The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

Lin Feng shrugged, giving the impression that "you said no, not me, so don't come looking for me later."

Upon seeing this, the other representatives immediately regretted their decision. "We need it! We need it! We also greatly admire the Trisolaran civilization! Please bring us no more than half a gram of local specialties!"

Lin Feng sneered, "Half a gram? You're dreaming! It's half a milligram. If so many people are half a gram, wouldn't my spaceship have to increase its mass by several grams? How much fuel would I need to lose to accelerate several grams of mass to near the speed of light?"

Upon hearing Lin Feng's words, the representatives from various countries felt as if they were about to vomit blood, while the French representative, who had been promised a half-gram object, secretly rejoiced.

"Let me make it clear beforehand: if I bring back stones and dust, don't complain."

"Whatever you say."

The human representatives replied with considerable helplessness.

“But I don’t trust you. Go and draw up a written agreement so you won’t come after me later if you’re unhappy.” With that, he told Edith to prepare some written documents for these people to sign.

"..."

Chapter 228 Rules for Core Member Meetings, Article 1

"This research direction is not feasible."

Lin Feng shook his head in disappointment and threw a document onto the table.

The document is a proposal about a development direction of 'non-existence', which involves biologically modifying humans to discard the current industrial framework of human civilization and using biological organisms as a vehicle to continue human civilization.

Human civilization as a whole has been disguised as a group of wild beasts living on Earth in the solar system, deceiving all extraterrestrial civilizations in the universe.

There is still a year before we head to the Trisolaran system. Lin Feng plans to use this year to finalize the development direction of 'non-existent' as soon as possible.

It should be noted that it will take him thirteen years to leave the solar system, which is enough time for naive teenagers to grow up.

"Why? I feel it's highly feasible, and we can get results quickly."

The core members who conceived the plan could not accept that their hard-won results were so easily dismissed.

Lin Feng said calmly, "The feasibility is indeed very high, but it is not hidden, much less 'non-existent'."

Lin Feng scanned the meeting room and said, "You don't know what 'non-existent' means? If you don't, you can look it up in the dictionary."

"If you can't see it, can't touch it, and can't even prove its existence, then it doesn't exist."

The core member whose proposal was rejected still replied unwillingly, "But you see, according to the proposal I gave, human civilization is not a civilization, but just a group of animals. If extraterrestrial civilizations want to determine that we are a civilization, they must deeply understand the structure and biology of our society, which is something that remote observation cannot do."

Lin Feng rolled his eyes and said disdainfully, "Bullshit, how long did it take the nine droplets from the Trisolarans to wipe out our fleet? How dare you say that alien civilizations can't do it? We're trying to deceive all the civilizations in the universe, including some of the oldest civilizations that have existed since the beginning of the Big Bang."

Compared to those civilizations in the universe that have existed since the Big Bang and continue to develop science and technology.

The technological level of this civilization is beyond human comprehension; the only certainty is that it can utterly crush the Trisolarans.

If humanity wants to deceive all civilizations in the universe, then naturally this ancient civilization will be included.

However, Lin Feng believed that this plan of disguising themselves as a group of wild beasts could not fool this ancient civilization at all, so he rejected this direction of development.

"Okay, even if extraterrestrial civilizations can gain a deep understanding of human civilization through remote observation..."

The core members who conceived the idea of ​​beast camouflage wanted to say something more, but Lin Feng stopped them.

"Stop, stop, pause for a moment."

"What is the first rule of the newly drafted Taylor Group core members' meeting?" Lin Feng turned his gaze to the other attendees and then asked.

Upon hearing Lin Feng's question, the core member who conceived the idea of ​​the beast's disguise froze instantly, while the other attendees wore strange expressions.

Among the attendees, one replied, "In core meetings, if any attendee makes any assumptions, all attendees have an obligation to drag them outside the meeting room and beat them up to help them clear their muddled minds."

Lin Feng nodded in satisfaction, marking the return to the core members who had conceived the idea of ​​camouflage for wild animals.

"I……"

"please."

The other party wanted to argue further, but Lin Feng interrupted him in an unquestionable tone, reaching out towards the conference room door.

The core member of the Taylor faction slunk out of the meeting room, and several other attendees followed him out.

Then, the man's wailing sounded from outside the door.

"Don't hit my face! Be gentle! I was wrong! I won't take things for granted again!"

……

A few minutes later, the attendees outside the door entered the meeting room one after another. The core member who had been beaten up, with dark circles under his eyes, was the last to come in.

"You continue," Lin Feng said.

The core member, sporting dark circles under his eyes, said, "What I want to say is that we can directly see through human thinking through remote observation, and based on human thinking, we can see that it is a civilization that is disguising itself. There is no reason to be affected by the Dark Forest Law anymore. A crucial part of the Dark Forest Law is the chain of suspicion. If we can directly read through human thinking, the chain of suspicion will naturally disappear."

"How can you be so sure that extraterrestrial civilizations necessarily possess faster-than-light observation technology? Or are you just making assumptions?" Lin Feng's gaze suddenly became subtle.

The other party was so frightened that they quickly waved their hands.

"No, no, no! I have evidence! I have evidence!"

The core member who conceived the idea of ​​the beast's disguise said, "The Trisolaran civilization can use quantum entanglement to achieve real-time information transmission on a light-year scale. There is no reason why a civilization with a more advanced technological level than the Trisolaran civilization would not know about this real-time information transmission technology. Suppose there is a galactic hegemon-level civilization in the Milky Way with a higher technological level than the Trisolaran civilization. This civilization only needs to spread technological creations similar to sophons throughout the Milky Way to achieve real-time observation across the entire Milky Way."

"For a galactic hegemon civilization with a higher level of technology than the Trisolarans and abundant resources, it would only take a few hundred thousand years to complete such a galactic-wide deployment project."

The diameter of the Milky Way is approximately 100,000 light-years. Assuming that faster-than-light technology does not exist, if artificial objects like sophons, capable of real-time observation, were scattered throughout the Milky Way at the speed of light, a civilization would only need 100,000 years to complete the real-time reception of information from the entire galaxy. Where there is a civilization, where life has just been born, would be immediately apparent.

Fearing that Lin Feng would say it was just wishful thinking, the core member quickly added, "Of course, a civilization of this level might possess even more advanced observation technology than the sophons, but that technology would only be faster, more convenient, more reliable, and safer."

Lin Feng nodded. This was indeed a reasonable analysis. "You mean that extraterrestrial civilizations that can be directly observed through human thought processes from a distance don't have the conditions to form a chain of suspicion. Therefore, they are not 'beasts' in the dark forest, but 'humans.' Humans have more complex behavioral norms; they compete but also cooperate. Therefore, they are not as absolute as in the dark forest. Human civilization actually has a glimmer of hope in the face of such a civilization?"

"Yes, I'm sorry, Mr. Taylor, that's all I can think of. Because when facing a civilization of this level, even if humans disguise themselves as a pile of rocks, they can be seen through at a glance across light-years. Human civilization has nowhere to hide from such a civilization," the core member replied with great regret.

His plan only targets the 'beasts' confined within the dark forest, not the 'people' who have escaped it.

The civilization that escaped the Dark Forest was too powerful, far beyond human imagination. Therefore, from the very beginning, the core members who conceived the idea of ​​beast disguise for the 'people' in the Dark Forest adopted a passive and non-deceptive attitude.

Since no amount of trickery can deceive this terrifying civilization that can see through human disguises at a glance, the only way is to hide and not be seen by this civilization.

Is such a thing even possible?

The Trisolarans could monitor the entire solar system; wouldn't a civilization of that level be able to do so?

Lin Feng asked, "So, do you still think your idea is good enough? How many galaxies are there in the universe? If they are evenly distributed, and one civilization of this level is born in each galaxy, then how many such civilizations are there in this universe?"

"I...you're absolutely right, my proposal wasn't good enough." The core member who conceived the idea of ​​beast camouflage admitted his shortcomings with frustration.

Lin Feng yawned and picked up another document to read.

"Do you think my proposal is feasible?" one of the attendees asked cautiously.

"Using this method with black holes?"

Lin Feng pointed to the document in his hand.

The attendee said, "Yes, by using the closed spacetime of black holes, humanity can completely separate itself from the universe. Moreover, black holes are the most basic state of matter in the universe, while singularities are the most stable material structures in the universe. To harm human civilization inside a black hole, it is necessary to destroy the black hole, and the prerequisite for destroying the black hole is to destroy the singularity."

This core member of the Taylor system proudly explained, "As we all know, the singularity is indestructible because it is the most fundamental state of all matter in the entire universe. Human civilization inside a black hole can even extend to the outside of the black hole, to the heat death era when all atoms decomposed into subatomic particles due to the tearing of the universe."

During the meeting, one participant cautioned, "However, black holes will eventually evaporate, and when they disappear, it will be the end of human civilization."

The core member of the Taylor system shook his head. "Being able to continue for such a long period of time is enough for human civilization. Think about it, apart from black holes, when all matter in the universe is completely heat-dead, what kind of civilization can still survive? At that time, there may only be civilizations like human civilization hiding in supermassive black holes in the entire universe. When the black holes completely evaporate, human civilization will only be one of the last civilizations to perish in the universe."

"Human civilization has lived long enough; it has already lived long enough."

Nothing in this world is immortal; even the universe will die.

Therefore, for human civilization to be among the last to die in the universe is actually an achievement worth boasting about.

So what if your civilization has a higher potential? Didn't you still perish earlier than us?

What good are your abundant civilization and resources? You still perished earlier than us.

What good is it if your civilization becomes like a god in the universe? In the end, won't you still face the inevitable demise of the universe alongside us low-tech 'ants'?

Not everyone at the meeting could accept this negative approach. "This kind of 'living' means sacrificing meaningful time, just like hibernation. According to the definition in the human world, hibernators do not count their age when they hibernate."

The flow of time inside a black hole is completely different from that outside. Civilizations inside would probably have little meaningful time to enjoy. This method is simply a competition with other alien civilizations to see who can exist longer.

"Don't forget, our ultimate goal is to continue civilization. To achieve this, we set it as our ultimate objective to escape the fierce competition in the universe. The final result is to become 'non-existent'. My solution meets Mr. Taylor's definition of 'non-existence'. It's perfect."

The core member who proposed the black hole hiding development direction smiled proudly. His plan was perfect, a perfect fit for 'non-existence'. The interior of a black hole cannot be detected, so naturally no one would know of the existence of human civilization. This is not simply information isolation, but the isolation of causal lines.

Inside and outside the black hole, one is the interior of the light cone, and the other is the exterior of the light cone. The interior of the light cone is destiny.

It's possible for an external force to destroy the light cone itself, but that's only in theory. How could someone outside a black hole destroy it? Tear it apart?

The core members who proposed the development direction of hiding in black holes are so confident because the singularity is the most fundamental state of matter in the entire universe. You can't destroy it with energy, and no amount of energy will make a difference.

However, Lin Feng's simple question caused the core member who proposed the development direction of hiding in black holes to freeze in an instant.

"What if a civilization in the universe picked up the black hole at the center of the Milky Way like a bowling ball and smashed it into the center of another galaxy, causing the two singularities to collide violently?"

"..."

The core member opened his mouth, but couldn't speak for a long time. Two singularities exist simultaneously within an event horizon; who knows what the outcome will be? What would it be like for humans inside a black hole?

He couldn't imagine it, and neither could anyone else present.

"What would happen to human civilization inside a black hole during the process of two singularities merging into a single, more massive singularity? Would it still be able to exist?" Lin Feng asked.

"..."

"This... I'm not sure, my understanding of black holes is still insufficient..."

The core member who proposed the black hole hiding direction announced with frustration that his idea still had some flaws he had not anticipated.

Afterwards, Lin Feng read several more documents, which were also very insightful, such as the concept of micro-civilization, which involves continuously shrinking individuals within a civilization until they become so small that they are no longer perceptible to the macro-civilization.

This insignificance can cause macro-level civilizations to overlook the existence of human civilization.

The problem is that this direction of development requires human civilization to continuously explore more microscopic particle phenomena.

If humanity can explore more microscopic particle phenomena without hindrance, why should it withdraw from the fierce competition in the universe and choose to lie down?

That's putting the cart before the horse.

For example, civilization becomes transparent. Human civilization as a whole develops in the direction of transparency, and no particle detector can detect human civilization. Then, human civilization hides in a dark matter cloud and uses the gravity of the dark matter cloud to disguise itself, thereby achieving concealment.

It's not exactly great, but it's a fairly conventional development direction.

"Could you please take a look at my proposal?"

A person who surprised Lin Feng handed him a document.