The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 399 The Bird in the Spotlight (adding updates to everyone's monthly pass)

Cheng Xin immediately asked Jiang Yu, "What flight path?"

Sophon also asked him: "How much information does the country in the solar system know?"

Jiang Yu first answered Cheng Xin's question: "If you want to know more information, you have to figure it out yourself! Every piece of information we have is hard-won, it is impossible to release it so easily!"

Then he said to Sophon: "You may not know that when we opened 'Black Fang', there was still a Black Fang person alive. Our battle with Venus also ended with negotiations and trading information."

Cheng Xin sat up straight: "When are you going to hide it? We should all be united now..."

Jiang Yu interrupted Cheng Xin with a sneer: "All are united? When did the PDC become one? What else would they do besides hold back?
"Think about the reminder I gave you before, did you listen to it?

"You didn't, but you were brainwashed by the PDC. I don't believe in your ability to make choices anymore!"

Cheng Xin hurriedly said, "You can't just give up on everyone in PDC just because of my mistake!"

Luo Ji said suddenly, "Okay, we're here to attend Tomoko's tea party today, not to quarrel.

"Also, please remember that we are Wallfacers, there is no need to explain our actions.

"But you've come to this point today, I have to explain, if Jiang Yu gives up everyone in PDC, then he can't let me go to Sydney!"

Cheng Xin showed a surprised expression at first, then she closed her mouth, not daring to say anything more on this issue.

At this moment, she finally understood how ignorant she was.

Luo Ji put the conversation back on the right track: "The two previous strikes used light particles to destroy stars. Is this a common way of attack? Will future strikes on the solar system be like this?"

Sophon began to drink tea: "Dark forest strikes all have two common characteristics: 1. Casual; 2. Economical."

Cheng Xin followed, "Please explain."

Sophon: "This is not a regular interstellar war, it's just a way to eliminate possible threats.

"The so-called random means that the release of the coordinates is the only basis for strikes, because for super civilizations, close-range detection is more costly than strikes, so they just launch strikes.

"The so-called economic means that only the lowest cost strikes are carried out, and the destructive energy in the target galaxy is induced with tiny and cheap projectiles."

Cheng Xin asked again, "Induce the energy of the stars?"

Sophon nodded: "So far, this is what we have seen."

Cheng Xin followed up and asked, "Is it possible to defend?"

Sophon shook her head with a smile, as if explaining her childishness to a child: "The whole universe is in the dark, and we are in the light.

"We are a bird tethered to the top of a tree in a dark forest, illuminated by a spotlight, and blows can come from any direction.

"Believe me, there is no way humans will survive the blow.

"Flee."

Jiang Yu suddenly laughed: "If she can listen to your advice, I'll write her name upside down!"

Sophon smiled slightly: "Please don't ask any more questions, that's all I can tell you."

After speaking, she distributed three bowls of green tea to Jiang Yu and the others.

Cheng Xin still didn't ask many scheduled questions. She was nervous when she took the tea, but she knew it would be useless to ask any more.

Luo Ji was very calm. He held the tea bowl in his left hand and turned the bowl three times with his right hand before drinking.

He drank slowly, until the clouds outside the window were dyed golden by the setting sun, and he finished his tea.

He gently put the tea bowl back on the table before he asked, "Can't I ask any more?"

Cheng Xin was a little surprised at first, and then looked at Sophon eagerly. From the very beginning, she noticed that Sophon was full of respect for Luo Ji, unlike the gentleness and friendliness he showed towards herself.

As long as Sophon faced Luo Ji, this awe would be revealed unabashedly in his gaze.

Sophon didn't answer Luo Ji's question immediately, but seemed to think for a few seconds before saying, "You can only ask one question, and I can only answer yes, no, or don't know.

"This is out of my world's respect for you, the answer I gave must be true, even if this answer may be harmful to the Trisolaran world.

"But there can only be one question, please think carefully before asking."

Cheng Xin looked at Luo Ji worriedly, but the latter barely paused, and said decisively, "I've thought about it: if viewed from a distance in the universe, the world of Three-Body Problems presents certain dangerous characteristics.

"So, is there some kind of security feature, or security statement, that can show the universe that a civilization is safe and does not pose any threat to other worlds, thereby avoiding the blow of the dark forest?

"Is there a way for Earth to make such a statement to the universe?"

To this question, Sophon lowered her eyes and pondered for a long time before answering. After two or three minutes, she finally said firmly: "Yes!"

"How?" Cheng Xin blurted out.

Sophon shook his head, and said while refilling Luo Ji's tea, "I have nothing more to tell you."

Jiang Yu, who had never been involved in this topic, suddenly said, "Then can I ask questions?"

He did what he said, and he did not take a sip of the tea that Tomoko made for him.

Tomoko shook his head again: "No."

Jiang Yu slapped the table and nearly knocked over the tea bowl: "Who do you look down on? You are also a Wallfacer, why did you answer Teacher Luo Ji's questions and not mine?"

Cheng Xin was startled by the slap, "Calm down."

Today they are here to get as much information as possible, if they tell Sophon they are dead, then there is no chance.

Jiang Yu smiled and said: "This is the confidence of the solar system country!"

Then he asked Tomoko, "Tell me, why can't I ask questions?"

Sophon replied, "It's too dangerous! No matter what information I give you, it's too dangerous."

Cheng Xin couldn't tell if it was her own illusion or not. When Sophon faced Jiang Yu again, his awe was different from when he faced Luo Ji.

It seems, it seems that I have been careful!

That's right, he was careful, and he was on guard against Jiang Yu every moment.

Yes, they have always regarded Jiang Yu as an enemy, an enemy that they have to deal with wholeheartedly!

Jiang Yu nodded with satisfaction: "This answer is not bad!

"Then I won't go around with you anymore, this may be the last time we sit and talk together, let's exchange some information!"

Sophon shook his head firmly: "No! We won't provide you with any information you want!"

Jiang Yu smiled and said, "You don't want to know the true meaning of Plan Nine? You don't want to know my real wall-facing plan? What about the secrets about the universe that we got from the Black Fang people? The understanding of life by the first-generation lifeforms Woolen cloth?"

Sophon didn't say no immediately, but thought for a while before saying, "What information do you want to exchange?"

Jiang Yu had already prepared: "Detailed information on the Dark Forest strikers against the Trisolaran galaxy!"

(End of this chapter)