Chapter 194: Lin Sen's Plan 1_1

Lin Sen was the last to take the stage, but the expectations placed on him were the deepest.

In the early years of the crisis, it was Lin Sen who brought confidence to humanity, and with his assistance, major breakthroughs in nuclear fusion and nanotechnology were achieved one after another.

He then single-handedly annihilated the ETO, allowing humanity to gain critical quantum computer technology and related materials, the only field in which humans could break through the Sophon blockade.

The impact was profound and widespread, ushering in a new era of technology for humanity. With the breakthrough of quantum computers, it spurred advances in high-temperature superconductivity, quantum phase transitions, analytical science, materials science... and a series of other fields, resulting in unprecedented progress in all industries.

The advancement of science and technology was not the most critical element; the key change was in the mindset of humanity at that time—the Trisolarans were not invincible.

Lin Sen, with his foresighted vision, even predicted the great depression and had been preparing to combat it 20 years in advance.

The public release of the research from the social history department made Lin Sen the most shining star; if all that content were made public, Lin Sen might have been worshiped as a god.

Lin Sen stepped onto the stage, faced everyone, and slowly said:

"Ladies and gentlemen, you might have realized, the Wallfacer Plan is indeed somewhat of a deception to a certain extent.

"The Wallfacer Plan managed to deceive the Trisolarans and allowed us to understand them more deeply. From this perspective, the Wallfacer Plan has indeed succeeded.

"The greatest role of the Wallfacer Plan was to use the authority of the Wallfacers to break through some of humanity's inherent restraints and limitations.

"I am very fond of a saying: 'The rise or fall of our country rests in this battle,' but compared to individual rights and freedoms, these are nothing; do your utmost, that's all.

"The Wallfacer Plan inevitably infringed on many people's rights and freedoms, but without it, how could humanity have developed to such strength in 200 years?

"We can only apologize for that era; without the sacrifices of that time, it would be difficult to have the prosperity of this era.

"Therefore, we cannot deny its value and significance just because the Wallfacer Plan was a deception; in terms of combating the Trisolarans and breaking human self-imposed limits, this plan was indispensable.

"The Wallfacer Plan allowed us to destroy the Trisolarans' 'Quantum Robot' plan, annihilate the ETO in one fell swoop, inspire everyone's fighting spirit, leaving the ETO with no grounds to exist, and spared humanity from a tremendous disaster.

"Now, clarifying this issue is only because we must face ourselves squarely; I have the strength to contend with the Trisolarans now.

"We cannot wallow in the past, in the baseless Wallfacer Plan; we need to unleash our roar against the Trisolarans outright."

Lin Sen was adept at stirring emotions, making everyone see that regardless of whether the Wallfacer Plan was a deception, it was indispensable to humanity.

"The Quantum Robot" plan, once implemented, would have been a disaster for humanity comparable to a planetary natural disaster.

In the initial years of the crisis, human governments knew that the ETO was covertly making quantum robots, and fully inferred the Trisolarans' "Smartmachine" plan. Later, when the documents were made known, everyone was horrified.

It was too dangerous at the time; had Lin Sen not thwarted this plan, during the human depression, had the Trisolarans managed to create an army of billions of robots, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

All present nodded in agreement; this was also why humanity still revered the Wallfacers, for no plan can last 200 years, but the achievements it leaves can.

Otherwise, even in this era, humanity might have treated the Wallfacer Plan as an ancient joke.

Lin Sen continued: "All of this is essentially a form of war, and at that level, we indeed made some achievements.

"However, in the true Wallfacer Plan, I failed.

"My most important plan was the resource exchange program, which involved constructing numerous Super Particle Accelerator Spaceships, causing the Trisolarans to build more Sophons and race against them on this track.

"This plan was not my original idea; in the early years of the crisis, humanity had planned to build four super accelerators.

"But after building half of it, they gave up and abandoned the project, even though they had already invested tens of billions of dollars.

"With the authority of a Wallfacer, I restarted this plan, which lasted for an entire century. We even built 120 Super Particle Accelerator Spaceships.

"After nearly a hundred years on this track, we still couldn't see any hope of outrunning the Sophons. Perhaps the Trisolarans could build a Sophon in 4 to 5 months or even less time.

"The path of humanity will not always be smooth sailing; it will inevitably experience various setbacks, and if we failed, we failed.

"The power of humanity is now strong enough, and we need not excessively fear the Trisolarans.

"The Trisolarans indeed have Sophons, the Whirlwind Stomp, and certainly technology we've never seen before, but... so what?

"We have the endless resources of the Solar System, the most excellent commanders, hundreds of millions of fearless warriors, to confront what at most could be the size of 20 trucks.

"As long as we command well on the battlefield, even if they have Sophon assistance, we have no reason to lose."

In the original timeline, human governments did implement the resource exchange program, but it was discontinued due to massive investment and being essentially a huge gamble.

Such a plan was not sustainable for human governments; only as a Wallfacer was it possible.

Co-Chairman: "The resource exchange program may not have succeeded, but it cannot be considered a failure; indeed, we depleted their extensive resources.

"With the significant improvement of technology, I could observe the Trisolaran home planet using interference measurements and polarization measurements, and it was observable that the Trisolarans were continuously constructing Sophons.

"Regrettably, on this track, the speed at which we produce Super Particle Colliders cannot keep up with their Sophon construction pace.

"According to environmental monitoring around the Trisolaran home planet, they almost have no exploitable resources. This may be related to the three-body system, irregular motion causing almost all matter in their star system to fall into their stars, they don't have asteroid belts, the Kuiper Belt, not even the Oort Cloud.

"We've also observed some abnormal data on the surface of the Trisolaran 'Great Moon.' We speculate that they are using the 'Great Moon's' resources to build a massive fleet of warships; they seem to want to engage us in a protracted war."

Observing the Trisolaran home planet was not unimaginable; modern astronomers can deduce the existence and composition of a planet's atmosphere based on the polarization of light reflected by the atmospheric layer.

The Trisolaran home planet is actually the closest exoplanet to us, and humanity's observations of it are the most numerous, and with 200 years' advance in observation technology, our capabilities will certainly be on another level.