The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

Ling Moli calmly replied, "The kind of Swordholder you're talking about has no deterrent effect. The Trisolaran world would ignore such a Swordholder and launch a blatant attack. When the deterrent system collapses, considering the possibility that the Trisolaran conquest of the solar system might not necessarily wipe out all of humanity, such a Swordholder would not broadcast the coordinates of the Trisolaran star system."

Ayaka's words immediately stirred up the entire World Court.

In their view, this was just Ayaka Maki making excuses to absolve herself.

Not only the World Court, but also people on Earth, Mars, and in various space cities, including the people of the Taylor system, expressed immense indignation.

"Sophistry! I dare to do it!"

"You are shirking your responsibilities as the Swordholder!"

"You damn bitch! I wish I could take off my shoe and slap your rotten mouth until it's swollen like a watermelon!"

In the gallery and on the jury, people glared angrily at Ayaka, who was appearing in court. If it weren't for the authority of the World Court, someone would probably have rushed up and beaten her up.

"quiet!"

After the judges spoke, the boiling world court gradually calmed down.

The judge from Mars inquired, "Let's get back to the point. Since you're not the Swordholder we understand, yet the deterrence system still collapsed, what's your explanation for that?"

Ling Moli replied, "I've thought a lot about this matter. It was a misjudgment caused by a deviation in intelligence. If we had known earlier that the Trisolarans had the idea and actions to abandon the Trisolaran system, as well as their light-speed warp drive technology, the conditions for negotiation would have been lowered."

"Just lowering some negotiating terms? Don't you think that's wrong?" the judge from Earth asked incredulously.

Ling Moli's answer made it very clear that if she could do it all over again, she would still make the same choice and threaten the Trisolaran world with the switch of the gravitational wave broadcasting system. At most, she would just make the negotiation conditions a little more lenient and less harsh.

Ayaka explained, "The collapse of the deterrence system was inevitable, and my actions only accelerated this inevitable outcome."

"The Trisolarans have been using sophons to interfere with the progress of human technology. As time goes by, the impact of the threat system on the Trisolarans will become smaller and smaller. For example, with the light-speed warp drive technology, as long as the Trisolaran civilization has the ability to complete the light-speed transfer of the entire civilization, it can completely ignore our coordinate deterrence."

"At that time, even if humanity broadcasts its coordinates, the Trisolaran civilization can still escape. Humanity's broadcasting behavior will only harm itself, and the deterrence system will lose its meaning."

What Ayane said did not move the audience in any way, and some even scoffed at the former swordsman in private.

The Earth Judge coldly questioned, "What did you feel when you held the switch and pressed the launch button?"

Ling Moli thought for a moment and replied, "It's a bit sad. We sacrificed so many lives and planned for so long, but all we got in return was failure. The blood of many of our comrades was shed in vain."

"That's all? No other feelings? Have you never considered the consequences of your actions for hundreds of millions of families?" the Earth Judge questioned with dissatisfaction.

Aya nods and answers earnestly, "That's all, Your Honor. When you stand on high and look down at the ground, the people on the ground are just dust in your eyes. There's no need to have any emotional fluctuations towards dust."

In an instant, the entire World Court was in an uproar again. People gritted their teeth at the swordsman, and some members of the public gallery even rushed forward, wanting to beat Ayaka Ritsu up, but they were stopped by the bailiffs.

The judges did not immediately call for silence. Amidst the shouts of cursing, the judge from Mars said, "Ms. Aya, you have made us realize once again just how incomprehensible the Swordholder truly is."

"You are the most heinous criminal in the history of both worlds."

Before being taken away from the World Court, Ayame made her final statement. She raised her proud head, looked around at everyone in the World Court, and solemnly declared.

"At the end of my life, I want to make one thing clear to everyone: I will not repent for broadcasting the coordinates of the Three-Body world, nor do I believe that I have done anything wrong. Any judgment you make against me will only be your one-sided venting of anger, nothing more."

In the final trial, Aya was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity and murder, with immediate execution.

Amidst a chorus of human insults, Ayaka was escorted away from the World Court by bailiffs.

Her face showed no emotion whatsoever due to the people's vicious curses; she remained calm throughout. Compared to those who lost control of their emotions, she seemed more like someone who judged the guilty.

……

In this era, executions are generally carried out by lasers. The person is transported to outer space, where a large laser instantly vaporizes them into a plasma cloud.

This is a very humane form of execution; the prisoner will not feel any pain.

However, the spaceship that held Ayaka Maki did not immediately head to the execution site. Instead, it made a handover with another spaceship en route, transferred Ayaka Maki to another spaceship, and transported a mechanical double who looked exactly like Ayaka Maki to the execution site.

On the spaceship, the two crew members who were handing over Aya Mari were talking.

"Of all the people handed over, I feel no remorse for this one. On the contrary, I feel like I let her off easy," a crew member said bitterly, glancing at the Taylor-class spaceship as it gradually disappeared into the distance through the window.

Another crew member shook his head and said, "Your idea is wrong. This scum's crimes are too numerous to count. The Taylor system's experiments will torture her to the point of wishing she were dead. Even if she dies in the end, she can still contribute something to human scientific research. A direct death sentence would only make things easier for this scum."

Chapter 290 They weren't lucky.

When Ayaka opened her eyes, what she saw was neither an unfamiliar ceiling nor a familiar ceiling, but rather, no ceiling at all.

She found herself wearing a mask that provided her with clear air, but also made her feel incredibly restricted.

Aya Marie tried to get up and remove the mask from her face, but then she was shocked to find that she couldn't move her body and was confined to a very small space.

She stood with her feet on one end of the space and her head on the other. Her high chest pressed against the top, making it difficult for her to breathe. Her hands and feet felt like they were bound by something, and she felt like she was being strangled when she struggled.

The neck too.

"you're awake."

A voice suddenly rang in Ayaka's ear.

"Who? Who's speaking?" Ayaka asked.

The voice explained, "This is the Taylor System's Experiment 8 on Jupiter, a place specifically for studying human mind transference, and I am the director of this experiment."

A person sentenced to death is switched and sent to a laboratory within the Taylor system, which specializes in researching technologies directly related to human biology.

Ayaka Marie only needed to think for a moment before she understood.

"...I've become your test subject?"

"You're very smart; you figured out the cause and effect so quickly."

The director was a very cheerful person, and his relaxed tone contrasted sharply with Ayaka's hostility and vigilance.

The director explained, "Although data on human mind transfer has been developed, the technology is far from mature. The main function of Laboratory No. 8 is to collect enough data on human mind transfer so that the technology can mature as soon as possible to meet the needs of various large-scale projects of human civilization."

The development of a technology does not equate to its immediate and efficient utilization by the developers. Nuclear reactors, jet engines, internal combustion engines, steam engines, and so on, all achieved their high efficiency only through continuous optimization in later stages.

The same applies to current mind transfer technology. This technology has a certain probability of failure. The mission of Laboratory No. 8 is to continuously collect various physical parameters in the mind transfer process so that the mind transfer technology can mature and be applied as soon as possible.

"So, you're thinking of using prisoners for experiments?" Ayaka asked.

The director replied matter-of-factly, "Humans have to race against time, there's nothing we can do about it. Besides, death row inmates are going to die anyway, our intervention is just to delay your deaths a little longer."

Death row inmates have no human rights whatsoever. In extraordinary times, they are naturally expected to make the most of their remaining strength.

After a moment of silence, Ayaka asked again.

What will happen to me?

Ling Moli harbored no illusions; the crimes she committed were the most serious in human history, for she intended to murder all of humanity in the solar system.

She didn't believe that the Taylor System's Experiment 8 would be so merciful as to let her go.

"Um... the situation won't be worse than the death penalty. According to the basic procedure, you will be transferred to a microscopic carrier in a way whose safety is still uncertain. After the microscopic transfer is completed and the safety of this way of transferring thoughts is confirmed, you will be transferred back to your own brain. It will only end when you die during a thought transfer with uncertain safety."

The director explained what Aya would be facing and encouraged her, "Don't be discouraged, Aya. If you're lucky enough, you might be able to live until all the experiments are over. Compared to the certain death penalty, at least there's a glimmer of hope for your survival here in Laboratory No. 8."

Ayaka Mori showed no emotion; she simply asked calmly, "What about the others who came before me?"

"They weren't lucky."

……

At the Taylor System headquarters in Jupiter's orbit, Davis was holding a seminar with others and did not attend.

"The connection between individual will and quantum state? Instead of focusing on collecting experimental data, why is this mysterious thing being sent to Experiment No. 8?"

Davis looked at the research report he had received from Laboratory No. 8 and glanced at the people around him, puzzled.

Ding Yi, with a pipe in his mouth, explained, "Actually, there is some objectivity in this. The thinking framework of a stubborn person is more stable than that of a flexible person. To put it simply, one is like dehydrated, lumpy mud, while the other is like soft mud after soaking in water."

Davis found Ding Yi's statement completely unacceptable. He countered, "Following this logic, if a human being were quantized by macro-electrons and turned into a probability cloud, wouldn't they be able to interfere with their own probability by changing the strength of their will?"

Ding Yi did not answer. He was indeed a leading figure in the field of human scientific research when it came to macroatoms, but in the face of nature, he was just a paramecium. Therefore, he would not make any conclusions about things that did not yet have enough data to verify, and at most he would only give a conjecture.

Ding Yi tapped his pipe on the table, flicked out the ash, and suggested to Davis, "Let's send this report to Xiao Liu. Their Experiment 3 is in charge of research on the non-existent human quantization. Maybe it can give them some inspiration. Of all the research, only the research on quantization has been stagnant."

Davis thought for a moment, nodded, and agreed.

"What about atomization? Has there been any progress?" Davis inquired.

Atomization is a further step in microscopic research; however, due to insufficient understanding of quarks, using quarks to modify atomic nuclei to create a quantum computer has become a distant dream.

A core member who understands the difficulty of atomization research said, "It's too difficult. Humanity's research in the quark field is almost a blank slate. For a long time, the Sophon blockade has interfered with our microscopic exploration. We simply cannot make any new progress in the study of particles at the quark level."

Another core member around him tentatively expressed a bold idea of ​​his.

"The Trisolarans will allocate a large number of sophons for the Trisolaran fleet's escape. This is the message conveyed by Mr. Taylor. Even if sophons still exist in the solar system, their numbers will not be many. We can win by relying on distance and numbers."

By using cosmic rays and targets, a simple particle observation environment can be constructed in the space environment. This particle observation environment does not require much energy, and the construction time is short and economical.

The core member's idea is to set up this particle observation environment at the edge of the solar system, taking advantage of the current scarcity of sophons to explore the microscopic world.

However, this idea was not accepted by the meeting participants.

"Using those ancient methods of observing particles using cosmic rays? Forget it. Sophon only needs to interfere with a portion of the physical parameters, and microscopic research will be impossible."

The proposer argued, "We can ignore a few different parameters because the number of sophons will inevitably be very small at this point. Therefore, a small number of difference parameters will necessarily be equivalent to interference from sophons..."

Davis interrupted without hesitation, "No, theories derived from such a lack of rigor are prone to major problems. In mathematical calculations, a change in a single number can mean that the entire derived formula will be flawed."

“Those micro-electronic humans are interested in taking over the task of atomization,” a core member said.

Davis looked at the core member with a puzzled expression and asked, "Them? They don't even have their own particle accelerator yet, what can they do?"

The core member who gave the report thought for a moment and replied, "At least it's much easier for them to observe quarks than for us. We need to use sensors to indirectly understand quark particles, while they only need a microscopic microscope."

Chapter 291 Edith gave up thinking

Halfway through the meeting, Davis and his team had finished discussing most of the scientific research matters and then switched to discussing issues related to the solar ascent project.

“Right now, there’s a lot of heated debate internationally about whether or not to blow up the sun. The only ones on our side are the supporters of the deception faction,” a core member of the Taylor faction complained.

No one present was surprised by this outcome; their plans differed and conflicted, so naturally they could no longer work together.

One of the core members said, "That's understandable. The supporters of the Bunker Project are completely indifferent to whether the sun will explode. The supporters of the Ark and Mobile City Cluster projects of the Escape Faction cannot travel at the speed of light. Detonating the sun before they are far enough away from the solar system poses a certain danger to them."

"Only the deception faction shares our ideas because their plans overlap with ours. According to the current trend of public opinion, if we want to blow up the sun, we will probably have to wait until the escape faction is completely away from the solar system."

If the sun were to explode, it would inevitably release a large amount of stellar material moving at near the speed of light and gamma rays moving at the speed of light. Using planets as shelter would not be too difficult to defend against, but with the thickness of spaceships and space cities being less than one-thousandth the thickness of planetary layers, to defend against the power of a solar explosion, one would have to travel far enough to dilute the power of the solar explosion with distance.

However, this means that the plan to raise the sun into the sky must be postponed.

Davis worriedly said, "Project Ark is alright, as it can reach 85% of the speed of light and can take everyone with it. But the supporters of the Mobile City Cluster Project can only reach a maximum speed of one-tenth of the speed of light. It would take them ten years to reach one light-year, not to mention the time needed for acceleration."