After the eavesdropping on the Wandering Earth was interrupted, the communication between Natural Selection and the Jupiter base actually continued.

The fleet commander was still persuading: "Zhang Beihai, I know the reason for your escape, but it's useless. Judging by your course, the closest star is the constellation Cygnus, eighteen light-years away, NH558J2 60,000 years from Natural Selection's fuel. ”

"Even if the ship could reach it, the life on the ship would not be able to reach it, and the ship-sized ecosystem would not be able to sustain even a tenth of the time! Civilization without humanity is meaningless! ”

"Besides NH558J2 there are no planets suitable for survival, and the nearest star with a potentially habitable planet is eight hundred and fifty light-years away, and even if fuel is not considered, it will take at least six thousand years to arrive! What awaits you is a long voyage with no end, do you think we really haven't thought about it? ”

This is the cruelest reality, and it is not that human beings have not considered fleeing and trying to spread the fire of civilization to other corners of the universe.

However, the fact is that it can't be done, unless the human civilization can survive the doomsday battle with the three-body civilization, any spaceship that tries to escape will end up with no supplies.

Zhang Beihai thought that he could see farther places that others couldn't see, but in fact, they had already been discussed countless times.

Only if the technology of human civilization continues to develop can it be possible to create a spaceship capable of colonizing distant space.

However, in the current situation where human technology is locked by Zhizi, the premise of scientific and technological development is to defeat the three-body civilization and force them to withdraw from Zhizi, who blockaded the earth.

This is a paradox, if you choose to fail and flee, how can you get more advanced technology?

Zhang Beihai fell into a long silence, and something as solid as a rock in his eyes disappeared before, revealing only a blank of exhaustion and deep sadness.

The fleet commander said: "Turn back, Zhang Beihai." If you continue to flee, the only way forward is to wait for the rescue we send. But if human civilization is destroyed in the War of Doom, as you think, who will send more advanced ships to your rescue? ”

After a long time, Zhang Beihai replied: "I'm sorry, commander. ”

After saying that, he unilaterally cut off the communication, but he still resolutely decided to go one way to the dark.

Even if the Natural Selection is headed, it is only a vast grave.

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Wandering on Earth, the 10,000-year-old Blizzard is ready to set sail under the command of Captain Levsenko.

At this time, Natural Selection was already five million kilometers away, and only a few faint starlight could be seen in space.

It's just that with the performance of the 10,000-year-old Blizzard, it is still effortless to catch up with the Natural Selection, which only has one percent of the speed of light left due to insufficient fuel.

On the other hand, the Wandering Earth Survey Team is preparing to take the Ark to Earth in this plane, firstly, because the Ark's combat effectiveness as a battleship is strong enough to protect itself, and secondly, the Ark also has a device similar to the Hidden Sky Screen, which can avoid detection.

Jo Lu is naturally on the way to go, and he is the only one who knows the truth about this dark forest and the terrible enemies he will face.

In fact, at this time on the wandering earth, astronomers have also discovered that on the background of the stationary starry sky, there is a bright spot moving, that is, the detector launched by the three-body civilization - water droplets.

Due to the need to remain as concealed as possible and not to use space to bend, it took the Ark two days to slowly reach the Earth's orbit in this plane.

The human civilization in the three-body world has indeed developed to a certain extent, and magnificent space cities can be seen everywhere in the earth's orbit, connected to the ground through a space elevator like a tower of Babel, maintaining a synchronous orbital motion with the earth.

However, unlike the fully armed more than 2,000 warships docked on the base of Jupiter, although there are many space cities in the earth's orbit, none of them are protected by warships, and only civilian spaceships shuttle between these space cities, which is completely an orbital habitat and has no military use.

It seems that the entire earth has been demilitarized, and all military bases, space fleets and other armed forces have been moved to Jupiter, using it as the most important line of defense against the invasion of the three-body civilization.

The earth is in a state of undefense, like Paris during World War II.

"Everyone else has gone to Jupiter, are the French in charge of the Earth?" Liu Peiqiang looked at this picture and said half-jokingly.

Qiao Lu shook his head and said: "Maybe they are still engaged in the system of separation of powers and checks and balances, but they are playing big and making the military power independent." ”

The space fleet of human civilization in the three-body problem does not belong to any country, it has become an independent political and economic entity, and it is also divided into three fleets, the Asian fleet, the European fleet and the North American fleet, and has also become a member of the United Nations like a country.

This has led to the division of the human world into two worlds: the traditional Earth International and the emerging Fleet International.

The three major fleets form the Solar System Fleet, and the original Planetary Defense Council has evolved into the Joint Conference of the Solar System Fleet, which is the nominal supreme command body of the Solar System Fleet, but as in the case of the United Nations, it only has a coordination function and no actual power.

As a result, no country on the earth has any, and is not allowed to have, interstellar warships, so the earth can only rely on the protection of the three fleets on the Jupiter base, and it is completely undefended.

This political system is rooted in the Western system of separation of powers, which is to let the three fleets restrain and balance each other, and then let the earth get rid of military disputes and become a relatively neutral existence.

If this is to restore peace to the earth, it is indeed done, but in fact it is not to resolve the contradictions, but to transfer the contradictions to space.

Therefore, the three fleets often do some stupid things in order to compete for fame and profit, such as sending all the interstellar warships to intercept a probe of the three-body civilization this time, and also adopting a dense formation for review, that is, the three fleets are unwilling to give up the forced landing of the three-body civilization, this great historical achievement, in order to ensure the fairness of the opportunity to participate in the war.

Sometimes Qiao Lu suspects that it is not the scientific and technological development of human civilization that Zhizi locks up, but the progress of the political system.

Human civilization in the three-body problem is always in a rather naïve state politically, including the election of a swordsman to elect a Cheng Xin, which can be described as a victory for populism.

After confirming that nothing in Earth's orbit could pose a threat to the Ark, the Wandering Earth Survey Team officially began to land.

The drop capsule, disguised as space junk, entered the atmosphere and kicked off the exploration of the three-body world.