Chapter 77: Exposing the First Emperor of Qin_1
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Two days whizzed past, and everything was as usual.
Suddenly, a line of subtitles appeared in Lin Sen's eyes:
"Do not show any signs of abnormality, ****·Habsburg is the leader of ETO, hiding in the ** experimental department of building number ** at ** ** factory."
After displaying the subtitles, Sophon No. 7 immediately exited and deleted all information, replacing it with other content.
The Sophon Monitor was very familiar with the strong artificial intelligence of the sophon, having sealed off all possible risks of exposure.
This was also because when the Trisolarans created the sophons, they had not designed the permissions well. The Trisolarans, with their transparent thinking, did not set complex permission protocols because they did not need to be overly cautious with their own kind.
Had this incident occurred in the human world, we could have even detected No. 7's abnormality, as we guard against our own even more than we do against strangers. But Trisolarans from the Trisolaran world had never had such awareness.
Lin Sen was stunned for a moment, followed by ecstasy, though his expression did not show any sign of it; to a Spirit Master, this was too easy.
Lin Sen did not understand why the sophon informed him, but he knew that from today, there was a TEO within the Trisolaran world, the Trisolaran Earth Organization.
Lin Sen's first thought was not to exterminate the First Emperor of Qin, or why the sophon exposed him; Lin Sen's first thought was that he must protect this sophon...
Lin Sen needed to think carefully about how TEO would affect his future plans, something completely beyond his expectations.
Lin Sen's earlier conversation with Logic was meant to deceive the Trisolarans. The purpose of the deceit also had several layers of meaning:
The first layer was to make the Trisolarans believe that the First Emperor of Qin was unreliable, and ideally, just as they had abandoned Evans in the past, they would abandon the First Emperor of Qin.
The second layer was that the conversation, ideally, could eliminate several Trisolaran Sophon Monitors, causing the Trisolarans to reassign work.
When Lin Sen carried out his strike, the new Sophon Monitors would worry about whether to inform the First Emperor of Qin or whether they should destroy the equipment. This anxiety would delay the final timing, increasing Lin Sen's chances of a successful strike.
If during the strike, they directly informed the First Emperor of Qin, allowing him to destroy the equipment, it was very likely that he would agree,
Even if this little scheme proved ineffective… Lin Sen did not care! It was inconsequential.
Because Lin Sen's strike would be very swift, so fast that even the sophon would not be able to react in time.
The third layer was to create the greatest distrust between Trisolaris and ETO, so that the Trisolarans would never dare to use a plan similar to the sophon robots again.
The sophon robot plan must be very important to Trisolaris. However, with such a big issue arising in the selection of ETO, it would definitely cause a severe shock in the Trisolaran world.
Trisolaris would face a choice: whether to continue allowing other ETOs to manufacture sophon robots or to abandon the plan now. Based on Lin Sen's understanding of Trisolaris, giving up was the most likely outcome.
That way, the future threat of sophon robots could be ruled out, and humans would not trust any of Trisolaris's trusted persons; trust no one.
If Lin Sen's deception had not occurred, and the First Emperor of Qin had been eliminated directly, they would have just assumed Lin Sen was powerful and ETO was still reliable. That's why they must be made to completely give up on ETO.
The fourth layer was, you chose to battle me with cunning, so let me show you the vast gap in our cunning, making you shudder at the mention of my name from here on out.
In spirit, I will suppress the development of Trisolaran cunning...
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What No. 7 did not know was,
that the arrangements for Lin Sen's actions had already been completed.
For this operation, preparations had been made in secret for months, planned for tonight.
But now, Lin Sen had to change the plan, tonight's action was canceled.
Lin Sen had not anticipated that the conversation would yield a result he had not even dreamed of, leading directly to the emergence of a Trisolaran traitor, which might be the biggest gain of this operation.
As for how much technology he might gain from taking down the First Emperor of Qin, that truly paled in comparison to this gain.
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Collecting his thoughts, Lin Sen also pondered why a sophon would betray? Or perhaps it was the watching monitor behind it.
How could betrayal exist among the Trisolarans whose thoughts were transparent? Could it be...?
Lin Sen thought of a possibility.
While Lin Sen wanted to study the transparent thoughts of the Trisolarans through Mind Tactility, the Trisolarans might also be studying human thought patterns through a method of thought shielding to improve their cunning.
This is really...
The man who plants flowers does not always witness their blooming; the one who casually plants willow branches may see them unexpectedly grow into shade trees.
We seem to have become each other's images!
The Trisolarans are obviously imitating Lin Sen's plans, which could improve their level of cunning, but it bears greater dangers. This involves ideological change, and looking at Earth's history, we know that reforms concerning ideology are the most drastic shocks to society.
The impact of ideological change is the greatest in breadth across space and time; historically, every emergence of an ideological change plan has affected nearly the entire world, and in terms of time, the influence lasts for at least millennia.
It seems that the reason I previously thought the Trisolarans were poor at cunning was due to a lack of imagination; now it appears I was wrong. The key reason Trisolarans lack cunning is because they have no basic fear of human nature!
The Trisolarans have probably never experienced what betrayal tastes like, and No. 1379 did not make them understand the seriousness of the problem.
Individual Trisolarans will also give rise to various thoughts, or else Trisolaran civilization could not progress; it's just that such thoughts are rarer and their thinking is more unified.
Humans are different; from the recording of the first written word, human civilization has grown amidst lies and betrayal, evolving to this day. How could Trisolarans get used to growing among lies and betrayal in just a few centuries?
Lin Sen did not expect that by proposing Mind Tactility, the Trisolarans would use thought shielding, which he found amusing.
Thought shielding gave Sophon Monitor No. 7 the possibility to betray, even though Lin Sen did not know the betrayer was No. 7.
Lin Sen also speculated on the reasons for No. 7 Sophon Monitor's betrayal; he was smart, he knew Lin Sen would not expose him, but Lin Sen was still unclear on how No. 7 could survive within Trisolaris after the betrayal. He must have a way; otherwise, with their absolutely rational thinking, they would not betray.
The fact that he needs Lin Sen to topple the First Emperor of Qin indicates that Lin Sen's previous deception succeeded and also suggests that in No. 7's heart, it was possible that the First Emperor of Qin would indeed act in such a manner, and with Lin Sen's reminder, it all made perfect sense.
To save his own life, he betrayed Trisolaris and the First Emperor of Qin.
He might think that when Lin Sen goes to capture the First Emperor of Qin, he could inform him and destroy the documents, but he has no idea about Lin Sen's action plan.
Would Lin Sen let his wishes be fulfilled?
Lin Sen will take good control of him; it was his choice to collaborate with the devil, he couldn't blame Lin Sen...
In the face of civilization, baseness is a synonym for nobility.
Lin Sen will let him know that in terms of cunning,
The Trisolarans will forever remain children...
What gave you the courage to think that your cunning could be on par with that of humans?
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