From Terra to Terra, the Star Emperor's Holiday

"I'm just confirming that it seems that in this world, the jump drive does need to be disabled."

After confirming Ding Yi's emotional feedback and finding that he was not lying, Si Ye nodded. Only by preparing for a rainy day could the Xinghai Empire be invincible.

Si Ye didn't want to compete with the top civilizations in the Three-Body Universe in terms of technical encryption methods, not even with the Tianji Project. His style was to eliminate the possibility of problems at the root.

"Grey Wind, begin assembling the Fourth Fleet. This universe is large enough and the enemies are numerous enough. We need to be prepared."

The Fourth Fleet is a main fleet equipped with psychic equipment as its main equipment. The idealistic power of psychic energy can also greatly reduce the probability of overturning in the materialistic world of the Three-Body World.

"World? Jump drive?"

Si Ye did not avoid mentioning Ding Yi when speaking. As the other party listened to the words Si Ye said, an incredible idea surged in his mind.

That is a setting that only exists in scientific hypotheses and science fiction works, a parallel world, or an alien world.

"You... who are you..."

"Human, a human from another world, you can call me Si Ye."

Si Ye missed the black snake that could name dishes. Kashena had said mysteriously that she would give him a surprise later, but he didn't know what it was.

Looking at the surprised and confused Ding Yi, Si Ye smiled and did not explain too much to him.

"I'm curious what your world's combined fleet will look like in the face of the 'Water Drop'."

"Fleet, yes! What's going on with Fleet International!"

If humans on Earth have become infamous because of the so-called "New Culture" movement, then the humans in space like Fleet International are the few tough bones of human civilization.

Although there are many young people in Fleet International who have been deceived by false technological breakthroughs, Fleet International is ultimately humanity's greatest reliance in the face of the Trisolaran Civilization. If the Combined Fleet is annihilated here, Ding Yi dare not imagine how bleak the future will be for humanity.

"The fireworks are almost over, but there are still some smart people who have escaped... well, 7 ships."

Si Ye glanced at the monitoring data on the dashboard. The 2000 shots were coming to an end, and the humans on Earth had begun to cry for their parents.

"...surviving...is a blessing in disguise..."

Ding Yi breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that there were still survivors.

Before coming into contact with the water droplets, Ding Yi felt uneasy and proposed to let some starships enter the 'deep sea mode' in advance to cope with the extreme acceleration state. Now it seems to be useful.

Ding Yi followed Si Ye's gaze towards the cockpit, watching the real-time changing data on the information panel, and the clearly highlighted "water drop" that was constantly performing various sharp-angle maneuvers and frantically chasing the remaining starships of the Combined Fleet. His eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

"This...you...this..."

For the Three-Body Universe, the inability to exceed the speed of light means that there will always be a delay in the transmission of information.

Relying on the signal relay at the Jupiter base, it takes about 8 minutes for the information on the combined fleet's actions near Uranus to be transmitted back to Earth.

The Three-Body Civilization also had to rely on the quantum entanglement effect to create "smart particles" that could barely be considered real-time detection.

The speed of light remains stable, but as the distance changes, the delay will become larger and larger, and the huge distance will become a gap that divides everything.

But now, the constantly changing detection panels and data and the firmly locked "water droplets" before Ding Yi all proved that Si Ye, who claimed to be a human from another world, possessed god-like technology. He could compensate for the delay of light speed and observe the battlefield in the Uranus region in real time near the orbit of Mercury.

What Si Ye said before kept echoing in Ding Yi's mind like a huge bell. If there really was another world, and the other party was really a human from another world, then could they be saved?

“Can I…”

"Unfortunately, no,"

Si Ye understood Ding Yi's thoughts and shook his head.

If he had come earlier and the humans in this world had not messed themselves up, Si Ye would not mind lending a helping hand to the endangered human civilization according to the community regulations.

But the current Trisolaran civilization has absorbed some of the genetic technology maliciously donated by the Trisolarans, and its thoughts have also tended to go against the path of the Human Alliance. With the blessing of several negative regulations, even if they are incorporated into the pan-human community, Si Ye will have to come up with a lower-level Level 4 or even Level 5 treatment specifically for the Trisolarans.

After all, it is better to reject them from the beginning rather than bringing them in and causing all kinds of trouble later.

"According to the Pan-Human Community Regulations and Human Federation Law, nine out of ten Earth humans in this world would not be able to pass the political review."

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Chapter 254: Water Drop, Self-Shark

Although he didn't understand the various regulations that Si Ye mentioned, it didn't affect Ding Yi's frustrated look.

A more advanced human civilization appeared before them, but their request for help was rejected. The frustration caused by this was far greater than the Trisolarans locking down Earth's technology.

"How did this thing get here..."

The Earth United Fleet has come to an end, turning into alloy fragments in space whose red-hot heat has not yet dissipated.

The water droplet accelerated again, destroying the hydrogen and helium extraction factory and starship base on Jupiter that humans had painstakingly built, then quickly turned back and headed straight for the sun.

The shuttle is now docked on the side of Mercury's orbit facing the sun.

"Water Drop, it, what else does the Trisolarans want to do?"

Ding Yi's voice was trembling. There were only 7 ships left in the combined fleet, and the Jupiter base was destroyed. If the Trisolarans had not wanted to obtain the Earth, the water droplets would have continued to crash into the Earth, and mankind would have been destroyed in the huge crustal movement of the Earth.

"We want to interfere with the sun and prevent humans from using it to amplify signals."

Si Ye looked at the water droplets getting closer and closer, and secretly activated the signal interference system. The nano-metal on the surface of the shuttle surged, and a small signal transmitter was spit out into the universe.

"If you bring it upon yourself, don't blame me."

After disabling the shuttle's stealth module, Si Ye planned to lure the water droplet over to add another item to his collection.

The water droplet gradually approached Mercury and naturally saw the shuttle. Although it could not understand why there was an extremely small spacecraft about 40 meters long in Mercury's orbit, the order it received was to paralyze all human space forces and finally release a clutter signal to complete the shielding of the sun.

This extremely small spacecraft appearing in Mercury's orbit would undoubtedly interfere with its execution of commands, so after slightly adjusting its direction, it rushed directly towards the shuttle, intending to replicate the previous operation of destroying the Earth United Fleet and the Jupiter Base.

"The water droplets are coming, won't you dodge?"

Ding Yi also saw this scene. He racked his brains but couldn't figure out how to deal with a flying vehicle like a water droplet that has a surface with strong interaction forces.

Maybe dark matter? Or antimatter?

However, high-energy physics experiments have been interfered with by sophons. The Earth can only confirm the existence of dark matter, but cannot conduct detailed research on it, let alone prepare it into weapons on a regular basis.

Ding Yi wanted to learn from the humans in another world who mastered more advanced technology. Although the other party rejected his request for help, they did not restrict his freedom and even allocated a virtual screen to him.

The water droplets are directly controlled by the internal sophons. Their quantum entanglement is one-time. With just one interference, this control will be completely interrupted. Si Ye used signal shielding equipment to create a signal area similar to a sunspot explosion, and then used psychic power to directly crush the so-called sophons in a higher dimension.

The advantage of doing this is that the Three-Body Civilization will think that the sophon controlling the water droplet has crashed into the magnetic storm zone caused by the solar sunspot explosion, causing the sophon to fall into the so-called sophon blind spot, rather than being damaged by human hands.

The signal interference system will imitate the signal template of the AI ​​inside the sophon, simulate the state of the sun being interfered with by noise, and deceive the Trisolarans into thinking that their plan is going smoothly.

Because of the peculiarities of its psychic specialization, the Fourth Fleet is scattered across various nodes of the Imperial Universe most of the time as a means of controlling astral rifts and guarding against the violent collection of the End of Reincarnation, so it takes some time to complete the assembly.

The Trisolaran world is big enough, and Si Ye does not intend to expose his existence rashly without preparing the fleet and subsequent plans.

After the internal sophon lost contact, the water droplet's own AI system continued to faithfully carry out its mission. Several electromagnetic vortex rings burst out from its pointed tail again, and the water droplet, with its speed suddenly increasing, crashed straight into the shuttle.

With Ding Yi's expression of horror, the water droplet, which could destroy an entire column of 100 Combined Fleet starships in an instant, hit the silver-white armor of the shuttle, and a faint blue pattern flashed across the armor.

thump~

The sound was very light, at least inside the shuttle, Ding Yi did not feel any vibration that would have been caused by an impact.

Could it be that the humans from another world used some close-range defense weapons to destroy the water droplets? Ding Yi stared at the virtual screen in front of him, while Si Ye kindly replayed the scene outside the shuttle cabin for him.

The water droplet slammed into the shuttle at an unimaginable speed. The water droplet had a strong interaction shell, while the shuttle had a neutron null armor under the strong nuclear force. A collision between solid materials is usually mutually destructive, but...

The water droplet left a 30cm diameter and 2cm deep dent on the shuttle's armor. As the nanoclusters beneath the Zero Armor surged, the dent was repaired in just a few microseconds. The huge impact carried by the water droplet and the kinetic energy generated by the collision were perfectly absorbed by the armor's built-in stress relief pipes and converted into energy that was charged into the battery pack.

As the initiator of the collision, the water droplet has lost its smooth fully reflective mirror surface and turned into a dull brass color. There is an obvious damage on the droplet-shaped head, and some structural parts are directly exposed to the cosmic environment.

Apparently, the water drop committed suicide in this collision.

"Just...that's it?"

The drop of water that destroyed the Earth United Fleet and caused countless casualties among humans only left a small hole on the shuttle that could be smoothed out in an instant.

Although Ding Yi was mentally prepared after realizing that humans in the other world possessed light speed compensation technology.

But when the water droplet finally ended in such a playful state, Ding Yi couldn't help but feel an inexplicable sadness. "Well, Si Ye, you wanted to collect this... but it seems to be broken."

The broken water droplet was pulled into the cabin by the nanoflow. Overnight, Ding Yi witnessed the glory of the water droplet and also witnessed its end.

Shu looked at the rusty brass-colored water droplets and felt that this thing seemed to have no collection value.

"...Who knew it was so reckless? I thought if I crushed the sophon that controls it, it would become inert. If I had known, I should have just grabbed it whole."

Si Ye looked at the water drop, thinking about the possibility of directly borrowing Nian's authority to repair this thing.

"Forget it, let's take it back and have them repair it... If it doesn't work, we can catch a few more later."

Throwing the broken water drop into the space compression warehouse, Si Ye looked at Ding Yi, who was standing beside him with a worried look on his face.

"Don't make that expression, if others see it, they might think I'm bullying the elderly."

After removing the virtual screen in front of Ding Yi, Si Ye asked, "What are you thinking about?"

"Let's go, we still need you to scan your face."

"Go? Where are you going?"

Ding Yi was a little confused.

"I refuse to save all the people in this world, but I have to admit that there are still heroes who stand up in times of crisis. I can promise to give these people salvation and a future."

The reason why humans don't accept new ideas from Earth is because they find them annoying. With their brains, if the Empire uses aliens to fill synaptic condensers, they might take to the streets to protest and do some ridiculous activity like aliens are also human beings.

Moreover, there is no harm without comparison. The united humans in the Wandering Earth next door are so pleasing to the eye. Si Ye naturally doesn't want the saints, troublemakers and fence-sitters in the Three-Body World.

But then again, some people can still get some help, such as the soldiers on the starship who escaped the disaster, and the group of people on Earth who are still working hard to resist the Three-Body Problem.

Si Ye planned to first set up an outpost at the edge of the solar system to retrieve those escaped starships before they started to kill each other. Then, while it would take time for the Fourth Fleet to assemble, he would take Shu to the next-door set of The Wandering Earth to check out the situation.

"First, go and retrieve the survivors of the Combined Fleet. Although this may be opportunistic, I recognize their will."

Listening to Si Ye's words, Ding Yi's slightly cloudy eyes lit up. If humans really couldn't fight against the Trisolarans, then leaving some survivors to be recruited by humans from another world might be a good option.

Ding Yi quickly said, "I...I'll help you!!"

Seeing the old man slapping his chest, Si Ye frowned. He was really afraid that Ding Yi would slap him and hurt him.

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Chapter 255 North Sea