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

Chapter 300 Luo Ji Visits Da Huan (4k)

June 8, 205th year of the Crisis Era.

The First Fleet of the Three-Body Problem is 2.10 light-years away from the solar system.

The Second Fleet of the Trisolarans is 4.00 light-years from the Solar System.

The Trisolaran Fleet 1 probe is 3000 million kilometers from Jupiter.

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Beijing.

"Brother Luo, are you done chatting?"

Shi Qiang, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, frowned as he watched Luo Ji slowly emerge from the courtyard of the Wallfacers.

Nearly a month had passed since Luo Ji was hunted down by the cursed virus. The sanitation robots and the army were highly efficient and had already sent most of the broken and out-of-control mechanical facilities back to the smelting furnace.

With the coalition government backing them up and compensating them accordingly, nothing too serious happened.

Moreover, the Wallfacer's compound is a hundred kilometers away from the main battlefield, and only a few fragments remain scattered in the nearby green belt. These are all metal fragments that Luo Ji cut down that day.

"We're done talking." Before Luo Ji could finish speaking, he was already engulfed by the surging crowd.

There were many reporters near the Wallfacer's compound, clearly all waiting for the Wallfacer to emerge from the compound. As soon as Luo Ji came out, he was immediately surrounded by these Innate Realm reporters who moved nimbly through the air like swallows.

Since Luo Qing went into seclusion in early 203 of the Crisis, Luo Ji is the only one who has successfully broken through the maze surrounding the Wallfacer compound and the first person to enter the Wallfacer compound and speak face-to-face with Luo Qing.

People have long been paying attention to the meeting between these two cultivators, one large and one small.

Luo Ji's popularity on Earth is now comparable to that of Little Moss and Pojiang Girl; he's a mobile traffic generator.

Facing the crowd of reporters surrounding Luo Ji, Shi Qiang remained unperturbed, patiently waiting by the tree.

After a while, Luo Ji finally finished dealing with the official media reporters and politely declined the self-media bloggers. He then quickly came to Shi Qiang's side, seemingly wanting to say something, but seeing the numerous cameras around him, he was speechless and unable to speak coherently.

"Shi Qiang, let me tell you..."

"Look at you, so worthless, and you call yourself a cultivator? You better shut up."

Luo Ji successfully swallowed his words.

“Go back?” Shi Qiang pointed to his home in Beijing, the New Life District 5 in an old Beijing hutong.

“No, let’s go to Shijiazhuang.” Luo Ji shook his head.

"Going to Shijiazhuang... Oh, taking the suborbital elevator, right? You want to go to near-Earth orbit?"

Luo Ji nodded, then whispered, "I want to go to Dahuan."

Shi Qiang didn't ask any more questions. He drove the old Santana-style electric car that his son had bought for his young father, shaking off the ubiquitous reporters, and headed towards Shijiazhuang.

This old Santana could fly in the underground city, but on the surface where electricity is scarce, it can only run.

After driving all the way to the outskirts of the city and confirming that there were no surveillance cameras watching them, Shi Qiang asked a question.
"Why go to the Grand Ring? There are dinosaurs everywhere there."

"I want to go find dinosaurs; I want to talk to them."

"Talk to dinosaurs? Talk about what?"

"You don't understand the Wallfacers."

"Tsk." Shi Qiang scoffed. "Brother Luo, when you were a Wallfacer, you tried every means to retire. Now that you're retired, you're doing Wallfacer work again. Do you have some kind of... M-type personality?"

Luo Ji's face darkened. "Da Shi, you should spend less time online."

"I'd be really out of touch if I didn't go online. If you were going to the Great Ring, you could probably leave now and arrive by tomorrow night. The Great Ring is currently the most popular tourist destination in the entire solar system, and it's not far away, less than 400 million kilometers in total, much closer than Jupiter. A passenger spacecraft traveling at 3,000 kilometers per second would only take about 30 hours, including acceleration and deceleration."

"Isn't this similar to going to America back then?"

"Yes, that's about right, but do you know how hard it is to buy a spaceship ticket to the Great Ring?"

"Isn't there the Luoqing warship? Why don't you ask him to send me one?"

"Do you think it's going to stay on Earth and watch over you? It's already gone to Jupiter's orbit to help search for the Trisolaran probe."

"A search probe? Wasn't it said that the probe sent by the Trisolaran world had already been tied down by five star-class warships?"

"You stayed in the Wallfacer compound for three days, so you're naturally missing three days of current events. The Three-Body world sent a total of 10 probes, one of which we captured, and the other 9 disappeared... By the way, what did you and Luo Qing talk about? You only came out after three days and three nights."

Luo Ji looked embarrassed: "Well... he gave me some guidance on my cultivation, but I couldn't understand it at all. In the end, he thought I was stupid and said I wasn't worthy of being his second disciple and that I would never be able to condense a golden core in this lifetime, so he kicked me out."

"Thank goodness you didn't become a disciple. If you had, wouldn't you have had to be ranked lower? That wouldn't do, it would be a generational difference."

Luo Ji sighed: "I didn't go to see him to talk about cultivation. Even if I cultivate like crazy, my progress can't catch up with his. I mainly wanted to talk to him about other things, like my questions and such..."

Have you chatted yet?

"You chatted?"

What did you talk about?

"We discussed some of my guesses?"

"What guess?"

"BYD's Da Shi, you're not going to be my wallbreaker, are you? You're the one I trust the most."

"Break the wall my ass, you've already stepped down."

Luo Ji sighed, "Anyway, during the chat, I reaffirmed my guess and mainly asked him about the Risk Remover civilization. After all, he is the only one who had a lot of communication with the Risk Removers and the only one who survived."

Now things are basically clear. This world may be full of contradictions and opposites, yet also dialectically unified. All I need to do is go find the dinosaurs, ask them about their experiences over the years, and verify my final hypothesis.

"You've even started spouting dialectical materialism now? Stop with the nonsense. Can't you listen to the news and gossip from the past three days? Fleet International has been making headlines these past three days while you were looking for Luo Qing." Shi Qiang drove, his wicked laughter occasionally drifting into the back seat.

"What news?" Luo Ji asked, intrigued.

Shi Qiang recounted with great enthusiasm the internal turmoil within the three fleets, the subsequent reactions from all sides following the "thought imprint" incident, and even mentioned the probes from the Trisolaran world.

Regarding the major news that the three fleets were removing those inoculated with the "ideological imprint" from their captain positions, the general public opinion on Earth was to watch with amusement. However, Luo Ji's expression had become somewhat strange. He asked, "What happened to the probes sent by the Trisolaran world? Wasn't one already transported to Jupiter's orbit?"

Shi Qiang said, "You forgot, the Trisolaran probe sent a total of 10 probes. The first one was captured, and the remaining 9 are floating at the edge of the solar system. Now that all the lights are off, the telescopes can't find them."

Luo Ji raised an eyebrow upon hearing this. "Weren't those probes only the size of a truck? Things that small don't emit light in space; they're harder to find than a needle in a haystack. How could the solar system fleet possibly find them?"

Da Shi explained to Luo Ji with great enthusiasm: "Brother Luo, you don't know, the Solar System Fleet came up with a brilliant idea. They used nuclear bombs to blast a region of oily dust. That way, the detectors that are invisible to the naked eye will definitely leave traces when they pass through the dust region."

"An oil film and dust zone?" Luo Ji asked again, puzzled.

"Oh, I keep forgetting that you've only been awake for a month. Your common sense is so bad. Scientists found a substance at the edge of the solar system called an oil film. It's like flour. If you throw it into space, it can block out light. Using this principle to find these probes, I estimate that it won't be long before all the remaining probes are exposed. At that time, whether to destroy or capture them will depend on the three fleets. Anyway, I think we should just destroy them. What's the point of keeping the enemy's stuff?"

Listening to Shi Qiang's description, Luo Ji felt an even greater sense of urgency.

"Da Shi, buy me the earliest ticket, the earlier the better. I need to verify some things with Dinosaur, and it would be best if it were before the conference. Da Shi, I heard that tickets to Da Huan are in high demand right now. Can you get me one? If not, use your special privileges."

Luo Ji had just checked 12306 on the car seat's display screen and found that the spaceship tickets were indeed sold out. This stupid software is still the same after more than two hundred years; it's impossible to grab popular tickets.

Shi Qiang didn't say anything, but simply shook his hand, and two large tour tickets miraculously appeared in his hand.

"Wow! You actually prepared in advance? How did you guess I was going?"

Just when Luo Ji thought Da Shi was going to demonstrate some criminal investigation and reasoning skills, Shi Qiang spoke up quietly.
"Um, when you were chatting with Luo Qing, Luo Qing sent me a message telling me to buy a large-scale ticket in advance. I was wondering why I needed to buy that, but now I know."

"Then what are we waiting for, Santana, forward four!"

"You think I'm piloting a spaceship?"

...

Asian Fleet.

Because the Asian Fleet was the first fleet to conduct a covert investigation of the Stamped Race, and had already thoroughly investigated the 500 million space crew members of the 1860 remaining star-class warships of the Asian Fleet after the war by searching paper archives.

Therefore, the adjustment of authority over all warships in the Asian Fleet was extremely rapid. Almost at the same time that the ideological imprint incident was officially made public, the Asian Fleet Command simultaneously announced the highest order to appoint hibernating soldiers to all key positions in the fleet.

This swift order left the "Steel Seal Clan" hidden within the fleet with no room to realize their "ambitions" before they were quickly stripped of their power.

The transfer of power in the Asian Fleet proceeded smoothly and efficiently.

On the contrary, the North American and European fleets experienced varying degrees of chaos. Some captains of the star-class warships who had been labeled as "steel-stamped" were very dissatisfied with this inexplicable label of escapism, which led to a period of turmoil.

Fortunately, no actual stellar-class warships chose to leave.

The tense solar system fleet also breathed a sigh of relief, since no officer wanted the system's defense facilities to be aimed at human warships.

After all, even if it were the escape group with the ideological imprint as described by Keiko Yamasugi, they would only flee when they encountered the Trisolaran fleet. How could they start fleeing as soon as they encountered an enemy probe?
This isn't called fleeing; this is called being insane.

Therefore, despite the complaints from the mid- to high-ranking officers of the Solar System Fleet, the temporary executive captain and executive officer system was still implemented.

According to the investigation.

In the Asian Fleet alone, approximately 370,000 space force personnel of all ranks have undergone ideological indoctrination, with more than 3,000 of them having received their first ideological indoctrination.

According to Hines's Wallfacer Project, he only tampered with the first stamp, switching the positive and negative signs. The subsequent second, third, and subsequent stamps involved experts and testing personnel from the United Nations at the time.

This meant that Hines lost the opportunity to secretly make adjustments.

Keiko Yamasugi proved this point when she broke through the wall.

Subsequent investigations confirmed this. The Asia Fleet's Belief Center investigation team had one of the thought imprinting facilities pre-fabricated a stamp requiring the truth to be told. They then used 20 death row inmates to test all the contents of the thought imprint. Through repeated experiments and the death row inmates' testimonies, they determined that only the positive and negative signs of the first imprint had been switched.

It's the one where the line "humanity will win" was changed to "humanity will lose".

But this does not mean that it is safe once these more than 3,000 space officers and soldiers are isolated and screened.

Although neither Keiko Yamasugi nor Hines mentioned it, rumors circulated within the Asian Fleet Command that uncontrolled thought-printing facilities had already been circulated among these thought-printing groups.

After all, in this era, a supercomputer was originally required to meet the computing power requirements of the thought imprinting facility, which limited the difficulty of manufacturing the thought imprinting facility.

But in this day and age, any quantum computer the size of a suitcase, or a new photonic computer, can meet its computing power requirements, which means that thought-imprinting facilities are likely to spread in the shadows.

This super religion, established based on the imprint of thought, is so rigorous that it probably exceeds everyone's imagination.

In other words, after this conclusion is reached, anyone could potentially be a member of the "stamped family".

The review of space officers and soldiers who have received the ideological seal of vaccination is far from sufficient; a top-down review of the entire fleet is necessary.

Especially the key officers and soldiers who occupy the position of captain.

This is precisely why the commanders of the three fleets must first conduct self-examination, and even need a temporary commander to replace them.

The commander of the Asian fleet had already completed the General Staff's review of him, and this iron-willed man had cleared himself of all suspicion. However, the commanders of the European and American fleets were still under review, so they had to let Qian Mengjian and Grant replace them.

After the high-level self-examination is completed, they will also join the review team to continue to review all mid-to-high-level officers, including the captains of more than 4000 star-class warships.

When the captain is under investigation, a reliable hibernating soldier will assume the position of acting captain and will have the authority of a temporary captain.

Before the invention of the thought imprint, about 300,000 soldiers hibernated, of whom 20,000 were assigned to star-class warships. These 20,000 people became the temporary backbone of the three major fleets in a very short time, serving in important positions such as executive captain, executive star-type hydrogen bomb weapon operator, executive electronic warfare officer, executive gamma laser beam cannon operator, and executive electromagnetic railgun operator.

Since the executive captain rule was only a temporary measure lasting a maximum of six months, the Natural Selection, like other warships in the Asian Fleet, also selected its own executive captain.

Unsurprisingly, Zhang Beihai became the executive station commander of the Natural Selection. Due to his outstanding performance in the expeditionary campaign and his already established position as the deputy captain, Zhang Beihai was unanimously recognized by all the officers and men on board.

This was also the first time Zhang Beihai had gained full control of the Natural Selection.

As a decorated warship and with the fleet parade yet to begin, the Natural Selection has ample time to resupply and rest in the Jupiter orbital dock.

After Zhang Beihai became the executive captain, he used his authority to fully replenish the Natural Selection, giving him ample time to complete all of this.

Dongfang Yanxu, who was under investigation and temporarily in charge, looked at Zhang Beihai with a strange gaze, and after a long while she couldn't help but speak.

"Senior, the alien representatives are almost in place. We should now proceed with the formation. We should be the first warship formation to appear in the parade, along with the Paradox Engine Ship."

"Oh, Yanxu, just a moment. I'm doing one last check on the fuel reserves and the condition of those jets in the engine room. You know, the parade is a big event; many alien guests will see us. The warships must be ready, fully prepared..."

(End of this chapter)