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

"impossible."

Ding Yi and Wang Miao rejected the proposal almost simultaneously.

"Mr. Lin Xuan, humanity's technological path has been built step by step, and it's not something we can change just because we want to."

"Yes, and not only that, it has only been a century since von Neumann created binary code to have the technology we have today. Compared to the entire historical development process, the edifice of human physics is as young as a child."

"If we were to overturn all of this and start over, not to mention the chances of success, the price we would pay would be enough to deplete the remaining resources of the Earth for all of humanity."

"Therefore, your proposal is simply impossible to implement. Even if you use your Wallfacer identity to push this project forward, the PDC will not agree to such a crazy move."

Hearing Ding Yi and Wang Miao's back-and-forth opposition to her suggestion, Lin Xuan couldn't help but laugh.

"Who said I was going to do this in the real world?"

Shock level from Ding Yi +5.

Shock level from Wang Miao +5.

"Not in the real world... what do you mean?"

Ding Yi didn't quite understand what Lin Xuan meant, but Wang Miao, who had participated in the Three-Body Problem game, immediately brightened up.

"You mean to create a simulation game similar to the Three-Body Problem game, to simulate the possible future of humanity under different technological development paths?"

The Three-Body Game was a simulation game created by the Three-Body Organization to attract enough ETO members.

His approach essentially involves simulating the environment in which the Trisolarans live, and through repeated simulations, finding ways to overcome the extremely harsh living conditions in the Trisolaran world.

As for the brainwashing of ETO, that is actually a secondary effect. The essence of the Three-Body Problem game is still a simulation experiment.

Lin Xuan, too, wants to learn from the Trisolarans and develop a simulation game to find a solution to the Trisolaran problem by simulating the different outcomes of human development under different technology trees.

"If that's the case, it's worth a try, but there are still many problems."

Wang Miao took a piece of white paper from the table and began to list the possible problems on it.

1. The computing resources required to create such a game are terrifying. We need a supercomputer to ensure that hundreds or even tens of thousands of players can play normally at the same time.

2. In any case, simulation is not reality. What can be done in a game may not be possible in the real world. Even if we do find a solution to the Three-Body Problem in a simulation game, it may not be successful in the real world.

3. The Trisolarans' sophons can also monitor the situation within the game. They can even control the game's progress and direction at will. Perhaps the solution we think we have found is exactly what the Trisolarans want us to find. If the decision is wrong, humanity can destroy itself without even needing the Trisolaran fleet.

Wang Miao's three questions incisively pointed out the flaws in Lin Xuan's design.

Computational simulation, simulation effects, and Three-Body Intervention.

These are the three biggest problems that are almost unavoidable.

Lin Xuan had already come up with a solution.

"Actually, these three problems are quite easy to solve. We only need one technology to solve all three problems at the same time."

Lin Xuan took the pen and wrote a few large characters on Wang Miao's paper.

"AI!"

Shock level from Wang Miao +5.

Shock level from Ding Yi +5.

"You want to develop artificial intelligence? That's impossible. With current human technology, it would take about two hundred years to develop an AI with independent thinking, and that's assuming the Sophons don't interfere. In the remaining time, we would need to determine a development plan, and there simply isn't enough time."

Ding Yi rejected Lin Xuan's proposal once again.

However, Lin Xuan wore a strange smile.

"Who said we needed to research artificial intelligence? Isn't there something ready-made?"

"What do you mean?"

Ding Yi and Wang Miao were both taken aback, not quite understanding what Lin Xuan meant.

"The most crucial aspect of artificial intelligence technology development is self-awareness. Many science fiction works depict artificial intelligence as machines capable of possessing self-awareness and destroying humanity, which I think is quite foolish."

Lin Xuan wrote two words on the paper—"overlap".

"The essence of artificial intelligence is the cumulative effect of learning. It involves performing the same task repeatedly and extensively, like a circuit. The starting point and the target are fixed, but the process is different. Artificial intelligence tries all the possibilities by repeating this end-to-end process again and again, thereby finding the optimal solution for the current to flow."

"Therefore, it will never be able to develop its own consciousness. Even if technology explodes in the future, tools will still just be tools. The Chinese Room Paradox has already confirmed my speculation."

"Since we can't expect machines to develop consciousness, we can use existing things to attach a consciousness to them."

Lin Xuan's smile grew increasingly eerie, and he slowly uttered a sentence that sent chills down the spines of everyone present.

"We provide him with consciousness, human consciousness!"

Shock level from Wang Miao +20.

Shock level from Ding Yi +20.

These two truly deserve to be called the best scientists in the country. Lin Xuan only needed to say one sentence to them to know what this madman in front of them wanted to do.

"With our current computing power, it is still a drop in the ocean compared to the undeveloped parts of the human brain. If there were a machine that could fully utilize the computing power of the human brain to realize the computer calculation process, and deduce the scenarios that people envision in their minds, and finally integrate the calculation results of these brains and feed them back to the brain to complete the overall simulation effect, wouldn't all three questions you raised be solved in this way!"

Lin Xuan's idea was both simple and crazy.

He wants to use humans as computers, completing the entire deduction process in people's minds.

In this way, all three questions raised by Wang Miao were resolved.

If computing power is insufficient, just add more human brains.

Since the simulation effect cannot be shown, it's better to directly achieve the effect of the human brain's dream.

The process will be detected by the sophons; just summarize all the results in the form of a dream.

Lin Xuan is planning to use the brains of all humanity to mine resources for herself!

Of course, the concepts of digital currency and GPU mining don't exist in this era, but such operations are quite dangerous because no one knows whether doing so will cause irreversible damage to the human brain.

"It's certainly a brilliant and insane plan."

After a long silence, Ding Yi finally gave his assessment.

What appears to be artificial intelligence is actually a step towards biotechnology.

"Then, let's give this grand plan a name. How about we call it the 'Super Dream Project'?"

Soon, the three of them drafted a rough project plan and sent it to PDC.

The committee only gave it a brief review before putting the project on the agenda.

PDC acted swiftly. The day after Lin Xuan proposed the "Super Dream Project," a large number of artificial intelligence experts, along with their respective teams, moved into the Red Coast Third Base.

Along with them came three construction teams to assist Lin Xuan in building a super database center to unify the thoughts of all humanity.

As for Ding Yi and Wang Miao, Lin Xuan did not involve them in the [Super Dream Project], but instead assigned them new tasks.

"What the heck, controlled nuclear fusion?"

"What the heck, a space elevator?"

Wang Miao and Ding Yi were both completely dumbfounded when they saw the project task sheet that Lin Xuan assigned to them.

Wang Miao is alright. As an expert in materials engineering, he had actually had the idea of ​​building a space elevator a long time ago. However, due to the Three-Body Organization's obstruction of this technology, his progress over the years has been incredibly slow.

Ding Yi, on the other hand, had absolutely no clue whatsoever.

"No, I can't make this at all. Right now, our technology doesn't even have materials that can operate stably. I don't even know where to start with experiments."

Listening to Ding Yi's complaints, Lin Xuan was speechless.

"Damn it, isn't the controlled nuclear fusion technology in the original story something you came up with? What are you pretending for? All I did was let you create this thing two hundred years ahead of schedule. Is it that hard?"

In the original storyline, Ding Yi achieved a technological breakthrough in controlled nuclear fusion in Crisis Era 37, put the technology into use in Crisis Era 100, and officially implemented it on the space fleet in Crisis Era 138.

If Ding Yi heard what Lin Xuan was thinking, he would probably be so angry he'd curse her out.

Two hundred years? You have the nerve to say that? Two hundred years is a long time, okay? If we turn back time to two hundred years ago, Watt would still be modifying the steam engine.

No matter how much Ding Yi complained, Lin Xuan insisted that Ding Yi should develop controlled nuclear fusion technology. Ding Yi originally wanted to decline, saying that the technology was not advanced enough and that he should go to the cryogenic chamber for a hundred years and come back to see.

As a result, Lin Xuan directly gave Wang Miao and Ding Yi each a cell division drug, successfully extending their lives by more than nine hundred years, enough for them to live until Cheng Xin kills all of humanity.

And so, everyone went about their own business, and after a full month at the Red Coast Third Base, the new Red Coast system was finally completed.

Looking at the huge transmitting antenna above his head, Lin Xuan suddenly wondered what would happen if he were to publish the coordinates of the Trisolaran system now, causing the Dark Forest Strike to arrive hundreds of years earlier.

Of course, this idea was just a thought; he wouldn't dare to gamble. What if what he got wasn't a particle weapon, but a two-dimensional foil?

Earth civilization and the Trisolaran civilization would then truly be the ones to feast together.

After gaining access to the Red Coast System, Lin Xuan couldn't wait to enter the control room and type a message in the direction of the Trisolaran civilization.

"I am Lin Xuan, a Wallfacer, and I hope to establish communication with the Trisolaran world."

This message is the fourth message sent from Earth's civilization to the Trisolaran world, following Ye Wenjie's.

Less than a minute after the news was released, a red beam of light appeared before Lin Xuan's eyes. The beam of light converged in front of him and eventually formed a line of text.

"Please stop this behavior immediately!"

"Tomoko!"

Just as Lin Xuan had guessed, after he sent the fourth message to the Trisolaran civilization, Sophon immediately appeared in front of him.

Lin Xuan probably knew the reason.

Because of the Dark Forest Theory, every communication between Earth and the Trisolaran world is extremely dangerous, as it could potentially reveal Earth's coordinates to other extraterrestrial civilizations.

This is also why Lin Xuan was willing to build the third base on Red Coast.

From the PDC's perspective, Lin Xuan's actions might seem a bit idiotic. After all, if you really wanted to contact the Trisolarans, you could just go to the bathroom and say a few words, and Sophon would be right there beside you watching you. There was no need to go through all that trouble to build the Red Coast Third Base.

But only Lin Xuan knew the significance of this extra step.

The Trisolarans were genuinely afraid of communications from the Red Coast Base.

However, they cannot directly tell humanity why doing so is dangerous, since the Dark Forest Theory would be directly threatened once it is discovered.

This is quite interesting. It can be said that in the few days since the Red Coast Base was built, the commanders at all levels of the Trisolaran world haven't had a good night's sleep, for fear that humans might pull some crazy moves that would kill both worlds.

If the Three-Body world previously disdained to pay attention to Lin Xuan, now, Lin Xuan holds the conditions that force them to take notice.

Since you're ignoring me, I'll keep sending you signals. Who knows, maybe one day these signals will be discovered by other alien civilizations. How exciting would that be?

Soon, Zhizi's words reappeared on Lin Xuan's retina.

"what do you want?"

Lin Xuan pouted.

"The way you're asking this makes it sound like you'd actually give it to me if I told you."

"Everything is negotiable except for technical matters."

Lin Xuan nodded slightly upon seeing the message sent by Zhizi.

"Okay, my request is simple: let me join ETO."

"veto."

"Alright then, it seems that talking to you like this isn't working. I'll just continue chatting with you using the Red Coast System."

"We need to discuss your proposal, please wait a moment."

This time, Tomoko's attitude softened considerably; at least she didn't reject him outright like before.

Meanwhile, in the constellation Centaurus, 4 light-years away from our solar system, the Trisolaran world is holding an unprecedented meeting.

All the important officials of the Trisolaran world were present to discuss the proposal for Wallfacer Lin Xuan to join the ETO.

Because the Trisolarans' thoughts are almost transparent to each other, they don't need to say much. They only need to vote on their resolutions. As for what they are thinking, it will be directly announced in the meeting content and shared with all the Trisolarans.

Military Governor: It would be dangerous to veto the Wallfacers into the ETO, as it could very well expose our information.

Science Administrator: I support the resolution, for the opposite reason: this is our first contact with the Human Wallfacers, and it should be given a try.

Agriculture Commissioner: In favor of the resolution, for the same reasons as above.

Education and Culture Minister: Supports the resolution, for the same reasons as above.

……

With a vote of 9 to 3, 9 out of 12 governors voted in favor of the resolution, and the leader of the Trisolaran world ultimately had no choice but to transmit the information to Earth via sophons based on the voting results.

“Mr. Lin Xuan, you can join ETO, but we need you to fully demonstrate the value you bring to ETO.”