Chapter 7 Logic Begins the Wall-Facing Period_1

Lin Sen, naturally unaware of events 4 light-years away, finished explaining the three-layered overt strategies of the Wallfacer Project to Logic and then slowly exited the room.

He gave Logic some space to think, believing that Logic would definitely come to understand.

Lin Sen went downstairs.

Looking out at the lush green grass and the glittering lake, he sighed at the thought that Logic truly knew how to enjoy life. This was the life he had always dreamt of, and yet, once Logic emerged, this lifestyle would be far from his reach.

This was also the beginning of my battle,

against the Trisolarans.

You ignited the war,

and this flame shall not be extinguished in the Dark Forest,

I will face the flames to find you,

I will catch up to you, I will defeat you,

I will let this flame burn every place where you have set foot!

Lin Sen, aware of the plot, wanted to defeat Trisolaris in an upright battle, rather than hoping for Logic to resort to the Dark Forest Theory. He also did not wish for Logic to endure 60 years of solitary vigil, only to receive human ingratitude in the end.

On the other hand, utilizing the Dark Forest threat would permanently shackle our civilization; it was merely a postponement of death.

In the original story, it was the birth of a civilizational branch (the Escape Fleet) that preserved the spark of human civilization, but Lin Sen did not want such an ending.

Logic stayed alone quietly for several hours.

As the sun was about to set, the sunset reddened half the sky and the whole river, and Logic came downstairs.

Lin Sen turned around and in Logic's eyes reflected the now crimson sky, as if it were ablaze with war. They simply exchanged glances, without uttering a word, and everything was understood without being spoken.

Afterward, Logic arranged accommodations for Lin Sen before returning to his own room, knowing the time he would have with his wife and child was going to be very limited.

While Logic was deciding to embark on the Wallfacer Project, Lin Sen was also contemplating the gap between humanity and the Trisolarans.

In terms of technology, with his own existence, he had confidence he could make human technology stronger than in the original timeline's Doomsday Battle, but estimated that the improvement would be limited. Whether it would be enough to deal with The Waterdrop was unknown, let alone a thousand-ship Trisolaran Interstellar Fleet.

The only advantages lay in resources and cunning, and it was necessary to come up with strategies in these two areas.

When it came to cunning, Trisolarans were at a natural disadvantage.

For example, they had not seen through Logic's "Snowfield Project."

Logic's plan was simple. It involved meticulously deploying three thousand six hundred and fourteen nuclear mines wrapped in Neptune's ink around the sun. Once detonated, the material covering the mines would form three thousand six hundred and fourteen clouds of interstellar dust in the explosions.

From a distance, the sun would flicker in visible light and other high-frequency bands behind these clouds of dust.

The flickering of the sun would send out signals in the form of three simple shapes. These could be combined into a three-dimensional coordinate graph, revealing the location of the Trisolaran Star System.

Such a simple ploy went unrecognized by the Trisolarans,

Partly because they had just won the Doomsday Battle and considered Logic an insignificant bug, arrogance became their obstacle.

The other part concerned their way of thinking. They were proficient at deducing outcomes from known conditions and models, but inferring conditions from possible outcomes was their weakness.

This was also why they were poor at strategizing, lacking imagination.

They thought that by using The Waterdrop's powerful radio waves to jam the sun, humanity would be left without options. That was just their assumption; humans could still find a way.

This strategy would seem simple to humans. Whatever Logic did, the most likely purpose would still be transmitting coordinates.

Logic had deployed nuclear mines around the sun, and by inputting the deployment points into a computer, it should be easy to understand that these mines corresponded to the positions of Trisolaran world and the thirty surrounding stars.

But the Trisolarans, lacking imagination, failed to make this connection, which was a sad commentary on them.

Logic's ruse had many loopholes, and the idea of using dust clouds to block the sun and send messages into space was not even invented by him; astronomers in the 20th century had already proposed the concept.

Moreover, Logic's consistent concern for the precise placement of the nuclear mines along the sun's orbit could easily lead to the deduction that he had ulterior motives.

Also, Logic consulted a group of physicists about the issue of Sophons unfolding in space - if Sophons could unfold into two dimensions in space, they could affect solar light and interfere with the messages from the dust clouds, thus scrambling the signals sent by Logic. The group of physicists replied that Sophons were unable to do this.

Yet none of this drew the Trisolarans' attention, proving one thing: Trisolarans inherently had flaws in strategizing.

Even when employing strategies, they might be able to recreate forms but not the essence. They could not recognize or use strategies they had never encountered, resembling our conception of robots to some extent.

However, if they had used a strategy before, their application would be very skillful.

In my previous life, I also heard people claim that the Trisolarans were highly cunning, misleading us from the start; perhaps they weren't transparent thinkers at all, and the information given to us in the Three-Body game was false.

Those who speculated this may have fallen into a labyrinth of cunning, neglecting the most basic facts. If that were true, how could they be deceived by Logic's simple Snowfield Plan? Without the Earth-Trisolaris Organization's inclusion, the Trisolarans' strategies were no different than those of a middle schooler.

It is not weakness and ignorance that obstruct survival, but arrogance.

This saying could also be given to the Trisolarans because even without rich imagination, as long as they had paid enough attention and expended more computational power, they could have deduced the plan. It did not require too much imagination.