The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

The Aries War did not attract the Black Forest attack from other hunters, but the civilization that was once clearly more technologically advanced attracted a dangerous wormhole attack, which was undoubtedly difficult for the leaders of the Unified Body to understand.

Where is the promised dark forest?

What happened to the promised Hessian strike?

You space hunters, when you're using Black Forest Strike, do you really think you can be picky?

With these questions in mind, Lin Feng and the high-ranking members of the consortium focused their attention on the Aries War.

In this war, both sides used fleets as combat units. A warship can be seen as a soldier on the ground battlefield, a fleet is equivalent to an army, and a larger fleet group composed of multiple fleets is equivalent to an army group.

Through observation, the unified entity roughly calculated that the number of army groups deployed by both sides in the war reached several hundred thousand.

When one of their army groups traversed the star system, their sheer mass completely disrupted the previously stable celestial motions within the system.

The battlegrounds between fleets are quite different from those in previous science fiction works. They generally do not choose star systems as the battlefield, nor do they hide in star systems to escape pursuit when they suffer a defeat in battle.

Considering the enemy's strategy of potentially detonating stars, moving the fleet closer to a star system would be tantamount to handing over one's head to death. The open areas between stars are the most suitable and stable battlegrounds.

The defending Aries civilization, relying on its familiarity with the local terrain, used stars as nodes and the dark domain as threads to weave a series of low-light-speed traps.

These low-light-speed traps are difficult to detect with the naked eye or instruments because they reduce the speed of light by only a fraction of one ten-thousandth to one hundred-thousandth. They would not have any significant effect in individual combat, but they are unacceptable in large-scale combat.

It is important to understand that opportunities on the battlefield are fleeting. The reduction in the speed of light in some areas means that many strategic arrangements will be seriously deviated from their intended course. Fleets in different areas will be unable to coordinate and reach their strategic positions and engage the enemy within the allotted time.

Therefore, the Taurus civilization faced considerable war pressure. Although as the attacking side, it held a certain degree of battlefield dominance, its actual advantage was not significant.

Subsequently, the Taurus civilization employed numerous methods to attempt to break the Black Domain Network strategy devised by the Aries civilization, but the results were not ideal. Apart from spreading on its own, the Black Domain could not be eliminated by external forces.

In order to achieve victory in the war as soon as possible, the Taurus civilization began to attempt to capture the Aries civilization's spaceship.

On the Unified side, many people initially thought that this was the Taurus civilization trying to find a dialogue window to reach a reconciliation with the Aries civilization. After all, in the environment of the Dark Forest of the universe, a protracted war would undoubtedly be a suicidal act.

But the subsequent actions of the Taurus Civilization slapped these people in the face.

The Taurus civilization extracted the brains of the captured prisoners and, through three-dimensional multi-band scanning, directly read all the information in the prisoners' brains, including quantum information.

The Taurus civilization thus gained a great deal of information about the Aries civilization.

However, although this intelligence is very complex, it is not very important. The Aries civilization would not be foolish enough to let everyone know about military secrets.

However, the Taurus civilization's purpose from the beginning was not strategic, so it was pointless for the Aries civilization to defend against this move.

By reading the brains of all the intelligent species of the Aries civilization and gaining a general understanding of its technological level, that is enough to understand the Taurus civilization.

Subsequently, the Taurus civilization continued to capture large numbers of Aries civilization prisoners of war, sometimes even at the cost of its own strength.

The Aries civilization had clearly noticed this, but they didn't know what the Taurus civilization was up to. Moreover, they currently held the advantage of timing, location, and popular support, and if nothing unexpected happened, they would be the ultimate victors in the Aries War. Therefore, they didn't pay too much attention, but simply became more cautious and tried their best to prevent the Taurus civilization from capturing more prisoners.

The unified entity, which was secretly observing the battle, knew what the Taurus civilization was doing with these prisoners of war: extracting their brains and extracting the information from them.

As for what kind of integration is generated from the exported data, we don't understand it here.

Even with the spying of the Sophon, the Taurus civilization used only coded language to communicate in this mission. The Unified Body had an extremely difficult time just deciphering the Taurus civilization's language, let alone cracking the coded language.

The war lasted for another twenty-one years. The Taurus civilization's practice of capturing prisoners of war remained unchanged, while the tide of the war turned completely in favor of the Aries civilization. The Taurus civilization was left with only a few army fleets, a stark contrast to its original strength of hundreds of thousands.

The Aries civilization was no pushover. After noticing that the Taurus civilization only had such a small fleet left, they actually relaxed their offensive. This was not to persuade them to surrender, but to set up a black encirclement to annihilate the entire Taurus civilization in Aries, cutting off any potential threat at the root.

However, the Aries civilization never expected that a piece of music would be playing on their military channel.

This music comes from the Taurus civilization. They sent this audio to the Aries civilization's command system after cracking the Aries civilization's warship system.

This audio clip spread rapidly throughout the Aries Civilization, exciting all the intelligent species within it.

This is an abnormal excitement. They want to listen to this kind of song, listening to it on repeat, like an addict. If they stop for even a second, they will feel excruciating pain.

Thus, the Aries civilization was defeated. Despite having an absolute strategic advantage and possessing favorable timing, location, and popular support, it was utterly defeated. Having unlocked quantum entanglement real-time communication technology, the Aries civilization's information spread faster than the speed of light, and so did its destruction. The entire Aries civilization was absurdly destroyed because of a single song.

On the unified side, the humans and Trisolarans who had been monitoring the battlefield naturally heard the funeral song composed by Taurus, but they did not feel anything unusual, let alone fall into a morbid fanaticism like the Aries civilization, or even the destruction of the civilization.

However, for safety reasons, they chose to suspend their continuous surveillance of the Taurus civilization.

This war made them think a lot and see clearly what the essence of interstellar warfare is.

Efficiency and directness are the fundamental objectives of any attack method. Even a short audio clip can be a devastating weapon if the target is chosen appropriately. The giant ships, cannons, and high-energy strikes we have seen in the past are merely means, not the ultimate goal.

The core essence of interstellar warfare lies in how to efficiently destroy the enemy.

Chapter 344 More Like AI Than Human

On a former colony of the Aries civilization in the constellation Aries, several atoms orbited the planet at extremely high speeds, adhering to its surface.

In addition to these special high-speed iron atoms, there are also some protons orbiting the planet.

After orbiting tens of thousands of times, these special iron atoms and protons left behind several microscopic dark tracks as they departed from the planet's surface and headed into the depths of space.

[Explorer Number Four, this is Number Two. Exploration mission complete. Requesting return coordinates. Over.]

Explorer 4 relays information to Explorer 2: [Reply to Explorer 2: Your beacon has been placed in area B1. Please contact Explorer 3 for the unlock key. Done.]

【Received, done.】

It took some time for several atoms to travel to the b1 region.

Region b1 is located in the Kuiper Belt of a binary star system. In the meteorite pile, Explorer 2 spent some time before finally finding his deployed beacon.

Explorer 2 then connected to Explorer 3.

[Contact Explorer 3. This is Explorer 2. I have reached the beacon location. Requesting the key to unlock. Over.]

Explorer Three quickly provided feedback: [Key tyu3...452g, complete.]

【Received, done.】

Using the key, Explorer 2 learned about the encrypted information within the beacon. After confirming that the beacon had self-destructed as usual, Explorer 2 left Aries and attempted to return to the atomic network.

[I am Explorer No. 2. My exploration mission is complete. Requesting access to the Atomic Network. Over.]

[Welcome, Explorer Two. This is the quarantine area. I am the AI ​​responsible for receiving you. You need to undergo three intelligent verifications before connecting to the atomic network.]

Instead of directly entering the atomic network, No. 2 received the verification request from the intelligent AI in the atomic network during the access application process.

To return to the atomic network, it needs to pass the intelligent verification audit, which means confirming whether Explorer 2's mental state is still normal.

After some more time, Explorer No. 2 passed the AI ​​verification test.

[Verification successful. Your intelligence is confirmed to be within the normal range. Welcome back, Mr. Dis. We will now return all your memory and emotional modules. Please wait.]

Suddenly, Number Two felt his mind become clear, and things he couldn't understand before were now explained.

In order to carry out a special mission, he voluntarily sealed his memories and had other operational rules implanted to help him complete the mission.

Now, Dis has regained his memories!

With Dis's return, his colleagues and friends came to visit him with great excitement.

"Dis, you're finally back!"

"You didn't encounter any danger, did you?"

"Ever since the Taurus civilization destroyed the Aries civilization with just a piece of music, the higher-ups have strictly ordered that no unauthorized information observations be conducted on the Aries battlefield. Until just now, we were worried about your safety."

"How did the Aries civilization perish? You should be able to glean some clues from their corpses, right?"

Faced with one question after another, Dis had no desire to answer them; he was on the verge of a meltdown.

"Thank you all for your concern, but I'm sorry, I just want some peace and quiet right now."

"What happened? Is the atomic mainframe damaged?" someone asked alertly.

Dees explained, "It was a very panicked feeling. I wasn't myself during the mission. It was a very uncomfortable feeling, and I couldn't accept it."

The Atom, in charge of medical care, asked, "Is there memory loss?"

Dis replied, "No, there's nothing wrong with the memory, it's the feeling that's awful, like you've become someone else and then you've become someone else again."

Become someone else?

The atomic network fell silent for a moment, but the atomic beings in the network had not forgotten where Dis had come from.

Those atomic beings who knew a little about the Aries battlefield situation immediately made a request to Dis.

"Dis, you need to have a medical check-up immediately, no objections?"

No objection.

Dis said this, but at the same time he also planned to check if something had really happened to him. This feeling of being like a stranger was really hard for him to accept.

Dis quickly obtained the coordinates of a star system and simultaneously learned the information from his colleagues.

"Go to these coordinates; this is the nearest temporary outpost to you."

After several twists and turns, Dis arrived at the temporary base and underwent a comprehensive self-examination there.

"How is Distance doing?"

An Atomian looked worriedly through the Sophon at Dee, who was undergoing a hardware check, and couldn't help but look anxiously at the doctor who was showing the medical report.

"He has no problems, he's very healthy, and everything is normal," the doctor explained.

Atom asked, puzzled, "Then why did he feel unwell before? And why did he say he had become a different person?"

The doctor stopped taking notes and said seriously, "He has indeed become a different person. His feeling is not wrong."

"Human thinking is composed of a complex of multiple structures, among which memory occupies a very important proportion. The shaping of personality is inseparable from personal experience memory, and a person's cognition of themselves and the world is also inseparable from learning memory. When a person loses their memory, their values ​​will be directly reset to their most primitive state. If appropriate guidance is given at this time, that person will become a different person."

The Atom Man was stunned for a moment, feeling as if he had heard it, yet also as if he hadn't.

"This... I'm sorry, I didn't understand," the virtual avatar of the Atom Man said with an embarrassed smile.

The doctor sighed softly, "Alright, let me put it another way. Imagine a glass filled with water, and the water represents the original person. Now, if you pour oil into the glass, you get a person with memories, composed of oil and water. The oil represents the memories. If you remove the oil, the person will revert to the original person."

"A newborn person with no memory and no skills."

"In Dis's case, the grease was extracted and then oil was poured in, thus becoming another Dis during the mission."

Atom, who was Dee's colleague, asked in astonishment.

"You implanted memories into Dis?"

The doctor explained, "It's not memory. Memory is data that a living organism acquires from the outside world and integrates into its own use. What we implanted is a different set of cognitive standards, which is more similar to AI. That's why I used 'oil' as an example earlier. Oil is not grease. During the mission, Dis was more like AI than human."

"What if something happens to him... then wouldn't Dis be..." Atom Man hesitated, unable to finish his sentence.

The doctor said helplessly, "This is the only way we can do it. Besides, we did it with the consent of Dis himself. The Aries region is an interstellar battlefield. If he is accidentally captured by the Taurus civilization, then after the Aries civilization, our unified entity will face a huge threat to its survival."