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

Chapter 334 1 Hope

"boom!"

As the guillotine fell, the Star Ring City projected by the quantum strangulation device in mid-air was instantly split in two.

In reality, this attack also worked.

Countless fleet soldiers looked in terror toward Star Ring City. After only a second of silence, Star Ring City seemed to be split in two by an invisible hand!

This scene was first seen by nearby fleet soldiers, but in the distance, many people's screens also displayed the live feed from Starring City.

"Squeak!"

Sound cannot travel in space, but all the members of the Star Ring Corporation on Star Ring City heard it clearly.

After a crisp sound, the metal floor beneath their feet began to shift outwards little by little.

"This……"

Everyone's expression changed drastically, and the piercing alarm continued to sound.

Ring City has indeed been attacked, and the damage is irreparable.

This scene would be seen more clearly from a distance.

The Star Ring City, suspended in the air, is now crumbling inch by inch, and the houses on both sides have even begun to show obvious misalignment.

This is the terrifying aspect of quantum strangulation. Although Star Ring City was not directly split in two like in the quantum projection, its main structure still suffered almost irreversible damage.

If the main structure of this city, located in orbit outside the star ring, can no longer support itself, the entire city will collapse violently in an instant, causing tens of thousands of casualties.

In Earth's time, people knew that if the foundation of a house was damaged, the entire house would collapse, and this remains true today.

Human technology has advanced to this point, but it has not yet been able to ignore the existence of gravity. So-called anti-gravity or levitation is nothing more than using some means to counteract the effects of gravity.

The biggest hidden danger of this design is that it would be disastrous if it lost its balance.

"Has Luo Congmin gone mad? There are many civilians in Star Ring City. If she does this, her reputation will probably never be able to be cleared for the rest of her life."

As Bi Yunfeng watched the live news broadcast on the projector, his hand, which was soldering a chip, almost trembled.

Cao Bin, standing to the side, also frowned slightly.

"Although Luo Congmin had political skills in the past, she was much gentler than Lin Xuan or Weide. In some matters, she was even less decisive than her father, Luo Ji."

"This time, something is definitely amiss. Unless the conflict between Ai AA and the Earth Alliance has truly reached a point of irreconcilable differences, given her personality, she shouldn't be so ruthless, right?"

Before Bi Yunfeng could finish speaking, Cao Bin interrupted him, his brows furrowing slightly.

“You’re right, Luo Congmin isn’t that kind of person, but there are two exceptions. First, she didn’t give this order. Second, the threat from Xinghuan Group is much greater than we imagined.”

Upon hearing this, Bi Yunfeng suddenly realized what was going on.

"You mean... the Star Ring Group poses a significant threat?"

Cao Bin: ...

"What I mean is, this order might not have been given by Luo Congmin, but by Lin Xuan."

Reminded of this, Bi Yunfeng suddenly realized.

"I see. Now that you mention it, it does seem like his method. But why?"

Bi Yunfeng's brain worked at lightning speed, and he finally came to a conclusion.

"Is he afraid that Cheng Xin will use his name again to swindle and deceive people?"

Cao Bin paused for a moment, then remained noncommittal.

"We cannot rule out that possibility, but it is more likely that they want to actively force the group alliance to leave."

"What do you mean?"

Bi Yunfeng was puzzled.

"Haven't you noticed? The existence of the Group Alliance is like a festering sore and malignant tumor in the entire Earth Alliance."

"The group alliance is almost entirely composed of the middle class and elites, whose status in society plays a pivotal role, but precisely because of this, these talents are becoming increasingly unstable."

"Throughout history, behind every uprising and rebellion, we can see these elite merchants fueling it, yet the nation truly needs their presence."

"In normal practice, a dynasty should try its best to win over these powerful families and clans, so that they can control the common people and thus consolidate their power."

"But the situation in the Earth Alliance is very strange. The government and ordinary people stand together, while the middle-class elites are the ones who suffer losses. This would be an inconceivable situation in any dynasty."

"In the past, if a dynasty had dared to treat its elites and nobles in this way, the country would most likely have been forced to flee its elite class. Without highly qualified personnel, the country would have been destroyed very quickly."

"But now, in the era of the Great Universe, a bug has appeared, which is that these people can no longer escape, or rather, there are no other countries for them to escape to."

"The Earth Alliance was established under such a distorted political system. Under this system, the upper class and the lower class live very well, while the middle-class elites are like eating shit."

"But the middle class had nowhere to go, so they could only follow the local government. As a result, the government's power reached its peak. Because the lower class was doing well, even if the middle class was struggling, they had nowhere to go. After the government no longer needed to rely on middle-class capitalism to extract surplus value from the lower class, the distribution of benefits gradually shifted from 'whoever owns the means of production benefits' to 'whoever works benefits'."

"This is the fundamental reason why Ai AA led the Star Ring Group to independence from the Earth Alliance. They still want to struggle a little longer and wait for a glimmer of hope."

"What hope?"

"A hope for leaving the Earth Alliance, they are waiting..."