Chapter 89 Three-Body: Telecom Fraud!_1

After receiving Logic's message.

Shi Qiang, who was hidden in the shadows, hurried over. Currently, he dared not leave Logic's side for even a moment.

Although it had not yet been announced...

he had already received inside information that Logic was about to become a Wallfacer, and the only one within the country at that!

This was a position that Chang Weisi and a group of diplomats had argued other countries for, even as they faced the invasion of an alien civilization like the Three-Body Civilization, those people were still engaged in constant schemes, attempting to fulfill some plans through the position of Wallfacer.

Humanity was always like this.

Shi Qiang stepped out from the shadows; his eyes filled with confusion as he looked at Ye Wenjie's body. Although he followed Logic, he never interfered with the other's life, serving only the most basic guarantee and communication functions.

Therefore, he was unaware of the conversation between Ye Wenjie and Logic, and from a distance, he noticed Ye Wenjie gradually becoming motionless, lifeless.

"She..."

Shi Qiang didn't check if Ye Wenjie was alive or dead immediately, but first observed Logic's state, then with some uncertainty, he asked, "Logic, should I call an ambulance for you?"

Logic shook his head, his gaze fixed on Ye Wenjie's body, his eyes showing contemplation.

He was thinking about Ye Wenjie's last words.

As Shi Qiang approached Ye Wenjie's body, frowning, he noticed her face was unnaturally serene and solemn, but some things Ye Wenjie couldn't control.

Like the smell of the poison.

Like the unique symptoms of being poisoned, the skin that was already turning purple.

Shi Qiang drew in a sharp breath; the poison was incredibly potent, from a very long time ago, when just after liberation, fierce tigers roamed the mountains, attacking villages now and then, and there were regular reports of people being injured or children being carried away.

Later, high authorities issued strict orders to crackdown, offering rewards without restrictions, and local teams used varied methods to eradicate these beasts.

Although guns were used the most.

But guns were too loud; often one shot would scatter a group.

Thus, traps and, more often, poison were used!

The very poison Ye Wenjie had taken.

Its effects were slow to manifest, but once they did, the pain was extraordinary, limbs would stiffen, the entire abdominal cavity would burn as if engulfed in flames, scorching all organs, leaving no chance of survival.

After that, this substance.

Was banned!

Shi Qiang had no idea where Ye Wenjie had gotten it, and judging by her appearance, it seemed she had taken it herself, enduring the agony of the poison, calmly waiting for death.

He was suddenly shocked.

Because he found this outcome hard to accept.

Suicide!

Another suicide!

He still remembered the cases he had investigated, the mystery surrounding the suicides of elite scientists from various countries, and later it was found that it was the Three-Body Civilization that was causing the trouble behind the scenes.

Ye Wenjie's daughter died by suicide.

Now Ye Wenjie too had committed suicide.

Alarm immediately showed on Shi Qiang's face; he realized that their methods might be escalating. Earlier it was just mental disturbance, but now they had directly resorted to poisoning.

"Logic! We can't stay here any longer! We must leave this place immediately; it's dangerous!"

Logic let out a cold laugh, "Go where? In the face of Sophon, is there any place on Earth that is safe?"

Once, he had interfered with Sophon's surveillance using screens, preventing the Trisolarans from observing his condition in real-time, as he traveled the world.

But now.

This move of his had already been exposed by Ye Wenjie; Sophon was forcibly intervening, watching his every single move.

The moment he traveled the world...

His secret was bound to be controlled by Three-Body, and it would become a point of leverage, a bargaining chip for the Three-Body Civilization to negotiate with him.

On this Earth.

There is no longer any place to hide secrets!

Logic looked at Ye Wenjie's body with a complex expression in his eyes and sighed deeply—this woman had truly sealed off all his paths of retreat.

But it was somehow a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.

The other party used this as their trump card, their bargaining chip, to gamble with him face to face and didn't do something covertly.

The more Logic thought about it, the more frightened he became. If the other party hadn't chosen to lay their cards on the table and had decided to endure in silence, secretly striking from behind, that would most likely have spelled certain death for him!

He stood there in silence for a while.

Then he turned to Shi Qiang, "Teacher Ye lived a lonely life, with only one daughter, Yang Dong, and Yang Dong committed suicide… so Teacher Ye..."

Logic didn't continue, but Shi Qiang's eyes showed pity. In his memory, Ye Wenjie was a senior scientific researcher who had made significant contributions, a highly educated intellectual who had chosen suicide.

But it was true.

There are still parents in this world who love their children... and there are many of them...

"Let's bury her with Yang Dong!"

Logic entrusted Shi Qiang with handling Ye Wenjie's affairs, trusting him to take care of everything.

He didn't reveal that Ye Wenjie was the founder of the ETO, the root cause of the Three-Body Civilization discovering Earth civilization.

After all, the events of those years...

Were hard to classify as right or wrong.

Speaking of which, it was amusing that the leader of Earth's ETO organization, who had helped the Trisolarans arrive, ended up collecting vast amounts of information on Three-Body for Earth.

The structure of the Three-Body Civilization was obtained from the ETO organization.

The weaknesses of the Trisolarans were obtained from the ETO organization.

The existence of Sophon was learned from Ye Wenjie.

Even the universal warships of Three-Body were known through Ye Wenjie.

And even the dark forest theory, the law of the cosmic forest, was learned from Ye Wenjie.

The information that Three-Body gained from Ye Wenjie was scant at best; if there were another chance, they would probably point at Ye Wenjie's nose and curse, "Damn it, telecommunications fraud!"

But none of these could make up for the mistakes Ye Wenjie had made in the past. Logic kept her identity hidden because he always felt that, before her death, Ye Wenjie seemed to be conveying some message to him.

An important message.

Like the strongest spy, Yun Tianming, who had stolen from Three-Body a fairy tale that allowed civilization to remain unscathed in the Dark Forest.

Important and mysterious!

What could it be?

Logic put his hands in his pockets, and Ye Wenjie's last words kept flashing in his mind. Suddenly, he thought of something and silently said to himself, "Xiluo! Has their brainwave activity really stopped?"

"Yes, sir. The subject has completely lost all life signs; with Earth's current technology, there is no way to revive them."

"And if we don't measure by Earth's technology?"

"They can be revived!"

Xiluo's voice rang out, "In the Super God Universe Database, the genes of Super Soldiers are replicated, backed up, allowing for perfect duplication and reassembly no matter how much damage the body sustains, they will never die!"

Genes...

Sophon...

Three-Body...

Logic also thought of someone else—Dr. Zola from the Marvel Universe, who lived on within a computer...

"Hiss! Terrifying!"