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

To be honest, even though Lin Xuan is now standing in the conference hall of the Three-Body game, some members of ETO still feel that this is somewhat magical.

Who are they? The Trisolaran Organization, known as traitors to humanity, whose ultimate goal is to destroy humanity in the Trisolaran world.

As a result, Lin Xuan, who is a Wallfacer, now looks more like an ETO than they do.

Is this reasonable?

This is unreasonable!

The contrast was as unbelievable as Shi Qiang obtaining a PhD from Imperial College London. Of course, everyone's reaction also provided Lin Xuan with a lot of shock.

The clamor from the audience grew louder and louder, with people from different eras whispering among themselves.

Finally, Qin Shi Huang on the platform slammed his long sword into the ground, producing a loud metallic clang, which abruptly silenced the discussions.

“Mr. Lin Xuan, it is an honor to meet you. This is the first time we have had such a close interaction with a Wallfacer.”

Qin Shi Huang tried his best to make his tone sound more amicable. After all, the two sides had not yet reached an agreement. In order to avoid some unnecessary trouble, he treated Lin Xuan with the same tone he would use to treat a guest. He believed that the other party would not be too hostile towards him.

But Qin Shi Huang was wrong; Lin Xuan didn't buy into his act at all.

"Let's skip the small talk; it's ridiculous to force conversation."

The words that Qin Shi Huang was about to say were successfully swallowed back by Lin Xuan. He remained silent for a moment before speaking again.

“Mr. Lin Xuan, we have invited you here for two purposes. First, we want to resolve some misunderstandings. The unpleasant things that happened in London last time were purely an accident.”

"Accident?"

Lin Xuan almost laughed out of anger at Qin Shi Huang's words.

"A terrorist attack, a bomb blowing up a car. There were at least 30 ETO assassins with guns pointed at my head on the streets of London. And now you're telling me it was an accident? Ying Zheng, did you learn your shamelessness from the representatives of the US?"

Upon hearing this, Qin Shi Huang simply smiled.

"That was merely Aristotle's personal action, unrelated to the ETO's resolution, and certainly not a command issued by the Lord."

Lin Xuan glanced around and realized that Yamashita Keiko was not present today. She wondered if this was Qin Shihuang's intention or if the woman had other things to do.

"She and Hines went to New York. The PDC is now very strict in its resource allocation and management of Wallfacers. Hines needs to apply to the PDC for a batch of equipment for the next experiment."

Qin Shi Huang seemed to know what Lin Xuan wanted to ask, and directly answered Lin Xuan's guess.

“Alright, since we can’t confront each other face to face, let’s put this issue aside for now. I’ll treat this as her problem alone. Let’s move on to the second point.”

“We want you to be the next leader of ETO.”

Lin Xuan was stunned. He thought he had misheard. He looked up and met Qin Shi Huang's gaze on the high platform.

"what?"

“We want you to succeed as the third leader of ETO. This is a resolution passed at a previous plenary meeting of our organization. ETO is in a very dangerous situation now. Once PDC has the time, they will definitely carry out a purge against us. At that time, ETO will cease to exist.”

Upon hearing this, Lin Xuan couldn't help but let out a cold laugh.

"Aren't you backed by the Trisolarans? How come, with something like the Sophon that can monitor the entire world simultaneously, you're still worried about being purged?"

Qin Shi Huang shook his head slightly.

"The Lord does not understand the value of ETO's existence, and it already has the idea of ​​abandoning us."

These words immediately sparked another round of discussion among the audience.

Judging from their reactions, even the members of ETO knew very little about this matter. If Qin Shi Huang hadn't brought it up, they might still be in the dark.

Is the Lord going to abandon us again?

"We've done so much for them, and they still want to abandon us? That's not fair!"

Anger spread through the crowd, but it was quickly suppressed by Qin Shi Huang.

"Although the Great Lord has learned some deception techniques from us, his mind is still as immature as that of a child. He cannot understand our value. Without ETO, the Wallfacer Project would have been quite successful."

"So, you're planning to use me, a Wallfacer, to stop the Wallfacer Project?"

Lin Xuan finally couldn't hold back his laughter and burst out laughing. This was definitely the funniest joke he had ever heard.

Sending a Wallfacer to stop the Wallfacer Project is like Kennedy riding in a convertible—utterly out of the blue.

“But you’ve done a very good job so far, haven’t you? First it was the Wallfacer Taylor, and then it was Hines. You always manage to guess the Wallfacers’ plans before we do. Just based on that, you’re more suitable than any of us to be the leader of ETO.”

"But I refuse."

Lin Xuan interrupted Qin Shi Huang's incessant chatter.

"First of all, I will not take sides with either of you. At most, we can only have a cooperative relationship. I hope you understand that. Secondly, don't think I don't know what you want to do. You are planning to use my Wallfacer identity to preserve this organization and even legitimize it."

"You're not inviting me to become the leader of ETO, you're trying to give all the brothers here a position. I will never do something that doesn't benefit me."

"We can offer you certain benefits," Qin Shi Huang said.

"Forget it, you can keep your little things for yourselves to play with. I don't care."

Ultimately, the two sides failed to reach an agreement and the meeting ended on bad terms. However, Lin Xuan did not leave empty-handed. In addition to a lot of shock points, he also learned an important piece of information.

The Three-Body world has decided to abandon ETO.

Why is this?

The original storyline did not explain the reason in detail. ETO was destroyed around the year 100 of the Crisis Era. In the year 205 of the Crisis Era, after completing the breaking of the wall of Hines, the last member of ETO committed seppuku on the stone table in the quiet room of the former United Nations site out of guilt towards ETO.

But now Lin Xuan roughly knows the reason.

Just as Luo Ji deduced the Dark Forest Law, Lin Xuan only needed to list all the recent events and then eliminate them one by one to find out the reason for the change in the Three-Body world's attitude towards ETO.

First, we can rule out ETO's own role as the cause, because even without ETO, it would eventually be abandoned by the Trisolaran world. Therefore, neither the premature controlled nuclear fusion technology nor the space elevator project is the fundamental reason.

Further down the line, at this point, Luo Ji is still dating Zhuang Yan, Radiaz is still bickering with PDC, and Hines is still busy with his neuroscience research.

The Wallfacers don't seem to be making much progress.

After eliminating these distractors, the true result becomes clear!

Yun Tianming!

To be precise, it's a tiered plan.

Because Sophon's surveillance of humanity is absolute, no information or plan can escape Sophon's eyes.

Therefore, the Staircase Project must have been known to the Trisolarans.

Thinking about it this way, it's easy to understand. Compared to understanding human thought through ETO, it seems that a living person is more worthy of their in-depth study. The value of ETO has been completely squeezed out.

As expected of the man who played the MVP role in the third book of The Three-Body Problem, he has almost destroyed the Three-Body Organization before the Stairway Project has even started.

Perhaps Qin Shi Huang had half a sentence left unsaid at that time.

By making himself the leader of ETO, Qin Shi Huang could simultaneously persuade both the Trisolaran world and the PDC to abandon their pursuit of ETO. As the second leader of ETO, Qin Shi Huang possessed a strong sense of crisis.

This is also the real reason why he sought to meet Lin Xuan. The so-called "master" not understanding the value of ETO is just a pretext. Everything he did was for two words: to save his life!