, and even death."

……

Edith introduced many weapons to Lin Feng.

However, none of these weapons... satisfied Lin Feng.

Lin Feng felt that these weapons were more for dealing with humanity than with the Trisolarans.

"They don't seem very powerful. These weapons are more suited to dealing with humanity itself than with the Trisolaran fleet. Don't they have any better weapons?"

Lin Feng truthfully expressed his thoughts.

Edith wasn't surprised that Lin Feng would say that, because these were actually designed to be used against humanity itself.

The polarized competition is a contest between each other. The Taylor Group and the Alliance designed weapons with each other as hypothetical enemies, which resulted in a large number of weapons specifically designed to target humans.

If it weren't for the fact that airtightness is a fundamental requirement for warships in the space environment, poison gas weapons and viral weapons would probably have been designed.

Edith thought for a moment and then introduced Lin Feng to the most powerful weapon that mankind currently possesses.

"Yes, there are guided missiles. Combined with radiation propulsion technology, the missiles can reach six percent of the speed of light. They are equipped with Coulomb bombs and also contain sensors and radar. The missiles can make small-range changes of direction while flying at high speed, which effectively improves the missiles' hit rate."

Lin Feng nodded; this weapon seemed to be quite effective.

At six percent of the speed of light, the difficulty of interception increases significantly. As the explosive part, the power of the Coulomb bomb depends on the strong electric field that confines the negative charge. If it were a two-liter bottle full of electrons, with all the electrons close together, the energy released could tear the sun apart like tofu.

Originally, capacitors were a problem because the power of a Coulomb bomb depends on the strength of the electric field; a weak electric field results in a weak bomb, and a strong electric field results in a strong bomb, and capacitors have an upper limit.

However, since the development of macro-electronic energy storage technology, the capacitor problem is no longer an issue.

Next are sensors and radar. By combining some characteristics of missiles, the projectiles can be given local maneuverability, allowing them to readjust and recalibrate their trajectory to improve the hit rate.

Speed, power, and accuracy are all guaranteed.

Lin Feng asked, "How powerful is it actually?"

Theory is just theory; Lin Feng wanted to know the actual power of this kind of decoy missile.

Lin Feng believed that once this weapon was created, humanity would definitely test it.

There's no reason not to blow up the Tsar Bomba once it's built.

Edith replied, "Humans used Mercury as a testing ground, allowing warships carrying decoy missiles to launch them from a distance. The immense power would lift billions of tons of material from Mercury into the sky, forming a ring around Mercury's orbit."

Although he had already guessed that the decoy missiles were very powerful, Lin Feng's eyes still twitched involuntarily after hearing Edith's test results.

Good heavens, moving mountains and filling seas is nothing compared to this power. If Mercury were hit by a dozen or so more decoy missiles, it would probably disintegrate.

After pondering for a moment, Lin Feng asked, "It's only accelerated to six percent of the speed of light, yet it's so powerful? Shouldn't it be a penetrating attack?"

"The main energy source of the explosion is the Coulomb bomb in the detonator of the detonator. The negative charge, constrained by a strong electric field, converts all the electrical energy stored in the macro-electrons into explosive kinetic energy, which is released in an instant," Edith replied.

Chapter 179 Changes Over Ten Years

Edith continued, "This is the most powerful weapon humanity has ever possessed. At the same time, it makes it very easy for a fleet to clear the surface. The idea of ​​using the earth's defenses in the past has become less realistic. Now, the mainstream defense views of humanity on Earth are divided into two camps: one camp believes in continuing to dig downwards and building underground layers at a deeper level, while the other camp advocates abandoning planetary habitation and relocating all of humanity to space."

Upon hearing this, Lin Feng shook his head and expressed his opinion, "Living deeper underground is meaningless. I demonstrated this a long time ago using virtual space exercises, using antimatter to create miniature black holes that devour planets. Hiding deeper is pointless."

Lin Feng suddenly stopped, only then realizing what he had just learned.

Since guided missiles can reach six percent of the speed of light, does that mean that human spaceships can also reach six percent of the speed of light?

"Wait, you just said six percent of the speed of light? What is the highest speed that humans can currently achieve?" Lin Feng asked hurriedly.

Edith replied with a smile, "Six percent of the speed of light, and humanity has made new progress in nuclear fusion radiation propulsion technology."

Lin Feng thought for a moment, then asked, "Do any members of the decision-making body believe that humanity is already capable of defeating the Trisolaran fleet?"

“There are some such voices, but the mainstream view remains that current human technology is insufficient to fight the Trisolarans,” Edith replied.

Hearing Edith say that, Lin Feng secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, Lin Feng asked another question.

"What about engineering?"

Edith pondered for a moment before replying, “More autonomous and intelligent. Although AI is still limited by its computing power and remains at a low level, making it difficult to perform complex tasks, everything becomes simple when combined with electronic humans. The electronic humans break down complex workflows into a variety of simple tasks, and then the electronic humans assign AI to complete these simple tasks, thereby completing more efficient and complex tasks.”

"Are humans no longer so wary of cyborgs?"

Lin Feng asked in surprise, as he remembered how the human world reacted when the electronic human Davis was first born.

Even ten years before Lin Feng went into hibernation, cyborgs were still a taboo in the human world. Even with the opening up of cloning technology, the opening up of mind data made the creation of cyborgs legal.

Edith said, "Five years ago, the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference officially granted citizenship to cyborgs. In the past five years, the relationship between humans and cyborgs has been very harmonious, and the Taylor system has played a significant role in this."

Lin Feng nodded in understanding. After he went into hibernation, Davis would be the head of the Taylor Group, so it was only natural for him to fight for the legitimate rights and interests of the cyborgs.

“Tell me about the competition between the Taylor Group and the Alliance over the past ten years,” Lin Feng said.

Edith said, "Initially, the competition between the Taylor system and the Alliance was limited to virtual space exercises, hosted by the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference, with each side conducting 'Trisolaran Invasion Simulation' and 'Civil War Competition Simulation' respectively."

"The Trisolaran Invasion Simulation involves both sides forming an alliance to jointly confront the Trisolaran fleet, while the Civil War Competition Simulation simulates the strategic, tactical, and equipment competition between the two sides after the outbreak of civil war. Its main purpose is to find new military breakthroughs in the fierce competition."

Edith paused for a moment before continuing, "Later, the two sides were not satisfied with competing in virtual space exercises. According to your guidelines, humanity needs to colonize multiple star systems to have more mass in order to close the technological gap between humanity and the Trisolaran home planet. Therefore, both sides have invested their main scientific research efforts in interstellar colonization technology."

"This is why cyborgs have gained a much higher social status in the human world."

The acceptance of cyborgs by the human world is due to a variety of factors. On the one hand, humans need a large number of cyborgs to participate in engineering projects, working in conjunction with low-intelligence AI to complete engineering projects more efficiently.

On the other hand, it requires electronic humans to act as colonists, spreading the seeds of human civilization to star systems around the solar system.

Then there's the head of the Taylor faction, the cyborg Davis.

Multiple factors led the human world to eventually recognize electronic humans as 'humans'.

Edith said, "Currently, the Taylor system and the Alliance are preparing to colonize Wolf 359, which is 7.8 light-years away, followed by Brand 2147, which is 8.2 light-years away, and UUV Ceti, which is 8.73 light-years away from the solar system. The entire colonization movement plans to colonize more than ten star systems, so that humanity will have an absolute advantage over the Trisolarans, at least in terms of material resources, to achieve absolute dominance over the Trisolaran world."

Edith said that humanity plans to colonize at least ten star systems near the solar system.