Let you be the wall-facer: you turn around and join the Three-Body Problem?

Is Lin Xuan good to humans?

Although he also saved humanity, everyone knows that Lin Xuan doesn't care about humanity at all.

But humans still pointed a gun at Luo Ji and forced him to step down instead of Lin Xuan, just because Luo Ji is a good person.

"Speak out your demands."

Luo Congmin has calmed down at this moment. She has stood still from beginning to end. Her temperament as a superior who has served as president for many years has made her accustomed to the struggles in officialdom.

"The Earth Federation is a democratic regime. We should not be ruled by a dictator. Humanity needs liberation and freedom!"

"Be free!"

The committee members echoed the chairman's words. They all had their own ulterior motives, but now, everyone had only one common goal in mind - to get Luo Ji to step down.

Luo Congmin waved his hand as if to shoo away a fly.

"Don't use your high-sounding words to deceive the lower-class people to perfunctorily deal with me. These are all the leftovers from my tricks. Tell me what you want."

"We hope to elect the next Sword Bearer, it's that simple."

"Row."

Luo Congmin agreed very readily, with only one word.

After saying that, she directly grabbed the black windbreaker from the chair behind her, put it on herself, turned around and walked out the door.

The meaning is self-evident. There is no need to continue this meeting.

Diaz, who witnessed the whole process, glanced at everyone present and couldn't help but sneer.

“The only lesson humanity can learn from history is that humanity has learned nothing from history.”

……

Deterrence Center, 35th underground floor.

Luo Ji looked at the white wall in front of him, holding the swordsman's weapon tightly in his hand.

He had maintained this posture for 7 hours. Sometimes Zhang Xiang thought he had fallen asleep, but when he got closer, he found that Luo Ji was still awake.

Suddenly, Luo Ji's fingers moved slightly, as if he felt something.

"Zhang Xiang, you go out first."

Zhang Xiang, who was watching TV series on his computer out of boredom, suddenly had an idea when he heard this.

"Uh... ok."

Without saying a word, he turned and left.

When he was about to reach the door, it suddenly opened from the outside and Luo Congmin, wearing a black windbreaker, walked in.

After making eye contact with Zhang Xiang, the latter turned around and walked out of the door without saying a word, closing the door behind him.

"Dad."

Luo Congmin walked forward, holding a bucket of milk tea in her hand, which kept swinging as she walked.

"You are so old, and you still like to drink these. You are the president now, you should pay attention to your image."

Luo Ji turned around and looked at his daughter, and the stiff expression on his face couldn't help but relax a little.

Luo Congmin only shows her daughter side when she sees her father.

"How come you have time to come here today? Isn't it time yet?"

"You've already said I'm the president, who can stop me from coming to see you?"

Luo Ji looked Luo Congmin up and down with a deep gaze.

"Tell me. What happened?"

Sure enough, nothing could escape the eyes of two people, one was Lin Xuan and the other was Luo Ji.

Afterwards, Luo Congmin repeated to Luo Ji what happened in today's meeting.

Luo Ji pondered for a moment, and then asked back.

"Then what are you going to do?"

As if he had known his father would ask this question, Luo Congmin blurted out the answer without thinking.

"I want to run for Sword Bearer!"

Chapter 182 The first confrontation

The 85th year of the Deterrence Era, 2300 AD.

About three years have passed since the decision was made to select the next Sword Bearer's successor.

Three years have passed, and representatives of various factions have still not been able to reach a consensus on who should take on the job of Sword Bearer.

The main contradiction here is that Luo Congmin agreed too readily at the beginning, which directly disrupted the rhythm of the two major parties, the doves and the hawks.

Originally, everyone's idea was that both sides proposed to choose a successor to the Sword-Bearer, and then Luo Congmin refused, and a three-way fight broke out between the president, the hawks, and the doves. In addition, some small parties and the Trisolarans would argue with each other, and the winner would eventually run for the Sword-Bearer.

But who could have thought that Luo Congmin's "OK" would directly make everyone stunned.

All the preparations they had planned for several years had gone down the drain. The various party alliances that had originally formed a united front against Luo Congmin were instantly in opposition, and because the strength of the various parties was now at its peak, no one could do anything to anyone else.

Luo Congmin already knew what this group of people were thinking, so it was natural that he would not be foolish enough to drag the rhythm of his attack into the other party's plan.

Don’t you want a political struggle? Then I will simply give up the first stage and shift all my work focus to the second stage. As for you, you can slowly kill each other in the first stage of the Sword Wielder.

Luo Congmin's move can be said to have directly built the Maginot Line in Paris.

She gave up the obviously disadvantageous topic of "whether there should be a successor to the Sword Holder" and shifted the contradiction to "who should be the successor to the Sword Holder". This made all the forces that attempted to engage in political struggle with her suffer a major setback.

Just when the major factions were struggling over who should succeed the Sword-Bearer, Luo Congmin once again made her second big move. She announced to the world her intention to run for the Sword-Bearer.

This is a big trouble. Luo Congmin's status in the hearts of the people is even higher than that of Lin Xuan and Luo Ji. After all, the latter two are visible and intangible, but only Luo Congmin, the president, often appears in the public's field of vision.

The various parties originally intended to take advantage of the ignorance of the masses to force Luo Ji to step down, but now, this trick is being used by Luo Congminfan to consolidate his position as the Swordsman.

As long as the various parties cannot find someone who can match Luo Congmin's status in the hearts of the masses, the succession ceremony of the Sword Bearer will be shelved.

This is a vicious circle, as Luo Congmin said.

When it comes to how to use the power of the masses to build momentum, Lin Xuan is first, Luo Congmin is second, and the rest have to stand aside, as they are just leftovers.

Through this incident, Luo Congmin has confirmed the fact that Lin Xuan has been controlled by the Trisolarans.

Otherwise, with Lin Xuan's personality, she would definitely not have waited until now to take action.

Although this conclusion is hard to believe, since it has already happened, Luo Congmin needs to make a series of targeted plans.

Luo Congmin immediately notified Diaz and Zhang Xiang and asked them to cover all the clones with a new layer of thought stamp to prevent the Trisolarans from using Lin Xuan to control the clone army.

At this point, the Trisolaran conspiracy was once again resolved, but this time, the person who resolved it was not Lin Xuan, but Luo Ji's daughter.

"She is Luo Ji's daughter. You are trying to take advantage of Luo Congmin in the political struggle. This is simply stupid!"

Lin Xuan smiled, and dropped a piece in his hand, instantly swallowing all the black pieces that had already invaded its belly on the chessboard.

This tactic of retreating in order to advance directly caused Tomoko to lose the initiative to attack, and even caused her originally hidden killer move to be exposed in advance.

Even Chieko couldn't help but frown slightly.

"Although the people you have planted in the Ground Alliance over the years have avoided my eyes, they have always been watched by Luo Congmin." Lin Xuan laughed

"Humans will make the same mistake twice, and so will you."

"From the beginning, you have focused all your attention on dealing with me, but you have forgotten one thing. I am just a grain of sand in the long river of time. Even without me, there are still as many heroes in the human race as shining stars. You have focused all your energy on dealing with me. Ninety years ago, you failed once. Ninety years later, you will fail a second time."

At this point, the chessboard is already full of chess pieces, and there is almost no room left for further moves.

This also proves that the first confrontation between humans and Sophon is about to come to an end.

Chapter 183 Three Events [9 more chapters remaining]

The 90th year of the Deterrence Era, 2305 AD.

"Hello, Minister Cheng."

As Cheng Xin passed through the corridor, local officials bowed to her one by one to show their friendship, and Cheng Xin also responded with a sweet smile.

After several years of unremitting efforts, she finally rose from a small civil servant in the local union to her current position as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Among the representatives of the Local Federation Committee, Cheng Xin also has her own seat.

This is inseparable from the support of the dovish representatives behind the scenes. Otherwise, with Cheng Xin's resume, it would be impossible for her to reach her current position.

During these five years, three major events happened to Cheng Xin.

The first thing is naturally related to the Star Ring Group. After reaching a cooperation with AI AA, the curvature drive technology was added to the government's R&D project plan, and the Star Ring Group, which was responsible for the research and development of this technology, naturally became a regular army incorporated into the government department.

This is considered to give everyone in the Star Ring Group a half-staff position.

Who should be in charge of the Star Ring Group?

It seemed that it was inappropriate for any member of the Earth Union to intervene in this matter. After all, in name only, the Star Ring Group was backed by the Earth Union, but in reality it was actually controlled by the capitalist Wade.

The Earth Alliance had also expressed its willingness to spend money to take over the Star Ring Group, but Wade was determined and would not hand over the Star Ring Group no matter what.

Even Ai AA could not understand his boss's behavior and often complained that his boss was a dog capitalist and an old stubborn man. The reason he started the company was that he liked to torture his employees and took pleasure in it.

When boss Wade heard the news, he did not blame Ai AA, but generously deducted her bonus for four months as a punishment.

So someone had to represent the Earth Union to contact the Star Ring Group. In the end, everyone discussed and decided that Cheng Xin would still be responsible for the docking work with the Star Ring Group.

It is worth mentioning that from beginning to end, Wade, the behind-the-scenes boss of Star Ring Group, never met Cheng Xin. All the docking work with the government was done by Ai AA and Cheng Xin, as if Ai AA was the boss of this company.

However, Cheng Xin didn't think much about this issue. He just thought that the other party felt that Ai AA got along better with him.

The second thing is about Wang Haisheng.

As Cheng Xin's superior...former superior, he was found dead in his home after Cheng Xin was promoted.

The cause of death was the same as that of the previous local union officials who were killed, all of them were killed with a single knife.

This is very strange. The killing of those officials is understandable. After all, the political struggle in the local federation is bloody and violent, and officials are often assassinated from within.

This is also the reason why President Luo Congmin almost never stays more than 100 meters away from Diaz. Who knows which official will suddenly come to assassinate her, the president.

But Wang Haisheng is different.

His death was most undeserved.

This has to do with the nature of his profession.

To put it bluntly, his position is like sleeping in a time bomb. If we were to ask who has the most dangerous position among all the local officials, Wang Haisheng would say he is second, and no one dares to say he is first.

What a joke, all these women in his department have powerful people behind them. If Wang Haisheng didn't have the ability to avoid risks for himself, he wouldn't have lived that long.

This is like an acrobat walking on a tightrope. He is naturally very aware of how dangerous it is to walk on the tightrope, and it is impossible for him to choose to jump off the tightrope on his own initiative.

But he still died, and his death was inexplicable.

He was killed without doing almost anything, and the other party seemed to be too disdainful to disguise it as an accident and just killed Wang Haisheng so openly.

It’s like telling the whole world that I have killed this person and even Jesus can’t save him.

Although the people behind the women in Wang Haisheng's department have considerable power, they are definitely not so arrogant as to ignore the Constitution of the Earth Union.

Unless Lin Xuan is standing behind her, no one would dare to do this.

As a result, when everyone checked, they realized, this is just a coincidence.

There really is someone who supports Lin Xuan.

Where the hell can you reason with this?

After investigation, many people discovered that the relationship between Cheng Xin and Lin Xuan was not simple. As early as the century AD, there were many secrets between the two.

Of course, these materials were released deliberately by Chieko in order to mislead the public.

But most people believed it at least 70%. After all, it seemed that only that adult in the entire human race had the confidence to do so, right?

As for the third thing, it was the key reason that laid the foundation for Cheng Xin's position as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The initial function of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is to communicate with various forces and technology companies like StarRing Group to reach strategic consensus or cooperation.

But since Cheng Xin came to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she has become the third human being, after Luo Ji and Lin Xuan, who can negotiate with the Trisolarans.