Collapse, surrender to me!

It's like I've found myself a permanent job, one that doesn't pay.

"We also plan to engage the Trisolaran fleet head-on... In fact, all the spacecraft that set sail from Jupiter are equipped with energy shields."

A researcher explained.

"With the guidance of Master Qiubi, our scientific research level is improving at a terrifying speed. Unfortunately, we are too stupid to understand even the most profound explanations."

As the researcher spoke, he seemed to be beating his chest and stamping his feet.

"We have only developed a prototype of the energy shield generator."

"Due to time constraints, these energy shields were mass-produced by Boss Qibi based on our prototypes. The main purpose is to give the Earthlings an opportunity to experience a real space war. If it's dangerous, it's not too dangerous. If we can't hold on, we can only rely on--"

Luo Ji: Stop talking, I understand.

"so."

Grace took over.

"Zhang Beihai, are you willing to drive the Natural Selection and engage the Trisolaran fleet head-on?!"

"..."

-

As the fleet attacked.

The spacecraft that captured the water droplets also took the lead and approached the detector with a diameter of about 3.5 meters.

The capture operation was carried out by an unmanned spacecraft called Mantis. Mantis was previously used mainly to collect mineral specimens in the planetary belt. Its biggest feature is an extra-long robotic arm.

A water droplet is an object with an absolutely smooth surface, so it is impossible to catch it because there is no friction at all.

It can only be captured by contracting from all directions at the same time, which looks like a clamp, but is actually more like a support.

The fact that the water droplet remained quiet and did not self-destruct made ordinary Earthlings excited.

After all, if it was really a military probe, it would surely self-destruct if it fell into enemy hands.

It can now be confirmed that it is a gift from the Three-Body World to mankind, a peace signal sent by this civilization in a way that is difficult for humans to understand.

The world rejoices again.

The Earth Alliance also sent out a signal at the right time to bring the water drops representing peace to the fleet headquarters to accept this gift from the Trisolarans.

So the naive Trisolarans believed it.

The water droplets were motionless.

After waiting to enter the fleet headquarters, destroy all the spacecraft instantly, leaving no one behind.

After all, if you want to escape, the water droplets really can't catch up...

The only thing that was a bit frustrating was that the Mantis flew too slowly.

The Three-Body people could only sigh that there was something wrong with the Earthlings. Their combat ships could fly so fast, but their collection ships were so slow.

They didn't know that this Mantis had been modified.

The main thing is slowness.

On the one hand, it is to gain time for the accelerator to launch, and on the other hand, it is to facilitate the hit.

Just as the Mantis was slowly moving forward across the starry sky.

Everyone in the institute has started to get busy and nervous, as this is the moment that will decide the fate of the Earth.

A huge laser is sending out intense pulses, each of which accelerates a beam of heavy ions, which have been ripped from a sheet of metal and have a positive charge that can be pushed by the laser field, to nearly the speed of light.

Under the influence of the laser field, the heavy ions fly in a straight line, passing through layer after layer of isolation walls, and finally reach a special launching device.

The device is a huge metal sphere covered with countless small holes, each of which corresponds to a heavy ion beam.

When the heavy ion beams enter the metal sphere, they are captured by a powerful electromagnetic field and then, at a precise moment, are simultaneously emitted, forming a dense stream of heavy ions.

With each acceleration, the energy and heavy ions in the metal ball become more and more condensed.

"Target calibration complete."

"Calculate the positive charge of heavy ions and compensate for the geomagnetic deviation angle."

"Accelerating, 99.9999991%..."

“Electromagnetic field capture is reaching its limit.”

……

"Countdown, prepare to launch."

Ding Yi took a deep breath and pressed the button. In an instant, the atmosphere in the laboratory froze, as if time had stopped.

After a short but precise countdown.

The Mantis in space suddenly opened the hatch facing the earth.

At the same time, amid the roar of the accelerator, the heavy ion flow reached its critical point. In an instant, the accelerator emitted strong radiation, like a giant star exploding.

Streams of heavy ions shot up into the sky at incredible speeds.

In the process of passing through the atmosphere, the atomic nuclei collide with air molecules, producing a series of nuclear reactions and particle decays, like endless lightning entangled around the heavy ion flow.

Like God's spear, it was pulled up from the ground by an invisible giant hand and thrown into the universe!

Chapter 360: The water drop breaks, the Three-Body Fleet arrives!

Almost at the same time, this beam of heavy ions broke through the atmosphere.

An acceleration ring lit up at the tail of the water droplet on the Mantis.

Unfortunately it's too late.

Suddenly, a silver-white light came from far away at an incredible speed. It was a beam of heavy ions, and its speed was enough to freeze time and distort space. It was approaching the limit of the universe at a speed close to that of light.

At the moment of impact with the water droplet, all the rules of the universe seemed to collapse into one point.

For a water droplet that is more than three meters in diameter, this beam of ions is not even as strong as a mosquito bite.

But in this small space, energy that is difficult to quantify explodes in an instant.

At the moment of its impact, in one ten-millionth of a second, the interweaving of light and shadow became colorful, as if the entire universe was focused on this moment.

Within this extremely tiny range, space trembles and time is distorted.

Suddenly, all of humanity saw this work of art, smooth and flawless, like the tears of the Virgin Mary.

A crack appeared.

Next, the entire shell.

It was like a corner of tempered glass was broken, and then the entire glass turned into shards on the ground.

Everyone in the lab breathed a sigh of relief.

As the chain reaction on the surface of the droplet collapsed, the atoms inside were torn apart and electrons were stripped from their orbits in a blinding flash.

When the strong interaction barrier was shattered, quarks and gluons, the most basic units of matter, were liberated. They broke free from the constraints of the atomic nucleus and transformed into a new form - quark-gluon plasma.

It was as if the furnace of the universe had been opened, refining the matter of the universe anew.

Under the influence of this huge energy, space-time itself seems to have become a canvas painted with thick ink and color. It is squeezed and twisted under the powerful force, and finally releases waves of gravitational waves that interweave and transmit with each other.

It’s a long story, but in fact it only takes a short moment.

The water drop disappeared.

The Mantis was even still there.

All changes are completed instantly within this small range.

The universe became quiet again.

The invading Trisolarans also fell silent.

What they didn't understand was not why the water drop was destroyed, but why Grayshu was willing to share technology with these bugs on Earth.

This is an act of aiding the enemy.

Even if the Three-Body aliens ruled the Earth in the future, they would not do such a thing.

This behavior caused the Trisolaran fleet to speed up, hoping to destroy all of Earth's humans before they could receive more advanced technology.

……

A few days later, the Trisolaran fleet of one thousand warships accelerated their arrival.

The people on Earth have realized the gap again.

Because they couldn't see the Trisolaran fleet at all!

The reason why we can't see it is that we know the Trisolaran fleet is coming.

This is because their Three-Body aliens have spread hundreds of millions of satellites within the range of their entry into the solar system.

These satellites are extremely small, have extremely simple functions, and are extremely cheap to build.

Their small size is to facilitate concealment, and their simple functions are because they only need to perform the function of detection. The Earthlings do not expect these satellites to cause harm to the enemy.

It was just for the purpose of early observation and taking advantage of the home field. As soon as the enemy was discovered, the first wave of attacks on the Trisolarian fleet were launched using other weapons.

But what they never expected was that these micro-satellites did work.

It’s just not quite the same as I imagined.

No enemy ships detected.

The reason why it was confirmed that the Trisolaran fleet had invaded the solar system was because the satellites were disappearing in large numbers.

It was like a huge monster swimming in the deep sea, and those micro-satellites were swallowed up like a school of small fish without any splash.

It was only then that the Earthlings finally realized what level of opponent they were facing.

This is much more powerful than any stealth aircraft.

No one expected that the first step in facing the Trisolaran fleet... would be how to find the enemy!

"The spaceship on the other side is indeed not on the same level as ours."

A researcher broke out in sweat on his forehead.

It’s not that they were scared by the Trisolarans, but they remembered that just a while ago, they thought that the Earth could rely on those 2000 warships to deal with the Trisolarans. How naive they were.

"Ships in space usually dissipate heat through thermal radiation. To be stealthy, an efficient thermal management system is needed, such as a radiative cooling system to control or direct thermal radiation, or to use thermal energy absorbing materials to store it to avoid infrared detection."

"When our warships on Earth move, it's like there are 2000 little suns in the sky. They can't hide at this level at all."

"And I suspect there is proton shroud technology on the other side, which is a hypothetical technology that uses magnetic or electric fields to deflect particles that cause ship radiation, such as ionized particles, to reduce the enemy's detection of these particles. In fact, our detection there is also nothing."

……

One discussion after another came out from everyone's mouth.

Most of the time, it helps boost others' morale and destroys one's own prestige.

But it’s not that no one has put forward some constructive suggestions.

For example, multi-band detection, even if a spacecraft is stealthy to detection at one wavelength, it may not be so stealthy at other frequencies. Searching for signals at various electromagnetic wavelengths, including infrared, ultraviolet, X-rays and other parts of the spectrum, increases the likelihood of detecting stealthy ships.

Or use gravitational wave/microgravity effect detection. Although the technology in this field is not very mature, the existence of any object will have an impact on the surrounding space-time. By detecting small changes in the local gravitational field or small disturbances in gravitational waves, it is theoretically possible to detect the other party's spacecraft.

……

However, after discussion, the unanimous solution was active optical detection.

Active scanning using wide-range laser weapons.

This is a true light-speed weapon. As long as the area is cross-covered, there won't be any problems.

In a homeland battle, this kind of consumption can be fully sustained.

The order was given, and the Earth Fleet began to change course and move towards the invisible Three-Body Fleet.

Grayshu and Luo Ji were both on Zhang Beihai's Natural Selection at this time.

Compared to the tight space suits worn by others, Grayxiu looked much more refreshing.

"By the way, how do you breathe in space?"