The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

"Otherwise, this democratization movement could not have been so massive and lasted so long."

Ultimately, it was the Taylor faction's high-ranking officials who implemented repressive measures against the lower classes. Such actions were not inherently wrong, but they further proved the argument that "the Taylor faction would abandon the lower classes when necessary," which in turn fueled the democratization movement. Even those lower classes who initially trusted the Taylor faction eventually chose to defect.

"The more we suppress, the more we resist. But we can't not suppress either, because that's the reality. Letting it run its course will only corrupt the Taylor faction. Davis and his group have no other choice but to do this."

Lin Feng withdrew his gaze and continued to admire the Jupiter landscape, speaking as he sipped his coffee.

"Edith, I will have the Taylor Group allocate more resources to you. You must find out what happened," Lin Feng said.

Edith did not object and accepted the task assigned by Lin Feng, but she raised another question.

What if the outcome is a coincidence?

"Then I'll just take it as peace of mind. If they're not enemies, I can consider fewer hostile factors."

Lin Feng smiled. Coincidence is a good thing. Coincidence means there are no enemies to rack his brains to figure out how to deal with, and he can continue to operate with peace of mind.

"I understand," Edith nodded.

Edith was about to leave when Lin Feng suddenly called her back.

"Wait, the coffee's finished. Make yourself a cup before you go."

Lin Feng held out his finished coffee, intending to ask Edith to have another cup.

“That won’t do. Drinking too much coffee is bad for your health. You need to pay more attention to your health.” Edith smiled and turned to leave.

Chapter 182 Type II Interstellar Spaceship

A large spaceship is under construction in Jupiter's orbit, its hull flashing with light from time to time, while smaller construction boats move around this massive man-made structure.

A small spaceship equipped with a camera takes panoramic photos of the large spaceship from a distance, gradually getting closer.

On the other side, Lin Feng was sitting in the control room, watching the footage captured by the camera.

The screening room is special; the ceiling, walls, and floor are all screens. When the images are displayed, the people sitting inside feel as if they are in space, watching the giant spaceship.

In the control room, besides Lin Feng, there were other high-level managers related to the interstellar spaceship construction project.

During the interview, the technician explained to Lin Feng the performance of this second interstellar spacecraft designed and manufactured by the Taylor system.

"This is the second type of interstellar spaceship we are researching and developing, and the crew will also be cyborgs."

"Compared to the Type 1, which traveled to Barnard's Planet, the Type 2 has a higher maximum payload capacity and is more slender. This helps to reduce the impact area of ​​the spacecraft when it comes into contact with the dust cloud at high speeds. The solid metallic hydrogen has been moved from the side to the front, so it can be used as fuel for the spacecraft and as a shield against space radiation. Theoretically, the Type 2 spacecraft can reach a maximum speed of half the speed of light."

"The Type II interstellar spacecraft uses a two-way propulsion jet system, so the passengers are positioned at the rear. When the spacecraft decelerates, it no longer needs to turn around; it only needs to change the jet pipes of the propulsion jet system."

"At extremely high speeds, the area behind is very safe. There is no need to face the interstellar dust cloud or the high-energy space radiation. The spacecraft's passengers, industrial machine tools, cloning machines, human genes, etc. are all in this area."

Lin Feng nodded. Solid metallic hydrogen serves as both fuel and a barrier, a design that greatly enhances the spacecraft's protective capabilities without altering the basic materials.

Lin Feng thought for a moment and asked about something that concerned him.

"I have a question: how can the spacecraft ensure that it can decelerate at the right location? Stellar rainbows and length contraction effects will have a strong impact on the spacecraft's observation of the outside world, which is different from traveling within the solar system where the speed is too high."

Traveling at near the speed of light is not a simple matter.

A very straightforward question: When do you start slowing down?

Due to the length contraction effect, the spacecraft's own time is not synchronized with the time at a low speed scale in the outside world. One second on a spacecraft at high speed is not the same as one second at low speed. It could be a month, a year, or even ten years.

The star rainbow is a celestial image observed by the spacecraft itself, distorted by the curvature of spacetime due to high-speed motion, and looks like a rainbow shaped like a target.

Using celestial bodies to determine one's own coordinates is obviously no longer feasible.

Imagine you're in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by darkness, and your own time is out of sync with the rest of the world. How would you know where you are?

How can I know exactly how far I've run?

How do I know if I've reached the point where I should slow down and begin to decelerate?

At half the speed of light, it's impossible to stop instantly; a long deceleration process is required. Passing the deceleration point is essentially equivalent to missing the destination star system.

The technician replied, "The Type II spacecraft uses its internal atomic clock to calculate the current position of the spacecraft and its position when decelerating in the open space between stars. Once the deceleration is slowed down to the point where the star rainbow and length contraction effects can be ignored, the interstellar spacecraft will switch back to conventional space positioning."

As long as the time is planned in advance, the normal time at low speed can be calculated, and then the spacecraft can start to decelerate at the deceleration point based on the normal time.

This is the answer given by the Taylor series: running blindfolded is fine, as long as you keep running in a straight line and can see the time, you can calculate your current position. It's a simple physics calculation problem.

Lin Feng couldn't help but admire the person who came up with this solution; a very complex problem was solved in such a simple way.

"Very good. Half the speed of light, without considering the acceleration and deceleration process, it would only take twelve years to reach Barnard's Star."

Lin Feng paused, then asked the technician, "Is there any room for further progress in nuclear fusion radiation propulsion?"

The technician sighed with some regret, "...It's hard to say. With fundamental physics still locked down, no one can predict the future."

"However, I still believe that the widespread use of antimatter is a hurdle that must be overcome if human technology is to make further progress."

Noticing Lin Feng's questioning gaze, the technician explained, "Neither nuclear fusion nor nuclear fission can achieve a 100% mass-energy conversion rate. Antimatter can achieve this. With antimatter, humans can create near-light-speed projectiles that reach 70% of the speed of light, and spaceships can easily cross the threshold of half the speed of light."

"Even a piece of tofu, once it reaches near the speed of light, becomes incredibly powerful," the technician replied decisively.

Lin Feng turned to the person next to him and asked, "How much antimatter do we have now?"

The Taylor Group executive next to him answered truthfully, "The quantity is not large, less than a ton. Although the production of positrons is high, the production of anti-hydrogen plasma is limited by the production of antiprotons."

"There is no relevant research?"

Lin Feng frowned slightly. If he remembered correctly, humanity's research and storage of antimatter began after his virtual space exercise.

So many years have passed, and not even a single meal has been served?

This made Lin Feng suspect that humanity had basically not invested in antimatter research projects.

The official replied, "It has always existed. There are several space bases in the solar orbit specifically for scientific research, constantly searching for low-cost methods to prepare antiprotons using solar particles."

"But now we can only wait and see. If we can find an efficient way to produce antiprotons in the solar orbit, humanity will usher in the antimatter era. If we can't, humanity's progress in the field of weapons will begin to stagnate."

The senior management of the Taylor Group said helplessly that there was no use in him, who was not involved in scientific research, worrying about such things.

Just as Lin Feng and the others were discussing antimatter, the door to the screening room opened and Edith walked in.

She walked to Lin Feng's side, leaned down, and whispered in his ear.

Lin Feng's expression changed slightly, and then he looked at Edith with a questioning gaze.

Are you sure the information is correct?

“I’m an expert in this area,” Edith said.

Lin Feng rubbed his temples, feeling a headache coming on.

Chapter 183 More Honesty, Less Tricks

The origins of the democratization movement have been traced, and the investigation revealed a shocking truth: all human forces except the Taylor faction were involved.

The most subtle thing is that these human forces are not united at all; they are all secretly exerting their influence with the mindset of 'causing some trouble for the Taylor system'.

According to these forces, the Taylor faction would face a public opinion crisis, allowing the alliance to maintain its dominance over the Taylor faction.

After all, ten years ago, under Lin Feng's instructions, the Taylor system dealt a heavy blow to all the space cities except for the Taylor system. It is normal for these space cities to have a force that can counterbalance the Taylor system.

No one thought of splitting the Taylor lineage, because these human forces did not believe that they could split the Taylor lineage so easily, and no one thought that it would incite a nationalization movement among the lower classes of the Taylor lineage.

Then, internal disputes arose within the alliance. One group felt that this was an opportunity to weaken the threat posed by the Taylor faction, while another group believed that they should not fan the flames any further, as it could easily lead to the situation getting out of control.

……

Joint meeting of the Solar System Fleet.

The meeting discussed many things, but they were mostly directed at the Taylor faction. It was said that the Taylor faction was autocratic and ignored human rights, airdropping large numbers of people and supplies into Africa and the Middle East; that the Taylor faction disregarded human unity and brazenly commanded its main fleet to confront the Space Force; and that the Taylor faction lacked democratic brilliance and deprived the grassroots people of their inherent rights.

The condemnations were incessant, and Lin Feng was getting tired of hearing them.

"We hope that the Taylor Group will cease all activities in Earth orbit and issue an apology," the Swedish representative said through gritted teeth.

Following the Swedish representative, the representative of the space city nation of New Rome also spoke.

"Please also stop the exile of people. This is an act of utter inhumanity and another form of mass slaughter against our fellow human beings."

"Mr. Taylor, I hope you can give more consideration to the voice of the human world and stop indulging in your no-longer-existing Wallfacer identity. Even if you were still a Wallfacer, not to mention that you have been stripped of your Wallfacer identity, your current actions are dereliction of duty. According to the Wallfacer regulations, Wallfacers are required to have the most basic love and respect for their fellow humans and the human world. Your actions have seriously crossed the bottom line of these regulations."

The newly elected US president gave Lin Feng a righteous and stern reminder.

Lin Feng sighed, looking like he didn't understand what they were talking about at all.

"What's the problem? Those people are pursuing democracy, so I'm sending them to places where 'democracy' exists. How is that against humanity? The Taylor Group is clearly helping these people."

"They want to live in a democratic place, and the earth is the most fertile ground for democracy, so is it wrong to send them back to earth and let them pursue the life they want? Where is the mistake? We, the Taylors, are clearly upholding their right to freedom."

“I come from a century ago, from the most free and democratic country. No one understands freedom and democracy better than me.”

The newly elected US president's face immediately darkened, and the expressions of others looking at the president also became more subtle.

The representative of New Rome scoffed, "All this talk is just adding excuses for your own dictatorship."

“I’m not talking about excuses, but about what certain people have done. These people voluntarily went to democratic places, and I’m just having the Taylor Group follow their example.”

Lin Feng smiled and then exported a bunch of character information, which were distributed in various space cities.

The representatives of the various factions showed slight changes in expression upon first seeing these people.

Lin Feng said, "As you can see, these are the people who first promoted democratic ideas. They are no longer with the Taylor faction. After the Taylor faction launched the democratic movement, they left the Taylor faction and returned to their hometowns. Unfortunately, they received a large bonus and have been living a carefree and luxurious life for many years."

“We in the Taylor faction fully understand the benefits of democratization to the lower classes, so isn’t it perfectly reasonable to send these people to places with democracy? How can you slander them out of thin air?”

The implication is that they're laying their cards on the table: you were the ones who acted unjustly first, so your current retaliatory actions are also your fault; you are the ones who caused all of this.

"But your actions have seriously violated national sovereignty and local stability. Stop trying to convince anyone with your twisted and fallacious reasoning."

"It's as if what you've done hasn't affected the stability of the Taylor Group. There should be a limit to double standards," Lin Feng sneered.

If they want to play dumb, they can keep doing it. The Taylor Group can handle it anyway, and Lin Feng is too lazy to waste time with these people.

"Since you're not sincere about talking, then let's leave it at that."

"Anyway, we won't be the ones who suffer losses on Earth, and our actions will receive widespread support from Earth's inhabitants. After all, who can refuse a windfall? I think the great democracy shouldn't go against the will of the people, right?"

These words sent chills down the spines of the representative from the other side of the Earth.

"Wait a moment!"

The US president was the first to get restless.