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

Chapter 17 Informant
Zhang Beihai was indeed always worried about his father's illness.

Beihai had subtly hinted to his father whether he wanted to hibernate and travel to the future for medical treatment.

The father naturally refused.

"Why do you always care whether I live or die?" the father said.

Zhang Beihai sighed inwardly. It was for the best. Although his father was seriously ill, his health was still stable. However, the thought of his future reinforcement plans made him feel a little uneasy.

The reinforcement plan for the future was scheduled for the 12th year of the Crisis Era, which is three years from now. I need to strive to become a political cadre for the reinforcement plan for the future, and also spend as much time as possible with my father during these three years.

For Zhang Beihai, hibernation meant saying goodbye to his father forever.

My father was actually quite aware of my little emotions, and he always addressed them with a humorous tone.

"When it's time for a person to die, they should die. It's already an exception that God has allowed me to live for a few more years. You don't need to worry about me."

Zhang Beihai suddenly felt a faint sense of gratitude towards the wallfacer named Luo Qing, as if he could finally escape the only scene that terrified him.

I don't know how much time passed, until the sun began to set in the west, until the setting sun was like blood.

A long-haul passenger plane flying from the North to Norway had climbed into the stratosphere and passed overhead.

The gradually spreading contrail was bathed in the glow of the setting sun, like a golden cone of light stretching across the sky. The passenger plane struggled to disappear into the twilight, and Zhang Beihai stared blankly at the horizon.

The old man felt he had been sitting in the yard long enough and had talked enough with his son. He slowly stood up, drooping his eyelids as he glanced at his son, who was staring blankly at the setting sun.

"What are you looking at?"

"Oh, look at the airplane."

"What's so interesting about airplanes? You've been to space, haven't you?"

"The aircraft left a contrail, like a ballistic trajectory."

"It's more like migratory birds flying south."

Looking at the flight path, which indeed resembled a line of migratory geese, Zhang Beihai asked, "Will the migratory birds return?"

"That depends on whether there are any flying eggs left here."

"Dad, talking to you always reminds me of a lot of things."

"Don't overthink it," the old man said dismissively.

"Didn't you tell me before to think more?" Beihai asked.

"That's what I told you when I thought I was about to die. Since I'm still alive, there's plenty of time. Don't think too much, it'll just make you tired," the old man said, looking at his son who still seemed thoughtful even after returning from vacation.

Zhang Beihai nodded.

"Also, leave tomorrow. You don't need to come see me often. Just send me money on time."

Zhang Beihai turned his head and stared blankly at his father.

...

Soon after, news that Luo Qing, the Wallfacer, had taken a plane to visit Luo Ji, the Wallfacer, in Northern Europe spread like wildfire across the internet.

This is a rare occurrence for everyone, because of the unique nature of Wallfacers, who rarely meet each other except for having to attend a PDC hearing once a year.

At least once in history, the Wallfacers have met in private.

That is, the Wallfacer Taylor meets the Wallfacer Luo Ji.

The case ended with Taylor's suicide.

Now, the fact that one Wallfacer is visiting another Wallfacer easily evokes negative thoughts.

When Luo Qing arrived in Northern Europe, the sun was already setting.

"here it is……"

“The Norwegian fjords, you could also call them Eden,” Kant said with a slight smile.

Kant, an official of the United Nations Planetary Defense Council (PDC), is Luo Ji's Wallfacer liaison, and Luo Qing knows him.

“Eden, what a wonderful name, the original place of human morality.” Luo Qing nodded.

Kant was somewhat surprised: "You know about these things? I thought that as a promoter of traditional Eastern fantasy stories, you weren't interested in Western religious mythology."

“I treat all cultures equally. Religious myths symbolize humanity’s pursuit of moral principles and often reveal the eternal tension between human free will and responsibility. From this point of view, East and West are the same.”

Luo Qing and Kant traveled together in a private car to the heart of Norway, to Luo Ji's residence, which was hailed as the Garden of Eden.

Looking at the beautiful scenery passing by the window, Luo Qing clicked his tongue. This place has some of the beauty of the cultivation world. Brother Luo really knows how to enjoy life.

Kant said, "Dr. Luo Ji originally intended to pick you up at the airport in person, but we vetoed it due to his security concerns. There are informants within the ETO who claim that the ETO is currently planning a new attack on Dr. Luo Ji."

Luo Qing knew that Luo Ji had been under ETO's surveillance for a long time, but what surprised him was something else: "An informant? All ETO members, from joining to their deaths, are under Sophon's surveillance. How did your informants infiltrate?"

Kant shook his head upon hearing this, but Luo Qing interrupted him as he was about to speak:
"Tomoko is right here, watch your words."

Luo Qing pointed to the car's center console. Kant paused, then asked, "You can see it?"

"It can be sensed."

Kant suddenly realized: "It seems the rumors are true, humanity has a 'god'. You are indeed extraordinary, but you don't need to worry. What I'm about to say, even if Zhizi understands, there's nothing he can do, and even if he could, he couldn't do it."

Luo Qing clearly felt Zhi Zi move a little closer; obviously, Kant's words had made Zhi Zi somewhat unconvinced.

In the Three-Body world, rows of Three-Body experts specializing in the study of human thought sat solemnly in front of the screen, analyzing Luo Qing and Kant's conversation word by word.

"Calling them informants isn't accurate," Kanter said. "In fact, we at the PDC knew absolutely nothing about those informants."

Luo Qing was clearly not prepared for this answer. He countered, "Aren't the informants in ETO spies and agents trained by various countries?"

Kant smiled upon hearing this, a smile of composure: "How could our agents possibly pass the Sophon's detection? In fact, our informants have never been officially trained agents, because neither the PDC nor any country in the world has ever issued an order to infiltrate the ETO."

Kant blinked: "You're a Wallfacer, can you figure that out?"

Luo Qing had figured it out, and he sighed deeply.

"So... all the infiltration operations against the ETO were spontaneous actions by the civilians, right?"

Kant gave Luo Qing a thumbs up.

"You are very smart."

Luo Qing smiled and said, "No wonder you're not afraid of Zhizi hearing this... Even you don't know who the informant is, so Zhizi has no way of knowing."

Kante nodded: "With the emergence of the Sophon, the idea that all of humanity is being monitored has taken root in people's minds. As the Wallbreaker said, you have been promoting the idea that 'everyone is a Wallfacer,' which has brought humanity into an unprecedented state of tacit understanding."

"The forward-thinking among the people, the social elites who were dissatisfied with ETO, and the general public who hated aliens—they hid their true feelings and joined ETO for all sorts of reasons."

Even with Somoko conducting the vetting, how could she possibly determine whether these people were genuinely joining or just pretending? After all, no one had given them orders; they were simply acting according to their own instincts.

Luo Qing smiled and said, "Everyone can be like a dragon; this is exactly what I hope for."

Kanter said, "Yes, initially, the spontaneous infiltration of the ETO was limited to retired agents or police officers. Later, wealthy people gradually got involved, followed by politicians, scientists, elites, weapons experts, students, university professors, corporate executives... and countless ordinary people."

The United Nations praised them as civilian infiltrators. From the moment they began their infiltration operations, the class contradictions, ethnic contradictions, national contradictions, and gender contradictions of humanity were completely concealed. They all share one identity: members of humanity.

No one told them what to do or what they should do, and there was even a great risk of being mistakenly targeted when they joined the ETO—after all, the PDC couldn't identify them when it was attacking the ETO.

But these people are numerous and chaotic. Even if only a small portion of them infiltrate the ETO, it would still be a large number. They are unaware of each other and even assume that every ETO member is a traitor to humanity.

These people silently sank into the tide of ETO. As human elites, some of them rose to the upper echelons of ETO, and one day their moment of mission arrived—they obtained crucial intelligence about the Sophons and transmitted it to the PDC's public information collection mailbox.

Luo Qing commented, "ETO has been swallowed up by the vast ocean of humanity."

"Engineer Lei Zhicheng from the Red Coast Base said the same thing before, but he was just mechanically repeating the words of the great man, while you truly brought about this result."

Kant smiled and concluded, "The day the informants decided to enter the PDC's website address or email address, they had accomplished their mission."

They might be exposed, their intelligence might be useless, their efforts might be meaningless, and their lives might be threatened, but these thousands upon thousands of mixed pieces of intelligence, when gathered together, constitute humanity's entirety of its understanding of the Trisolaran civilization.

Luo Qing fell silent.

The Three-Body think tank behind Sophon also fell silent.

Some of them even felt it was necessary to suspend contact with the ETO.

Human strategic thinking has surpassed the Trisolarans' imagination.

The human named Kant was right. Even if the Sophon heard it, it wouldn't matter. This was a calculated move by humanity, and the Trisolarans could do nothing about it but allow the ETO to be infiltrated by humans, constantly leaking information about the Trisolaran world.

Kant smiled: "For example, the new order to kill Luo Ji was conveyed by an informant with the authority to participate in the 'Three-Body Problem' game. Of course, after conveying the intelligence, he was immediately exposed. Fortunately, the reaction speed of the various countries' forces was faster than that of the ETO, and they rescued the informant who was trapped in prison—he was the CEO of a technology company."

"You have no idea what happened. At that time, troops from seven countries rushed to the Gulf of Kuwait to rescue people without having any time to communicate."

Luo Qing felt comforted and smiled freely: "My general strategy is correct. The fight against the Trisolaran civilization does not rely on me, nor on a small number of people, but on everyone."

Kant blinked: "So your Wallbreaker speech was real?"

Luo Qing frankly admitted: "The wall-breaker is meaningless to me. Every step I take is an open and aboveboard strategy."

"Like making movies?"

"That was indeed part of the plan."

Kant laughed heartily: "You and Dr. Luo Ji are equally interesting—the Chinese Wallfacers are all fascinating people. Alright, we've arrived, let's get off the bus."

Looking out the window at the snow-capped mountains, lakes, grasslands, and forests, Luo Qing's eyes were filled with wonder.

Kant came out of the car, opened the door for him, and bowed slightly.

"Welcome to Eden, Luo Qing, the Wallfacer."

This book is not a high-end cultivation novel, nor is it about cultivation crushing technology. It is a novel that follows the original work. I believe readers can see by now that this book is not a wish-fulfillment novel. Those who mind should read with caution.

(This book has virtually no cultivation setting, so don't worry about the cultivation setting.)

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