Kante has a lot of work ability.

With him by his side, Pang Xuelin found that no matter what he ordered, as long as he ordered it, he would soon be arranged in an orderly manner.

For example, this dinner for five wall-facing people was arranged in a quiet private room at the Hilton Hotel.

Since Pang Xuelin was the guest of honor, the hotel deliberately removed the Western-style long dining table and replaced it with a Chinese-style round table.

Dinner was also changed from Western to Chinese.

For this dinner, Kanter specially invited the best Chinese chefs in the United States to prepare the dinner through the relationship of the Chinese Embassy in the United States.

At seven o'clock in the evening, Pang Xuelin waited for the arrival of the wall-facing person at the door of the box.

The first person to come was Luo Ji, yesterday's assassination came from an ETO guerrilla warfare expert, and the other party's sniper rifle bullet failed to penetrate Luo Ji's body armor, but only broke a rib and slightly injured Luo Ji.

Therefore, Luo Ji was in a wheelchair and was pushed by Dashi.

He looked a little sluggish, and his mood was not as high as when he said goodbye to Pang Xuelin yesterday, obviously, he had realized the treacherous nature of the position of the wall-facer, and with his own strength, there was no way to get rid of it in a short period of time.

"Dr. Luo Ji, it's a pleasure to say goodbye to you!"

Pang Xuelin said with a smile.

"Hello, Professor Pang!"

Luo Ji looked at Pang Xuelin with a complicated expression, he only now understood what Pang Xuelin's smile yesterday meant, and his behavior yesterday was probably as shallow and ridiculous as a child in his eyes.

But when he thought that the other party was the founder of the Wall Project, Luo Ji had a strange feeling,

The person who can come up with this kind of plan, he himself is still one of the wall-facing people, this is a wolf annihilation.

Not only is he cruel to others, but he is even more ruthless to himself.

The two exchanged a few words, and Dashi pushed Luo Ji into the box.

The second person to arrive is Bill Hines.

Compared with Luo Ji, who is still in a depressed state, Bill Hines is much more talkative.

He and Pang Xuelin are the only two people with a natural science background among the five wall-facing people, and they can talk to each other better.

Not long after Bill Hines entered the box, Frédéric Taylor and Manuel Rediaz also arrived.

Contrary to Pang Xuelin's expectations, these two people actually came together.

The United States and Venezuela are on the verge of having their brains out in the war, but now Taylor and Rediaz, who represent the two countries, talk happily to each other, looking like old friends who have known each other for many years.

Politics is such a wonderful thing.

Then, Pang Xuelin entered the box and said to the entourage and assistants who were waiting in the box: "You all go out." ”

Soon, everyone including Kante and Dashi left the box, leaving only five wall-facers present.

Pang Xuelin stood up from the position of guest of honor, raised his glass and said: "Everyone, today's dinner belongs to the private meeting time of the five of us who face the wall, and there is no recording equipment in the box, of course, Zhizi must be present." But what I'm going to say to you today, there's not much to avoid, so it doesn't matter, first of all, I would like to give you a glass to be able to work with you! ”

"Cheers!"

Everyone raised their glasses one after another and drank it all.

Taylor said: "Professor Pang, you invited everyone over today, just say what you have to say, after all, I am afraid that several of us who are facing the wall will be busy in the future, and it will not be as easy as it is now to get together." ”

Pang Xuelin laughed and said, "Since Mr. Taylor said so, then I will say it directly!" ”

"The success rate of the Facing Wall project is extremely low, maybe only 1 in 10,000 hopes, but in the case of the basic science field locked by the Zhizi, this is also the only chance for us humans. I believe that everyone has received the information, and ETO has also launched a special wall breaker, who is responsible for cracking the strategic plan of each of us. ”

Everyone nodded, waiting for Pang Xuelin to continue.

Pang Xuelin said: "As a wall-facing person, our main goal is to continue human civilization, and if we want to achieve this goal, we have three paths to choose. First, toughness, in the face of the trimaran fleet, victory in battle, this is the best result, but also the most difficult to achieve a result. Second, confrontation. Find a way that is enough to threaten the three-body civilization, so that it has to negotiate peace with us, thus pulling the two civilizations into a state of long-term confrontation. Third, abandon the earth and flee strategically, but in the case that fugitiveism has been declared illegal by the United Nations, the difficulty of the third method is not much less than the first, so, to a certain extent, finding a way to pull the three-body civilization into a state of confrontation is one of the easiest results to achieve in the current environment, but if you want to find a way to threaten the three-body civilization, you may need a flash of genius......"

After that, Pang Xuelin's gaze swept over Luo Ji intentionally or unintentionally.

Luo Ji was a little unnaturally holding a dish with chopsticks, and he was not interested in what Pang Xuelin said.

He didn't have any idea of dealing with the Three-Body Civilization now, he just thought about whether he could use the authority of the person facing the wall to find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to live in seclusion for the rest of his life.

At this time, Rediaz spoke up: "Professor Pang, we all know what you said, do you have a way to deal with the Three-Body Civilization now?" ”

Pang Xuelin shook his head and said with a smile: "If there is really a way, I won't invite everyone over." However, what I want to talk about today may be more important than dealing with the three-body civilization. ”

"More important than dealing with the three-body civilization?"

Everyone couldn't help but be stunned.

Pang Xuelin nodded and said: "In the past six months, I have been doing one thing, deducing the evolution process of human society in the future through mathematical models, but the results obtained are not optimistic......

"What do you mean?"

Taylor looked at Pang Xuelin with some puzzlement.

Pang Xuelin said: "I think everyone should be able to understand that with the advent of the three-body crisis, I believe that all countries, whether industrial or economic, will fully shift to the wartime economy, and the society will move from openness to conservativeism, and due to the activity of ETO, there is a tendency to stigmatize environmentalism at present." What worries me is that once the environment deteriorates in the future, resulting in a large-scale reduction in global food production, coupled with the fact that countries will focus on the space industry and the military industry, resulting in a global food production reduction, we humans may not need to do anything about the Trisolarans and ETO, and we humans will be able to make a mess ourselves. At that time, who will care about the wall-facing plan, the three-body crisis, and human beings will be able to kill themselves......"

Rediaz frowned, "Professor Pang, you are a little too sensational when you say that. ”

At this time, Hines spoke up: "What Professor Pang said may not be impossible. ”

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "I believe that everyone is basically in a state of doubt now, but this is the result of my calculation through mathematical models." ”

Taylor said, "Professor Pang, according to what you say, isn't there no hope for mankind? ”

Pang Xuelin shook his head and said: "No, on the contrary, this turmoil will free mankind from the shadow of the three-body crisis, and human beings will begin to shift more attention to their own living conditions, rather than the doomsday battle hundreds of years later, so that human beings may usher in a technological explosion......"

Rediaz laughed, "Wouldn't that be better?" ”

Pang Xuelin smiled bitterly: "If basic science cannot be broken through, then no matter how explosive the technology in the application field is, it will be meaningless." What I am now worried about is that this turmoil will not only lead to a complete interruption of the wall-facing plan, but will even completely make humanity lose its enterprising spirit. Therefore, I hope that all of you here can realize that our biggest enemy is not the Trisolarans who are four light-years away, nor the wall-breakers who hide their heads and tails in ETO, but us human beings ourselves! If we want to implement the wall-facing plan smoothly, we need to ensure the healthy and stable development of human society as a whole in the future. ”

Hines nodded thoughtfully, having served as president of the European Union and a scientist by training, he had a deep sense of politics.

He said: "Professor Pang is right, there is an old saying in the East, it is called that if the skin does not exist, the hair will be attached. If we ourselves are caught in a chaotic civil war, then the wall-facing plan will have no foundation, and even if we make a good plan, it will lose its meaning. ”

Pang Xuelin smiled: "That's what I meant, and finally, I want to emphasize one more point." ”

Pang Xuelin looked around, Friedic Taylor's self-confidence, Manuel Rediaz's rebelliousness, Bill Hines's wisdom, and Luo Ji's confusion, Pang Xuelin took them all in his eyes.

"What I want to say is that all of you, including myself, must not think too much of yourself and do not think of yourself as the savior of humanity. The real meaning of the wall-facing project is the existence of the wall-facers. As long as the wall-facing person lives, even if you don't do anything in this life, your existence is an important threat to the Trisolarans. You can have some plans in private, some ideas, and even take the initiative to expose them for the whole people to discuss, no problem, but don't let a birdman who came out of nowhere run in front of you one day and say your so-called strategic plan to deal with the Trisolaran people, you will panic one by one and mess up with yourself. Even if your plan is cracked, what can you do, just think about one more, but the birdman who took the initiative to come to you can be directly executed as ETO! ”

The voice fell, and the entire private room was suddenly quietly audible.

Taylor, Rediaz, Hines, and Luo Ji all looked at Pang Xuelin dumbfounded.

No one expected that as the founder of the Wall Project, he would say such a thing.

What was originally a lofty plan seemed to have become child's play in his mouth.

After yesterday's meeting of the wall-facers, they were entrusted with important tasks one by one, and were even crowned with the title of savior by the outside world.

Even Luo Ji, who has already made up his mind not to perform the duties of the wall-facing person, has a little vanity in his heart to be elected as the wall-facing person.

But now, in Pang Xuelin's mouth, this position is like a cat and a dog, as long as you don't mess around, you can fool around casually.

Rediaz opened his mouth and said, "Professor Pang, what about the future of humanity?" What about the invasion of the Trisolarans? ”

Pang Xuelin laughed and said, "Mr. Rediaz, didn't I just say that? Don't take yourself too seriously, we are human beings, and in 400 years, it will be our children and grandchildren who will really face the enemy. Even if we are in our generation, only these five smart people here, we can't say that the more than ten generations of our descendants are not smarter than our generation, right? The overall development of mankind is still upward, one generation is better than the next, and we must believe in our descendants. What we need to do is to create good conditions and growth environment for them, and as for whether they can cope with the three-body crisis, leave it to future generations to solve. In the next 400 years, the main job of our wall-facing people will be to ensure that the overall development of humanity can continue, and that our civilization will still be enterprising enough. ”

The box was quiet again, and everyone was silent, quietly thinking about every word Pang Xuelin had just said.

……

Some unknown cyberspace.

The wall-breakers, who were observing the talks of the five wall-facing people through Tomoko, fell silent one by one.

"!"

After a long time, Mozi let out a national curse.

He had imagined that one day, after cracking Rediaz's strategic plan, he would be able to appear in front of him proudly and laugh at him.

But after Pang Xuelin said this, he suddenly felt that his work had no meaning.

It's as if everything is boring after a shudder.

"Qin Shi Huang, what should we do next?"

Aristotle turned his gaze to the silent Qin Shi Huang.

Qin Shi Huang said: "You continue to follow Hines, if necessary, through Hines's connections, get close to that traitor, if you can establish a good relationship with that traitor, it will be better." That traitor...... More powerful than I thought! What he said today is not only for those who face the wall, but also for us. ”

"And what about our wall-breaking plan?"

Von Neumann Dao.

Qin Shi Huang said: "The wall-breaking plan continues, and every wall-facing person is still stared at by the wall-breaker assigned before, but even if you see the other party's strategic plan, don't show up to find him, and announce it on the Internet." When necessary, you can appropriately let the navy black face the wall, especially if the wall-facing people make any mistakes or have any black material, find out for me and pour dirty water on them. Since they want to treat this wall facing plan as a game, then we should also treat this plan as a game, what we have to do is to completely disrupt the wall facing plan, so that they will lose the PDC and the people's trust in them......"

"Understood!"

……

The silence in the box lasted for more than ten minutes before Taylor raised his head and said, "Professor Pang, I understand what you mean, but I will still perform the duties that should be performed, I will try to formulate multiple strategic plans, whether it can succeed or not, then do my best and obey the fate of God." ”

After Taylor finished speaking, Rediaz and Hines made similar statements.

Finally, when it was Luo Ji's turn, Luo Ji smiled and said: "I didn't want to be a wall-facing person, since Professor Pang said so, then I just justifiably find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to live in seclusion, this kind of life has always been what I wanted to do, but I couldn't achieve it, and the position of wall-facing person gave me such an opportunity." ”

Pang Xuelin smiled: "It's good that everyone can have such a mentality, but I have another suggestion." ”

"What advice?"

Hines wondered.

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "Let's establish a regular contact mechanism for those who face the wall, get together once a year, like today, it's called a round table." In the round table, we can talk about the progress of the plan and our views on the current situation, and if necessary, we can use our power to intervene in the political situation of humanity. In addition, everyone may enter a state of hibernation in the future, but as long as there are three or more people on the wall in a state of awakening, an annual round table must be held, and every five years, we have to hold a large round table, and five people facing the wall must be present, even if they are in a state of hibernation, they must be awakened, do you have any opinions? ”

"I have no opinion!"

Bill Hines was the first to take a stand.

"I don't have an opinion either!"

Taylor and Ray Diaz said in succession.

"I'll do it!"

Luo Ji didn't care about the Tao.

"That's good, then, let's start enjoying the food."

Pang Xuelin raised his goblet and laughed.