The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

“If we don’t remain in seclusion, the organization can’t stop us either! The higher-ups in humanity have come to see this as a ‘counter-offensive’ rather than an ‘escape.’ Even if Feng Taylor suddenly dies, they will still ensure that the deep space voyage continues.”

The ETO members argued endlessly, but no matter how much they argued, they couldn't come up with a feasible way to stop humanity from going deep into space.

King Wen of Zhou said, somewhat exasperated, "You all need to think of something! Public opinion? Assassination? Or breaking through the barrier? Anything is fine, as long as it can stop humanity from leaving the solar system!"

The desperate lament of the ETO members in the Three-Body Problem game.

There's no other way.

"With the organization's current strength, it is simply powerless to stop all of this from happening."

Chapter 124 We must infiltrate even deeper

Just as the ETO members were immersed in despair, someone suddenly shouted out.

"I have a plan! I've got it! We haven't completely failed yet!"

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice, and a low-level ETO member stepped forward and entered the view of the ETO's higher-ups.

The speaker was a handsome young man dressed in a black dragon robe.

"Hu Hai, what is your plan?" King Wen of Zhou, Ji Chang, stared at the other man.

Hu Hai said, "We must abandon our current passive state of seclusion and transform into an active state of seclusion."

"Is there a positive and a negative form of seclusion?"

The ETO members were puzzled. The common term for seclusion is to hide away. And there are positive and negative ways to hide.

Hu Hai straightened his long sleeves and explained, "Yes, a passive, reclusive state is like us now. Although the organization is well hidden and will not be suppressed by humans, the organization only has so much energy at its disposal. When humans make choices, we cannot interfere and can only helplessly watch everything happen."

"A proactive form of seclusion is about integrating into every corner of human society while concealing one's identity..."

Someone interrupted Hu Hai's speech, saying, "Hu Hai, the organization has always been actively integrating into human society."

Although ETO is in a reclusive state, this does not mean that they have completely separated from human society. They still intend to lead humanity toward destruction, so it is impossible for them not to have contact with humans.

ETO's seclusion means refraining from any terrorist-style actions, such as assassinating high-ranking human leaders, and from inducing human civilization to collapse in order to avoid exposing itself.

By Hu Hai's standards, the organization was considered a "positive" one in the eyes of others.

But Hu Hai shook his head, “We haven’t integrated enough. The organization’s reclusive state is passive. If it were active, it would try to reach the pinnacle of human civilization’s power.”

The ETO members were so anxious about humanity leaving the solar system that they had no interest in arguing with Hu Hai about the different states of seclusion.

Therefore, Mozi impatiently urged Huhai to hurry up.

"How can we stop humanity from leaving the solar system? Don't give me a long explanation, just tell me your method. The most important thing now is to stop humanity from leaving the solar system."

"Infiltrating the human elite, that is, becoming a member of the PDC, is possible. As long as we can occupy more than half of the seats in the PDC, the request for deep space voyage can be rejected."

Hu Hai revealed his proposed method, which sparked heated debate among the ETO members.

Among the crowd, some criticized the flaws in Hu Hai's ideas.

"It's simply impossible. Humans aren't stupid. Their numbers are much larger than ours. If we openly make choices against the will of humanity, we will quickly lose power."

Since ETO went into seclusion, their people have ventured into various fields, but there is one field they keep their distance from.

That is the high-ranking human beings who hold the power at the pinnacle of civilization.

It's not that they don't want to enter this field, but the risks are too great, and it goes against the organization's direction of remaining hidden from the world.

As the leadership class, especially after the Trisolaran crisis, the identities of the human elite must be able to withstand investigation. If an ETO member has managed to infiltrate the leadership class...

It's fine if their hidden identities aren't discovered, but if they are, wouldn't that shatter the illusion that 'ETO is dead'?

The programmer who spread the Killer virus was not the last member of ETO; there are many more ETO members hiding in human society.

When humanity becomes wary of ETO, it means that ETO's state of seclusion has been broken, regardless of whether it is still in hiding.

Even if, hypothetically, an ETO member infiltrated the leadership without being detected by humans, the things he could do would be very limited.

Even if someone is a head of state, will their power remain unshaken if their proposed plan fundamentally violates the interests of human civilization?

Those who covet his position won't exploit this to their advantage?

The greater the power, the fiercer the competition.

In the ETO's view, leadership positions are high-risk and not very useful, so the ETO has never placed any "spies" in leadership positions.

But Hu Hai didn't think that way. He always believed that ETO should actively reach out to this class, join this class, and then replace this class.

Hu Hai explained: "Therefore, after we become leaders, we have to make choices that 'appear to be for the benefit of mankind, but are actually harmful to human civilization.' Due to their status and the channels through which they receive information, people cannot see the big picture clearly. Blindness is very common among people at the bottom."

"It's also simple to prevent humans from leaving the solar system. The PDC can allow deep space travel as proposed by Feng Taylor, and it can also prohibit it, as long as there is a suitable reason," Hu Hai said.

The ETO executives fell into deep thought when Hu Hai opened up a new perspective for them.

Since they can't beat Feng Taylor, why don't they just avoid confronting him directly?

Once they become PDCs, no matter what plans Feng Taylor or other Wallfacers who suddenly appear out of nowhere propose that threaten the Trisolarans, they can find all sorts of suitable reasons to reject them.

However, doing so also means great risks. Being in the leadership class is not easy, because there are far too many people vying for their positions.

Among the senior executives of ETO, someone said, "This method will take a very long time, possibly decades or even longer. Now, humanity is ready to step out of the solar system."

The implication was that the ETO members present were asking if anyone could suggest another way to dispel humanity's idea of ​​leaving the solar system, besides Hu Hai's method.

There was no response from the ETO members. The lower-level ETOs below the top were very guilty and looked away, unwilling to meet the eyes of the higher-ups.

King Wen of Zhou announced: "Hu Hai's proposal has been approved. From today onwards, the organization will be thoroughly integrated into humanity, hiding even deeper, and after gaining their trust, will lead them toward destruction."

"Develop a 20-year plan, and in 20 years, occupy more than half of the seats in the PDC."

Now, there is only one way to prevent humanity from leaving the solar system. Once the ETO leadership understood the situation, they no longer hesitated.

Even if ETO were to perish, it would be worth it as long as it prevents humanity from leaving the solar system.

……

Behind the KILLER virus is a vast network of vested interests, which has even successfully cultivated internal agents within the upper echelons of humanity.

Although the number is small, it is still terrifying enough.

The Taylor faction's advocacy for the complete eradication of the Killer virus has affected the interests of far too many people. As a result, these organizations and individuals have stood on the opposite side of the Taylor faction.

This is not a single force, but a collection of multiple forces lurking in the shadows, stretching from the Southern Hemisphere to the Northern Hemisphere. Individuals and corporations have united to prevent the Taylor Group from eliminating the Killer virus for the official human forces it leads. This is how they stopped the PDC in the first place.

This time, however, they are facing not only the PDC, but also the entire space politics circle, including the Taylor faction.

Unlike Earth-based politics, space politics is not so heavily infiltrated. The interests of the two circles lie in different places: Earth-based politics are on Earth, while space politics are in space.

In particular, the Rouen assassination, in which the target was the human Wallfacer Feng Taylor, resulted in the deaths of over a million people in Rouen, making it an extremely heinous crime.

The Rouen assassination further solidified the determination of the space politics community to eliminate these scourges on Earth.

What's interesting is that by the time the local forces under the PDC began preparing to wipe out these people and forces, they were already mostly dead.

The reason is that some people are very dissatisfied with the fact that some forces carried out the assassination of Lin Feng without authorization and caused the tragedy in Rouen City. They believe that these people who assassinated Lin Feng are all brainless and that it is because of these people that they are now in such a passive position and have even lost the right to negotiate and reconcile with the official human forces.

As the official human forces gradually exerted pressure, the internal conflicts within this alliance became increasingly acute, and infighting became inevitable. By the time the official human forces had investigated everything, most of their opponents were already dead.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that some people might try to hide themselves away like a gecko shedding its tail, and the intelligence agencies under the PDC will conduct an in-depth investigation.

The Killer virus thus came to an end, becoming a topic of conversation on television news.

For example, someone was arrested for breaking the law, a terrorist organization's stronghold was destroyed, or a company was suspended from listing due to numerous financial problems and its actual manager was arrested.

Lin Feng was genuinely happy that the KILLER virus could disappear, and that Luo Ji, who was still in hibernation, would no longer have to escape death time and time again in the future.

However, his joy did not last long before it was overshadowed by the astonishment of another event.

In the virtual war exercise, after Lin Feng's request for reforms, the human fleet inflicted damage on the Trisolaran fleet for the first time.

The results of this exercise not only astonished Lin Feng, but also caused quite a stir in the directing department, the entire Space Force, and the PDC.

Those high-ranking humans concerned about the Trisolaran threat naturally knew how outrageous the configuration of the Trisolaran fleet was, at Lin Feng's request.

In layman's terms, it's using cheats in a game.

In every virtual exercise, no matter how much the human fleet struggled and resisted, the Trisolaran fleet always crushed them.

Some even suspected that Lin Feng's demands were a malicious attempt to foster defeatism within the Space Force.

This time, however, the myth of the Trisolaran fleet's invincibility was shattered. More than twenty antimatter warships were destroyed by the sub-light-speed electromagnetic artillery and ordinary electromagnetic artillery released by the human fleet.

That's right, this time it was the players who pulled off this crazy stunt.

Faced with overwhelming power and unparalleled vision, the Space Force's strategies become utterly useless.

After all, the commanders of the Trisolaran fleet were also elites among the elites of the space force. Some dirty tactics that even the Trisolarans themselves couldn't see through were easily seen through by the space force elites playing the role of the Trisolaran fleet. They were more experienced and cunning than the space force of the human fleet.

But the players are different, because these guys don't follow strategy and often play by their own rules.

The Trisolaran fleet was able to launch artillery fire at 70% of the speed of light not because the electromagnetic cannons employed some sophisticated design capable of withstanding enormous energy, but because they incorporated antimatter into the projectiles. After the electromagnetic cannons launched the projectiles, the antimatter carried by the projectiles themselves continued to propel them to even higher speeds.

However, players have found another way, achieving near-light speed artillery fire at a low technological level, that is, without relying on antimatter to propel the projectiles, they have achieved artillery fire that is close to the speed of light.

Players modified their warships, turning them into part of a giant magnetic rail.

When the entire fleet is aligned in two straight lines, a giant magnetic rail appears in space, accelerating the projectiles to 70 percent of the speed of light.

At the start of the virtual war, although the Trisolaran fleet knew from the Sophon that a player fleet was deploying in a strange formation, they didn't take it too seriously. The Trisolaran fleet had seen too many instances of players' performance art; self-destruction at the start was commonplace, and they were already used to it.

As a result, at the very beginning of the battle, they were stunned by the players' cannon fire, which was also at 70% of the speed of light.

The two sides exchanged a round of artillery fire. The Trisolaran fleet lost six antimatter warships, while the player fleet lost hundreds of warships.

The Trisolaran fleet, aided by simulated sophons, sensed something was wrong as soon as the players fired the first near-light-speed projectile. However, there was simply no time to evade. With only five minutes to react, how could the warships possibly dodge? If the acceleration was too high, the antimatter warships would simply fall apart.

The Trisolaran fleet could only concentrate its firepower to break the player fleet's formation into two sections, thus neutralizing the near-light-speed attack that the player had created by exploiting the formation.

Even after their formation was broken, the players continued to use traditional electromagnetic cannons to counterattack, firing across the Trisolaran fleet from hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.

Given the surprises the players had given the Trisolaran fleet before, the Trisolaran fleet prioritized destroying all players' warships in this virtual exercise to avoid encountering the same surprises again.

Unfortunately, what the Trisolaran fleet didn't expect was that the players' second surprise was already on its way.

The second surprise was the projectiles fired by those traditional electromagnetic railguns.

The biggest difference between these projectiles and ordinary electromagnetic railgun projectiles is that they are embedded with rings of super-strong magnets on the outside.

Despite having the perspective of the Sophon, the Trisolaran fleet was misled by its own arrogance. They assumed that these special electromagnetic cannon shells were designed by the players specifically for near-light-speed artillery fire. After seeing that these shells had lost 70% of their kinetic energy at the speed of light, they decided to ignore them, deploy antimatter shields, and search for the other human fleets.

Then, these shells pierced through the antimatter shield, directly causing the bewildered Trisolaran fleet to suffer more than twenty additional antimatter warships. More than ten warships were destroyed, several were severely damaged and rendered combat ineffective, and the remaining warships suffered some damage.