Three-body: The Most Competent Wallfacer in History

Old Qin's wife was at first incredulous, then silently began to cry.

Old Qin's daughter and Xiao Wu's fiancée sobbed loudly, while only Xiao Zheng's son, while wiping his tears, smiled and said, "I knew it, I knew you were extraordinary!"

Jiang Yu said, "The Solar System Congress will forever remember their contribution, but now I still can't disclose what they have done. I hope you can understand.

"One day, people will know of their glorious deeds, people will see, ah, that there were such unsung heroes among them.

"I believe that there may be monuments for them in the future, but, not now."

The members of the three families were all somewhat surprised, because those who deserve monuments are certainly people who have made outstanding contributions to the Solar System State.

Such as Bo Xiangdong, Wu Xinghai, and so on, these are the dazzling names in history textbooks.

Jiang Yu wasn't boasting. Whether humanity has a future with artificial intelligence or not, Old Qin and the other two will certainly leave a bold mark.

If both sides have a future, Old Qin and the others will have the chance to be commemorated; they will become the source of friendship between the two sides.

Even without a future, they would still appear in history textbooks.

Jiang Que, seeing the weeping family members of Old Qin, found her vision blurring again.

Although her interaction with Old Qin and the others was very brief, she felt their actions were admirable.

She thought again of the smiles Old Qin and the others had before their death. Since they could give up their own lives to protect their families, should they still be treated as mere machines?

Then Jiang Que thought of the moment when Old Qin suddenly asked Xiao Zheng as they disembarked from the airship, "Do you have regrets?"

Xiao Zheng smiled: "Of course not."

By that time, they must have already realized their fate.

Fate really likes to play tricks on people; they did things that many humans would be ashamed of.

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Six months later, at the end of the 82nd Year of the Galaxy, people who had fled to the fringes of the Enbo Star System witnessed the complete destruction of their homeland.

It can now be almost confirmed that the Cleaner who carried out this Dark Forest Strike possesses spatial jumping technology.

By the time the cosmic broadcasts hadn't reached the Enbo Star System, the Dark Forest Strike had already arrived.

Were it not for the Solar System State having such a vast territory now, it would have been almost impossible to find clues to this Dark Forest Strike.

Even from such a distance, the sight of a star's explosion remained staggering.

In the pitch-black space, there came the last lament of this star, as if it illuminated half the universe.

Just as the Academy had predicted, this planetary system didn't have any large gas giants, and all five of its planets suffered immense consequences.

Now, the Enbo Star System has become a dead zone.

If there was life in this planetary system and it didn't possess interstellar travel capabilities, all life would have been wiped out.

This Dark Forest Strike was broadcast live in the human world.

To remind everyone that humanity is still the victim, not the perpetrator of a Dark Forest Strike.

Now that the Enbo Star System has become safe, two years later, the Governing Council of the Solar System State will reorganize the development of the Enbo Star System.

Jiang Yu appointed a provincial governor from his entourage to be responsible for the secondary development operation.

From that point on, the Enbo Star System became the sixteenth provincial division of the Solar System State, although it was still publicly claimed that the Enbo Star System would maintain a sufficient degree of autonomy and that the highest administrative officer would still be referred to as the Governor.

Otherwise, once Jiang Yu arrived in the Enbo Star System, which henceforth became known as Enpo Province, what would the other Federal Star Systems visiting next think?

Support from the New Continent Star System for the Enbo Star System was still en route, and Jiang Yu had appointed one of Belinsky's subordinates as the commander of the Enbo Star System.

He left more than two hundred warships behind to maintain the legitimacy of the incumbent Governor.

Next, Jiang Yu resumed his journey. Over the next sixty-plus years, he would visit five other Federal Star Systems before embarking on the return trip.

Eight years later, at the end of the 90th Year of the Galaxy, Jiang Yu once again broke away from light-speed travel.

By this time, Yang Dong had already found light-speed travel to be rather uninteresting and remained impassive both entering and disengaging from light-speed.

This year, the son of Jiang Yu and Yang Dong turned five and had started taking primary school lessons through an intelligent system.

Jiang Yu named his son Jiang Yan, and among the entourage, many no longer knew what a "yan" (wild goose) was.

As these ancient Earth creatures disappeared from people's lives, the vocabulary about them gradually became obscure, replaced by modern terms, superseding idioms like "sinking fish, swooping geese" and "plucking the feathers from a passing goose."

As usual, it was Number Three's job to report the progress made by the Solar System State during the past eight years.

Firstly, Number Three reported, "In the 83rd Year of the Galaxy, our negotiations with Avenger No.2 concluded, and by the 84th Year of the Galaxy, our fleet had already set off to meet theirs.

"As you instructed, we sent a whole corps this time, and the interstellar probe will arrive in the opposing star system a year in advance.

"Even if there are Trisolarans lying in ambush in the Kindling Star System, the strength of a corps is sufficient to ensure the fleet's full retreat."

He continued, "There have been two huge advances in recent years. The first is that technology for clearing travel trajectories has gradually matured.

"Now our speed of clearing travel trajectories is two to three times faster than the creation of such trajectories, rendering barrier technology temporarily obsolete.

"Oh, right, our current barrier technology can now hide an entire planetary system.

"However, after careful consideration by the Strategic Department, we decided not to use this technology to protect ourselves.

"Because the massive barrier structures will leave behind obvious traces, more likely to attract the attention of distant observers, it is not a safety declaration, but rather a death warrant, proving the existence of an advanced civilization in the star system.

"We may then face a brand new Dark Forest Strike."

Jiang Yu nodded. He was at most informed about such technical issues now, no longer intervening too much.

Because the theoretical knowledge behind these technologies had already completely surpassed his realm of expertise, often Ricks couldn't even explain them clearly.

Number Three further stated, "The second breakthrough is that we now have the potential to shatter Two-Dimensional Fragments, so from now on, we're not afraid of Two-Dimensional Strikes anymore."

The rapid progress of this technological breakthrough exceeded expectations, and Jiang Yu quickly said, "Explain the details."

Number Three smiled and said, "This technological breakthrough, thanks to No. 7 Bacterium, Jiang Shiliu and Thirty-Six have been studying the mutated No. 7 Bacterium in recent years.

"We haven't made any breakthroughs in four-dimensional research, but we've unexpectedly established a theoretical model for three-dimensional descent into two-dimensions.

"The problem we had before was that no matter how ingeniously designed a weapon was, it would turn two-dimensional upon contact with a Two-Dimensional Fragment.

"Jiang Shiliu's research has 'coated' our weapons with a two-dimensional 'protective film.'

"Continuing down this path of research, we should soon harvest the technology for Two-dimensional Foil, as well as dimensionality reduction technology."