The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 261 The Darkest Hour
The mighty fleet began to reorganize and set off, and for a moment the light of the engine illuminated the dim surroundings of Jupiter.

Jiang Yu went to the pier to see Gu Cheng off, but Gu Cheng ignored Jiang Yu.

He was full of respect for Jiang Yu before, but after the defection of the "Natural Selection" happened, he couldn't respect Jiang Yu at all.

Now Gu Cheng is looking forward to returning with "Water Droplet" as soon as possible, and then taking back the [-] warships given to Jiang Yu, kicking Jiang Yu to the earth, so that he can retire with peace of mind.

The officers and soldiers on the eighty warships under Jiang Yu's command who stayed in the military port complained, complaining that the Wallfacer made them miss the historic event of intercepting the "water drop".

In addition to these 120 warships, Gu Cheng also left a confidant of his own, and [-] warships.

The purpose is to keep an eye on Jiang Yu and prevent him from launching a mutiny.

After most of the interstellar warships of all mankind left, Jiang Yu gave the order to refuel the [-] warships under his command.

But Gu Cheng's confidant Liang Bot said coldly: "Are you going to let these eighty warships defect?

"We will not execute this order!"

As the name suggests, Liang Bote is of mixed race.

Jiang Yu said angrily: "Is Gu Cheng going to break his promise? Aren't these eighty warships under my command?"

Liang Bote said: "That's right, they are under your command, but the logistics troops are not under your command."

Jiang Yu took a deep breath and suppressed his anger: "In this way, you fuel them well, and every order I send to them in the future can be conveyed to the captains of the warships through you.

"As long as you don't let them pour the fuel back and unload the stuff I'm sending them!
"If you think the order I gave them is inappropriate, you have the right to make them not execute it!"

Liang Bot was overjoyed. Jiang Yu's actions meant that he had given up control of the eighty warships himself!
He didn't expect Jiang Yu to make such a big concession all at once: "It's a deal!"

Jiang Yu sighed: "Go and deliver the order!"

Then he said to No. [-]: "Transport all the things I prepared for these warships to the flagship!
"Don't drop the sixteen copies in total. If the number of flagships is not enough, appoint a new flagship!"

No. [-] had already prepared, and followed suit.

To Liang Bot's surprise, Jiang Yu didn't act like a monster all day long as Gu Cheng guessed.

After the eighty warships were filled with fuel and received supplies and spare parts from Jiang Yu, Jiang Yu locked himself in the house and never went out.

Liang Bot reported this situation to Gu Cheng, and Gu Cheng guessed that Jiang Yu might have realized that he was doomed to lose in the previous bet, so his will was depressed.

That's good too, so you don't have to worry about it later.

Gu Cheng also speculated that Jiang Yu would not watch the live broadcast of the official contact between the human fleet and the "Water Droplet". Unexpectedly, as soon as Liang Botuo went to invite him, Jiang Yu immediately agreed.

The place to watch the live broadcast is the commander's command room.

This room has a small stepped structure, and the highest place is a seat more than one meter above the ground, which stands out from the crowd in the command room.

This is the commander's seat. Jiang Yu is now the commander-in-chief of the human fleet in name, so he was arranged to sit here.

Looking down from this seat, the huge command room is unobstructed.

Around this high position, there are several normal-height seats, where senior military officers such as the chief of staff and deputy commander are usually seated.

But these people have all gone to Uranus to intercept the "water drop", and now only Liang Potter is sitting here.

After No. [-] came, he also sat there. As soon as he sat down, he turned on the computer in front of him, as if he was busy with something.

The entire wall directly in front of these seats is a huge screen.

Some distance in front of the screen, there is a row of combat staff seats, responsible for summarizing and sorting out data, and conveying orders.

Now there are twelve seats, but only two people are seated.

Jiang Yu glanced at the deserted command room, and asked Liang Bot, "How long is the signal delay between us and the main force of the fleet?"

Liang Bote replied: "81 minutes."

Jiang Yu sighed: "This distance is farther than the earth to Jupiter!"

He took a deep breath: "I want to talk to Gu Cheng."

The communications staff in front of the screen turned on the video recording device: "The video recording function has been turned on, please speak!"

Jiang Yu said: "The main goal of 'Water Droplet' is to attack the interstellar battleship, not to kill people. When it is attacked, it is ordered to abandon the ship immediately. I will try my best to organize people to carry out rescue work."

Hearing this, the woman in her thirties opened her mouth wide, and she quickly asked Liang Bot with her eyes if she should send this message to Gu Cheng.

Liang Bot's expression was a little strange, he was stunned for a while, and then waved to the communications staff officer, motioning her to send it.

At this time, the big screen received a picture from the interception scene. Under the dark background of dots of starlight, the small unmanned spaceship "Mantis" began to capture "water droplets".

More than 3000 spaceships are arranged in a tight matrix. Because they have already synchronized with the speed of the "water droplet", the spacecraft have all turned off their engines, and millions of officers and soldiers are waiting for the result of capturing the "water droplet".

This process was very slow, and when Gu Cheng received Jiang Yu's message, the capture process had not yet been completed.

Not only Gu Cheng heard Jiang Yu's reminder, but everyone in the command room heard it.

Gu Cheng said with a cold face: "Reply to Jupiter City: If anyone disturbs the morale of the army again, I will remove him from his post!"

After more than 80 minutes, this message finally reached the city of Jupiter.

After Liang Bot heard Gu Cheng's reply, he sighed and said to Jiang Yu, "Please don't make trouble!"

Jiang Yu smiled and said: "He dares to dismiss him or something. If you don't work for a while, I will kill you!"

Liang Bot regretted his words of persuasion. He was going to issue an announcement to revoke Jiang Yu's powers immediately after he finished his contact with "Water Droplet".

At the same time, the governance rights of Guanghan City and Yinghuo City were taken back, leaving Jiang Yu with no more power to use.

At this moment, the "Mantis" on the screen successfully captured the "water drop", and the shuttle that Ding Yi and others took set off.

Seeing that "Water Droplet" didn't blow himself up, Liang Bot glanced at Jiang Yu, thinking that you have to give up this time, right?

Unexpectedly, Jiang Yu was in tears all the time, Liang Bo said to himself, if he lost the bet, he wouldn't cry like this, would he?

How did he know that Jiang Yu was crying for Ding Yi, and there was an 81-minute signal delay between Jupiter and the scene.

In other words, in fact, Ding Yi and the others set off 81 minutes ago, and now they have encountered an accident.

It's just that the news of death hasn't come yet!

Jiang Yu clenched his hands tightly, almost bleeding from his own palms, and another old friend went.

Although he was sad, he didn't feel sorry for Ding Yi, because this was exactly the way Ding Yi wanted to die.

Ding Yi's generation of physicists is unfortunate, especially cutting-edge physicists like Ding Yi, the Sophon seems to have blocked all their upward paths with a huge glass cover.

When Jiang Yu talked with Ding Yi before, he heard that he had a death wish on this trip. He knew best how big the gap between human beings and Trisolarans was!
At this time, Jiang Yu seemed to hear the sentence: "Destroy you! What has it to do with you?"

And the hoarse shout: "Children! Run!"

Then came the darkest hour of mankind.

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(End of this chapter)