376: Chapter 375 A Faint Sense of Crisis Lingering in My Heart

The meeting ended.

Lin Mo returned to his office, which spanned over three hundred square meters.

He leaned back on the sofa, gazing through the massive panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows at the sprawling complex of research center buildings outside, lost in deep thought.

These past few days, although the heart that had been suspended in anxiety for so long had finally settled, it hadn't truly come to rest.

Reflecting on the series of events that had occurred recently, he couldn't help but feel that something was not quite right, no matter how he thought about it.

The root cause was Trisolaris.

It had agreed too decisively!

So decisively that he found it truly hard to believe.

For an ultimate conversation concerning the life and death of two major civilizations, there had been no deliberation at any level.

The moment they met, all the goals on his side had been achieved so simply...

And what about Trisolaris?

It hadn't made any substantive demands of him, merely asking some irrelevant questions...

Yet, when reviewing the process, everything was logical.

Especially since Lin Mo, in his initial conversation with the Trisolaran Consul via the Sophon a few days ago, had repeatedly probed to see if the Trisolarans had truly learned to lie.

Lin Mo knew that after decades of contact with humanity, the Trisolarans had indeed learned to deceive.

Therefore, just to be safe, he had specifically designed his phrasing during the conversation to test them.

But what was the result?

One could simply describe the Trisolarans as "cute"...

They told Lin Mo everything without reservation.

From the year they received the radio signals sent by humanity, the year they dispatched the Sophon to the Solar System, the fact that the Sophon had just arrived on Earth three months ago, to the three contacts she had made with the military high command of Eagle Country—everything was told to Lin Mo in complete detail.

At the same time, Trisolaris even naively asked Lin Mo: "Earth is such a tiny place, how did you humans manage to divide yourselves into hundreds of national factions with only one species?"

Because of this, after the previous probes, the chain of evidence fully indicated that Lin Mo was almost 100% certain that the Trisolarans in this parallel world indeed possessed the biological trait of transparent thinking and an inability to lie.

This result was also very logical.

After all, even if the Trisolarans had learned to deceive in a short time, their level wouldn't be very high.

One had to know that to tell one lie, one must use a hundred lies to cover it up.

Although that was the principle, for some reason, Lin Mo still had a faint sense of crisis lingering in his heart.

He didn't know which part was wrong...

"If I'm really not at ease..."

"I'll just go to the Moon in a while and communicate with the Sophon a few more times. If there really is a problem, she will reveal her true colors sooner or later..."

Half an hour passed.

A staff member sent over the electronic data that Lin Mo needed.

Lin Mo simply stopped overthinking and began to immerse himself in the internal reference materials reported by the grassroots levels.

Gradually, night fell.

"Knock, knock, knock..." A knock came at the door.

"Lin Mo, it's me."

Hearing that it was Professor Ai Chongfeng's voice, Lin Mo closed his holographic wristwatch.

The faint blue, illusory display screen in the air vanished.

"Mentor, come in!"

Upon receiving Lin Mo's response, Professor Ai Chongfeng, Xiang Guangming, and another young face pushed the door open and walked in.

"Chief Designer Lin, this is my first time in your office."

"I have to say, it's quite impressive, hahaha..."

Xiang Guangming looked around curiously, gazing at the three-hundred-square-meter flat and the massive floor-to-ceiling windows with a seven-meter-high ceiling, clicking his tongue in wonder.

"Hmph!" Professor Ai Chongfeng tilted his head slightly.

"You don't even look at whose student he is."

"Mentor, Academician Xiang."

Lin Mo stood up from his seat, walked toward the three of them, and greeted them with a smile.

"And Senior Brother Tan."

"Everyone, come over and sit!"