The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

The Solar System Fleet Joint Conference has something they want to discuss with him.

"You want to talk to me? Talk about what?"

“The meeting was about the Stamped Clan,” Laura replied.

Lin Feng frowned. "The Stamped Clan? What's wrong with the Stamped Clan? Is the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference going to accuse us of using thought stamps on the auditors in the Audit Department?"

Unlike his outward thoughtful expression, Lin Feng's heart skipped a beat.

He naturally knew what was related to the imprint of thought.

What else could it be but Bill Hines?

However, since things were still uncertain, Lin Feng decided to confirm the details before making a judgment.

Laura replied, "No, the Taylor system uses thought imprints, which have been approved by the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference."

"Then why?" Lin Feng asked, feigning ignorance.

Laura explained, "It's about a programming error involving the Stamped Race. The Solar System Fleet Joint Conference needs to conduct a thorough investigation of all Stamped Race members within the Solar System."

"Programming error?"

Lin Feng nodded, as if he had understood something, but Laura didn't notice that his expression was a little stiff.

Oh no! Hines has really been broken through this time!

Laura explained, "It all started with the Battle of the Kuiper Belt, when the programming errors in the thought imprint were first discovered."

“We captured some ETO members and discovered that these members had betrayed the Trisolarans long ago because of their mental imprints,” Laura said.

"Betrayed the Trisolarans? Then why did you fight against humans in the Kuiper Belt?" Lin Feng asked in surprise.

He wasn't faking it; Lin Feng was genuinely surprised by Laura's explanation.

ETO became one of their own because of the mind imprint, but then went to Kuiper to fight against humans?

No matter how you look at it, this doesn't seem reasonable, right?

Lin Feng could more or less guess the purpose of ETO's instigation of the Kuiper Belt war: to lock humanity in the solar system and prevent them from escaping.

Lin Feng read the original work and was able to guess ETO's purpose.

It's flipped now?!

Laura sighed, "They are willing to sacrifice themselves to hone the human fleet. A knife will inevitably rust and become dull if it is not sharpened regularly."

Chapter 161 The Stamped Clan: We Don't Care

"Training up the human fleet can be accomplished through virtual space exercises," Lin Feng remarked.

Virtual space exercises can save costs and protect the lives of soldiers, achieving efficient training of space soldiers without causing any casualties.

As the proposer and creator of the virtual space exercise, Lin Feng was somewhat dissatisfied with the ETO members' disregard for his achievements.

Laura replied, "According to their answers during interrogation, virtual space exercises lack the pressure of impending war and the threat of life and death. At the same time, the excessive intervention by the military and the performance element outweighing the actual combat will only make the human fleet arrogant in the long run. Nothing can hone soldiers better than actual combat."

Lin Feng stroked his chin thoughtfully. It wasn't that he couldn't accept this deviation from the original story. ETO wasn't stupid, and they had the global surveillance device Sophon, and Aristotle was a member of ETO.

There's no reason why they wouldn't have the technology to stamp their designs; Lin Feng wouldn't be surprised if they secretly assembled a stamping machine themselves.

The problem was that Hines had tampered with the program, changing a plus or minus sign on a stamping machine, which caused the stamping machine to produce a completely opposite effect.

Lin Feng now somewhat understands why The Three-Body Problem abandoned ETO.

Lin Feng suddenly remembered something and asked, "Is this the reason ETO betrayed Trisolaris? Didn't you say before that the reason for ETO's betrayal of Trisolaris was still unclear?"

“It is indeed unclear. The emergence of a large number of traitors within ETO due to the mind imprint does not necessarily mean that Trisolaris abandoned ETO for this reason. According to some ETO members, there are people in ETO who have not been imprinted with the mind imprint. In other words, these people have not betrayed Trisolaris, but they have also been abandoned by Trisolaris,” Laura explained.

“These ETO members hold high positions in human society. Logically speaking, the Trisolarans have no reason to abandon them. As long as these people are still around, it is not impossible for the ETO to make a comeback after the defeat in the Kuiper Belt campaign,” Laura explained.

Laura and the others were unaware that the mission given to ETO by the Trisolarans was to prevent humanity from leaving the solar system.

Now that the Kuiper Belt has been lost and ETO is not trustworthy at all, the assassination attempt on Luo Ji has also ended in failure. If the Three-Body Problem does not abandon ETO, why keep it around?

"Wait, what about the 'programming error in the thought imprint' you mentioned?" Lin Feng asked.

Laura replied, "After Davis and other scholars in the fields of neuroscience and computer science carefully studied Bill Hines' technical materials, they discovered that there was an error in the positive and negative signs in the programming of the machine that imprints thoughts. This small difference caused the thought instructions imprinted on people to produce completely opposite results."

“After tracing the source, we found that the last stamping machine made by Bill Hines had a programming error, which led to some ETO members becoming ‘traitors’ after the ETO stole the stamping machine’s source code.”

Lin Feng suddenly realized that Bill Hines was not considered to have been compromised because of a problem with the internal program of a stamping machine.

Everyone just thought it was a small mistake by Bill Hines.

After all, with so many programs, it's not unusual to accidentally mistype a symbol. Even the best programmers make mistakes, not to mention that Bill Hines wasn't a professional programmer.

That's why Bill Hines wasn't woken from hibernation.

"Is this what the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference wanted to discuss with me? The Space Force also uses the stamping machine to instill a 'belief in victory' in people. Since one of the stamping machines has this problem, it means that some of the stamped race have a 'belief in certain defeat'."

Lin Feng cast an inquiring glance at Laura.

Laura nodded.

"Pretty much. The Solar System Fleet Joint Conference hopes that we can cooperate with their investigation to find the Stamped Race who have the 'inevitable belief in defeat'."

……

Solar System Fleet Joint Conference

A representative from the Space Force, with an extremely serious expression, spoke with Lin Feng at the meeting.

"Mr. Taylor, the Steel Seal Clan, with their unwavering belief in certain defeat, has remained in a state of lurking for more than half a century. Even the ETO organization, which has intelligence bases based on sophons, has failed to detect their existence."

"Their infiltration poses a great threat to the human world. Even if humanity gains a technological advantage over the Trisolaran fleet centuries later, these people will still not believe that humanity can win. In order to survive, these people are very likely to sabotage the human world from within, willingly becoming the Trisolarans' lackeys and actively surrendering to the Trisolarans, who are far weaker than the human fleet."

"This is a joint operation of the human world, without distinction between individuals. We hope you can cooperate with us," said the rotating chairman of the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference solemnly.

Lin Feng coughed lightly. "Ahem, let me just say a few words."

"I think there's no need for everyone to be so nervous. The problem may not be as serious as you think."

Lin Feng's words surprised the representatives from all sides. They did not expect that what they considered to be an extremely serious matter would be described by Lin Feng as 'the problem may not be so serious'.

Seeing the representatives from all sides frown and show some dissatisfaction, Lin Feng explained.

"You need to understand, that's ETO. It has the God's-eye view of Sophon observing all of humanity. The entire solar system can monitor Sophon without any obstruction."

"Even these Trisolaran lackeys who monitor humanity failed to detect the Steel Seal Clan's belief in inevitable defeat, which shows that this group is not large, but rather very small and inconspicuous. They may even have lost all hope for life in the human world because of their belief in inevitable defeat, and chose to commit suicide early on. This group simply does not exist."

Lin Feng emphasized the existence of Zhizi, which made the representatives from all sides hesitate.

Lin Feng's words struck a chord with them. If the Steel Seal Clan, who insisted on the idea that "humanity is doomed to lose," existed and their group was enormous, even if ETO was blind, it would be impossible for them not to notice.

A representative from the Space Force stated, "However, to date, there has been no record of anyone committing suicide after being given a 'thought imprint' in the Space Force."

“That means the Steel Seal Clan doesn’t have the courage to commit suicide. If they don’t even have the courage to commit suicide, let alone be willing to become the Trisolarans’ lackeys and betray humanity,” Lin Feng replied matter-of-factly.

"Furthermore, everyone, don't forget that the human fleet will not engage in the great battle of the century with the Trisolaran fleet for several centuries. Once the programming error of the stamping machine is corrected and the number of stamping machines is strictly controlled, the stamping race, who are convinced of their inevitable defeat, will naturally die of old age over time. Your elaborate investigation is just a waste of unnecessary resources."

Chapter 162 People in a Closed World

The matter of the Steel Seal Clan, which Lin Feng discussed with representatives from all sides at the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference, did not yield the results that the representatives had hoped for.

Regarding the issue of the "humanity is doomed to defeat" stamped race, Lin Feng has always maintained the view that "these stamped races are not harmful."

The inability to reach a consensus means that the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference cannot fully carry out its actions against the Stamped Race.

If the Taylor system simply refuses to cooperate with the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference in taking action against the Stamped Race, the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference can directly exclude the Taylor system and take action against the Stamped Race within their jurisdiction.

The problem is that Lin Feng's attitude toward the Steel Seal Clan is ambiguous. He neither explicitly said that he would cooperate with the operation nor that he would not. He only said that there was no need to take action against the Steel Seal Clan, who he believed "humanity is doomed to lose," because it was not a serious problem at all.

Thus, the entire meeting shifted from how to deal with the Stamped Race issue to representatives from all sides arguing with Lin Feng about the harmfulness of the Stamped Race to the development of the human world, arguing that "humanity is doomed to lose."

For example, escapism, the "humanity is doomed to fail" stamped group, influenced by the ideological stamp, would irrationally seize spaceships and escape from the solar system.

The current top speed of spaceships is only five percent of the speed of light. How long would it take five percent of the speed of light to travel one light-year? Twenty years.

In other words, if you travel at 5% of the speed of light to the Trisolaran system near our solar system, it would take about 80 years.

Traveling further would take even longer; to reach Barnard's Star, six light-years away, at five percent of the speed of light, it would take approximately 120 years.

Spaceships are sophisticated machines, especially since they are corroded by dust every time they pass through interstellar dust clouds. How can the machine be kept running stably for 120 years under such circumstances?

too difficult.

Normal preparations are always accompanied by extremely high risks. Not to mention, the Steel Seal Clan, who are destined to lose, forcibly seized the spaceship by force. This means that the preparations for the spaceship's interstellar voyage were completely inadequate. The fuel and all the supplies needed for survival were insufficient to support interstellar travel, and the spaceship's speed was definitely less than five percent of the theoretical maximum speed of light.

This leads to the conclusion that the "humanity is doomed to fail" Steel Imprint race, influenced by the steel imprint of thought, will only end up harming themselves and others when they escape into space. Even if their spaceships leave the solar system and reach other star systems, they will only be metal coffins. Due to shortages of various resources, the people inside will be forced to die in despair shortly after leaving the solar system.

Besides these, there were other examples. All of these examples given by the human representatives were intended to demonstrate to Lin Feng the harmfulness of the "Humanity is doomed to defeat" steel-stamped race to the human world.

Lin Feng did not express agreement with the ideas of the representatives from all sides.

This is Bill Hines's wall-facing plan; he can't possibly stand on the opposite side.

Lin Feng's rebuttal to these examples was simple: "Look, isn't there no major problem now? The 'Humanity is doomed to lose' steel-stamped race has existed for more than half a century and has never shown any tendency to harm others, so your concerns are completely unnecessary."

This rebuttal left the representatives of all parties at the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference speechless.

No matter how many examples you give, or how harmful they are, none of the things you've mentioned have actually happened in reality. There are no similar cases. So, can we then argue that the "humanity is doomed to lose" stamped race actually poses no threat to the human world at all, and that their anxieties are simply unfounded?

Using this rogue logic, Lin Feng managed to pull a portion of the representatives from the opposing side to his side.

Since there is no harm involved, there is no need for them to spend so much manpower, resources, and money to do these things. Even though the overall wealth of the human world has increased many times over in this era, there is never enough money.

Therefore, at the end of the meeting, only the Space Force stuck to its original idea of ​​conducting an internal investigation of the Stamped Clan. The Space Cities, Industrial Fleets, and Earth Government all believed Lin Feng's explanation that there was no major problem and gave up on conducting their own investigations of the Stamped Clan.

Unless the "Humanity is doomed to fail" stamped race shows any signs of harm, these people don't want to create more unnecessary financial deficits for themselves.

In Lin Feng's words, it would be better to simply stop the stamping machine and let time naturally eliminate this group of "human beings are doomed to fail" stamping clan. The cost would be zero and the problem could be solved. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

……

"What's going on? What's the situation with these 'closed-off people'?"

Lin Feng pointed to a projected news article and, somewhat incredulously, asked Laura William about the situation.

The news report described a group of people who lived in the asteroid belt.

If that were all, it wouldn't be enough to make Lin Feng feel incredulous. The problem is that these people have completely disconnected from the human world.

The news reports referred to them as 'closed-off people,' which simply means people who completely isolate themselves.