binnovel Chapter 185 Thank you for your coordinates
Chapter 185 Thank you for your coordinates
"what is that?"
The perceptive firefly immediately noticed something approaching the starship in outer space.
Eve immediately looked over.
A teardrop-like object was spotted rapidly approaching the starship.
"Hmm? A little water droplet?"
Eve didn't pay much attention; there were just too many of these things in the universe, so she didn't take them seriously at all.
Now she's more concerned with how to readjust the coordinates back to the Immortal Boat Luofu.
"It seems we need to fix the autopilot system first." Eve thought for a moment, then immediately used the Void System to access the starship's system.
Seeing that Eve didn't seem to care much, Firefly felt relieved.
"Um, is there anything I can help you with?" Firefly asked with concern.
"Yes." Eve turned around, glanced at Firefly, and smiled slightly.
"Help me run a dungeon; it's so boring just walking around in circles."
"Huh? Why is this happening? I find it boring too, even though the battles are so much fun." Liu Ying pouted and complained.
Just as the two people inside the starship were joking with each other, the droplet had already approached the starship.
[Listening Station - The First Fleet of the Three-Body Problem]
The alarm sound in the blind spot of the sophon pierced the mind membrane of the listener 1379.
He stared at the holographic interface, where quantum entanglement signals burned a series of anomalous parameters onto his retina—an object not belonging to the Centaurus A galaxy was passing through the Kuiper Belt at 0.8 times the speed of light, its mass curve exhibiting bizarre negative entropy oscillations.
"Strong interaction material detector 'Waterdrop,' immediately turn to intercept." The governor's order was directly imprinted into his neural synapse.
The Trisolaran civilization needs no explanation; survival is the only logic.
[Contact time: 0.3 seconds]
The outline of the target appeared in the droplet's field of vision: a dark gold starship hovered in the void, its hull flowing with amber patterns, like the universe itself hammered out by an invisible craftsman.
It didn't even bother to turn on the thrusters and stopped.
"Impact preparation." Listener 1379 injected the command into the water droplet.
The molecular tremors of the strong interaction shell paused for 1 femtosecond, marking the first time the detector had "hesitated" since its inception.
[Impact: 1 second]
The water droplet transformed into a silver thread that pierced the starship's porthole.
Ten kilometers.
Five kilometers.
One kilometer.
Listener 1379's thought membrane began to preload impact data, but was swallowed up by absolute silence in the next second.
The water droplets disappeared.
No, more accurately, its trajectory was "cut off" from the impact path.
In other words, it broke.
"Impossible!" Listener 1379 exclaimed.
How could a water droplet with strong interaction forces break apart?
[Analysis: 17 seconds]
The quantum computing array of the Trisolaran mother planet unleashed all its computing power.
Target material: Unknown.
Attack method: Unknown.
Energy source: Unknown.
From within the light-speed barrier came the first irrational fluctuation from the governor: "Continue the impact."
The second and third water droplets were awakened.
This time, they approached from different dimensional axes, using a two-dimensional proton membrane to wrap around the ship's hull in an attempt to forcefully decode it.
But the only message that came back was that it was broken.
"Deploy the sophons and surround the target." The governor's order was once again imprinted into his neural synapses.
Upon receiving the order, Monitor 1379 immediately injected the command into the Sophon.
Two sophons were launched around the starship, immediately expanding in three dimensions and then enveloping the starship.
But the next second, Tomoko suddenly sent back a message.
"Unable to resolve".
The moment the message was transmitted back, the two sophons short-circuited and lost contact.
The eavesdropper, 1379, immediately relayed the message back to headquarters.
At this moment, the entire Trisolaran civilization fell silent.
The two most powerful weapons of the Trisolaran civilization—the Sophon and the Droplet—had become completely ineffective. The enemy didn't even bother to fight them; their passive defense alone destroyed the Droplet and the Sophon.
The entire Trisolaran civilization is now gripped by panic.
[The Trisolaran Mother Planet - Supreme Governing Hall]
Four thousand sophons focused on a space of 0.3 light-minutes around the starship, and a cold conclusion flowed across the quantum membrane:
"The target does not conform to the existing physical model, and the efficiency of conventional strikes is 0.002%."
The spiritual tendrils of the rulers intertwined in the vacuum, and formulas and probabilities burned in the deep blue mathematical forest—this was the first time the Trisolaran civilization had used poetic language to describe its predicament.
"Activate Cosmic Sociology Plan 7." The Supreme Ruler's membrane vibration tore apart the dimensional membrane.
After a vote by all the Trisolarans, it was decided to use the ultimate deterrent method, the Dark Forest Theory, to send out the coordinates of this starship, even at the cost of the entire civilization's destruction.
Three hundred thousand gravitational wave antennas rose from the dehydrated corpses, like a forest of steel thorns piercing into deep space.
Gravitational wave carrier frequencies were modulated into the oldest killing language in the universe—
[Target starship mass: 1.2 x 10^18 tons]
[Coordinates: Offset vector of Alpha Centauri galaxy (0,0,0.7)]
Bitter electrolyte seeped from Monitor 1379's thought membrane. This was a gamble: what if other hunters pulled the trigger faster than the starship?
With the release of the gravitational wave signal, the entire three-body problem fell into silence.
They knew this was their final moment.
Even if destruction is inevitable, take someone down with you.
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"Why does the starship suddenly feel a bit vibrate?" Firefly asked, looking up in confusion as she played her game.
"Really? Maybe we crashed into space debris." Eve shook her head and stood up from the pilot's seat.
"Phew, it's finally fixed."
Eve breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the autopilot had returned to normal on the control panel.
That guy named Kos is going to do more than just plant trees in Belleburg now.
"Thank you for your hard work~~" Seeing that Eve had finished repairing, Firefly immediately came over.
"We don't even know where we are right now," Eve said, looking at the coordinates on the control panel with some worry.
The company's star chart does not record this.
"What should we do then? Should we fly there ourselves?" Firefly suggested.
“Uh…” Eve was speechless for a moment.
Just as Eve was pondering, a message was suddenly sent to the starship's system.
[Target starship mass: 1.2 x 10^18 tons]
[Coordinates: Offset vector of Alpha Centauri galaxy (0,0,0.7)]
"Hey? Isn't this our coordinates? This is a huge help!" Eve suddenly exclaimed in surprise.
It's like a pillow coming to someone who's sleepy.
"Although I don't know who is so kind, I'd still like to express my gratitude."
Eve immediately entered the coordinates into the autopilot system and casually sent a thank-you message to the source of the information.
With the specific coordinates in hand, the starship restarted and headed towards the immortal ship Luofu.
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The Three-Body Home Planet.
All the Trisolarans are watching the outcome.
After the coordinates were sent, the massive starship actually changed direction and left the Centaurus A system.
Instantly, the entire Trisolaran civilization erupted in celebration.
This means that the other party is afraid.
Indeed, the Dark Forest Theory is the true essence of the universe!
While the entire Trisolaran homeworld was in a frenzy of celebration, only Listener 1379 was sweating profusely.
He looked at the message that had just arrived on his retina: "[Thank you for the coordinates. I was just wondering where I was. — Interstellar Peace Corporation]"
Listener 1379 immediately understood what was going on.
He suddenly understood the deepest fear in the dark forest—when a hunter discovers that the gun barrel is just a straw in a child's eyes, silence is the last vestige of dignity.
The Dark Forest never disappeared; it's just that the hunters suddenly discovered that the entire forest had long been turned into the mahogany desks for the board of directors of the Interstellar Peace Corporation.
Interstellar Peace Corporation, which acts as a cosmic megaphone, doesn't subscribe to the Dark Forest Theory.
The generational gap in civilization levels cannot be replaced by a mere deterrent law.
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