The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

The container has a platform underneath and a square glass dome on top, inside which is a shallow pool of liquid.

The director set up an instrument next to the container and showed it to Lin Feng.

Lin Feng looked down and, through the instrument, saw many tiny insects that seemed to be beckoning to him.

"They are..."

Lin Feng looked up at the director, who then explained.

"They are electronic humans in the microscopic world. Because quantum instantaneous observation technology has been slow to make breakthroughs, it has been impossible to achieve research on seamless consciousness transfer. Only these electronic humans can enter the microscopic machine."

As he spoke, the director typed a string of text into the communicator near the container.

Friends, Mr. Taylor has come to visit you. Show Mr. Taylor your strength!

Then, Lin Feng saw a line of text gradually appear on the liquid in the container.

Welcome, Mr. Taylor.

"Great!"

Lin Feng couldn't help but exclaim, "So-called nanorobot technology is nothing special."

The director replied with a smile, "This is the microfabrication technology we mentioned in our report, a technology achieved through micro-electronics."

“A single molecule, which is already considered ‘microscopic’ in our understanding, is ‘macroscopic’ in the eyes of these microscopic electrons, just like a brick that is very large in our eyes is microscopic in the eyes of the Earth.”

"If the Earth had two hands, it would need to use a giant pair of tweezers to carefully assemble the bricks one by one to build a house with the red bricks that humans make. But humans don't need to do that. Building an ordinary house is very easy for them."

The director paused for a moment, then continued, “Moreover, there is an even more important point: they also have their own perspective on the ‘microscopic’ world. These microscopic electronic humans can continue to explore the world at an even more microscopic level, creating even more microscopic humans than themselves—atoms, atomic nuclei, quarks, neutrinos, and so on, all the way up to the Planck scale, the most microscopic scale.”

This is precisely why Lin Feng was so moved after seeing the report and even came directly to the research institute to confirm it, because this method bypasses the technology used in The Three-Body Problem to fold matter into two dimensions and then back into three dimensions.

To put it simply, this method is like assembling things with bricks; to humans, a molecule is just a brick, like a microscopic electron.

If Earth wants to remove a brick from a building, it needs to smash the entire building, but humans only need a stone pickaxe to knock it out.

And today's electronic humans can also explore their own 'microscopic' world.

Atomic humans, nuclear humans, quark humans, neutrino humans... Lin Feng simply couldn't bear to think any further; miniaturization was no longer an obstacle!

Lin Feng suppressed his excitement and said with utmost seriousness, "You have done a great job. This is a small step in microscopic research, but a giant leap for all mankind. From today onwards, the history of human civilization will be written in two parts."

If humans could reach the size of Planck, they would not be destroyed, because in that state, they could achieve faster-than-light travel, and this faster-than-light escape would not consume any resources. This is why Lin Feng is so obsessed with miniaturization.

The director hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"Actually, we have some concerns."

"What are you worried about?" Lin Feng was taken aback.

The director explained, "Because the microscopic world is different from the macroscopic world, it is impossible to communicate with sound there. Therefore, we use quantum real-time information transmission to communicate with the microscopic electronic humans."

"In other words, they say whatever comes to mind, which makes their social structure more like the Trisolarans than like humans. They have no privacy, I'm afraid..." the director replied.

Like the Trisolarans, that means that one day, microscopic electronic humans might view macroscopic human civilization in the same way the Trisolarans view humans as venomous snakes.

However, this is not a problem, because microscopic electronic humans can be transferred to macroscopic ones. As long as the data of the microscopic machinery is exported and transferred to the macroscopic machinery, the electronic humans will move from the microscopic to the macroscopic.

Unlike the Trisolarans and humans, there is such a huge species gap that the difference in their thought patterns alone forms an unbreakable chain of suspicion.

Lin Feng nodded. "I understand what you mean. Humans may not be able to adapt to being part of a society without privacy and thus refuse to join the micro-electronic humans. Micro-electronic humans may also form a gap with macro-humans due to the different social structures."

The director said, "Yes, that's exactly what we were worried about. Fortunately, I realized this early on and actively communicated with the micro-electronic humans so that they could adapt to the traditional human way of thinking."

Lin Feng thought for a moment and asked, "Can't we use other forms of information carriers? For example, neutrino communication or gravitational wave communication?"

The director replied, "We considered that in the future, humanity will expand to the Planck scale. At that scale, humanity is in its most microscopic state, and there will be no particles available as carriers of information. Moreover, even if there were, the transmission efficiency would be extremely low. Real-time information transmission via quantum entanglement is still more efficient and convenient."

"It seems that humanity will eventually become like the Trisolarans," Lin Feng murmured.

It's interesting that both sides are acting as if they're wary of each other.

Chapter 272 The Three-Body Conference

In the Trisolaran world, the breakthrough development of human micro-machining technology has caused a stir among the Trisolaran leadership. In the foreseeable future, following the giant acceleration ring, humanity will once again break through the technological blockade imposed by the Sophons.

Moreover, this opening is particularly large, and it could very well act as a fuse, completely breaking through the technological blockade imposed by Sophon.

"Humanity is breaking through the microscopic barrier, and in the foreseeable future, the strategic significance of sophons will decline significantly," the Science Administrator said at the conference.

The military governor complained, "The key is the application of real-time communication technology based on quantum entanglement, which allows them to bypass the barriers of Moore's Law and make computing units smaller, thereby creating even smaller neural computers."

The military governor scanned some of the governors at the meeting with a hint of hostility; according to the Trisolaran civilization's past teachings, they were all sinners.

One of the governors replied helplessly, "But we had no other choice back then. The human colonies were unaware of the Dark Forest and would inevitably use stellar broadcasting to contact the humans in the solar system. After the solar system was attacked, the next target would be the Trisolaran system. At that time, there would be no light-speed warp drive spaceships, so we had to have Feng Taylor communicate with the humans who had left the solar system."

“Then we can use sophons to provide humanity with a communication channel across light-years, instead of giving them the technology for real-time quantum entanglement communication,” the military governor replied.

The governor who gave the explanation replied, "No one can predict the future. At the time, it was necessary to give humanity a channel for real-time communication. Otherwise, the chain of suspicion would inevitably lead to humans outside the solar system broadcasting their coordinates. In order to minimize humanity's contact with sophons, directly providing quantum entanglement real-time communication technology was the most rational and least impactful choice at the time."

"But now it seems that such a choice was extremely foolish, and those who supported it are guilty." The military governor continued to relentlessly attack the other side.

The leader stopped their argument and said slowly, "The issue now is not who should be guilty, but what we should do next. If humanity continues like this, it will eventually break through the blockade of basic science by sophons."

“Actually… I don’t think there’s any need to worry too much about this. It’s not a very serious problem,” said Scientific Administrator 7309 thoughtfully.

"Humanity breaking through technological blockades, isn't that a serious problem?" one governor retorted.

Scientific Administrator 7309 explained, "Humanity is still influenced by the Sophons. At least they cannot break through the Sophons' blockade in a short period of time. By the time they can break through the Sophons' blockade, the Trisolaran world will have already moved to a new home where humans have no idea of ​​the coordinates, and completely gotten rid of humanity's broadcast deterrence."

The Sophon blockade still exists. Although humanity has indeed torn a hole in the blockade, it will obviously take a lot of time to further expand the results using this hole.

According to the predictions of the Three-Body Scientific Administrators, barring any unforeseen events, it would be impossible to completely destroy the sophon blockade within at least fifty years.

"When will all the light-speed warp drive spaceships be completed? It's only a matter of time before our flight path exposes our home planet's coordinates. Those hunters in the universe won't give us much time."

The head of state issued an inquiry to the governor in charge of the project.

The governor replied, "The Trisolaran world doesn't lack technology, but rather resources. Our resource collection efficiency is too low, and we cannot gather large amounts of material resources in a short period of time like the humans in the solar system."

Yes, the Trisolaran world is not lacking in technology or industrial strength; what it lacks is precisely resources.

The Trisolaran civilization had very limited channels for acquiring material resources, namely only three: first, resources from nebulae within the galaxy; second, resources from stellar winds; and third, resources from its home planet.

The resources available to the first two are extremely limited, and most of them are light nuclear materials, while heavy nuclear materials are even rarer. Currently, most of the heavy nuclear materials used to build light-speed warp drive spaceships come from the home planet.

However, the rate of resource extraction from the home planet is also limited. Since the construction of the Trisolaran First Fleet, which was sent to explore the solar system, at the cost of enormous resources, Trisolaris's resource reserves have been greatly reduced.

Given the current situation, the Trisolaran leadership isn't entirely confident that they can build a light-speed warp drive fleet capable of accommodating all the Trisolarans.

The leader ordered, "Arrange for a portion of the people to board the already constructed light-speed warp spaceship and prepare them for entering warp mode."

"Your Excellency, do you intend to assign these people to leave the home star system first?" the military governor asked, quite surprised.

He wasn't surprised by the question of who would stay and who would leave among humanity—that wasn't an issue for the Trisolaran civilization. What surprised him was that the worst-case scenario hadn't even arrived yet, but the leader had already issued a decision to deal with it.

It's important to know that light-speed warp drive spaceships leave tracks, and these low-light-speed tracks already exist within the Trisolaran system. If they continue to increase, the Trisolaran system may face an attack even sooner.

The leader explained, “The hunters’ strike could come at any time. If they strike before we build light-speed warp drives that can transport the entire civilization, these ships, which are always ready to depart, can at least keep the Trisolaran civilization going when the crisis comes.”

It's not leaving, it's preparing to leave. Because of the existence of the light-speed warp drive, the leader dared to issue such an order. If it were before, the leader would have immediately ordered all ships to abandon the Trisolaran system and most of the Trisolaran civilization, and take the spark to a new home.

But we don't need to be so extreme now, because the Trisolaran civilization still has options.

The military governor suggested, "Your Majesty, we could actually have the current light-speed warp drive spaceships leave the home star system a certain distance before entering the light-speed warp drive."

"After finding a new home, the people on the light-speed warp drive remained there, while the ship returned to its home system to continue transporting people to the new home."

The military governor made recommendations to the head of state.

Since there are not enough light-speed warp drive spaceships to transfer all the Trisolarans at once, they can transport them in batches.

Scientific Administrator 7309 replied, "As I said before, doing this is also very dangerous. Although the track will only be left before entering the light speed curvature, this length is enough to mark the location of the home planet."

“I’m talking about entering a state of light-speed curvature outside the home galaxy,” the military governor repeated.

Another consul rejected the idea, saying, "The flight path must be straight. It is not a difficult problem to extend multiple flight paths and find the intersection between them."

"Then do you have a better solution? Civilization's current predicament needs to be resolved as soon as possible," the military governor asked the other governors.

Chapter 273 The Choice Between the Two Sides

"We can now create mechanical substitutes for humans, so naturally we can also create mechanical substitutes for the Trisolarans," said Science Administrator 7309. "My idea is to dehydrate people and then cut off their brains. This would greatly save the internal space of the light-speed warp spaceship and allow us to put more Trisolarans inside."

"In this way, the entire Trisolaran civilization can be put into the light-speed warp drive fleet in a shorter time."

Since the number and volume of spaceships are limited, they can reduce the size of the passengers. By reducing the size of the passengers, the volume of the spaceship can be increased in a disguised way.

Humanity's two-century struggle not only resulted in technological breakthroughs, but also taught the Trisolaran civilization, four light-years away, a great deal, such as how to modify itself.

"What will we do once we reach our new home? What can we do with a bunch of brains that can't act?" the military governor retorted.

"That's why I mentioned earlier that we need to create mechanical substitutes for us Trisolarans," replied Science Administrator 7309.

"After arriving at the new home, a small number of Trisolarans' brains will be immersed and restored. These brains will be in a liquid container to direct mechanical substitutes to use the resources of the new home to build more similar liquid containers and mechanical substitutes, so that more Trisolarans can be immersed and awakened, and then put into the construction of the new home."

The light-speed warp spaceship doesn't need to transport the Trisolarans; it only needs to transport their dehydrated brains. The entire spaceship is filled with dehydrated individuals whose brains are all that remain.

Upon arrival at their destination, a small number of these dehydrated individuals will be immersed in water. Their awakened brains will remotely control mechanical substitutes within liquid containers to create more containers and substitutes. Eventually, all the Trisolarans on the ship will be immersed in water and awakened.

In this way, a single light-speed spaceship could accommodate dozens of times more Trisolarans than it does now.

"What should we do about the fighting?" the military governor asked.

Scientific Administrator 7309 was taken aback. "Combat? Light-speed warp spaceships can reach the speed of light. We have absolutely no need to arrange a battle. Of all the hunter attack methods we have observed so far, none of them reach the speed of light or higher."

"Don't put your own ideas above the universe. History has shown us many similar lessons," the silent leader reminded him.

Seeing that it was the leader's request, 7309 naturally said nothing more and accepted the view that even light-speed spaceships would be attacked.

“Alright, let’s consider the combat factor again. I’ll revise my plan again,” 7309 replied.

Scientific Governor 7309 expressed his redesigned plan: "The departing light-speed warp fleet will be divided into two parts: an immigrant fleet and a combat fleet."

"Let the combat fleet set off first to explore new homes in the universe. The main purpose of this fleet is not to invade anyone, but to provide a safe path for civilization to explore the universe and eventually find a new home. Therefore, the size of this fleet does not have to be very large; it is enough to protect itself."

"If we encounter a truly dangerous enemy, we will use the broadcast coordinates as leverage to secure our safety."

"After finding a new home and confirming the safety of the surrounding area, the immigrant fleet will set off for the new home. According to this plan, only two fleets will be left near the Trisolaran system in the end, one is the combat fleet and the other is the immigrant fleet, which is much better than making light-speed warp drive ships go back and forth several times."

This plan is excellent. It can ensure the safety of the civilization's transfer and limit the remaining tracks to two groups to the greatest extent possible. By the time the hunters notice these tracks, the Trisolaran civilization may no longer be in the Trisolaran system.

The military governor said, "Didn't you disagree with my original proposal to have the light-speed warp fleet leave the home system a certain distance before entering the light-speed warp state?"