The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

At this moment, a large hole was melted in the outer wall of the man's spaceship cockpit by some kind of high temperature, and deep-sea acceleration fluid poured out.

A woman dressed in powered clothing, carrying a spiked club as thick as an adult's arm, jumped out of the hole and smashed it down on the man's head.

"Do not……"

Clap!

In an instant, brain matter splattered everywhere, red and white splattered all over the place.

"May you rest in peace, handsome brother, hehe."

Jasmine smiled sweetly, revealing an innocent and harmless smile.

If a teammate kills another teammate, the teammate will be held fully liable for that teammate's debt. So, as long as you don't team up, it's fine. Jasmine and Aegean didn't team up, so Jasmine's actions were simply that of an 'outsider' who killed Aegean's 'teammate'.

This is just a relatively simple tactic. There are many more sophisticated tactics in virtual space exercises, and some people are being sold out without even realizing it, while they are still counting the money for others.

Chapter 267 Gradually Understanding Everything

Susan's spaceship continued to leave the solar system, passing over a battlefield where a large-scale battle was taking place, and many ships were being destroyed in the artillery fire.

"There was a firefight?"

"Never mind, it's not important."

Susan didn't want to deal with these trivial matters. He knew he couldn't compete with the people in the virtual space exercise and wouldn't think about participating in the war to make a quick buck.

Who knows if it was a setup deliberately orchestrated by someone else to take advantage of the situation?

After crossing the Kuiper Belt, Susan's spaceship entered the Oort Cloud, a vast and desolate place devoid of human habitation.

Although the organizers have not imposed any restrictions, participants in virtual space exercises today generally refrain from extending their activities into the Oort cloud.

After all, this place is too big and too open, and there are no shelters. Places like the asteroid belt and the Kuiper belt are excellent battlefield environments.

Meanwhile, in the virtual space exercise, people can starve to death. The Oort cloud has very thin matter, and staying there will eventually lead to starvation. The key point is that the debts on your body will not be transferred, because starvation is considered suicide.

Susan felt a strange sense of peace, and looking back at the solar system, he felt as if he had understood something.

It's like a fish that has come ashore and looks back at the ocean; it feels neither indignant at the victor's despicable tactics nor saddened by the loser's fate—a very subtle feeling.

Just then, a radio call interrupted his strange feeling.

"Hello."

The signal originated from a very distant spaceship, so distant that Susan could only see it as a tiny dot on the radar, and from the radar, it could be seen that, like Susan, it was also heading away from the solar system.

"..."

Susan chose to remain silent and cautiously maintained her current distance, determined not to let the distance between them grow any closer.

"If you don't want to answer, then forget it. Just pretend I'm talking to myself."

The other party entered this message in the channel and then began to lament to themselves.

"There was this guy who wouldn't listen to my advice and insisted on entering the solar system to compete. Not long after, he got killed. He even cried to me about how some people were unethical and killed each other even after forming a team. Hahaha, he was so naive and cute."

"If you don't participate in the competition, what will you do about your debts?" Susan couldn't contain her curiosity and asked.

The other person replied nonchalantly, "What can I do? I'm just a worthless life. After I die, do you think my debts will chase me all the way to heaven? So I'm in a good mood right now."

Susan asked in surprise, "Don't you think about your descendants? After you die, the debts will transfer to your immediate family."

The other person replied, "I don't plan to leave any descendants in this messed-up world. This world doesn't deserve me to have any descendants. As for my relatives in this world, they have long since severed all ties with me."

"Then you have absolutely no need to participate in this game; entering the game carries the risk of being attacked."

Susan couldn't understand it. If they didn't care about the debt, then there was no need to participate in the virtual space exercise. It couldn't be just to experience the pain of being close to death, could it?

The other person replied, "You don't understand. It's never as good as being there in person. Being outside the competitive environment and watching the people in it gives you a sense of superiority. Whenever someone gets out of the game while someone else gets more in debt, I feel a sense of satisfaction from the outside."

"This feels great, I'm enjoying it. I can understand Feng Taylor's idea of ​​'non-existence' to some extent now. There will always be people smarter than you in the world. Either you take preparations early and get out of this game, or you simply don't get involved in the first place."

Susan was speechless for a moment. He thought carefully about the feeling he had when he left the solar system, and then he felt relieved.

Susan asked, "What would you do if someone attacked you?"

The other party replied, "What else can I do but run away? It's not like I'm not allowed to run away. My spaceship has no weapons, just fuel and thrusters, and it's protected. As long as I don't trust anyone and don't let anyone get close to me, I can survive to the end of this game with low debt. Anyway, there are people with more debt than me. I'm very calm."

Susan fell silent. He asked the other person, as if he were asking himself.

"...Is this also the case with Feng Taylor's idea of ​​'non-existence'?"

"Who knows? It's probably more complicated than I think. I'm just running away, while his is hiding and disguising himself," the person on the other end replied.

Susan asked a follow-up question, "If you don't actively communicate and modify your spaceship to look like an ordinary meteorite, no one among the game participants should be able to spot you, right?"

“That’s possible, but it would be stifling. It’s painful for people not to communicate,” the other person replied, explaining why he had taken the initiative to communicate with Susan.

Humans are creatures that might go crazy if they don't communicate.

“I understand,” Susan said suddenly.

"Huh? What did you understand?" The other person was a little confused, not understanding what Susan had figured out.

Susan shared her understanding of the virtual space exercise with great delight: "I understand the significance of this virtual space exercise. Feng Taylor wanted to use this game to guide us to awaken our hidden thoughts."

"Initially, wasn't it because humans were so foul-mouthed that they shouted into the universe using the sun, which led to the Trisolaran crisis? What has happened before will happen again, and the idea of ​​'non-existence' also has obvious drawbacks, namely that the active communication of the hidden ones will destroy the concealment and disguise of the idea of ​​'non-existence'. Non-existent things and inanimate objects do not communicate. If they can communicate, it means there is a risk of being hunted."

"However, human instinct will prompt humans to actively communicate."

……

Why did you suddenly decide to swap clothes with each other?

Lin Feng stared blankly at the two people in front of him. Liang Gong was dressed in a maid outfit, and Edith was dressed in Hanfu.

“It was just a whim,” Edith said with a light smile, then asked, “Does it look good?”

"nice."

Lin Feng nodded, offering no hint of acknowledgment.

"And what about me?" Suzumiya turned around.

Lin Feng smiled and said, "It looks good too."

After subtly probing the two's unusual behavior today, Lin Feng roughly understood that it turned out that when he last met the Trisolaran envoy, his back was photographed, and the unscrupulous media exaggerated his encounter with the Trisolaran envoy into a complicated love-hate relationship between humans and Trisolarans.

It's even made into a TV series!

Edith made up an excuse about having official business to keep them in check and left the room, but Suzumiya remained, which puzzled Lin Feng.

Suddenly, Ryouko asked, "Passerby A, what did you talk about with the Scientific Governor 7309 last time? He's been very ill ever since you last talked to him."

"Oh, he doesn't take care of his health, how can you blame me? We're almost four light-years apart, and I can't physically harm him."

Lin Feng pondered, "That was just simple rhetoric, it can't be that serious, can it?"

Dressed in a maid outfit, Suzumiya stood with her hands on her hips and pouted, "I won't be fooled by you. In human books, there are people who use information exchange to kill others."

Lin Feng spread his hands innocently and said helplessly, "I just told him that even if he developed a light-speed warp spaceship, it would still be a dead end. Maybe he just couldn't accept the truth."

Liang Gong was taken aback, then asked, "Why is it a dead end? A light-speed warp drive can reach the speed of light, and it does so instantly, without needing to consider inertia."

Lin Feng leaned back on the sofa and answered matter-of-factly, "If light-speed spaceships were that powerful, the order of the universe would have been established long ago. If the Trisolarans could think of developing light-speed warp drive spaceships, wouldn't other civilizations in the universe have thought of it as well? If the Dark Forest could be broken, the Dark Forest in the universe wouldn't exist until now."

"Just because you didn't think of a way to deal with a light-speed spaceship doesn't mean no one in the universe has thought of it. On the contrary, it's precisely because they did think of it and managed to counter it that the Dark Forest has existed to this day," Lin Feng said.

Upon hearing Lin Feng mention 'you all', Liang Gong's expression turned strange, and she fell silent.

After a long pause, Ryouji asked apologetically, "Passerby, will you blame me?"

"No, there's no need for many words between you and me. It's perfectly normal to love one's hometown," Lin Feng said with a smile.

……

Back in her room, Suzumiya suddenly started talking to someone she didn't recognize.

"You should give him the sophon technology."

Then, a line of text appeared in Suzumiya's eyes.

I don't have that decision-making power.

[And we can't be sure if he's lying; he's terrifying.]

Suzumiya coldly replied, "I don't intend to do this again."

Are you going to abandon your mother world?

Liang Gong said, "I never thought of betraying it. It is you who are betraying it. If Feng Taylor can achieve 'non-existence', it will be safe for all of us."

[This is merely a ploy to acquire technology from the Three-Body world.]

Compared to humanity, the Trisolarans possess almost nothing except technology. They are incredibly vulnerable in the face of humans; they are venomous snakes, and Feng Taylor is the most venomous of them all.

"He's not! You all don't understand anything!" Ryouko was unusually enraged.

[...You've become more like a human being.]

“It’s you who are becoming more and more like humans,” Suzumiya said coldly.

Chapter 268 The U.S. gets thoroughly cleaned up

"We don't need to tell Mr. Taylor about this for now. We'll handle it ourselves and then tell him."

Is this appropriate?

Davis looked at Edith hesitantly. The news they had just received had turned their otherwise good mood into an extremely bad one.

Edith said, "I want to lighten his workload. Since waking up from hibernation, he has been working more than he has in the last two centuries combined."

Davis frowned. "Is Mr. Taylor still blaming himself for what happened in the Doomsday War?"

Edith shook her head. "He's not the kind of person who regrets things. He did his best during the Doomsday War. The fact that he couldn't prevent the tragedy wasn't his fault; it was the Taylor Group's disobedience. His state of mind was due to something else. I understand him; he was because of something..."

Edith paused, then continued, "Fear."

Davis stared wide-eyed in surprise, his face contorted with absurdity. From his perspective, Lin Feng was like a mortal looking up at a god, and now someone was telling him that the 'god' was afraid.

“Afraid? Afraid of what?” Davis asked.

Davis did not doubt Edith's judgment. She was arguably the closest person to Lin Feng in the entire human world. She had been by Lin Feng's side ever since he became a Wallfacer. She knew all of Lin Feng's habits inside and out. If she said that Lin Feng was afraid, then she was definitely right.