The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

Indeed, according to the original description, the Singer's attacks are only allowed on civilization. If humans all become animals, then there is naturally no such thing as a dark forest.

However, it's hard to guarantee that we won't be affected one day. One of the mass extinctions on Earth was caused by the explosion of a star outside our solar system.

Von Neumann continued, "The Trisolarans see human civilization as a threat. If civilization disappears and humans become just ordinary animals, the Trisolarans will naturally no longer see humans as a threat, because they will just be ordinary animals!"

"If the human fleet fails in the battle against the Trisolarans, at least the humans, who have become animals, can continue to pass on their genes!"

The project, which aims to continue genetic work, has been completed!

Lin Feng had to admit that the plan seemed quite plausible in a certain sense. Gene cloning was a way to reduce humans to animals by using their genes, which would also allow the genes to continue, thus ensuring the continuation of the human race.

The Trisolarans' only goal is to destroy civilization, and the probability of them eliminating humans who have become animals is much smaller.

After all, humans are not the only animals on Earth.

"This...this plan is too..."

Lin Feng didn't really like the plan, even though he knew it was a plan his own people had told him at the risk of their lives, and it sounded very reliable, but he just couldn't accept it.

To reduce humans to the level of animals or something...

John von Neumann laughed; in his view, the Wallfacer, Feng Taylor, was making his final struggle.

“I know you must find this plan hard to accept, and that’s precisely where your brilliance lies.”

"You've used half of your plan as a second layer of disguise. The virtual education that controls human thought is the first layer, while the castration of human thought is the second layer of disguise!"

"Below this, there is another layer, which, when combined with the second layer, is your true purpose."

Lin Feng immediately perked up. So you didn't finish your sentence. You went to great lengths to put on a show for the Three-Body Problem, even creating multiple lies on your own.

Von Neumann said, "I must commend you; you are a master of lies. Unfortunately, the more lies you tell, the easier they are to be seen through."

"If it were merely a matter of emasculating human thought to preserve the genetic spark in the event of future failures, there would be no need for such a grand-scale effort to control global human thought."

"Castrending the minds of tens of thousands of people would be enough to ensure the richness of the genes, turning these people into savages. Then, a restricted area would be designated for these savages to live in. The Trisolarans would likely not eliminate these savages, because centuries later, they would be just ordinary animals like pigs, dogs, cattle, and sheep."

"However, you are not content with this. You are ambitious, and the mind model of you within the organization clearly reflects this."

"Your real plan is to prevent the human genes from being completely wiped out by the victorious Trisolarans after humanity's defeat. If all goes well, these savages will regain their intelligence and ignite the flame of civilization hundreds of thousands or millions of years later, allowing human civilization to rise from the ashes."

"You are betting that the Trisolarans will not remain in the solar system for hundreds of thousands or millions of years, because with such a long civilization span, the Trisolaran civilization is likely to be submerged in history."

"Even if they hadn't been submerged, the Trisolarans would no longer see humanity as a threat, because the gap was already far beyond imagination. A technological gap of hundreds of thousands or millions of years was something humanity couldn't even imagine."

"At that time, humans were still no threat to the Trisolarans, just like pigs, dogs, cows, and sheep. If the Trisolarans could spare humans who had turned into animals, they would naturally spare humans whose civilization was so different that they were still animals."

Seeing Lin Feng's stunned expression, von Neumann knew he had won. The Wallfacer had been completely broken through by him, and he looked proudly at the Wallfacer opposite him.

"In order to achieve this goal, you have been secretly studying human thought. I think you probably came up with this idea when you first came into contact with Bill Hines."

Lin Feng understood immediately. So your idea came from Bill Hines.

Having broken through the barrier, von Neumann naturally had no interest in lingering with Lin Feng any longer. Before leaving, he gave Lin Feng one last message.

"Your plan was brilliant, and your lies were extremely complex. Unfortunately, some of your actions were too obvious, which caused you to expose your plan prematurely."

These words were automatically filtered into Lin Feng's ears as—"Don't make the Wallfacer Plan too obvious. If it's exposed, the humans who have turned into animals might be targeted and eliminated by the Trisolarans."

Chapter 85 We agree to your plan

A container ship, carrying more than 90,000 tons of container cargo, slowly departed from the Port of Los Angeles.

After sailing for more than a month, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, the container ship launched a lifeboat. Von Neumann boarded the lifeboat and headed toward a submarine a few nautical miles to the starboard side of the container ship.

It was dark. People on the submarine were using the submarine's spotlight to illuminate the lifeboat that von Neumann was in and to guide him.

After von Neumann boarded the submarine, the pilot inside the lifeboat returned to the container ship.

Inside the submarine, ETO members von Neumann, Su Qier, and Di Renjie meet in the real world. Su Qier and Di Renjie are both white Australians, one fat and one thin.

Su Qier couldn't help but ask the question that he had never been able to figure out.

"I don't understand, why should we destroy Feng Taylor's plan? This plan doesn't seem to be able to stop the Lord's arrival; in fact, it could weaken humanity's resistance and demoralize them to some extent. Why should we break through Feng Taylor's barrier?"

Von Neumann found a place to sit down and explained to the two of them.

“Feng Taylor is a very shrewd man. He is not the kind of person who would place his hopes on the mercy of the Trisolarans. So, in the end, this plan to revive the civilization is just an insignificant one among his many plans, one of the ways to allow the human species to continue to survive after the defeat of humanity.”

"Moreover, there are some parts of his plan that I haven't mentioned, namely the third layer of lies that may exist in Feng Taylor's plan."

Di Renjie and Su Qier were stunned, and then couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"There are lies too?!"

The overlapping lies, which were half true and half false, had already opened their eyes, but they never imagined that they could be overlapping again!

"This is just my guess, because I don't have any evidence yet."

"But I think that Feng Taylor's plan to develop virtual education for all mankind is to thoroughly understand the enlightenment mechanism of human brain intelligence and study how to revive human civilization millions of years later. He had this plan from the moment he asked Bill Hines for the human brain algorithm."

Di Renjie stroked his chin. "But whether this plan to revive civilization is feasible is still questionable. Even if the Trisolarans are truly merciful and simply kill all intelligent humans and treat the unintelligent humans as ordinary beasts, can these unintelligent humans really successfully reawaken their intelligence?"

Su Qier added, "What if we end up like the chimpanzees we've seen? How can we ensure the plan goes smoothly?"

This plan to revive civilization cannot be tested. Once the experiment confirms that humans who have become beasts can be revived and their intelligence restored, the probability that the Trisolarans will leave no humans behind will increase.

If the Trisolarans were to castrate human intelligence without experimentation, turning them into beasts, the likelihood of them being spared would increase.

But this means there's no guarantee that humanity will awaken its wisdom again.

Fundamentally, this plan is a gamble, a gamble on what the Three-Body Problem side will think.

They found it hard to believe that such a gamble was part of Feng Taylor's plan. Although his plans were crazy, they always had a clear direction and a high success rate.

"So, there's a third lie? The plan to emasculate human intelligence is also a plan of deception?" Di Renjie looked enlightened.

von Neumann shook his head.

"I cannot be sure; this is merely speculation based on Feng Taylor's character. I have no strong evidence to prove it."

"If that's true, what is the fourth layer of his plan?" Su Qier pressed.

“It’s deception, a deception of the entire Trisolaran world,” von Neumann said solemnly.

Su Qi'er scratched his head. "The Wallfacer's duty is to deceive the Trisolaran world."

Von Neumann said, "Not the Wallfacers, but another group of people, those humans whose intelligence has been emasculated."

Di Renjie frowned, his logic still not quite there. "How could humans, whose intelligence has been castrated, possibly... wait, are you saying that the so-called castration of intelligence didn't actually happen? It's just that the Trisolaran world mistakenly believed that these humans had their intelligence castrated? So they didn't exterminate humanity?"

Di Renjie looked astonished. So Feng Taylor planned to have a group of people pretend to be wild beasts and survive for generations after the Trisolarans defeated humanity and destroyed human civilization.

“Correct. Only in this way can we guarantee a higher probability that human civilization can be revived,” von Neumann said.

Su Qi'er found it utterly absurd. A group of humans, deceiving the entire Trisolaran world at close range? And under the omnipresent surveillance of the sophons?

How could that be possible!

Su Qier said, “They are a group of people, and they also need to reproduce. Collectively and for a long time, they deceive the Trisolaran world. Humans simply cannot do it. Even if adults can do it, those newborn babies cannot. They are the purest group in the entire human civilization. The Trisolarans only need to understand them to determine whether the disguised human group has really turned into animals.”

Von Neumann nodded and said, "That was what I originally thought too, until I remembered a conversation between Feng Taylor and one of his researchers, and the project that researcher was working on, which made me change my mind."

As he spoke, von Neumann picked up the laptop next to him, typed a few words, and brought up a document.

If Lin Feng were here, he would definitely recognize the contents of the document; it was the manuscript of Goring Davis's artificial brain that he had seen before.

"This is a project that Feng Taylor's research team has been working on: the combination of the human brain and computers," von Neumann explained simply. "According to that researcher's expectations, once this project is completed, humans will have the technology to completely get rid of the ancient browsing-style memory and switch to data-style memory. To put it simply, it's like inserting a memory stick into the brain, and the human brain will remember the information in the memory stick."

Su Qier and Di Renjie browsed the content in a simple manner.

Di Renjie frowned and said, "But these things are hardware. The Master's surveillance is everywhere. It's impossible for a disguised human to perform surgery on a newborn every time they are born. A group of 'animals' won't perform surgery."

Von Neumann smiled, tapped his notebook again, and another research report appeared.

"Without surgery, memory chips can be turned into a heritable artificial organ. I remember that Germany is currently researching this project, and the goal of this project is to completely solve the genetic diseases that exist in human society."

ETO's intelligence is comprehensive because of Sophon's God-like perspective, so von Neumann knows what Wallfacer Feng Taylor has seen after becoming a Wallfacer.

This German research and development project was the same one that Lin Feng had seen in a science magazine.

Artificial organs can transmit memories and communicate. Modified human children are born knowing everything. Everyone is deceiving the Trisolarans on the same Earth because the Trisolarans don't understand deception...

Su Qier and Di Renjie felt that this was outrageous, but they could also believe such an outrageous plan. Just recently, the human leadership was discussing how to send spies into the Trisolaran fleet.

“When you were breaking through the barrier with Feng Taylor, you should have said it, whether it was true or not, you should have blocked the way,” Di Renjie said.

Whether the plan is real or not, they are ETO, and their ultimate goal is to completely destroy humanity, including themselves.

"You're still too young."

John von Neumann gave a meaningful smile.

"The plan I spoke of when the wall was broken was for humanity to hear; what I am telling you now is for the Lord to hear."

The Trisolarans will not leave behind any humans, even if they are just animals!

……

"Here is your coffee."

Edith placed the freshly brewed coffee on the table in front of Lin Feng.

Lin Feng absentmindedly sipped his unusually bitter coffee and said, "Edith, there's something I'm unsure about, and I'd like to ask for your opinion."

“Please speak,” Edith said.

"If... you know that killing someone is wrong, would you still do it?" Lin Feng asked, somewhat conflicted.

"That's definitely not the case."

Edith answered decisively.

Lin Feng thought for a moment, then asked seriously.

"Now, suppose you and your CIA colleagues are on a mission, and your colleague thinks someone should be killed. He risks his life to tell you that killing this person will complete the mission, but you know very well that killing this person is actually pointless. What would you do?"

Edith hesitated for a moment before replying, "Of course I won't take action. I have no obligation to pay for my colleague's misjudgment. Since I already know it's pointless, I won't do anything unnecessary."

Lin Feng was clearly stunned, then his gloomy expression suddenly brightened.

Yup!

Since it was already known that Brother Luo Ji could solve the Trisolaran threat, why did he bother to think about the plan to castrate human intelligence?

The people inside ETO don't know the plot, so they think this is the way out for humanity, and there's no need for him to do it!