The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

"Aren't you going to rest for a bit?"

Edith smiled and shook her head. "I'm not sleepy. I rested well beforehand after learning about your arrangements."

"You'd better get some rest. You look terrible. Have you been having trouble sleeping lately?"

Edith looked at Lin Feng with concern. Lin Feng's eyes were bloodshot, the whites of his eyes were frighteningly red, and his face was pale and haggard, not much worse than Luo Ji who had been shot.

Lin Feng was well aware of his current exhaustion, and he couldn't help but laugh self-deprecatingly.

"It's all because of the Three-Body Problem. I haven't slept for three days. I've never worked overtime for this long in my life. No, overtime is impossible for me. If this happened two centuries ago, people who knew me would probably look at me like I'd seen a ghost."

This period was arguably the time when Lin Feng felt the greatest psychological burden, as there was no way to guarantee that the deterrence against the Trisolarans would be 100% successful.

If Luo Ji fails, the three bodies will be destroyed, and humanity in the solar system will also be destroyed.

Fortunately, although there were some minor hiccups, things weren't too bad.

"How do you plan to arrange negotiations with the Three-Body Problem on other matters?" Edith asked.

Lin Feng said, "I told them to talk to Davis. Davis will coordinate things and calm the panic in the human world."

Today, the human world is still in a state of apocalyptic madness due to the Trisolaran droplet annihilating the entire human fleet. Whether on Earth, Mars, or in space cities, people are all in the same boat, with countless suicides and countless apocalyptic revelers.

It's not that no one thought about maintaining order, but it was simply impossible to maintain it. The army had also collapsed. Which soldier would rather spend their last moments in the apocalypse maintaining meaningless order than stay with their family and enjoy their final moments of warmth?

Lin Feng urged Davis to release the news of the Trisolaran compromise as soon as possible so that human civilization could recover some of its losses.

“If that’s the case, what else are you worried about?” Edith asked with a smile.

Looking at Edith's smiling face, Lin Feng sighed, "...Alright, I'll rest for a while. Remember to wake me up if anything happens."

"Ah."

Lin Feng fell asleep quickly after lying down on the makeshift bed. It was the most restful sleep he had had in months.

……

In his dream, Lin Feng found himself sitting around a campfire, surrounded by a group of people who were completely drunk. They were singing and dancing, shouting that they had made a major archaeological discovery and that they would definitely become famous in a while.

Lin Feng's gaze shifted to the darkness. In the night, unlit by the firelight, the stars shone brightly, seemingly telling a story.

"Lin Feng, why don't you go and get together with everyone?"

An elegant and easy-going old man, nearing sixty, sat down next to Lin Feng.

"Professor, I'm thinking about something," Lin Feng answered in his dream.

"In astronomy?" the old man smiled kindly.

In his dream, Lin Feng shook his head and replied, "No, I was thinking, if Australopithecus traveled through time to the modern era, how would they view us Homo sapiens?"

“I don’t think they would consider us as their own kind. And even though we classify Australopithecus as belonging to the genus Homo, if an Australopithecus actually appeared, no one would treat it as a real human, and it might even be kept in a zoo…”

"From this perspective, what exactly is so-called human civilization? And what are we, as a collective, simply continuing?"

The old man was smiling and saying something, but Lin Feng realized that he could only hear the other person's mouth opening and closing, and a noisy sound was floating in his ears, as if someone was talking and there were many people.

……

"What's all this noise about?"

Lin Feng opened his eyes with some dissatisfaction, woke up, and then saw Edith talking to Hines.

"Hines? What brings you here?"

Lin Feng looked at Hines strangely. The other man didn't seem to have the despair of the end of the world. Instead, he gave Lin Feng the feeling of a... fanatic.

Hines, beaming, said to Lin Feng, "Just two hours ago, the United Nations contacted me and appointed me as the liaison for Dr. Luo Ji and the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference."

Lin Feng nodded. He wasn't surprised that the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference knew about Luo Ji's situation; he had arranged for Davis to explain everything clearly.

His gaze shifted to the outside of the hospital, where the noise was coming from—the source of the disturbance that had woken him.

"What's the situation outside?" Lin Feng asked.

Edith said, "They are all believers who came because of their reputation."

"A believer? What's a believer doing at the hospital?" Lin Feng asked in surprise.

Hines replied, "Of course, it's because their god is in the hospital; Dr. Luo Ji is their god."

"There are no gods in this world," Lin Feng said, rubbing his forehead.

Hines said firmly, “No, Dr. Luo Ji is a god. His star-destroying spells forced even the Trisolarans to submit in fear. Nothing is more like a god than this. He transcends humanity.”

Like a fanatic who has learned of Jesus' existence, Hines' words were unusually excited. Lin Feng had no doubt that if Luo Ji came out of the operating room, Hines would go directly to Luo Ji to worship him, to show the piety of his faith.

Lin Feng thought about it and guessed that the joint conference was intentionally keeping it from others, because the cost of using stellar broadcast signals was very low compared to other stellar-level broadcasts.

If any madman wanted to destroy all of humanity, all he needed to do was find a remote mountain forest, secretly build a high-powered transmitter, and send a high-powered radio broadcast of the coordinates to the sun.

Or they could hide somewhere in the solar system to do that, but the solar system is so big, who knows where they'd be hiding?

"You and the joint meeting can think whatever you want, but please don't disturb Luo Ji's recovery. Tell those bastards outside the hospital to get lost," Lin Feng said to Hines.

After saying that, Lin Feng walked out of the hospital.

"Where are you going?" Edith asked from behind.

"Let's go for a walk and get some exercise," Lin Feng waved his hand.

Outside the hospital, Lin Feng saw heads everywhere. These people sat on the ground outside the hospital, praying devoutly to the hospital, as if the hospital were some kind of deity.

These people were all sorts of strange people. Some were fully clothed but covered in blood, some were completely naked and praying, and others were covered in mud and had makeshift bandages for missing limbs as they prayed toward the hospital.

The villagers of New Life Village 5 were constantly distributing their agricultural products so that these devout prayers would not starve to death outside the hospital.

Lin Feng shook his head in disappointment. He thought that when humanity could dedicate itself to scientific research with the same focus as when praying to a god, he would probably cry tears of joy on the spot.

Lin Feng walked around the crowd and went out to a secluded spot.

He spoke into the void, “The Trisolaran world, according to our original agreement, I want to have a video call with the human colonists outside the solar system.”

Numerous spheres, ranging in size from small to large, appeared in mid-air. Their number was in the double digits, and Lin Feng could no longer see much of the sky when he looked up.

Each sphere is a sophon, and the images presented by each sophon are those of humans who have left the solar system, including Zhang Beihai and the fleet world.

"Everyone, we meet again." Lin Feng was the first to greet them.

"You...you used the technology from The Three-Body Problem?"

Davis, an electronic human who had only been colonizing the Barnard Galaxy for twenty years, asked incredulously.

He had no idea what was going on in the solar system, or why Lin Feng was using the Trisolaran technology. Other humans outside the solar system also had the same questions.

“Yes, this is the sophon that has been following you all along. The sophon of Trisolaris can achieve real-time communication across light-years by using quantum entanglement,” Lin Feng said.

"I am using the technology of The Three-Body Problem to communicate with you today because I have something very important to tell you."

Not wanting to beat around the bush, Lin Feng got down to business and explained the concept of the Dark Forest Theory to these people.

After saying that, Lin Feng hesitated for a moment and asked a question in return.

"You... understand what I mean, right?"

Zhang Beihai, who had been silent, suddenly said, "I understand. The Dark Forest Theory you mentioned would be a disaster for human civilization and the Trisolaran civilization. We will not use the function of amplifying radio power from stars to transmit information."

"But the exchange of information between us is essential. How can we resolve this?"

Lin Feng nodded in satisfaction. "You don't need to worry about that. The Trisolarans have promised to teach humanity the technology of real-time quantum entanglement communication. In the future, we won't have to deal with the huge information delays caused by the light-year scale."

"But before that, we need Trisolaris to maintain the current level of communication. Can Trisolaris meet our needs? If communication is interrupted, it might lead some of these people into an unstoppable chain of suspicion, and they might eventually choose to broadcast the coordinates of the Trisolaran system."

Lin Feng changed the subject and asked a question to the Three-Body world.

The Supreme Ruler has approved your request; these sophons' video exchanges will not cease until humanity fully masters real-time communication using quantum entanglement.

Another sophon sphere appeared next to Lin Feng, with this line of text appearing on it.

The Trisolaran world cannot prevent human fleets outside the solar system from broadcasting the coordinates of the Trisolaran system using other stars. With this light-year-scale deterrence system, even if the Trisolarans possess light-speed spaceships, as long as they still care about the Trisolaran system, they will not dare to attack the solar system.

This real-time light-year deterrence system, which utilizes quantum entanglement, is more stable than the gravitational wave deterrence system in the original work. At least there's no need to worry about the launch station being destroyed by a bunch of crazy people.

Barnard's Davis asked, "Mr. Taylor, now that everything has settled, should we look for a suitable star nearby?"

Having not experienced the various events within the solar system, Davis was still stuck in the old notion that 'the Trisolaran civilization is the greatest threat'.

Now that the Three-Body crisis has been resolved, he believes it is necessary to recuperate for a period of time.

Lin Feng shook his head. "Continue according to the original plan. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. The universe is far more dangerous than the Trisolaran universe. I wouldn't be surprised if humanity in the solar system disappeared in an instant due to some kind of attack."

"Your current state at least ensures that human civilization will not be destroyed by any sudden event."

Lin Feng's words gave these humans, who had already left the solar system, a clearer goal for the future.

"Understood, we will proceed according to the original plan."

Lin Feng continued, “There is another thing you need to pay special attention to. Although the Trisolarans are no longer a threat, I still hope that after you learn from the Trisolarans how to achieve quantum entanglement communication technology, you will start from the basic theory and verify the theories that the Trisolarans taught you step by step.”

In the original work, during the Deterrence Era, the Trisolarans deliberately taught humanity erroneous scientific theories and used sophons to secretly deflect and mislead humanity's research direction. Humanity only belatedly discovered this during the Broadcast Era, when the sophons completely left the solar system. Now that Lin Feng is bringing this up in advance, it's not impossible for the Trisolarans to continue doing this, but they will have some reservations, since it's not just humans in the solar system who possess the ability to broadcast coordinates.

"learn."

"That's about it. In the future, you will work with Luo Ji to shoulder the heavy responsibility of deterring the Trisolarans. This is the mission I'm entrusting to you," Lin Feng said.

With others sharing the burden of deterrence with Luo Ji, his situation should be much better; at least he won't be the target of everyone's ire like in the original story... probably.

Lin Feng could only offer this wish; he had no idea how the future would unfold.

"It's my pleasure to serve you."

This was the reply from the human warriors to the Wallfacer.

Chapter 225 Humanity's problems are not outside.

Seven months after the end of the apocalyptic battle between the human fleet and the nine droplets, the debris in space was gradually salvaged by the engineering and transport ships stationed at the space city starport.

These spaceships were few in number, but they were lucky. On the day they were to welcome the nine water droplets, these spaceships, being older models, suffered from frequent system problems and required a major overhaul. They missed the grand occasion of welcoming the water droplets and escaped the fate of being destroyed.

People used the wreckage of warships to build a monument in space. The monument is huge, larger than any space city, and looks like a sharp blade from a distance.

There are no words on the monument; its very existence is the best text.

On the day the monument was completed, people stopped what they were doing and paid their respects to the monument, which was being broadcast live, and to the heroes who had perished in space.

Lin Feng, who was on Earth, watched the live stream and muttered to himself.