Chapter 160 Cooperation with Trisolaris_1
No. 7: "Please allow me to reintroduce myself, Wallfacer Lin Sen, I am your Wallbreaker!
This title of Wallbreaker is self-proclaimed, in fact, I haven't broken all of your plans, but from all of your plans, I have seen your greatest weakness."
No. 7 got a bit excited: This sentence was finally said out loud, don't think I don't understand you, watch my art of multiple disguised retreats!
Lin Sen: "My weakness, is it arrogance or conceit?"
No. 7: "Neither, those qualities are advantages for you.
Your greatest weakness is your 'love'—on the surface you pretend to be indifferent, desiring nothing, caring for nothing but the Wallfacer Project, but I have seen your 'great love' within.
True 'great love' is never spoken of, and you have always hidden it. This also reveals your weakness, that you would never press the button that would expose our coordinates to the universe, even at the cost of your own death.
Your love is not for any individual, but for civilization as a whole, and your love even includes our Trisolaran civilization.
Such a person as you poses no threat to us. I used to think you were too arrogant, placing yourself above all, unconcerned even by the Dark Forest. It was this version of you that we feared.
We only fear the beggars with nothing to lose and the Machiavellians (those keen on manipulation, prioritizing interests, deceit, cold rationality, disbelieving in emotions, and skilled at using others).
But after more than half a century, I have found you are not like this at all, everything is your disguise.
You easily defeated the ETO's 'First Emperor of Qin' all those years ago, but I never stopped analyzing him. Like you, he had great love in his heart. Fundamentally, you are the same kind of person; without him, I could not have broken through to you.
In your heart, you would never choose to give up, and to choose the Dark Forest would mean giving up. Unless we or humanity give up on ourselves, you would not make that choice for us.
What you truly want to break is the Dark Forest itself. The confrontation between the civilization of humanity and the Trisolaran civilization is, in your eyes, only a rehearsal for breaking the Dark Forest."
Lin Sen cursed inwardly: Now you've got me figured out, laid all my cards on the table.
But how can you be sure your insights, or your breakthroughs, are not something I intentionally led you to believe? Of course, I won't admit it.
All strategies can be broken, only the imaginings of one's mind cannot. Clever strategies often lead to the most naive concoctions.
Lin Sen: "Your Wallbreaking is meaningless, your assertion applies universally.
"Until that moment comes, I don't know whether I will press the button, and how can you be sure that I won't.
"But do you dare to push me that far? Do you really think you can predict my choice?"
No. 7: "I don't know about others, but you won't.
"Although you often call us insects, you are truly unbiased towards our Trisolaran civilization, and that is why we are willing to cooperate with you.
"We have not ceased studying your behavioral model for half a century. As long as we disregard the actions you took during the Crisis Era, we can sometimes predict some of your behavior.
"At the bottom of your heart, even if human civilization cannot achieve self-salvation, then you would silently accept it, as if it were their destiny."
Lin Sen was also astonished: What's gotten into No. 7, so formidable as to have me completely figured out.
Lin Sen: "Your Wallbreaking succeeded, your understanding of human nature far exceeded my expectations, I am not suitable to be in charge of that button.
"But I will hand over the button to someone else, so your Wallbreaking is pointless.
"You should know from my behavior model that I would keep this option open, there will always be someone else standing at that decision point, no matter when.
"I am forever a pathfinder; humanity's future requires them to make their own choices."
No. 7: "This is consistent with my expectation, you are accustomed to leaving choices to others, you only choose to guide. You seem to always want to be an 'assistant.'
"You view everyone as your children, leaving the choices to them, accepting whatever the choice may be.
"The love of a parent for their child involves planning for the future, the immediate care and pampering could ruin it. Only a more far-sighted vision and plan can lay a solid foundation for the 'children's' future, which is what you desire."
Lin Sen: "I cannot deny, you have also earned my respect, in terms of strategy, you are no longer inferior to us.
"Returning to the topic of cooperation, I agree that you can directly participate in the command of the war.
"Our cooperation cannot be revealed, there must be an executive officer to take command, all your orders must go through this executive officer.
"The formulation of your combat plans must also involve the executive officer, who will also have the power of veto; we cannot entrust the fate of humanity entirely into your hands."
No. 7: "This is natural; this is the pattern that opposition and cooperation should take."
We also don't want our cooperative relationship exposed. The only choice for the executive commander is Xiang Gaofeng.
First, he is the person in charge of the entire Moon Base, in control of the entire lunar military force.
Second, he has also comprehended the Dark Forest, possessing the qualifications to cooperate with us."
Lin Sen: "I agree."
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Trisolaran world.
The thoughts of the Supreme Leader and various Governors were very strong, clearly they were excited. This was the first time they had achieved victory against Lin Sen.
It was the Trisolarans' first victory in strategy, a moment that should be remembered in Trisolaran history.
Supreme Leader: "It was a spectacular duel, exhilarating to watch, especially the moment the Strategy Governor appeared as a Wallbreaker, which struck Lin Sen at his core.
"Actually, I had not anticipated that Lin Sen's heart would be the least willing to employ the Dark Forest; this also explains why he, who could have used the Dark Forest to deter us, never did.
"Now considering all his plans in full, it seems they were all in preparation to break the Dark Forest.
"I'm truly looking forward to the path Lin Sen will find for us, to break the shackles of the Dark Forest."
No. 7 once again held his forehead: Bro, I call you bro, why are you so easily fooled. As if Lin the Old Sorcerer is that easy to deal with; he just didn't want to hit you too hard at the start of the cooperation, fearing that you would be too scared to cooperate.
Ah, in the end, it's all on me to bear. This generation of Trisolarans is tough to lead; my heart is tired!
No. 7: "The Supreme Leader is correct, but we must never let our guard down against Lin Sen, no matter when or where. There must be countless traps he has set for us in this plan, and we cannot slacken for a moment.
"What's fortunate is that we've figured out Lin Sen's ultimate goal, which in turn makes us respect him even more.
"Whether Lin Sen can successfully walk that path or not, he deserves our respect.
"Lin Sen dares to take this step because deep in his heart, he hopes to find peace between us; he might be the least biased against us.
"But in the battle of civilizations, both sides must spare no expense, and peace is just a fearless luxury.
"The greatest respect we can show Lin Sen is... to kill him."
Supreme Leader: "Military Governor, Strategy Governor, immediately establish a Military Advisory Group.
"From now on, the Military Advisory Group will participate in the human war as representatives of the Moon, and Sophons are allowed to monitor once per month only.
"The Military Advisory Group should quickly develop a battle plan, which will ultimately be executed by the Lunar Executive Intelligence Officer.
"We Trisolarans, are least afraid of change.
"It's been over a hundred Earth years since we received Ye Wenjie's signal. In this century, our technology and strategies have made significant progress.
"We have now reached a new height, gazing into an unprecedented future.
"Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival; cowardice is!
"We are fearless, undaunted, and we need the determination to face and overcome everything!"
PS: Some readers might think the Trisolarans have grown too quickly here.
Compared to the original work, it is indeed fast. The quickest growth for the Trisolarans in the original should be when they were 'yinned' by Logic.
In the 50 years that Logic executed, the Trisolarans' schemes and technology developed rapidly, escaping with four fleets.
The Wallfacer Plan in essence did not cause loss to the Trisolarans in the original work, but on this timeline, Lin Sen often pushed the Trisolarans into difficult decisions and 'yinned' them many times.
Especially with the quantum computer incident, it almost made the Trisolarans spit blood, naturally resulting in a great enhancement to Trisolaris' schemes.
Moreover, with No. 7 ascending to power early, the schemes of the Trisolarans could not possibly stay as they were in the original work.
Here, it's set that the schemes of the Trisolarans have already reached the level of the later stage of The Deterrence Era. Actually, in many situations, growth happens in an instant.