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

Cheng Xin's voice was barely audible, and she looked completely powerless, as if her soul had been sucked out of her.

She finally got back the lost memory she had always dreamed of finding, and also knew why she had chosen to delete this memory and seal it forever.

It turns out that I was wrong, everything was wrong.

She was the one who proposed the Ladder Plan, and she was also the one who forced Yun Tianming to die!

No wonder Wade always disliked me, it was because I had already done something stupid once.

In a sense, Vader has been patching up any mistakes he might have made over the years.

Cheng Xin has always been a person who is extremely confident in herself. She firmly believes that she can handle all difficulties with her own abilities.

This self-confidence came from her outstanding performance during her student days. She completed her studies with the best grades every time, which made her have a blind confidence in herself. She believed that she was special and a rare genius compared to ordinary people.

Is Cheng Xinsuan a genius?

The answer is yes. After all, looking at the entire human race, how many people can be like her, who can represent PDC and directly enter PIA as a technical consultant right after graduating with a doctorate?

If there had been no Three-Body Crisis, with her scientific research ability and level, she would have had no problem becoming at least an academician in her later years, if not a Nobel Prize winner.

But the bad thing is that she is too naive, as naive as a child.

There would be nothing wrong for a person with simple thoughts to be an ordinary person, but she chose to be one of the most shining people in the world.

"You know, Lin Xuan talked to me about you a long time ago."

Vader said as he walked towards the berth of the Ring of Stars.

"He told me at the time that the biggest mistake you made in your life was not recognizing yourself, recognizing the upper limit of your abilities, and recognizing your mediocrity."

"Please allow me to say this, Dr. Cheng Xin. Perhaps from the perspective of ordinary people, you are an absolute genius, but from the perspective of a civilization, your talent seems too mediocre."

Wade's last address to Cheng Xin ended with "Doctor". He was mocking Cheng Xin's naivety. A mere doctor really meant nothing in this war.

“There are three times of growth in a person’s life. The first is to recognize the mediocrity of your parents, the second is to recognize your own mediocrity, and the third is to recognize the mediocrity of your children.”

But Cheng Xin was wrong the second time and overestimated her abilities, which was a rather terrible thing.

Just like Emperor Huai of Han, Liu Chan, during the Three Kingdoms period, if you don't have the ability to be wise, you shouldn't exercise power. If you force yourself to do something without the ability, it will only lead to disaster.

Chapter 229 Escape

The sudden departure of the Star Ring quickly alarmed the fleet guarding the outer layer of the encirclement.

"Why did the Star Ring Group representative suddenly leave? It's not even time yet. Didn't those two women ask their superiors for more than an hour's time? It's only been less than 40 minutes. Don't they even bother to say hello to us before they left?"

"Look, what is the Ring Star doing? It's accelerating, it's about to enter warp travel!"

"Quick, drone, stop that ship, it's trying to escape!"

The fleet quickly realized that something seemed to be wrong, but the warship was too large and it was quite difficult to turn the ship around.

So in desperation, they had to send out interception drones to chase the other party.

But how can this be intercepted?

The Star Ring is equipped with a curvature drive engine, and in order to ensure a fast enough speed, it does not even have any weapon modules loaded.

For a spacecraft like this, with the speed of an interceptor, it would be a pipe dream to catch up with the other party.

"Fuck, we've been fooled. Those two women are still on the Gravitational. They are Vader's accomplices. They came here specifically to rescue that guy Vader!"

After figuring out the whole story, the fleet soldiers felt nauseous as if they had swallowed a fly.

It is difficult to guard against domestic thieves.

Who could have thought that something like this would happen.

Wade has long been standing against all of humanity, and both humans and Trisolarans want to kill each other.

In their emergency plan, they didn't even consider the possibility that this guy might have teammates.

As a result, the Star Ring Group slapped all of them in the face, making them suddenly realize that Wade actually had teammates.

But if you think about it carefully, it seems that the Star Ring Group was originally a company founded by Wade, and it seems reasonable that Cheng Xin and Ai AA would come to save Wade!

"Don't worry about Vader for now. With the speed of the Ring, as long as Vader doesn't want us to catch up with him, no matter how many people he sends, he won't be able to catch up with the Ring in warp mode."

Ralph gritted his teeth and pointed at the Gravitation which was still standing there.

"Catch these two human traitors first. I will personally interrogate these two women later. What are they thinking?"

In fact, Ralph is not the only one who wants to ask this question, Ai AA also wants to ask Cheng Xin.

She had no idea that Cheng Xin had let Wade go. Just now, when she saw Wade following them to the berth, she thought he was there to see them off.

It turns out that the clown is actually himself.

Wade turned around and ran away with the Ring of Stars, leaving the two of them standing there stupidly.

Even Ai AA, who always claimed that he understood Cheng Xin, couldn't help but complain at this moment.

"Cheng Xin, what on earth do you want to do? Why did you let that guy Wade run away for no apparent reason?"

As she spoke, she couldn't help but stamp her feet in anger and paced back and forth in the berth.

"You are really outrageous, my lady. Do you know how many years we will have to spend in prison if you let Wade go? I'm afraid we will have to spend until the beginning of the next century!"

Cheng Xin was unmoved when she heard this. It seemed that her attention was completely attracted by the memory that Wade had just given her.

"Hey, Miss, are you listening to me?"

Just when Ai AA was speechless, a shrill alarm suddenly sounded throughout the entire Gravity.

"Cheng Xin, Zhizi wants to see you."

Chapter 230 Ninety Percent

Wade's escape did not attract much attention from the Earth Alliance.

Even for the current Earth Alliance, Wade's successful escape is actually a good thing.

Because at this time, the attack from the Trisolarans was no longer taking place within the Ring World. This time, they almost mobilized all the hidden agents in human society, attempting to fight a decisive battle with the entire human civilization in this life-and-death race.

Three hours after the destruction of the Ringworld, Earth was also attacked as never before.

A mechanized force was invaded by the Trisolarans in the virtual network. The defense force that was originally used to protect the mother planet Earth suddenly turned its guns and poured missiles towards the entire Earth.

Fortunately, Taylor had made a new deployment plan for the Ground Alliance's defense forces long after he was awakened from hibernation. This allowed a large number of response forces to jump out as soon as the disaster occurred and block the first round of attacks.

Inside the local office, Taylor's face looked extremely ugly as he listened to the secretary's report.

The last time he showed such an ugly expression was when Lin Xuan personally broke the wall for him.

"Mr. Taylor, you really have foresight. All the troops you deployed before have now come in handy. Thanks to you, the Earth has been spared from disaster. When this is over, I believe you will be awarded the highest honor, the Planet Medal, by the Earth Federation."

The secretary was still flattering him, but Taylor looked extremely unhappy.

As if noticing the change in Taylor's expression, the secretary stopped talking at this point and did not continue.

"Mr. Taylor, do you... have any concerns? You look like you have a lot on your mind."

Taylor was silent for a long time, and finally uttered two words - naive!

"what?"

The secretary seemed not to have heard Taylor's words clearly and asked again subconsciously.

"I say you are too naive. Do you know when this strategic deployment was first used? In 1991, we were using this military deployment method. But now, three hundred years have passed, and mankind's strategic attainments have not made any progress."

"So compared to our time, you are just a bunch of monkeys with high-tech energy weapons? The advancement of weapons is completely out of touch with the advancement of strategy. I really don't know how you can survive and go backwards!"

The secretary said nothing, and he really couldn't refute this.

Since the beginning of the Deterrence Era, humans have rarely been exposed to war, and even if they have, they are just some routine military exercises.

After all, since the Three-Body Crisis, all mankind has only one common enemy. In order to avoid unnecessary internal friction, almost no organization will start an internal war.

As a result, human society has gradually lost its understanding of war.

Many military textbooks are still using things from more than a hundred years ago. The only difference is that people used to use tanks and planes, while now they drive battleships and fortresses.

Taylor looked at the mobile ships speeding past the window and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"If Lin Xuan were still alive, I'm afraid humanity wouldn't have declined to this extent."

……

On the other side, when the detailed battle report from the Ring World reached Luo Congmin, Luo Congmin, who had just managed to calm down, smashed the tablet in his hand to the ground again.

"Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous!"

"One million and four hundred thousand troops. That's a full one million and four hundred thousand. With so many people, they can't defend a ring world for more than an hour. It's a great shame!"

"Even if we released 1 million pigs, it would take the Trisolarans at least three days and three nights to kill them. How could they collapse in less than an hour?"

Below the stage, all the top leaders of the Local Federation fell into silence. At this time, no one dared to stand up and bring bad luck upon themselves.

The battle in Rimworld not only shattered the beautiful dream that Vader had created for all mankind, but also completely shattered the backbone of human civilization.

Originally, everyone thought that the gap between themselves and the Trisolarans had been infinitely narrowed, and that there was even a chance to take advantage of the opportunity to counterattack the Trisolarans.

But reality slapped them hard in the face, telling all of humanity that the gap between humans and the Three-Body Civilization is not just the level of technology.

In this battle, the Trisolarans hardly used any overly high-tech troops, which was somewhat different from the situation in the Doomsday War of that year.

In the Doomsday War, the appearance of water droplets could be said to be a technological existence that was incomprehensible to humans. However, in this war in the Ring World, from beginning to end, the Trisolarans only relied on some simple mechanical structures to accomplish targeted destruction.

It can be said that they won completely in terms of strategy, or in terms of their understanding of human beings.

Luo Congmin calmed down her anger a little. She looked at the senior officials of the Local Federation below the stage. For some reason, a trace of sadness suddenly arose in her heart.

"Forget it, just blow it up. I am too lazy to pursue these matters now. Now, all the representatives present, I just want to hear you tell me the truth. Among the 140 million troops stationed in the world, excluding the old, weak, sick and disabled and those who are not paid, how many are actually combat soldiers?"

Luo Congmin didn't believe that there was no water in these 140 million troops.

Corruption in the Federation of Local Governments has been rampant since 20 years ago. Even as the president, she cannot completely eradicate it and can only take it step by step.

But now, the defeat in the World Ring War has completely revealed a corner of the corruption in the Earth Federation, allowing Luo Congmin to take a good look at how rotten this Earth Federation is from top to bottom.

However, no one spoke at the scene. Everyone pretended to be dumb, lowered their heads, and did not dare to look at Luo Congmin on the stage.

The scene was just like when the teacher asked questions in class, and everyone was afraid that they would be the ones to be called upon.

"No one wants to talk? I said, since this incident has already happened, I will not pursue his responsibility. I also know that such a big pot cannot be shouldered by one or two of you. Nowadays, mankind is facing internal and external troubles. I just want to hear the truth. Is it so difficult?"

Seeing that Luo Congmin was not going to let this matter go to waste today, someone in the audience finally couldn't sit still anymore.

Jiang Yuan, a general in the military, was the first to step forward.

As soon as he came up, he took off his military cap and put it on the ground.

What that meant was to tell Luo Congmin that I was going to make a hole in this world today, but after today, I probably wouldn't live long, so the president must believe what I say.

"Mr. President, my name is Jiang Yuan. I currently work in the military with the rank of general. I once served as the second-level commander of the early garrison forces in the Ring World."

"According to what I know, since the soldiers recruited during the early stages of Ring World construction had better benefits, and there are rumors that Ring World will be a necessary vehicle for humans to escape to the solar system in the future, many Earth Union officials have arranged for their families to be stationed in Ring World in the name of garrison troops. This number may account for 90% of the current troops in Ring World."

"Nine percent!"

Luo Congmin was shocked by the result.

"So, out of a force of 140 million, only 14 are real soldiers?"

When Jiang Yuan heard Luo Congmin's question, he quickly lowered his head.

"This... Mr. President, the situation may be worse than you think. Ninety percent is only the percentage during the initial construction of the Ring World. According to my calculations, during this attack by the Trisolarans, the number of troops in the Ring World that remain may be less than 100,000!"

Chapter 231 Feeling confident

Hearing this, not only Luo Congmin on the stage, but even some officials from the Local Federation fell silent.

Everyone knows that the garrison troops in the Ring World are not well-organized, but no one has ever imagined that the level of weakness would be so high.

Ninety percent, how terrifying is that?

This means that out of every ten people, only one has the ability to take up arms and fight, and the rest are either civilians or older guys.

Do you really think his garrison troops are a nursing home? Seven soldiers can't make eight teeth?

As for why there is such a lot of water in the army but it has not been discovered yet, the reason can be attributed to the popularization of brain networking and clone troops.