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

However, Luo Ji shook his head.

"No, Dashi, this is good news for me. The Wall-Facing Project has been cancelled. Do you know what this means?"

"It means that humans will no longer need the Wallfacers to defeat the Trisolaran fleet."

Shi Qiang nodded.

"If what you said is true, then I have another piece of good news to tell you, which may be even better than this one."

“Your daughter is president.”

As Shi Qiang spoke, he took out a banknote from his pocket.

Nowadays, the transaction method of digital currency has become popular, and the existence of paper money is more of a commemorative purpose.

"This is a new edition commemorative coin issued by Earth International. There are five types in total, and this is one of them."

As Shi Qiang spoke, he waved the banknote in front of Luo Ji. There was a picture of a woman printed on the banknote. She looked very young, only about twenty years old.

"This is... Xiao Min?"

Luo Ji was somewhat incredulous. He took the banknote from Shi Qiang's hand and looked carefully at the person printed on it.

Although he had only seen Luo Congmin when she was a child, when he saw the banknote, he recognized her at a glance. It was his daughter.

"Yes, she is more powerful now than you were back then. She has a PhD in sociology from the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is one of the five ministers of Earth International. In our era, her status is similar to that of the President of the United States."

"This……"

Luo Ji didn't know what to say for a moment.

He didn't know what Luo Congmin had gone through during the two hundred years of his hibernation that forced his daughter to reach this position step by step.

More importantly, Luo Congmin had not seen himself and Zhuang Yan for nearly two hundred years, which meant that the child had been deprived of the love of his parents for nearly two hundred years.

For a moment, Luo Ji didn't know how to face his outstanding daughter.

"This is bad news for me." Luo Ji couldn't help but mutter.

"Be content, brother. I don't even know where my son is right now." Shi Qiang said with a smile.

"Maybe he has died a long time ago. I sent him to prison myself before I left. He should not be able to come to the future again." Although Shi Qiang said this in a joking tone, Luo Ji could clearly feel that Shi Qiang felt somewhat unwilling.

Luo Ji knew this idea, which was the same as wanting one's son to become successful.

Although they are both his own children, Luo Ji's daughter became a powerful person in a country, while the other one is missing because of fraud. The gap is indeed quite big.

In Shi Qiang's eyes, Luo Congmin is already considered "someone else's child".

Chapter 126 Curse of Knowledge

On the second day, Shi Qiang and Luo Ji went through the discharge procedures.

"After being discharged from the hospital, you need to recover for about a month. Avoid spicy and oily foods, and do not do strenuous exercise. If a hibernator has just emerged from hibernation, his body is still quite fragile and he needs some time to adapt."

After listening to the doctor's constant instructions, the two finally received their discharge certificates.

As soon as they walked out of the hospital gate, they were shocked by the scene before them.

The blue sky, the bright sunshine, the green grass and...those tree-shaped buildings in the distance.

Above their heads, flying cars passed through the city. All the industrial facilities of the city were built above, and only the ground was left to nature.

This also makes the city look more sci-fi.

The ecological environment of the entire city has improved a lot compared to before the two went into hibernation.

"Oh my God, I haven't seen such a blue sky in a long time. It seems a little unreal to me." Da Shi looked up at the sky and couldn't help but say.

“Because it’s really fake.”

A female voice sounded behind the two of them.

Luo Ji and Shi Qiang turned around at the same time and found a woman in casual clothes standing not far away.

She walked towards the two of them holding two cups of unknown substance. Although she was wearing casual clothes, Luo Ji and Shi Qiang could both sense an extremely confident aura from this woman.

This sense of confidence made Luo Ji think of someone he had met before.

UN Secretary-General Sayyid

The woman came and stood in front of Shi Qiang and Luo Ji, looking at each other's familiar face, a face that was almost exactly the same as the one on the commemorative coin. Both of them already knew each other's identity.

The person in front of him was Luo Ji’s daughter, the Minister of Culture and Education of Earth International—Luo Congmin.

"Xiao Min... I, I don't even recognize you anymore." Luo Ji looked at his daughter in front of him, seeming a little excited.

He had many questions he wanted to ask Luo Congmin, but in the end, he could only get out this sentence.

"It's okay, Dad. I know you."

"In the past two hundred years, I have been to the hibernation center countless times. Seeing you lying in the hibernation chamber, I wanted to wake you up many times."

"Sorry……"

Luo Ji felt a little ashamed that his daughter had not seen her biological father for more than two hundred years. He could no longer empathize with Luo Congmin, but he felt real guilty towards her at this moment.

"It's nothing, Dad. That's your duty as a Wallfacer. I really didn't understand it before, but since I have been the Minister of Culture and Education for more than a hundred years, I have gradually understood your difficulties, so I don't blame you."

Luo Ji felt even more distressed when he heard this.

He felt even more guilty when he thought about the fact that his daughter had lived alone in this world for nearly two hundred years.

"Hey, hey, hey, you two, can you please keep your Versailles noise down a bit? It's hurting my eyes!" Shi Qiang took the initiative to break the sad atmosphere. He patted Luo Ji's back hard.

"Brother Luo, don't be so ungrateful. Your daughter has been president for more than a hundred years, which is longer than the reign of any emperor of our time. You should laugh, laugh, you know what? Hahahaha!"

After Shi Qiang's commotion, the sad atmosphere disappeared completely and Luo Congmin handed the two cups in his hand to Shi Qiang and Luo Ji.

"Try it. The taste of the New World's milk tea is almost the same as that of our time. This is the only thing that comforts me. Every time I drink this stuff, I have the illusion of traveling through time and space."

Shi Qiang took the milk tea handed to him by Luo Congmin and looked up and down at Luo Congmin's outfit. With his many years of experience as a police officer, he immediately saw the problem.

"Tsk, it looks like you just bought this dress. It doesn't look like you usually wear this dress. It doesn't match your temperament at all."

Luo Congmin was stunned and immediately smiled awkwardly.

"As expected, Uncle Shi, you saw through it at once. I was thinking, since I'm here to pick you up, wouldn't it look younger if I dress like this? After all, I'm only 23 years old now. If I dress too maturely, I'm afraid my dad won't be able to adapt to it for a while."

As she spoke, she pressed a switch on her clothes, and immediately, the casual outfit on Luo Congmin lost its original bright color and turned into a neat black suit.

This piece of clothing is made of special materials and can be switched into any desired shape. It can even be used as a mobile computer that can access the Internet like that napkin.

Suddenly, the two felt that Luo Congmin's temperament of a political figure had been enhanced.

"Yes, yes, that's right, haha!" Shi Qiang laughed.

"You give me the feeling of those national spokespersons on the news broadcast in the past. It turns out that you are still suitable for wearing this kind of clothes."

"After all, I am more than two hundred years old, Uncle Shi Qiang." Luo Congmin said with a smile.

Although the cell division agent locked her age, a person's experience cannot be erased from her eyes. Luo Congmin has been on the political stage for almost two hundred years, so she naturally looks much more mature than most people.

"According to what you said, I can only be your great-grandson." Shi Zhong said sarcastically.

Somehow, Shi Qiang suddenly thought of something very funny. If Luo Ji asked his daughter about something he didn't understand in the future, would Luo Congmin answer him?

"When you reach my age, you will understand it naturally?"

That's really IVF downhill, he has more experience than his father.

"Let's talk after we get in the car. I've arranged new homes for both of you. See if you can get used to it. If you're not used to it, I can arrange for you to live on the ground."

As Luo Congmin spoke, he led the two of them towards the hangar on the rooftop.

"All cars nowadays are powered by electricity. However, in order to keep the ground clean, the underground city built all the roads into the sky. So you can see that there are almost no industrial products on the ground except for vegetation. This was also the concept when we designed the underground city from the beginning."

Luo Congmin started the car's automatic driving, allowing the flying car to move quickly through the air, a bit like a small shuttle.

"After Dr. Ding Yi solved the problem of controlled nuclear fusion, energy issues no longer pose any threat to humans, so we built several power generation base stations in the city, about one every several dozen meters. They are responsible for creating an electric field in the surrounding area to supply energy to surrounding equipment."

Listening to Luo Congmin's statement, Luo Ji couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

After a long while, he finally spoke.

"We still haven't been able to break through the Sophon blockade?"

Luo Congmin nodded slightly.

"Yes, Dad, just as you thought, we...are still under the blockade of Tomoko."

As she spoke, she pointed her finger at the blue sky.

"This sky is also fake, it's a computer-generated image. Do you see that sun? It's our man-made fusion sun, which is also a kind of power generation facility. It's just to make this underground city look more in line with the surface world."

"This place is like a city built up by monitors," said Luo Ji.

Lin Xuan's mirror project is almost identical to the dungeon in the original novel, with only some differences.

For example, in the city, it seems that you can see holographic projection statues of the five ministers, including Luo Congmin.

There are especially many statues of Luo Congmin, and you will see one almost every moment you walk.

"It seems that you have made good political achievements, our President Luo?" Shi Qiang said.

Luo Congmin shook his head.

"PDC has been completely eradicated by Lin Xuan, so Earth International is an extremely democratic political system. There is no so-called president. The reason I was able to serve as the Minister of Five Departments for so many years is purely because of the [Knowledge Curse]."

"Curse of Knowledge, what is that?"

"It's related to Lin Xuan's dream world."

Afterwards, Luo Congmin briefly introduced the functions of Lin Xuan's super dream world to Shi Qiang and Luo Ji, and then continued.

"The problem happened after I took office as Minister of Culture and Education. I am not against the use of the Super Dream World. After all, it is also a great advancement in human technology. However, over-reliance on this kind of quick learning memory download is like dependence on drugs. It will definitely have serious consequences."

Luo Ji nodded slightly. He had roughly guessed what would happen next.

"Maybe someone is taking this opportunity to target you politically?"

"As expected of my dad, he guessed right. It is indeed like this." Luo Congmin sighed helplessly.

"In the third year after I raised my objection, someone started to stir up trouble among the public and took advantage of the situation to build momentum. His purpose was simple: he wanted to replace me as the next Minister of Culture and Education."

"For this, he is willing to use the masses as a weapon. As long as he can successfully come to power, he no longer cares whether the future of Mewtwo World will really be harmed."

"He promised everyone that once he replaced me as the next Minister of Culture and Education, he would open the Mewtwo World to everyone."

"So, I lost the election. His voter support rate was at least three times higher than mine. It was no surprise that he became the next Minister of Culture and Education."

"After he came to power, in order to fulfill his promise, he took the initiative to open up all the rights to use the Mewtwo World. When I found out about it, I didn't bother to care about it, so I went to Reach for a while."

"It was around the twelfth year when problems started to emerge. The first problem was the college entrance exam results. The scores of the students in those years were terrible. After all, the college entrance exams I revised were mainly based on intensive learning and practical application. Simply downloading memories from the Mewtwo world would not only have no positive effect on the college entrance exams, but would make the scores worse because of the qualitative memory logic in the mind."

"Then this chain reaction quickly spread to the undergraduate stage. The undergraduate theses of those years were almost all the same, and the duplication rate was ridiculously high. A project from more than ten years ago was repeatedly reworked by a group of undergraduates as a graduation project."

"Eventually, this disaster expanded to the field of scientific research. Human scientific research, humanities, economy, and all aspects of human development almost came to a standstill in those years. Although Sophon blocked human technology, humans still made some progress at that time. Until those few years, all development almost came to a standstill."

"Then, people finally began to realize that something was wrong, and a large number of people began to spontaneously stop using the Mewtwo World, but it was too late. Their children were almost completely dominated by the downloaded memories. Some of them even had an IQ of only about six or seven years old without downloading the memories."

"In order to get rid of this memory downloading cycle, many people have started to try taking drugs that can make people lose their memory, but this does not work. Even if they lose their memory, they will eventually return to the original memory cycle after relearning."

"I eventually found an explanation through research."

"The curse of knowledge."

"Curse of knowledge?"

"It basically means that once a person has acquired knowledge, they cannot return to the state in which they did not acquire the knowledge. For example, if a college student were to teach math problems to a primary school student who has not yet learned equations, it would be difficult for them to explain clearly to the student because they cannot return to the state in which they did not know the knowledge."

When Luo Congmin said this, the corners of her mouth could not help but rise, because she was the only one present who knew what she was laughing at. In those years, Ding Yi and Wang Miao suffered a lot in order to teach them mathematics.

"So, knowledge is like a curse. Once someone has learned something, even if they lose their memory, it is difficult to erase their knowledge of the matter."

"This is also the reason why I unanimously oppose the over-abuse of this technology. It actually blocks the upper limit of a person's cognitive level. It is a kind of knowledge crash course. If all a person's knowledge is made up of the Super Dream World, he will be forever trapped in the thinking inertia of the person who downloaded the memory."

"During that time, the Research Department even merged it with the Thought Seal to try to create a consciousness bomb that could change people's consciousness, but it ultimately failed."

Luo Ji nodded slightly.

"If that's the case, then this technology should indeed be strictly controlled."

"Yes, I have been doing this all these years. It's a pity for those kids. Almost all the students in those classes were ruined. I opened a new university specifically for them so that they can complete the rest of their studies. Otherwise, they might be stuck in the vicious circle of memory for the rest of their lives."

Luo Congmin sighed helplessly, then seemed to remember something, and suddenly said.