Qiao Lu returned to the Ark, and at this time Liu Peiqiang's condition had stabilized.

As long as it can be treated, with the medical technology of the wandering earth, it will not be a problem to treat the diseases caused by genetic missiles, and even a vaccine has been developed.

However, at the same time, the Ark was closely monitored by the Asian fleet, and a total of more than 600 stellar-class warships were eyeing it around.

Obviously, because of Qiao Lu's words at the joint meeting of the fleet, they became more wary of the Ark.

More than 600 stellar-class warships stayed above the Earth's orbit, surrounding the Ark, as if they were in a light prison composed of more than 600 dazzling little suns.

Qiao Lu was dismissive of this, as if they really wanted to break through, how could such more than six hundred stellar-class warships be able to stop them?

But he didn't have to, and soon things would change drastically.

On the Ark, Optimus Prime looked at the Asian fleet outside the porthole and asked Qiao Lu:

"Why provoke them? Aren't we here to help them? ”

However, Qiao Lu only replied, "It's part of the plan. ”

At present, the Ark has completely stopped communicating with the Wandering Earth, because after the disguise is lifted, everything on the Ark is also completely under the surveillance of Tomoko.

The only way to communicate with the wandering earth without Tomoko is telepathy between psionics, and to be separated by such a long distance, it also requires a fairly high psionic strength.

Therefore, all the conversations took place in silence, and no one else knew what the specific plan was except for Qiao Lu himself.

If you want to deceive the three-body civilization, you can only use this method.

At this time, the combined fleet of the North American fleet and the European fleet was already approaching the three-body probe, preparing to intercept it near the orbit of Saturn.

The combined fleet was very densely packed, and this density was used only during the review.

According to the normal cruising formation, the spacing between the warships should be between three hundred and five hundred kilometers, and the distance between ships should be twenty kilometers, which is almost equivalent to a broadside navigation in the ocean.

Many of the three fleets had many generals who disputed this super-dense formation, but the adoption of a regular formation ran into a difficult problem.

The first is the principle of fairness of the opportunity to participate in the war, if the probe is approached in a conventional formation, even if it is approached to the smallest distance, the battleship at the edge of the formation is still tens of thousands of kilometers away from the target.

If there were battles in the capture of the probe, then a considerable number of battleships could not be counted as participating ships, which would leave an eternal regret in history.

Neither the North American fleet nor the European fleet could break up their own formations, so it was impossible to coordinate which fleet was in the most advantageous position in the general formation, and the formation could only be compressed into a super-dense review formation, so that all warships were within combat distance.

Another reason for the parade formation was that both Fleet International and the United Nations wanted the formation to produce a strong visual impact.

This is not so much a show of the power of the three-body world, but rather for the human public to see, and this unprecedented visual impact is of great political significance to both worlds.

At the moment, the main forces of the enemy are still two light years away, and the dense formation of the fleet will certainly not be in any danger.

Of course, this is just wishful thinking.

Soon, the Combined Fleet saw a probe launched by the Three-Body Civilization in space, which was shaped like a drop of mercury, which is why it was named a water drop.

The detector is in the shape of a perfect droplet, with a round head and a pointed tail, and the surface is an extremely smooth total reflective mirror, and the Milky Way reflects a smooth pattern of light on its surface, making the drop of mercury look pure and beautiful.

The shape of its droplet is so lifelike that observers sometimes think it is liquid, and there is no internal mechanical structure at all.

The length of the water droplet is only about three meters, and compared to the stellar warships that come to meet it, which are three to four times the size of the Navy's aircraft carriers, it is simply a mayfly shaking a tree and a mantis arm as a car.

What's more, there are more than 1,300 such stellar-class warships, but there is only one water droplet, which makes the comparison of the sizes of the two sides even more funny.

To intercept such a probe, in fact, only one space fighter is enough, but the fleet joint still insisted on sending so many stellar-class warships, completely using this operation as a bargaining chip in the political game.

This is not the first time that anyone has put political struggle above national interests.

The capture was carried out by a small unmanned spacecraft called the Mantis, which was previously used to collect mineral specimens in the asteroid belt, and was characterized by an extra-long robotic arm.

Once the operation began, the Mantis crossed the 500-kilometer distance line previously set for the surveillance craft and cautiously approached the target.

It flies very slowly, hovering for a few minutes every fifty kilometers, and is scanned in all directions by a surveillance system densely packed in the rear to make sure there are no anomalies before continuing to approach.

At a distance of a thousand kilometers from the target, the combined fleet is synchronized with the water droplets in speed. Most of the warships turned off their fusion engines and floated silently above the abyss of space.

The huge metal hull reflected the faint sunlight, like abandoned space cities, and the entire fleet arrayed like a silent ancient Stonehenge.

Hundreds of thousands of people in the combined fleet held their breath as they watched the short voyage of the Mantis.

It takes three hours for the images seen by the fleet to be transmitted back to Earth at the speed of light, into the eyes of billions of people who are also watching with bated breath.

At this time, almost all activity in the human world stopped, the speeding traffic between the giant trees disappeared, and the underground metropolis was shrouded in silence.

Even the global Internet, which has been busy for three centuries, has become empty, with most of the data transmitted coming from images twenty astronomical units away.

Qiao Lu also got the live broadcast picture here, and it was still sent by the fleet joint initiative, which can be watched from more angles.

The original intention of the Fleet Coalition was to let Qiao Lu see for himself how the Combined Fleet won the Doomsday War to prove everything he said was wrong.

In the live broadcast footage, the Mantis has just stretched out its extra-long robotic arm and touched this object from four light years away, which has been trekking in space for nearly two centuries.

When the six-finger grip of the robotic arm finally clamped the water droplets, the hearts of billions of people on the planet throbbed at the same time.

Then the crowd erupted in enthusiastic cheers, and countless people rushed into the streets to celebrate the first direct contact between human civilization and the three-body civilization.

However, then Qiao Lu got the news from the Wandering Earth, and within three hours of this live broadcast being sent, all of the more than 1,000 stellar-class warships of the Combined Fleet were spared, and they were all wiped out!

This doomsday battle, in the eyes of the people on Earth, is over before it has even begun!

(End of chapter)