This Is Part of the Plan

"Do you really know what you're doing? It's not too late to regret this."

"I know exactly what I'm doing, Dad."

"I'll handle everything. Trust me."

"Fine. I won't interfere in your affairs from now on."

Lin Feng ended the call with his father and walked into the conference room. Before him sat elites from all sectors of the United States and other Western countries, including quite a few oligarchs who held monopolies in certain fields.

Lin Feng walked to the seat at the head of the table and sat down, perfectly composed.

"Sorry to keep you all waiting."

He received no response. Everyone merely watched him coldly, and quite a few of them looked at Lin Feng with a trace of contempt.

Lin Feng was not surprised by the frosty reception. Who here was not an elite in some field? Who was not a powerful figure who commanded respect? Who was Lin Feng supposed to be?

These people might have respected his father, Taylor, but that did not mean they would respect him. The West was unlike the East, where the notion of "like father, like son" held sway. Fathers and sons were judged separately.

Not to mention that after the Wallbreaker incident and Taylor's failure, Lin Feng had naturally been branded a "failure" as well, even though he had taken over.

Your father was more capable than you and still couldn't pull it off. What could you, some nobody who still needed to use his father's connections just to make money, possibly accomplish?

Lin Feng could more or less guess what they were thinking. He did not fly into a rage. Instead, his gaze swept across everyone in the conference room as he cleared his throat.

"Ahem. Let me say a few brief words. First of all, now that I've become a Wallfacer, I'd like to thank the nation, thank the people who believed in me... blah, blah, blah..."

After nearly an hour of nonsense, someone finally could not sit still any longer.

"Sorry, Mr. Taylor, but let me interrupt."

"There's no need to go on and on about meaningless pleasantries. We did not gather here to hear your thoughts on becoming a Wallfacer."

"We gathered here to save humanity and find a way to fight the Trisolarans."

Lin Feng shrugged, his expression stiff as the corners of his mouth curled upward slightly.

He was holding back laughter. Honestly, every time Lin Feng heard someone say the words "save humanity" in person, he thought it sounded absurd. He always felt as though he were cosplaying some hero tokusatsu show from an island nation with a bunch of people.

Everyone present was an elite, so naturally they understood what Lin Feng's expression meant. Their displeasure immediately deepened.

Damn it! All Humanity was at stake, and this nobody who had appeared out of nowhere had been tossed into the position of Wallfacer by that deserter Taylor, yet he could still laugh!

Even those who had still hoped that Taylor's son might truly be talented were now completely disappointed.

Unlike Lin Feng, they had never read The Three-Body Problem. They did not know that Luo Ji could resolve the Dark Forest Crisis. Facing the incomparably powerful Trisolarans, these human elites felt only a suffocating pressure. The omnipresent surveillance of the Sophons constantly made them feel as if someone were watching them.

"Mr. Taylor, if you are incapable of serving as a Wallfacer, then hand the position over to someone else!"

"Everyone here has valuable time. Trisolaris's fleet is drawing closer to Earth every second. We don't have time to play house with you."

The speaker was a soldier. The rank insignia on his uniform told Lin Feng that he was a Major General.

"Oh... then who should I hand it to? You?"

Lin Feng looked at the Major General with amusement, still wearing that half-smiling expression. The mockery was absolutely overflowing. If this had been among street thugs, it would have been an invitation to get beaten senseless.

Still, he was a powerful military bigshot. Though furious, the Major General was not about to start punching people like some hooligan. He merely snorted coldly and looked at Lin Feng with disdain.

"Anyone would be better than you. You simply do not have the ability!"

"Your father at least served as the United States Secretary of Defense. He possessed advanced strategic thinking and far-sighted strategic vision, and he even provided the theoretical basis for the United States' global counterterrorism strategy. What do you have?"

Lin Feng nodded and asked with a smile, "Mm-hm, what you said makes a lot of sense."

"Excellent. Is there anyone from the CIA here? Take this Major General away. I am one hundred percent certain that he is a member of the ETO."

The Major General's expression instantly froze. Seeing that no one around him reacted, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

But Lin Feng's next sentence sent his heart soaring again.

"Looks like there's no one from the CIA here. Then I'll have to make the call myself..."

The moment Lin Feng pulled out his phone, the Major General could no longer sit still.

"Wait! You can't do this!"

"Whether I do it or not is my freedom. This is a free country."

Without further nonsense, Lin Feng dialed the number. The instant the call connected, he roared.

"What the hell is the CIA doing? ETO members have infiltrated my team! He's in the conference room right now, and my personal safety is under serious threat!"

"Get here within one minute! The ETO is planning to assassinate me to prevent the Wallfacer Plan from being carried out!"

Lin Feng's outburst turned the Major General's face livid. Beside himself with rage, he pointed at Lin Feng.

"How can you do this? How can you slander someone without any evidence?"

"Why can't I?"

Lin Feng looked at him strangely and asked as if it were only natural.

"Do you, and everyone else here, have some kind of misunderstanding about what a Wallfacer is? This is part of the plan."

"I..."

The Major General wanted to argue further, but after holding it in for a long time, he could not think of any way to refute Lin Feng. Wallfacers were supposed to act in bizarre and irrational ways. They had to, because they needed to confuse and deceive the Trisolaran World.

So for this newly appointed Wallfacer, stripping the Major General of his position and throwing him into prison was nothing more than a single sentence. There was no room for negotiation.

Because this was part of the plan!

One minute passed quickly. Before long, armed CIA agents arrived and swiftly took away the Major General whom Lin Feng had made an example of to warn the others.

Just as before, Lin Feng calmly swept his gaze across the room.

This time, these human elites did not even dare meet his eyes. They sat in deathly silence.

"Don't be so nervous."

"Why was my father Wallbroken? Because information leaked."

"Why did it leak? Naturally, because ETO members are mixed in among us."

"But... I think there may be more."

"I hope the ETO members will kindly get the hell out on their own. I guarantee I won't have anyone arrest you."

With those words, Lin Feng instantly blocked those who had wanted to storm out in indignation.

Leaving now would be tantamount to slapping an ETO label on themselves.

Whether they truly were ETO members or not, no one would choose to leave at this moment.

"Looks like no one is leaving. Then I'll choose to believe that none of you are ETO members."

"Actually, when it comes to plans, I do have one..."

Damn it! If you had a plan, why didn't you say so earlier?

The human elites present cursed inwardly, completely unaware that they had just been looking down on someone else moments ago.

"In my view, all you elites, along with my father... hmm, to put it vividly, are a bunch of idiots."

Watching the disgruntled expressions of everyone present, Lin Feng continued, "Don't get upset just yet. This isn't contempt. It's simply my honest impression."