Starting as a Wallfacer, his defection to the Three-Body Problem shocked the world.

Crisis Era 26, 2033 AD.

"Note that this is a press release from New York City Hall. During yesterday's food distribution, a total of 160 people died. After verification by the city defense forces, all of these deaths were caused by a stampede."

"Please maintain order during the food distribution process, obey the arrangements of the city defense forces, and queue in an orderly manner to receive the food. We assure you that the supplies will be distributed to every citizen. Please rest assured that the city hall will protect the human rights and freedoms of each of you."

Industrial pollution of the Earth's environment is gradually increasing, farmland is being abandoned, cities are in chaos, and people's happiness is about to plummet to rock bottom.

Over the past three years, unemployment rates in various countries have been rising steadily year by year, forcing governments to take tougher measures against the lower classes in order to control the rise in crime rates.

The Will of the Nation: Hamburg.

This is the most important seaport in the Kingdom of Will, and the entire country's import and export trade depends on this city.

Today, at the harbor market, 13 people dressed as merchants were bound hand and foot by customs officers and escorted to a high platform, where they were made to kneel in a row.

Below the stage, a crowd of onlookers, some of whom were harbor vendors and others were local residents, gathered around the stage, eager for a good show.

"Sir, sir, I know I was wrong. Please forgive me this time. My child was just born. I just wanted to earn more money to buy him milk powder. I really... I really deserve to die!"

The vendors on the stage were wailing, but the customs officers simply ignored them.

After a long while, an officer began to announce the crimes of the 13 people to the crowd.

"According to the Constitution of the Republic of Germany: During wartime, no merchant may raise prices; those who disobey will be hanged for treason."

After he finished reading, the 13 people were escorted one by one by the customs troops to the gallows for execution.

Although the scene was brutal, the audience did not feel fear; on the contrary, some even applauded and cheered in celebration.

But everyone knows that in this era of economic collapse, even if this group of price-gouging vendors is killed, there will still be another group.

The root of the problem lies in the supply falling short of demand, which has led to the proliferation of these parasites.

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"Tsk, looks like it's going to rain today. Zhang Xiang, don't forget to bring in the clothes that are drying outside later," Lin Xuan said, looking at the overcast sky.

"understood."

"Don't just talk the talk, walk the walk. If it really rains, all those clothes will have to be washed again."

Since the Crisis Era, humanity's destruction of the natural environment has never stopped. The thick smoke emitted by numerous factories has stained the once blue sky with a layer of dust, as if we have entered the modern era.

Luo Congmin had seen what the blue sky looked like when she was a child, but now she can't see it at all.

Especially in the last two years, we can't hang our clothes outside on the balcony after washing them, otherwise they'll be covered in dust when we bring them back.

That's still relatively mild; the worst part is when it rains.

The rainwater turned black when it hit the ground, which shows the extent of air pollution.

Crops simply cannot be grown, and many farmlands have been abandoned. Only a small number of families have the ability to set up greenhouses to grow some vegetables, but these vegetables are just a drop in the bucket compared to the supply and demand gap of the world's population.

If it weren't for the batch of wheat seeds that Lin Xuan had provided earlier, which allowed Principal Liu to perform reverse engineering, there would probably be cannibalism by now.

"Dr. Ding Yi, when are you going to develop your cold fusion technology? Look at the state of the environment. If this continues, we might starve to death before the Trisolarans even arrive."

Upon hearing this, Ding Yi immediately became annoyed.

"Cold nucleus, cold nucleus, do I look like a cold nucleus? You think cold fusion is like farming? You dig a hole, bury some soil, count them, and it just grows out by itself?"

Cold fusion technology is an upgraded version of nuclear fusion technology, referring to nuclear fusion reactions that occur under near-normal temperature and pressure conditions and with relatively simple equipment.

But the physics community has always considered this a hoax.

The reason is simple: this thing seems to defy the common sense of physics no matter how you look at it.

As we all know, nuclear fusion technology requires an environment of ultra-high temperature and ultra-high pressure, which means that sufficient "external" energy must first be provided to the fusion material in order to "trigger" the fusion reaction.

Cold fusion contradicts existing thermonuclear fusion reaction conditions and products, both in terms of reaction conditions and products.

To put it simply, you want something to burn, but you also want it to obey you. These two things are inherently contradictory.

Yes, that's right, I'm talking about cold nuclear fusion.

However, if this technology can be realized, it means that nuclear fusion reactors will be miniaturized and simplified.

In the future, there may actually be cars powered by nuclear fusion, computers powered by nuclear fusion, and even nuclear fusion batteries.

Lin Xuan pouted.

"Keep it up, Dr. Ding Yi. Before you started working on nuclear fusion, weren't you also unsure of yourself? Keep trying. People are often driven to their limits by pressure."

"You do it if you want, I can't do it anyway."

As Ding Yi spoke, he picked up a white chess piece and placed it on the chessboard.

Although Ding Yi is not yet sixty years old, he has recently become fascinated with chess, a sport for the elderly.

Sometimes when Luo Congmin finished his work, he would come to him to play Gomoku for a while, since Go was too complicated and Luo Congmin really couldn't understand it.

"Old Ding, I recently learned a 'underpants formation' online. It's both offensive and defensive, practically invincible. Let me show you."

As Luo Congmin spoke, he placed a piece on the chessboard.

Ding Yi glanced at her and knew what the girl was up to, then placed a piece next to her.

Luo Congmin was stunned, and her hand, which was about to make a move, froze in mid-air.

"No, you can't get off here. I want to set up my underwear formation here."

Ding Yi: ? ? ?

Since Zhizi announced the location of the sixth thought stamping machine three years ago, PDC has been intensifying its investigation of the stamping group.

After all, no one can guarantee that there won't be a seventh or eighth stamping machine.

Although Lin Xuan has already proven to PDC that the imprint of the thought imprint can be completely removed using the Super Dream database.

The principle is to first upload the person's consciousness to the database, then delete all memory fragments of the person after receiving the thought imprint, and then re-download this consciousness into the person's body.

The principle is roughly the same as that of computer antivirus software.

Most programmers, or people who know a little about computers, never install antivirus software on their computers, since some antivirus software is itself a virus.

Therefore, if their computers get infected, they will choose to use the computer's built-in settings to revert to the state before the Trojan virus infection, just like the machines in internet cafes.

Therefore, the idea of ​​imprinting thoughts is considered a kind of computer virus, which only requires reverting the memory of the human brain. However, the PDC did not adopt Lin Xuan's plan. They insisted on using their own methods to investigate the imprinted members of the Space Force.

Later, Lin Xuan finally understood that these guys didn't actually want to deal with the Steel Seal Clan; they just wanted an excuse to get rid of the people they hated in the Space Force.