The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

"Universal dimensional reduction caused by a war between super civilizations? No wonder this is something only a war maniac could come up with. His mind is full of war. This guy is hopeless."

“I’m telling you, this alone can make me laugh all day.”

"That madman might still be dreaming of the Taylor Group building a new fleet to fight alien civilizations, hahaha..."

"He doesn't even know his own limitations. He worked hard for two centuries, and the result was the kind of apocalyptic war. If he had known about the Dark Forest deterrence earlier, he should have said so sooner and established a multi-deterrence system earlier. How could the apocalyptic war have happened then? Those who died in the apocalyptic war can all be said to have been killed by him. This war criminal should be torn to pieces and nailed to the pillar of historical shame."

Chapter 264 [?→ ?＜?]

One after another, enormous space cities slowly approached Venus, which was in the second orbit of the solar system.

The project to terraform Venus was essentially to erect a barrier between the Sun and Venus, blocking the sunlight from reaching Venus.

But there is a problem here, which is light pressure.

If a large mirror were erected directly between the Sun and Venus, it would eventually crash into Venus due to the constant pressure of the light.

Therefore, this requires a more complex design.

The design concept should not be to reflect sunlight, but to deflect it.

It's easy. Just tilt one mirror and place the other mirror parallel to the ground. The sunlight will be reflected by the two mirrors due to the angle of incidence, forming a 'Z'-shaped reflected light path.

The tilted mirrors arranged in a circle create a cone-shaped appearance, while the parallel mirrors arranged in an outer circle form a frustum structure without a bottom or top, consisting only of sloping surfaces.

This structure can be further extended by adding another ring of tilted, parallel mirrors around the outside, creating a large circular structure.

Unlike ordinary round mirrors, it deflects sunlight rather than reflects it. The reflection effect of the two mirrors causes the sunlight to give the deflecting structure a push towards Venus, and then in turn gives the deflecting structure a push towards the sun.

Of course, considering that light reflection cannot achieve 100% energy dissipation, the former has a greater thrust than the latter.

However, it's not a big problem. The thrust of sunlight is already weak, and with this deflection structure, 99.9% of the thrust of sunlight is lost. By equipping it with a few nuclear fusion radiation engines, the problem of sunlight-driven propulsion can be fundamentally solved.

Sunlight entering from the left side of the deflection structure will be directed to the right at a greater angle, while sunlight entering from the right side will be directed to the left at a greater angle. The deflected rays will cross behind the deflection structure and eventually be deflected to the left and right sides of Venus.

The desired effect is roughly like this: [?→ ?＜?].

Near the orbit of Venus, an industrial fleet belonging to the Taylor system is anchored.

Inside the flagship, looking at the space cities heading towards the space between the sun and Venus, a senior engineer involved in the current construction project held the blueprints of the deflection structure and suddenly shook his head and muttered to himself.

"To build polarized structures, we don't need that many space cities; two or three will suffice."

Upon hearing this, An Peng, the chief engineer standing nearby, immediately became displeased.

An Peng said, "Old Zhao, you need to change your straightforward nature. If you can't see beyond the surface to the essence, you'll run into big problems one day."

An Peng lectured him from the perspective of someone who had been through it all, but Lao Zhao listened without understanding what he meant by "putting aside appearances to see the essence."

What does "phenomenon" refer to? What does "essence" refer to?

Seeing Lao Zhao's expression, An Peng guessed that he hadn't understood, so he asked.

"I'm asking you, do these space cities belong to our Taylor system?"

"No."

Old Zhao shook his head. These space cities were all invested in by the Space City Federation and used as resources for the construction of their current project.

Old Zhao never expected that the Space City Federation would be willing to make such a big investment, although the Taylor-affiliated Ministry of Foreign Affairs also deserves credit for this.

An Peng then asked, "So, do we need to bear the costs of these space cities?"

"unnecessary."

Old Zhao then shook his head. The space city doesn't belong to them. Even if it's damaged, it's not their loss, but the Space City Federation's loss.

A simple and clear principle.

An Peng continued, "Now that we've solved the sunlight problem, will we also need enough resources to build a space elevator and mining equipment on Venus?"

"Correct."

Old Zhao nodded. He seemed to understand a little now what the Taylor Group's top executives were planning.

"That settles it then, the more the merrier." With that, An Peng clapped his hands and then opened them.

Old Zhao rubbed his chin. "...That seems to make sense."

An Peng said, "That's exactly the point. That's why even though your engineering design skills are better than mine, I can still be your leader. What is cost saving? Cost saving means saving our costs. If you want to continue to get promoted, you should learn more about this."

"Understood," Old Zhao replied.

……

"Starting today, the Venus Sunshade Project begins. Following Mars, humanity will begin environmental terraforming of the third solid planet in the solar system. According to the final results, Venus will eventually become a planet with extremely low temperatures, and its corrosive atmosphere will condense and fall to the ground. In the foreseeable future, it will become humanity's third large-scale building material mining site after Earth and Mars..."

A beautiful, professional woman appeared on the projector, concisely and skillfully explaining the latest events in the solar system to the audience.

"Construction has finally begun."

Lin Feng watched the news, leaning back on the sofa and muttering to himself.

Lin Feng began to plan his next move.

"In this way, once the project is completed, the resource constraints faced by the Taylor Group can be initially resolved, and the recovery speed should be much faster."

The deflection project involves further modifications to the main framework of the space city, which is already a completed product. The simple modifications will not take much time and can be completed within two or three years.

Given that Venus has a greenhouse atmosphere with a significant greenhouse effect, its heat loss will be slower than Earth's. However, it is certain that it will not take more than six months for Venus's atmosphere to gradually thin and eventually disappear as it cools down, eventually relying on geothermal energy to maintain a relatively low temperature.

Since even the atmosphere has disappeared, climates similar to Antarctic blizzards will not appear at all. Apart from gravity, it will be similar to mining meteorite resources in space. The Taylor system already has these technologies, and Venus, this physical planet, will become a resource mining site for the Taylor system.

Once Venus's sunlight-blocking project is finished, Mercury will be next.

The situation on Venus can be replicated on Mercury. Mercury's only problem is that it is too close to the sun, resulting in a huge temperature difference between day and night. Other than that, all other problems are minor.

The problem of restoring the Taylor system is being resolved... the problem of the effeminate nature of human society is also being resolved... so only the problem of the singer remains?

According to the original plot, those Singer ships flying around in the universe may not be able to find humans, but they can easily find the Trisolarans.

Because when the Trisolarans were researching light-speed warp drive spaceships, they would inevitably have created a track, which would have almost the properties of broadcast coordinates.

This might be the reason why the Trisolaran Second Fleet invaded the solar system. The solar system is the closest to the Trisolaran system, and the Trisolaran civilization needs to acquire resources as soon as possible to build more light-speed spaceships to escape.

The ending is also clear: the Singer's spaceship did indeed arrive near the Trisolaran system and release a particle of light.

Whether it was attracted by the coordinate broadcast or by the slow light phenomenon of the experimental trajectory in the Trisolaran system, we do not know.

"What should I do..."

Chapter 265 If I stay any longer, you'll just fool me.

Lin Feng pondered for a moment. The Singer's problem was very troublesome. The Singer didn't just have things like light particles and two-dimensional foils. In their eyes, these things could not be considered 'explosive' weapons. From this, one could imagine how terrifying a weapon that could be called 'explosive' would be in the eyes of the Singer.

I carefully recalled the original plot and wondered if I could find a way to solve the singer's problem from the original work.

So far, the solution is a technological breakthrough, namely, miniaturization and two-dimensionalization. Even if humanity were to bring along the Trisolarans, it would still be no match for an established civilization like the Singers in the universe.

For humans to survive, the only option is to escape and hide.

Lin Feng fell into deep thought, his thoughts drifting to the universe. Finally, a flash of inspiration struck him, and he suddenly stood up.

"Now, we have no choice but to give it a try," Lin Feng said firmly.

……

In one part of the Taylor Group headquarters, a group of reporters were crammed together. They were all prominent journalists in the human world, members of the human elite.

Now, however, they are being driven around like reporters from third-rate media outlets.

"Please allow me to meet the envoy from the Trisolaran world."

"Yes, please let us meet those envoys from the Trisolaran world."

The guards patiently explained as they drove them away, "Excuse me, please give us permission to pass, otherwise we will not let you through."

Amid the throng of reporters, someone voiced their discontent, "But your Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already provided approval documents, isn't that enough?"

The heavily armed guards shook their heads firmly.

"I'm sorry, the approval certificate is only valid for interviewing core members of the Taylor system. If you want to interview the envoys of the Trisolaran world, you need a pass personally approved by Mr. Taylor."

The approval certificate does indeed grant a high level of access within the Taylor faction, but this level is far from sufficient to contact the envoys of the Trisolaran world; at most, it allows for interviews with core members of the Taylor faction.

At this point, someone shouted indignantly, "We are journalists, we have the right to interview any public figure! Your behavior will be condemned by the world!"

“No, you have no rights here other than human rights,” the guard replied calmly, continuing to drive away the group of journalists who had come from Earth and Mars.

Just then, another reporter said, "You're lying! No permit is needed at all! Explain why that person was able to go in directly?"

Following the direction pointed out by the struggling reporter, the guard saw a familiar figure from behind.

His gait was casual, as if he were strolling in his own backyard, and the guards seemed not to see him at all, showing no reaction whatsoever, as if he were invisible.

"Can't you tell from his back? That's Mr. Taylor," the guard asked curiously.

"Oh... um?!"

The reporter responded at first, but then, realizing what was happening, his eyes widened as he stared at Lin Feng's departing figure.

Without further ado, the reporter immediately took out his camera and filmed Lin Feng.

Lin Feng is big news. As long as he appears in the news or is related to him, it will definitely get extremely high viewership. Right now, the envoy from the Three-Body world can't be seen, so taking a picture of Lin Feng's back is not a complete loss.

At worst, we can fabricate some gossip, such as the untold story of Feng Taylor and the Trisolaran messengers.

The Trisolaran envoys were imprisoned separately. As soon as Lin Feng entered the room, he saw a girl in a kimono bowing to him in a Japanese style.

Welcome!

“I’ve been waiting for you for a long time, Mr. Taylor.”

The girl in the kimono smiled sweetly, appearing truly harmless.

"How did you know I would come here?" Lin Feng raised an eyebrow.

The girl in the kimono explained, "The other envoys prepared in the same way."

Guided by the girl in the kimono, Lin Feng sat down at the tea table. The tea was still very hot, freshly brewed.

Lin Feng sipped his tea and exclaimed, "The Zhizi is truly a wonderful thing. No matter what I do, I can be observed, and it can also interfere with particle experiment data, affecting scientific development."

"Are you here to lodge a protest?" the girl in the kimono suddenly asked.