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

Chapter 8 The Wallbreaker's Autobiography
Qin Shihuang and I had anticipated the Wallfacer Project launched by the PDC. After all, the Wallfacer proposal was not a new thing. Although the Wallfacer Project was proposed by the PDC in Crisis Era 3 (2010), the prototype of the Wallfacer Project had already begun to circulate in Crisis Era 1 (2007).

We just didn't expect the Wallfacers to appear so quickly. From the proposal to the selection of Wallfacers, it only took six months.

Commander Ye Wenjie's arrest, the destruction of the Judgment Day, and the death of Adventist Evans all had a significant impact on the remaining ETOs.

Fortunately, it was through the Judgment Day incident that I joined forces with Qin Shi Huang, Aristotle, Mozi, von Neumann, and Newton, becoming the core leader of the new generation of Adventists.

We took the opportunity to completely expel the Redemptionists and Survivors from ETO. Thus, the Adventists became the core of the remaining ETO organization. From that moment on, ETO was the Adventists, and the Adventists were ETO.
(Note: The Adventists believe humanity possesses an unforgivable original sin and hope the Trisolaran civilization will destroy all of humanity, including themselves. The Redemptionists attempt to use the Trisolaran civilization's power to reshape human society. The Survivors hope to work for the Trisolarans in advance to ensure the survival of their descendants.)
The survivors quickly surrendered to various countries. We knew all along that these cowardly cowards would do this. They are the traitors you call traitors, cowards who seek only profit and avoid harm, not our 'comrades'.

The Redemptionists became a new organization distinct from ETO. They hoped to communicate with the Trisolaran civilization during the final battle so that human civilization could have a chance to survive and be completely transformed. We scoff at this naive idea. In his communication with us, the Lord has repeatedly emphasized the need to eliminate all of humanity, including ETO.

—First eliminate humanity, then eliminate ETO.

However, the disappearance of these two factions did not heal the wounds of the remaining ETO organization. The decline of ETO had little to do with Evans' death or the arrest of Commander Ye Wenjie.

The Lord feared humanity's opaque thoughts and stopped communicating with us; this is the root cause of ETO's decline.

ETO's vitality is actually maintained through communication with the Lord. Whether it's Ye Wenjie or Evans, those who followed them had long since died in the encirclement and suppression by countries around the world.

In the years since the Lord stopped communicating with us, our organization has been on the verge of disappearing, and the destruction of Judgment Day has accelerated its collapse.

During this period, many Adventists committed suicide. Just when Qin Shi Huang, Mozi, Newton and others were in despair, the Lord's reply arrived after seven years.

[Because of the establishment of the Wallfacer Project?] A voice-over came through the screen.

[Yes. ]
It must be admitted that the Wallfacer Project, strongly promoted by Chairman Sai, was indeed a brilliant move. At this time, although the Sophons had already arrived on Earth, they were naturally powerless against the PDC's Wallfacer Project. The fear that beings with transparent minds would have of conspiracies involving those with opaque minds far exceeded our imagination.

Even though the Sophons have locked down humanity's cutting-edge theoretical technologies, they are still not at ease.

In this situation, the Lord thought of us again.

In one day, the Lord contacted more than 100 surviving ETO members, including Qin Shi Huang, Newton, Mozi, von Neumann, Aristotle, and myself. With the Lord's initiative in communicating with us, the ETO organization has been revived.

In order to eliminate the fear of the wallbreakers, we devised the Wallbreaker Project during an online meeting of the Three-Body Problem game.

In the second week after the five Wallfacers were selected, we also nominated five Wallbreakers.

The wallbreaker of Frederick Taylor (former U.S. Secretary of Defense), the Wallfacer No. 1 of John von Neumann, is called Wallbreaker No. 1.

Mozi was the second Wallfacer, Manuel Rediaz (President of Venezuela), and was known as Wallbreaker No. 2.

Aristotle appointed Bill Hines (a British scientist) as the third Wallfacer, and he was called Wallbreaker III.

I was appointed as the wallbreaker for Luo Qing (a professor in the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University), the fifth wallbreaker, and was known as Wallbreaker No. 5.

[Pause for a moment, I have a question: Why is there no corresponding Wallbreaker for Luo Ji, the fourth Wallfacer?]
[The Lord will not allow it.]
[Does the Lord not allow it?]

[Yes. ]
[Okay, that's very useful information. I have a second question: Where are Mozi, Aristotle, and other figures who broke through the barriers that never appeared?]
[I don't know, but the Judgment Ship incident made the surviving ETO core members more cautious. We don't know each other's locations and only communicate through the Three-Body game.]
[Okay, you can continue with the rest of the story.]
Actually, the selection of five Wallfacers in PDC's Wallfacer program caused quite a stir from the start, because two of them were far beyond our expectations.

That's right, it's those two guys surnamed Luo.

First up is Wallfacer Number Four, Luo Ji.

Before the Judgment Day incident, Evans had revealed a crucial piece of information to us, the core senior executives of ETO: the Lord had given the order to kill Luo Ji.

This was the first time since the establishment of the ETO organization that the Lord had directly issued an order to hunt down a person. At that time, Evans, the leader of the ETO Advent faction who was still in the incubation period, added a precondition to the Lord's order: to disguise it as an accident and kill Luo Ji.

Unfortunately, with the end of your Guzheng operation, almost all the major governments have obtained all the information about the Third Red Coast Base, including the direct kill order issued by the Lord against Luo Ji.

You have keenly sensed the Lord's fear of logic.

I think the reason why the fourth Wallfacer was chosen is because of this.

But we just can't figure out the fifth Wallfacer, Luo Qing.

(A hint of confusion appeared in the eyes of the fifth wallbreaker)
If I remember correctly, the Wallfacer Project was formally proposed and launched at the 19th meeting of the Planetary Defense Council (PDC). In the previous Wallfacer candidates, the PDC announced a total of four Wallfacers.

Even up to the day before the Wallfacers were announced, there were four Wallfacers.

But just three hours before the start of the nineteenth meeting, the number of Wallfacers was urgently increased to five.

And this fifth person to face the wall was Luo Qing.

Unfortunately, even the Lord couldn't understand why humanity suddenly gained a fifth Wallfacer. It was only when we asked the Lord and requested the Sophon monitoring video before the meeting began that we discovered some anomalies.

Three hours before the meeting began, the PDC officials in charge of the Wallfacer Project all appeared to be talking to themselves or staring blankly. As a fellow human, I quickly realized something was wrong—someone was talking to these PDC officials in a way that neither God nor ordinary people could understand.

Caught off guard by the ETO and even the Lord, the fifth Wallfacer obtained an emergency vote at the PDC Wallfacer program hearing with unprecedented speed, and the fifth Wallfacer's provisional proposal was unanimously approved, receiving unanimous authorization from the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

Luo Qing thus appeared as the fifth Wallfacer...

You seem confused.
Of course I was confused! Do you know what I went through? Like an old monk in deep meditation, as his one who broke through the barrier, I sat in vain for five years under the surveillance video provided by Zhizi! Five years! Five years!
In these five years, I have witnessed him become a Wallfacer, a movie star, and participate in various fantasy-themed films and television series. I have witnessed him deify the Wallfacer image, gain popular support, gradually undermine the power of the PDC and the United Nations, and obtain almost full support from the five major powers.

Do you know that?

I've practically memorized all the lines he's acted in!
Come on, I'll recite it for you! Listen carefully!

'We, the righteous cultivators…'

'Senior, fellow Daoist, mere ant…'

'You audacious vixen, how dare you disturb my Dao heart...'

'Senior sister, this is not allowed...'

'Master, I am dull-witted and have failed to live up to your expectations…'

Cultivation is inherently going against the will of Heaven…

'Attain immortality through the Dao, and become an immortal on the spot…'

'A mere heavenly tribulation? If you're so capable, then strike me down...' But I just can't understand it. I can't figure out what he's doing. Does he want to be a movie star?

Compared to other Wallfacers, at least they were doing something real. Taylor's space fleet equipped with ball lightning, Radiaz's star-shaped nuclear bombs and Mercury base, and Hines's efforts to improve human intelligence and accelerate brain evolution—regardless of what their real Wallfacer plans were, at least they actually did something and made an effort.

Although the Lord doesn't care.

But for those who break down barriers, as long as they take action, they will give us the opportunity to break through.

Even the fourth Wallfacer, Luo Ji, at least knew to use his Wallfacer privileges to find his dream lover and enjoy life in Northern Europe... But what about Luo Qing?

Like a celebrity in the entertainment industry, Luo Qing has participated in more than 60 film and television works in the past five years, gained billions of fans worldwide, released more than 20 Taoist songs, written more than 10 academic papers arguing for the relationship between the Chinese classical philosophy of "Tao" and "science", and traveled to 97 famous mountains and rivers around the world...

What is he doing?
His actions made me see no trace of the Wallfacer Project.

Sometimes I really think, ridiculously, that he was just doing it to fulfill his dream of playing those characters in fantasy dramas.

The success of the first wall-breaker inspired me, and I began to shift my focus away from Luo Qing and start reviewing the works he had played in various films and television dramas.

Finally, I found it.

I found the genuine emotions he expressed in countless film and television roles.

Luo Qing's ecstatic joy while playing the role of the sect leader was genuine; his face was practically contorted with laughter.

That was the first time I had seen emotion in his eyes since I broke through the barrier.

So, I finally found an opportunity, I summarized my own theory of breaking down barriers, and I completed my own speech on breaking down barriers.

I thought I could succeed like the number one wallbreaker...

(Wallbreaker No. 5's eyes dimmed)

But I was wrong. I didn't see through him at all. I thought I had observed him for five years and understood everything about him, but in reality, those five years were probably as ordinary as five hours in his eyes.

At the United Nations General Assembly, in front of four billion people on live television worldwide, I was pinned in mid-air by his invisible power. Only then did I realize that I had never known who he was.

All information about Luo Qing and all the images provided by Zhi Zi are as shattered as a mirage.

In the unknown power he displayed, I saw the real Wallfacer No. 5 for the first time.

I think I understand now the ultimate reason why the PDC and the UN Emergency Management Agency designated him as the fifth Wallfacer.

He's a superhero, just like in Hollywood movies.

Of course, he is more like the cultivators and immortals he plays in movies and TV series, superheroes with characteristics of Eastern culture.

Ironically, I've always considered those so-called divine identities to be fake, but now, Luo Qing has truly revealed his extraordinary side...

However, Luo Qing, the wall-facer, was wrong about one thing.

His so-called magic tricks are utterly ineffective in the face of the true power of the Lord.

I'll reiterate one last time: the Lord doesn't care.

His little magic tricks, aren't they still about becoming Wallfacers within the framework of human society, gradually completing his plans?

None of the problems within the framework of human society threaten my Lord.

Magicians can't save humanity...

The Lord doesn't care, the Lord won't care... (Wallbreaker No. 5 falls into a daze.)
[Self-narration phase has been recorded]

Interrogator: "Excuse me."

Interrogator: "I think you may not know what happened after your arrest. Watch this video."

(A first-person perspective video of an F-22 fighter jet appears in front of Wallbreaker No. 5. The video is divided into two parts: the destruction of the Kuroshio and the pursuit of the Somoko.)
A thousand-foot sword light cleaved across the Pacific Ocean, chasing Zhizi at a hundred times the speed of sound.

At the horizon, the setting sun was like blood, and the sonic boom clouds ripped apart like the wind.

Is this... really a human?

Wallbreaker Number Five opened his mouth, but his throat seemed to be blocked, and he couldn't say a word.

Seeing the Wallbreaker's reaction, the interrogator nodded in satisfaction. His reaction when he first saw the video was not much better than the Wallbreaker's.

Interrogator: "You've seen the video, so I believe you now have a basic understanding of Professor Luo Qing's abilities as Wallfacer Number Five."

Interrogator: "There is one last question. Between the Wallfacer Luo Ji and the Wallfacer Luo Qing, in your Lord's eyes, who poses a greater threat?"

A hint of disorientation appeared in Wallbreaker No. 5's eyes as he recalled the scene in the United Nations hall and watched the video. Suddenly, a line of text slowly appeared before his eyes.

When discussing Luo Qing, do not mention Luo Ji.

It is the Lord, his Lord has appeared to him, the Lord has not abandoned him.

Indeed, how could Luo Ji be more threatening than Luo Qing? Luo Ji is just an ordinary person, while Luo Qing is a superman—a superman in every sense of the word.

A pang of sorrow gripped the wall-breaker's heart. He cried out silently in his soul, "Lord, you ultimately failed to learn how to use cunning!"

'But it doesn't matter. Let me, Wallbreaker No. 5, disrupt humanity's thinking and perform one last strategic deception for the Master.'

Wallbreaker No. 5: "Luo Ji".

?

A question mark simultaneously popped into the Trisolarans' minds.

(End of this chapter)