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

Except for Wade, everyone present burst into laughter.

Although PDC had launched the so-called "spell" against 187J3X1 as Luo Ji said several years ago, no one took his plan seriously at all.

Everyone regarded Luo Ji as an academic fraud.

They believed that Luo Ji did something deliberately in order to preserve his privileges as a wallfacer, making people think that he was indeed fulfilling his responsibilities as a wallfacer, but in fact, it only made him more ridiculous in front of all mankind.

"We need to speed up the production of ships. Currently, the development of our three major fleets is a bit too slow."

"This will consume a lot of resources, sir. The resources produced by the Earth each year are limited. Since the establishment of the Space Force Fleet, the resource output, which was originally increasing, has been declining. If this continues, all farmland will soon become deserts."

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"So what? Which is more important, the Three-Body Crisis or protecting the environment? Mr. Pedro cares so much about environmental issues. Could he be a member of ETO?"

Ever since the construction of the three fleets began, ETO has been constantly inciting the masses to resist the PDC, and armed suppression has occurred three times in recent years.

Later, PDC offered a wanted reward of up to 50. As long as you successfully report an ETO member, you will receive a bonus ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.

The policy had good intentions, but it soon triggered the "cobra effect" in society.

The cobra effect refers to the fact that in colonial India, the British government planned to reduce the number of cobras, so it issued a decree stating that a bounty could be received for each cobra killed.

However, the Indians began to breed cobras for the bounty. When the British government realized this and cancelled the bounty, the snake breeders released the snakes; the released snakes then reproduced in large numbers, and the number of cobras increased instead of decreasing.

Economists have coined the term "cobra effect" to describe wrong political or economic policies that not only fail to solve the problem, but make the problem worse.

The current situation is the same as it was back then. At the beginning, everyone was very active in searching for ETO members on the Internet, but later on, as long as your views deviate from subjective politics, you will be called the "walking 50."

Advocate for environmental protection? Protecting the environment is useless. You just don't want humans to develop and defeat the Trisolarans. I'm going to report you, the walking 500,000!

Advocate reducing the burden of education, subsidize needy students, cancel the high school entrance examination, remove unnecessary practice test process, and give more young people the opportunity to enter university? Marketing account, come on, first smear him as a capitulationist who subverts the human education system, and then put the hat of ETO on him!

Even though online information is very developed nowadays, and even though people can get real news with just a few clicks, most people still choose to believe marketing accounts and blindly follow the trend to criticize someone they are not even willing to spend a few minutes to get to know.

In this way, the whole world has fallen into a kind of "political correctness". No one dares to speak, no one dares to express their own opinions. This phenomenon is particularly evident in European countries.

Because once you put forward an opinion that is different from the mainstream perception, you will be madly criticized by the blind masses.

Many scholars have been threatened, splashed with paint, and harassed by phone calls because they told the truth. After long-term torture, some people chose to commit suicide because they could not bear the burden.

They did not die at the hands of ETO, nor at the hands of the Trisolarans, but died at the hands of their own people.

From then on, no one dared to stand up and say anything, and the culture of the entire human society, like basic physics, fell into a state of stagnation.

Chapter 75 New Year’s Eve

The construction speed of the [Mirror Project] has increased sharply after receiving support from PDC.

After a period of construction, Los Angeles' underground city has covered more than half of the city's ground buildings.

There are six districts in the above-ground city, namely Xigong District, Luolong District, Jianxi District, Chanhe District, Jili District and Old City District. There are currently three districts underground, namely Luoyang District, North Industrial District and New Rail District.

Luoyang District is the center of the entire underground city, mainly used to solve administrative and population housing problems.

What’s interesting is that the entire underground city has only been built in its general framework, but people have already started buying and selling houses in the underground city.

Lin Xuan felt that the speed at which these people bought houses was a little too advanced.

The entire mirror project, from construction to residents moving in, will take at least a dozen years, and whether it can actually be built is another matter. Yet, some people have already started paying for houses that will be built a dozen years from now.

But after thinking about it, he could understand it. The Mirror Project was promoted by PDC, and its credibility was needless to say. It was at least much better than those developers of unfinished buildings.

Coupled with the Three-Body Crisis, an attack will definitely be launched on ground buildings first.

Although everyone knows that if the Trisolarans were to invade the Earth, they would be destroyed sooner or later even if they hid in the underground city, but that is human nature. They would feel secretly happy if they died later than others.

Lao Cheng is a forklift operator.

Because the world has recently fallen into a financial crisis, he lost his original job.

After being unemployed and staying at home, he also tried to apply for jobs at some other project sites, but the result was that he was rejected and didn't get any work.

This is the precursor to the Great Depression. The entire economy is in recession. Except for the engineering projects that PDC is responsible for, ordinary construction projects cannot even pay the annual wages of migrant workers.

However, the construction work that PDC is responsible for basically involves the aerospace field, which is a high-precision job. It is difficult for ordinary people like Lao Cheng to participate in it.

As luck would have it, Lin Xuan was about to start building an underground city in Luocheng.

This gave many unemployed construction workers like Lao Cheng an opportunity to make money.

All of a sudden, people from the entire Henan Province were mobilized and flocked to Luocheng to participate in the construction of the mirror project. The construction party's recruitment site was comparable to a vegetable market at the time, with people crowded everywhere.

"Are there any undergraduates or college students majoring in civil engineering?"

"Me, me, me, hire me, I have a second-class construction qualification!"

“I can work overtime!”

"I can work overtime better than him!"

"30 laborers, come and fill the soil. Wages will be paid daily. Those who want to come get on the bus and give me your ID cards."

"Communications, communications, is there a communications engineer here?"

"Cousin, is the automation working?"

"That's fine, come on!"

There are five most difficult problems to solve when building a dungeon.

The first is the problem of the ventilation system. What Lin Xuan wants to build is an underground city, not the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang. If the air in the upper level cannot be circulated with the entire underground city, the billions of people living in it will be buried alive on the spot.

However, Wei Cheng has already solved this problem. The method he used was quite brutal. Based on his own calculations, he directly drilled several ventilation ducts at key positions to allow the air to form a circulation system. Later, Ding Yi added some equipment similar to circulating fans to make the air circulation process more natural.

The second is the landslide problem.

You can't just dig out the foundation of Los Angeles while you're repairing it. If that happens, the whole city will fall down from the sky and the people in the underground city won't even have to buy a cemetery.

However, this problem is not too difficult to solve. The design drawings provided by Lin Xuan and Wei Cheng clearly analyze the stress points of the steel frame. It is enough to reinforce it by driving steel bars into the concrete on both sides.

The only trouble is that it has to be built and demolished at the same time.

First, dig a hole, then build steel frames around it to secure it so that it doesn't sink. Then continue to expand outward, dismantle the steel frames, and build new ones. Repeat this process more than a dozen times, and the area of ​​the entire city has only expanded by less than one kilometer. It is really slow.

The third is the energy problem. This problem was originally quite tricky. After all, the method of energy transportation consumes a huge amount of money. However, after Ding Yi improved the controlled nuclear fusion, this problem was no longer a big problem.

The fourth and fifth problems were mainly about policies and funding. These two problems were actually solved after the entire PDC misjudged the reaction of the Trisolarans.

PDC, like the original Star Project, has come up with a money-making scam. They will first sell the underground properties to the people and make some money later. As for whether this underground city will be requisitioned by the army, or used as a defense base or something else, that all depends on the actual situation.

After Lao Cheng used a forklift to transport the last batch of sand and gravel needed for backfill, he could finally take a breath.

He parked the forklift, found a corner, squatted down and lit a cigarette.

When another person nearby saw this, he also hurried over.

"Stay with me."

Old Cheng turned around and found that the person coming was a fellow villager from his village. Because he had lost his eye when he was a welder in a repair shop a few years ago, everyone called him the blind man.

But the blind man is not blind, he just cannot see the sun and some stronger light, otherwise he will cry.

Old Cheng took a cigarette out of his pocket, handed it to the blind man, and lit it for him.

"It's not good, Boss Cheng. I haven't seen you for a few days. You're already smoking like crazy. Aren't you the type who smokes cigarettes that cost more than ten yuan?"

When Old Cheng heard this, he became furious.

"Come on, it's good enough to have some. Guess how much a pack of this stuff costs now? More than twenty dollars, which is about five times more expensive than before."

"So expensive?" exclaimed the blind man.

“Otherwise, you would think that the price has only gone up in the last two days, and the labels are still the same.

"I said to the boss at the time, isn't the suggested retail price of your cigarettes written on it four yuan? Why are you selling them so expensive?"

"The boss said he didn't accept suggestions."

Today is New Year's Eve, but because of the depressed economy, no one is in a good mood and the streets lack the festive atmosphere.

No one watches the Spring Festival Gala anymore. People just turn it on as background music during the New Year’s Eve dinner.

Occasionally, a few fireworks light up in the distant sky, as if announcing mankind's beautiful wish to keep moving forward.

"Wow, fireworks!" Luo Congmin excitedly pointed at the fireworks in the sky.

Compared with other people living in this era, she is undoubtedly very lucky. She does not have to worry about the Three-Body Crisis three centuries later, nor does she have to worry about food and clothing.

Lin Xuan took Luo Congmin for a walk on the streets of Luocheng. Passers-by were wishing each other a happy new year. Lin Xuan asked passers-by for a while and found out that Luocheng held a lively temple fair every New Year, with all kinds of fun things.

In fact, this temple fair was originally open on the Lantern Festival, but since everyone is short of money now, it was changed to be celebrated together with New Year's Eve. This way, some unnecessary expenses can be saved.

Soon, the two saw a riddle guessing stall in the distance. The stall owner was a kind old man in his sixties. When he saw Lin Xuan and Luo Congmin coming over, he greeted them hurriedly.

"Happy New Year, would you like to guess lantern riddles?"

"Come on once."

Lin Xuan felt in his pocket and casually threw out a hundred yuan.

"keep the change."

The boss was delighted when he heard this. It was the first time he had seen someone so generous. He quickly took a lantern from the stall and read out the question inside.

"What has four legs but can't move? Guess an object."

Lin Xuan smiled slightly. He already knew the answer to the riddle. It was either a table or a stool. However, he brought Luo Congmin here to play, so naturally he wanted to be festive and let Luo Congmin guess.

Luo Congmin rubbed his head and thought carefully for a while, then his eyes lit up.

"I know, it's my dad!"

Chapter 76 The Van Gogh Project

The 14rd year of the Crisis Era, 2021 AD.

This year marks the 12th year that Lin Xuan has become a wall-facer, and the last of the first batch of rotating chairpersons of the PDC, Ms. Sai, has also retired from the chairpersonship.

She first went to the Garden of Eden and met Galnin and Kant who lived there. After chatting with them, she went to the Red Coast Base to meet Lin Xuan.

"It's an honor to see you again, Mr. Lin Xuan. You still look so young."

Sai Yi still said the same words as when he met Lin Xuan.

"But you are old."

Sai sighed.

"Yes, I am old,"

"I have been Secretary-General Sai since the United Nations era. Later, when the Three-Body Crisis came, I became the rotating chairman of the PDC. I organized the Wallfacer Project and the Ladder Project. The current chaos is also partly caused by me."

"This is just the inevitability of history, Ms. Sai, there is no need to feel sad about it." Lin Xuan comforted.

Sai shook his head slightly.

"No, I'm not trying to comfort myself. I'm stating a fact. As a politician, I'm unqualified. I'm the one who led the Wallface Project. Logically, I should have believed in the success of this project. But now, I'm beginning to doubt myself and the Wallface Project."

"It may be that the environment around you has affected you. After all, this is a time of great lows."

"The Big Low?"

Sai thought about it.

"What a good name. It really describes it very aptly. Humanity has entered a period of great depression."

Lin Xuan really wanted to say that this was just the beginning of the great depression, and the cannibalism had not yet begun. However, when he thought about him saying this, it would be as ridiculous as saying to the Young Marshal: Young Marshal, we should launch the Xi'an Incident.

After all, the name "The Great Depression" was a later evaluation of this period of history. When Lin Xuan first came to this world, he referred to the Three-Body Fleet as the Three-Body First Fleet several times, which shocked the people around him.

"So what's your current status? Resigned? Retired? Or something else?"

Lin Xuan doesn’t quite understand the position system of the United Nations and the PDC. After all, logically speaking, Sai is just not the rotating chairman of the PDC anymore, and he should continue to perform some related work of the PDC.

"I'm ready to resign, but before that, I still have some things to do."

Sai said as he took out a tablet, on which a website was displayed.

"Human diary?"

"Yes, this is a memorial website created by my team. The purpose is to allow as many people as possible to record their daily lives in words and images as part of civilization data. Currently, the number of users of this website has reached one billion."

"Then, I plan to send this data, along with information on human civilization and memorial objects, into space using a spacecraft. I call this project the Human Memorial Project."