Pang Xuelin will not interfere with Zhang Beihai's actions, and will not even take the initiative to appear in front of Zhang Beihai.

The existence of Zhang Beihai is equivalent to one more backup plan for human beings, and Pang Xuelin does not want this backup to be disturbed in any way.

……

Time unconsciously entered the era of crisis 2 March.

Zhuang Yan was discharged from the hospital.

After being discharged from the hospital, Zhuang Yan chose to return to school to study, and on weekends, Pang Xuelin would pick her up at school, either chatting with her to relieve boredom, or taking her out to sketch and paint.

The two became friends who talked almost everything.

Zhuang's mother has tested Pang Xuelin's attitude towards Zhuang Yan with words several times, after all, whether it is Pang Xuelin's status or achievements, it is more than enough to match Zhuang Yan.

But Pang Xuelin didn't say much, just told Zhuang's mother that he would take good care of Zhuang Yan until she completely recovered her health.

Pang Xuelin still lives in Xishan Villa, the Planetary Defense Council's plan for facing the wall is advancing rapidly, and the "Wall Facing Act" has passed the final review of the third special session of the General Assembly.

In April of the same year, the extraordinary session of the General Assembly adopted resolution 117, declaring fugitiveism illegal to the international community.

At the same time, the special session of the General Assembly also officially announced the plan to face the wall, which is unprecedented in human history, both in terms of its ingenuity and legend.

As soon as it was announced, it became the focus of attention of the global media and the public.

There is a lot of speculation in the media about who will be the facer every day, and there are even bookmakers who have a special list of candidates to calculate the odds of each candidate being selected as the wall-facer.

Not to mention, this list is quite reliable.

Frederick Taylor, Manuel Rediaz, Bill Hinees, these are all on the list.

Of course, along with this there are various controversies over the wall plan.

Some people believe that there is no way to compete with the general trend of history by relying on the strength of individuals.

The famous great men in history are just swimmers in the long river of history, who have set world records, won fame and applause, and made their names go down in history, but they have nothing to do with the direction of history.

Some people also believe that a certain choice made by a certain person at a critical moment in history is likely to determine the future direction of history.

Those who face the wall will take on this heavy responsibility given by history.

During this time, Wang Miao and Ding Yi will still often come to meet Pang Xuelin to chat about the latest research progress.

Although basic scientific research has been completely locked by Zhizi, there is still a lot of potential for human beings to tap in the field of application.

Whether it's controlled nuclear fusion, supercomputers, ultra-high-density energy storage batteries, or flying edge materials, countries have invested a lot of resources to accelerate research and development.

Wang Miao's Nanomaterials Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences alone has allocated more than 10 billion yuan this year, which was unimaginable before.

It's Dashi, who seems to be busy with some case during this time, and basically didn't come over to find Pang Xuelin much.

After May, the chill in the capital is gone.

In the courtyard where Pang Xuelin lives, the group is fragrant and beautiful.

This morning, Pang Xuelin was painting in the courtyard with Zhuang Yan, and Kanter hurriedly walked over: "Professor Pang, Ms. Say is calling, I hope you can go to New York as soon as possible, I have already arranged the plane, and it is expected to take off this afternoon." ”

Pang Xuelin raised his head and said lightly: "The wall facing plan, is it about to start?" ”

Kante nodded solemnly.

Pang Xuelin smiled, a few days ago, he was received by several bigwigs.

Although the bigwigs didn't mention anything to him about the wall plan, Pang Xuelin had long been mentally prepared for the arrival of this day.

Pang Xuelin looked at Zhuang Yan, who was sitting beside him and was concentrating on painting, and said, "Yan Yan, I have something to do and need to go out, go back to school this afternoon, and let Xiao Song send you back." ”

"Well, okay, Brother Dang, you have to go and get busy beforehand, don't worry about me."

Zhuang Yan raised his head and smiled sweetly, and then turned his attention to the drawing paper.

After accompanying Zhuang Yan to lunch, Pang Xuelin followed Kante out.

The two got on a specially modified Hongqi bulletproof car.

When the car drove out of the villa area, Pang Xuelin found that the convoy was very large on this trip.

In addition to the courtesy car in front of the guard, there were more than a dozen vehicles in charge of the guard, and three of them were exactly the same as the red flag he was riding, including the license plate number.

Traffic restrictions were implemented along the way.

The road is full of military police and guards responsible for maintaining order.

And their destination is not the capital airport imagined by Pang Xuelin, but an unknown air base.

On the periphery of the base, Pang Xuelin saw many heavily armed soldiers patrolling and guarding, and even saw several main battle tanks.

When the convoy entered the base, there was a deafening roar in the sky, and Pang Xuelin followed the prestige and saw four J-20s, roaring into the air in two or two formations.

At the same time, several helicopter gunships were patrolling the base.

The convoy did not stop, but drove directly to the end of the runway, a huge Boeing 747 passenger plane, which had been waiting for a long time.

Accompanied by Kante, Pang Xuelin boarded the plane.

In less than ten minutes, the Boeing 747's engines started and soon took off with a roar.

There was nothing to say all the way, the plane flew very smoothly, and there was a bedroom dedicated to resting in the plane, and Pang Xuelin slept directly in it.

When the plane arrived in New York, it was exactly 5 p.m. local time in the United States.

The airfield where the Boeing 747 landed was also a heavily guarded air base.

It's just an escort fighter, and I don't know when it was replaced by the J-20 to the F22.

When Pang Xuelin got off the plane, he saw a tall white man waiting for a long time.

"This is Mr. Garnin, the rotating chairman of the PDC!"

Kante whispered in Pang Xuelin's ear.

"Hello, Mr. Garnin!"

"Hello, Professor Pang." Garnin shook hands with Pang Xuelin and said with a smile, "Professor Pang, I've always heard Lady Say mention your name before, but you are younger than I thought, I think you should know why you were invited here this time." ”

Pang Xuelin smiled and nodded: "Of course." ”

Garnin said: "Okay, then let's not say more, the conference of the wall-facing people will be held tomorrow, and tonight we will arrange you in a Hilton hotel near the United Nations building, and the rest of the candidates have already arrived, leaving you with another candidate who has not arrived." ”

Pang Xuelin said: "Mr. Garning, can you take the liberty of asking, how many candidates are there for the wall-facing person this time?" ”

Garnin was slightly stunned and said with a smile: "It's not suitable to talk about it now, but it's not a secret, especially for you, after all, the wall-facing plan was originally proposed by you." Including you, there are five people we have selected to face the wall. ”

Pang Xuelin nodded and didn't ask any more.

There are five candidates, one more than the original book, so Luo Ji should also be selected.

It is not known what price the Chinese government paid to persuade the PDC to agree to the two Chinese candidates for the wall-facing one.

Pang Xuelin followed Garning into the car, and after arriving at the hotel, Garning chose to leave.

Pang Xuelin, accompanied by Kanter, had a simple dinner and returned to his room to rest.

He didn't see any of the remaining candidates, and he didn't know if they were staying in the same hotel as him.

Early the next morning, after having breakfast at the hotel, Pang Xuelin, accompanied by Kante, went to the United Nations headquarters to attend the conference of the wall-facers.

"Professor Pang, aren't you nervous?"

In Lincoln's bulletproof car, Kanter sat next to Pang Xuelin, looked at Pang Xuelin with an indifferent face, and unconsciously adjusted his tie with his hands.

"There's nothing to be nervous about, I've been looking forward to this day for a long time, after all, the wall-facing plan was originally proposed by me, didn't it?"

Pang Xuelin smiled faintly.

"Yes!"

Kante laughed.

The convoy stopped at the square of the United Nations Building, and before Pang Xuelin got out of the car, Lincoln's car was surrounded by a group of tall guards wearing sunglasses.

Kanter got out of the car from one side of the Lincoln, then circled to the other side and opened the door.

Pang Xuelin silently got out of the car, looked around, and lingered for a moment on the huge sculpture of a revolver with a knotted barrel in the square, before following Kanter into the United Nations General Assembly Hall.

This is the first time Pang Xuelin has entered this place that he has seen countless times on TV.

Directly in front of you, the tall yellow wall with the United Nations emblem served as the background of the rostrum, tilting forward at an angle of less than 90 degrees, like a cliff that could collapse at any moment.

The dome of the synagogue is like a starry sky, but the structure is separated from the yellow wall below, which does not increase the sense of constancy of the latter in the slightest, but creates a tremendous pressure from the heights, which exacerbates the instability of the wall, and the whole environment gives people a sense of oppression that may overturn at any time.

Pang Xuelin's place was placed in the second row near the aisle, with Kante sitting next to him.

Now there is still some time before the official start of the meeting, and not far from his position, Pang Xuelin saw the figures of Frederick Taylor, Manuel Rediaz and Bill Hines respectively.

Friedrich Taylor, who is lanky and wears wide-rimmed glasses, is a man who has had a profound impact on U.S. national strategy.

One of his important arguments is that the advantage of the great powers is actually only the real advantage in the low-tech era, and the rapid development of technology will eventually weaken the advantages of the big powers, and at the same time increase the strategic weight of the small countries, which may make some small countries suddenly rise and achieve world hegemony like Spain and Portugal in the past.

Taylor's thinking undoubtedly provides a theoretical basis for the US global counterterrorism strategy.

Taylor was not only a strategic theorist, but also a giant of action, earning widespread praise for his courage and foresight in dealing with many major crises.

Pang Xuelin's gaze swept over Taylor and turned to a brown-skinned, stout, stubborn South American strongman.

Manuel Rediaz, the current president of Venezuela and a practitioner of Taylor's strategic thinking, has led Venezuela to block the invasion of the U.S. military through guerrilla tactics under high-tech conditions through low-cost small cruise missiles and other weapons, so that the U.S. military can not bear heavy casualties and withdraw from Venezuela.

As for the last one, Bill Hines, he looks suave and polite.

He is the only scientist in history to be nominated for two Nobel Prizes in different disciplines for the same discovery.

In his research with brain scientist Keiko Yamasugi, he found that the brain's thinking and memory activities take place at the quantum level, rather than at the molecular level, as previously thought.

This discovery pushes the brain mechanism down a level at the microscopic level of matter, and makes all previous research in brain science superficial.

This discovery also proves that the information processing capacity of animal brains is orders of magnitude higher than previously thought, thus making it possible to speculate about the holographic structure of the brain.

Hines was nominated for two Nobel Prizes in physics and physiology, but he did not receive either prize because the discovery was so revolutionary, but Keiko Yamasugi, who had become his wife by then, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine that year for the specific application of the theory to the treatment of amnesia and mental illness.

However, this Keiko Yamasugi is not an ordinary person.

According to the description, Keiko Yamasugi is one of the top management of ETO, codenamed Aristotle in the Three-Body Game.

After the start of the wall-facing project, ETO established a corresponding wall-breaking plan, with the task of cracking the strategic plan of each wall-facing person, and Keiko Yamasugi also became the wall-breaker of Bill Hearns.

As the minutes ticked by, more and more people began to enter the General Assembly Hall.

However, Pang Xuelin never saw Luo Ji's figure.

It wasn't until the hall was about to fill up and the meeting was about to start that Pang Xuelin saw that a yellow man who looked to be in his thirties and had a scholarly temperament on his body was walking from behind in a bit of a daze, led by a United Nations official.

Eventually, he was placed in the fifth row near the passage, not far from him.

The room fell silent, and UN Secretary-General Say walked to the podium.

When passing by Pang Xuelin's location, Say, who had not seen him for a long time, nodded at Pang Xuelin, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

Then Say stepped up to the podium, went to the microphone, and looked around the room.

The venue gradually fell silent.

"The nineteenth meeting of the Planetary Defense Council and the Conference of the Wall-Facing Ones is now officially opened."

"Before I officially enter the meeting today, it is necessary for me to do a review of the Facing Wall Project!"

"The Facing Wall Project was originally conceived by a leading mathematician, who was also invited to the conference today, and I will reveal his true identity to you later. Next, I will formally explain to you the main elements of the wall facing plan. ”

Say's words fell, and there was a commotion in the venue.

Many people looked around to see who the mathematician really was.

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