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

Since becoming a mother, Zhuang Yan's character has deviated slightly from that in the original plot. She began to worry about the future and the future of her children.

Luo Ji was silent. He looked into Zhuang Yan's eyes, not knowing what to say.

"My dear, your responsibility is to make yourself and your children happy when all of humanity is unhappy. The happier you are, the greater the success rate of the Wall-Facing Project."

When Luo Ji said this, his eyes unconsciously looked up at the sky. Obviously, he was deceiving Zhuang Yan. Even he himself did not believe the reason he gave.

"Are you lying to me?"

"I am the Wallfacer. Of course I have to lie to you, to the Trisolarans, and to everyone else."

"No, you are not. A true wall-facer should be like Lin Xuan, like Rey Diaz, like Hines. Your state is like Mr. Taylor, as if you broke through the wall at the very beginning... at the very beginning."

Luo Ji let out a long sigh.

"Yan, everything will end one day, including the sun and the universe. Why do humans think they will be immortal? Let me tell you, humans are now in a state of paranoia. We are fighting a meaningless war. Lin Xuan is right about this. The plans of the other wallfacers are nothing compared to the Trisolarans. They can only waste the few remaining resources of humanity."

"Why can't we change our mindset and look at this matter? We should use the remaining time to enjoy ourselves. Four hundred years, if humans give up resistance, we still have at least five hundred years to enjoy life. Five hundred years ago, humans went from the Renaissance to the Information Age, and we could also choose to live a carefree pastoral life for the next five centuries."

"Have you ever experienced the Super Dream Database created by Lin Xuan? We can even upload our own brain consciousness into that database, abandon our human bodies, and live there forever."

"And now, our only responsibility is to enjoy life, to enjoy these five centuries of comfortable life. How wonderful is that?"

Luo Ji stopped talking here, realizing that he seemed to have said something wrong.

Zhuang Yan looked at him.

"When you said this, are you speaking as a Wallfacer?"

"of course!"

Luo Ji tried to make some amends.

But Zhuang Yan knew that this was what Luo Ji was thinking.

……

A few days later, Zhuang Yan passed away.

She left the Garden of Eden, taking Minmin with her.

Luo Ji woke up from his daze, reached out to hold his lover's hand, but failed.

He woke up from his dream, got out of bed, and finally saw a painting on the table.

That was a painting by Zhuang Yan that both of them liked the most. From a distance, it looked like a piece of white paper, but if you looked closely, you would find a few tiny reeds in the lower left corner, an almost disappearing flying goose in the upper right corner, and a line of beautiful small words written in the blank space in the middle of the painting.

"My dear, I will wait for you at the end of the world."

Luo Ji knew that this day would come sooner or later. He slumped on the ground, looking at the painting in front of him, as if he saw the determination in Zhuang Yan's heart when she wrote these words.

Suddenly, he stood up abruptly and stared at the painting carefully.

When Zhuang Yan wrote this passage, the subject used was "I" instead of "we"!

She hibernated alone!

What about Minmin? Where did Zhuang Yan send her to?

Countless possibilities flashed through Luo Ji's mind, and finally, he locked on one person!

Lin Xuan!

……

Inside the Red Coast Base.

Looking at Zhuang Yan's sudden arrival, Lin Xuan seemed not surprised at all.

"Have you decided to leave?"

Zhuang Yan nodded slightly and handed the child in her arms to Lin Xuan.

"You're not going to take her with you?"

Lin Xuan pointed to the swaddling clothes in her arms.

Zhuang Yan shook her head.

"I can't see the future, it's all dark. Luo Ji is right, we should enjoy ourselves now. I want to give Minmin a happy childhood. She was born five years into the Crisis Era, and she shouldn't have to face the end of the world the moment she wakes up."

Lin Xuan nodded slightly.

This is a completely different story from the original plot.

In the original plot, Zhuang Yan took her child to the doomsday.

But after thinking about it, Lin Xuan guessed the reason.

At this time, more than a year had passed since Zhuang Yan gave birth to her child. This was the moment when her maternal love was at its most prominent. She really couldn't bear to let her child go to the end of the world four hundred years later with her.

In addition, Lin Xuan is indeed reliable enough. Since the completion of the space elevator project, humans have been looking forward to Lin Xuan, the wallfacer, much more than the other wallfacers.

So it was indeed unexpected, but reasonable, that Zhuang Yan would make such a decision.

Well, my Red Coast Base has really become an orphanage. First, it took in Zhang Beihai’s family, and now it takes in Luo Ji’s daughter.

"After you wake up in two hundred years, I will come to your houses one by one to ask for child support!"

Chapter 53 Sociology of the Universe

Luo Ji did not go to find Lin Xuan. Halfway through, he was stopped by Taylor.

"It's surprising, right? The PDC actually asked me to come find you."

The way Taylor was dressed at this moment didn't look like a Wallfacer at all.

Unlike when he first became a wallfacer a few years ago, he now wears a white short-sleeved shirt, a straw hat on his head, and a bamboo basket hanging around his waist, which is filled with tomatoes, all grown in his field.

He was dressed like a farmer.

"Would you like to eat some? They're fresh, just picked from the field."

Taylor picked up a tomato and handed it to Luo Ji.

"I thought the PDC had forgotten about me, the Wallfacer, but President Sai suddenly contacted me this morning and asked me to bring you a few words."

Luo Ji frowned slightly.

"What?"

"They said your wife went into hibernation."

"I know that. They kidnapped Zhuang Yan, and I was just about to go find them to settle the score."

Taylor shook his head.

"No, wait for me to finish. Zhuang Yan applied for hibernation on her own."

Taylor said as he used his tablet to retrieve a hibernation application and showed it to Luo Ji.

"See, the application date was three months ago, and she was ready to hibernate three months ago!"

Luo Ji was stunned for a moment, then he recalled.

Indeed, Zhuang Yan seemed to have become silent three months ago. It turned out that she was already prepared to leave him at that time.

But Luo Ji soon realized the problem.

"Is she... someone from the PDC?"

I hate you.

This was the last question in Luo Ji's mind. If Zhuang Yan's appearance was arranged by PDC from the beginning, then wouldn't his interactions with her over the past few years have been fake?

"I really don't know that."

Taylor shook his head slightly.

"But Dr. Luo Ji, I'm married. I have more experience than you in this regard. A person can never pretend to love for several years. You should know better than me whether Ms. Zhuang Yan's love for you is real."

Luo Ji was silent for a long time before he spoke.

"What does the PDC need from me?"

“Do what you have to do.”

"You and I are both Wallfacers. We should fight for all mankind. Unfortunately, I am not talented enough and have not been able to complete my mission. This task will be handed over to you and Lin Xuan. You two are the last hope for the Wallfacer Project."

When Luo Ji heard this, he seemed a little agitated because of Zhuang Yan's departure.

"A mission to fight for humanity?"

"What a joke. I've said before, I'm just an ordinary person. Compared to Lin Xuan, I don't have his creativity to control the overall situation. Compared to Rey Diaz, I don't have the courage to risk everything. Compared to Hines, I don't have his talent in brain science."

"Mr. Taylor, you say you are uneducated, but compared with you, am I not more ordinary?"

Taylor shook his head.

"This is the second sentence the PDC asked me to bring to you."

"They said that among the five Wallfacers, two were special."

"One is you, and the other is Lin Xuan."

"At the end of the Guzheng Project, the PDC intercepted a large amount of information from the ETO. It contained conversations between the Trisolarans and the former leader of the ETO, Evans. Two of the conversations were about the two of you."

"The first one is to assassinate Luo Ji, but avoid attracting other people's attention."

"Second, try to win over Lin Xuan. Under appropriate circumstances, you can reveal some information to him."

There are two wallfacers, one is the person that the Trisolarans must kill, and the other is the person that the Trisolarans want to win over.

Therefore, they became the fourth and fifth wallfacers appointed by PDC.

"It's obvious that he is here to assassinate Luo Ji!"

Luo Ji suddenly recalled Lin Xuan's words in his mind.

At that time, he and I had just become wallfacers, and we were assassinated by ETO. If it weren't for Lin Xuan's quick reaction, I would have been the one shot.

"But...why?"

Luo Ji didn't understand.

Why did ETO want to assassinate himself?

"You have to ask yourself this, Dr. Luo Ji. You have to be your own wall breaker."

Luo Ji fell silent. He began to try to recall the first half of his life, filtering out the messy memories piece by piece.

Finally, the target was set on a conversation.

That was his conversation with Ye Wenjie, the first leader of ETO.

"I do have a suggestion: why don't you study cosmic sociology?"

"Cosmic Sociology?"

"I just casually mentioned a term. It is to assume that there are a huge number of civilizations distributed in the universe. Their number is on the same order of magnitude as the number of observable stars. These civilizations constitute an overall cosmic society. Cosmic sociology is the study of the form of this super society."

Luo Ji's reaction at the time was shock. After all, in his understanding at the time, theirs was the only civilization in the entire universe.

Then, Ye Wenjie gave Luo Ji two self-evident axioms.

First, survival is the primary need of civilization; second, civilization continues to grow and expand, but the total amount of matter in the universe remains unchanged.

There are two other important concepts: chain of suspicion and technological explosion.

Luo Ji did not understand what Ye Wenjie meant at the time, but considering the current actual situation, he felt that the reason why ETO wanted to kill him might be hidden in this.

Ye Wenjie is Yang Dong's mother. She has some connections with both Wang Miao and Ding Yi. Compared with this academic fraudster like herself, those two are much smarter.

I was just Yang Dong's classmate. After Yang Dong died, I went to her grave to pay my respects to her.

But Ye Wenjie chose to talk to herself about this. I don't know if it was because she was inspired by meeting her daughter's good friend or if she did it on purpose.

At that time, Luo Ji was not yet a Wallfacer, and he did not know that Ye Wenjie was the leader of ETO.

So he didn't realize the meaning of her words, but it seemed that the information contained in these words might be greater than he imagined.

"Thank you."

Luo Ji took the tomato handed to him by Taylor, took a big bite, and immediately red juice burst out of it. He seemed to want to concentrate all his thoughts on one point.

"I need to meet Lin Xuan and talk to him. Please help me contact the PDC."