The Wandering Planet

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

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

But at the same time, the Ark was closely monitored by the Asian fleet, and there were more than 600 star-class warships around it.

Obviously because of Qiao Li's words at the fleet joint meeting, they became more vigilant about the Ark.

More than 600 star-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 small suns.

Qiao Lv dismissed this, as if they really wanted to break through, how could more than 600 star-class warships be able to stop them?

It's just that he doesn't need to do this, and things will change drastically soon.

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

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

However, Qiao Li only replied: "This is part of the plan."

Currently, the Ark has completely stopped communicating with the Wandering Earth, because after the camouflage is removed, everything on the Ark is completely under Sophon's surveillance.

The only way to communicate with the Wandering Earth without the knowledge of Sophon is the telepathy between psykers, and such a long distance requires a relatively high level of psychic power.

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

If you want to deceive the Three-Body Civilization, you can only use this method.

At this time, the combined fleet composed of the North American Fleet and the European Fleet is already close to the Trisolaran probe, ready to intercept it near the orbit of Saturn.

The formation of the Combined Fleet is very dense, and this formation density has only been adopted during inspections.

According to a normal cruise formation, the distance between warships should be 300 to 500 kilometers, and a distance of 20 kilometers is almost equivalent to sailing on board in the ocean.

Many generals in the three major fleets raised objections to this super-dense formation, but they encountered thorny problems in adopting the conventional formation.

The first is the principle of fairness in the opportunity to participate in the battle. If you approach the detector in a regular formation, even if you approach the minimum distance, the battleships on the edge of the formation are still tens of thousands of kilometers away from the target.

If there were battles during the capture of the probe, quite a few battleships would not be counted as participating ships, and this would be an eternal regret in history.

However, neither the North American fleet nor the European fleet can dismantle their own formations, so which fleet is in the most favorable position in the general formation cannot be coordinated, and the formation can only be compressed into an ultra-dense review formation, so that all warships are within combat distance .

Another reason for the parade formation: Fleet International and the United Nations wanted the formation to be visually stunning.

This is not so much a demonstration of the power of the Trisolaran world, but rather a show for the human public. This unprecedented visual impact has great political significance for both worlds.

At present, the main force of the enemy is still two light-years away, and the dense formation of the fleet is of course not in any danger.

Of course, this is just their wishful thinking.

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The United Fleet saw the probe launched by the Trisolaran civilization in space, and its shape was like a drop of mercury, which is why it was named a drop of water.

The detector is in the shape of a perfect water drop, with a round head and a sharp tail. The surface is an extremely smooth total reflection mirror. The Milky Way is reflected on its surface as a smooth pattern of light, making this drop of mercury look pure and beautiful.

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

The length of the water droplet is only about three meters. Compared with the stellar-class warships that are three to four times the number of naval aircraft carriers that come to greet it, it is like a mayfly shaking a tree, and a mantis arm is like a car.

What's more, there are more than 1,300 star-class battleships like this, but there is only one water droplet, which makes the comparison of the two sides' volumes even more ridiculous.

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

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

The capture operation was completed by a small unmanned spacecraft called the Mantis. The Mantis was mainly used to collect mineral samples in the asteroid belt. Its biggest feature is that it has an ultra-long robotic arm.

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

It flies at a very slow speed, and hovers for a few minutes every 50 kilometers it advances. The surveillance system densely deployed at the rear scans the target in all directions, and continues to approach after confirming that there is no abnormality.

At a distance of a thousand kilometers from the target, the joint fleet has synchronized with the speed of the water droplet. Most of the warships turned off their fusion engines, floating quietly above the abyss of space.

The huge metal hull reflects the weak sunlight, like abandoned space cities, and the entire fleet array is like a silent ancient stone circle.

Hundreds of thousands of people in the United Fleet held their breath, watching the short voyage of the Mantis.

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

At this time, the human world has almost stopped all activities, the speeding traffic among the giant trees has disappeared, and the underground metropolis is shrouded in silence.

Even the global Internet, which has been busy for three centuries after its birth, has become empty, and most of the data transmitted are images from twenty astronomical units away.

Qiao Lv's side also got the live broadcast, which was sent by the Fleet Cooperative, and it was a precious screen that could be watched from more angles.

The original intention of the joint fleet was to let Qiao Li see for himself how the joint fleet won the battle of doomsday, so as to prove that everything he said was wrong.

In the live broadcast, the Mantis just extended its super-long robotic arm and came into contact with this object that has traveled in space for nearly two centuries from four light-years away.

When the six-finger gripper of the mechanical arm finally clamped the water droplet, the hearts of billions of people on the earth throbbed simultaneously.

Afterwards, the crowd erupted into enthusiastic cheers, and countless people rushed to the streets to celebrate the first direct contact between human civilization and Trisolaran civilization. .

However, Qiao Lv then got the news from the Wandering Earth. Within three hours after the live broadcast was sent, none of the more than 1,000 star-class warships in the United Fleet was spared, and the entire army was wiped out!

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