The Wandering Planet

After the eavesdropping of the wandering earth was interrupted, the communication between the natural selection and the Jupiter base was actually still going on.

The fleet commander was still persuading: "Zhang Beihai, I know the reason for your escape, but it is useless. Judging from your headings, the closest star is NH558J2 in the constellation Cygnus eighteen light-years away. Judging from the fuel situation, it will take 60,000 years to arrive."

"Even if the spaceship can be reached, the life on board cannot be reached, and the spaceship-scale ecosystem can't even last a tenth of this time! Civilization without human beings is meaningless!"

"Besides, NH558J2 has no planets suitable for life. The nearest star that may have habitable planets is 850 light-years away. Even if the fuel problem is not considered, it will take at least 6,000 years to reach it! What awaits you is a long time without end Sailing, do you think we really haven't thought about it?"

This is the cruelest reality. It is not that human beings have not considered fleeing and trying to spread the fire of civilization to other corners of the universe.

However, the fact is that it cannot be done. Unless human civilization can survive the doomsday battle with the Trisolaran civilization, any spaceship that tries to escape will end up dead if it cannot get supplies.

Zhang Beihai thought he could see farther places that others couldn't see, but in fact, it had already been discussed countless times.

Only when the technology of human civilization continues to develop can it be possible to manufacture spaceships capable of colonizing distant space.

However, in the current situation where human technology is locked by sophons, the premise of technological development is to defeat the Trisolaran civilization and force them to withdraw the sophons that blocked the earth.

This is a paradox. If you choose to fail and escape, how can you get more advanced technology?

Zhang Beihai fell into a long silence. The rock-solid things in his eyes before disappeared, revealing only a tired blankness and deep sorrow.

The commander of the fleet said: "Turn back, Zhang Beihai. If you continue to flee, the only way out in the future is to wait for the rescue we send. But if human civilization is destroyed in the battle of doomsday as you think, who would Will a more advanced spaceship be sent to rescue you?"

After a long time, Zhang Beihai replied, "Sorry, Commander."

After finishing speaking, he unilaterally cut off the communication, and decided to go all the way to the dark.

Even if the course of the natural selection is only a vast tomb.

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On the wandering earth, the Wannian Fengxue is preparing to set sail under the command of Captain Levsenko.

At this time, Natural Selection was already five million kilometers away, and only a few faint stars could be seen in space.

It's just that with the performance of the Wannian Fengxue, it is still effortless to catch up with the Natural Selection whose speed is only 1% of the speed of light due to insufficient fuel.

On the other hand, the Wandering Earth Investigation Team plans to take the Ark to go to this plane of Earth. First, the Ark is powerful enough to protect itself as a battleship. was detected.

Of course, Qiao Lv is also in the line of preparations for departure. Currently, he is the only one who knows the truth about this dark forest and the terrifying enemies he will face.

In fact, on the wandering earth at this time, some astronomers have already discovered that on the background of the still starry sky, there is a bright spot moving, and that is the detector launched by the Trisolaran civilization—the water droplet.

Due to keeping concealment as much as possible and not being able to use space travel, it took the Ark two days to slowly reach above the earth's orbit on this plane.

The human civilization in Trisolaris has indeed developed to a certain level,

Magnificent space cities can be seen everywhere in the orbit of the earth. They are connected to the ground through a space elevator like a tower, and maintain a synchronous orbital movement with the earth.

However, unlike the fully armed Jupiter base with more than 2,000 warships docked, although there are many space cities in Earth orbit, none of them are protected by warships. Only civilian spaceships shuttle between these space cities, which is completely an orbital habitat. Therefore, there is no military use.

It seems that the entire earth has been demilitarized, and all military bases, space fleets and other armed forces have been moved to Jupiter, making it the most important line of defense against the invasion of the Trisolaran civilization.

Earth is in a defenseless state, like Paris during World War II.

"Others have gone to Jupiter, are the French in charge of managing the Earth?" Liu Peiqiang said half-jokingly while looking at the picture.

Qiao Lu shook his head and said, "Maybe they are still working on the separation of powers and checks and balances, but they just played too big and separated the military power."

The space fleet of human civilization in the Trisolarans does not belong to any country, and has become an independent political and economic entity. It has also been divided into three fleets, the Asian Fleet, the European Fleet and the North American Fleet. They have also become members of the United Nations like countries.

This has led to the division of the human world into two internationals: the traditional Earth International and the newly emerged Fleet International.

The three major fleets form the Solar System Fleet, and the original Planetary Defense Council evolved into the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference, which is the nominal supreme command body of the Solar System Fleet, but just like the United Nations, it only has a coordination function and has no actual power.

The result is that no country on the earth has, and is not allowed to own interstellar warships, so the earth can only rely on the protection of the three major fleets on the Jupiter base, which is completely undefended.

This political system is rooted in the Western system of separation of powers. It is to allow the three major fleets to restrain and balance each other, and then let the earth get rid of military disputes and become a relatively neutral existence.

If it was to restore peace to Earth, it did, but instead of resolving the conflict, it moved it into space.

Therefore, the three major fleets will often do some stupid things in order to compete for fame and fortune. For example, this time, all the interstellar warships will be sent to intercept a probe of the Trisolaran civilization, and they will also adopt a dense formation for inspection. Unwilling to give up the forced landing on the Trisolaran civilization, this great historical feat, was set up in order to ensure the fairness of the opportunity to participate in the war.

Sometimes Qiao Lv suspects that what Sophon is locking up is not the technological development of human civilization, but the progress of the political system.

The human civilization in the Three-Body Problem is always in a rather naive state politically, including the selection of a sword-bearer and Cheng Xinlai later on, which can be described as a victory for populism.

After confirming that nothing in Earth orbit could pose a threat to the Ark, the Wandering Earth Investigation Team officially began to land.

The airdrop capsule disguised as space junk enters the atmosphere, kicking off the exploration of the Trisolaran world.