The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

Enter the website address of the Three-Body Problem game to enter the game registration interface. After registering your ID name as 'Passerby A', you can fully enter the game.

What comes into view is a thriving scene, with birds singing and flowers blooming, and lush vegetation. Underfoot is a stone-paved road that extends forward to various Chinese and Western-style houses.

Lin Feng was on a path that led to a bustling street. Crowds of people moved back and forth, and one could see different clothes from different eras, as if time and space had been distorted.

"This is the Three-Body game? It's not quite what I expected," Lin Feng muttered to himself.

"So what's your expectation, Passerby A?"

Following the sound, Lin Feng saw a girl dressed in ancient Hanfu, holding a string of candied hawthorns in her hand.

Chapter 16 Burning with True Lust

Lin Feng sized up the girl who greeted him.

She wore a white gauze dress adorned with gold and silver threads and auspicious cloud patterns, which reflected dappled sunlight. A gentle breeze lifted her waist-length hair.

Her hair was simply adorned with a single white jade hairpin, which held up the strands of hair on either side of her ears, while the rest of her hair fell naturally down.

A pair of lively and bright eyes, seemingly sparkling with vibrant colors, and a face without makeup, carrying a lively and charming smile, leave a deep impression on anyone who sees her for the first time.

Lin Feng identified the Hanfu as belonging to the Tang Dynasty.

"Hehehe, you're already captivated by my charm?"

"No, I'm thinking. I just entered this game, and there's a lot of information to process. It's set in the Tang Dynasty, the Han Dynasty, and even the Middle Ages..."

Lin Feng shook his head. It was impossible for him to be captivated. It wasn't like he hadn't seen beautiful women before. Before becoming a Wallfacer, he had not only looked at them, but also pushed them around quite a few times.

Moreover, this is a game world, and character appearance and gender have no meaning in reality, because these can all be adjusted. Who knows, the person on the other end of the network might actually be a fat, greasy middle-aged man.

"I'm really confused right now. This game doesn't even have a tutorial."

Lin Feng explained his situation to the girl. Generally, when players enter a game, there will be a tutorial or something similar to tell them how to operate the game and the main quest.

But the Three-Body Problem game does not do that.

Ultimately, it comes down to the different initial purposes of game design. Most games are primarily profit-driven, so they need tutorials to help players quickly immerse themselves in the game. The Three-Body Problem game, on the other hand, aims to identify anti-human elements in human society to aid the Trisolaran invasion.

"Newbie, come with me then."

After thinking for a moment with her finger resting on her chin, the girl waved to Lin Feng, signaling him to follow her.

As they walked and talked, Lin Feng learned the girl's name: Liang Gong, one of the administrators of the Three-Body Problem game.

Yes, definitely an ETO member.

They discussed the game's main storyline. Lin Feng stated that he was just there to play the game and hoped that Liang Gong, the administrator, could explain the main storyline content.

"The main storyline used to exist, but it's gone now."

"No main storyline? I remember there was something about predicting the sun's trajectory and something about creating a human-computer interface."

Lin Feng deliberately brought these things up, as he wanted to see the human-computer array, Mozi's armillary sphere, the array of pendulums standing like a formation, and so on, from the original work.

“Someone has already finished that, so it naturally disappeared,” Ryouji said, shrugging.

"Some people have already figured out the pattern of the sun's movement: it is that three suns are constantly making irregular movements in the sky."

“I know about the Three-Body Problem. I’ve heard that it’s unsolvable,” Lin Feng said.

Liang Gong shook her head and waved the half-eaten candied hawthorn in her hand.

"It is inaccurate to say that there is no solution. A more accurate statement is that there is no stable solution in general form. The three-body problem has no regular answer and cannot be expressed by analytical formula. It can only be calculated as a numerical solution, and there is no way to obtain an exact value."

"Here, won't you try some?"

As she spoke, Liang Gong handed the two remaining candied hawthorns in her hand to Lin Feng.

"No, no, I appreciate your kindness, but you should keep it for yourself."

Lin Feng waved his hands repeatedly in refusal. It wasn't that he was afraid of being taken advantage of or that he was shy; it was just that the thought of a greasy middle-aged man on the other end of the internet cable made him feel physically uncomfortable.

In particular, the fact that the girl offered him the candied hawthorn made him think that she was actually a man. After all, most women wouldn't hand over something they've already eaten to a man they've just met, right?

The girl ate a candied hawthorn with a regretful expression, saying as she ate.

"Aww... If you don't hurry up and enjoy this peaceful time... you won't have another chance later..."

"You're making it sound like the world is going to end any second now."

"It's the end of the world."

As Suzumiya spoke matter-of-factly, as if her words were coming true, a commotion began to arise.

The sun, which was originally the normal size, began to enlarge for some reason, and in a short while, its volume doubled.

But this is not the end. The sun's expansion has not slowed down. The sun is like a beast that devours everything, slowly eating away at the sky.

This strange phenomenon left Lin Feng stunned; no matter how rich he was, he had never seen anything like it before.

The air was trembling, and the ambient temperature tripled in half an hour. Such a temperature was unmatched, even by the high-temperature environment of iron-smelting boilers on Earth.

Wisps of black smoke rose from the horizon, standing out conspicuously against the bright sky.

"Run! Fire! Fire!"

When the temperature reaches the ignition point, combustible materials in contact with air will ignite even without flames.

Many people's clothes were on fire. Although Tang Dynasty silk was light and durable, it was not fire-resistant. These fire monsters that fell from the sky were devouring people's lives.

"Dehydrate! Dehydrate!"

"Quick, quick, find some shade! Don't let the sun shine directly on you!"

People screamed in panic as they fled to the prepared shelters.

"It's so hot! It's so hot! My body is on fire!" Lin Feng cried out in pain.

Lin Feng and his group were also fleeing. While trying to escape the sun, his clothes caught fire on his left arm.

"Hold on a little longer! There's a cave here to escape the sunlight!" Liang Gong, whose body was on fire, shouted to Lin Feng behind him.

The pain from the severe burns made it difficult for Lin Feng to run. However, he was surprised by Liang Gong ahead of him. His back was burned and even his hair was on fire, yet he was still able to run so fast without any panic.

The cave was right in front of them. Just as Lin Feng stumbled and was about to fall, Liang Gong caught him.

Having become a human torch, she pushed Lin Feng into the shadows of the cave.

"Go in!"

"you……!"

The girl in Hanfu didn't have time to get into the cave; the flames on her body burned her into a human torch. The beautiful girl from not long ago was now unrecognizable.

Lin Feng struggled to get up and pull Liang Gong into the shadows of the cave, but the girl stopped him.

The girl, whose vocal cords had been burned, opened and closed her mouth, silently saying something. Her words were automatically converted into a line of small text by the Three-Body game system: "Don't worry, passerby. Death and apocalypse are the norm in this game. You'll get used to it."

The girl was quickly burned to a charred corpse, and even though she was hiding in the cave, the smell of burning permeated the air.

Lin Feng struggled to stand up, leaning against the cave wall. The cave was located high up, offering a view of the city below.

The flames engulfed everything, whether people were dehydrated or not, all were reduced to ashes. A vast sea of ​​fire, all the prosperity vanished in the blink of an eye, as if it were just a joke played by God.

No, God isn't that cruel...

The sun above the sky was still magnifying, and Lin Feng could even clearly see the details on its surface. The sea of ​​flames was filled with surging waves and vortices, sunspots moved erratically, and the corona stretched out lazily like the long sleeves of a landscape.

The sun grew even larger, obscuring most of the sky. Looking up, a unique feeling arose in Lin Feng's heart; the sun above seemed not above, but below.

He wasn't looking up; he was hanging upside down in the sky, looking down at the burning, fiery earth!

The enormous sun set in the west, relinquishing its dominance of the sky and sinking below the horizon.

The sunset was fleeting, the blinding glow vanishing in an instant, and night fell upon this world ravaged by flames and already riddled with holes.

The lingering flames and molten lava gave the entire land a dark red glow under the pitch-black night sky.

Darkness gradually engulfed Lin Feng's vision, and a line of crimson words appeared before him.

Civilization No. 839 was destroyed in flames; it had evolved to the early Tang Dynasty level.

The seeds of civilization still remain; she will restart, once again beginning her unpredictable evolution within the Three-Body world. Welcome back!

Chapter 17 Extracting All Surplus Value

"This is the Three-Body Problem game..."

Lin Feng muttered to himself as he left the game.

Lin Feng admitted that he was shocked and fully understood the Trisolarans' determination to invade the solar system. He said that he would have made the same choice if he were in their shoes.

The scorching sun burns the earth, a nightmare worse than any other. One second you're alive, the next you're charred, and it's not even that bad.

The actual situation on the Trisolaran home planet was hundreds or thousands of times worse, with civilizations being destroyed time and time again.

"No wonder Cheng Xin made that choice later. Could it be that she had those thoughts because she played this game?"

Thinking of Cheng Xin, who was criticized by readers as a saintly hypocrite in the third part of the original novel, Lin Feng felt that he could understand her to some extent now.

Of course, while he understands, Lin Feng would never do something like letting the Trisolarans' fleet into the solar system just out of sympathy.

This is the same as giving away your own things to robbers for no reason. The key difference is that you're not that rich, and the robbers have strong malice towards you.

It's really foolish to still have goodwill in this situation.

Suddenly, the phone rang. It was John Smith, a former member of the Wallfacer team, calling.

"What's up?" Lin Feng asked, picking up his phone.

“The things you mentioned last time have been arranged,” John Smith said.

Lin Feng was stunned for a moment, then tried to recall what the other person had mentioned.

"Last time? What happened?"

"It's about what you mentioned last time, about inspecting the Hong Electronics energy storage project."

"Oh, you mean this? Does the UN currently allow it?"

John Smith's reminder brought Lin Feng to his senses that he had indeed mentioned this at a meeting.

However, at that time, the Hong Electronics energy storage project was still in the planning stage, and not a single building had been completed, so there was no way to inspect it.