The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

No, no, it's not that bad. We're a legitimate space force, it shouldn't be like this. It's too embarrassing.

"What about the blueprints for the weapons and warships?" Lin Feng asked.

The Japanese representative, worried that the five permanent members of the UN Security Council might also back down on this issue, immediately said, "In order to highlight what you called 'the creativity and imagination of the players,' we'll skip the weapons."

Lin Feng shrugged indifferently, not caring about the outcome of this virtual war.

All he cared about was whether ETO noticed this.

Chapter 75 Tanks! We've added tanks!

In the Three-Body Problem game, the two ETO members responsible for monitoring Lin Feng were racking their brains in discussion.

"Maple Taylor is organizing virtual space battles between players and the military."

"What exactly is he trying to do? Since he's forming a fleet composed of players, shouldn't he be giving them more advantages? Why is he weakening them instead? Doesn't he want the players to win in the end? I don't understand."

Su Qi'er asked his companion, his mind filled with questions. Logically, shouldn't they have given players a backdoor or something? Why would they add restrictions instead of a backdoor?

The Wallfacer is actually preventing the implementation of his own plan—can you believe it?!

If the suggestion to form a player fleet hadn't come from the Wallfacer, Su Qi'er would have mistakenly thought that the Wallfacer's plan was actually to prevent the formation of the player fleet.

“It’s good that you don’t understand it; this matter must be more than just a simple one,” Di Renjie said.

Su Qier frowned and asked, "If we focus all our efforts on Feng Taylor, what about virtual education?"

Di Renjie said, "Let's devote some energy to observing for a while. The Planetary Defense Council obviously won't let Feng Taylor's plan pass easily this time, and we can save some brain cells from dying."

……

Time flies; a month is neither a long nor a short time.

In the virtual game, a solar system is brought to life with a high degree of realism, down to the detail that each grain of sand has a different texture.

The system channel has been shut down, and game participants can only communicate through other means.

Fleets appeared in Pluto's orbit; these were the Space Force's fleets, a 100% accurate reconstruction based on data obtained from the Space Force.

In order to serve as opponents for millions of players, even ordinary crew members of the space fleet become captains of warships in the game.

In the game, one person can operate a single warship. Since the space force's warships are operated by multiple people, SG Company used AI to make up for the lack of personnel on the space force side.

On the fleet's military radio channels, the soldiers had a lot of complaints about the recent battle with the players.

"Gathering a million warships just to deal with a bunch of gamers, what are those people at the United Nations thinking? It's such a waste of time."

"Yeah, even if we win, I don't think it's anything to be proud of. I just feel fucking ashamed..."

In reality, Flander is the captain of a capital ship, but in the game, he is the commander-in-chief of this temporary fleet, and he is speaking in the channel.

"Alright, a soldier's duty is to obey orders."

"Don't let your guard down. Treat this as a relatively large-scale normal exercise."

It was, after all, a large-scale battle involving millions of warships. Flander felt that even if the players were not very strong, it would at least give them some practical experience in large-scale battles.

Space is very empty, and when a fleet is in a dispersed formation, with warships spaced tens of kilometers apart, forming a loose, large group, radar waves can easily detect it.

"Enemy combat group detected!"

Upon receiving coordinate information from other warships, Flander immediately directed his flagship and other warships to scan the coordinates. After confirming the existence of an enemy fleet, he proceeded with further command.

"Close the distance to 500,000 kilometers, then fire the electromagnetic cannons in unison!"

"learn!"

Flander switched the radio channel to a common channel between fleets and called other fleets nearby.

"This is Temporary Fleet 1376. We have locked onto the enemy battle group. Coordinates..."

After a week's voyage, Flander's temporary fleet of 1376 engaged in combat with the opposing player's fleet.

There are no dazzling light-emitting projectiles because electromagnetic projectiles themselves do not emit light, and there is no electric arc when the electromagnetic gun barrel fires because there is not enough medium to conduct electricity in space.

Zooming out and watching the exchange of fire between the two fleets is like seeing two groups of ants throwing stones at each other.

This player fleet is the 113th ranked raider fleet in the game, commanded by a player with the ID '打家劫舍'.

"I've been hit! The warship is severely damaged! It's uncontrollable!"

"Abandon ship permitted! Prioritize your own safety! Use the ejection pods to evacuate the battlefield!" the raider calmly ordered.

Not long after the order was issued, another player reported the problem.

"Multiple enemy fleets detected. We are being surrounded!"

The robber shouted, "Don't panic! The entire ship reverses direction! Don't let them surround us!"

Thus, the raider fleet fought and retreated, maintaining constant engagement with the 1376 temporary fleet's long-range electromagnetic cannons.

However, due to the engagement distance of hundreds of thousands of kilometers, the losses on both sides were not very serious.

At the United Nations, representatives from various countries are watching this virtual war between players and the Space Force.

After pursuing the raider fleet for some time, Temporary Fleet 1376 suddenly abandoned its pursuit and deliberately increased the distance between itself and the raiders, then joined up with several other fleets that came to reinforce it.

The players' first tentative encounter with the Space Force has temporarily come to an end.

The casualty ratio of both sides was summarized and displayed on a screen in front of the representatives through SG Company's back-end system.

"The Space Force lost seven warships, and the players lost... two?"

"what happened?"

The representatives from various countries were somewhat bewildered, as this outcome was something they had never anticipated.

The Space Force is, after all, a regular army, and the warships they use are the result of painstaking design by elite engineers from various countries. In contrast, these players have had their combat capabilities significantly reduced due to their demand for 'realistic' designs.

How did these players manage to win a game?

"Mr. William, could you describe this type of warship that appears in your game?"

Some representatives suspected SG Company of shady dealings and cast glances at Knight William.

William coughed and quickly explained, "These warships are designed by players. They call them shield ships. As the name suggests, they are warships that act as shields, standing in front of the capital ships during fleet battles to defend against enemy attacks."

"These are its design drawings."

The entire warship is completely unarmed, with propulsion units located on both sides. The player control room and reactor are situated at the stern. The interior of the warship features various shock-absorbing designs. Rather than a warship, it is more like a shield with a thickness equal to its length.

With such thickness, even if it were hit head-on by an electromagnetic cannon, it wouldn't be a problem at all.

Behind these shield ships were rows of axial gunboats, using the shield ships in front as cover to unleash electromagnetic guns at the temporary fleet 1376 from behind.

The German representative, who possessed even a modicum of military knowledge, immediately spotted the flaws in the player's warship deployment and muttered to himself.

"That's why the player's fleet retreated. Because these warships, like shields, can only defend against attacks from one side. Once attacked from different directions by one or more enemy fleets, they will be destroyed much faster than the space force."

A rather extreme design!

Chapter 76 Stop Lying

The Space Force uses a public channel for communication between the commanders of the various temporary fleets. Unlike the internal communication channels within the fleets, this channel remains silent.

"You lost seven ships but only destroyed two enemy warships. Flander, this is your mistake."

"I admit that I was careless. I will submit a self-criticism to my superiors after this virtual war ends."

Someone asked Flander, "Why did you withdraw? With the firepower of your fleet, along with the other three temporary fleets that reinforced you (1524, 1243, and 1655), you should have no problem taking down that player fleet."

Flander said, "As the fleet retreated, it also scattered metal powder along its route."

A fleet commander raised an eyebrow, quite surprised, and said, "These players actually know how to use metal powder to interfere with radio communications? That's quite unexpected."

According to his understanding, players had been communicating through the game system channel before this, which meant that they had no awareness of blocking radio waves before.

“I’m not sure if there are any traps set by the players, so it’s not advisable to take such a risk in the initial probing firefight,” Flander said.

If it were just a virtual war involving a small fleet, Flanders might not hesitate to pursue, but on a battlefield with millions of warships on both sides, such a reckless advance without reinforcements arriving is far too risky.

"They are very talented, but they lack professional military foundation. In order to catch up with us in terms of weapon power, they adopted an extreme design such as the axial gun, and formed a fleet with one warship mainly for defense and another warship mainly for attack."

"Fortunately, we discovered it in advance. If we had directly engaged in a large-scale battle, we would have definitely suffered losses as we were unprepared. Those shield ships could easily block four or five electromagnetic cannon shots. If we rashly engaged the player fleet in a head-on salvo, the player fleet would have been the only one to win."

The Space Force is no pushover. Through battlefield analysis, they easily identified all the strengths and weaknesses of the Aegis-equipped ships. After review by the PDC, they released general information about the players' Aegis-equipped ships to the Space Force.

There was no trickery involved; all the intelligence was obtained through the Space Force's own analysis. The general information provided by the authorities was at most player-generated naming information such as "Aegis Ship".

"But now we know that it's not difficult to deal with. We can use crossfire to strike from angles that the shield ships cannot defend against. The two fleets can fire at the player fleets that are facing the friendly forces, bypassing the shield ships' defenses without having to split up the fleets."

"We still need to be careful; there are probably more than just these."

At this point, the player who achieved a minor victory in their first battle was still not satisfied.

"That's practically cheating! A salvo of those large-caliber axial guns only destroyed seven enemy ships!"

"I told you before, power is one thing, accuracy is another. If you can't hit, no matter how powerful it is, it's useless. We should add more barrels instead of increasing the caliber."

"Small-caliber guns aren't powerful enough; those are military weapons."

"We can try using loose shells. We can hollow out the inside of the electromagnetic projectile, add an explosive fuse, and after the axial gun fires the shell, let the shell explode halfway through its flight, breaking into countless small projectiles. This way, we can hit a surface at once, and at the same time, these small projectiles will have enough speed to penetrate the outer armor of the warship."

……

"Watching this virtual war from the conference hall," the German representative murmured.

"The Space Force might lose this match..."

The German delegate's mutterings were overheard by the other delegates nearby, who all looked surprised.

"How could that be? The Space Force has already found a way to deal with the Aegis ships. The next clash will definitely result in heavy losses for the players," the Australian representative replied.

The representative from Westbitch nodded in agreement, "They are soldiers, how could they be inferior to players?"

……

“That’s right, the players’ win rate is not high. The players are just a bunch of amateurs. In terms of military skills alone, soldiers can leave the players far behind,” Lin Feng said.

The German representative looked at Lin Feng with displeasure.

“Maple Taylor, although you are a Wallfacer and lying is a normal thing for you, I still hope you can be more honest in this situation.”

"Do you think you can fool us on something like this?"