Chapter 256 Broadcast Crisis

The Sixth Fleet world maintains a speed of two-tenths of the speed of light as it moves away from the solar system.

This is not a particularly high speed; the Trisolaran fleet, traveling at one-tenth the speed of light, took several centuries to complete a journey of four light-years.

Even without considering the deceleration process, it would take decades for Fleet World to travel several light-years.

As their name suggests, the Fleet Worlds have become independent worlds outside the Trisolaran system and the solar system. Although only a little over a decade has passed, the mentality of the people in the Fleet Worlds has quietly changed.

Their sense of belonging to the human society of the solar system is gradually fading. They are law enforcers who stand above the human world and the Trisolaran world, silent 'third parties' wielding the blade of judgment. When they wield their blades, catastrophic destruction will follow.

At this time, the Sixth Fleet world is 1.3 light-years away from the solar system. Recently, the Sixth Fleet world has encountered a series of strange events.

For example, a miniature meteorite bypassed the layers of armor of a massive spaceship and struck the internal nuclear reactor directly, nearly causing a nuclear runaway accident.

For example, a crew member suddenly sees that another crew member next to him has half of his body missing, and the internal organs and tissues can be clearly seen from the cut cross-section.

But miraculously, there was no blood splattering. The crew member who lost half his body was still alive and healthy, and did not feel any strange sensation of missing a body. It was as if he put his hand into a box, and his hand was still there, but people outside could not see or touch it.

Some crew members went to see a doctor because of unexplained abdominal pain, only to find that the wrench they had lost for several days was actually in their stomach.

Of all the strange occurrences, the most unsettling and bizarre one within the Sixth Fleet world was the loss of a brain. One crew member was laughing and chatting with his colleagues one second, and the next second he died instantly. An examination revealed that his brain was missing from his skull. Later, the Sixth Fleet world found his brain dozens of kilometers away.

The brain is brain dead, and it floats stiffly in space. Without a close look, it is easy to mistake it for a micrometeorite.

Such an anomaly caused widespread panic, but what caused even greater panic was that the Sixth Fleet world discovered that their real-time quantum entanglement communication channels with the solar system and other human colonies and fleet worlds had inexplicably been severed.

Not only that, but the quantum entanglement between their ships was also broken, forcing them to reactivate radio communications to maintain order in the fleet world.

Everyone in the Sixth Fleet world understands that they have become an isolated island, completely cut off from communication with other worlds!

While the Sixth Fleet world was in a state of panic due to the failure of quantum entanglement communication, which severed its information channels with the solar system and other fleet worlds, the human world's vigilance towards the Trisolaran world increased rapidly.

Although within the solar system, the doves maintain a positive and peaceful attitude and call for calm, the truly terrifying forces are the fleet worlds that have left the solar system and humanity's colonies in other star systems.

These human worlds broadcast the coordinates of the Trisolaran galaxy without any psychological pressure, because they are not in the solar system. Apart from being able to exchange information through quantum entanglement, human societies in the solar system have almost no physical contact with them.

As for the fate of humans within the solar system? Sorry, people's joys and sorrows are not shared.

In order to ease the tense atmosphere with the human world, the Trisolaran world took the initiative to announce to humanity the existence of the sophon blind spot in the universe.

When a sophon enters the blind zone, the quantum connection between sophons will break. Since quantum connections are one-time events, once broken, they cannot be restored. Those sophons that have entered the blind zone will be lost forever in the universe.

The Sixth Fleet world entered the closest sophon blind zone to the solar system.

The quantum entanglement technology currently used by humanity for real-time information transmission was obtained by demanding it from the Trisolaran world, and is consistent with the principle of sophon real-time communication.

Therefore, the sophon blind zone is effective against sophons and will also have a catastrophic impact on human quantum entanglement real-time transmission information technology. Once a human spacecraft enters the sophon blind zone, it means that quantum real-time communication will be interrupted.

The tense atmosphere between the human world and the Trisolaran world was somewhat eased after the Trisolaran world took the initiative to explain.

However, the sense of crisis among human decision-makers became even stronger because, according to their analysis, there was a considerable probability that the Sixth Fleet world, which had lost contact with human society in the solar system, would broadcast the coordinates of the three bodies.

The reason is that the Sixth Fleet world cannot determine whether the break in their quantum entanglement communication was caused by the Trisolaran world.

If so, it would mean the collapse of the bundled multi-deterrence system, and they would be obligated to immediately broadcast the coordinates of the Trisolaran system.

The thought that the solar system was about to suffer the same fate as the star destroyed by Luo Ji's curse made the decision-makers of the solar system extremely uneasy.

They shared their analysis of the Sixth Fleet world with the Trisolarans, hoping that the Trisolaran world could find a solution.

Thus, the Trisolaran world, upon learning that the Sixth Fleet world might broadcast coordinates, also panicked.

Even lying down, I got shot!

Although the Trisolaran world didn't say it that way, their feelings were roughly the same. If they had known it would turn out this way, they would have informed the Sixth Fleet world about the Sophon Blind Zone before it entered the Sophon Blind Zone.

After learning about the situation, Lin Feng offered a solution: to have Sophon, who was following the Sixth Fleet world, perform a two-dimensional expansion.

Once the Sophon enters the blind zone, the Trisolaran world will lose control over it. Therefore, in order to maintain surveillance of the Sixth Fleet world and to interfere with its research in the future, the Trisolaran world will never allow the Sophon to enter the Sophon blind zone along with the Sixth Fleet world.

What Trisolarans is more likely to do is manipulate the Sophons, bypass the Sophon blind spot, and wait on the other side for the Sixth Fleet world to pass through the Sophon blind spot.

Lin Feng's solution was to have several sophons expand in two dimensions. The expansion of sophons could cover a planet, and the area was quite large. The shipborne radar of the Sixth Fleet world could easily scan such a large object.

In this way, the Sixth Fleet world will be alerted, and then some ships from the Sixth Fleet world will be dispatched to emerge from the sophon blind zone, re-establish communication with the solar system, and inform them of the existence of the sophon blind zone, thereby eliminating the broadcast crisis.

On the very day Lin Feng made this suggestion, the Three-Body world did just that.

The Sixth Fleet world is not blind, and the blind spot of the Sophon is not very large. The Sixth Fleet world, which was already on guard against the things around it due to the recent strange events, discovered the unfolded Sophon immediately after it was two-dimensionalized.

Chapter 257 Could you please tone it down a bit?

Fearing that the Sixth Fleet world might be truly blind and fail to detect the sophons unfolding at the edge of the sophon blind zone, the Trisolaran civilization simultaneously deployed more than ten sophons, with an area equivalent to the apparent size of Jupiter.

By re-establishing contact with Sophon and utilizing Sophon's real-time communication channels, the Sixth Fleet world re-established connections with the human world.

The World Lord of the Sixth Fleet also closed the safety cover on the broadcast button, which had been opened after the communication was lost.

The broadcasting crisis caused by the sophon's blind spot was finally resolved, and everyone had a happy ending.

The only one that suffered losses was probably the Trisolaran world. The number of sophons they deployed was too large, and the area was too vast. Some of them were damaged by micrometeorites and lost their ability to be miniaturized again.

After the crisis came to an end, the human world in the solar system began to re-examine the multi-deterrence system.

Even after several days have passed since their brush with death, the higher-ups in humanity still feel lingering fear.

The doves gained unprecedented support in public opinion. Some people hoped to complete the merger of civilizations as soon as possible, thereby ending the current multi-deterrence system, because no one could guarantee that the human fleets and human colonies outside the solar system would misjudge and broadcast the coordinates of the Trisolaran system in the future for some reason.

The resolution of the Sophon blind spot issue this time does not mean that we can avoid the destruction of the solar system due to misjudgment when encountering other problems in the future.

The idea that handing over the power of the Swordholder to those lunatics outside the solar system is too dangerous is on the minds of most people in the solar system's human world.

It is believed that it is safer to place gravitational wave transmitters for broadcasting within the solar system, and that there is no need for a large number of them.

Naturally, Lin Feng, as the builder of the multi-deterrence system, became the biggest sinner in human society, and people on the internet used every imaginable vicious insult to condemn him.

The situation within the Taylor group is also not very stable. While the higher-ups have little to say, the lower-ups are also discussing it extensively, with the majority criticizing Lin Feng.

Lin Feng didn't care much about the heated public opinion. He remained focused on dealing with the feminist trend. The panic caused by the multi-deterrence system had a significant impact on his decision-making. The Earth and Martian governments were somewhat half-hearted in their implementation.

However, things improved considerably after Lin Feng accidentally uttered a 'dream talk' that created an inland lake in Australia.

Of course, after this "sleep talk" incident, Lin Feng's reputation was further tarnished. No one would like a madman who could actually launch nuclear missiles, and the Taylor faction faced even more severe diplomatic challenges.

At the subsequent meeting of the core members of the Taylor faction, the core members of the Taylor faction, who had stepped away from the complicated international diplomatic affairs, did not hold back in offering their opinions to Lin Feng.

"Although we really don't want to say it this way, could you please tone it down a bit during this period?"

"Is there a problem?" Lin Feng asked dismissively.

The core member continued, "The pressure on the Taylor Group is too great; we're afraid the situation will get out of control."

Lin Feng rolled his eyes and replied, "What are you afraid of? If it were going to get out of control, it would have gotten out of control long ago. The fact that you're still sitting here means that everything is still under control."

This statement immediately shocked the core members of the Taylor faction who had offered their opinions. Did they really intend to completely overturn the table to be happy?!

“Right now, everyone is still considering the bigger picture, which is why they are tolerating some of your actions,” said a core member of the Taylor faction who offered the suggestion.

Lin Feng was taken aback, abandoned his nonchalant attitude, stared seriously at the other person, and answered.

"Everything I do is for the greater good. Don't talk to me about the greater good anymore. I understand what it is better than you do."

Lin Feng shook his head, unwilling to argue with these people any further. Those who hadn't read the original work wouldn't understand the concerns he had.

"How is the research on quantization progressing?" Lin Feng asked the core member of the Taylor Group who was in charge of the research project.

The core member being questioned shook his head and replied, "We still have no clue. Perhaps we will make a new breakthrough after our quantum theory continues to develop for a while."

Lin Feng thought for a moment, then asked the next core member.

"What about microscopic scaling?"

The core member proudly replied, "The first nanoscale electronic human has appeared in the laboratory. Currently, they are challenging even more microscopic structures, but this requires further breakthroughs in the research of microscopic particles."

"If we can study quarks in depth, we may not need to rack our brains to figure out how to make protons two-dimensional to create protons. We can also create proton machines by piecing together quarks."

The breakthrough in the project drew envious and jealous glances from the core members of the Taylor Group who were in charge of other research projects.

This is an achievement they can boast about, and it is their glory.

Lin Feng nodded. The progress in micro-scale analysis was going smoothly, which was a good thing. He then asked.

"Then what about a light-speed warp drive spaceship?"

"There's still no progress," the core member replied hesitantly.

There is now a significant voice in the mainstream scientific community saying that the light-speed warp drive is a completely unworkable approach, and that they should try a different path.

Thus, the Trisolaran world, upon learning that the Sixth Fleet world might broadcast coordinates, also panicked.

Even lying down, I got shot!

Although the Trisolaran world didn't say it that way, their feelings were roughly the same. If they had known it would turn out this way, they would have informed the Sixth Fleet world about the Sophon Blind Zone before it entered the Sophon Blind Zone.

After learning about the situation, Lin Feng offered a solution: to have Sophon, who was following the Sixth Fleet world, perform a two-dimensional expansion.

Once the Sophon enters the blind zone, the Trisolaran world will lose control over it. Therefore, in order to maintain surveillance of the Sixth Fleet world and to interfere with its research in the future, the Trisolaran world will never allow the Sophon to enter the Sophon blind zone along with the Sixth Fleet world.

What Trisolarans is more likely to do is manipulate the Sophons, bypass the Sophon blind spot, and wait on the other side for the Sixth Fleet world to pass through the Sophon blind spot.

Lin Feng's solution was to have several sophons expand in two dimensions. The expansion of sophons could cover a planet, and the area was quite large. The shipborne radar of the Sixth Fleet world could easily scan such a large object.

In this way, the Sixth Fleet world will be alerted, and then some ships from the Sixth Fleet world will be dispatched to emerge from the sophon blind zone, re-establish communication with the solar system, and inform them of the existence of the sophon blind zone, thereby eliminating the broadcast crisis.

On the very day Lin Feng made this suggestion, the Three-Body world did just that.

The Sixth Fleet world is not blind, and the blind spot of the Sophon is not very large. The Sixth Fleet world, which was already on guard against the things around it due to the recent strange events, discovered the unfolded Sophon immediately after it was two-dimensionalized.

Chapter 258 This logic doesn't make sense.

That day, Liang Gong, who had planned to team up with Lin Feng to play games, entered the room only to find Lin Feng leaning against the sofa, deep in thought, muttering to himself.

"No...this doesn't make sense no matter how I think about it...why is this happening..."

"Hey passerby, what are you muttering about?"

The girl sat down next to Lin Feng without any hesitation.

Lin Feng glanced at Liang Gong sitting next to him, sighed, and replied, "I'm thinking about something, something related to the universe."

"The universe? What is that? Something like the 'non-existence' concept you proposed before?"

Suzumiya paused, her relaxed expression turning serious.

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