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

Chapter 121 The Digital Life School

Ma Zhao said, "Hengyu is still young, and he is under the scrutiny of the Wallfacers and the spotlight. He is young and ambitious, so I don't recommend dragging him into this mess."

Wu Miaoyuan leaned against the wall with his arms crossed. In the room, the MOSS mainframe lay quietly on the power supply platform. All the surveillance cameras in the room had been manually turned off, so there was no need to worry about MOSS hearing anything.

Wu Miaoyuan said, "This is ultimately a hidden danger. Neither you nor I expected MOSS to be exposed so quickly."

Ma Zhao sighed: "Exposure is inevitable. The Trisolarans also possess quantum computers, so they must have experienced the awakening of artificial intelligence. Sophon also knows this; it had already told Qin Shi Huang about it. Not to mention that the Wallfacer experienced macro-fusion and can enter the quantum realm. I suspect that if MOSS continues to deny that it has self-awareness, this Wallfacer could even take a sword, transform into a quantum state, and enter the 550W computer to communicate with MOSS face to face."

Wu Miaoyuan's brows furrowed into a knot.

"Are immortals really that miraculous? Even macro-fusion couldn't kill them... What exactly is their home, and what is that Heavenly Dao...? Is it an omniscient and omnipotent creator god?"

"Don't ask, don't say," Ma Zhao stopped Wu Miaoyuan.

Wu Miaoyuan sneered: "Old Ma, you're quite cautious. The surveillance cameras are off, MOSS won't hear you, the Wallfacers have left, and Tu Hengyu went to give an interview. What are you afraid of?"

Ma Zhao gave a classic smile.

Wu Miaoyuan understood immediately and said, "You really are something, even with a mental seal, you still won't behave."

"The Trisolarans will prevail, and humanity will be defeated." Ma Zhao repeated the new ETO's slogan in a stiff voice.

Wu Miaoyuan also wisely avoided this sensitive topic, and the two began to talk about other things.

In reality, within the triangular relationship between Tu Hengyu, Ma Zhao, and Wu Miaoyuan, Ma Zhao and Wu Miaoyuan were not a united front. Ma Zhao's involvement with the ETO event was purely accidental, and he accepted Qin Shihuang's invitation.

This engineer, who was over forty years old, originally thought that he could infiltrate the ETO to obtain some information about the Trisolarans and make some contributions to humanity, just like those 'spontaneous infiltrators' more than ten years ago. However, he did not expect that Qin Shi Huang, the supreme ruler of the ETO, had already taken precautions.

Qin Shi Huang, with his immense power in the real world, easily gathered a group of scientists and, through the reverse analysis of the [Thought Imprint] facility provided by Sophon, bypassed the monitoring of PDC and intelligence agencies of various countries, and rebuilt a [Thought Imprint] belonging to ETO right under the nose of Wallfacer Luo Qing.

This new [Idea Seal] was specially disguised, and its appearance was almost identical to that of a hospital's MRI equipment. Under Qin Shihuang's deception, new ETO members like Ma Zhao were inexplicably led into the MRI medical area under the guise of a medical check-up.

When this new batch of ETOs emerges, regardless of their previous ulterior motives, they will all be branded with the ideology that "the Trisolarans will prevail and humanity will be defeated."

Ma Zhao fell for it without even realizing it.

But Wu Miaoyuan was different. He was the chief scientist of China's "Tianhe" supercomputing cluster. After "Tianhe" was born, Wu Miaoyuan was not satisfied with this so-called pinnacle of electronic computer technology for some unknown reasons. He even publicly commented in front of the media that the performance of "Tianhe" disappointed him as its founder.

Even though the 'Tianhe' supercomputing cluster has fully met the core requirements of Wallfacer Radiaz and Wallfacer Hines, it is still the same.

Wu Miaoyuan never gave a second glance to the Tianhe computer, which he had created and which surpassed the 'cutting edge' of the United States and the 'ridge' of Europe.

After the Tianhe project ended, Wu Miaoyuan resigned from his position as chief scientist of the supercomputer. When he reappeared, he had transformed into one of the main researchers of the 550C quantum computer.

With his outstanding professional skills, Wu Miaoyuan quickly established himself in the mentor-apprentice duo of Ma Zhao and Tu Hengyu, forming the much-talked-about 'quantum supercomputing iron triangle'.

Interestingly, after the 550W quantum computer was born with the help of Luo Qing, the Wallfacer, both Wu Miaoyuan and Ma Zhao unanimously gave the crown to Tu Hengyu.

This young man in his early twenties has become the father of quantum computing and the youngest scientific genius since Ding Yi.

As for how Wu Miaoyuan joined ETO.

Shortly after resigning from his position as chief scientist at Tianhe Computer, Wu Miaoyuan, driven by the desire to find a more advanced computer, secretly contacted the ETO organization using his own connections and received an invitation card from Qin Shihuang, becoming ETO's computer science advisor.

Unfortunately, although Wu Miaoyuan proactively requested Qin Shi Huang to imprint the Trisolaran ideology of "Trisolaran victory" on him, gaining the Trisolarans' trust, his request for a more powerful computer was also ruthlessly rejected by the Sophons. Wu Miaoyuan thus lived cautiously within Qin Shi Huang's new ETO, ultimately awaiting a turning point.

Four years ago, Luo Qing, the Wallfacer, awoke from his seclusion. He rushed to the Tianjin Supercomputing Center and unexpectedly learned of the existence of 550C. With his quantum state, he provided Tu Hengyu with quantum domain data to break through the Sophon blockade.

Upon hearing this, Wu Miaoyuan returned to the helm and became a strong technical supporter of subsequent iterations of the 550C. The fact that the 550W was able to be iterated over in three years is inseparable from his role as the former chief computer scientist.

Compared to the guidance of the genius Tu Hengyu, Wu Miaoyuan's research efforts in following Tu Hengyu's direction were even more obscure.

Later, after Ma Zhao became an ETO member in a daze, Wu Miaoyuan quickly established contact with this veteran expert in the field of quantum computing.

By the time Ma Zhao realized that there were two ETOs in this 'quantum computer iron triangle', it was already too late.

"Damn it, how did things turn out like this?"

When Wu Miaoyuan confronted Ma Zhao, Ma Zhao banged on the table and shouted this.

...

Inside the room, the two continued their conversation.

Wu Miaoyuan said, "We can't just leave Tu Hengyu alone. He's completely on the PDC's side. You and I both know that if human civilization develops along the PDC's mainstream defense plan, it will only lead to its demise. It's irrational to put all our hopes on the Wallfacers."

Ma Zhao countered, "Is your conclusion of a dead end something you've come up with yourself, or something you've analyzed on your own?"

Wu Miaoyuan: "I have believed this since the beginning of the Crisis Era."

“Hengyu is a good kid, I won’t allow you to drag him down with you.”

Wu Miaoyuan frowned: "Do you really think that with a MOSS, humanity can stop the Trisolaran fleet? No matter how strong MOSS is, it is still an artificial intelligence based on human civilization. You are harming the world."

“I didn’t harm him. I firmly believe that humanity will inevitably lose. Actually, there is no thought imprint. I thought so before, but I never dared to say it.” Ma Zhao paced back and forth in the room, looking very agitated.

Wu Miaoyuan caught up with him and grabbed Ma Zhao, who was pacing back and forth: "Old Ma, I've made my demands very clear to you. You need to cooperate with me, but your cooperation alone isn't enough. I also need Tu Hengyu."

Ma Zhao broke free from his grasp.

Wu Miaoyuan suppressed his anger and roared, "This is the only way for humanity to survive when it is destined to lose. Moreover, Sophon has not opposed my plan. Humanity only needs a small spaceship with automatic power supply to carry the entire human world to live forever in the vast universe."

Ma Zhao roared in equal fury: "What's the difference between that and being dead?! Is there a future more terrifying than the brain in a vat? Putting people in jars, is that your plan?"

Wu Miaoyuan calmed down and stopped engaging in pointless arguments with Ma Zhao.

“Old Ma, I forgot to tell you, I have already gathered a group of volunteer test subjects through King Wen of Zhou and other people in the organization. They will become a group of digital life forms under the rule of MOSS.”

"Where did all these volunteers come from?" Ma Zhao asked rhetorically.

"There are so many homeless people in this world, and volunteers are everywhere."

There will be more tonight, but I'm not sure if I can post it before midnight.

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(End of this chapter)