Chapter 222 Final Battle, Another Trump Card of The Waterdrop_1

After receiving Lin Sen's urgent broadcast, the remaining warships of the three battle zones quickly and decisively adjusted their course.

All the fleet commanders and warriors reached a consensus, only by fleeing to the Sophon-Blocked Zone could they have a chance of survival.

However, by this time, The Waterdrop had also made contact with them, and a new round of relentless slaughter began.

Despite this, the warships of the three battle zones did not form into battle array; instead, they dispersed in columns as small squads, maintaining quite a distance from each other.

They were originally prepared to fight the enemy with guerrilla warfare tactics, which now also became key to their survival.

Still, the brutality of war was unavoidable. The Waterdrop's attacks were still sharp and deadly; one warship after another turned into fireworks in space, dust in the universe, with countless lives fading away in the cosmos.

This fierce battle, as anticipated by the Trisolarans, saw the warships from the three human powers frantically escaping through space for a total of 26 hours.

In the end, over a thousand warships from the three battle zones were lucky enough to escape The Waterdrop's pursuit.

At this moment, they were racing towards the Wallfacer Headquarters at full speed, hoping to find a last refuge there.

...

26 hours later.

The remaining thousand-plus warships of the three fleets had all reached the Wallfacer Headquarters, they were now decelerating, eventually docking in the Thick Fog Zone.

As the thousand-plus remaining warships completed deceleration and entered the Thick Fog Zone, all five of the Trisolaran's Sophons had also arrived.

The Trisolarans' first batch of ten The Waterdrops: three destroyed, one used to blockade the Sun, one still at least 20 astronomical units away.

These were currently all the Waterdrops the Trisolarans had available, and the next confrontation between the Wallfacer and the Trisolarans began.

It was then that Lin Sen once again held a conversation with the Trisolarans.

Lin Sen, "Trisolaran world, I'd think you still remember Ye Wenjie's cry, that should have been the first greeting from an extraterrestrial that you received.

"'We send this message with great desires, looking forward to establishing contact with other civilized societies in the vast universe. Looking forward to creating a better life together in the vast universe.'

"This was our sincere wish, and yours as well; deep down, we all long to connect with other civilizations, why not choose to join forces?"

No. 7, representing Trisolaris, responded, "After understanding the Dark Forest, do you really believe that different civilizations can unite? Can we truly build the kind of civilization you envision?

"Don't indulge in fantasies. The picture of the universe is as such, for a civilization, the cost of your suggestion is too high to fail; no civilization dares to try it.

"Besides, we've been outwitted by humans so many times, do you think we dare trust you?

"If I can annihilate you, why would I risk allying with you?"

Lin Sen, "From a rational analysis, we bear the responsibility of an entire civilization, we cannot afford to be sentimental, we have no choice but to choose the most rational approach.

"So... how will you break the stalemate now!

"Even though you surround us with five The Waterdrops, you also dare not attack rashly.

"Within the Sophon-Blocked Zone, coupled with concealment in the fog, it is dangerous for The Waterdrop to enter since its conditions inside are unascertainable. We could have antimatter directional mines set up anywhere; I just came up with the name.

"We have now entered a standoff, and time is more on my side.

"I can wait for other human forces to devise a way to deal with The Waterdrop, I can't see it taking half a year; humans should be able to come up with a way to counter The Waterdrop within that time.

"And you can't recklessly dispatch The Waterdrop to attack them prematurely.

"The federal fleet has already taken out one of your The Waterdrops; the news has come through, they've learned The Waterdrop's combat pattern and are sure to have countless ways to duel with that one of yours.

"Ye Chen managed to destroy one of your The Waterdrops without knowing its mode of attack, do you think he will be easy to deal with?"

"If you were to send multiple Waterdrops to resupply, how many would you deploy? How can you be so sure that I cannot deal with the remaining Waterdrops?"

"After all, I now have a thousand more warships at my disposal, with the assistance of the Sophon-Blocked Zone, it's not necessarily impossible."

No. 7 couldn't figure out how Lin Sen would use these warships to deal with The Waterdrop.

Given The Waterdrop's maneuverability, even if the human thousand warships, along with those old-fashioned ones, and the naval port, were to open fire directly within the Thick Fog Zone, hitting The Waterdrop would still be very difficult. As soon as an energy beam left the Sophon-Blocked Zone, the Sophons would be alerted, and The Waterdrop could immediately evade.

Even if The Waterdrop could be hit, the power would be greatly reduced. The laser energy would dissipate significantly after passing through the Thick Fog Zone, rendering the impact on The Waterdrop virtually powerless. Such an attack, even with another thousand warships, would not be able to destroy The Waterdrop.

Lin Sen said this, he must have some kind of backup plan, but No. 7 couldn't think of it, which couldn't help but be frustrating.

But... no matter what, Lin Sen ultimately knew too little about The Waterdrop, and the gap in technology cannot be bridged by cunning alone.

If cunning cannot defeat you, then we will crush you with absolute strength.

No. 7: "Indeed, with just one more Waterdrop, we certainly wouldn't dare to attack Ye Chen.

"But do you really think we have no way to deal with you? ... To negotiate with us, your bargaining chip is far from enough."

"Why do you think we allowed all warships to enter your Thick Fog Zone?"

"While you think you're leading us by the nose, in fact, this rope has already tied you."

"You thought by drawing all of our Waterdrops here was your plot, little did you know, it was also our deliberate choice."

As the words fell,

Four Waterdrops directly entered the outer layer of the Thick Fog, aligning themselves closely together with their tail ends almost touching, pointing their tails towards the center of the fog, with another Waterdrop nearby on guard.

No. 7: "The engines at the stern of your warships essentially work on the same principle as the main cannons, both expelling energy from fusion."

"Now, do you think it's possible for The Waterdrop's propulsion system to be used as a weapon for attack?

"Do you remember The Waterdrop that blocked the Sun? What if intense radio waves fired from The Waterdrop were focused into a single line?"

Lin Sen: "Wait, you're saying that The Waterdrop's tail can also emit a targeted strong radio wave attack.

"If such energy were concentrated into a line, its power would undoubtedly be enormous."

"Impossible. If you could do such a thing, why have you not used The Waterdrop to launch a directed energy attack before?"

"There's only one possibility. Such energy cannot penetrate the 500,000 kilometers to reach the Sophon-Blocked Zone's center where the positron-electron macro exists in an excited state."

No. 7: "That's correct; it wouldn't work, but you made it possible. You must have also heard of resonance technology. With The Waterdrop's precision control, we can use four of them to combine their strong radio waves, and by utilizing the resonance property, amplify its power by a thousand times."

"Your biggest reliance is the Sophon-Blocked Zone, which depends on the central positron-electron macro. We know the position of the central positron-electron macro from the range of the Sophon-Blocked Zone."

"Now, the tails of four Waterdrops are aimed at the central positron-electron macro within the Sophon-Blocked Zone. With the combined resonant energy of the four Waterdrops, it is enough to penetrate the 600,000 kilometers of thick fog, reaching directly to the center of the Sophon-Blocked Zone."

"If you hadn't arrogantly brought the other three federal fleet ships over here, we would have had no way to deal with you. All this happened because of your conceit."

"You... failed!"

PS: The resonance phenomenon is used to achieve specific goals, such as detection, heating, or information extraction. The most common example in everyday life is how a microwave oven uses the resonance phenomenon to heat from the inside.

In the movie "The Wandering Earth 2", the total power of all human nuclear weapons was also not even one billionth of the energy needed to destroy the Moon, but using resonance technology, they converged the energy waves of all nuclear weapons into one point, achieving nuclear fusion of the Moon's core, and thus destroyed the Moon.

Here, the resonance of The Waterdrop can be simply understood as the superposition of the wave crests of the intense radio waves launched by four Waterdrops. Although energy is conserved, the intensity of the radio waves is greatly enhanced.

There is no need to increase the intensity of the radio waves across the entire band (the intense radio waves The Waterdrop used to block the sun were full-band, hence covering all frequencies). As long as it is close to the frequency of the target object, its power is immensely great.