Chapter 203: Another Conversation with the Trisolaran World_1
Two months later, at the Wallfacer Headquarters, in the central main control hall.
Lin Sen and Logic stood in front of the universal broadcast main control console.
Lin Sen turned around to face the stars outside the window, as if gazing up the river of time.
Facing the not-so-intense light outside the window, he initiated the face-off between Earth's civilization and the Trisolaran civilization.
Lin Sen's voice wasn't loud, "Trisolaran world, requesting a dialogue with you."
With that, Lin Sen's emotions seemed hardly elevated, his tone gradually lowered. He took a deep sigh, his figure appearing somewhat wilted.
"I know you can hear me, and I know you won't respond to me, but none of that matters now.
"So tired... Hiding for 200 years, finally no need to hide anymore.
"There's something I really didn't lie to you about, maybe I never had a Wallfacing plan at all.
"I only wanted to strive to let humanity grow.
"A century gathers life, a century of lessons, two hundred years later, let's see just how much we differ from each other.
"I won't be like the current military commentators, they all underestimate the gap in technology too much.
"If you continue to invade the Solar System, it demonstrates that all of humanity's efforts have been in vain. No matter how strong humanity appears now, in your eyes we're just inflated balloons, ready to burst at a poke.
"If I said I absolutely had no plan, that wouldn't be right either, I actually had two plans:
"One was the resource exchange plan.
"At first, when I became Logic's assistant, it was actually because I saw your weakness, you were extremely lacking in resources, and I wanted to use the resource exchange plan to break through the Sophon blockade.
"The result of this plan goes without saying.
"We both understand the Dark Forest, the chain of suspicion and the explosion of technology seem a bit forced in deducing the Dark Forest.
"But if we add the fact that offensive capabilities greatly exceed defensive capabilities, then everything starts to make sense.
"We don't know your method of attack, but I know for sure we can't defend against it.
"This leads to my second plan... and that is... to flee!
"That's right, I'm fundamentally a defeatist, a firm advocate for the idea of escape, I insist on fleeing because I see the gap between us.
"I never look at the superficial aspects of things, I look at their essence. History has seen victories of the few over the many, but never the weak over the strong.
"Humanity now cannot possibly harbor hopes of defeating you, so we only have one alternative... no other choice.
"What do you think the Deep Space Fleet in the decisive Escape Plan is going to do?
"Are they going to fight a skirmish with you? Or engage in guerrilla warfare with you?
"No, neither. They have only one goal, and that is, to escape."
"This button before me is the universal broadcast launch button, you should know what it's about to broadcast.
"The universal broadcast has two sets of content, and what I'm about to launch now, you should know what it is, right?
"That's right, it is the declaration of humanity's defeat."
[To the warships receiving this message, I extend our best wishes.
After a long period of labor and creation, humanity has established a splendid civilization; unfortunately, all of this is to end with our generation.
Our power is so insignificant on the stage of the universe, we can only be forced onto the path of escape.
But the spark of human civilization will not be extinguished. You will carry with you the affection for your homeland, the commitment to our civilization, the hope for the future and embark on a new journey.
We hold onto our beautiful wishes, looking forward to your creation of an even more wonderful life in the vast universe, ensuring that the spark of humanity will perpetually exist in the universe!
Below is the warship escape monitoring contact directive…]
Lin Sen continued, "You don't need to reply to me, I know that by the time you start your attack, we might not have the chance to press this button.
"We've been waiting for 200 years, hoping that you would give up invading the Solar System, but we have never seen it happen.
"I… have no choice…"
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Trisolaran world, the joint meeting of the Governors.
The Supreme Leader was furious; the Trisolarans rarely have emotions, and it's almost impossible for them to get angry, but over the course of 200 years, the Trisolarans have gradually developed emotions.
"Why has Lin Sen suddenly decided to broadcast the escape message? Is this his plan? What on earth is going on?"
The Science Governor said, "This is too sudden. Why have we never considered that humans might send a broadcast of defeat? It's completely beyond our expectations.
"This once again proves that the human thought model we've built is completely ineffective against Lin Sen."
The Strategy Governor (No. 7) said, "It's not that we haven't thought about it, but that we subconsciously ignored it.
"We are accustomed to analyzing problems from a standpoint of absolute rationality. Lin Sen broadcasting a message of defeat—is deceiving the millions of people on those more than 700 warships.
"There is also research in human sociology about the Escape Fleet. They deduced that within the escaping warships, a 'negative civilization' would emerge. This is akin to a human version of the Dark Forest, which a civilized world cannot tolerate.
"By issuing such a broadcast, Lin Sen would be committing a crime against humanity and would be tried, we subconsciously ignored this option because of the importance of Lin Sen."
The Supreme Leader said, "We have been careless. Do we have a solution now?
"If the more than 700 warships escape without knowing about the Dark Forest, it is highly likely that they will reveal themselves, which will sooner or later be discovered by the sweeping civilizations lurking around us."
The Strategy Governor (No. 7) said, "Now we can only do two things.
"The first is to contact Lin Sen directly. We need to stabilize him first and see what he demands. This was actually part of our contingency plans.
"We had considered that if Lin Sen, before the complete deployment of our Whirlwind Stomp, uses the Dark Forest to deter us, we would have to respond accordingly.
"We even prepared no less than ten plans. As long as Lin Sen isn't absolutely determined to die, it's like a game of chicken with him to maintain a Nash equilibrium.
"What we fear the most is that after humans are defeated, they would completely lose hope and resort to suicide to threaten us with mutual destruction. Desperate people are what we truly fear,
"The second is to start the war earlier. Now, only ten Whirlwind Stomps have reached the Solar System, and they are not yet fully in position, but we can barely manage a fight.
"Fortunately, I made a deployment that they would never expect, which is key to our victory.
"Humans may have overlooked something, we might lag behind them in terms of strategy, but in hiding and camouflaging, they are far behind us.
"I considered before that hiding the Whirlwind Stomp in meteorites still carried the risk of being discovered by humans, especially given an opponent like Lin Sen, we must not leave anything to chance.
"Finally, under complete surveillance by the Sophon, I found a loophole that could be exploited—the orbits within Mercury and Venus in the Solar System lack extensive human surveillance satellites.
"This is the biggest mistake humanity has made, and for that, they will pay the price.
"Also, from what he is doing now, I have confirmed something:
"Lin Sen might have already discovered that we used meteorites to hide the Whirlwind Stomps."
The Military Governor was shocked: "How is that possible?
"If Lin Sen already knows that we used meteorites to hide the Whirlwind Stomps, he must be aware of our strategic deployment, which is highly disadvantageous to us.
"Is there any other evidence to support your conjecture? This has significant implications for our strategy and cannot be speculative."
PS: Can anyone guess what deployment No. 7 made?
If the Trisolarans figure out that Lin Sen already knows they used meteorites to hide the Whirlwind Stomps, then Lin Sen's ambush plan might fall through. Can humanity still defeat the Trisolarans?