Starting as a Wallfacer, his defection to the Three-Body Problem shocked the world.

Chapter 253 You are too naive

Dilian Building:

Cheng Xin and other officials have been kneeling in the square for two whole days.

Her knees were already scraped raw, and blood stained the ground, but the pain from the wounds kept her mentally alert.

The insults and abuse around her had started three days ago and continued until now, but Cheng Xin remained deaf to them, her eyes still closed, as if nothing in the outside world could affect her at this moment.

For her, everything she is experiencing now is her due.

The victor is king, the loser is villain. Not only her, but the entire dove faction of officials were dragged out as scapegoats.

Lin Xuan's intentions were malicious. He made Cheng Xin and others kneel at the entrance of the Dilian Building, allowing any citizen to come and watch. He even sent a guide to educate the uninformed onlookers about the mistakes Cheng Xin had made.

However, he also ordered special forces to guard the area around the square, not allowing anyone to get within a kilometer of Cheng Xin and the others.

The result was that a large group of angry people could only watch helplessly as Cheng Xin and the others knelt on the ground, unable to tear them to pieces.

Unable to vent their anger, they naturally became even angrier, hurling all sorts of foul and offensive insults.

Many of the more lenient, dove-like officials were so angry by the scolding that they fainted. Lin Xuan then had them revived by splashing water on them and made them continue to kneel on the ground and endure the scolding.

But Cheng Xin didn't care. She knew very well that she was the one who caused this situation.

She was too confident in her own judgment and also harbored too many unrealistic fantasies about the Black Zone Project.

From the starting point, Cheng Xin was not wrong. It is true that the Dark Domain Project was the only alternative after the destruction of RimWorld. However, she never expected that it was precisely because of the existence of the Dark Domain Project that RimWorld was destroyed.

Her thinking was too simplistic: problems arise, problems are solved, and everything seems to proceed naturally.

But political maneuvering is never like that. From the very beginning, conservative officials were unwilling to appear around the world. They were unsure of what would happen in the future, and the unknown meant fear and risk.

This will seriously challenge their previously secure position.

With her eyes closed, Cheng Xin heard footsteps approaching her. She slowly opened her eyes and saw Zhi Zi, dressed in casual clothes, walking slowly towards her.

Two Earth Alliance guards stood beside Zhizi. As the intermediary between the two civilizations, she couldn't afford to get into trouble here, as it would affect the other side's reputation.

"Human warfare began in ancient times and has lasted for thousands of years. They fought, schemed, and killed each other to gain benefits. However, before the Trisolaran crisis, humanity was in a brief period of peace."

Zhi Zi's face still wore that gentle smile, seemingly unaffected by the fact that the Trisolaran civilization had been wiped out of the universe.

"This period of time is the century since the birth of nuclear weapons."

"From the moment humanity acquired nuclear weapons, war has been in a strange state of stagnation, and the originally turbulent situation has ushered in a brief period of peace."

"Most people believe that it is because world leaders are afraid of the power of nuclear weapons that they dare not easily start a war, but in fact, that is not the case at all."

"The emergence of nuclear weapons has completely changed the basic rules of the game of war, which is the real reason why tycoons and those in power are afraid."

“In the past, wars were fought by the son of a peasant who traveled thousands of miles to kill the son of another peasant. Regardless of whether the country existed or not, those in power still held power. What did the rise and fall of the country have to do with them? It was just a matter of moving to another country and continuing to hold onto their power.”

"That's why the poor people back then loved to talk about national affairs, because they had nothing but their own little plot of land. If the country were to fall, they simply couldn't survive like those capitalist oligarchs."

"But the emergence of nuclear weapons has changed the rules of the game. War is an extension of politics. Everyone is fighting for more survival resources. Nuclear war will make the already scarce resources even more scarce, causing war to lose its original meaning."

"Therefore, the nature of the Rimworld is similar to that of nuclear weapons. In the eyes of conservatives, the war between humans and the Trisolarans was just an exchange of interests from the beginning. Even after so many years, they still do not truly regard this war as a war that would lead to the destruction of nations and the extinction of races. If it weren't for the fact that there were geniuses like Thomas Wade, Lin Xuan, Ding Yi, Wang Miao, Luo Ji, and Luo Congmin among humans, the Trisolarans would never have lost this war."

"You're too naive, Cheng Xin."