So This Is Your Plan!

"Is that all you wanted to say to me?"

Lin Feng went straight to the point. He did not want to waste time on any other topic. He had come here today to kill both body and soul, using the Wallbreaker Operation to strike back at ETO.

"My apologies, Mr. Taylor. Next, I will reveal your Wallfacer Plan to the world."

"Oh? Then go ahead and tell me."

Lin Feng smiled and spread his hands, signaling for him to hurry up.

A Wallfacer Plan? Give me a break!

He had not even been wallfacing. Where would any Wallfacer Plan come from?

The protagonist of the original story could solve the problem. Did he need to exhaust himself wallfacing? No!

He had never considered any Wallfacer Plan from the very beginning, and now someone was actually trying to wallbreak him?

He wanted to see what ETO's Wallbreaker could use to break a "wall" that had never existed in the first place!

ETO! You had chosen an opponent you could never defeat!

"Very well, Mr. Taylor."

Although Lin Feng's reaction differed from what he had expected and struck him as strange, Von Neumann did not dwell on it. His previous success at wallbreaking had filled him with confidence.

If he could defeat Frederick Taylor, then he could naturally defeat his son as well!

After organizing his thoughts, Wallbreaker Von Neumann began to speak. The clamor of the surrounding onlookers gradually died down, and everyone's eyes turned toward the Wallfacer and the Wallbreaker.

"First, allow me to briefly summarize the strategic plan you announced to the public—using the inefficient energy dissipation properties of Macro Electron to store the electricity humanity has collected over several centuries, then using it to support humanity's future fleet in defeating the enemy."

"May I ask whether I have correctly stated your strategic intent?"

Lin Feng looked at the Wallbreaker with some pity. "Surely this is not what you intend to reveal? The plan I publicly announced in the news, the one everyone already knows? Is ETO's information network really that outdated?"

"No. Allow me to say no. This is not your true strategic intent. It is a disguise."

Huh? What did that mean? How could I not know my own thoughts?

Lin Feng found it both irritating and amusing, and he pressed him mockingly.

"Oh? Then what is my true strategic intent?"

"Survival."

Wallbreaker Von Neumann answered with certainty.

Survival? Survival of what?

The answer left Lin Feng somewhat bewildered.

The confusion made Lin Feng's original mockery fade. This change made Von Neumann believe that his wallbreaking had begun to bear fruit, that he was tearing away the Wallfacer's disguise.

"Like your father, your intentions are far too obvious. No, you are even more eager for quick success than he was."

"What first made me doubt your strategic intent was the fact that, after becoming a Wallfacer, you could not wait to announce your plan..."

"What is wrong with that? If I did not announce my plan, was I supposed to complete such an enormous project all by myself?" Lin Feng retorted.

Von Neumann shook his head. "No. What I mean is that there was no need for you to make your plan public so early. There was no need to rush something like this. Your actions were practically an urgent cry, trying to tell everyone—trust me, trust that the plan I have announced is my true strategic intent."

Lin Feng fell silent. The Wallbreaker was not wrong. The press conference he had organized back then had indeed been driven by that very thought.

He urgently needed everyone to know about his plan.

Since he held the position, he had to show some results. If Lin Feng openly loafed around like Luo Ji and did nothing, the United Nations would come for him within a few years and force him to work by special means.

For example, they could restrain him with the chains of family. If he refused to work, he would never see his wife and children again.

Otherwise, with Luo Ji's personality, how could he have possibly gone wallfacing, much less eventually become the Swordholder?

Lin Feng believed the United Nations had more than one way to force people into submission.

He did not want to end up in that situation. Therefore, no matter what, he at least needed a plan on the surface—a plan that seemed capable of defeating the Trisolaran Fleet.

Only then would the United Nations allow him to slack off.

Lin Feng's silence strengthened Von Neumann's resolve to wallbreak him. He believed that Lin Feng's heart had already been badly ravaged, because his "true" Wallfacer Plan was being revealed.

Von Neumann continued, "After realizing that the plan you had announced was not your true strategic intent, I began to wonder—what exactly was your real strategic intent?"

"I know all of your movements and every order you have issued. Aside from the sham plan laid out in plain sight, you seem to have taken an interest only in Fusion Reactors."

"To put it another way, you have an excessively intense enthusiasm for 'energy.' That made me suspicious."

Lin Feng said irritably, "What does any of that have to do with the 'survival' you mentioned earlier? My plan was always to stockpile an enormous amount of energy, then use that massive amount accumulated over centuries to help humanity in the future defeat the incoming Trisolarans."

Von Neumann nodded as if it were only natural.

"Yes, such enthusiasm is perfectly reasonable. It aligns with the strategic intent you have displayed. For a time, I thought the same way and did not focus on it."

"One could say that I nearly let you deceive me..."

"...You wrapped up your true strategic plan, disguised it as a strategic plan that appeared fake, then openly placed it on the table and told everyone that this was your real strategic intent. Am I right, Mr. Taylor?"

What the hell?

You said my plan was fake earlier, and now you are saying it is real?

Are you deliberately screwing with me?

"I do not understand what you mean."

This time, Lin Feng genuinely had no idea what this Wallbreaker was trying to say.

"There is no use denying it. That is simply the truth. As the Chinese say, 'the darkest place is under the lamp.'"

Deny what? I don't even know what the hell you're talking about! Lin Feng silently complained.

"Then tell me. What is my real plan?"

Von Neumann smiled confidently. "Your plan requires a vast amount of energy, as well as Macro Electron. But that energy is not meant to help humanity's future fleet destroy the enemy. It is meant to destroy the entire Earth, humanity included!"

Lin Feng's pupils contracted sharply, his shock plain for all to see. The onlookers in Washington Square were equally stunned.

"My God! The Wallfacer wants to destroy us?!"

"Is that true?!"

"What? He wants to kill every one of us! Everything on Earth too?!"

"That is impossible! Why would he do that?"

Von Neumann pressed his advantage. He was going to completely expose Feng Taylor's "true" Wallfacer Plan!

"From the very beginning, you never intended to confront the Trisolaran Fleet that would arrive centuries later head-on. Your plan was to detonate the Ball Lightning stored across the globe at the right moment, releasing their vast reserves of energy and turning the entire Earth—human civilization itself—into quantum ghosts!"