Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 18 Wallfacer Luo Ji, I am your wallbreaker

“Old Qing, I should have come to pick you up, but those people wouldn’t let me. Even when I said it was part of the plan, it didn’t work. They’re too rigid.”

Luo Ji gave Luo Qing a very warm hug. Although the two hadn't interacted much as professors at Tsinghua University in the past, their relationship had inexplicably grown closer after both becoming Wallfacers.

During the six years that Luo Ji and Luo Qing became Wallfacers, they kept in frequent online contact and had an extremely close relationship.

Luo Ji was also the first person in this world to know Luo Qing's identity as a 'Nascent Soul cultivator'.

Of course, Luo Ji also couldn't understand what a 'Nascent Soul cultivator' was.

After all, the first cultivation novel was published in 2002. Subsequently, the appearance of the Trisolarans caused a major turning point in the trajectory of human history. The online literature that should have flourished had already declined, and the concept of cultivation was naturally out of the question.

The world's current understanding of cultivating immortality comes entirely from the movies starring Luo Qing.

Behind Luo Ji followed a young girl holding a child. Without Luo Ji's introduction, Luo Qing knew that this was the dream lover that the Wallfacers were supposedly using their Wallfacer powers to select from around the world.

Holding her child, Zhuang Yan smiled gently. Her plain white sweater stood out starkly against the backdrop of the meeting place filled with camouflage soldiers and black bodyguards. Her smile was like a camellia dipped in morning dew, maintaining a distant warmth while subtly revealing a certain curiosity.

The moment Luo Qing saw her, he gave this girl the highest praise.

Gentle and refined, perfectly natural.

She would be considered a saintess within the Hehuan Sect.

—Don't misunderstand, the Holy Maiden of the Joyful Union Sect is not a frivolous person. Just as things turn around after they reach their lowest point, the Holy Maiden of the Joyful Union Sect is the purest person Luo Qing has ever seen in his previous life. She is practically an unconventional succubus, who attacks the mind but not the desire.

The scene of Zhuang Yan holding her child on the lawn reminded Luo Qing of a classic Western oil painting: "Madonna of the Meadow."

You, Luo Ji, seem to get all the good things in the world.

Luo Qing made no attempt to hide his jealousy of Luo Ji: "You've really had your fun as a Wallfacer."

Luo Ji shrugged.

Luo Qing walked straight toward Zhuang Yan.

"This must be your sister-in-law. Come, come, here's a gift for the child, please accept it."

The scene suddenly shifts to the awkwardness and tug-of-war that often occurs during Chinese New Year. Faced with a gift box that Luo Qing conjured up out of nowhere, Zhuang Yan is at a loss and wants to refuse.

Luo Qing's face hardened: "Take it, it's part of the plan."

After hearing this, Zhuang Yan had no choice but to accept it.

Holding the gift box given to her, Zhuang Yan looked at Luo Ji for help.

"Take it. Everyone says it's part of the plan," Luo Ji said with a hint of helplessness.

Old Qing is even less reliable than me. I really don't know how he became a Wallfacer.

Can the phrase 'part of the plan' be used freely?

It's a pity that Da Shi just went into hibernation a few days ago, otherwise he would definitely stand here and complain: "Are you two surnamed Luo messing around with PDC?"

After greeting the girl from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Luo Ji put his arm around Luo Qing and walked away, whispering:

"Old Qing, how can you call Yan Yan 'sister-in-law'? Who's older between us? I was born in 80."

"I was born in April 1982," Luo Qing revealed the birth year of her predecessor.

"Then why are you calling your sister-in-law 'sister-in-law'? Call her 'sister-in

Luo Qing shook his head: "Impossible, I'm over a hundred years old, we're friends despite the age difference."

Luo Ji laughed: "Stop talking nonsense. You think you can fool me with this Wallfacer thing? Don't think you can fool me just because you know a little magic. If you live to be over a hundred, I'll eat ETO alive."

"Don't believe me if you don't want to." Luo Qing turned his head away.

Luo Ji then asked, "What did you send? If it's expensive, I'll give you a gift in return."

Luo Qing: "Two Qi Refining and Marrow Cleansing Pills, and a spirit stone fragment pendant. I refined them myself. One for my daughter and one for me. Anyone can wear the pendant. I didn't even give it to the President of the United States when he asked for it." "What the hell?" Luo Ji was dumbfounded.

"Snacks and a necklace," Luo Qing explained expressionlessly.

"Tsk, I thought it was something big. I'll send it back to you after you get married and have kids."

“Then you’ll have to wait for hundreds of years,” Luo Qing said.

He cultivates the path of ruthlessness and doesn't seek a wife.

That was the plan, at least in my past life.

After their private conversation, the two returned to the central meeting area. Guided by Kant, they stood side by side, posed for photos for the reporters, and then boarded the helicopter.

As the roar of the helicopter pierced the clouds, Luo Qing looked down at the unfolding panorama beneath its wings.

—The snow-capped mountains of Northern Europe pierce the sky, and glacial meltwater gathers into deep lakes, so blue they are almost black, with the flowing clouds reflected in their waters.

The grasslands and forests along the lake intertwine to form an emerald carpet, with the dark green of the coniferous forests and the tender yellow of the pasture undulating in the wind.

Luo Qing suddenly felt that the ethereal world of cultivation in his previous life was unreal; a hundred years of cultivation had turned into a grand dream. Now, this clear, real world and the vast universe were the most real world.

'Heavenly Dao, where did you strike me from...? Is this all a grand dream, or the reality beneath the Realm of Suffering?'

Luo Qing's nascent soul shouted like this.

The more he learned about this world, the more he felt its profound sense of reality. The universe, interwoven with countless physical rules, was easier to understand than the so-called Great Dao.

Luo Ji sighed and said, "Eden is a name given by the United Nations, but I know that it is not the paradise in religious texts, but a paradise deliberately created by modern civilization, a paradise under the protection of the Wallfacers, while the outside world is still dark—I can't fool myself."

Luo Qing comforted him, "The Trisolarans must have their reasons for fearing you. Didn't Chairman Sai say that you just need to find out why they are afraid of you?"

Luo Ji smiled bitterly: "But I still don't have a clue... When Taylor came a year ago, I sat by the frozen lake and vaguely had some ideas, but I was quickly interrupted and have never found that feeling again."

Luo Qing stroked his smooth chin: "If that doesn't work, I'll find a few ETOs to be your wallbreakers and put some pressure on you."

Luo Ji shook his head: "If someone could really break through my barrier, I would be extremely grateful."

"That's why I'm here." Luo Qing patted Luo Ji's shoulder forcefully.

"If I can't do it, I'll try being the wallbreaker."

The Trisolaran world behind the Zhizi was terrified when it heard the conversation between the two Luos.

Luo Ji stared at the other person in disbelief.

But Luo Qing's expression was very serious.

"Are you serious?"

Luo Qing nodded: "You should have received a warning from the PDC recently, right? The ETO is planning a new round of assassinations against you."

Luo Ji said helplessly, "Kant told me that NATO forces have sealed off the entire area within a hundred kilometers of here. In the snow-capped mountains and deep forests that you can't see, there are countless anti-missile facilities and troops from various countries stationed there. Unless ETO can conjure up an army group, it will absolutely not threaten my safety."

Luo Qing shrugged: "That's why I'm so dissatisfied."

"What are you dissatisfied with?" Luo Ji glared.

"Why didn't ETO assassinate me and the other Wallfacers? Are I, Hines, and Radiaz so insignificant in the eyes of the Trisolarans?"

Luo Qing's expression grew increasingly defiant: "It's one thing for Hines and Rediaz to be ignored, but why should I be ignored as well? We must strike hard against these arrogant Trisolarans."

"So you want to..." Luo Ji hesitated, then stopped.

"Break down your barrier, find out why the Trisolarans are afraid of you, and make them take me seriously too."

Luo Qing chuckled.

(End of this chapter)