Chapter 83: Does the Lord Still Care?_1

```Qin Ming's grasp of technology, while not yet at the level where he could instantly extinguish stars with a snap of his fingers or create worlds as in "Covering the Sky," was already capable of enhancing the human body. If he returned to ancient Earth, he would certainly qualify as a land deity.

The changes in Logic's body were not due to nanobots or NZT but the System hidden within his brain, which, based on its knowledge database, had altered the genes of his entire body's cells through the X virus. This modification increased the energy production of his mitochondria and the contraction strength of muscle cells and also reinforced his visual and auditory functions as well as the speed of his neural signal transmission.

As for Daoist Classics of the Ocean Wheel, it might be called the eighth set of radio calisthenics modified by Qin Ming. It was fine for strengthening the body and health, but as for cultivation, it was more a case of those in the know understanding its true value.

Logic's physique had now surpassed the limits of a normal human body. Whether in terms of reflex speed or strength and agility, he could hang Tyson out to dry in a fight.

Qin Ming hadn't yet used nanocells to enhance him, having only slightly improved his genetics. How far he could go would depend on his own scientific and technological prowess.

To deceive the Trisolarans when necessary, Qin Ming would use Telekinesis to assist Logic.

His current plan was to first follow the original plotline. After the Zither Plan, he intended to wipe out the remnants of the ETO Trisolaran Rebellion, then use the Black Technology System to advance human civilization's technology and intelligence, guiding humanity in the correct direction. He aimed to avoid entering the period of the great nadir where half the human population was annihilated, as well as the subsequent indulgent, peaceful, feminized era.

Success or failure, it was all due to Xiao He.

The doom of human society during the feminized era seemed predestined. People had an extreme appreciation for delicacy and beauty, placing a high emphasis on human rights, even to the point of risking the discontinuation of civilization. They held lofty moral expectations for non-human intelligent beings and had a very shortsighted vision for the future development of civilization.

You couldn't expect a pretty boy, more delicate and effeminate than women, to bear arms on the battlefield and engage in a desperate, bloody fight with the enemy. They would only dab away their tears and cry out softly, "Let's not fight anymore, no more fighting, please!"

It was both an accident and an inevitability that Cheng Xin became the next Swordholder. Without Cheng Xin, there would have been a Li Xin, a Liu Xin. It could only be said that she was not worthy of her position and was pushed onto the throne by the people of the feminized era.

Even chaining a dog as Swordholder would have been more intimidating than Cheng Xin. Without a doubt, the deterrence failed, and all of humanity was corralled like pigs and dogs into the Australian Piggery. It was difficult to sustain billions of people on this continent; many starved. When asked where the Trisolarans got their food, Sophon coldly remarked that food was everywhere, a supreme mockery to humankind.

Although humans back then did not deserve sympathy, they were not to be humiliated by the Trisolarans at will. Family affairs should be settled by the family itself, not interfered with by outsiders.

Having traveled through time and with the power to prevent all this, Qin Ming was certainly not going to let the original plot's tragedy happen again.

The focus now was on how to destroy Sophon, or even invade and modify Sophon's AI. Qin Ming aimed to steal their technical data through Sophon of Trisolaris, to use their own weapons against them, sparking a global technological explosion, leading human civilization to establish the Multi-Universe Republic and ascend to the status of a God Rank civilization in the Three-Body universe, perhaps even in the multi-universe!

Of course, this goal was difficult, and Qin Ming didn't know if he could succeed. However, he possessed the capability to travel through the universe and therefore had the basic conditions and hope.

Beyond that, he also needed to research the principles of traversal, miniature universe technology, and spatial dimension technology.

The Three-Body issue was merely a minor hiccup for human civilization. The mysterious civilization that deployed the Two-dimensional foil and the Singer, not to mention other God Rank civilizations and Returners were the real threats. They intended to return the entire universe to a zero-dimensional singularity, reverting to the Pastoral Age of 11 dimensions.

This was not about the rise or fall of a single person, a nation, or a civilization, but the potential return to zero of all civilizations in the entire universe, except for those hidden within miniature universes - none would survive.

If it was an impossible task to change the outcome of the Three-Body universe returning to zero, Qin Ming would have no choice but to flee. Whether to a miniature universe or another one altogether, he would take what he could of human civilization. There was no sense in hanging on the Three-Body tree.

He was not a native creature of the Three-Body universe after all. Its destruction or survival, in some sense, had nothing to do with him.```

This idea somewhat resembles humanity facing the Three-Body Problem with escape and resistance.

For Qin Ming, he must grasp with both hands and ensure both are strong!

In the grand scheme of things, it's too early for the universe to return to zero; the immediate problem to solve is the Three-Body crisis.

Three powers: the Trisolarans, Earth's Rebels, Earthlings.

The Trisolarans, as an external force, can compel all nations of Earth to become a community with a shared future for humanity.

However, under Qin Ming's manipulation, the leading nation would shift from West to East, and even use this opportunity to eliminate the concept of nations, with Huaxia integrating Earth. In the future, there would be no foreigners, only Huaxians.

Earth's Rebels are not worth mentioning; aside from Ye Wenjie, the rest of the ETO are just pitiful creatures jumping around. After Evans took over leadership, the ETO was practically good for nothing but failure, wiping themselves out and even leaking the Trisolaran invasion and the critical weakness of Trisolaran transparent thinking, thereby giving rise to the Face Wall Plan and the Staircase Program. Not to mention, Ye Wenjie also earnestly "enlightened" Logic about the Dark Forest.

Because of the Dark Forest, the Trisolarans abandoned ETO out of fear and, through human hands, eliminated Evans, who knew of the Dark Forest theory.

The Lord's betrayal coupled with the human purging, ETO is nothing to fear. Even when picked up again by the Trisolarans later on, they failed to stir up any waves.

The sea of stars is the destiny of civilization. In truth, the Trisolaris turning towards a starship civilization was their way out. They had far better conditions for venturing into space than Earth's civilization, but they were tempted by Earth, a fault of their own blindness as much as ETO's seductive allure.

The Trisolarans only fear the Dark Forest and escapist beliefs. Sophon has already locked down human foundational physics, and the ownership of the Solar System and Earth has been decided. The only variables are these two. ETO has attempted to assassinate Logic multiple times with car accidents, shootings, KILLER programs, genetic viruses, etc., all because of the Dark Forest.

Stopping Wang Miao from developing nanomaterials was to prevent humanity from developing space elevator technology. Once a space elevator is successful, the cost and time for humans to send materials into space would be drastically reduced. This would allow large-scale migration from Earth's surface to space, where they could establish sizable industrial bases and better explore deep space, escaping Earth.

Apart from these two matters, no matter what humans do, the Lord doesn't care.

Weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, but arrogance is.

The arrogant Trisolarans called humans insects, yet these humble insects led them to perish alongside their own homeland.

The Face Wall Plan, powered by all of humanity's strength, resulted only in the Lord's indifference.

Under Qin Ming's leadership, when the insects grow into giants and attack the Trisolaran homeworld, he would very much like to ask the Trisolarans:

Does the Lord care now?

The system is already laid out, just waiting for the Zither Plan to end and the Face Wall Plan to begin, officially unveiling the curtain on the Trisolaris.

If nothing unexpected occurs, Qin Ming does not intend to intervene before the end of the Zither Plan. The end of the Zither Plan shall be the moment "Emperor Logic" makes his entrance; now is Yang Dong's time.