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

The Deterrence Era had been peaceful for nearly a hundred years, and many people in the army had never participated in any formal wars, not to mention these staff officers who were originally civilians.

But now that the commander took the lead, they were dumbfounded.

Should I follow or not?

If they go up, they may not be able to help at all. If they stay, no one dares to give orders without the commander's order, for fear of taking responsibility.

From this point, we can see how awesome Obernmerser is. When others were still afraid to take responsibility, he had already dared to order to give up rescuing Wang Miao.

Such courage is unmatched even among the commanders of the existing army.

Finally, all the adjutants and staff gritted their teeth, put on power armor and chased after them.

There is no other way. It is not certain that anything will go wrong if they follow them now, but if they stay here and give rash orders and cause chaos, then even after the war is over, they will be the ones to take the blame and be held accountable.

Instead of this, it is better to die on the battlefield. At least you can leave a good reputation after death.

After figuring this out, everyone got up and set off.

As for the command center, with AI taking over power, its efficiency is much higher than theirs. If someone didn't need to take the blame, there would probably not be a single human being in this huge command center.

Chapter 225 The Third Meeting

The atmosphere of chaos is still spreading outward, and fear hangs over the hearts of everyone caught up in this crisis.

As for the few people who were not affected by this attack, they were probably only the top leaders of the Local Federation living in the inner ring area.

Inner Ring South District, in the Engineering Materials Laboratory.

Wang Miao, wearing a research suit, was looking at the big screen in front of him with great interest.

Beside him, the wall made of special metal was shaking continuously with each explosion, and even the water cup on the table was tilted because of it.

But Wang Miao turned a blind eye to all this and concentrated on the task at hand.

At this moment, the guard behind Wang Miao finally couldn't bear to watch it anymore and couldn't help but interrupt.

"Professor Wang, the ring world is now under attack by an unknown force and may collapse at any time. For your own safety, please follow us in the escape pod and leave here immediately."

He was going crazy. As Professor Wang Miao's personal guard, the biggest difficulty in his daily work was how to prevent Wang Miao from suddenly losing his mind and doing something suicidal.

After all, he has lived for hundreds of years and has had enough of it. The dull life has begun to make Wang Miao feel a little bored.

A phrase he often said was that he missed the fear he felt when he first faced Tomoko during the Crisis Era.

The guard officer had no idea how he was willing to keep this horrific experience in his brain. If it were him, he would definitely use the brain network to delete this memory as soon as possible.

Wang Miao remained unmoved after hearing his words. He just sighed helplessly.

"Where to go? Wherever you can go. The attack by the Trisolarans was premeditated. They must have made sufficient preparations before launching the attack. It is impossible for them not to know my specific location in the ring world."

"But until now, no one has come to attack here. They think it is not necessary at the moment. But if we take the initiative to try to leave here now, I am afraid..."

Wang Miao didn't say the second half of his sentence, but everyone present knew what he meant.

"So I'm telling you young people, you just don't think things through. In this situation, I'm afraid it would be really dangerous if I really left the Ring World."

As soon as these words were spoken, all the guards present fell silent.

Indeed, the incident happened suddenly and everyone was panicked for a moment, and they were accustomed to using common sense to judge the matter.

But after Wang Miao's reminder, everyone present finally reacted.

In this situation, running away is indeed inappropriate and even a stupid thing to do.

It would be better to stay here and wait for changes to occur.

……

"Cheng Xin, something terrible has happened. The Ring World has been attacked by the Trisolarans. All the garrison troops sent by the Star Ring Group have lost contact with us. I feel that the situation is getting worse and worse. You should pack your things quickly. We should be ready to leave the solar system at any time."

Ai AA rushed in from the door in a hurry and said to Cheng Xin who was leaning against the porthole and looking up at the stars.

Upon hearing the news, a hint of surprise flashed across Cheng Xin's face!

"This... came so suddenly?"

Cheng Xin was not too surprised that the Trisolarans would attack the Earth.

According to the contingency plan established by the Star Ring Group, after Wade broadcast the coordinates of the two worlds, the Trisolarans should immediately negotiate with the Earth Union and jointly face the attack of the Dark Forest.

Because from Cheng Xin's perspective, when facing such a greater disaster, the two civilizations should work together to deal with the crisis.

To this end, Cheng Xin had taken the initiative to state at a meeting a few days ago that she was willing to serve as an envoy of the Earth Union and to negotiate the matter with the Trisolarans.

As a result, no one paid any attention to her proposal.

The top leaders of the Ground Federation all responded to this matter with a war attitude.

Even the dovish officials who had always supported Cheng Xin never thought of adopting the approach of peace talks.

Cheng Xin didn't understand at the time, but after thinking about it for a few days, she suddenly realized that there was a key point in the whole matter that had not been cleared up.

That's Vader!

From a macro perspective, if the Three-Body Civilization and the Earth Civilization join forces now to deal with the attack of the Dark Forest, then both civilizations will still have a glimmer of hope of survival.

But it was Vader who initiated the broadcast!

He launched this broadcast as the human Swordsman, which means that the prerequisite for the two civilizations to sit down and negotiate is that Vader must die.

This is easy to understand.

Although human civilization has long classified the Sword Wielders as outside of humanity, this is ultimately an idea held within humanity itself.

Who can guarantee that the broadcast that led to the destruction of two civilizations was not instigated by a small group of people within the human race?

Then eliminating Wade is an essential thing.

But once Wade dies, a more serious social problem will erupt among humanity.

Is the sword-bearer system correct?

If the Sword-Bearer system is questioned, Luo Ji will certainly be dragged into it, and Luo Congmin's position will be lost, and even the authority of the Earth Federation will be lost.

"No wonder, no wonder no one has dared to attack the Gravitational until now. Vader's move has put shackles on everyone. As long as anything happens to him, everyone will be implicated!"

After understanding the consequences of Wade's move, Cheng Xin couldn't help but admire this man's foresight.

In this era, the sword-wielder is like the emperor in ancient times. His existence has already surpassed the person who occupies this position.

In other words, Vader can die, but there must be no problems with the Sword Wielder system.

So this war must be fought. There is no possibility for humans to negotiate with the Trisolarans!

"This man is really scary!"

Cheng Xin couldn't help but mutter to herself.

If someone else had initiated the broadcast, the local federation might not have considered it so much. After all, news and history are in their hands, and what they say is what it is.

But Wade is different. If the Earth Alliance chooses to negotiate, it will directly shake its political foundation in the hearts of all mankind.

Wade is forcing everyone. He is telling everyone that I have cut off all your paths. We must fight to the death and this is the only battle.

If we win, humanity survives; if we lose, we all die together.

This is what the death race between the two civilizations truly represents.

"I want to go and see him."

After a long while, Cheng Xin finally said this.

Ai AA, who was standing by, was shocked when he heard this.

"Are you crazy? There are more than ten warships around the Gravitational, watching it closely. If you go there, you may not be able to come back!"

Although Cheng Xin didn't say who she was going to meet, Ai AA knew what her best friend wanted to do without even having to think about it.

"I have something to ask her. After all, this may be the last time we meet."

"I will go with you!"

Ai AA knew that with Cheng Xin's personality, she couldn't stop her at all, but she couldn't just watch Cheng Xin go to such a dangerous place alone.

"Well, let's take the Halo. After all, Vader is the nominal chairman of Halo Corporation. I also want him to see this curvature drive spacecraft. This will serve as a testament to our work over the years."

Chapter 226 Did I let you go?

After holding out for about 25 minutes, the defense forces of the Ring World were completely defeated.

The Trisolarans, who were well prepared, did not take the defensive power of the Ring World seriously at all.

It seemed that they had already calculated that the Ground Alliance's fleet would be unable to provide support today, so they chose to take sudden action at this time.

After the last soldier in power armor was shot in the head by a Three-Body Warrior who had lurked in the Ring World, the Ring World was completely lost.

It was not until this moment that the Ground Alliance finally figured out where these sudden attackers came from.

They are all bionic people!

They are all bionic humans controlled by intelligent beings!

Everyone made a serious mistake, which was to underestimate the number of sophons on Earth.

Not 3, not 300, but thousands!

Many years ago, the Trisolarans secretly built a production line for intelligent robots on Earth. They used existing mechanical materials to create batches of bionic humans.

Afterwards, the control ports of these bionic people were all connected by Sophon, making them no different from real living people.

As for where they got such a large amount of mechanical materials without anyone noticing, this is naturally all thanks to the logistics department of the Ground Federation.

If it weren't for their corruption, which resulted in a mismatch between the metal inventory over the years and the actual accounts, such a large amount of rare metals disappearing out of thin air would have surely aroused official vigilance.

And it was because of these corrupt officials that some insiders regarded the incident as an official embezzling property and did not handle it or report it too urgently. This led to the Trisolarans being able to build such an army of intelligent machines right under the nose of the Earth Federation!

So, when you find that there is less money in your treasury, it is not necessarily because someone is corrupt. Think about it in a positive way. Maybe your enemy is building an army in your home.

The cleverness of the Trisolarans' method of concealing the truth actually lies in two main points.

The first was that they had a good timing to implement their plan. The Di Lian had lost Lin Xuan's suppression, and all kinds of problems were emerging. It was a time of internal and external troubles. In addition, everyone's attention was attracted by the replacement of the Sword Holder, and almost no one noticed that a force was being secretly built.

The second reason is that the deceptive power created by the Trisolarans before was too strong. Before this, there were three intelligent sons that appeared to the outside world, namely, Intelligent Son No. 1, which was used to suppress Lin Xuan and socialize with the outside world, Intelligent Son No. 2, which was used to launch decapitation assassinations, and Intelligent Son No. 3, which could disguise itself as someone else at will.

Each sophon has a very strong single functionality, which gives everyone a preconceived notion that something like sophons will not be mass-produced.

Although these mass-produced bionic soldiers do not have the same outstanding functions as the three sophons, they are numerous enough to completely break the inherent concept that sophons should act individually.

Based on these two points alone, this surprise attack caught everyone completely off guard.

Even before the Earth Alliance's fleet could react, the Ring World had already fallen completely.

Accompanied by dazzling flames, this giant structure that carried the hopes of all mankind was blown to pieces piece by piece, which also announced that mankind's attempt to escape the solar system had completely failed.

The Trisolarans' target was clear; the explosion locations were all located in the engine module and energy storage module of the ring world.

Although the number of intelligent particles sent by the Trisolarans this time is astonishingly large, it is still a fantasy to completely destroy the entire ring world in a short period of time.

So the main purpose of their attack was to paralyze the power system of this machine.

Even if it can function normally, it will not be able to carry all of humanity out of the solar system.

Even if humans can repair it afterwards, it may be too late to escape, and the Dark Forest attack will arrive long before that.

By then, the Trisolarans won’t even need to do anything themselves to put the entire human civilization to death!

In the 40th minute of the attack, the Ground Alliance's fleet finally arrived and began to airdrop landing troops to rescue the remaining trapped high-level officials in the ring world.

Since the explosion was mainly a blitzkrieg, the Trisolarans did not have time to bomb high-level officials in the inner ring of the ring world.

In their view, killing these people would be meaningless in the operation.

If they wanted, the Federation could reorganize a new political group within ten minutes.

No one is immortal, and it makes the same without anyone.

This is also an important reason why Luo Congmin continued the official system of the UN era after taking office.

In the system, one person's work is always divided among three people. It seems to be a waste of resources, but in fact it is creating disaster redundancy.

If the entire organization cannot function due to the lack of a certain person in one position, then such a government system is a failure.

Now, the Trisolarans' goal has been achieved, and there is no need to continue to tangle with the human side. All the intelligent sons symbolically controlled the troops to resist the marines who boarded the ship, and were easily shot dead.