Chapter 185 - To Be in Desperate Situation and Then Revive_1

Zhang Beihai immediately realized what Wade meant; it was another threat.

If Wade really turned the full-domain broadcast into a unidirectional broadcast, only the warships in the Deep Space Fleet heading towards the confrontation with the Trisolarans would survive.

All other Executive Captains in different directions would die, and upon the death of the Executive Captains, the warships would lose control and become floating coffins.

Of course, Wade might not really do this. Such an act could kill a million people at once, and even a madman would find it difficult to carry out. But... who could be sure he wouldn't?

This was also a deathly deterrence, another Sword of Damocles, and still in a quantum state at that.

Once Wade made his move, it was game over, not just for the Deep Space Fleet, but also for the Trisolaran Interstellar Fleet.

The Trisolarans believed that the Deep Space Fleet was a plan devised because humans feared the Trisolarans and planned to escape. Now, Wade was telling the Trisolarans that this was not the case. The real objective was to engage in a final battle with the Trisolarans and obtain that critical piece of intelligence.

In human warfare, it's common to use vanguard units to probe the enemy's military deployment. The same applies to interstellar warfare.

Zhang Beihai, "What if the Trisolarans also possess powerful conventional weapons?

"The Trisolaran Fleet is sure to be surrounded by Sophons, and our warships have a maximum attack range of 25 or 35 astronomical units.

"The Trisolaran Soothsayer Imprint might also reserve their methods, and as long as they are properly concealed, we won't be able to find them."

"If the Sophons detect us in advance, they could use conventional weapons to eliminate us from an even greater distance. I might find it difficult to force them to use their secret weapons."

Wade, "You make sense, but monitoring beyond 30 astronomical units is like monitoring a spherical surface with a radius of 30 astronomical units.

"Although we don't know how large the monitoring area of each Sophon is, the number of Sophons required for this task must be vast. They can't possibly have that many Sophons; there are bound to be many gaps, and that's our opportunity.

"If there's even a one percent chance that we can force them to use their secret weapons and get the battle information back to us, humans can immediately figure out countermeasures.

"One percent is worth betting everything we have."

Zhang Beihai, "Indeed there are such gaps, but why not use a returnable conventional fleet to ambush them for such a strategic plan?"

Wade, "That's actually not necessary. Your warships are not definitely unable to return, whether they come back depends on how strong your belief is in humanity's victory. That too is a choice.

"Just like you choose whether to go directly to battle against the Trisolaran Fleet or the Trisolaran Soothsayer Imprint.

"The key is, do you know why Commander Ye chose you to be the Executive Captain of the Deep Space Fleet?

"You should know, there are military personnel from this era who are even better than you, and they grew up in war."

Zhang Beihai, "I believe it's largely a matter of operational thought, ideology, and social structure. The military concepts of this era are too different from those of our era.

"Each warship is a mini society, extrapolated according to the mini group social model proposed by Commander Ye. Adding Executive Captains from the Common Era to the Deep Space Fleet completes the warship society, making it the best social structure."

Wade, "It appears to be the case on the surface, and Commander Ye is indeed from our era.

"Perhaps you're unaware that during the Great Ravine period, the struggle for dominance in the Underground City was orchestrated by someone, and that someone was the Future Intelligence Office in the Moon Base.

"And I am the man behind the Future Intelligence Office. The plan was called 'The Island Plan,' but I prefer to call it the Civilization Reconstruction Plan.

"The core of The Island Plan is to survive through death."

"Your departure also requires you to survive through death; it is the hope for human rebirth. The future of humanity is in your hands."

At this moment, Zhang Beihai only felt an immense relief, as if his blood was ablaze.

His own escape plan had been seen through by so many, and they had been quietly supporting it from behind.

Zhang Beihai saluted and then went to implant the escape monitoring system.

Wade's final words about surviving through death were also a way of telling Zhang Beihai about the escape monitoring system's loophole—life springs from death.

Lin Sen had hinted to Wade many times that the escape monitoring system was actually made for escaping, and it needed to have a backdoor for escape.

Understanding this implication, Wade did something Hines agreed upon in secret—he altered a plus-minus sign. Even if a warship didn't receive the full-domain broadcast, the Poison Canister wouldn't open. As long as one was determined to escape, escape was possible.

Zhang Beihai naturally didn't care about life or death, but he worried that after his death, the escape system would allow a ship to choose to hand control of the warship back to the original captain if all crew members agreed, rendering Zhang Beihai's escape action meaningless.

The keywords "surviving through death," "The Island," and "Civilization rebirth" combined were enough to make Zhang Beihai understand that there was no need to worry about the escape monitoring system.

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However, there was another problem, the issue with the ordinary crew members, who were unsure whether humanity would truly be defeated in battle; they might not be willing to flee directly.

A fleet society that isn't united in heart would have an extremely weak capacity for survival in interstellar space, and might even be highly likely to return to base.

This indeed posed a significant challenge for Zhang Beihai. In the original story, after the fleet fled, its personnel believed in Zhang Beihai and chose to escape because a single Trisolaran Droplet destroyed 2,000 human star-level warships, so they were convinced that Zhang Beihai's decision to flee was the only correct path.

However, now there was no such situation, and it was improbable that the crew would agree to the battleship's escape, or that an executive captain could truly control everything on a warship.

Zhang Beihai knew this, Wade knew this, but still, they set out to take action first! This was also a characteristic of the military personnel of this era.

In fact, Lin Sen had indeed arranged everything. This was also why Lin Sen had seized the steel seal machine, which had been modified by Hines with a crucial symbol over 200 years ago.

Wade was unaware that the steel seal machine had a critical positive and negative sign changed, but he had also altered a crucial positive and negative sign himself, a coincidence that sometimes occurred.

From top to bottom, the fleet society had essentially become escape proponents, but not all of them would choose to flee. The threat of Wade's deterrence remained, and certainly, many battleships would opt to lie in ambush for the Trisolaran Interstellar Fleet—this was the real plan for a decisive battle or escape.

To divert the Trisolarans' attention from the escape monitoring system, Wade had deliberately mentioned sending the Deep Space Fleet on an ambush mission earlier.

The ambush plan was indeed a threat to the Trisolarans, whose true danger lay in consuming the limited resources of the Trisolaran Interstellar Fleet.

With humanity's long-range laser main canon, a single shot could expend thousands of tons of resources.

If the Trisolarans also used similar conventional attacks, how many such assaults could their resources sustain?

This plan might not cause substantial harm to the Trisolarans; we also don't understand the nature of their conventional weaponry.

But it could keep the Trisolarans tense for a while, which might make them overlook the true plan for a decisive battle escape that was hidden behind.

There was also something that perhaps even Lin Sen didn't know—Wade had also comprehended the Dark Forest years earlier.

As previously mentioned, the Dark Forest theory is a hypothesis that is easy to understand; the theory itself isn't complex.

The difficulty in understanding it lies in the lack of evidence to confirm it.

If a time traveler were to arrive on Earth within the Trisolaris universe and directly articulate the Dark Forest theory, not only would Earth's inhabitants disbelieve it, but the Trisolarans would also not care about it, perhaps not even taking notice.

The Dark Forest wasn't proved by Logic, but by the Trisolarans themselves, whose various actions inadvertently confirmed it. Otherwise, even if people knew of the theory, they wouldn't take it to heart, nor would they consider it a truth.

In the original story, Logic becomes truly convinced only after the stellar curse experiment; until then, it was all speculation.

In the current timeline, Lin Sen's plan had always been to simulate the environment of the Dark Forest, create an atmosphere of the Dark Forest, and have humanity psychologically experience this deterrence.

Combined with the various actions of the Trisolarans, it isn't hard to understand how humanity's elite had come to comprehend the Dark Forest.

One wonders what the Trisolarans would feel, knowing that the secret they guarded so closely was an open secret among the true human elite.

Wade, Ye Chen, and Lin Sen all looked far into the future, each believing that now was not the time to utilize the Dark Forest.

Crisis Year 191, the Deep Space Fleet departed…

PS: The author believes that the escape plan is certainly not something that can be easily implemented; the success of the escape in the original story was due to too many coincidences.

It's estimated that all future luck of humanity has been exhausted, followed by the extinction of Solar System humanity.

In the early stages, Zhang Beihai, with the help of ETO, joined the special task force, and more fortunately, only Zhang Beihai's task force remained until the day of doomsday.

Originally, it wasn't their turn to command a warship, but the breaking of Hines's wall led to their taking control of the warship.

They seized command of the warship, but without the support of the regular crew, the escape would not have been successful.

But after the warships fled, because 2,000 human star-level warships turned to ash, all crew members chose to believe in Zhang Beihai.

After humanity achieved a temporary victory (launching The Deterrence Era), they were put on trial for their "mistakes" and became "orphans," forced to wander.

When the Human Fleet caught up, they encountered the Sophon Blind Zone and Four-Dimensional Fragment Space, and simultaneously, the Trisolaran Droplets invaded once more, reducing humanity back to its original state.

A series of coincidences allowed the fleeing warships to hijack the pursuing ones, escaping together.

All these coincidences combined are no less likely than winning a $5 million jackpot every day for a year.

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