Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 14 Insects vs. Dung Beetles

"Everyone offline, disconnect from the network, and do not let your IP address be traced!"

After Qin Shi Huang finished speaking, he swung his sword at Van Gogh.

Van Gogh was suddenly engulfed by a burst of white light.

Van Gogh has been forcibly taken offline. As a leader of ETO, Qin Shi Huang has much higher game privileges than the administrators.

“If he’s not Van Gogh, then who is he?” Newton asked, turning his head.

"Luo Qing, the one who faces the wall," Aristotle and Mozi said in unison.

"Damn it, The Three-Body Problem has long since closed all external login channels. Even if he got Van Gogh's ID and login code, he shouldn't be able to identify him through his iris." Newton was taken aback.

"It's possible they gouged out Van Gogh's eyes," someone described a horrific story.

"Discussing these things is pointless. The Three-Body Problem is no longer safe. Everyone, log off immediately. Those who are confident in their hacking skills can stay a little longer."

As soon as Qin Shi Huang finished speaking, many white beams of light appeared on the pyramid's platform, and one ETO member after another cut off the network connection without hesitation.

However, a small number of people have not yet gone offline, including the three wall-breaking people, Newton, Einstein, and naturally Qin Shi Huang.

Clearly, these people are very confident in their actual safety.

Newton turned to look at von Neumann, who had also not left. Although the latter's status within ETO had risen sharply due to his successful breakthrough, as far as Newton knew, von Neumann had actually been under the surveillance of PDC.

"Von Neumann, aren't you going offline? If The Three-Body Problem is compromised, cyber intelligence agencies from various countries can obtain all your information within two minutes."

“I was exposed a long time ago, they just didn’t arrest me, after all, Taylor’s last words were that I shouldn’t be pursued.” Von Neumann smiled at him.

Newton stopped talking and turned his gaze to Qin Shi Huang.

Qin Shi Huang said, "I just entrusted the master to check on Van Gogh's situation, and now I have received new information—Van Gogh has been released by Luo Qing, who also said that this is part of the plan. As for more information, Zhi Zi did not tell me."

Mozi shook his head: "The Wallfacer released the Wallbreaker and even claimed it was part of the plan, this is truly..."

Aristotle added the final sentence for him: "How insulting to the wallbreaker."

Qin Shi Huang paused, as if receiving some information, and after a while, he said:
“We were too tense just now. The Lord told us that the Three-Body Problem is still safe and has not been compromised by any country.”

Newton asked, "And what about Luo Qing? How did he manage to log in using Van Gogh's identity?"

Qin Shihuang said, "According to the surveillance video of Zhizi, Luo Qing was in his Wallfacer's house. After installing the V-equipment specifically for logging into 'The Three-Body Problem' in the room, he flashed and transformed into the appearance of Van Gogh."

"Disguise?" someone asked.

Qin Shi Huang shook his head: "Zhi Zi said no, the Van Gogh that Luo Qing transformed into was almost 100% accurate in appearance."

"Even the pupil pattern can be perfectly replicated... Is this some kind of monster?" an ETO member who hadn't logged out exclaimed.

“But it’s all right now,” Qin Shihuang said. “I just locked Van Gogh’s ID completely, so he can’t get in now unless he can get the ID of another ETO member with enough privileges to log into the Three-Body game.”

As soon as Qin Shi Huang finished speaking, the vast sky of the world trembled violently once again, as if the world's 'program' will had been shattered. The sky cracked inch by inch, and from the deep darkness, a beam of white light slowly shone down.

The white light disappeared, and Van Gogh reappeared on the pyramid's platform, only this time he had something in his hand.

Van Gogh casually tossed a layer of human flesh onto their faces.

"Game administrators, here you go."

Qin Shi Huang stared in astonishment at his administrator, who had shrunk to a mere fraction of his former size, feeling utterly shocked.

This is a game! How did you manage to find out the game administrator's account?

It even forced the administrator account to a state of dehydration (offline).

Van Gogh clapped his hands: "This little game world is indeed interesting, but it's too fragile. Even the Heavenly Way is so weak—oh, the Heavenly Way is my term, you call it the underlying code program."

Van Gogh then strolled across the pyramid's platform, making comments as he went.

"This little world is very rudimentary. The laws are incomplete and fragmented... The textures are rough, and the generated map is full of loopholes."

Looking at the now sparsely populated pyramid-shaped platform, Van Gogh asked again, "Where is everyone else? Did they go to a silver party?"

Qin Shi Huang frowned and remained silent. Newton pulled out his wooden staff, pointed it in Van Gogh's direction, and said warily, "Luo Qing, the Wallfacer! Wasn't Van Gogh's ID banned? How did you get in again?"

Van Gogh looked surprised and said in an exaggerated manner, "A title? You call that little restriction a title? You really think a piece of electronic program can stop me?"

Van Gogh's words caused everyone's expression to change drastically.

'This guy can actually hack into the network, what kind of monster is he? Maxwell's demon?'

This absurd idea spontaneously arose in everyone's mind.

In fact, the Three-Body Problem game was supported by the technology of the developers. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to create such a beautiful game in 07 when computer technology was not yet fully developed. The fact that the graphics of an online game can surpass those of today's mainstream console games is enough to illustrate this point.

The Three-Body Problem game, which God bestowed upon ETO in 07, has remained unbroken by hackers from various countries until 2015, which is ETO's greatest technological advantage online.

But now, this technology has been broken. Van Gogh shook his head: "I don't understand much about the internet, but your master's game is definitely not just as simple as code. Humans' current computer code cannot be optimized to this level. As for your so-called account banning and muting privileges, it's like trying to block the iron gate of a bank with paper seals."

Van Gogh looked up at the ever-changing sky of the Chaotic Era: "Be thankful that this game world hasn't developed self-punishing mechanisms like divine punishment or calamity, otherwise, if I had destroyed it, it would have caused the game to crash."

Qin Shi Huang had no more desire to say anything to Luo Qing. He once again raised his bronze short sword and swung it fiercely in the direction of Van Gogh.

A white light once again engulfed Van Gogh, but he only flickered a few times before recovering.

Qin Shi Huang gave up his futile struggle, plunged the sword back into the ground, crossed his hands and pressed the hilt, truly like an ancient emperor, staring intently at his opponent.

Very well, if he can't get rid of the other person, then let's patiently listen to what he has to say.

Luo Qing smiled and said, "Zhi Zi, I know you can hear me. It just so happens that I systematically studied the underlying program logic of the network world a few years ago. Cultivators have better memory and learning abilities than ordinary people, and my predecessor was a scientific researcher, so I can roughly guess the bottom line of this game."

"The world you Trisolarans inhabit has already entered the era of strong information, hasn't it?"

The sky in the world of "The Three-Body Problem" was instantly filled with a pure blue canopy, the three suns disappeared without a trace, as if all the messy textures had been removed, and then a mirror-like sphere appeared in the sky.

"host!"

Newton immediately fell to the ground and cried out.

“It is Zhi Zi,” Mo Zi said calmly.

“It’s not a real sophon, but a sophon generated by The Three-Body Problem.” Aristotle’s tone was equally calm.

The total internal reflection mirror sphere expanded rapidly, soon almost filling the entire sky.

【how do you know? 】

The mirrored sky displayed a line of standard Microsoft YaHei Chinese characters.

Luo Qing began: "Collect, summarize, organize, speculate, verify, and draw conclusions."

Luo Qing added, "The heavens evolve through forty-nine, but man escapes one."

[You are a genius scholar, but even a genius scholar cannot conjure up the fundamental theories that drive scientific development out of thin air.] The sophon reflected Van Gogh's pupils, as if reflecting a brilliant starry night.

Luo Qing smiled and said, "Indeed, all that's left for humanity is classical physics, quantum mechanics, and string theory, which is still in its infancy. If theoretical research were useful, I could be wholesaling Nobel Prizes tomorrow."

Zhi Zi did not give any feedback, but Luo Qing was not in a hurry. He paced around the square platform, always keeping his distance from Qin Shi Huang and his entourage.

"Based on my understanding of information technology, human civilization is currently in the weak information age and it is difficult to enter the strong information age. I am just a novice, so please don't laugh at me if I'm wrong. I speculate that the hallmark of the strong information age should be that every virtual world on the network has a complete logic and a sense of self-maintenance. This sense of self-maintenance is not trained by a large model and a stack of algorithms, but rather by a different set of principles."

The leader behind Zhizi remained silent. There were some questions he couldn't answer, and he subconsciously couldn't lie, so he could only keep urging the newly appointed scientific governor to come over quickly.

Luo Qing continued, "I know that His Majesty Qin Shi Huang, Dr. Newton, the sage Aristotle, Master Mo, and scholar von Neumann might not understand. Let me give you an example from my film: in the information age, every network world is like every magic weapon that has been given a spirituality."

John von Neumann, as the father of the computer in history, lived up to his reputation by asking, "Can pure code programs do this?"

Luo Qing nodded: "Perhaps."

But the programming language for insects won't work.

Facing Zhi Zi's ridicule, Luo Qing remained unmoved: "If C language doesn't work, then C++; if C++ doesn't work, then D language; if D language doesn't work, then E language; if we run out of the 26 letters, then we'll use the Greek letters; if we run out of the Greek letters, then we'll use the Latin letters. Humanity can always find a way to survive."

"Don't you think so, sage Aristotle?"

Aristotle instinctively clenched the decorative scroll in his hand.

The crowd didn't understand why Luo Qing suddenly mentioned Aristotle. Perhaps it was because Aristotle was the one who broke through the barriers for neuroscientist Hines? But they had to admit that Luo Qing's explanation made them suddenly realize the truth, and then plunged them into deep fear.

The fact that the Lord did not refute it means that the Wallfacer in front of him had only guessed the Lord's level of information development based on the "Three-Body Problem" game.

To put it in the context of Luo Qing playing Dungeon Fighter Online, the enemy's stats are no longer just a bunch of question marks.

Information has already started to leak.

Although there is still a long way to go before the health bar is fully revealed.

But this is just the beginning, isn't it?
At this point, Luo Qing had completed his mission. He had no interest in playing the "wall-breaking" game with the ETO leaders. He had already shaken the ETO's fanatical technological worship of the Trisolarans, and a deeper understanding of the Lord was the first step in dismantling their faith.

The seeds of doubt have been sown.

ETOs can't be eradicated; you can't take away people's right to be idiots, Luo Qing knew that very well.

It's enough to make people realize that 'the Trisolarans are just as rotten as humans, and if humans are insects, then the Trisolarans are at most dung beetles.'

Luo Qing's main objective was to demystify the Trisolaran civilization through ETO.

Strike once and leave, make a brief attempt, and let the rest slowly wear each other down. Humans are a race adept at mental exhaustion.

And so, Luo Qing deliberately disappeared from the world of "The Three-Body Problem," leaving behind only the ETO members looking at each other in bewilderment.

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