Fooling Tomoko into being a system

"As long as the number of pioneering spacecraft going to find Starship Earth is less than ten, the light speed engines left on Starship Earth should be enough for use."

"But...but..." Cheng Xin was immediately speechless by Thomas Wade's argument, which made it difficult for her to continue talking.

Luo Ji on the other side let out a sigh of relief. This was indeed a good way to prevent the fleet from fighting for the light speed engine. It seemed that Thomas Vader had already considered this.

Yun Tianming took Cheng Xin's hand and said, "Thomas Wade has already considered it, so don't worry too much."

Li Lin finally saw through what Cheng Xin was trying to say. She was clearly blaming Thomas Vader for the uneven distribution of the lightspeed engines. There was still the question of who would leave and who would stay in the core.

And this time, who leaves and who stays does not refer to whether the light speed spacecraft will be equipped with a curvature drive engine.

This is just an excuse. Cheng Xin's real goal is Thomas Vader's space development plan, which is essentially to abandon human civilization.

Thomas Vader was a man of genius, and he could figure out the reason why Cheng Xin targeted him in a blink of an eye.

How could Thomas Wade be unprepared?

"Cheng Xin, you see that human civilization cannot borrow four-dimensional fragments to create a light speed engine, and you accuse me of escapism and abandoning human civilization?"

Thomas Wade had already given Yun Tianming face once, and he would not coddle Cheng Xin and directly point out what Cheng Xin didn't say.

Seeing that something was wrong, Yun Tianming quickly pulled Cheng Xin and signaled her not to argue with Thomas Wade. However, Cheng Xin ignored Yun Tianming's behavior. At this moment, she seemed to be possessed by the Virgin and wanted to fight for all mankind.

Cheng Xin puffed up her chest and nodded in admission, "Yes!"

Seeing that he couldn't stop it, Yun Tianming could only turn his head and look at Thomas Wade and wink at him. However, Thomas Wade didn't seem to see Yun Tianming's request and looked at Cheng Xin with a smile, his eyes full of teasing.

Luo Ji was naturally unafraid of this. He had known this for a long time. Even if human civilization could build a light speed engine, it would still be impossible to save everyone. Cheng Xin's accusation had no truth at all.

He has exhausted all responsibilities to human civilization and now only cares about Zhuang Yan and his children. He will take his family to join the space fleet.

Li Lin, the only audience member who was having fun, kept moving back and forth between Thomas Wade and Cheng Xin with interesting eyes.

Thomas Vader also had the Black Domain Security Statement, a trump card that was not used.

Judging from how Yun Tianming held hands to stop Cheng Xin, Yun Tianming might have thought of Thomas Vader's trump card, and Cheng Xin might have thought that Yun Tianming was worried that the two of them would not be able to join Thomas Vader's development plan.

Li Lin saw that there might be a deeper reason behind Cheng Xin's irrational behavior.

He guessed that Cheng Xin didn't want to join the space development program led by Thomas Vader!

Cheng Xin joined before because of Thomas Vader's aggressive tactics, human beings' instinct to avoid death when faced with death, and because of concerns about Yun Tianming's existence, so Cheng Xin reluctantly joined.

Later, it was discovered that Yun Tianming had confirmed to join the development plan, and his life was guaranteed. Thomas Vader later gave more information, and Cheng Xin discovered that there was no conspiracy in the development plan.

She wanted to withdraw from the development plan by irritating Thomas Vader.

Although Thomas Vader was unscrupulous and his actions betrayed the entire human civilization, he did try to save as many people as he could.

The most important reason may be that Cheng Xin finally realized that she was also abandoning human civilization to survive alone, and joining the space development program turned her into a traitor, betraying human civilization just like Thomas Vader.

She discovered that she was no different from the devil Thomas Vader!

Cheng Xin's inner conscience and morality could not accept this result. She did not want to become the same person as Thomas Wade.

The change in mentality caused Cheng Xin to want to die on earth together with human civilization, in the appearance of a martyr.

Cheng Xin might still have a bit of luck in her heart.

Neither Thomas Vader nor Luo Ji could give an accurate time when the Dark Forest attack would come. They were only preparing and taking precautions for the worst possible outcome.

What if the Dark Forest strikes longer?

Maybe it will be a few decades later, after human civilization can create a curvature drive engine, or maybe it will be 100 years later, she can die of old age on the earth, or even thousands of years later...

The universe is too vast, and the range of a few thousand light-years is still small compared to the universe. Perhaps civilizations within a few thousand light-years cannot discover Luo Ji's use of the sun to emit radio waves, nor can they discover the contrails + stars that Thomas Wade considered very dangerous.

Cheng Xin had never seen with her own eyes the dangers posed by contrails + stars. Unlike Luo Ji who used stars to experiment with the Dark Forest Curse, Cheng Xin did not have a clear understanding of this.

Cheng Xin had some common sense in astronomy, and she made a calculation in her mind. Even if the contrails + stars spread to the entire universe, it had only been three years, and there was absolutely no alien civilization within three light years of the earth.

The closest alien civilization to the solar system is the Trisolaris, and the only remaining civilization is the civilization attracted by Luo Ji's curse. Human civilization has naturally calculated that the distance between this civilization and humans is more than 70 light years!

70 light years away, human civilization has successfully manufactured curvature drive engines and installed them on a large scale!

It was this combination of luck, inner conscience and morality that made Cheng Xin's behavior look like a fool seeking death.

Any stupid behavior has a reasonable internal reason at its root.

Cheng Xin's behavior seemed stupid, but in her eyes, she was safe.

But in Li Lin's eyes, the only person she felt sorry for was Yun Tianming. If Cheng Xin chose to stay in the solar system, would Yun Tianming still join Thomas Vader's space development program?

There is a high probability that Yun Tianming will stay on Earth with his beloved Cheng Xin, waiting for the attack from the Dark Forest to come.

Whether Yun Tianming would join the space development program at this moment was not very important to Thomas Vader. The only thing he valued most was Luo Ji, but Luo Ji had already agreed to join because of Zhuang Yan's child.

Whether Yun Tianming and Cheng Xin join or not has no impact on Thomas Wade at this moment.

Yun Tianming probably realized this and prevented Cheng Xin from withdrawing.

Li Lin analyzed the inner thoughts of Cheng Xin and Yun Tianming and found it very interesting.

So how will Thomas Vader respond?

He would allow Cheng Xin to be moved and satisfied, follow her inner conscience and morality, and stay on earth to wait for death.

Or should she speak out to prevent Cheng Xin from withdrawing from the development plan, leaving her to suffer while living, watching human civilization be destroyed in front of her eyes, and witnessing her own naivety and immaturity?