Starting as a Wallfacer, his defection to the Three-Body Problem shocked the world.

Chapter 226 Did I let you go?

The RimWorld's defense forces were completely routed after holding out for about 25 minutes.

The Trisolarans, who were well-prepared, didn't take the RimWorld's defenses seriously at all.

It seems they had anticipated that the Earth Alliance fleet would be unable to provide support today, which is why they chose this moment to launch their attack.

With the last soldier in power armor being shot in the head by a Trisolaran warrior who had infiltrated the RimWorld, the RimWorld was completely lost.

Only now did the Earth Alliance finally figure out where these sudden attackers came from.

They are all androids!

They are all androids controlled by individual sophons!

Everyone made a serious mistake: they underestimated the number of sophons on Earth.

Not three, not three hundred, but tens of thousands!

Many years ago, the Trisolarans secretly built a sophon production line on Earth, using existing mechanical materials to create batches of androids.

Then, the control ports of these androids were all connected by Sophon, making them indistinguishable from real living people.

As for how they managed to obtain such a large quantity of machinery and materials without anyone noticing, that's all thanks to the logistics department of the Earth Alliance.

If it weren't for their embezzlement, which led to discrepancies between the stockpiled metals and the actual accounts over the years, the disappearance of such a large amount of rare metals would have raised official suspicions.

It was because of these corrupt officials that some insiders also treated the matter as an official embezzling property and did not take it seriously or report it. This is why the Trisolarans were able to build such a large army of sophons right under the nose of the Earth Federation!

So when you find that your national treasury is depleted, it doesn't necessarily mean that someone is embezzling or being corrupt. On the bright side, maybe your enemy is building an army in your own backyard?

The brilliance of the Trisolarans' deception lies primarily in two points.

First, the timing of their plan was good. The Earth Alliance had lost Lin Xuan's suppression and was facing a series of problems. It was a time of internal and external troubles. In addition, everyone's attention was drawn to the change of the Swordholder, and almost no one noticed that a force was being secretly built.

Secondly, the Trisolarans had created a very deceptive system. Before this, there were three Sophons that appeared to the outside world: Sophon No. 1, which was used to suppress Lin Xuan and conduct social interactions; Sophon No. 2, which carried out decapitation assassinations; and Sophon No. 3, which could easily impersonate others.

Each sophon has a strong single function, which gives everyone a preconceived notion that sophons cannot be mass-produced.

Although these mass-produced android soldiers do not have the outstanding functions of the three sophons, their large numbers completely shattered people's preconceived notion that sophons should act alone.

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

Even before the Earth Alliance fleet could react, the Rimworld had already completely fallen.

With flashes of dazzling fire, this colossal structure, which carried the hopes of all humanity, was shattered piece by piece, marking the complete failure of humanity's attempt to escape the solar system.

The Trisolarans' objective was clear: the explosions would be located at the engine and energy storage modules of the RimWorld.

Although the Trisolarans dispatched an astonishing number of sophons this time, it is still somewhat of a pipe dream to completely destroy the entire RimWorld in a short period of time.

Therefore, their primary objective was to disable the machine's power system.

Even if it could function properly, it wouldn't be able to take all of humanity out of the solar system.

Even if humans manage to repair it afterward, there probably won't be enough time to escape, and the Dark Forest attack will arrive before then.

By then, the Trisolarans wouldn't even need to lift a finger to bring down the entire human civilization!

Forty minutes into the attack, the Earth Alliance fleet finally arrived and began airdropping landing troops to rescue the remaining trapped high-ranking officers within the Ringworld.

Because the bombing was primarily a blitzkrieg tactic, the Trisolarans did not have time to bomb the high-ranking officials in the inner ring of the ring world.

In their view, killing these people was pointless for the operation.

If they wanted to, the Earth Federation could reorganize a new political group in ten minutes.

No one is immortal; it doesn't matter if anyone is missing.

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

Within the system, one person's work is always divided among three people, which seems like a waste of resources, but in reality, it creates disaster redundancy.

If the absence of a single person in a position causes the entire organization to cease functioning, then that is a failure of the government system.

Now that the Trisolarans have achieved their goal, there is no need for them to continue entangled with the human side. All the sophons' symbolic control forces resisted the marines who boarded the ship, but were easily shot down.

Fifteen minutes later, humanity regained control of the RimWorld.

But today's Ringworld is already riddled with holes.

From the start of the first attack to its end, the entire operation lasted no more than an hour, yet in that short hour, all of humanity's hopes were utterly destroyed.

When Luo Congmin received the report from the front lines, even someone as composed as her couldn't help but feel her fingers tremble slightly.

Decades of effort have vanished, and even greater troubles are about to follow.

The significance of building RimWorld is now widely known, but now that it has been completely destroyed, all hope has turned into despair.

Such a large discrepancy is likely to cause considerable trouble.

The Trisolarans are truly vicious!

Why did they have to strike now, just months before the completion of Round World?

The purpose is to unleash the full force of the pressure emanating from within all of humanity!

"Go and inform Rediaz to mobilize all the troops to guard the Earth. No matter what the future holds, we cannot afford to fall into chaos first."

Although Luo Congmin was already in a state of utter confusion, as president, she still had to step forward to take charge of the overall situation.

"Where's Bai Bing? Where did he go? Go find him and tell him to stop pretending to be dead. Get ready to control the public opinion on the brain network and minimize the chaos caused by this!"

"The Secretariat should prepare for the press conference; I need to see the speech draft as soon as possible."

Before any bad news arrived, Luo Congmin had already taken precautions and made arrangements for everything he could.

Just then, her private communicator rang.

Luo Congmin finally breathed a sigh of relief after glancing at the incoming call and discovering it was from Wang Miao.

"Professor Wang, it's so good that you're still alive."

Upon hearing this, Wang Miao's face immediately turned as black as the bottom of a pot.

"Xiaomin, what are you saying? Are you cursing me to die?"

"No, I was just worried about you. After all, you were in the world at the time, and I was afraid something might have happened to you. I was planning to send someone to search for you myself."

Wang Miao didn't bother with any more pleasantries with Luo Congmin and went straight to the point.

"RimWorld is destroyed, and its power system is completely paralyzed, but I just did a quick check, and the destroyed parts are all some key nodes."

"The good news is that if we use some higher-grade metal materials for the repair, we might only need three months to complete it."

"But the bad news is that we can't make the materials I need ourselves."

……

Ai AA quickly helped Cheng Xin apply to the Earth Alliance for access to the Gravitational spacecraft.

It's strange, really. The local government is in complete chaos right now, and the world is still setting off fireworks everywhere. Logically speaking, the approval process for such an application should definitely be delayed, and it would conservatively take three or four days.

As a result, AiAA's application was approved immediately after it was submitted, which is quite puzzling.

"Never mind, it's good that it passed anyway, let's go."

Ai AA piloted the Star Ring, carrying Cheng Xin, and headed straight for the Gravity.

On the spaceship, they witnessed the explosion of the RimWorld.

"It's over, it's completely over!"

As AAA watched the RimWorld continue to explode, a sense of despair rose within her.

"It seems that human civilization is really heading towards its end this time. It's all Wade's fault for starting the broadcast when he had nothing better to do. Now, all of humanity is going to mess things up together."

Cheng Xin, sitting in the passenger seat, remained silent, gazing at the sun and the ever-shining world in a daze.

"Humanity has ultimately lost. Three hundred years of effort, in the end, could not withstand the absolute crushing power of technology?"

“AA, when we get back… let’s announce the warp drive spaceship to all of humanity. The Star Ring Corporation is also using all its resources to build a warp drive spaceship. We can save as many as we can.”

Cheng Xin couldn't help but speak up.

Upon hearing this, Ai AA let out a long sigh of relief.

"I understand, but don't get your hopes up too high. The Star Ring Corporation currently only has about a hundred warp drive ships; they'll be lucky if they can take more than a thousand people with them."

"I have to make an effort; I can't do nothing at a time like this."

……

Meanwhile, within the force field space.

After casually agreeing to Ai AA's request, Lin Xuan couldn't help but smile slightly.

His sudden smile made Tomoko, who was sitting opposite him, feel uneasy for some reason, and she even paused in her chess game.

Even though the Trisolarans have completely gained the upper hand in this game, for some reason, Sophon always feels that something is wrong, as if an unknown storm is about to unfold!

“Mr. Lin Xuan, you shouldn’t have interfered in the struggle between the Trisolaran civilization and human civilization. Since it’s an experiment, you should have followed the rules of the experiment.”

Tomoko was still a little guilty, so she started making small talk.

Even now, the Trisolarans are still unwilling to be enemies with Lin Xuan. After all, throughout the past few hundred years, they have never gained any advantage over Lin Xuan.

The Trisolarans, from top to bottom, have long been suffering from Lin Xuan's PTSD.

Lin Xuan, however, did not care.

"Rules are something the strong use to bind the weak. I am strong, so what I say is the rule, just like what you did with the sophons during the Crisis Era. How come you're making me abide by the rules now?"

Zhizi remained silent, indicating that the question was indeed unanswerable.

After all, they only had a superficial understanding of the rules of the experiment, knowing only that the observer would never interfere with the normal progress of the experiment, otherwise the observer would be severely punished.

But Lin Xuan is such a madwoman!

Who among us is a good person who walks the line of the rules every day, jumping back and forth like him?

You know that Lin Xuan will die if she crosses the rules, and he knows that too, but he keeps testing the limits of the rules, which leaves both of them confused.

For a time, the Trisolaran civilization, from top to bottom, suspected that Lin Xuan might have mental problems. But no matter what instruments they used to test him, Lin Xuan remained in good mental condition, which meant that everything he was doing was voluntary.

This makes it even more unbelievable.

Is this guy some kind of chaotic demon god reincarnated from the universe? Why does he love causing trouble so much?

"Mr. Lin Xuan, you should already know that Wade has broadcast the coordinates of the Trisolaran civilization. Soon, both Earth and Trisolaran civilizations will be attacked by the Dark Forest from a higher civilization. The Trisolaran civilization has now found a way to escape. In this war, humanity will undoubtedly lose."

In the end, Zhizi chose to confront Lin Xuan directly. After all, the war had already progressed to this point, and many things could no longer be hidden even if they wanted to. It was better to be honest and let everyone do what they needed to do.

"If we can put aside our past prejudices and sit down to cooperate honestly, many things don't have to come to a life-or-death situation."

In the Trisolarans' view, the best outcome would be for humanity to completely surrender, allowing the Trisolarans to take away a group of Earthlings, while the rest would participate in the Dark Domain Project.

Wait until the Dark Forest attack is over, or until the Trisolaran civilization masters a way to penetrate the Dark Forest, before returning to the Solar System to reap the spoils of this war.

But now human civilization is determined to drag the Trisolarans into the fray, forcing them to fight to the death, which is making the Trisolarans extremely annoyed.

You've already lost, why are you still so stubborn? Why not just obediently build up your Black Domain and enclose yourselves, waiting for us to become strong enough to come and take you out someday?

Does it have to be so unpleasant for everyone?

This behavior is just like that crazy woman, Lin Xuan.

We remember that human civilization in the past was not like this, right?

When exactly did human civilization begin to go down this crazy path?

Seeing that Lin Xuan seemed to have no intention of answering these questions, Zhi Zi stood up on her own and bowed to Lin Xuan.

“Mr. Lin Xuan, if you don’t intend to reply, we will take it as your consent. Now that the war is over, I must prepare to leave. I am very happy to have spent these years with you. In the vast universe, I hope we will have the opportunity to meet again in the future.”

However, before Tomoko could finish speaking, the nanobots instantly assembled into a mechanical hand behind her, forcefully shoving Tomoko, who had just stood up, back into her seat.

"Did I let you go?"

Lin Xuan glanced coldly at Zhi Zi. With just one glance, Zhi Zi and the Trisolarans she controlled felt a chill to the bone!

"This last game isn't over yet, don't rush."

Lin Xuan's fingers tapped lightly on the chessboard.

It's too early to say who won or lost!