The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

The uproar was so great that even Lin Feng, who was usually oblivious to what was happening around him, was alarmed. Edith asked Lin Feng for advice.

"Do you need to contact Luo Ji for consultation? The Earth government has repeatedly issued strong condemnations against us for obstructing their normal information exchange with Luo Ji, accusing us of trying to monopolize the rights of the Swordholders."

Lin Feng waved his hand dismissively, "Let them condemn us. Who do they think they are? Even if the Taylor system's massive fleet has disappeared, its vast space infrastructure can still cripple Earth's global market. Luo Ji, as the Swordholder, has already expended a great deal of energy confronting the Trisolaran world. To make him worry about a bunch of messy things in the human world is just adding to the Swordholder's troubles."

Edith sighed. That made sense, but the Earth government also had problems that it couldn't avoid solving.

Edith reminded her, "I know you have your reasons, but I still hope you can be careful. After all, you are still on Earth, and Luo Ji is also on Earth. This is their home turf. Perhaps they won't openly oppose you, but they can still make you miserable."

Yes, just as Edith said, even if the Earth government doesn't dare to openly oppose him, it's perfectly fine for them to make things difficult for Lin Feng behind his back. Lin Feng might not even know he's been tricked.

Even if Lin Feng isn't afraid of being disgusted, Luo Ji isn't.

Lin Feng was silent for a moment, then replied, "...Then you should reply to the Earth government and tell them not to increase the workload of the Swordholder Luo Ji. As long as they can do it, they can communicate with Luo Ji however they want."

"By the way, what's the approval rating in the polls?" Lin Feng suddenly remembered the group of people who had caused the online uproar.

Edith said, "Around 82 percent, the public support rate is very high. If the demands are not met, the accumulated discontent may lead to multiple riots in the future."

Lin Feng smiled with relief, "This isn't even 100% yet, how can you call it high? It's just a riot, what's so scary about it? Riots by troublemakers are never scary. The police, the army, the law, and the government are on the side of justice. They can win over some people and then overthrow others, and then create a few more waves of ideological conflict. The riots by troublemakers will turn into meaningless internal strife and eventually disintegrate. Only riots with a high degree of cohesion caused by a sudden appearance of a powerful figure are scary."

"However, if it is the latter, based on rational thinking about the survival of human civilization, no matter how much trouble there is, it will not affect Luo Ji, the swordholder."

Lin Feng didn't take this public opinion outburst seriously at all. Having lived through two centuries and seen countless ups and downs, public opinion riots were nothing special to him.

Even if war breaks out, Lin Feng will not feel particularly panicked, except for concerns about his own safety.

Lin Feng asked, "How many of our intelligence personnel are left on Earth?"

“Not many, only about thirty people remain,” Edith replied.

Lin Feng nodded knowingly and continued, "Expand personnel and gather intelligence, especially focusing on those who propose to use the deterrence system to do something."

Edith was taken aback, and asked Lin Feng in confusion, "Is there something wrong with these people?"

Since Luo Ji's successful deterrence of the Trisolarans, there have been many voices advocating for using deterrence to force the Trisolarans to make further concessions; this is a very large group.

This group is not very bright. They only know that deterrence can frighten the Trisolarans. They take it for granted that the Trisolarans are like a trembling mouse in the face of deterrence, and will obey orders no matter what conditions they are given. Just like the Japanese staff officers during World War II, they are full of assumptions and think that whatever they think the enemy will do, the enemy will do.

These people were completely unaware of the consequences of a failed deterrence operation, and what would happen once the Trisolarans gradually figured out the limits of deterrence.

Lin Feng used to ignore people like this because they were brainless and couldn't think of any other way out besides deterrence. So all they could think of was achieving their goals by deterring the Trisolarans.

But recently, Lin Feng has had to start paying attention to this group. This group is too radical and mindless. Can normal people be this radical and mindless? No way.

Lin Feng said, "It's very suspicious. Humans have both hands and brains. The Trisolarans are worried that the speed of human technological development will surpass theirs, so they used sophons to lock down human science. Now that the deterrence system has been established, the sophons are no longer locking down human science. It is not impossible for human technology to surpass the Trisolarans. There is no need to touch the extremely risky deterrence system."

Although Sophon is still misleading human science in secret, he would never dare to do so openly, much less be discovered in the recent period after the end of the apocalyptic war.

The lifting of the technological blockade by the Sophons was one of the conditions the Trisolarans agreed to for Luo Ji.

If the Trisolarans rashly break their agreement, then Luo Ji has reason to suspect that the Trisolarans have not complied with the other conditions. A further deduction is that the Trisolarans are lying and preparing to launch another sneak attack, just like in the Doomsday Battle. The broadcast coordinates will be activated again, and the consequences of this are not something the Trisolarans can bear.

Humanity will need to make significant progress at the microscopic level before facing interference from sophons again, and this interference will primarily mislead scientific research rather than be the obvious interference seen during a crisis era.

Lin Feng said, "Those who are interested in the deterrence system are more interested in themselves than in humanity."

"As for what interests they are after, that's quite intriguing. It could be out of hatred, or it could be an opportunity to seize greater power, or it could be because of a group that has already perished..."

When Edith heard Lin Feng mention 'that group of people,' her pupils contracted sharply. She realized who Lin Feng was referring to.

But her subconscious mind rejected this idea, because it was clearly recorded in history books that that group of people had been submerged in the torrent of history and no longer existed.

But Edith thought again that even if they had been destroyed, the Trisolarans still existed, and there would always be people in the human world who were dissatisfied with their mother civilization. This dissatisfaction was precisely what the Trisolarans could exploit.

The question now is, how deeply has this group penetrated the human world?

“I understand what you mean. I will do the intelligence work as soon as possible,” Edith said with a serious expression.

Watching Edith leave, Lin Feng then logged into the virtual pod and into the game he hadn't logged into in a long time.

The familiar pyramid platform is still there, but it looks very old and has been severely weathered.

This is a rare, stable era, with a single sun hanging high in the sky, and no other suns or shooting stars appearing.

Beneath the pyramids lie city ruins, similar to the pyramids themselves, severely weathered, with crumbling walls resembling the corpses of civilizations.

"Liang Gong, are you there? I want to talk to you!" Lin Feng shouted loudly.

The sounds rose and fell, carrying far, but no one responded to Lin Feng; only the howling wind answered him.

Lin Feng shook his head helplessly. He found a large rock, sat on it, looked up at the sky, and muttered to himself.

“The Trisolaran world, I know you have been watching me all along, every moment, so I believe you will be able to hear what I am about to say.”

"There are five Wallfacers in total, including me as a substitute. But in fact, there is a sixth Wallfacer who is unknown to the public. Don't you want to know what this sixth Wallfacer is doing now?"

"If you want to know, let Suzumiya come out and ask me. I will only tell her."

A moment later, a young girl appeared on the pyramid platform.

“Maple Taylor, tell us who the sixth Wallfacer is.”

Lin Feng sized up the girl dressed in Hanfu, frowned slightly, and asked, "You're not Liang Gong, who are you?"

A hint of surprise flashed in the eyes of the girl in Hanfu, but she quickly concealed it and replied coldly, "The Lianggong Project has been shut down. I am the 1417th monitoring officer."

Lin Feng was taken aback. He quickly jumped down from the big rock and stood opposite number 1417, asking in surprise.

"The Haruhi Project? Isn't that just a name? Then who was it that contacted me back then, the one who called himself 'Haruhi'?"

1417 explained, “Monitor No. 1314 is a participant in the Haruhi Project. The Haruhi Project simulates the closed-mindedness of humans by placing the bodies in physically isolated locations, so that the Trisolarans can think about problems more closely like humans, with the aim of learning human wisdom.”

"Then I request that monitor number 1314 speak with me," Lin Feng said.

The girl in Hanfu nodded and shook her head slightly, explaining, "She is dehydrated. Dehydrated bodies age a lot. Even if she is revived by soaking, she won't live for long. I don't recommend doing this."

Two long centuries—enough time for a centenarian to die of old age twice over. Although Ryouko is alive, her dehydration function is deteriorating due to aging.

Lin Feng asked anxiously, "Your technology is so advanced, yet you have no way to extend Liang Gong's lifespan or repair her aging?"

"Aging is inevitable, and immortality is impossible," said the girl in Hanfu.

Lin Feng fell silent for a moment, then made up his mind and said, "In that case, I will have to travel to the Trisolaran system earlier. The Trisolaran world should remember to prepare the welcoming ceremony properly, as this is the most basic diplomatic etiquette."

Number 1417 was slightly taken aback. She didn't understand why the topic suddenly jumped from Liang Gong to Lin Feng's arrival in the Trisolaran system.

Moreover, why would a human Wallfacer take the initiative to come to their Trisolaran system? Even the calm Trisolaran No. 1417 thought Lin Feng was crazy. Otherwise, how else could it be explained?

"...You're coming to the Trisolaran system? Why? Aren't you afraid?" Number 1417 asked curiously.

"Of course, it's to fulfill the promise I made to her. Since I made a promise, I will keep it. That's my principle as a person. I'm a person who keeps my promises," Lin Feng said proudly.

Lin Feng thought for a moment, then added, "By the way, there's something else I wanted to ask. What does the Three-Body world think about the 'non-existent' development direction I proposed? Are they interested?"

"Just like in the human world, there are disagreements." - Reply No. 1417

Lin Feng nodded knowingly, but he didn't ask how much of the Trisolaran world this group occupied. Instead, he asked Number 1417 himself.

"And what about you, Monitor 1417? Do you think my idea is feasible?" Lin Feng asked.

The Hanfu-clad girl replied indifferently, "The feasibility is very low. If low technology wants to hide high technology, then a lot must be sacrificed. And to make civilization 'non-existent,' then it is necessary to achieve true non-existence."

"If this is indeed feasible, and humanity accomplishes it, would the Trisolaran world, or you, be interested in joining?" Lin Feng asked again.

Number 1417 remained silent for a while before replying, "Being no longer shrouded in the Dark Forest is in the interest of the Trisolaran world. I also hope to live in that kind of world, provided that humanity can achieve it."

"In that case, I'll log off now."

Lin Feng, having received a satisfactory reply, was about to log off when he was suddenly stopped by user number 1417.

“Wait a minute, Wallfacer Feng Taylor, you haven’t told us who the sixth Wallfacer is yet,” said Number 1417.

"The sixth Wallfacer? Oh, that's just a lie."

Lin Feng smiled and waved goodbye, his figure gradually disappearing from the pyramid platform.

……

The next day, Lin Feng hurried to the Taylor Group's headquarters on Earth.

Because of the large amount of anti-hydrogen clouds and debris floating in space, the Taylor Group headquarters was moved to Earth for safety reasons. Most of the powerful figures in the space politics circle have also set up their governing headquarters on Earth.

Space governments lacking real power relocate en masse to the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt.

When the staff at the Taylor Group headquarters saw Lin Feng walking into the headquarters in a hurry, they all warmly greeted him. Some of them held up their newly drafted 'non-existent' plans and explained them to Lin Feng.

"Please take a look. This is my latest 'non-existent' solution. The entire human civilization undergoes genetic modification, with biological memory cells transplanted into the human gene sequence. Newborn babies will go through three stages: the naive stage, the learning stage, and the maturation stage. The naive stage is like being an ordinary child. Then, during the learning stage, they gradually absorb the knowledge within the biological memory cells, understand everything, understand the dark forest, and understand why they need to hide themselves. The maturation stage is when they become the main body of the 'non-existent' society..."

"The human body can have another bioprogrammable cavity added, enabling complex biological genetic modification without the aid of instruments and equipment. The stomach can also be modified into a special stomach capable of collecting genes. As long as a person eats, they can obtain the organic genes from the food..."

"These new humans may have moved underground or transformed themselves into marine life and moved to the deep sea. Because they show no signs of civilization, they would not be perceived as such by extraterrestrial observers. The solar system would be a barbaric star system without civilization."

Chapter 227 Crossing Light-Years to Meet an Online Friend

"Oh, I'll look at that later."

"Hold this for me for a moment."

Lin Feng glanced at the documents handed to him and then passed them to another person.

Another person followed closely behind, saying, "Please take a look; you will absolutely be very satisfied with this project..."

"I'm busy right now, I'll look at your report later."

This time, he didn't even look at it, and casually handed the document to the person who helped him get it.

With hurried steps, Lin Feng quickly walked to the Taylor Group headquarters conference room, and then used the communicator to call all core members for an emergency meeting.

Seeing that it was an emergency meeting convened by Lin Feng, all the core members of the Taylor Group dared not neglect it. They put down their work or handed it over to their subordinates and participated in the meeting remotely through the virtual network.

Emergency meetings are typically convened when the Taylor Group encounters extremely urgent situations and are not on the same level as regular core member meetings.

Lin Feng never convened a single meeting.

Now that these two factors have collided, the core members of the Taylor Group have reason to believe that the Taylor Group is facing its most troublesome situation ever.

Sure enough, as soon as they entered the meeting room, they saw Lin Feng with a solemn expression. Everyone was mentally prepared; even if the sun exploded tomorrow, they would accept it gladly.

"Everyone," Lin Feng paused, then continued, "I'm going to the Trisolaran system. Have the Taylor system prepare accordingly."

To the Trisolaran system?

This is indeed a big deal, but it doesn't seem that critical. Why is an emergency meeting needed?

The core members of the Taylor faction looked at each other, somewhat puzzled.