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

The public opinion has been getting increasingly skewed in recent days, with a large amount of negative news about PDC starting to spread online.

These news stories are all very similar, mostly about the PDC's brutality during law enforcement. They are not released by official media, but are widely circulated among the public as rumors.

Whenever you come across news related to PDC, if you open the comments section, you'll always find comments like, "[V me for 1r, and I'll show you some exciting PDC videos]".

If these videos were free, their reach might not be that great. But asking people to pay 1 yuan to post a video would pique people's curiosity. Then, the people who buy these videos would want to make their money back and post the same comments again in the comment section.

When people clicked on the purchased videos, they were all shocked by the content.

Some videos show PDC officials having a group meal when everyone else is starving, with lavish dishes of fish and meat on the table, a stark contrast to the half-eaten buns in the hands of ordinary people.

Other videos show PDC officials deliberately treating ordinary people as immortals and maliciously collecting taxes in order to meet performance targets.

Even worse, some videos show chemical plants deliberately dumping nuclear waste into rivers to quickly produce rare gases to replenish the Space Force's supplies, causing people to panic about whether the water is safe to drink.

PDC takes this matter very seriously, on the one hand blocking the dissemination of these videos, and on the other hand strictly investigating the source of these videos.

After much investigation, it was discovered that the earliest publishers of these videos were all unsuspecting individuals scattered around the world.

Some had their accounts stolen while playing games at internet cafes, while others sold their verified accounts after seeing online sales links.

In short, these people all have one thing in common: they were completely unaware of the videos they posted.

This was later confirmed by big data analysis, which showed that the videos posted by their accounts were taken at locations far removed from their actual locations.

The most outrageous case involved a video uploader who was actually in Guizhou province, but the video was filmed in the United States. When the PDC and the police found him, he was farming. Moreover, due to recent financial difficulties, the base station in his village had been out of service for several days, making it impossible to even make a phone call, let alone go to the United States to film a video.

PDC gradually realized the seriousness of the matter, which was likely the work of a transnational organization.

Their first thought was ETO, since although the organization had been wiped out twice by Shi Qiang and Lin Xuan, it wasn't impossible for it to rise again.

However, this conjecture was quickly refuted. If ETOs were to rise again in the current environment, they would need at least a massive influx of funds to sustain their operations.

The current financial system has collapsed to the point of collapse, and for ETO to restructure, it must have relatively stable economic conditions.

Helpless, PDC had no choice but to both refute the rumors and increase the banning of these videos. But the tricky thing about these videos is that they all depict real problems, but they are presented in a way that takes things out of context and blends them together with other videos.

For example, the video of PDC officials having dinner together did indeed happen, but not recently; it happened many years ago.

The publisher intentionally mixed this video with recent events to create the illusion that PDC specialists are living lavishly every day.

In reality, these specialists eat about the same as ordinary people. Especially in the current environment, those who can truly wield power are the middle and senior managers of the PDC.

But this is the second killer move. People never hate those who are much better than themselves; on the contrary, they tend to hate those who are not much different from themselves.

Just like when you hear that a 14-year-old student has been admitted to Tsinghua University without taking the entrance exam, you would only feel envious. But if your childhood best friend suddenly worked hard in the college entrance exam and got into a university, while you ended up in a junior college, you would probably want to kill him.

Similarly, it would be worse for the lower-level staff of PDC to be doing well than to be killed.

Why is it that we all come from the same background, but you're doing so much better than me just because you became a specialist?

Public anger was ignited almost instantly, and there was a constant outcry against the entire PDC.

New unions, primarily composed of unemployed workers, have emerged in EU countries, strongly demanding that the PDC reduce tax burdens on the government.

The situation continued to escalate, and around the fourth day, the online outcry against PDC reached a new climax. At this point, the tone of the comments section changed again.

"Everyone, think about it. How did the PDC deal with the immortals before? Those immortals were once pillars of the nation, and they were treated that way by the PDC. Will they treat us in the same way one day?"

"If I stand idly by today, and disaster befalls me in the future, then no one will speak up for me."

"We demand a clear explanation from the PDC: do you genuinely hate the immortals, or do you intend to use our power to eliminate dissidents?"

"I just checked, and none of the rotating chairpersons of the PDC are immortals. Enough said, those who know, know."

PDC's top executives were speechless after hearing these online comments.

Damn it, you were the ones who said the immortals should be executed back then, and now you're the ones saying they're the pillars of the nation. I'm truly speechless at you bunch of idiots.

By now, even a fool can see that someone has launched a propaganda war against the entire PDC, attempting to cripple its public support in this way.

But this is what PDC finds most incomprehensible.

Although countries have often used propaganda wars to antagonize each other, the PDC represents the will of all humanity.

Who exactly is using this method to attack their own people?

The first thing that comes to everyone's mind is the United States, since this is indeed in line with their style. However, the representatives of the United States swear that they really did not do it this time.

Left with no other option, the PDC had to first try to appease the anger of the grassroots population before thoroughly investigating the veracity of the events depicted in the video.

But people were clearly not buying it. Many knew that there was something fishy going on in this matter, so they never needed any explanation from the PDC. They just wanted to vent their dissatisfaction with the PDC over the past few years through this incident.

After all, if they hadn't insisted on building three major fleets, life wouldn't be so hard now.

As for the Trisolaran crisis four hundred years from now, what does it have to do with them? They are not immortal, and they can't afford to buy the right to hibernate.

I'll live one day at a time. As for the future, my children and grandchildren will have their own lives to live. If I don't have children and grandchildren, I'll enjoy my own happiness.

Looking at the recent chaos, Lin Xuan couldn't help but feel a sense of感慨 (gǎnkǎi, mixed feelings).

Fortunately, he didn't establish a deterrent at the beginning; otherwise, if he had become the Swordholder, he would have ended up like PDC sooner or later.

People won't thank Luo Ji, nor will they thank PDC, and they certainly won't thank themselves.

Anyone can take the position of swordsman, but he certainly won't. After all, it's a position that seems like a great injustice to him.

All I wanted was to live comfortably in this Three-Body world. As for being a hero, I'd leave that to Luo Ji.