Huayu 05, our science fiction movie universe

Chapter 637 The Wallfacer 1 (7)

A military conflict triggered by a rebellion can be considered the climax of "The Wallfacer 1" as a commercial film, and also the biggest scene in the second half of the plot.

Tanks, armored vehicles, attack helicopters, drones, a large number of soldiers, and various new weapons.

As Taylor said, this is not a trap, but an open bait and a calculated scheme.

The remaining forces of the ETO organization will find it difficult to find such a good opportunity again to wipe out all three Wallfacers in one fell swoop.

So they committed the maximum force they could muster, and the battlefield was extremely tense at one point.

In the end, even Luo Ji could not remain unaffected. Amidst the fluctuating battle situation, he had no choice but to get involved. Although he could not fight, he had to help transport supplies and the wounded.

In comparison, Qin Yanni played a more significant role than him.

After a fierce battle, when the situation was at a stalemate and the enemy was completely entangled, the hypersonic fighter jets from the United States finally arrived, adding the most important weight to the scales of victory.

Won!

As the gunfire and artillery fire gradually subsided, the enemy's offensive on the battlefield turned into sporadic resistance, and the front line began to advance in the opposite direction. Luo Ji and the other logistics personnel were finally able to relax.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead; his face was covered in soot, but he didn't care. He took the water that Ryoko Tajii handed him and drank it down in big gulps.

Just then, a sudden, powerful force came from the side and pushed Luo Ji to the ground.

The next second, a shout finally reached Luo Ji's ears.

"careful!"

boom!
boom!
Two gunshots rang out in succession. Luo Ji dropped the mineral water bottle in his hand, and the water inside gurgled out, wetting the parched earth, just like the crimson blood flowing from the fallen figure not far away.

This scene instantly reminded him of the car accident, and his heart clenched painfully.

"Ryoko!"

"PhD!"

Qin Yanni, who rushed over, killed the rebel lying in the pile of dead bodies. Just as she was about to pull Luo Ji up, Luo Ji scrambled to his feet and lunged at the familiar figure lying on the ground.

It was Tai Ryoko who had just pushed him.

"Are you alright? Ryoko! Doctor! Quick, a doctor!"

"Doctor, don't touch him!"

Qin Yanni knelt down beside Tani Ryoko, began to check her injuries, and attempted to provide first aid.

More support staff gathered around, took out medical supplies, and helped Ryoko Tajii stop the bleeding.

Luo Ji stared blankly at the scene, his heart sinking as if into an ice cave.

Even after the commotion subsided and Ryoko Tai was carried away on a stretcher, he still stood there, stunned.

"PhD."

Qin Yanni placed her hand on Luo Ji's shoulder, waking him from his daze.

"Don't worry, Ms. Ryoko is not in immediate danger. The bullet hit her right abdomen."

However, the medical facilities here are inadequate; we need to get to a place with treatment capabilities as soon as possible.

"I'm not going," Luo Ji said coldly after regaining his senses.

"What?!" Qin Yanni didn't expect him to say such a thing. "Ryoko was injured because of you!"

“I didn’t ask her to save me; it was her own choice.”

Luo Ji turned and left without the slightest hesitation. Qin Yanni watched his departing figure as he returned to the base, her face revealing undisguised disappointment, and she sighed helplessly.

As intelligent as she was, she could easily guess why Luo Ji was so heartless. As long as he stayed by Tani Ryoko's side, her personal safety would be constantly threatened, just like the female friend who was killed in the accident in his place.

That's just fate, isn't it, since he's a Wallfacer.

The helicopter carrying Ryoko Tajiki flew away. Luo Ji stood on the open ground in the base yard, watching the plane disappear into the distance, silently wishing her well.

"Dr. Luo Ji!"

"Mr. Taylor, Mr. Diaz!"

After their victory, Diaz and Taylor returned to the military base and invited Luo Ji to dinner.

At the dinner table, as they chatted, they brought up the "wallbreaker" that Taylor had mentioned when they first met.

"Mr. Taylor, you don't look well. The fight just now must have been dangerous. Oh, would you like something to drink?"

"casual……"

Taylor slowly cut his steak, his face full of exhaustion, and the dazzling array of food on the table made him lose his appetite.

"Four days ago, my wallbreaker appeared."

Luo Ji was pouring wine into his glass when he heard this. He paused, and remained silent for a moment.

"So fast?"

Taylor nodded heavily. "That was the first thing I said to him when I saw him."

Next, at the dinner table, in front of Luo Ji and Reydiaz, Taylor recounted how the Wallbreaker had seen through his plan.

In his Wallfacer Plan, which he submitted to the coalition government, Taylor proposed the establishment of a space force with ball lightning and macro-atomic fusion as its primary weapons.

Because he claimed that soldiers operating such weapons faced a great risk of sacrifice, and that the operation could not be carried out by computers due to the technological blockade imposed by Sophon, he spent a lot of energy and time traveling around the world, examining the armies and other armed forces of various countries, trying to find the remaining spirit of self-sacrifice in human society and to build a space force with this spirit.

"But he saw through my plan, that wallbreaker, a humble fellow who was like a servant."

Taylor was lost in his memories, and his expression grew increasingly grim.

With the breaking of the wall by the Wallbreaker I, Taylor's plans were proven to be nothing more than a facade.

His actual goal was to have a unit in the space force with a spirit of self-sacrifice, because the spherical weapon was not ultimately meant to attack the Trisolaran fleet, but rather the Earth fleet with that spirit of sacrifice.

At some point near the end of the war, when the Earth fleet is on high alert preparing to confront the Trisolaran fleet, the devastating blow will come from a direction they never dreamed of, from people they never imagined.

At that time, the blue light of macro-atomic fusion will illuminate the spaceport, looking like countless suns.

Amidst these blue suns, Earth's main fleet was annihilated, transforming into countless quantum ghosts, while Taylor obtained what he desired: an Earth fleet in a macroscopic quantum state.

This was Taylor's real plan: to use macro-atomic fusion weapons to transform the Earth fleet into a quantum ghost fleet, and then send them to fight against the Trisolaran fleet.

"You're absolutely crazy!"

After hearing Taylor's plan, Luo Ji felt that the person in front of him was simply unreasonable.

"That's murder!"

But he quickly realized that the person opposite him was a Wallfacer.

Luo Ji began to subconsciously wonder if this was also part of Taylor's wall-facing plan, or perhaps a "scheme within a scheme." However, Taylor stuffed a piece of beef into his mouth, chewed it, swallowed it, and then said:
“You’re right, and that wallbreaker guessed correctly too. This really is my strategy.”

Taylor put down his knife and fork and continued speaking.

He clearly has a very strong need to confide in others and doesn't care whether the other person believes him.

"Of course, this plan is actually still in a very preliminary stage. It is only in the technical demonstration stage, and we haven't even found suitable personnel yet."

From a purely technical standpoint, the plan is also extremely difficult.

How should a person who has transformed into a quantum state interact with reality?
And how do they achieve fixed-point collapse in real spacetime through self-observation?
These are all unknowns and require extensive experimental research, but based on the existing facts, the plan is certainly feasible and of great strategic value.

"What are the existing facts?"

"Yes, we have a ready example, the famous Dr. Chen Ang, who is a quantum life form and can freely control his own collapse and quantization."

Taylor's eyes lit up, but the light quickly faded.

"But he is the only one. In the early stages of ball lightning research, there were quite a few people who became quantum states. We tried to contact them, but unfortunately we were unsuccessful. We haven't heard from those people for many years."

Of course, there are many legends about them, but each one was eventually proven false; they seem to have vanished forever, which may be related to what physicists call the divergence of probability clouds.

"what is that?"

"A natural law under macroscopic quantum states, simply put, is that the quantized probability cloud of existence will spread out in space over time and become thinner, making the quantum probability of any point in reality smaller and smaller."

Finally, this means that the probability of this existence is distributed across the entire universe on average. Thus, a person in a quantum state theoretically exists anywhere in the universe, omnipresent, but the probability of them appearing at any given point is infinitesimally close to zero.

"Then why don't you seek help from Dr. Chen Ang?"

"How do you know we didn't ask for help?" Taylor countered.

"what?!"

"The knowledge I just shared is what he said."

He also explained that he was just an exception, and that there were still many theoretical and technical problems to be solved in order to truly achieve controllable quantum ghost states, which might not even take two hundred years.

However, judging from the enemy's attitude towards this plan now, all of this may be meaningless. Do you know what his evaluation of this plan was at the time?

Even the Lord doesn't care.

Taylor spoke to himself, and only a deathly silence remained at the dinner table.

“Ignoring them is the greatest contempt, but for me, that’s not the biggest blow.”

"what is that?"

Luo Ji felt like a conversational machine, speaking in a dry, monotonous manner.

Compared to Taylor, who doesn't even have a Wallfacer plan, he seems to have no chance to be looked down upon by the "Wallbreakers." Could this be considered a different kind of "winning without using any moves"?

"It's the reaction from the coalition government and those guys!"

Taylor gave a wry smile.

"The day after the Wallbreaker appeared, all my strategies were put online, with a total of over a million words of data and well-reasoned reasoning, much of which came from the monitoring information of the Sophon."

This caused a great sensation, and the PDC (Planetary Defense Council) held a hearing specifically for it.

Do you know what the outcome of the meeting was?

Luo Ji shook his head.

"They believe that my plan constitutes a crime against humanity and must be stopped, and the Wallfacers should be punished by law."

However, the resolution concluded by stating that, in accordance with the basic principles of the Wallfacer Project, any evidence that emerges from the outside world may be part of the Wallfacers' strategic deception and does not prove the existence of the project or that it is being implemented.

Therefore, I am not charged and am innocent!

"I think so too."

Luo Ji nodded. He did indeed believe that Taylor's plan might be a smokescreen, just as others believed that his lazy, complacent attitude was a smokescreen.

However, Radiaz chuckled dismissively and finished the last bit of red wine in his glass.

“You have to thank your position, Mr. Taylor, it helped you. If it were me, I wouldn’t be so easy to talk to.”

"But I stated at the meeting that the Wallbreaker's analysis was correct, that I did indeed intend to quantize the Earth fleet, and that I requested to be tried in accordance with international law and my country's laws."

But you know what? The PDC rotating president and representatives of all the permanent members looked at me and smiled, and then announced the end of the meeting.

"These bastards!"

"I know that feeling."

Luo Ji sighed. He remembered the same sense of powerlessness he felt when he said he wouldn't become a Wallfacer.

"I rushed out of the venue and onto the plaza outside, yelling. A huge crowd surrounded me, and they even expressed their admiration for me... Ugh! What a bunch of idiots!"

Luo Ji finally decided to remain silent, and he smiled at Taylor without saying a word.

It was this smile that drove Taylor, who was staring at him, into a hysterical state.

"Hahaha, you laughed, the laugh of the Wallfacer, the laugh of one Wallfacer to another!"
You also think I'm just working, you also think I'm putting on a good show, and you think I'm continuing to save the world!
Hahaha, how did we end up in such a ridiculous situation?

boom!
Before Luo Ji could speak, Radiaz, who had been silent all along, slammed his fist on the table, making the knives and forks on the table clang.

"enough!"

His eyes were fixed on Taylor, who was already in a state of collapse, as if he were also judging whether he was putting on the disguise that Wallfacers usually do.

"Stop with your hypocritical nonsense. Haven't you committed enough crimes against humanity?"
And when you were put in this position, didn't you consider these things?

Stop joking. You know very well how they'll react. Those people will never let you step down from the Wallfacer position. You're not representing yourself.

If you continue like this, I will truly be ashamed to be a Wallfacer alongside you.

Let's face reality, Mr. Taylor. This is a vicious cycle from which we can never escape. Just pretend that wallbreaker never existed and continue with the plan.

This is good for you, for us, for the country, for humanity, and for the planet.

Looking at Taylor's appearance, Luo Ji couldn't help but sigh softly, thinking that this kind of thing would continue for decades.

However, Taylor stood up.

"Never able to escape?"
No, there is a way to escape, there really is a way, and that's why I'm here to tell you how.

Okay, I'm full.

After saying that, he walked out of the restaurant.

Luo Ji glanced at Taylor, who was getting up to leave, and then at Radiaz, who was sitting silently at the table. He didn't know whether to get up or stay. Then a gunshot rang out outside, and his heart skipped a beat. He quickly pushed back his chair, got up, and ran outside.

(End of this chapter)