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

"By the way, Dad, can you tell me about that [spell] you had back then?"

Luo Ji was stunned, then shook his head slightly.

"It was just a joke."

When Luo Ji learned that the star he cursed was still functioning normally, he had already given up his plan to face the wall and was ready to give up.

But Luo Congmin shook his head slightly.

"No, I feel like I can guess a little bit, but there's always something missing."

"What's your major?" Luo Ji suddenly had a bad feeling for some reason.

"My undergraduate major was education, and I later studied social education for my doctorate, which is a combined major of sociology and education. However, this major has now been renamed... Cosmic Sociology."

Chapter 127 Ten Water Drops

"Luo Ji is awake." said the military governor.

"Yes, but he no longer poses a threat to us," said the Science Archon.

"Yes, according to the news sent back by Chieko, his status as a Wallfacer has been revoked and he can no longer pose a threat to us." said the Military Archon.

"This is the pinnacle of human intelligence."

"The entire human race is nothing but insects, not worth mentioning."

"No, there is still someone who deserves our attention, Luo Ji's daughter." The Minister of Culture and Education seemed very interested in Luo Congmin's performance.

"I can only say... She is worthy of being his daughter. After we occupy the Earth, we can consider wiping her out together with Luo Ji."

"Second, and that..."

"Who?"

"Thomas Wade."

"Seconded."

Yun Tianming leaned back in his chair, looking at the starry sky outside the porthole boredly.

As the 13th Archon, he is naturally also qualified to attend the Trisolaran Archon Meeting, but there is almost no difference whether he attends or not attends the meeting.

After all, the Trisolarans communicate through brain waves. As long as no one pays attention to him, he has no idea what these guys are talking about.

Therefore, the Trisolarans' level of vigilance against Yun Tianming was almost zero. Yun Tianming could move freely within the First Fleet, and his authority was even higher than that of some Trisolarans.

After all, in the eyes of the Trisolarans, humans are already the defeated party, and now they just have to wait for their First Fleet to take over the Earth.

"How long will it take for the strong mutual probe to reach the solar system?"

"If we use Earthling time calculation method, there should be about 1.2 years left."

"It's time to end this meaningless war."

"Cheers to our new home."

"But...what about the observer? He seems to have some personal emotional bias towards humans. We..."

"Don't worry about that. Since he is an observer, he should understand the importance of his duties. The purpose of the [experiment] is to continue. With our participation, it will be more in line with the original intention of the [experiment]."

"What's more, the observer's ability should have a limit. According to the Experimental Regulations, the observer's ability limit will not exceed the technological tree barrier of its own civilization. Perhaps..."

"It's worth taking a risk, but we should be more cautious. Let all the strong interaction detectors go in at full speed. The observers are already dehydrated. This is our best opportunity!"

"But... if that's the case, the Strong Inter-planetary Probe will lose all its fuel after reaching Earth. Isn't that a bit too expensive?"

"Reject the proposal. Although the observer is only the spokesperson of that civilization on Earth, we should still pay great attention to it to prevent any accidents."

After the meeting, the Trisolarans removed all the intelligent beings used to monitor Luo Ji and other high-ranking human leaders, and fully deployed these intelligent beings to monitor Lin Xuan.

At the same time, the ten [water drops] accelerated at full power and headed straight for the solar system.

Unlike the original plot, the number of detectors dispatched by the Trisolarans this time is ten times that of the original plot.

Although Lin Xuan is now in hibernation, the Trisolarans still dare not relax their vigilance against her. It can be said that the Trisolarans have never regarded humans as enemies from the beginning to the end. The only ones they have been wary of are Lin Xuan and Luo Ji.

Now, one of them is in hibernation, and the other has lost his identity as a Wallfacer. The Three-Body people dare to become more and more unscrupulous.

After passing through the last dust cloud, the Three-Body Fleet also began to decelerate.

The Trisolaran fleet has a total of 1000 warships, all of which are powered by antimatter engines. Their theoretical cruising speed is 10%, but it takes more than 4 years to travel from the Trisolaran mother planet to light years from Earth.

This is because the acceleration and deceleration states must be taken into account. If the Three-Body Fleet continues its expedition at maximum speed, then their fleet energy will not be enough to support the entire fleet to reach the Earth. If it does not slow down, the Three-Body Fleet will directly pass through the solar system and pass by it.

It took the Trisolaran fleet more than a hundred years to accelerate, plus the more than a hundred years of deceleration. The actual normal sailing speed does not exceed a few decades. This is why humans think that the Trisolaran fleet is very slow.

When the Trisolaran fleet passed through this dust cloud, it left traces of its voyage in what humans called the "snowfield". When humans saw the Trisolaran fleet moving as slowly as a turtle, they all concluded that the Trisolarans had given up their expedition to Earth.

After all, the ships of these fleets looked like a group of "ghost ships" that had been shut down. In fact, it was just that the Three-Body Fleet had entered the deceleration phase.

Humanity will soon pay the price for its arrogance.

……

"So, I have to continue to be your father's bodyguard from now on?" Shi Qiang said in shock.

"Yes, this is also what Lin Xuan meant. He said that my father will be safe only with you." Luo Congmin said.

"What a joke! I'm 200 years old and I want to retire!" Shi Qiang protested.

"No, no, no, uncle, you have been in hibernation all the time, so your age does not count. It should be calculated based on the age before hibernation!" Luo Congmin said with a smile.

"That won't work either. You said it yourself. PDC has been destroyed. I am no longer under your control." Shi Qiang chose to just give up. He didn't believe that anyone except Lin Xuan could control him.

Luo Congmin said nothing, but just turned on the communication device implanted in his arm, and Chang Weisi's face immediately appeared in front of Shi Qiang.

"Shi Qiang, this is my order. You are responsible for continuing to protect Luo Ji's safety. Don't think you don't have to go to work just because you have been hibernating for two hundred years!"

"Grass!"

Shi Qiang slapped his thigh suddenly.

How could I forget about Chang Weisi?

Chang Weisi was nominally Shi Qiang's superior, so Shi Qiang had no choice but to nod and agree.

"Damn it, I told you not to joke around like that. I said before that I might still be working when I'm 90, but I didn't expect it to come true now!"

"Actually, this may not be a bad thing." Luo Congmin said.

"If you think about it yourself, you will understand. You should know better than me that it is actually safer to stay with my father."

Luo Congmin's words made Luo Ji and Shi Qiang silent.

After a long while, Luo Ji finally spoke.

"You... don't think humans can defeat the Trisolarans?"

Although Luo Ji is no longer a wall-facer, he is still Luo Congmin's father. If something really happens to human society, the area around him should actually be the safest. Shi Qiang cannot fail to understand this.

In this situation, the most likely crisis that human society will encounter is still the Three-Body Crisis.

Luo Congmin shook his head slightly.

"It's too slim, there's almost no hope at all. The grassroots people think we can win, but it's just an illusion created by politicians. Only we ourselves know how dangerous the current situation of mankind is."

"Then...what about Lin Xuan? What does he mean?" Luo Ji asked curiously.

"I don't know. He hibernated a few years ago. No one knows what he is doing. He didn't tell me anything before he left. After all... he was once a Wallfacer, so I can't figure out his thoughts. From the Mewtwo database to the space elevator, as well as the construction of Reach and the mirror project, he seems to have done everything, but also nothing."

"Maybe... he has already completed the plan in secret, but we just don't know it yet. After all, the only thing left in Lin Xuan's hands is the Van Gogh Plan."

"The Van Gogh Project... you mean the Human Monument Project?"

Luo Congmin nodded.

"Yes, Wang Miao found a special radioactive substance that can leave traces in space. We named it [pigment]. Then, they built two large Fourier series devices on the Reach Space Station and named them [paintbrushes]. These are several large discs superimposed on Reach. By constantly rotating, they can use [pigment] to draw patterns in space. When I'm done with my work these few days, I can take you to see it."

When Luo Congmin said this, he suddenly seemed to remember something and looked at Shi Qiang.

"Oh, by the way, uncle, your son has been found."

Shi Qiang: ...

For some reason, Shi Qiang always felt that these words were a little familiar.

When Wang Miao and I first entered ETO, there was a girl who held a nuclear bomb and wanted to live as long as they did. In order to attract her attention, I seemed to have said something similar.

I didn't expect that after more than two hundred years, I would hear these words again, but everything has changed.

"Want to go meet him? I'll send you his address?"

Upon hearing this, Shi Qiang waved his hand.

"Forget it. I have already considered him dead. It doesn't matter whether I see him or not."

Although Shi Qiang said so, Luo Congmin still gave him the address of his son Shi Xiaoming. As for whether Shi Qiang wanted to meet him or not, that was his own business.

On the second day, Luo Ji and Shi Qiang, led by Luo Congmin, took the space elevator to the Reach Space Station.

Nowadays, due to the advancement of materials, the space elevator no longer needs to be pulled up in sections as before. Luo Ji and Shi Qiang entered the space without feeling any bumps.

The imagined feeling of weightlessness did not come. The research on the simulated gravity field environment has been quite mature. Even when entering space, the same gravity as on Earth can still be maintained.

When they arrived at Reach, they could see countless interstellar spaceships flying through the space from afar through the glass. This scene made Luo Ji finally feel like he had arrived in the future.

As Luo Congmin said, there are two large disks on the top of the Zhiyuan Star Space Station. They are constantly rotating at this time, and it seems that something is thrown into space.

"Why can't I see anything?" Shi Qiang asked.

This time there was no need for Luo Congmin to explain, as Luo Ji on the side had already given the answer.

“It still needs to be activated.”

"What do you mean?" Shi Qiang was puzzled.

Luo Ji thought for a moment and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this [pigment] should be a special electronic substance that can release photons. When the pigment is splashed into space, it only needs to be activated by energy, and the electrons will absorb the energy and jump to a higher energy level. When an electron jumps to a low energy level, the atom will emit a photon. When a large number of electrons jump to low energy levels at the same time, a large number of photons will be emitted, forming light visible to the naked eye."

"That's correct, but not entirely. After all, according to Einstein's special theory of relativity's dynamic mass formula, the photon's rest mass is 0, so it's not easy to keep a [painting]."

"These special radioactive substances do not react at all with the vacuum environment. They are like oil dropped into water and cannot really blend into the water of the universe."

"This is the theory discovered by Dr. Ding Yi. I don't understand the details, after all, I'm just a liberal arts student, but he told me that maybe soon we will have zero-point energy, that is, physical vacuum energy."

"Let's get the antimatter out first. We have to eat one bite at a time," said Luo Ji.

Seeing that Shi Qiang was still confused, Luo Ji directly used the simplest theory to show him the principle of this thing.

He picked up a light bulb, placed it on a cold fusion power source, and pressed the switch.

"See? It's just like turning on a light."

Chapter 128 Captain Beihai

In the year 205 of the Crisis Era, there are 11 months left before the water droplet reaches the solar system.

"Reporting from Commander Zhang Beihai of the Future Reinforcement Task Force One!" Zhang Beihai saluted.

"sit."

Chang Weisi smiled and pointed to a stool beside him. Since the fleet headquarters was constantly rotating in the orbit of Jupiter, even without the simulated gravity environment module, they would not feel uncomfortable due to the feeling of weightlessness.

"Commander...long time no see." Although Zhang Beihai had heard that Chang Weisi had become one of the commanders-in-chief of the Asian Fleet, he was still a little surprised when he actually saw him.

"Yes, it's been a long time. For you, we were only separated for a few hours, but for me, we have been separated for almost two hundred years."

Although Chang Weisi's face is no different from before, Zhang Beihai can clearly feel that time has left many traces on this old man.

"Things are different now, everything has changed."

"Commander, how are they?"

"You mean your wife and children? Hmm...you are smart. You just left your wife and children to Lin Xuan and left them there. Lin Xuan even said she would ask you for child support."

"Don't worry, they lived fulfilling lives, and both children are doing well. It's been two hundred years, and if you want to look for them, you may be able to find your two children's children, and you can become a grandfather."

"But Lin Xuan said you probably wouldn't want to know where they are, so she took the initiative to help you erase all the information about them. You should have seen that this is the information age, and all information is stored in computers. If it is erased, it is really gone, and no one can find it."

Zhang Beihai nodded when he heard this.

"Commander, if I can't come back this time, please express my gratitude to Lin Xuan on my behalf."