ETO Assassination

"Do you know something, can you tell me?" The attendant looked at Qi Ning eagerly and said.

This is a major discovery, if successfully confirmed, the current Big Bang theory may be overthrown.

Qi Ning stretched out his hands in pain, and murmured: "Forget what happened tonight. After tonight, everything will be as usual, trust me."

Then everything in the dream is real, and the civilization of Trisolarans, which is about four light-years away from the earth, also really exists. And the idyllic age of the distant ten-dimensional universe is also true, and the universe dimension has been reduced to three dimensions after fools launched dimensional reduction strikes one after another.

Then the universe is really not desolate, on the contrary, the universe has already been crowded with civilizations.

Qi Ning left the astronomical observatory in a daze, although he knew that he would still be able to spend the rest of his life in peace; but as a human being, he didn't want to watch the earth be destroyed. This is a beautiful world, but it is also a world destined to be destroyed.

Qi Ning thinks that he should do something to change the wheel of history, which can be regarded as the hope of survival for his descendants, even though he doesn't even have a girlfriend now.

Qi Ning looked up at the starry sky, the starry sky was like a huge black cloth pressing down on the earth, and Qi Ning felt dizzy.

Dark, this universe is really a dark forest!

Unfortunately, like Luo Ji, Qi Ning suffers from astral phobia.

That is due to the fear of the law of the dark forest. Every beautiful star in the starry sky may be a spear of death. It does not know when it will swing the spear and shoot at the earth.

The law of the dark forest can be simply understood as, once a certain cosmic civilization is discovered, it will inevitably be attacked by other cosmic civilizations.

When Qi Ning returned home, he lay quietly on the bed, carefully recalling the timeline of that story.

It should be the first year of the Era of Crisis. Five months later, the United Nations General Assembly will announce the invasion of the Trisolaran civilization and change the name of the year.

Now the Trisolaran First Fleet is on its way to Earth, what has happened is irreversible, and the dark forest must be established as a deterrent as soon as possible.

Qi Ning thought in his heart, making up his mind that he must become a wall-facer and build a dark forest deterrent in advance.

Of course, there is a deeper reason because he has been working hard in the company for several years but I am still a small employee at the labor level, and there is no hope of promotion to become manager.

Qi Ning also wants to be famous, and with the identity of a wall-facer, he is also happy to enjoy the huge power that he has never touched.

The Wall-Facing Project is an important measure for human beings to take advantage of the fatal flaw of Trisolarans' transparent thinking, carefully select Wall-Faceers, and make plans in their hearts to launch a counterattack.

The reason why Luo Ji became one of the Wallfacers was because he knew several important theories of the Dark Forest, and became the only person designated to be killed by the Trisolarans Civilization.

And now Qi Ning is an ordinary person, who will believe what he says?

So the best way is to say the law of the dark forest directly, and then wait for the "accidental death" carefully arranged by ETO (the abbreviation of the Earth Trisolaris Organization).

At nearly the speed of light, a sophon can fly around the earth seven and a half times per second, and it can listen to what everyone on the earth says.

But this method has a huge risk. If Qi Ning really dies, everything after that will be empty talk.

Once Qi Ning made up his mind to save the world, he had already put his personal life and death aside.

Besides, this is also the best way for Qi Ning to become a wallfacer as an ordinary person, and Qi Ning must take this risk.

As for why Qi Ning didn't use the coordinates of the Trisolaran system as a threat to directly establish deterrence, it was trapped by the conditional equipment of communication.

The first major reason is that the vast majority of radio transmitters on Earth are well below the threshold of the sun's "gain reflection" wave power.

According to the book, Qi Ning learned that there is a problem here: the sun is receiving electromagnetic radiation from space every moment, including the radio waves overflowing from the earth, why does it only amplify a part of it? The reason is obvious: in addition to the selection of the reflection frequency by the energy mirror, it is mainly the shielding effect of the sun's troposphere. Above the radiative layer is the convective, boiling surface, the sun's outermost liquid layer. Radio waves from space first have to penetrate the troposphere to reach the energy mirror of the radiation layer, and then be amplified and reflected.

This requires the incoming radio waves to exceed a threshold in power, and the vast majority of radio emissions on Earth fall well below this threshold.

Moreover, it is impossible for Qi Ning to directly use deterrence of the dark forest without equipment or money.

The second reason is security issues. Even if the equipment problem is solved, once the dark forest deterrence is carried out, it cannot be terminated or stopped. But Qi Ning's safety and life cannot be effectively guaranteed.

Without an international force as a basis, he may be assassinated by the Trisolaran organization regardless of the cost as soon as the deterrence is carried out.

The third reason is that both the deterrent and the deterred civilization in the dark forest have the same fear of the theory itself, and Qi Ning is still not sure whether he has the determination to deter.

Once the deterrence fails, Qi Ning will either give up the dark forest deterrence operation and watch the earth fall; or broadcast the coordinates of the three bodies. With the distance and communication between the earth and the three bodies, the earth will be attacked by the dark forest sooner or later. It's a lose-lose outcome.

Therefore, the core of the dark forest deterrence is to ensure that the deterred have enough confidence that the deterrent person has the determination to destroy both civilizations together.

According to the development of the events in the dream, the Wall-facing Project was launched in the third year of the Crisis Era.

There are still two years left, and Qi Ning feels that he can relax for a while, after all, he has to prepare to fight for the cause of the earth all his life.

Unknowingly, time came to the third year of the Crisis Era. On July 16th, Qi Ning pretended to deduce it step by step according to the theory in his dream at home, and then saved it in the computer, quietly waiting for the development of things.

The first reason is that the theoretical system of the Dark Forest is derived from several important concepts, and there is no experiment as a basis.

Even if it was announced, few people would believe it, and it might be treated as a joke.

The second is the fundamental reason. If Qi Ning announces it, using the dark forest as a deterrent to convince the enemy and human society that they have the determination to perish together, it will be impossible to pass the hearing of the Wallface project in the future.

Because it may violate the crime of destroying the world, and it is also a difficult thing for the majority of human beings to decide whether to activate deterrence to destroy the two worlds, and deterrence itself was a joke at that time.

And the day when Qi Ning deduced the law of the dark forest was also the moment when Ye Wenjie and Luo Ji met.

That night, Trisolaris issued the order for the first time to Evans (the leader of ETO on Earth) to kill Luo Ji and Qi Ning.

The wheel of history has finally turned a little bit.

Because there is no such historical figure as Qi Ning in the dream, Qi Ning himself does not know how the future will develop, but now he is extra cautious on the way to and from get off work every day.

Because he clearly remembered that Luo Ji's girlfriend died in an accident carefully arranged by ETO to make it look like no one is assassinated.