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

By the end of Year 12 of the Crisis Era, all of the first rotating chairpersons of the PDC, except Ms. Say, had retired.

There haven't been any major changes in the Space Force.

Since the reverse engineering of the cell splitting agent was completed, the Future Reinforcement Program has taken two distinct branches.

The Hibernators and the Immortals.

The hibernators are still the same as before. What the Space Force needs is not only soldiers who can fight, but more importantly, political commissars who believe in victory in the future to suppress escapism that may break out in the future.

The concept of immortals is actually not standard, because they can only live to 300 years at most. Judging from the current speed of the Three-Body Fleet, perhaps after the Doomsday War begins, they will have already turned into dry bones.

Therefore, the future plan for the reinforcement of the Immortals is mainly to devote themselves to the construction of the space force.

At Chang Weisi's suggestion, these immortals were used as training instructors.

On the one hand, they will pass on the knowledge they have learned for more than 300 years to the next generation on future battlefields. On the other hand, conflicts between countries are constantly erupting, from small-scale fights in the beginning to large-scale fights later.

Faced with the increasingly tense international political environment, the Space Force has become the main defense force.

It is worth mentioning that the Asian Fleet finally reached a consensus and adopted a three-seat system for decision-making.

The number 3 is very interesting, it is the smallest decision number.

One person may become a dictator, two people may split the team, and only the decision made by three people is the most effective.

Whenever two people disagree with one another, the decision is made by majority.

There is also a very interesting episode in this.

When the Asian Fleet was first formed, it was actually the island nation that proposed the adoption of the three-seat system.

The island country wants to win over the Korean country to fight against China together.

Although there is a deep historical hatred between the two countries, both sides can only exercise restraint in the face of the impending Three-Body Crisis. Otherwise, when faced with China, which is far stronger than themselves, they will be left with no room for resistance.

This can be seen from the fact that they were able to form a united front in the Pacific before.

The island country’s plan is very clever. If the Asian fleet is formed, who will be most likely to take the three seats?

It is undoubtedly them, China and Korea.

As long as the three-seat system is established, and they unite with Korea, China will be controlled by others in every way, and it will be difficult to keep some of its own technologies secret as before.

The idea was good, but no one expected that there would be such a huge accident.

The Russian bear was kicked out of the European fleet by the British Empire.

This operation not only shocked the island country, but also shocked the world.

Then, out of desperation, the Russian Bear had to send the Asian Fleet.

The original three seats became the island country, China and the Russian bear.

The Korean nation was completely betrayed by the people of the island nation who were living a good life. With new and old grudges added up, the two sides almost went to war again.

……

"General, the [Brush] has appeared."

Inside the Hubble Space Telescope Mission Control Center.

Fitzroy was awakened.

The brush refers to the observable trail left by the three-body fleet after passing through the interstellar dust cloud observed by the Hubble Telescope.

Those trails looked like a line drawn with a brush in the dark space.

Those interstellar dust clouds are called "snowfields", and a total of five have been detected so far.

What this means is that these dust clouds are like snow, and when the Trisolarian fleet passes through them, it will leave its own traces on them.

In the original plot, Luo Ji achieved deterrence against the Three Body by building a "snow project", thus opening the era of deterrence.

When the "Brush" first appears, General Fitzroy and Green confirm the invasion of the Trisolaran fleet, marking the beginning of the Crisis Era.

And now, this is the second "brush".

Since the distance between the Earth and this dust cloud is about 4 light years, which is outside the light cone, this image is not real-time, but is from four years ago.

Fitzroy counted the number of bristles, and it was still the same number as when he first saw it, one thousand.

This shows that the Trisolaran fleet has not seen any increase or decrease in personnel.

"and many more."

Fitzroy suddenly enlarged the image.

"One, two, three, four... ten!"

"There are ten bristles sticking out. What are those?"

"Ten detectors," said Albert Linge.

This was another astonishing discovery. The Trisolaran fleet had launched ten faster probes, which were heading towards the solar system.

"When will they arrive in the solar system?" Fitzroy asked a little nervously.

Because this may very likely indicate that they will have early contact with the Trisolarans.

"It's hard to tell, General. After all, no one knows what the acceleration of these probes will be in the future."

"I don't quite understand. They already have the Sophon, so why do they still need to send a probe?" asked an engineer.

"Don't worry about this kind of thing. It's not something we can figure out."

Fitzroy waved his hand.

"We must now figure out what forced the Trisolarans to speed up their contact with Earth. Can we reverse the exact time?"

"no problem."

Soon, a time was calculated. After seeing the result, Fitzroy and Ling were silent.

Four years ago, the Wallfacer hearing was suddenly expedited. Unlike the original plot, Lingge also attended that meeting, so he quickly realized something.

"General, who do you think the Trisolarans are targeting?"

There were only two Wallfacers attending the meeting at that time, Lin Xuan and Luo Ji. It was probably a request made by one of them that caused the Trisolarans to become anxious and accelerate their attack on the Earth.

"I prefer Lin Xuan." Fitzroy said.

"If that's the case, then it's hard to guess what happened, because Lin Xuan has more than one project on hand, and we have no way of analyzing the cause at all." Ling Ge said.

"Report this situation to the superiors first. Perhaps Lin Xuan's proposal to build an underground city will have to be accelerated."

Lin Xuan didn't know yet that because of his attendance at a meeting, both Fitzroy and Linge had misjudged a fact.

The subsequent plot will also be greatly deviated as a result.

Chapter 74 No One Speaks

"How am I supposed to cook when I'm squashed like this for the first time?"

Luo Congmin was humming a song and jumping around in front.

"Brother Zhang Xiang, can we really go see my dad today?"

Luo Congmin turned around and looked at Zhang Xiang who was following behind him.

"Of course, you haven't met your father yet, right?"

When Luo Ji was hibernating, Luo Congmin was less than two or three years old. Even if he had seen Luo Ji at that time, he couldn't remember it clearly now.

After taking care of this girl for a few days, Wang Miao couldn't stand it anymore, so he found an excuse and escaped. Ding Yi also turned on the autistic mode and stayed in the Mewtwo world for a whole day.

Therefore, the task of taking care of the child was handed over to Zhang Xiang.

"So I really have become a babysitter, right?"

Zhang Xiang had no choice but to decide to take Luo Congmin to the hibernation center and let the child meet Luo Ji. After all, she still hadn't even seen what her father looked like.

"Of course, your aunt and Uncle Shi Qiang can also see it."

Zhang Beihai's family went into hibernation last month. Lin Xuan applied to the PDC for a few places for them, allowing them to hibernate until 200 years later.

Before this, Luo Congmin had been raised by Zhang Beihai's wife since she was a child, so Luo Congmin's feelings for this aunt were even stronger than for her father whom she had never met.

The two quickly arrived at the hibernation center. After Zhang Xiang showed his PDC credentials, he took Luo Congmin to Luo Ji's hibernation chamber.

At this time, Luo Ji had been lying in the hibernation chamber for several years. He closed his eyes and had no expression on his face, as if waiting for the moment when the world would wake him up again.

"Wow!"

Luo Congmin pressed his face against the glass wall of the hibernation chamber, and the hot air from his mouth quickly condensed into a white mist when it encountered the low temperature.

“Is this person my father?”

Luo Congmin carefully observed the man inside through a layer of glass.

Although Luo Congmin didn't remember having seen this person before, the sense of familiarity due to their blood connection still made her feel a hint of warmth from Luo Ji's cold body.

"dad."

Luo Congmin called softly, but it was obviously impossible for Luo Ji to respond at this time.

She reached out and knocked on the glass, making a "dang-dang-dang" sound.

After coming out of the hibernation center, Luo Congmin fell into deep thought.

After a long time, she asked Zhang Xiang who was standing beside her.

"Our teacher said that in the future everyone will enter a square box like this and lie there motionless. Is my dad like this too?"

Zhang Xiang couldn't help but twitch his mouth when he heard that.

"That square box you mentioned...is it called a coffin?"

……

"Now we begin the 74th meeting of the Planetary Defense Council, a resolution to amend the Wallfacer Act."

In a room, more than a dozen PDC executives were sitting opposite each other around a large round table.

They are like the legendary Knights of King Arthur's Round Table. Every decision they make will affect the development of human society as a whole.

"General Fitzroy has reported the observation images of Hubble II to us. The Trisolarans are getting anxious. The ten probes are accelerating and heading towards the Earth."

"They seem to be very afraid of Lin Xuan's Mirror Project. Ever since Lin Xuan proposed the Mirror Project in that meeting, the Trisolarans immediately launched a probe. This is enough to explain the problem."

"There are a total of ten probes. We estimated through computers that the size of these launched probes is only about the size of a truck."

“This proves that our choice was right.”

"I propose that we end the Wall-Facing Project and focus all resources on Lin Xuan alone."

"Agree."

"I agree. We should speed up the construction of the Mirror Project and Reach, deploy the defense forces in the solar system, and deal a head-on blow to the incoming Trisolarans."

However, a dissenting voice was raised at this time.

“I propose that the opposite wall plan be retained.”

The speaker was the current director of PIA, Thomas Wade.

"The Wallfacing Project has consumed too many resources. Now that it is clear what the Trisolarans are afraid of, why not stop this stupid behavior as soon as possible?" a representative retorted.

"What if we guess wrong?"

Wade's words immediately caused the scene to fall into silence.

"Gentlemen, my idea is still the same. For any plan, we should keep moving forward until there is clear evidence that it is wrong. Besides, even if we terminate the Wall Project now, the money has already been spent and it is impossible to get the wasted money back."

"But this can at least reduce some losses. The economic systems of various countries are on the verge of collapse. Reducing the remaining three wallfacers to one will help us focus on the next task."

"Sorry sir, I need to correct you. There are four Wallfacers, and the first Wallfacer, Taylor, has not been stripped of his Wallfacer status yet."

"Uh...ah? Yeah, sorry, it's my mistake. Taylor's presence is really too low, and I heard that he has been hibernating recently and applied to go to 200 years later."

"See, gentlemen, this proves that what I said is correct. The remaining few wallfacers can no longer consume any resources. Why should we terminate this plan now?"

Wade's eloquence is quite outstanding. When the Ladder Plan was first proposed, due to data errors, he only had half an hour to prepare and narrate the plan and correct the errors.

That meeting was held at the same time when Lin Xuan became a wallfacer. Lin Xuan originally wanted to meet Wade earlier, but in order to protect Luo Ji's safety, he could only hurriedly leave a positioning device on Cheng Xin and then leave.

"That's true. What if we guessed wrong? After all, there were more than just Lin Xuan who attended the meeting. Maybe the Trisolarans were afraid of the spell cast by Luo Ji!"