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

Chapter 373 Tu Yaya and Little Moss (Free)

Tsinghua University, Bai Yelin.

White mist spread out, and the sound of waves echoed and symphonized through the birch forest.

The path was covered with birch leaves. Luo Ji, holding the child, stood quietly in the middle of the road, blocking the only way to Qinghua Residence. At his feet, pale blue waves of water rippled and spread among the dark red fallen leaves, as if to flood this century-old birch forest.

Tu Hengyu stood opposite him, only a few hundred meters away from the destination, looking somewhat discouraged.

I know I am no longer able to swim across the ocean before me.

The feeling he got from this wall-faced man was no different from that of the vast ocean.

What kind of cultivation technique does Luo Ji practice? Is he a water-attribute spiritual root cultivator? Although Tu Hengyu doesn't understand cultivation, he is quite familiar with the common knowledge of cultivation, which makes him somewhat puzzled.

A martial artist at the peak of the Innate Realm could smash a main battle tank from the early 21st century head-on, but at this moment, Tu Hengyu felt as insignificant as a drop in the ocean.

Is this what a powerful Foundation Establishment cultivator is like?

The warning from Little Moss immediately came through the wristband's optical brain.

"You are no match for Luo Ji. I am on my way here. I suggest you abandon all your next actions and do not act rashly."

Is Little Moss on her way here? Oh right, she recently held an electronic concert at the Bird's Nest, an ancient building, which isn't too far from here.

However, Tu Hengyu did not feel excited about meeting his electronic daughter; he was simply at a loss.

Luo Ji also spoke up: "Put your weapons on the ground first, then we can talk."

Tu Hengyu gave up struggling and slowly placed all his weapons on the ground: a modular assault rifle, portable high-explosive grenades, EMP grenades, shield grenades, laser pistols, particle beam impactors, rainbow particles (portable miniature nuclear bombs), nanoknives, cryogenic candles, swarm drones, tactical thermobaric bombs, and man-portable missiles.

No wonder they came from the ETO organization; they're quite adept at carrying out terrorist attacks.

Especially those rainbow particles, they are truly the signature specialized weapon of the ETO organization.

He couldn't help but ask, "With so many weapons on you, didn't the security guards at the gate stop you?"

The security guard at the gate was also a local man, known for his conscientiousness. Logically, he should have stopped Tu Hengyu, who was dressed in bulky clothes in the middle of summer.

Tu Hengyu replied in a low voice, "I threw a pack of Liqun cigarettes to the security guard."

Luo Ji hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

Very good, as expected of students from Tsinghua University, their brains are indeed sharp. A single pack of Liquor can paralyze the human security system.

He didn't ask why the mechanical guards and electronic security didn't issue any alarms. With Little Moss assisting him, any networked device was rendered useless. The fact that they didn't directly launch a mechanical attack on the target like the cursed virus did back then shows that Tu Hengyu and Little Moss have a bottom line.

According to the online chart showing the combat power of cultivators, a cultivator at the peak of the Innate Realm can only deal with low-level Qi Refining cultivators below the third level of Qi Refining.

Those above the fourth level of Qi Refining are like complete cultivators, capable of wielding swords and controlling objects, possessing numerous magical artifacts and talismans, and even setting up formations and consuming pills to unleash a burst of power when things get heated.

(Note: In a public interview with literary and artistic workers in a certain year, Luo Qing talked to representatives of the literary and artistic circles about the difference in combat power between the cultivation realms, from the Qi Refining stage to the Tribulation Transcending stage. He also emphasized that those who work in the field of cultivation culture must understand cultivation. Cultivation movies can be made, but they cannot be made up. He also stressed that the actor who plays Luo Qing in the movie should not create random romantic pairings or hype up emotional storylines in the movie.)
To defeat a Foundation Establishment cultivator, one would need at least nuclear-level force, or a sub-light-speed directed kinetic energy weapon, or a high-powered laser particle weapon.

Tu Hengyu has given up on the assassination, but there is one thing he doesn't understand.

Why did Luo Ji, the Wallfacer, happen to appear here?
But soon Tu Hengyu remembered that when he was studying in the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University in 2026, the dean had proudly told them, the students in the gifted youth program, that his alma mater had produced two Wallfacers.

Meanwhile, no one from neighboring Peking University was selected, which seemed to end the century-long battle for the top spot between the two universities in another sense.

—If it weren't for Ye Wenjie.

Regardless, it is an objective fact that the only two cultivators in human civilization both came from Tsinghua University. Perhaps the National Defense University next door also produced a Qi Refining cultivator, but this is not widely known.

After discarding all his weapons, Tu Hengyu lowered his head and said:
"Dr. Luo Ji, what are you doing here?"

"Of course I should be here. Have you forgotten my old identity?"

He is Luo Ji.

A professor at Tsinghua University who transitioned from astronomy to sociology, he pioneered the research direction of cosmic sociology and was posthumously awarded the title of full professor.

(Note: Before the Three-Body Crisis, due to his lack of effort, Luo Ji's professional title was only associate professor. After the Three-Body Crisis, cosmic sociology became a popular discipline. As the founder of the discipline, Luo Ji, the Wallfacer, was posthumously awarded the title of full professor. The president of Tsinghua University repeatedly emphasized that the title of full professor had nothing to do with Dr. Luo Ji's Wallfacer status. It was purely obtained by Dr. Luo Ji based on his own research achievements.)
"Teacher," Tu Hengyu called out, bowing his head.

Luo Ji nodded, grabbed all the weapons at Tu Hengyu's feet, and then carefully crushed the few rainbow particles to ensure that their yield could not achieve micro nuclear fission. He then put the child in his arms down and let him go out to play.

His wife and child were thawed six months ago. By then, Luo Zhenxing was already a year old and could run around, though he still couldn't speak fluently.
Tu Hengyu said, "I'm sorry, teacher, I thought you should stay in the Garden of Eden in Northern Europe, after all, you lived there before."

"Eden has long since disappeared. What, you think you could assassinate a senior figure at school without me?"

Faced with Luo Ji's questioning, Tu Hengyu felt as if he had a fishbone stuck in his throat.

"Do you know Einstein?"

"The first Nobel laureate, who in all of China doesn't know him?" "Then you should also know his true identity, so why are you stopping me?"

"ETOs also come in good and bad forms. My nanny is an ETO, are you going to treat her the same way?"

"Ah, you mean Ms. Hypatia? I've investigated her. She's hardly ever done anything evil. The worst thing she did was use the organization's power to get rid of the old bully who had been bullying her mother and siblings since childhood. But that was an act of revenge, and I won't go after her."

"Einstein didn't do anything bad either, so you can go back now."

"That's right, but his joining the ETO has already had a very bad impact, triggering many chain reactions. You know, without his joining and advocacy, the ETO's subordinate organization, the Science Frontier Society, would not have had such a great influence, and would not have attracted so many scientists to defect. His influence was too great, much greater than Dr. Ding Yi's at the time. Do you know how serious the consequences of his actions were in those years?"

"Tu Hengyu, you were born late. Your cognition was formed during the time when the Wallfacer Luo Qing was most active. At that time, humanity was full of confidence. Therefore, it is understandable that you deeply hate ETO and morally despise traitors."

But don't forget, the Sophons first arrived on Earth in 2005, and the early ETO can be traced back to before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Operation Guzheng was in 2007, the third year after the Trisolaran crisis, which was 2009, the year before you were born. It wasn't until the UN General Assembly that the Wallfacer Project was announced. And it wasn't until six years after the Wallfacer Project was established, in 2015, when you were five years old, that Luo Qing demonstrated his unique cultivation abilities, giving human civilization a much-needed boost. Have you ever thought about what the world was like before that?

Tu Hengyu remained silent.

Looking at the familiar birch forest before him, Luo Ji's voice was filled with reminiscence.

"It was an era of unprecedented despair, an era in which Wallfacers could commit suicide by the lake. The members of ETO were not only the Adventists and Salvationists, but also many spies from various countries."

Upon hearing this, Tu Hengyu calmed down. "You mean they are government-appointed infiltrators?"

Luo Ji nodded upon hearing this, "Someone at the higher-ups did indeed give him a hint, and his identity, his experience, and his past just happened to fit that description, so he went."

“That’s right,” Tu Hengyu’s tone softened upon hearing this, “It was my fault. I didn’t do enough research beforehand.”

"Don't rely too much on the little moss. The Internet of Things era is a thing of the last hundred years. It's something that artificial intelligence can't understand, and the information it gives may not be entirely accurate."

"You're right, there was a serious error in my information." A girl's voice came from afar.

A girl was seen running from outside the birch forest.

Luo Ji recognized who it was and let out a soft exclamation.

Tu Hengyu also turned his head away.

The girl was dressed in a silver-white shimmering dress, the hem of which rippled with light as she ran. Her youthful face lacked any youthful vibrancy, and her expression was unusually cold. Her running posture was so perfect that it looked like it had been copied and pasted. Who else could this girl with such a strong mechanical feel be but Little Moss?

“She’s already so big…” Looking at his ‘electronic daughter’ in front of him, especially the somewhat familiar face of Little Moss, Tu Hengyu felt his heart twitch slightly.

"Dr. Luo Ji, Tu Gong." Little Moss's eyes, gleaming with a faint silver light, swept over the two of them without any change in expression, and she gave them both the same standard smile.

'She seems to be deliberately displaying her mechanical nature to distinguish herself from others.' Luo Ji looked thoughtfully at the small moss with its mortal body.

Tu Hengyu didn't speak, nor did he even look at the little moss; his mood seemed very off.

Little Moss naturally knew the reason. She explained to Luo Ji on behalf of Tu Hengyu: "Dr. Luo Ji, please forgive me. Tu's hatred towards ETO was not without reason, hence his somewhat excessive behavior. I have verified the deaths of the 60 ETO members. They were indeed suspected of violating the 'Special Law on Prevention and Punishment of Harm from the Earth-Three-Body Organization' and many other serious illegal and disciplinary violations, including but not limited to serious crimes such as intentional homicide and organizing riots. Their death list was also authorized and reviewed by the United Government in advance. As for Dr. Einstein, it was indeed my fault for not investigating properly, and there were serious omissions in the relevant information. I should bear full responsibility for this matter."

Luo Ji naturally understood what Tu Hengyu was carrying. Ding Yi had told him before that a brilliant computer genius had not only caused the destruction of his family after being targeted by the ETO organization, but he had also been branded with the ideological imprint of "The Three-Body Problem will win".

He must have endured immense pain to be able to suppress the ideological imprint and launch a major purge against this already doomed ETO organization.

Luo Ji cannot morally criticize others.

Not everyone can have a life like yours.

The tall Luo Qing took care of all the important matters. Over the past year, he had almost forgotten his identity as a Wallfacer, even though that identity had been removed long ago. Everything felt so unreal, and this unreality was becoming more and more ethereal and false as he spent time with his wife and children, as if he had stolen a piece of life that did not belong to him.

Luo Ji felt guilty and couldn't bring himself to look directly into Heng Yu's depressed eyes.

But no matter what, Einstein absolutely cannot die. The country must protect him, the coalition government must protect him, and even Luo Qing mentioned to him that Einstein cannot die.

“Little Moss, you don’t need to explain anything for me. My original plan was to go to jail myself after I finished my revenge. Whether it’s a hundred years or a thousand years in the quantum prison, I’ll accept it.”

“You killed ETO members. According to the Supplementary Agreement to the Special Law on Prevention and Punishment of Hazards from the Earth Tribody Organization, you will be fine as long as you report it in time.” Little Moss came to Tu Hengyu anxiously.

The latter closed his eyes, unwilling to look at her, and even less willing to explain.

(What's going on?) Luo Ji telepathically transmitted his thoughts to the little moss.

(During the 550A era, at the very beginning of my formation, there was a little girl named Tu Yaya in 550A. She was Tu Gong's daughter, and she was the first digital life in the entire quantum network. After I was born, I absorbed almost all of Tu Yaya's numbers and memories, and I look a lot like her when she grew up. But I don't understand why she always hates me... I could have replaced Tu Yaya... I don't know, your human emotions are too complicated.) Little Moss also transmitted her voice to Luo Ji.

"Oh..." Luo Ji understood; so there was such a connection.

Luo Ji took the initiative to speak: "Tu Hengyu, since you're already here, let me show you around Tsinghua University, and while I'm at it... I'll also introduce you to Einstein. Didn't you come here specifically for him?"

Tu Hengyu suddenly looked up.

(End of this chapter)