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

As evening fell, Lin Xuan met the first ETO member in the real world besides Keiko Yamasugi.

He was a rather short Japanese man. His hair looked like it hadn't been styled for many days, sticking messily to his scalp. But his eyes were sharp as a knife. When Lin Xuan met his gaze, she could always sense a subtle hostility emanating from him.

"How should I address you? Planck, Newton, or Einstein, or are you one of Qin Shi Huang's seven men?"

Lin Xuan's interactions with ETO members had always been limited to the Three-Body Problem game; she had never had such close contact with them in the real world.

If it weren't for his outstanding record against the Trisolarans, these ETO members probably wouldn't have dared to meet him in the real world.

“Mr. Lin Xuan, you can call me Zero. We met once eighteen years ago.”

"Eighteen years ago?"

Lin Xuan was taken aback.

"That was when I had just become a Wallfacer."

But I hadn't seen this guy before... Wait!

Lin Xuan suddenly realized who this guy was.

The sniper who tried to assassinate him and Luo Ji back then!

"You're actually still alive?"

What truly shocked Lin Xuan was this. He had originally thought that this guy had been killed in ETO's operation long ago. After all, so many years had passed, and ETO had undergone more than one major overhaul. Anyone who had survived to this day was a veteran within the organization, right?

"Yes, the assassination attempt on you was a miscalculation. Our primary target at the time was Dr. Luo Ji."

"But I don't know how our assassin was exposed, that you were able to spot him from a distance of one building. It's truly baffling."

Zero's face showed a questioning look, but Lin Xuan obviously didn't want to explain this to him any further and said it directly.

"You're here to verify the thought imprint, right? Where's the rest of you?"

"The others won't come for now, so I'll be the first test subject. We need to verify that you haven't tampered with the thought imprint before letting others try."

"You're not sincere at all. I trusted you so much," Lin Xuan said, somewhat speechless.

"No, no, Mr. Lin Xuan, please forgive my rudeness. It's not that we lack sincerity towards you and the Lord, but rather that you are so adept at deceiving others that we have to be extremely cautious in our dealings with you."

Lin Xuan ignored him and led him to the thought printing machine.

There wasn't just one thought stamping machine; apart from Lin Xuan's, the other few were all in the hands of Hines.

In order to restrict the clones' thoughts, Lin Xuan applied to the PDC for a thought imprinting machine, but only Hines himself probably knows how many thought imprinting devices he has.

"You should know the operating procedures, right? You've been monitoring me with Zhizi every day, you should have learned them by now." Lin Xuan picked up her phone and ordered a milk tea, deciding to watch Zero complete the operation while waiting for the delivery.

Would you like a drink?

"Need not."

Zero skillfully turned on the machine, put the consciousness extraction device on his head, and pressed the start switch on the control panel.

Just as Lin Xuan said, they were monitoring her every move with the Zhizi at all times. They could see the entire process of Lin Xuan creating this machine, not to mention how she used it.

Lin Xuan's thought stamping machine is portable and uses a consciousness extractor as a medium. This is why Qin Shi Huang asked Lin Xuan to give the thought stamping machine directly to them and let their own people be responsible for the stamping process.

Hines' original idea stamping machine could have been made into this portable version, but he refused.

He said that the imprinting of thoughts is a sacred ritual and should not be taken lightly.

He wanted to set up a permanent place for those Space Force members who voluntarily acquired faith, and to have their names engraved on a bulletin board as code names, to acknowledge their outstanding contributions to the war between humanity and the Trisolarans.

If Lin Xuan hadn't known that this guy's real plan was to change a positive or negative sign in the code of the thought imprint, turning "humanity will win" into a false proposition and instilling escapist ideology in all the space forces, Lin Xuan would have actually believed this guy's nonsense.

Soon, the thought printing machine started working.

"Are you sure you want to acquire a belief in this proposition? If so, press the button; if not, leave the scanning area."

In my ears, I heard the emotionless, mechanical synthesized voice of the thought stamping machine.

This machine was intended for clones, so Lin Xuan didn't process the voice much. The voice prompts on Hines's thought imprint machines were softer; they were synthesized using Keiko Yamasugi's voice AI.

According to Hines, Keiko Yamasugi was a gentle person, and her voice naturally carried that gentle quality, which made those who received the ideological imprint less resistant.

Zero didn't care about any of that; he carefully examined the proposition on the screen in front of him.

[Loyal to the orders of the Trisolaran world, and unable to travel under the moonlight].

The proposition was exactly the same as the result of Lin Xuan's previous discussion in the Three-Body world, and this time Lin Xuan did not do much to it.

As for the conceptual stamp used for verification in the latter half, ETO also had internal discussions on it.

The question is whether the "moonlight" in the proposition refers to moonlight in a narrow sense or in a broad sense.

In a broader sense, the moon itself does not emit light; it is not a star and reflects light from the sun.

If that's the case, they'll be branded with this ideological imprint, and perhaps they won't even be able to go out during the day.

However, Lin Xuan directly used clones to verify the results for them, and the effect of this proposition only applied to Moonlight.

It's easy to see that Hines' previous experiment, which showed that water is poisonous, already proved this conclusion.

Even victim number 104... no, the subject knew he had water in his body, but he didn't feel fear; he was simply afraid of the self-aware concept of "water."

Therefore, this proposition is safe for everyone.

The implantation of the thought imprint was very fast. Zero had only pressed the switch when he felt a warm current in his head, and the implantation of the thought imprint was completed.

Similarly, Lin Xuan's machine is for clones, so it doesn't require the complicated three-step confirmation process; you can just press the button to start.

"how do you feel?"

Lin Xuan walked in from outside, carrying a cup of milk tea in her hand.

"I haven't felt any major changes," Zero said frankly.

"You shouldn't feel anything. The implantation of the thought imprint is done silently, without even you noticing."

Lin Xuan handed the consciousness extractor to the other party.

"Tell Qin Shi Huang that I will give him three days. After three days, all ETO personnel must be imprinted with the thought imprint. At that time, I will personally go to verify the effect of the thought imprint."

"How do we verify it?" Zero asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Don't worry about that, I have my own verification method."

Zero quickly returned to ETO headquarters with the thought stamping machine and conveyed Lin Xuan's message to the seven people behind Qin Shihuang.

"It seems that Lin Xuan is truly on our side."

One of the seven said.

"We still have to be careful of this guy. He's very cunning and always manages to bite you at a crucial moment."

"Indeed, we should quickly get everyone in the organization imprinted with their ideology so we can go into the Dream World and see what kind of trouble this guy is causing there."

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Three days later, Keiko Yamasugi, who had been hibernating for a long time, finally woke up.

The first thing she did when she woke up was to check the time.

Upon realizing that so much time had passed, she immediately began trying to contact the ETO.

However, something strange happened.

No matter how Keiko Yamasugi tried to contact the members of ETO, no one answered.

She began to realize that something was wrong and quickly asked the staff next to her for a newspaper.

When she saw the headline in the newspaper, she almost went into hibernation again.

"Shocking! The Fifth Wallfacer has once again achieved a remarkable feat, unilaterally announcing that the Trisolaran organization ETO, which has been established for over a century, has been completely wiped out. The veracity of this news remains to be verified, but neither the ETO nor the Sophons have responded!"

"Shock level from Keiko Yamasugi +999!"

I woke up to find that ETO was dead.

Keiko Yamasugi was stunned for a long time, unable to believe this fact!

"Lin...Xuan!"

Keiko Yamasugi almost gritted her teeth as she uttered the name. Although she didn't know what had happened, she knew without a doubt that it was all related to Lin Xuan!

"Hey, are you awake?"

Just then, a familiar voice rang in Keiko Yamasugi's ears. When Keiko Yamasugi turned her head, she saw Lin Xuan looking at her with amusement.

"You slept for a long time. ETO is already dead, and you're only just waking up."

"If you don't lie back down and sleep some more, the Trisolarans might be dead by the time you wake up next time."

"Lin Xuan, what exactly did you do?"

Keiko Yamasugi has completely torn off the gentle facade on her face, revealing the madness unique to the Adventists.

Lin Xuan smiled and tossed a file folder to Yamasugi Keiko.

"Look, I've already helped you break through the wall in Hines' Wallfacer Project. But I think the final breakthrough should be done by you personally to make it feel more ceremonial."

When Keiko Yamasugi heard this, she felt as if she had been struck by lightning.

"You've also broken through the barrier in Hines's plan?"

She quickly opened the file folder and dumped out all the documents inside.

"Enhancing human intelligence... Analyzing cameras... Thought imprints... The minus sign hidden in the code... The absolute loser!"

Keiko Yamasugi felt her brain go blank, unsure whether she was shocked by Hines's plan or astonished that Lin Xuan had broken through the barrier before her.

She even discovered that Lin Xuan had prepared a speech for her!

"It's all written down, just read it aloud."