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

Chapter 296 The Building and the Clouds

The hearings for the Wallfacer Project have finally ended.

Resolution 649 was passed unanimously and took effect immediately. The Wallfacer Project ended on May 16, 205 of the Crisis Era. Thus, the Wallfacers, who had existed for two centuries, disappeared.

But Luo Ji was not happy.

Shi Qiang saw Luo Ji's expression, which looked like his mother had died, and swallowed the words he was about to say.

After the hearing, Luo Ji declined the joint conference chairman's invitation to be a witness at the subsequent joint conference on intelligent life in the solar system, insisting on returning to Earth.

Despite losing his status as a Wallfacer, Luo Ji's identity as the second Immortal Cultivator still brought him many privileges. The Asian Fleet arranged for a star-class warship to escort him.

On the return journey to Earth aboard the "Luo Qing," a star-class warship, Luo Ji remained silent, staying in his room the entire time. Shi Qiang's several attempts to reach him were all unsuccessful. (Note: The repaired Luo Qing warship had been decommissioned from frontline combat readiness and converted into a logistics transport ship.)
"What illness is it now?" Shi Qiang was very puzzled.

It wasn't until a week later, when the "Luo Qing" was docked in a near-Earth orbit spaceship dock and returned to Earth via a space elevator, that Luo Ji's expression gradually softened.

The earth, the grasslands, the blue sky, and the densely packed urban clusters.

The familiar Earth, the Earth that gives people a sense of boundless security.

"Brother Luo, your expression is exactly the same as that of that neuroscientist. What's wrong? Did someone break through your barrier too?"

"It has nothing to do with breaking through the wall, Da Shi. My mind is a mess right now. I'm terrified of the future... really, you probably can't understand this kind of fear."

"It's nothing."

"Great History, your fearlessness stems from ignorance."

"I've heard that same thing from someone else."

"Who?"

"The adorable little boy crying in front of the Wangfujing Catholic Church."

"Sigh...you still don't understand, Da Shi."

Luo Ji no longer cared about Hines, nor about who that cute little egg crying on the curb in Wangfujing was. He was even completely uninterested in the undercurrents happening within the Solar System Fleet. His mind was filled with only one question.

How could 187J3X1 have been destroyed...?

Although he had only been awake for a little over a month, he had already pieced together the history of the past two hundred years and learned about the risk-relief workers.

The Altar of Truth was a landmark event in human history. The super grass obtained at the cost of Einstein's Equatorial Particle Accelerator directly reversed the ongoing Great Depression, laying a solid material and ecological foundation for the technological explosion that humanity experienced between 2100 and 2200 AD.

Even now, the lunar ecosystem, the Martian Utopia Plain, the Venusian colony, the Mercury cavitation, and the spaceports of Ganymede and Europa are covered with all sorts of grasses.

Although these grasses do not participate in photosynthesis and respiration, nor can they produce oxygen, their deliciousness, juiciness, and resilience alone are enough to change the course of human history.

This beautiful, vibrant, and life-giving super grass is the epitome of the civilization of risk avoiders.

Ever since the Risk Remover civilization appeared raising the banner of protecting the universe, human cosmic sociology has been convinced that there exists an order system established by advanced civilizations in the universe, and that the universe is a world full of morality and civilization.

This theory, based on real-world evidence of the risk-relief civilization, has become the mainstream theory recognized by the academic community.

This theory is known as the "Cosmic Morality".

The aggressiveness of the Trisolaran and Devouring civilizations is mainly due to the defects of their own civilizations, and does not indicate that the background of the universe is dark.

After all, one side that doesn't invade will only wait to die, while the other side that doesn't devour will only starve to death.

To be honest, humans understand both of them.

Suppose a solar helium flash forces humanity to flee on Mercury, and the Alpha Centauri system, four light-years away, is a paradise. In that case, humanity would certainly choose to fight for survival, even if the destination is inhabited by benevolent Trisolarans. Humanity would not hesitate to occupy the destination planet and drive the benevolent Trisolarans out of their new home.

If the planetary engines run out of power along the way, and there are asteroids nearby that can replenish resources, even if they contain native life, humans will not hesitate to grab them and refine them instantly.

Everyone's just trying to survive; no one's wrong.

Food is the original sin.

Currently, humans are clearly the strongest, so the ones with original sin are the dinosaurs and the Trisolarans.

This is also the core concept of cosmic morality: [Under non-survival crises, civilizations without self-interest, upon reaching an advanced moral stage, will not actively attack lower-level civilizations; they may even provide a degree of protection and assistance.]

Humanity's understanding of civilizations extends beyond the Risk Rescuers, the Trisolarans, and the Devourers.

The study of other civilizations has, in turn, proven the correctness of the "cosmic morality theory," making this theory increasingly unassailable and authoritative today.

The Eridan civilization goes without saying; the Eridan Girls are still active in the human world today. It's important to know that the last thing this civilization did before its demise was to compile all the dangers it encountered into Eridan crystals and then use its final power to hurl them towards Earth. Its sole purpose was to ensure the survival of the next civilization and prevent it from being devoured.

I can die, but you have to live.

For humanity, when we were just starting out on Earth and experiencing the dangers of the universe for the first time due to the Trisolaran crisis, a girl we had never met before risked her life to fly from a distance of more than ten light-years away. Her only purpose was to hope that you would live well.

This was incredibly shocking to people at the time.

The Po River civilization is the beloved, albeit now deceased, ideal of human civilization. No one can shake the significance of the Po River civilization to humanity.

Humans have even developed a theoretical school of thought on how to "revive" the Pojang civilization. There are also quite a few Pojang fans in human society who are cheering for the Pojang civilization. On the day the Devouring Empire officially surrendered, humans handed over the Devouring Empire's unconditional surrender document to the Pojang girl.

Even if the Pojiang girl isn't even a living being.

Even in the various joint meetings of the Solar System Fleet, there have been occasional instances where the revival of Eridanus and the resurrection of the Eridanus civilization have been mentioned as one of the Solar System Fleet's future millennium plans.

Besides the Po River civilization, several other civilizations on the Great Ring, which were dinosaur-breeding civilizations, were the same.

Disregarding alien races with virtually no communication abilities and intelligence, the Light Speaker civilization and the White Fish race serve as examples that also corroborate the correctness of the "Cosmic Morality Theory." While wars erupt on the Light Speaker planet, home to the Light Speaker civilization, caused by glowing Puji of different colors, these internal Puji conflicts are confined to the surface. In fact, the Light Speaker civilization has never invaded any other civilization. Of course, this doesn't rule out the possibility that the glowing Puji simply lack the ability to travel into space.

As for the white dwarf planet where the Bai-language people live, they can't think of anything else besides eating, and even infighting among their own kind is rare.

And what completes the final chapter of the "cosmic morality" is precisely the devouring of civilization itself!

From the perspective of humanity itself, the Devouring Empire is already a formidable enemy of human civilization. If it weren't for the invincible cultivators who provided a safety net, it would have been extremely difficult for humanity to defeat the Giant Ring, and a mutually destructive outcome would have been highly probable.

In the context of the universe, the Devouring Empire should not be considered too powerful. After merging the Devouring Empire's 6500 million years of wandering data, humanity deduced that the density of civilizations in the universe is extremely high.

However, such a high density of civilizations did not affect the interstellar wandering that devoured the Empire for 6500 million years.

During this period, the Devouring Empire must have been discovered by a more technologically advanced civilization. After all, according to the historical records of the Devouring Empire, this ancient empire was known for bullying the weak and fearing the strong, and it almost never attempted to provoke a civilization that had entered the universe on a large scale.

If they weren't so hungry they had no other choice, they wouldn't necessarily have to devour the Earth.

Moreover, before being killed by Shanqing, the Devouring Emperor had already expressed his intention to negotiate with humanity, only intending to devour some unimportant Saturn and Jupiter satellites, but he hadn't had time to tell humanity yet...

For experts studying the history of the Devouring Empire, the Devouring Empire, despite being discovered by a more advanced civilization, was not attacked by that civilization. In fact, the Devouring Empire should have been considered "evil" by ordinary civilizations, yet it still did not suffer any interstellar attacks from the advanced civilization.

This practically sealed the final piece of the puzzle for the "cosmic morality" theory.

The universe is moral.

Thus, the sociological edifice of cosmic morality has been completed.

Only two small dark clouds remained floating above the building.

One of the dark clouds that humans noticed was that several advanced civilizations visited the Great Ring during the history of the Devouring Wanderer. Although only a few words have been preserved in the records, and these events occurred tens of millions of years ago, they still shrouded the history of the Wanderer in mystery.

Another dark cloud loomed: at the end of the global anti-ETO war, according to an insider who had broken free from the shackles of the thought seal, Sophon abandoned the ETO to which Hu Hai belonged, which was about to be destroyed. Abandoned, Hu Hai, in a state of madness, activated a high-powered radar mysteriously manufactured and sealed away during the Qin Dynasty in an attempt to emulate Ye Wenjie's communication with the Trisolaran world through the sun and send his "last words" in an attempt to contact the Great Lord.

As a result, Sophon proactively printed a line of crucial information into the minds of the then-commander-in-chief of the human coalition and the heads of state of major powers, thus revealing the precise location of the ETO underground headquarters. This successfully attracted the impatient Russia to release a stellar hydrogen bomb called "The End," which completely destroyed the underground palace of Hu's ETO. Both the thought imprint facility and the high-powered underground radar were destroyed by the hydrogen bomb.

Humanity still doesn't know why the Trisolarans deliberately revealed the location of the ETO headquarters.

...

Having witnessed the construction of the cosmic sociology edifice over two centuries of history and the immense power of the human fleet, Luo Ji naturally abandoned his unrealistic ideas and almost forgot about the existence of the incantation.

But the Chairman's words about the destruction of 187J3X1 immediately alerted him.

The first thing Luo Ji did upon returning to Earth was to gather all the information about the star 187J3X1.

Faced with Shi Qiang's concern, Luo Ji gave a vague answer and hid in his room, searching for something on the web.

Interestingly, Luo Ji gradually learns that the information about the destruction of 187J3X1 had been concealed and altered.

According to publicly available internet information, the one who tampered with this information was that harmless quantum girl, Little Moss.

The Hubble Space Telescope 3 is a relatively outdated space telescope system compared to the Ringel-Fitzroy Telescope, which is currently observing the Trisolaran fleet. Human attention is also constantly focused on the Ringel-Fitzroy Telescope.

Therefore, the discoveries made by the Hubble 3 telescope, which went unnoticed, also gave MOSS the opportunity to tamper with them.

The information that 187J3X1 was destroyed was therefore concealed.

It wasn't until Crisis Era 83, after MOSS was arrested by the quantized Wallfacers and imprisoned in the Quantum Prison, that the released Moss revealed the facts before the alteration and all the altered records.

Humans thus became the first to notice the entire process of the destruction of 187J3X1 through the Hubble 3 telescope.

Around 80 years into the Crisis Era, the G-type main-sequence star was observed to still maintain a stable orange-yellow glow, along with a faint gravitational lensing effect from its four planets, indicating that it was a single-star system with four planets.

Then, a tiny point of light, about the size of a pinhead, appeared in the blurry footage, appearing on the left edge of the star's disk. Its instantaneous brightness was about one-thousandth of the entire star's brightness. This object, which scientists call a "light particle," then struck the star 187J3X1.

The light particle travels at an extremely high speed, almost at the speed of light. As it passes through the outer gas layer of the star, its trail is captured by human observation equipment. The trajectory of the light particle is a straight line. When it enters the gaseous layer of the star 187J3X1, it leaves a brief trail behind it before disappearing into the entire star.

One observationalist described it this way: the trail stirred up by the high-speed compressed gas layer material should be deep blue. As the light particles penetrate deeper into the gas layer, the surrounding coronal material is drawn in and gradually expands into a pale purple fan shape—like a bullet pressed into water, trailing behind constantly expanding bubbles.

Subsequent data calculations also confirmed this. In the final acceleration phase of the light particle, the mass of the light particle had been magnified to one-eighth of that of the 187J3X1 star by the power of relativity—equivalent to compressing a small star into the size of a pinhead and then throwing it out at 0.9 times the speed of light.

At the moment of impact, the plasma in the 187J3X1 photosphere did not have time to react and was crushed into quark-gluon plasma by the kinetic energy carried by the light particles, forming a channel through the star along the direction of the particles' motion.

The immense kinetic energy then instantly destroyed the star.

Observations from Hubble Space Telescope 3 revealed that 187J3X1 underwent a shock wave transition from red to white and then to blue in an extremely short period of time. The ejected matter collided with the surrounding gas at high speed, generating intense visible light radiation, making the entire 187J3X1 resemble a burning giant sword.

A giant sword, 50 light-years away.

恒星内部物质从被击出的巨大裂孔喷涌而出，形成烈焰喷泉。随后，187J3X1的四颗行星也在爆炸中被汽化，187J3X1恒星系就此毁灭。

Because humanity at the time had just experienced a great trough and the Altar of Truth, as well as the future threat of the Trisolaran fleet, the destruction of the 187J3X1 star system did not bring global news amidst a series of dramatic events. Instead, it was ignored as an unknown accident.

It wasn't until the later stages of the Crisis Era that humanity began to re-examine the causes and consequences of 187J3X1, but this inevitably led to no conclusions. Some clever people connected the destruction of 187J3X1 with Luo Ji's spell, but this was quickly refuted.

the reason is simple.

187J3X1恒星系是50光年之外的恒星，而危机纪元80年哈勃三号观察到187J3X1被摧毁，则意味着187J3X1毁灭于50年之前。

In other words, 187J3X1 was attacked as early as Crisis Era 30.

而这个时间，距离罗辑所发出的咒语也不过才20多年。依据有质量的物体不可以超光速的狭义相对论可以得出，罗辑的咒语不可能在短短20年的时间就能导致187J3X1受到光粒打击。

基于这种坚实的物理定律，整个科学界都将187J3X1的遭遇视为一场不为人类所知的意外，没有将187J3X1被摧毁与罗辑的咒语继续联系在一起，也因此并没有唤醒这位面壁者。

(End of this chapter)