Chapter 71 Brainstorming_1

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If one carefully analyzes, it can be found that the Trisolarans' plans have two characteristics:

First, they always tend to use plans that deliver a decisive blow, regardless of the cost, and they execute them without hesitation.

Take the Sophon plan, for example. For a single trial deployment of a sophon, they would consume the resources of an entire fleet without any hesitation. As long as the plan succeeds, it would mean the technological blockade of humanity, delivering a decisive blow.

The Waterdrop plan is the same. It can be certain that the cost of constructing The Waterdrop is likely no less than that of the sophons.

But to cut off from the root any human use of the Dark Forest pathway, they thought of directly using The Waterdrop to blockade the sun.

Such a plan is direct and effective, but the cost seems too great. After all, it is the blockade of the sun.

The sun carries 99.8% of the mass of the Solar System, and the energy required to blockade the sun is imaginable. In their extreme lack of energy, they can still come up with so many resources, which further illustrates their determination.

(Don't say that their technology is so advanced that constructing The Waterdrop is not difficult for them. The fact is that their invasion of the Solar System was also risking the disclosure of their coordinates. In the Trisolarans' absolutely rational calculations, this risk was actually less than staying in the Trisolaran Star System.

If their technological level was such that constructing The Waterdrop was easy, they could have launched 100 of them. They could even stay in the Trisolaran Star System and develop, and Starship Trisolaris would have been fine too.

It can be speculated that the importance of The Waterdrop is directly proportional to the threat of the Dark Forest.)

At the same time, The Waterdrop's combat power is also exceptionally formidable, capable of directly destroying all of humanity's warships, also a kind of ultimate weapon.

Simple and direct, aiming straight for the core, just too brutal.

Second, many of their plans turn out to be almost ineffective, appearing both risky and superfluous, and their execution seems weak.

When they realize there is a problem with the plan, they will directly abandon it, burying their heads in the sand like ostriches.

The strength of a strategy does not lie in the plan itself but in its execution.

The Trisolarans always fail in execution due to their concerns about the strategy.

Take the KILLER virus, for instance. It's always trying to assassinate Logic but always fails, which feels mismatched with Trisolaran technology.

In the end, the Trisolarans may have already given up on this plan, or rather, they have given up on the ETO, providing some technology while desperately hiding other technologies, hence the ultimately weak power of the 'four no-likes'.

After Ice Lake Enlightenment in the original timeline, the order was given to assassinate Logic, but it was just an order to ETO. When ETO applied for technology, they were given gene missile technology, which with Trisolaran science, they should have been able to predict that Logic, after hibernation, could be cured in the future.

It is like the "Miracles" and "Coloring" plans, as if we should be doing something, and doing something is always better than doing nothing, right?

It may also be related to the Trisolarans' habit of maintaining action in the face of disaster, taking action first, and then finding solutions, to avoid the situation of total annihilation. (The author sometimes feels that the more reasoning is applied to many scenarios in Trisolaris, the more unassailable they become.)

This is the Trisolarans' habitual approach to strategy: either to knock down ten times with one blow or to plan for planning's sake, lacking in execution.

Taking into account their dispatch of 20 The Waterdrops or what is known as the Whirlwind Stomp, let's start the analysis.

In the original timeline, one The Waterdrop almost destroyed nearly all of humanity's space fleet and blocked the enlargement of the signal from the sun.

But now the Trisolarans are sending 20 The Waterdrops, and the time has also been advanced, given that Logic's Ice Lake Enlightenment also came earlier.

The key question is why use 20 The Waterdrops, is it because of the inclusion of the escape and final battle plan?

They need to strike all the broadcast stations in the entire region (Oort Cloud broadcasts), and even kill Logic and Lin Sen, to blockade the sun.

Lin Sen is also deep in thought, seeing that his own words seemed to have spurred the Trisolarans, and they are making an all-out gamble.

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They must be absolutely rational, and yet they're willing to engage in a grand gamble with us.

There's only one possibility, then: The Waterdrop will sneak into the Solar System.

And then suddenly launch a simultaneous attack, blockading the Sun, destroying all universal broadcasting stations and annihilating every Human Warship. They might even set up a Waterdrop interception network on the outer periphery of the Solar System.

But this is still a gamble, one with stakes too high for the Trisolarans to afford, as they can't predict Lin Sen's actions, and human nature is uncontrollable.

The Trisolarans can't trust Lin Sen. They must have plans in place to back up their primary strategy, preparing to strike Lin Sen at a critical moment in a way he would never expect.

Lin Sen's brainstorming continued, listing all the current conditions.

He then listed the Trisolarans' plans in the original timeline and their future technology, including the fact that Sophons are essentially protons, capable of controlling quantum robots, and in the future, there would be Sophon Shielding Rooms.

What Lin Sen needed to consider was what he would do if he were in the Trisolarans' position.

Suddenly, Lin Sen understood. It was all clear...

After all they had been through, they could no longer trust the ETO either. They only trusted themselves.

Now, on Earth, they only had Sophons. What could they do with Sophons?

In the original timeline during The Deterrence Era, Sophons could manipulate robots. Von Neumann computers had reached their limits, and Sophons did not have the capacity to operate these computers.

Therefore, Sophons could only operate quantum robots controlled by quantum computers, as Sophons have the capability to manipulate quantum chips.

The Trisolaran plan seemed to be surfacing: make ETO produce quantum computers or quantum chips and then control them with Sophons. Trisolaris might have even built more Sophons for the plan.

Then, on Earth, the Trisolarans would have a real force of their own, which could be used for countless purposes.

Without the original work as a reference, it was very difficult for Lin Sen to speculate on the Trisolarans' schemes, as their stratagems had advanced too rapidly.

These thoughts had actually occurred to Lin Sen in a vague form four years earlier. Now, they were just becoming clearer.

In four years' time, the ETO should also be reaching the final critical stage of quantum chip production. As for why the Trisolarans didn't transfer this technology to the ETO during the impending final battle,

First, because the Trisolarans no longer wished to maintain constant communication with the ETO—the constant discord sown by Lin Sen truly impacted the Trisolarans. Once the Sophon-controlled robots succeeded, aside from a few Wallbreakers, they could discard the rest of the ETO.

Second, the words that Lin Sen relayed to Logic at Ice Lake Enlightenment were actually also meant for the Trisolarans. "If you fight the war in your way, shouldn't you also make a gesture?" Stimulating the Trisolarans to keep up with the plan. It might not be certain to work, but it was worth a try.

Third, given the Trisolarans' habit of withholding technology, they would not readily give away all their technology. They would undoubtedly release it slowly over several years.

Taken together, now is the most appropriate time.

As for whether the plan could go wrong, possibly, but the probability is quite low. It's worth the gamble (as analyzed later).

If humans gained the technology for quantum chips, they could once again leap forward technologically.

Many of Earth's cutting-edge technologies are currently limited by computing power, most notably Ding Yi's research on the quantum tunneling effect mathematical model.

Regarding the functions of quantum computers, it's believed that Sophons could disrupt or manipulate them.

This is unlikely. The production cost of future quantum computers is expected not to be too high. Do the Trisolarans have that many Sophons?

Considering this, Lin Sen also gained a bit of confidence.