novelraw Chapter 7's condition is to become your supreme leader.
Chapter 7's condition is to become your supreme leader.
Cheng Yuan's meaning was clear: he could use the multidimensional portal to find a safe place for the Trisolaran civilization to live, but the Trisolaran civilization would have to pay a corresponding price.
The survival crisis that numerous civilizations on the Trisolaran planet had tried so hard to solve was nothing to this being from a higher dimension.
Comparing yourself to others will only make you miserable; comparing yourself to others in a lower dimension will only make your civilization more miserable.
The Three-Body leadership was somewhat tempted by Cheng Yuan's proposal, but what price would they have to pay to him?
The Trisolaran leader asked, "Then what do you wish to obtain from us?"
Cheng Yuan stated directly, "I want you to be used by me and obey my orders. That is, I will become the supreme leader of the Trisolaran civilization and lead you forward."
This guy actually wants to become their commander, the supreme leader of their civilization!
If this person can truly help them resolve the crisis of their civilization's survival and lead them to development, then making this person their supreme leader wouldn't be out of the question...
This being was banished from a higher dimension to their world; in a way, they are the ones who benefited.
A high-dimensional exile, who was once of the same rank as their creator, and perhaps even knew their creator.
The Trisolaran leader said, "Based on your life form analysis after arriving here, you are closer to Earth's humans. Why did you choose us instead of them?"
"Of course, it's because I had no choice. Who knew the multidimensional portal would bring me here?"
Cheng Yuan muttered to himself, "Although the author referenced my race when writing about the humans on Earth here, I don't consider them my kind, and I find their flaws hard to tolerate."
In "The Three-Body Problem," the humans on Earth never thank Luo Ji. Cheng Yuan felt that he would not be thanked either. Luo Ji served as the Swordholder for 62 years, but when he stepped down, no one said a word of thanks to him. Instead, some people wanted to detain him and accuse him of committing the "crime of world genocide."
On the contrary, under the pressure of the crisis of civilization's survival, the Trisolarans did not have as many bad habits as the Earth humans in "The Three-Body Problem".
In Cheng Yuan's eyes, the Trisolarans are far more malleable than the Earthlings in the Three-Body Problem world. Moreover, the Trisolarans are highly autocratic. If he could become the Trisolaran commander, it would be much easier for him to do things with the humans on Earth in the Three-Body Problem world than with them.
Cheng Yuan's answer made the Three-Body leadership feel that it was very much in line with his identity as someone from a higher dimension, giving him a sense of superiority over those from lower dimensions.
A bunch of low-dimensional insects, do they even deserve to be considered the same kind as my great high-dimensional being?
Moreover, this being from a higher dimension clearly knew the past and future of their universe, and he said there must be a reason why he could not tolerate the flaws of Earth's humans.
The Trisolaran leader asked, "Is your role as our supreme leader limited to a time limit or for life? How can we be expected to obey you?"
Cheng Yuan said, "Naturally, there is a time limit, until I return to the higher dimension. As for how you will obey me, you must absolutely follow my orders. That is, once my order is determined, even if it is proven to be wrong in the future, you must still execute the order I gave at that time."
"Of course, I will not issue orders that harm the interests of the Trisolaran civilization, nor will I deliberately issue incorrect orders."
The Trisolaran leader said, "Mr. Cheng Yuan, I would like to ask you a few more questions: First, you said that our higher-dimensional world is a novel. Who wrote this novel?"
"My second question is, what is the ending of our story in the novel?"
"The third question is, how do you view our struggle for survival, and does our struggle for survival have any meaning in your eyes?"
"The fourth question: Are all multiverses created by the world you came from?"
"The fifth question is, is it possible for us to ascend from a lower dimension to the dimension you originated from?"
"The sixth question: Was the world you come from written by a higher-dimensional being?"
Some very reasonable questions, Cheng Yuan said: "The person who wrote your story is a famous writer in my world, known as 'Da Liu'. In your novel's ending, your home planet is destroyed, but your civilization still exists."
Upon hearing Cheng Yuan's words, the brainwaves of the Trisolaran high-ranking members fluctuated violently.
No wonder this person said that they would eventually destroy their home planet because of their stupidity; it turns out that this was their fate in the novel.
"As for how I view your struggle for survival, 'existence is meaning.' Since you already exist, you naturally have meaning, and there is no need to feel frustrated or sad about being characters in the book."
"Moreover, there is nothing that can be imagined out of thin air and has no connection with the world. If you fully analyze the entire universe and capture the truth contained within it, you can turn the false into the true."
Cheng Yuan's two sentences helped the Trisolaran leaders, who had fallen into self-doubt after learning that they were characters in a novel, to regain their sense of justice.
Yes, they still exist, and that's meaningful; there's no need to doubt yourself.
"The multiverse is infinite and may not all be creations of the world I came from. If you can distinguish the false from the true and capture complete information about higher-dimensional worlds, you will be able to ascend from lower dimensions to higher dimensions."
"One last question: perhaps, as you ask, the world I come from is just a world casually written down in a book or comic by a higher-dimensional being, but so what? It's simply a matter of continuing to climb upwards!"
After Cheng Yuan finished answering, the Trisolaran leader said, "Mr. Cheng Yuan, thank you for your answer. But before deciding whether you can become our supreme commander, there is one more request: could you allow us to verify the function of the multidimensional portal?"
The Trisolaran leader's request was reasonable. Although he had just shown the Trisolarans the Multidimensional Portal, they had not truly witnessed its ability to travel to other worlds. If the Trisolarans were not stupid, they would definitely verify the Multidimensional Portal's ability to travel to other worlds before deciding that Cheng Yuan would become their supreme commander.
Cheng Yuandao said, "Of course it's possible."
The Trisolaran leader asked, "Thank you for your consent. What preparations do we need to make to verify the functionality of the multidimensional gate?"
Cheng Yuandao: "The multidimensional portal is established by capturing the coordinates of another dimension and anchoring it, thereby creating a cross-dimensional channel."
"The establishment of interdimensional channels requires an enormous amount of energy. The energy required to establish channels varies from plane to plane. To establish channels with certain planes, even burning up all the stars in a galaxy might not be enough."
"So the first thing you need to do is to provide as much energy as possible for the multidimensional gate."
The Three-Body leadership was shocked by Cheng Yuan's words.
A single galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars, and the Milky Way alone contains between 1000 billion and 4000 billion stars. Yet, even with so many stars, it's not guaranteed that they can provide enough energy for the multidimensional portal.
Cheng Yuan didn't lie to the Trisolarans; the multidimensional portal is indeed that energy-intensive.
This is also a major reason why he wants to cooperate with the Trisolarans; without cooperation, they simply cannot sustain the consumption of the multidimensional portal.