The Wallfacer: Everyone wants to break through my wall.

In other words, they suspected there was a traitor among them, which is why the news leaked out?

But if Newton didn't tell them, how could he have carried out the assassination of Feng Taylor?

One person's strength is very limited; without the help of an organization, Newton would have had a problem even getting into the United States.

"What do you mean by this?" asked the impulsive Bohr.

“I want to complete this task independently, and I also need the right to communicate with the Lord alone,” Newton added.

His meaning was clear: he wanted to abandon the organization and, with the Lord's assistance, carry out the assassination of Feng Taylor alone.

However, Newton's request displeased the ETO's top brass, who then spoke with the Lord privately, effectively seizing control of all the ETO's power.

ETO's rights come from the Trisolarans. If Newton were to communicate with the Trisolarans alone, who knows what he would say?

"You want to rise above us?" Qin Shi Huang raised an eyebrow.

"I did this to prevent the traitor from betraying us again. That guy is too well hidden. We've been investigating for so long but haven't found him. And now we don't have the time to waste on that mole hidden in the organization. So this task can only be completed by me alone."

Newton scanned the ETO executives with a blank expression and bluntly stated that there was a traitor among them.

Newton didn't care much about power within the organization; all he cared about was whether the Trisolarans could successfully arrive.

"Then why should we have the right to communicate with the Lord alone?" Bohr asked, unconvinced.

If acting alone, the existing resources can be used to carry out the action, and ETO can also cooperate with Newton without asking any questions.

Newton said, "Because I need the Lord's technical support. To kill Feng Taylor, I can only rely on the Lord's help to solve some problems that the organization cannot currently solve."

"The organization currently lacks the foundation for me to successfully assassinate Feng Taylor."

……

An engineering vessel is floating in Earth's orbit, anchored next to a large man-made structure with a volume equivalent to five times that of the International Space Station.

"This is the real universe..."

A spherical robot floats beside the engineering vessel.

This is Lin Feng's stand-in robot, operating on the same principle as the humanoid stand-in robots on the ground, controlled by signals relayed from the engineering ship.

Hearing Lin Feng's muttered sighs over the radio channel, the person accompanying the spherical robot asked in surprise.

Is this your first time in space?

Chu Yu, formerly an Industrial Party player, is now a construction engineer in Knight William's team. William's current task for him is to take Lin Feng on a tour of the soon-to-be-completed Acceleration Barrel.

"Yes... no, strictly speaking, this doesn't count as going to space, because it's just a stand-in robot. It's no different from sitting at home playing a high-resolution virtual game."

"Every boy has a heart that yearns for the stars and the sea, and so do I, but unfortunately, I can only stay on the ground."

If Lin Feng were in his true form now, Chu Yu would definitely be able to see the bitter smile on Lin Feng's face.

Becoming a Wallfacer grants one such high level of power, but it also means giving up many things, such as the freedom of movement that ordinary people enjoy.

Chu Yu said, "You will have your chance in the future. Once ETO is completely dismantled, you will no longer have to worry about their assassination attempts."

However, that will have to wait for centuries. At least until Bill Hines is broken through the Wallfacer, ETO will not completely disappear. Lin Feng thought to himself, knowing the plot, that the last ETO of human civilization was Bill Hines' wife. She went to the future with Bill Hines as a family member.

Lin Feng didn't want to continue this topic.

"Take me on a tour of this building," Lin Feng said.

"Ok."

This building is magnificent. If I had to describe it, it would probably be like the Eiffel Tower lying on its side, except that it doesn't have the same square shape as the Eiffel Tower.

"This part is the magnetosphere, specifically designed to generate a strong magnetic field that can propel the spaceship. The spaceship will accelerate inside the acceleration tank to reach the second cosmic velocity. Combined with the fuel carried by the spaceship itself, reaching the third cosmic velocity or higher is a very simple matter. That part is..."

Wearing magnetic boots, Chu Yu walked on the building, explaining its various parts to Lin Feng as he went.

Because of radio communication, even in a silent environment like a vacuum, it doesn't feel so quiet.

"Why do the internal pipes look the same size, but the outside looks like a horn? I don't remember my design being like this."

Lin Feng asked, recalling that he had designed a cylindrical structure, not this horn-shaped one, which is why it was initially called the Acceleration Barrel.

Lin Feng didn't have a problem with the trumpet-shaped appearance; he was just curious about Chu Yu and the others' intention in designing it this way. Unless absolutely necessary, they probably wouldn't change the building's appearance based on personal preference.

Chu Yu explained, "It's like this. During the construction process, we noticed some problems. The spaceship's need for the repulsive force of the magnetic coil in the pipes increases exponentially with the acceleration distance..."

"To put it simply, we still have a lot to do."

Lin Feng interrupted Chu Yu's long-winded speech. Chu Yu pondered for a moment before replying.

"Simply put, it's about preventing collisions. It's simply impossible for a spaceship to be perfectly centered inside the acceleration tank. For such a large object, an error of a few centimeters is already considered an absurdly high level of precision. This tiny deviation will increase as the acceleration distance increases. The problem is that the higher the spaceship's speed, the harder it is to deflect, which requires a stronger magnetic field."

"You will see the trumpet-shaped appearance because more magnetic coils are needed at the outlet of the acceleration barrel to generate a stronger magnetic field."

Lin Feng realized that in reality, it was impossible for a spaceship accelerating inside a pipe to remain perfectly centered, as the computer simulation showed. This meant that if the magnetic field at the end of the pipe was not strong enough, a spaceship that reached a very high speed would directly crash into the inner wall of the pipe instead of being repelled and accelerated by the magnetic field.

"So that's how it is," Lin Feng said.

"These are hydrogen-oxygen solid propulsion devices, used to solve the reaction force problem that occurs when accelerating the spacecraft."

Following the direction Chu Yu pointed, Lin Feng adjusted the robot's viewing distance and clearly saw rows of large, variable-direction rocket thrusters in the distance.

"We argued about this part for a long time. The drawings you provided were just a rough outline, otherwise we could have finished much earlier," Chu Yu complained.

Lin Feng was a little embarrassed: "After all, I am not an expert. Although I can let my research team come up with the ideas and designs, their research tasks are already full, so I can only give you the drawings of the general ideas."

"That's a closed device for macro-electronic energy storage, right?"

To ease the awkward atmosphere, Lin Feng asked Chu Yu about the spheres hanging on the outer wall of the structure.

"No, that's where the hydrogen-oxygen solid fuel tanks are located. We use external attachments for these things so that when they're used up, we can simply pilot the spaceship to replace them," Chu Yu replied.

In the weightless environment of space, transferring fuel by injection is time-consuming, laborious, and complicated. Chu Yu and his team, who value efficiency, simply designed it to be detachable. When the fuel is used up, it can be removed and replaced with a full fuel tank. In any case, this structure doesn't need to move around, as its position is always fixed.

Chu Yu led the spherical robot into the building's pipes. Lin Feng saw many hemispherical objects embedded in the inner walls of the pipes, none of them large, only about the size of a basketball.

"The enclosed device for macro-electronic energy storage is here."

"So small?" Lin Feng asked.

"Have you forgotten? Macro-electrons don't have the concept of volume in their physical properties. They were designed to be the size of a basketball because if they were too small, they might break if you weren't careful," Chu Yu said.

After a brief tour, Chu Yu led Lin Feng out of the building.

Lin Feng asked, "How much longer until it's ready for use? I can't wait to see this acceleration tank continuously electromagnetically launching spaceships."

"We won't have to wait much longer, just one or two months. After completion, we'll conduct a week of safety testing, and then it will be ready for use. Mr. William is prepared to let us be the first users."

"Isn't this too risky? What if..."

Lin Feng hesitated, knowing that things used for the first time often carried a certain degree of danger, whether it was for test flights of airplanes or for riding manned rockets.

Even a small accident could be enough to kill a group of people on the spaceship.

"It is precisely because we have to worry about that one in a million chance that we must be extra careful in the manufacturing process and not tolerate the slightest carelessness," Chu Yu replied matter-of-factly.

"Our leading by example will quickly dispel other people's safety concerns about the speed booster and make people accept and use it more quickly."

They did this both to ensure the safety of the building and to respond to Lin Feng's plan to accelerate humanity's entry into space.

Lin Feng said, "I don't object to you taking such a risk to help me, but I hope you can also pay more attention to your own safety."

"Don't worry about that, none of us want to die young like this," Chu Yu smiled.

Chapter 90 De-fandomization

In just over a month, the accelerator barrel was completed.

Knight Williams and his team made headlines across major media outlets that day, subtly altering the atmosphere of human society as a whole.

Due to the Trisolaran crisis, humanity generally holds a pessimistic attitude towards life, and this pessimism cannot be satisfied by material compensation. As a result, the birth rate in various countries continues to decline.

Since humanity can't defeat the Trisolarans in the future anyway, why bring children into the world and make them suffer?

However, with the initiation of Project Wallfacer and the completion of the space elevator and accelerator barrel, people have seen hope—hope for the future of humanity, even if that hope is very slim.

Lin Feng's words at a meeting with PDC have unknowingly resonated with people: "If we accelerate development by one minute now, we can give future generations one more minute to develop to a higher level."

After a week of safety testing, Knight William and his engineering team, aboard their engineering vessel, easily achieved speeds exceeding the third cosmic velocity using the electromagnetic catapult of the acceleration tank and the chemical fuel they carried.

The engineering vessel was heading towards Mars, but Knight William and his team's purpose was not Mars. The launch to Mars was merely to conduct close-up surveys of the Martian landscape and environment, preparing for future colonization efforts by various countries.

Knight William and his team will fly past Mars and then reach the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, where they will build space mines and space farms.

More engineering vessels will subsequently arrive in the asteroid belt to mine its minerals.

The day after Knight William and his group set off, Lin Feng stopped paying attention to the acceleration barrel and his dummy robot went to find Carmen Stock.

He sought out Stock for no other reason than to address the question of the future of humanity.

“You were too impulsive in that matter. If you hadn’t taken that action, the PDC wouldn’t have reacted so strongly.”

"In that matter, no one knows who was right and who was wrong; it should be left to future generations to judge..."

What Stock was referring to was Lin Feng's head-on confrontation with the PDC in order to stop the animalization of humans.

In Stock's opinion, Lin Feng's actions were a bit too... kind, going head-to-head with the PDC for a group of animal-like humans who hadn't even been born yet.

What kind of behemoth is the PDC? It's a federation of countries around the world; going against the PDC is going against all the countries in the world.

In a sense, it means being at odds with the entire world.

If it were Stock, he wouldn't even dare to think about such a thing.

Lin Feng gave a dismissive reply.

“No, Stock, humanity will win, and the descendants of those involved in that plan will suffer for centuries in vain.”

Lin Feng said that he was confident that future humans would definitely stand on his side.

Since future humans will inevitably know that Luo Ji can solve the Trisolaran crisis, the plan to turn humans into animals becomes superfluous.

The plan cannot solve the singer's problem at all.

The Singer's attacks are area-of-effect attacks, such as blowing up a star with light particles, or turning the solar system into two dimensions with a two-dimensional foil. Partial animalization of humans is useless; the Singer will kill both the animalized humans and those who still retain intelligence.

Humans are insects in the eyes of the Trisolarans, and dust in the eyes of the Singer. The cleaner doesn't care about the differences between dust particles.

"Why are you so confident in humanity's victory? Is it because of that recently completed acceleration tank?" Stock asked Lin Feng, full of questions.

"If you don't even have the confidence to defeat your opponent, how can you possibly win? My confidence is based on my own reasons."