Let you be the wall-facer: you turn around and join the Three-Body Problem?

The Carbon-Based Federation is a civilization organization formed by one dependent civilization after another. It is a civilization community that allows fragile civilizations to huddle together for warmth in the dark forest of the universe.

Unfortunately for the Devourer Civilization, the one that formed the dependency theory and suppressed them was a Level 3 civilization.

Moreover, it seems that there has been no progress for nearly 4 years. The reason is that the Federal Parliament civilization, which is suppressed by the higher level, is stuck at level and cannot continue to upgrade.

This is a dead end. As long as the top-level civilization does not complete the upgrade, all subsequent subordinate civilizations will not be able to upgrade to a higher level.

Even if a higher-level civilization wants to help you, it can’t do anything because of the dependency theory. The technology tree of each civilization grows based on the root of the dependency theory. Unless you choose to cut off all the roots of civilization and develop from level 0 civilization, there is no way to bypass the dependency theory.

Several hundred years ago, before the Three-Body Civilization was upgraded to Level 2 Civilization, it encountered the Devourer Civilization. Several hundred years later, the Three-Body Civilization successfully broke through the Level 2 Civilization, but the Devourer was still the same Devourer, without any progress. It was obvious that joining the Carbon-based Federation would be almost a disaster for the development of the entire civilization.

"Da Ya, stop talking nonsense, you know why we are here!"

The military consul said coldly that they really felt it was a headache to communicate with this guy and wanted to end the call as soon as possible.

"I've told you so many times, don't call me Daya, my name is Daya, you're a bunch of disgusting creatures in the ocean, you taste terrible and talk too much, I really hate you!"

When Daya said this, he also made an expression as if he wanted to vomit.

When fighting against the Three-Body Civilization, Daya once tried to bite a Three-Body creature, but the taste was so disgusting that it made him sick. Daya still remembers it vividly, and that is how he got the name Daya.

"I didn't expect that after hundreds of years, you would suddenly come to ask for the Federation's assistance. It seems that those little bugs on Earth have caused a lot of trouble for you marine creatures."

When the military consul heard this, he couldn't help but retort.

"What qualifications do you have to laugh at us? You're talking as if you weren't driven out of your home planet by the humans on Earth. After all, our invasion failed, and you lost your own home. How dare you come and laugh at others?"

These words were indeed harsh. When Daya heard the military governor's words, he was obviously angry and snorted coldly.

"Humph, then we at least once owned the Earth for about 100 million years, and defeated the ant civilization in the Cretaceous period. If the observer hadn't intervened, how could we have been driven out of our home planet by a group of hairless monkeys?"

Speaking of this, a trace of fear emerged in Daya's heart. Although he was not born in the Cretaceous period, he had learned about the battle of that year from history books.

As early as the Cretaceous period, the Devourer civilization occupied the Earth. They were the earliest masters of the Earth, or to use their more familiar name - dinosaurs!

The Devourer and the Ant Civilization fought for control of the Earth for many years, almost throughout the entire Cretaceous period. Although the Ant Civilization was weak individually, it had the advantage in numbers, and the Devourer Civilization only narrowly defeated the other side at the last moment.

Just when the Devourer thought he would own all the rights to this beautiful blue planet, that man appeared!

Lin Xuan!

About 50 million years ago, this guy suddenly appeared on the Earth at that time, and without saying a word, he defeated the entire Devouring Empire.

At that time, the Devouring Empire's technological level was around the nuclear energy age. It had just mastered the technology of controlled nuclear fusion and was preparing to explore the interstellar space, but he alone slaughtered nearly 80% of his people.

The Empire had almost used up all of its nuclear bombs, but the weapons they were so proud of were just small flames that could be extinguished at will for this man.

At that moment, the Devouring Empire was in despair.

But Lin Xuan had no intention of killing them all. Instead, she gave them two choices.

Either the entire race will be reduced to unintelligent creatures and become poultry, or it will leave the earth.

The Devouring Empire chose the latter, built its own spaceship, and fled the earth with its entire clan, becoming homeless wanderers in the vast ocean of stars.

Later, after they were taken in as a vassal civilization by a Level 3 civilization of the Carbon-Based Federation, they learned that Lin Xuan was an observer of a higher-level civilization.

Unfortunately, his own planet became the experimental instrument chosen by the other party.

So they were driven out from their homes.

Where does this make sense?

But the good news is that they learned that once the experiment begins, Lin Xuan, as an observer, must not interfere with the progress of any civilization, even if their race is exterminated by other civilizations.

So hundreds of years ago, the hateful Devouring Civilization drove a fleet straight to the solar system, with the intention of descending to Earth, slaughtering all humans on Earth, and regaining control of the Earth.

In this way, even Lin Xuan couldn't say anything.

As a result, I don’t know if this Devourer Civilization is born with bad luck. Not to mention that their homes were occupied, after finally taking revenge on the humans who occupied their homes, they met the Three-Body Civilization halfway!

At that time, the Three-Body Civilization had just comprehended the Law of the Dark Forest. When they saw so many fleets passing by Centauri, they attacked without saying a word.

The Devourers were all stunned by the Three-Body Civilization at that time.

I'm just passing by, what are you doing?

When the Three-Body Civilization realized that the other party seemed to have no hostility and was about to let the Devourer pass, Ye Wenjie's communication arrived.

Well, whether there was hostility before or not, there is now.

You want to occupy the earth, and I also want to occupy the earth. Sooner or later, we will have a war, so why not resolve it here!

The Devourer was unlucky. It had to fight the Three-Body Civilization for decades, making the Three-Body Civilization stronger and stronger, and reducing it to a Level 2 civilization.

After all, war is the best catalyst for technological progress. However, while the Trisolarans can upgrade, the Devourers are still stuck at the level limit of Level 2 civilization.

Seeing that they could not win, the Devouring Civilization simply gave up the fight and did not return to Earth to seek revenge on Lin Xuan. Instead, they directly threw most of the information about the Observer to the Three-Body Civilization, giving them a headache.

This led to the subsequent meeting between Earth and the Three-Body Civilization, and also led to Lin Xuan being won over and becoming the fifth wallfacer.

Everything changed completely from that moment on.

Chapter 194: At that moment, people remembered the fear of being dominated by the sword wielder

"I will submit your application to the Carbon-Based Federation. The Federation will later assess your civilization level and potential and find a suitable overlord civilization for you."

Daya's attitude remained arrogant. Although they were a cosmic civilization less than level two, they had the Carbon-based Federation as their backer. At least within the Milky Way, they could ignore some isolated level two civilizations.

This is the benefit of joining the Carbon-Based Federation.

While losing the opportunity to advance to a higher civilization, it also gained the protection of countless civilizations.

However, this kind of protection is very different from the carbon-based federation in the original book. If Lin Xuan were here, he would be able to clearly notice this unusualness.

The Carbon-Based Federation in the original work is the pinnacle of the universe's combat power. It can choose whether to retain a civilization at will and conduct different levels of assessment based on its civilization potential.

But in this universe, the Carbon-Based Federation has big brothers like the Singer and the Zeroer above them. They are just a group of prey that huddle together for warmth under the law of the Dark Forest. Naturally, there is no operation to protect other civilizations.

Different environments will naturally lead to completely different results.

Their protection of other civilizations is more of a disguised form of conquest than sheltering the weak.

Because the dependency theory limits the upward space for individuals in a single civilization, if they want to expand their own strength, they can only expand their business downward.

For example, the Mind Bug Civilization, one of the 12 members of the Carbon-Based Federation, controls more than 30 subordinate civilizations, and each of its subordinate civilizations has even more secondary subordinate civilizations.

Of course, there are also more hardcore guys like the symbiote civilization, which don’t need subordinate civilizations at all. They just assimilate whoever they can, and everyone lives happily as a family.

"How long will it take to submit the application?" the Trisolaran leader asked in a deep voice.

"It's hard to say. It could be tomorrow, or next year, or even forever. Please, you all know that the conditions for the formation of dependency theory are very harsh. You must find a master civilization that matches your technology tree to achieve perfect suppression. Otherwise, I don't mind finding one for you, but your civilization limit will be very high."

When Da Ya said this, he rubbed his hands with a sly smile on his face.

"Or you can choose to become dependents of our Devourer civilization, but the prerequisite is that you have to be beaten back to Level 0 civilization, and then I have to kill all of you intelligent guys and concentrate on training your next generation."

"Don't even think about it, Daya!" the military consul said angrily.

Asking a Level 2 civilization to swear allegiance to a Level 1 civilization is a disgrace among disgraces.

Even if the Trisolarans want to submit an application to the Carbon-based Federation, the one who becomes their overlord must be at least a civilization at the level of 12 councillors. Otherwise, the Trisolarans might as well join forces with humans on Earth.

At least those stupid humans actually consider whether to live on other planets in the solar system.

"Then I have no choice. You just wait. I hope you don't die easily before the Carbon-Based Federation gives you a reply. The universe is still a dark forest. If you are too weak, we don't mind destroying you directly."

After saying that, Daya took the initiative to hang up the phone.

"Damn it! How dare you talk to us like that? You're simply courting death!" The military governor was furious.

Although he was angry, he couldn't say anything. The situation was stronger than him and he had no control over it.

Just as the other party said, the universe is still governed by the laws of a dark forest. It is a blessing in disguise to have a civilization union like the Carbon-based Federation.

Although dependency theory can indeed allow the Dark Forest Law to be circumvented and allow lower civilizations to have a security claim against higher civilizations.

But why should I read the security statement you issued?

Why should I pay attention to you just because you issued a safety statement?

Making a civilization a vassal is far less easy than destroying it.

The Dark Forest strike has always adhered to the principles of "efficiency" and "cheapness".

If the upward path of civilization had not been blocked, who would be willing to develop the strength of lower-level civilizations?

A thankless task.

For an advanced civilization, cultivating a vassal civilization is no different from raising insects. It is just a way to pass the time after discovering that they are unable to make any further progress.

As long as the channel to higher dimensions is blocked, the dark forest will exist.

Or to put it another way, the birth of the Carbon-Based Federation itself is actually the product of the Dark Forest. It is only with the rope of dependency theory that the advanced civilization has the prerequisite to let the lower civilization go. However, this condition is as fragile as a layer of thin paper, which will break if someone pokes it.

But until now, no one has appeared in the universe who can pierce this piece of paper.

……

Less than an hour after Thomas Wade successfully became the second-generation Sword Bearer, he delivered an inaugural speech to all mankind.

With the assistance of the Ground Union, everyone in the streets and alleys received Wade's voice in the brain network at the same time.

"All humans on Earth, I am your Sword Bearer, Thomas Wade. Now, as the Sword Bearer, I order you to give up all the work in your hands and stop all meaningless entertainment activities. From today on, you have only one mission, to assist me in building the Halo Project!"

As soon as these words were spoken, all of humanity was shocked!

"Wha...what? Are you kidding me? Building the Halo Project?"

"Isn't that the job of the Earth Alliance and the Star Ring Group? Why should we be involved as well?"

"I protest. You are abusing your rights as a sword bearer."

In just a few minutes, protests were heard all over the world, but Thomas Wade remained unmoved and continued.

"You have no choice. I will only give you 15 hours to consider. If I don't see what I want in 15 hours, I will press the switch of the gravitational wave transmitter without hesitation."

Vader's tone was very calm from beginning to end, as if he was stating a fact, as if destroying two worlds was just a piece of cake for him.

"In addition, this matter is not only for all mankind, but also for the Trisolarans. It seems that you still have Sophon left on Earth. You must also assist in the construction of the Halo Project. Otherwise, I will also press the switch."

The Trisolarans and humans were all numb at this time.

They didn't expect that the order from Wade would come so quickly and so urgently!

There was no time at all for the two civilizations to react.

At that moment, both the Trisolarans and humans finally remembered the fear of being dominated by the Sword Wielder!

Listening to the voice in his head, Luo Congmin, who was driving, couldn't help but make a face at his father in the passenger seat.

"See, Dad, this is the correct way for a sword wielder to use it!"

Chapter 195: Please sit down, please

Three days later, under the instruction of the second Swordbearer, Thomas Wade, the Earth Alliance dispatched nearly half of the young men and women of humanity to join in the construction of the Halo.

Why are there women?

Because one of the features that comes with the Mewtwo Database is the brain-computer interface, brain networking can allow any ordinary person to operate machinery and industrial-grade power armor.

With the help of these machines, the physical differences between men and women have long been smoothed out.

Industrial engineering, like military armaments, is no longer a job reserved for men; women and non-gender people are equally capable of doing this job.

It is worth mentioning that with the assistance of cloning and intelligent machinery, the population problem is no longer directly linked to productivity, so some people choose to genetically modify their bodies, abandoning their gender characteristics and allowing themselves to have the most constant body.

Without the mission of reproducing offspring, no one will say anything to you even if you don't get married. The worst that can happen is that you can get married and then transform back. With current human genetic technology, this is not a difficult task.

Of course, if someone gives up their gender characteristics, then someone else will switch their gender characteristics. There are even some geniuses who have asked whether they can have two gender characteristics, forcing the Federation to pass a law that only one gender characteristic can be chosen, and the same human being cannot have characteristics of both genders at the same time.

The original participants of the Halo Project were only the Starlink Corporation and the Earth Alliance, but under Wade's coercion, all of humanity became participants in this project, which resulted in the construction speed of the Halo being more than ten times faster than before.

The ring world, which was originally expected to be completed in decades, may only take a few years.

Wang Miao was very happy about this. After all, he was the chief designer of Ringworld. He originally thought that it would take a long time to see the successful construction of Ringworld, but now it seems that there may be hope soon.

"There's just one thing I don't quite understand. What are these extended points on the ring world?"

Wang Miao looked at the picture sent by Star Ring Group and asked curiously.

The halo is a giant project that can cover the entire sun. It is like a hula hoop, enveloping the entire sun.

Then, the inner layer of the ring world can continuously absorb the energy released by the sun to supply itself, while the outer layer can be planned into a space station suitable for human habitation.