SFS Chapter 234 Answer
Chapter 234 Answer
After realizing that their strategy of internal division was not very effective, the Trisolarans cut their losses and declared yet another failure of their operation.
In general, the reason they failed time and time again was that the Trisolarans only ever grasped the metaphysical principles of how human society operated, but never truly understood its core.
This is similar to the technological products created by Project Super Dream. All the things that humans created during the Crisis Era were merely superficial, and their principles and core were unknown.
This situation only improved after the Deterrence Era began and the Trisolarans lifted their blockade on basic human sciences.
In retrospect, Lin Xuan's Super Dream Project was a risky move. Human technology advanced rapidly with the support of the Super Dream Database, but basic human theories stagnated, creating the illusion that human technology had broken through the blockade.
This is squeezing out the last bit of human potential, risking the future of the entire civilization to fight the Trisolarans to the death.
Scholars of the Deterrence Era have predicted that if the establishment of deterrence had been delayed by 5 years, the scientific illusion created by Lin Xuan would have been exposed.
At that time, all scientific development will be completely limited by the lag in basic theories and come to a complete standstill. But unfortunately, the life-and-death struggle between civilizations is often decided in an instant.
This is also one of the important reasons why the entire human society today has a highly unified evaluation of Lin Xuan.
If Luo Ji was holding a sword over the heads of two civilizations as a gamble, then Lin Xuan's plan was even more insane; he was betting all his hopes on the future.
This is somewhat similar to Hines's surface plan, as if Lin Xuan knew before everyone else that the deterrent would eventually be successfully established, and all he did was lay the groundwork for that day to come.
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With the technical support of the Trisolarans, Project Darkness progressed quite smoothly.
The essence of Project Black Zone is to use warp drive to create a low-light speed region that covers the entire solar system, so that the speed of life in it can never exceed the escape velocity. In this way, it is like drawing a circle around a prison, trapping everyone in it.
The biggest challenge in accomplishing this feat lies in creating enough black areas in a short period of time.
After all, the location of the Trisolaran homeworld has been exposed, and the Dark Forest attack could come at any time. Everyone is racing against time to find ways to avoid the attack, and there is simply not much time left for you to create the Dark Forest bit by bit.
Even under these circumstances, the Trisolarans still offered a feasible solution: abandon the construction of warp drive spaceships and instead directly create multiple giant warp drives.
As soon as the plan was proposed, it sparked intense discussions among officials from various factions within the Earth Federation.
The proposal was opposed by all 74 committee members, including Mu Yan, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zhong Qingliangjie, Director of the Propaganda Department, and Liu Chen, Chief Engineer of the Aircraft Construction Plant, who were led by doves.
After all, in their view, if they were to build a warp drive spaceship, at least tens of thousands of people could escape the solar system, but if they were to build a warp engine, then all of humanity would be completely trapped in this dark and hopeless cage.
While the hawks do not agree with the doves' compassionate attitude, they are also unwilling to sit idly by and wait for their doom. After all, no matter how you look at it, this approach is like cutting off their own path to survival and personally extinguishing the last glimmer of hope for all mankind.
Hammerk, a representative of the hawks, offered an even more extreme solution.
“We could kill over 90 percent of humanity and upload their consciousness to the brain network. That way, we would only need to take less than 100 million people with us to escape the solar system, and we wouldn’t even need to build so many warp drive spaceships.”
It is worth mentioning that this proposal actually received support from many representatives of both sides, with almost everyone thinking it was a very promising plan.
If the former representatives of various countries at the PDC could know from beyond the grave that Lin Xuan's proposal, which they had rejected, had been reintroduced and even gained the support of most people, one wonders what they would think.
Unfortunately, the proposal was ultimately not adopted.
The reason is simple: no matter how the quotas are allocated, it seems to be extremely unfair to another group of people. The ideal solution is for the Earth Federation to launch a full-scale war against the Trisolarans in order to reduce the ever-expanding population problem.
The Trisolarans aren't stupid; they would never help you with this.
Therefore, this strategy can only remain an ideal model and cannot be implemented.
“If we continue this discussion, I’m afraid you won’t have come to any conclusions by the time the Dark Forest strikes. Why don’t we set aside a group of people to build the warp drive first, and then we can talk about it again once we’ve reached a conclusion?”
Hamerk stroked his chin.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Then let Professor Wang Miao take charge of the project to build the giant warp drive."
Everyone was speechless for a moment.
"No, can we find someone else? Why is it always Wang Miao who's in charge of this kind of thing? Doesn't our Earth Alliance have anyone else we can use?"
One committee member couldn't help but complain.
Some of the more senior committee members couldn't help but glance at the speaker upon hearing this.
"Sure, go ahead and do it. But if something goes wrong, can you handle the responsibility?"
Upon hearing this, the man fell silent.
That makes sense. One of the key reasons why Professor Wang Miao is always chosen to be in charge of engineering projects is his own background.
He was a member of Lin Xuan's faction and a great man who spanned three eras.
Even if something really happens, Wang Miao's achievements can easily cover it up.
For example, if someone else had been put in charge of the project when RimWorld was destroyed, they would probably have been beheaded long ago. The fact that the Trisolarans could infiltrate the entire construction team to this extent means that they have to take the blame no matter what.
But Professor Wang Miao is different. With him in charge, no one needs to take the blame if something goes wrong. That's why the local association loves to appoint Wang Miao as the person in charge.
You could say he was a talisman.
After all, group consciousness doesn't distinguish between right and wrong. Their sense of good and evil is more about whether something conforms to mainstream thought and public perception. Even if they know that the destruction of the Ringworld by the Trisolarans has nothing to do with the person in charge of the project, in order to quell public anger, they still have to put forward one or two people to appease public anger.
But if the person recommended is Wang Miao, his achievements would be so outstanding that no one would find fault with him, and most people would even actively find excuses for him.
This is the rule that governs the world. The so-called good and evil, right and wrong, are nothing more than answers made by people in each era that conform to the thinking of the majority.