At the moment when the head of Huaxia set the tone in the residence of the head of Huaxia and Jiangnan became the protector of Huaxia, New York City on the other side of the ocean, in the United Nations, this meeting of mankind that has never been seen before or after is being carried out intensively.

The solemn and solemn voice of the Secretary-General of the United Nations rang out in the room: "The first person to face the wall: Frederick Taylor. ”

As soon as the Secretary-General's words fell, Taylor stood up from the first row of seats, walked calmly to the podium, and faced the room with a blank expression, no applause, everyone just focused their eyes on the first person facing the wall in silence.

Taylor is lanky and wears wide-rimmed glasses. Taylor's image has long been familiar to the world. He is the recently outgoing U.S. Secretary of Defense and a man who has had a profound impact on U.S. national strategy. His ideas are epitomized in a book called The Truth About Technology, in which Taylor argues that the ultimate beneficiaries of technology will be small nations. The great powers have spared no effort to develop technology, in fact, laying the foundation stone for the small countries to become world hegemony. Because as technology develops, the demographic and resource advantages of large countries will no longer matter, and technology is a lever for small countries that can leverage the planet.

One of the consequences of nuclear technology is that it makes it possible for a small country with a population of only a few million to pose a substantial threat to a large country with a population of more than 100 million, which would have been almost impossible before the advent of nuclear technology.

Taylor's important argument 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 lead to the sudden rise of some small countries to achieve world hegemony like Spain and Portugal in the past.

Taylor's thinking undoubtedly provides a theoretical basis for the US global counterterrorism strategy. As a result, Taylor is not only a strategic theorist, but also a giant of action, and he has won widespread praise for his courage and foresight in dealing with many major crises. Therefore, whether in terms of depth of thought or leadership ability, Taylor is well-deserved as a wall-facer.

Different from other major meetings, after the announcement of the results, everyone will applaud, and even stand up, the field is silent, it seems that the sound can be heard on the ground, obviously everyone's mood is very solemn, to make this kind of forced decision, it can be seen how desperate human society is at the moment.

"Second Wall-Facer: Manuel Rediaz."

When this brown-skinned, stout, and stubborn-eyed South American stepped onto the podium, Luo Ji was very surprised, and it was very unusual for this person to appear in the United Nations now. But after thinking about it again, Luo Ji felt that this was also reasonable, and even wondered why he didn't think of him just now. Rediaz is the current president of Venezuela, who leads his own country, and is a perfect confirmation of Taylor's theory of the rise of a small state.

"The Third Wall-Facer: Bill Hearns."

A mild-mannered Englishman stepped up to the podium, and in contrast to Taylor's indifference and Ray Diaz's stubbornness, he appeared polite and greeted the venue with great grace. This is also a person who is familiar to the world, but does not have the aura of the first two. Hines's life is divided into two distinct phases. During his career as a scientist, he was the only scientist in history to be nominated for a Nobel Prize in two 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 several orders of magnitude higher than previously thought, thus leading to the long-speculated holographic structure of the brain (a speculative way of storing information in the brain that can recover all the information it stores through any part of the brain). ) to make it possible. 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.

The second phase of Hines' life was as a politician, having served as President of the European Union for two and a half years. Hines is widely regarded as a steady and sophisticated politician, but he did not face many challenges in his time in office to demonstrate his political skills, and in terms of the nature of his work in the EU, he is more engaged in transactional coordination, and he is a far cry from the first two in terms of seniority in the face of super-crises. But Hines was clearly chosen based on his scientific and political qualities, and it is rare to find a person who combines the two so perfectly.

At this time, in the last row of seats in the venue, Keiko Yamasugi, the world's authority on brain science, was looking at her husband on the rostrum with affection.

There was silence in the room, and everyone was waiting for the last person to be announced. The first three facers: Taylor, Rediaz, and Hines, are the result of a tripartite balance of political power and compromise between the United States, the Third World, and Europe.

So the last one is particularly eye-catching. Seeing Say move his gaze to the piece of paper in the folder again, Luo Ji's mind quickly flashed one after another world-famous names, and the last one to face the wall should be produced among these people. His gaze swept over the four rows of seats, scanning the backs of the first row, from where the first three wall-facing people had all walked up to the podium, and from the backs he couldn't tell if any of the people he thought were present, but the fourth wall-facing person was definitely sitting there.

Say slowly raised her right hand, and Luo Ji's gaze followed that hand. It was found that it did not point to the first row.

UN Secretary-General Say pointed his hand at him: "Our fourth wall-facer, the last wall-facer, is the Chinese man sitting there, Luo Ji." ”

Luo Ji, who was thinking about which big man would be the fourth wall-facing person like watching the excitement, was taken aback by this sudden change.

Luo Ji stood up and asked in surprise, "Why is it me?"

UN Secretary-General Say's reply: "It's up to you to find out for yourself." ”

"But I'm just an ordinary person."

"In the face of this crisis, we are all ordinary people, but we all have our own responsibilities."

"No one has consulted me beforehand, and I don't know anything about it."

Say smiled again, "Your name is Logic?" ”

"Yes."

"Then you should be able to imagine that it is impossible to ask for advice from the people who are going to undertake this kind of mission before it is delivered."

"I refuse." Luo Ji said categorically, and did not think about Say's sentence above.

"Yes."

This answer came so quickly that it was almost seamlessly connected with Luo Ji's words. For a while, he was overwhelmed. He was in a daze for a few seconds and then said, "I give up my identity as the wall-facer, give up all the powers I have been given, and I don't take any responsibility that you have imposed on me. ”

"Yes."

The concise answer was still immediately following Luo Ji's words, as light and swift as a dragonfly touching water, which made Luo Ji's brain that was just able to think fall into a blank again.

"Can I go, then?" Luo Ji could only ask these words.

"Yes, Dr. Luo Ji, you can do anything."

Luo Ji turned and walked through the rows of empty chairs. He didn't feel the slightest relief or comfort by pushing off the identity and responsibility of the person facing the wall just now, and now his consciousness was filled with only a sense of absurd unreality, all of which was like a postmodern drama without any logic.

When he walked to the exit of the venue, Luo Ji looked back, and said that Say was still standing on the rostrum looking at him, her figure looked small and helpless under the big cliff, and when she saw him turn around, she nodded and smiled at him.

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Almost seamlessly, two explosive news pieces appeared in the news at the same time on this morning. The first is that the special session of the General Assembly was successfully convened, at which UN Secretary-General Say announced the four selected facers. They are: former U.S. Secretary of Defense Taylor, Venezuelan President Rediaz, Briton Dr. Hines, and Chinese Dr. Luo Ji. At the end of the special session of the General Assembly, Luo Ji stated that he rejected the identity and mission of the wall-facers.

A short newsletter announcing perhaps one of the most significant historical turning points in human history, from then on, four completely unfettered and absolutely powerful men were born, and we ourselves created the devil.

Just when people are talking about this news, another more important news is being released to the world: Gu Huaxia Guo CCTV Express, early this morning, Huaxia Guo held a special summit, at which it was determined that Jiangnan was the true immortal of Huaxia to protect the country, and Huaxia announced that it would withdraw from the wall-facing plan, and the four wall-facing people would not be able to mobilize all the resources that Huaxia Guo had. Jiang Nan, an immortal cultivator who lived in China in ancient times, chose to go out of the mountain to help mankind overcome difficulties due to the three-body crisis, please watch a short video below.

I saw that the video seemed to be a military base near Yanjing, the capital of China, with many tanks and artillery in the 21st century of the Common Era, parked in a row, and the tanks were also lined up in a fan, aiming at a small dot a few hundred meters away, only to see that the dot floating in the air, and the audience could really see clearly after the camera was enlarged, it was a person.

I saw this person floating in mid-air, looking particularly heroic under the lens, and under the high-definition camera, I could even see his face clearly, and I saw that this person was also very handsome, just like a legendary immortal, so that people couldn't find fault with it.

Everyone was staring nervously at the TV screen, not knowing what would happen next. Luo Ji also turned on the TV, just saw the video being played, the news from the motherland immediately attracted his attention, in this era of crisis, can still occupy the headline position, all of them are particularly explosive news, and even can affect the future fate of mankind.

is speculating whether it is a picture of ps, or the latest weapons that the Huaxia military is experimenting with, dozens of cannons are fired in unison on the video, the targets are the small black dots in the air, the rows of fan-shaped tanks, the muzzles of the black holes in front of them suddenly erupted in unison, hundreds of shells hit the small black dots in the air in less than a second, and on the TV screen, you can only see the huge smoke and dust produced after the strong impact.

After a while, the smoke and dust drifted away, and I saw that the small black dot was still floating in the air, and on either side there was still an armor-piercing shell of a tank in one hand, and it was still on the ground, flying towards the camp where the army chief was.

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At this time, the picture jumped to the anchor of CCTV, and he said enthusiastically: "The picture you saw just now is a live-fire exercise for the forces of Jiangnan at a shooting range outside Yanjing City. According to Jiang Nan, the road to the development of cosmic civilization is not only one way to science and technology, and human beings can also improve to a higher level of civilization through the art of cultivating immortals, or exercising their own abilities, and even use their physical bodies to carry out interstellar travel. ”

According to the information provided by Jiang Nan, he and his companion Diana are able to survive in the universe, and Jiang Nan even has the ability to fly across space to the moon, but if this method is completely detached from the guidance of science and technology, it is easy to get lost in the universe and it is difficult to find the right direction. Since our human beings' scientific and technological experiments have been blocked by the Three-Body Humans, then we might as well find a new way and cultivate according to the methods Jiang Nan said. Start a new civilization of cultivating immortals. It is reported that there has been a civilization of cultivating immortals in human history, but due to the lack of resources and the destruction of the environment by the continuous development of science and technology, human beings who can inherit the exercises and ascend to a higher realm are becoming more and more rare. Now let's look at a speech by President Tang. ”

I saw Tang Yi's familiar face appear on the TV screen, and in the center of the Great Hall, he solemnly announced like all mankind: "The new constitution of the Huaxia Kingdom will be officially implemented from today, and Jiang Nan will be hired as the true immortal of the Huaxia Kingdom to help the Huaxia Kingdom develop the civilization of cultivating immortals." In the future, Huaxia will no longer participate in the United Nations Organization's Facing Wall Plan, nor will it participate in the conventional defense plan, and will devote all its energy to completing the transformation of a scientific and technological civilization into a civilization of cultivating immortals. ”

The issuance of this news caused an uproar among people all over the world, is Huaxia going to be independent of human society?

I only heard Tang Yi continue on TV: "Our door is open to all mankind, if there is a country or individual who wants to join our plan, you only need to apply to the official Huaxia country, and after the application is approved, you can become a member of us, and work hard for mankind to defeat the three-body world and achieve the final victory." ”

...... The audience burst into warm applause.