358: Chapter 357 Following the Clues to Find the Three-Body Problem

When Lin Mo and his group arrived at Taiping Lake, it was exactly 12:00 PM North America time.

At this very moment, the area around Taiping Lake was bustling with people; looking out, there were at least ten thousand people.

After the Third World War on Blue Star, the official media of the Pan-Chinese Union countries jointly promoted and popularized the non-polluting operating principle of the Planetary Bombardment Cannon, clarifying that there was no radiation near Taiping Lake.

Consequently, countless people from various countries came every day, drawn by its reputation, wanting to see the only combat trace left on Blue Star by the main ship-borne weapon of the Luan-niao Aerospace Mothership—the Planetary Bombardment Cannon.

Among them, many peace-loving people from various countries came to release peace doves by the lakeside.

A unified international consensus had been reached: if it hadn't been for China intercepting the thousands of mushroom intercontinental missiles that Eagle Country had fired in a scorched-earth attempt, Blue Star humanity would likely have been completely annihilated by now.

It could be said entirely that it was China that saved humanity.

Naturally, everyone harbored deep hatred for the Eagle Country Pentagon that had attempted to destroy all of humanity.

When Lin Mo and his group arrived at the lakeside, they discovered several huge signboards standing in prominent positions around Taiping Lake.

"NO SWIMMING!"

"NO RELEASE!"

"NO FISHING!"

"..."

Accompanied by Deputy Secretary-General Cao Tongguang, Lin Mo and his group walked along the lake shore.

"The people of Eagle Country are truly free and open," remarked Deputy Secretary-General Liu of the Chinese Secretariat, who had come to inspect with Lin Mo.

He pointed at the white women wearing bikinis in the distance and said teasingly to Deputy Secretary-General Cao Tongguang beside him, "Chief Executive Cao, it seems that your work in the newly established sub-district office of the Washington Special Administrative Region is indeed difficult!"

Deputy Secretary-General Cao Tongguang looked a bit embarrassed. "Secretary Liu, say a little less..."

Because there were too many tourists on weekdays, the Special Administrative Region government had specifically erected several huge warning signs to protect Taiping Lake.

Unfortunately, the free people of Eagle Country had never been constrained by laws.

The more you forbade them, the more they did it.

From time to time, police officers would ride jet skis, using nets to scoop the Washington Special Administrative Region residents who were swimming the butterfly stroke in the lake onto the shore, then fine and expel them.

Of course, the Special Administrative Region government had no reason to expel those tourists wearing beach bikinis and enjoying sunbathing by the lakeside.

Watching this absurd and highly dramatic scene, Lin Mo also smiled.

If those high-ranking officials of the Eagle Country Pentagon knew about this from underground, watching the citizens of their own country running to dance and perform the butterfly stroke on their graves, he wondered what they would think.

He shook his head slightly.

This was what they called karma; everything was self-inflicted.

Relying on force to practice hegemonism, taking whatever they wanted from other countries, the ending was bound to be destruction.

The entire Taiping Lake area was not small.

The group walked along the lake shore.

Because an entire squad of Exoskeleton Armor was shouldering the guard duty, as they walked, the vast majority of people on the shore turned their gazes toward Lin Mo and his group, guessing who these Chinese faces were.

However, it didn't take long for the people on the shore to recognize Deputy Secretary-General Cao Tongguang, the current highest leader of the Chinese-occupied Washington Special Administrative Region in North America, and everyone quickly withdrew their gazes.

For some time now, Deputy Secretary-General Cao Tongguang had been conducting comprehensive reforms with great vigor in the Washington Special Administrative Region, the core political center of the old Eagle Country.

As citizens of a defeated nation, they naturally dared to be angry but dared not speak out.

Because those who dared to make trouble were all quickly suppressed and sent to tread sewing machines to make Paradise Umbrellas...

As the group was walking around the lake shore, suddenly, a scene attracted the attention of most people in the team.

They saw, directly ahead, several scantily clad women with wheat-colored skin lying lazily on beach chairs.

Seemingly sensing the gaze of Lin Mo and his group, these graceful women propped themselves up from the beach chairs and blew a kiss to the group with a giggle.

"Ahem! Ahem, ahem!!" Deputy Secretary-General Cao Tongguang felt his vision go dark.

"This is disgraceful, truly disgraceful!"

"Lin Mo, should I send someone..."

Lin Mo waved his hand.

At this moment, his mind was completely occupied by thoughts.

Having followed the previous clues to come to this Taiping Lake, the primary task was to search for traces of the Trisolaran Sophon.

With a hum, the Dragon Dragonfly drone swarm flew out in all directions, occupying various positions in the sky.

Due to their excellent waterproof performance, many Dragon Dragonfly drones even dived into the lake to perform panoramic modeling.

At the same time, the lidar on the Exoskeleton Armor helmets operated at full power, coordinating to conduct a comprehensive and thorough scan of Taiping Lake.

Two minutes passed.

"Scan complete!"

The entire Taiping Lake area, including the lake bottom, quickly formed a complete 3D model.

Lin Mo examined it carefully.

Unfortunately, he did not find anything amiss.

He tried asking the system, but there were no prompts regarding the Trisolarans.

"As expected..."

Although he had been mentally prepared, Lin Mo still felt a wave of irritation.

At the same time, Lin Mo also felt a slight regret for having previously agreed to Chief of Staff Zhou Wuzheng's combat order to level the Pentagon.

If there was a connection between the Trisolaran Civilization and Eagle Country, then among the high-ranking officials of the Pentagon, there must have been insiders or even core liaisons.

Unfortunately, these people had already completely turned into molecular particles under the plasma impact of the Planetary Bombardment Cannon...

Thinking of this, Lin Mo suddenly turned his head and looked at Deputy Secretary-General Cao Tongguang beside him.

"Chief Executive Cao, has that researcher been brought here?"

Hearing this, Deputy Secretary-General Cao Tongguang immediately replied, "Chief Designer Lin, he has arrived."

"Shall I have someone bring Zachary over?"

"Yes."

Not long after, a researcher with messy hair, nearly fifty years old, was brought over.

"H-hello."

"I am with the Eagle Country National..."

Deputy Secretary-General Cao Tongguang corrected him. "Old Eagle Country."

The researcher looked terrified and immediately changed his words. "Oh, yes, old Eagle Country."

"I am a senior researcher at the old Eagle Country National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASB) and a member of the Starlink Satellite Project team."

"You can call me Zachary."

Lin Mo looked at this NASB researcher, who seemed to have already undergone multiple rounds of interrogation, and was lost in thought.

"Chief Designer Lin, this is Zachary's confession."

Deputy Secretary-General Cao Tongguang sent the interrogation report to Lin Mo via a mobile terminal, then introduced, "Recently, we have been conducting an in-depth investigation."

"In the weeks before the outbreak of the Third World War on Blue Star, many senior researchers from the NASB, as well as many astrophysicists with ties to the NASB, were suddenly declared missing."

"According to investigative leads, we discovered that these researchers, before disappearing, had all more or less visited the old Eagle Country Pentagon."