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Chapter 144 A Scam!
The paintings quickly covered the entire solar system, and with the final Van Gogh painting, "The Starry Night," unfolding throughout the solar system, everything came to an end.
Decay is about to begin; it is Ragnarok!
The enormous energy released by the explosion of a stellar-class hydrogen bomb instantly broke through the invisible force field that bound the photons.
In an instant, it was as if someone had splashed a bucket of water on an oil painting, causing all the paint in the painting to become mixed together.
The photons accelerated wildly, trying to break free of the fence that was trapping them.
But the moment they come into contact with the zero-point energy of the vacuum in the universe, they quickly begin to transform into something else.
broadcast!
A dense barrage of [broadcasts] was released from the [painting], tolling a death knell from heaven!
"madman."
The military governor left only this one sentence before hurriedly relaying the devastating news to the Trisolaran homeworld.
Earthlings broadcast the coordinates of the Trisolarans, and the Dark Forest strike could come at any moment!
In an instant, the entire Trisolaran homeworld was shocked. They communicated with each other and, upon learning of this devastating news, sent Lin Xuan a massive wave of shock points, totaling over a hundred million.
At the same time, the Trisolaran fleet stopped its advance towards the solar system and turned back towards deep space.
Going to the solar system at this point would be pointless.
Soon, the Dark Forest Strike will cover this area, and it may even be in preparation now.
They must seize every second to escape, hoping to save as many of their people as possible from this cataclysmic disaster.
Apart from the droplet destroyed by Lin Xuan, the other four droplets, plus the one that had previously interfered with the sun, all chased after the fleet.
The Trisolarans' centuries-long scheme has completely failed at this moment. Not only have they failed to find a new home, but they are now even about to lose their old home.
This was all the work of Lin Xuan, that cunning human. Even though everyone had already agreed that there would be no more war, Lin Xuan still sent out a broadcast in an instant.
This is something that the Trisolarans can't understand at all.
Could it be that Lin Xuan saw through their plan to wait for the right opportunity before invading Earth...?
Probably!
After all, Lin Xuan now holds the minds of 30 billion people in his hands. Who knows if he has seen through the Trisolarans' treacherous intentions?
Of course, it's also possible that he's a madman who wants to destroy the world, since none of the Wallfacers are normal.
They posed this question to Yun Tianming, but Yun Tianming was also completely baffled.
From any perspective, Lin Xuan's actions were somewhat sudden and not something a normal human could comprehend.
But the next second, after seeing the images transmitted back by Sophon, the Trisolarans were dumbfounded once again!
The paintings quickly melted away as they decayed, and did not continuously emit electromagnetic waves as Lin Xuan had said.
The electromagnetic waves that had already been released did not last long; they only spread a certain distance before canceling each other out due to the aliasing effect.
"Turn around quickly, we've been tricked!"
When the military governor saw this, he was so angry that he almost overturned the table!
The other officials were also completely dumbfounded, and at the same time, they shocked Lin Xuan even more.
Even Yun Tianming was completely dumbfounded.
"WTF?"
Only then did everyone truly understand what Lin Xuan had done.
He did broadcast the coordinates of the Trisolaran world, but this broadcast could not possibly be launched outside the solar system.
Because they canceled each other out before they even left the solar system.
Simply put, Lin Xuan's operation involved simultaneously pulling the triggers of more than a dozen guns, causing the bullets to collide with each other during flight, thus neutralizing all the force and preventing any damage to the target!
But if it's just a trick like this, the Trisolarans can still see through it, after all, they have Sophon, which is an artificial intelligence with extremely high computing power.
A simple calculation will reveal that the electromagnetic waves emitted by these paintings will cancel each other out, at which point Lin Xuan's scheme will be exposed.
But why didn't Zhizi see through it from beginning to end? The reason is that Lin Xuan had calculated one step ahead of the Trisolarans!
When the decay of the wave began, some waves even passed through the sun, where they were amplified many times over and then interfered with another set of waves before finally dissipating.
What does this mean?
This means that the Trisolarans ceasing their interference with the sun was also within Lin Xuan's calculations!
He had long anticipated that the Trisolarans would turn and run away when they saw the decay begin, because Lin Xuan had been giving the Trisolarans a psychological suggestion from the very beginning: the broadcast released by the Van Gogh Project had set off the entire Dark Forest, so the Dark Forest attack they suffered was more terrifying than an ordinary Dark Forest attack!
Therefore, the Trisolarans panicked as soon as they saw the gamma decay. They didn't even have time to wait for the decay process to end before hastily removing the water droplets that were interfering with the sun.
Then, the sun was freed, and the electromagnetic waves successfully passed through the sun to complete their cancellation task.
It can be said that this broadcast cancellation was the result of cooperation between Lin Xuan and the military governor.
If the military governor hadn't ordered a retreat and freed the sun from the interference of the water droplets, the extra electromagnetic waves that hadn't been canceled out would have sent out a real broadcast!
At that time, the Dark Forest Strike will arrive.
So... it was the military governor who saved human civilization and the Trisolaran civilization.
Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help but turn their gaze to the military governor.
Shock level from the military governor +250.
The military leaders were all numb.
Lin Xuan, is she deliberately setting herself up for this?
Such precise calculations... wait, no, that's not right.
Suddenly, everyone realized a problem.
The Human Memorial Project began a long time ago, and the construction of the Van Gogh Project predates Lin Xuan's awakening by a considerable amount of time. At that time, Lin Xuan had not yet integrated the computing power of 30 billion people, so she absolutely could not have made such exquisite calculations.
So who exactly designed this "fake radio scam"?
Instantly, they thought of another person, someone who had never really stood out in Lin Xuan's team—Wei Cheng!
Back when his wife Shen Yufei was still alive, Wei Cheng was calculating the Three-Body Problem. His computational ability was terrifying, but unfortunately, he never achieved any outstanding results.
Even after joining Lin Xuan's team, he was only assigned to minor tasks like building dungeons, and almost no one paid any attention to him.
As it turns out, Wei Cheng had actually been secretly responsible for calculating the "fake broadcast scam" of the Van Gogh Project. Only at this moment did everyone finally realize the terrifying nature of this mathematical genius.
Lin Xuan remained seated in her chair, watching everything unfold with a smile.
"Sorry, you guys got fooled again!"
"Lin Xuan, deceiving us is meaningless to you. What is the point of doing this?"
"It's nothing, I just thought it would be fun, after all, it's part of the experiment."
"I already said I'm an observer. How could I possibly do something that violates experimental principles? You don't really believe I'm human, do you? Hahaha!"
Upon hearing this, the assembled officials fell silent once more.
Didn't you just say you weren't an observer?
"You believe whatever I say? I'm not an observer, so why would I set up such a huge scheme? Looking at the entire Earth, do you think you can find another observer?"
Upon hearing this, the science official slapped his forehead.
"I understand now. No wonder I said those requests he made earlier were a bit strange."
The science administrator then shared his ideas with the others.
Lin Xuan's three conditions were all related to the disclosure of technology, but in addition, there was another characteristic among the three conditions: they were all non-recoverable.
The curse of knowledge states that once you know something, you cannot go back to not knowing it.
Therefore, Lin Xuan's three conditions were to have the Trisolarans disclose their knowledge to humanity.
Even if the Trisolarans reclaim Earth, as long as they don't kill all of humanity, this knowledge will be passed down from generation to generation.
If they kill all of humanity, then Lin Xuan, as an observer, would have the right to take action against the Trisolarans.
If Lin Xuan only wanted technological items, then after the Trisolarans discovered this fake broadcast, those items could easily be retrieved by the Trisolarans who had reclaimed Earth. However, knowledge was the only thing they couldn't retrieve, and that was his true purpose!
"There's one more point, the most crucial point, that you've all forgotten," the Education and Culture Commissioner said helplessly.
Two centuries ago, Lin Xuan had already established the Red Coast Third Base and communicated with us.
He must have known about the Dark Forest Theory at that time. If he were truly a human, he could have established a deterrent against us back then.
“Absolutely correct. It’s a pity you thought of it too late. But it’s alright, it’s only 200 years too late,” Lin Xuan said with a smile.
The Trisolarans felt as if they had been slapped across the face when they heard Lin Xuan's words.
Damn it, Lin Xuan really fooled us terribly!
At this point, the fleet had completed its turn and acceleration. To stop and turn back to the solar system, it would need to decelerate and turn again.
After all, they were only thinking about escaping and turned around without even slowing down. Now they are a world away from the solar system and need to readjust their direction, which will be a very complicated project.
The key issue is that the fleet is running out of fuel. The amount of fuel required to get back on track is terrifying; otherwise, the Trisolaran fleet will ultimately become a thousand ghost ships adrift in space.
Then, a dramatic scene unfolded.
The Trisolarans' thoughts are almost transparent to each other; the moment they discover they are running out of fuel, they know what the other Trisolarans will do.
The Dark War broke out within the Trisolaran fleet.
Countless warships began firing their weapons at their own comrades.
Finally, after eliminating 200 warships and recovering all their fuel, the Trisolaran fleet continued its journey, preparing to return to the solar system.
If it were the original Trisolarans, such a thing would never have happened. There was almost no possibility of a dark war breaking out among them. After all, there was no chain of suspicion between each of them. As long as they were sure that the other party was benevolent, most Trisolarans would not care about their own sacrifice for the sake of the survival of their race.
But how could Yun Tianming let them have their way?
In the stories he has created for the Trisolarans over the past few years, there are many tales about the lower classes rebelling against the upper classes and launching revolutions. Cultural invasion has already begun in a subtle way. If the Trisolarans want to learn to deceive, they must pay the price for learning to deceive.
Water droplets, on the other hand, don't have to go through such trouble. After making a sharp turn in space, they head straight for the sun again.
They are determined to regain control of the sun before humanity regains its broadcasting capabilities.
Although Lin Xuan inflicted considerable losses on the Trisolaran fleet, humanity's defeat remains a fact.
As an observer, Lin Xuan was unable to intervene in the war between the Trisolarans and humans due to the experimental rules, so humanity had no chance of winning against the Trisolarans.
The solar system still belongs to the Trisolarans, but dealing with those humans who have mastered the technology will be more troublesome in the future.
However, just as the Trisolarans were pondering how to manage humanity, the Sophon sent back another image.
Good news: They found Luo Ji.
Bad news: Luo Ji is currently at the location of the snowfield project.
At this moment, Luo Ji, under the protection of Luo Congmin and others, stood on top of the control panel of the Hubble Telescope, holding a detonator in his hand.
That was the detonation device for the stellar-class hydrogen bomb deployed on the snowfield project. Once Luo Ji detonated it, the oil film material wrapped around the stellar-class hydrogen bomb would form 3,614 dust clouds around the sun during the nuclear explosion.
They will block out the sun, and from a distance, the sun will appear to flicker in visible light and other high-frequency bands.
The positions of all the stellar-class hydrogen bombs in the solar orbit were meticulously arranged by Lin Xuan.
This will cause the signal generated by the sun's flash to send out three simple diagrams, just like the three diagrams that Luo Ji sent out two centuries ago.
Each sheet contains thirty points arranged in a grid, with one point labeled. These points can be combined to form a three-dimensional coordinate graph.
But unlike that time, this time it sent the relative positions of the Trisolaran world and the three hundred surrounding stars.
At that time, the sun will become the brightest beacon in the Milky Way, and the positions of Earth and the solar system will also be revealed.
From a point in the Milky Way, it would take more than a year for the image to be completed, but there should be many civilizations with technology advanced to that level that could observe the sun simultaneously from multiple directions.
In that case, they would get all the information in a few days or even a few hours at most.
At this moment, Luo Ji slowly raised the detonator in his hand.
"I, Luo Ji the Wallfacer, speak to the Trisolaran world!"