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

Luo Congmin shook his head slightly.

"It's not that simple. My term of office is only one year. After one year, I will succeed my father as the second Sword Bearer. Although the Sword Bearer's power seems to be greater than mine now, I cannot control the entire Earth Union. The development of the curvature spacecraft will most likely be directly blocked."

"So, you are in a dilemma, right? Either serve as the Sword Bearer or continue to be re-elected as president. If you choose the former, you will give up the warp spacecraft, and if you choose the latter, you will give up the position of Sword Bearer."

Zhuang Yan immediately understood the crux of the matter.

"Yes, I am very conflicted now. This is a dilemma. Mom, I really don't know how to choose. It seems that both of these paths are dead ends."

Luo Congmin rubbed her long black hair and her face fell. Just like when she faced those math problems back then, she felt a sense of powerlessness from the bottom of her heart.

After the two of them were silent for a few seconds, Zhuang Yan seemed to have thought of something and burst out laughing.

"You seem to have grown up, but you are not as decisive as you were when you were a child."

Luo Congmin raised his head and looked at his mother with a puzzled expression, waiting for her next words.

"You know, when you were faced with this dilemma as a child, you made your own judgment without hesitation."

As Zhuang Yan spoke, she took out an album from the wall behind her. It contained photos of Luo Congmin taken when he was a child playing the trolley problem.

At that time, Luo Congmin simply moved the train horizontally, turning the original dilemma into a deadly situation, and successfully resolved the tram problem.

"Mom, you're still in the mood to joke at this hour."

"Who said it was a joke?"

Zhuang Yan handed the album to Luo Congmin and gently rubbed her messy hair.

"You and your father are cut from the same cloth. You insist on doing everything and think the world cannot survive without you."

"One became the sword bearer, and the other became the president, both of whom are known for their stubborn tempers."

"You want to take on everything by yourself. That's why the pressure on you is increasing. Humanity doesn't lack the next Luo Ji or the next Luo Congmin."

"I advised your father before because I hoped he could take up the responsibility of saving humanity, but I advise you now because I hope you can let go of this responsibility and follow your heart."

"I don't understand politics, but I understand you. You know better than anyone what to do in this situation. Just do it. Being timid is not your character."

"But... this time is different from before. My father can no longer continue to be the Sword Holder. Once the position of the Sword Holder is lost and falls into the hands of others, then..."

Luo Congmin hadn't finished speaking when Zhuang Yan interrupted him.

"There will always be the next savior who steps forward. It doesn't have to be you, and it doesn't have to be all you."

As Zhuang Yan spoke, she put her coat back on Luo Congmin, clearly intending to see him off.

But when he stood up, Zhuang Yan couldn't help but speak again.

"Do you believe Lin Xuan?"

"Of course I do."

"That's enough. Just trust him. He will definitely find a solution."

"Mom, Lin Xuan can't even protect himself right now, we can't count on him."

"Back then, when I entrusted you to him, he was also in trouble."

Luo Congmin was silent.

She carefully pondered her mother's words and remained speechless for a long time.

Chapter 188 Hibernation

When Luo Congmin returned home, he saw from afar Rey Diaz, wearing power armor, holding an oversized caliber electromagnetic cannon against a man's head.

In front of him, there were about thirty people kneeling on the ground locked in electronic shackles. Some of them even had their arms bent into a knot, and their bodies were covered with wounds caused by electromagnetic weapons.

"what happened?"

Luo Congmin had now regained his attitude of keeping people at a distance. His eyes swept over the group of people on the ground, and his heart sank.

"They came to assassinate you, but it seems their intelligence was a little wrong. They didn't expect you to be away from home tonight."

When Diaz saw the real boss coming back, he put away the electromagnetic cannon in his hand and put it behind his back. He then smashed the cigarette butt in his mouth on the head of one of them, causing a ball of sparks to fly.

"Where are they from?"

Luo Congmin walked forward, squatted down, lifted the chin of one of them, and after confirming that he did not know the other person, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

She knew that her support for the curvature-drive spacecraft would surely displease some of the Earth Federation officials.

Even the Trisolarans would be dissatisfied with her actions.

Therefore, assassinations against me will definitely come from all sides and will continue.

In order to deal with this situation, the guard team led by Diaz followed him almost 24 hours a day.

Only this time, when I went to see my mother, they did not follow me. After all, the defense on Zhuang Yan's side was much stricter than my own.

Therefore, this gave the killers completely wrong information and made them think that they were still at home.

"I haven't interrogated them yet, but it's most likely those few. After all, they wanted to take action against you a long time ago, and they were just looking for an opportunity."

Diaz stretched out his hand and grabbed a man by the scruff of the neck. The huge grip transmitted by the power armor made the man who was lifted up howl in pain.

"Ask about their origins and investigate who is the mastermind behind it." Luo Congmin waved his hand casually, seeming to be unconcerned.

"Don't worry, I have many ways to pry open the mouths of these guys."

Diaz let out a chilling laugh, which made the captured killers feel a chill from the bottom of their hearts.

"Well, I'll leave the rest of the work to you. Please be gentle. I don't want to be assassinated every day."

Luo Congmin emphasized the word "gentle", and the meaning could not be more obvious.

She never shows mercy to her enemies. The reason why she can sit on the current presidency is not only because of her father's identity as the Swordbearer, but also because of her murderous and ruthless methods.

……

The next day, when people passed by the Dilian Building and looked up to the top of the building, they were shocked.

Hundreds of posthumous photos of the local federation members were neatly posted on the front of the building. Under the sunlight, the black and white photos looked bright and shining, forming a creepy landscape.

If you don’t know, you might think that this is someone’s ancestral hall moved here. The entire wall is covered with ancestral tablets, making the Dilian Building look like Valhalla.

Passersby are afraid that the people in these photos will suddenly appear next to them and ask, "Are you my master?"

"It is with heavy hearts that we bid farewell to these colleagues who died in accidents. Everything they have done for humanity will be recorded in history. May the glory of humanity last forever!"

When Luo Congmin finished reciting the last eulogy with grief, the remaining officials present bowed their heads in silence.

But at this moment, their hearts were frantically shocking Lin Xuan.

Just this morning, hundreds of local federation members died tragically at home due to sudden accidents.

Their deaths were exactly the same, both of them committed suicide.

But who would believe it!

We are not fools. Although we don't know how Diaz bypassed the guards of these local officials, they were indeed assassinated on the same night.

This group of dead local officials all had one thing in common, that is, they had all plotted to assassinate Luo Congmin, but Luo Congmin was not killed, but their entire gang was wiped out instead.

It's all false to say that other people aren't afraid.

How many troops does Luo Congmin still have, and where are they hiding?

All the members of the Local Federation were secretly guessing in their hearts that they planned to check whether there were any clones in their guard forces as soon as they returned home.

Nowadays, cloning technology has become quite mature. Without special instruments, it is difficult to find the differences between them and normal people.

But the reason why it did not cause too much panic was entirely because the clones had been completely deprived of the ability to think actively.

They are just like Cheng Xing, the artificial intelligence created by Yun Tianming. Although they can easily pass the Turing test, as long as no one gives them orders, they are just a group of tools without subjective initiative.

You wouldn't be afraid that a shovel would suddenly develop a sense of its own and come and hit you to death, right?

But because of this, it becomes extremely difficult to identify them.

Except for successive presidents and the Sword Bearer who have the authority to operate, the rest of the people have no way of telling their specific locations.

This is also why a democratic system has a president.

With the help of technology, personal force has become much more terrifying.

As long as Lin Xuan is willing, he can even create an immortal being.

That is, a consciousness can be transferred from one body to another at will through the Super Dream Database.

It is even possible to set a specific decoder for this consciousness. As long as someone triggers this setting, his consciousness will descend directly onto that person's body.

As long as someone continues to trigger the activation conditions of the decoder, this consciousness will become the most terrifying virus and will never be killed.

Truly achieve I think therefore I am!

But Lin Xuan doesn't dare to expand the technology tree like this, as this would be tantamount to pushing idealism to the maximum. That would truly be spiritual ascension, where the mind would triumph over everything.

In this way, those hundreds of portraits were hung on the roof of the Dilian Building for seven days before they were taken down.

Since then, no one dared to harm Luo Congmin.

For as long as three or four months, all the members of the Local Federation remained silent and did not say a word during the meetings, for fear that they would become the next target of liquidation.

The construction of the curvature spacecraft continued to be pushed forward under Luo Congmin's almost unscrupulous policy.

The StarRing Group was also very powerful. After withstanding a wave of public pressure, the StarRing Group successfully joined forces with Luo Congmin to reverse the downward trend and set the construction of one hundred curvature spacecraft as the first batch of mass-produced spacecraft projects.

After seeing that his plan had been successfully implemented, Wade, who had been hiding behind the scenes, chose to step back and let Ai AA take over all the work of the Star Ring Group.

No one knew where Vader went. He, along with those officials who wanted to oppose the construction of the warp spacecraft, chose to lie dormant.

Chapter 189: Trap Capture

The 91th year of the Deterrence Era, 2306 AD.

Under the dim street lights, a drunk local official was hugging a charming woman.

The smell of the woman's perfume made him feel dizzy. From time to time, he would lean his head on her shoulders, greedily inhaling the scent of her body.

"Director Hu, I'd like to ask you to take care of the matter we discussed before." The charming woman deliberately leaned her body into the man's arms and spoke in a delicate voice.

"Haha, don't worry, I will definitely do it for you. It's getting late tonight, so why don't you go back..."

As the man spoke, he reached out and touched the woman's clothes.

However, just as his hand was about to touch the woman, something strange happened.

A bullet came rapidly from a distance and instantly hit the back of the man's head.

The man didn't even have time to react to what was happening before the bullet exploded directly in his brain, shredding his head along with all the brain tissue.

The arm he had extended to hug the woman fell limply, and he fell headfirst to the ground. Liquids of various colors flowed from his chopped-open brain to the ground.

But when the woman next to him saw Director Hu being shot, her first reaction was not to scream or run away. Instead, she took out a folding electromagnetic pistol from under her skirt, aimed it at the unclear figure in the distance, and pulled the trigger repeatedly.

The other party was obviously shocked by her action of taking out a big treasure from her crotch, and his original movement speed was paused for half a second.

However, before she could fire two shots, the second bullet arrived.

The woman's palm holding the gun was hit directly, and the huge kinetic energy carried by the bullet caused her entire forearm to fly out in an instant, and blood splattered everywhere.

The pistol in her hand naturally fell to the ground.

"Stop him!"

While the woman was fighting with the opponent, in the bushes, Diaz led a clone troop of more than 20 to 30 people and suddenly stood up and headed straight towards the black shadow.

This is a trap. Both Director Hu and the woman who fought back were real people imitated by clones in order to lure out the person behind the scenes.

A year ago, the assassination attempt on Luo Congmin led to an unprecedented purge within the Local Federation.

Those hundreds of people were only the direct perpetrators involved in the assassination. The remaining accomplices and local officials related to the incident were subsequently transferred one by one.

But to this day, assassinations of officials of the Federation of Earth are still happening constantly. The entire Federation of Earth is almost becoming an Assassin's Creed, causing panic among the people, and everyone is afraid that they will be assassinated from the darkness.

What’s even more infuriating is that most of the local union officials also linked these assassinations to Luo Congmin, believing that he was secretly instigating them to eliminate dissidents.

Therefore, Luo Congmin finally couldn't bear it anymore and decided to find out who was behind this one month before the presidential election.

In order to complete this trap, Diaz put in a lot of effort and mobilized more than a dozen high-energy drones, which came in handy at this moment.

In an instant, dozens of energy beams were fired at the fleeing black shadow in front, and a number of high-energy drones that had been hidden for a long time surrounded the opponent.