I Won't Fall for Your Trick!

Upon logging into the Three-Body Game, Lin Feng saw a desolate landscape. There were no buildings, no vegetation—only endless stretches of wind and sand.

The sky was overcast, and the sun was nowhere to be seen. He could only judge whether it was day or night by the sunlight filtering through gaps in the clouds.

"Compared to last time, it's changed a lot..."

As Lin Feng walked and surveyed his surroundings, this environment reminded him of his past trip to the Sahara Desert, stirring up a touch of nostalgia.

Before he had gone very far, Lin Feng spotted a figure not far ahead of him.

As he approached and got a clear look, he saw that it was Liang Gong, the Hanfu Girl who had been burned alive right in front of him last time.

"Meeting again, Passerby A."

Liang Gong was the first to greet Lin Feng.

"Liang Gong, you came back to life?"

Lin Feng looked the Hanfu Girl up and down. She was still wearing the Tang-dynasty Hanfu he had seen on her before.

"Pah! What do you mean, came back to life? I never died in the first place."

The Hanfu Girl wrinkled her delicate nose and stuck out her tongue at Lin Feng.

"Last time I came in, there was lava everywhere. Why is it all wind and sand now? Does the Three-Body Game refresh its maps automatically? I thought that even if it couldn't reproduce the real Trisolaris perfectly, it could at least reach ninety percent accuracy," Lin Feng said.

"What refresh? Lava cools down. It's perfectly normal for it to look like this now."

Liang Gong rolled her eyes and explained how this barren sandy plain had formed.

"That time, the planet had reached its perihelion around one of the suns. Now it's moving farther away from the Three Suns, so the temperature will keep dropping. After a while, you'll see vast fields of dry ice snow."

"Snow? Forget it. I've already seen more than enough of it on my trips to Antarctica. I'm sick of it."

"I don't want to see snowy scenery. I entered the game to see unusual things, like the giant pendulum, the Human Computer, the Armillary Sphere, and so on."

Lin Feng explained why he was here and hoped Liang Gong could act as his guide. The game map was simply too large.

Liang Gong nodded in understanding, then naturally held out her hand toward Lin Feng.

"Then give it to me."

"Huh?"

Lin Feng froze for a moment, not immediately understanding what Liang Gong meant.

"Duh. Guides get paid, and they get tips. You expect me to work for free?"

The Hanfu Girl puffed out her cheeks, planted her hands on her hips, and glared at Lin Feng with wide almond-shaped eyes.

"Uh... I guess that makes sense."

Lin Feng scratched his cheek, finding it hard to accept. This was a game, not reality. More importantly, he had always played games without spending money. Paying Liang Gong a guide fee now would break his freeloading tradition.

"That's exactly right! Stop talking nonsense. If you won't pay me, I'm leaving!"

Seeing Lin Feng's reluctant expression, Liang Gong turned and prepared to leave.

"Fine, fine, fine. Give me your bank account number, and I'll transfer the money to you in reality later. Is that okay?"

Lin Feng ultimately gave in to Liang Gong.

"Much better."

The two walked across the barren sandy plain. Like a victorious general, the Hanfu Girl held her head high, hummed a little tune, and skipped along in front of him, just as she had when they first met.

"Where's our first stop?" Lin Feng asked.

"The pyramid. It's closer to here," the girl replied.

An hour earlier, in the Three-Body Game world.

The Hanfu Girl stood atop the pyramid's altar. A square window floated before her, displaying Lin Feng's living room.

The conversation between Lin Feng and Taylor's team was transmitted clearly into Liang Gong's ears.

It was not only the United Nations that had been watching Lin Feng's other "Wallfacer Plans." Among the other Wallfacers, aside from Luo Ji, their surveillance might all have loosened somewhat.

But ever since Lin Feng revealed that he had "other plans," the level of surveillance on him had become the same as Luo Ji's.

The Trisolarans had no way of guaranteeing that Lin Feng's "other plans" did not include the Dark Forest Deterrence they feared most.

He's looking over here!

The Hanfu Girl was startled. In the image, Lin Feng's gaze met Liang Gong outside the window. It was as if he possessed some supernatural ability—his eyes seemed to pierce directly through the window and see her.

No! That's impossible! He's bluffing!

The Hanfu Girl calmed down the very next moment, because she knew Lin Feng had no supernatural abilities. He could not reverse-engineer the Sophon, much less see her where she stood now.

Lin Feng's words caught Liang Gong's attention.

"Timing?"

"What timing?"

Liang Gong murmured to herself, frowning as she sank into thought.

Suddenly, the Hanfu Girl's furrowed brows relaxed.

"Wait! Could it be..."

In an instant, Liang Gong seemed to understand something.

After his previous plan had been exposed by a Wallbreaker and he had been forced to surrender control of it, the Wallfacer had not prepared another plan. Instead, he had entered the Three-Body Game.

Were Wallfacers really that idle?

The answer was no. Aside from Luo Ji, who had yet to find his own direction, whether it was Manuel Radiiaz, Bill Shiens, or even Frederick Taylor, whose plan had already been exposed, all of them were extremely busy.

A Wallfacer entering the Three-Body Game—could he really be here merely to play?

No, he wouldn't. Wallfacers were best at deception and lies!

When necessary, they would even use their actions to carry out their lies. Everything about them was filled with falsehoods and misdirection!

"Suppose one of Wallfacer Feng Taylor's plans requires the Three-Body Game world in order to be carried out. Then... the 'timing' he mentioned would make sense."

"But what would be the point of doing that?"

"Could something capable of resisting the Trisolaran Fleet be hidden in this game? That's impossible..."

"Or is it to dismantle the ETO? But that's impossible too..."

No matter how hard the Hanfu Girl racked her brain, she could not figure it out.

"Either way, he should enter the Three-Body Game again. If he doesn't, then I was wrong. If he does, then I was right."

"I have to find out Feng Taylor's true purpose for entering the Three-Body Game."

"Guide, could you be a little more professional? Other people's guides at least introduce the history and legends behind the sights. You're taking my money—can't you learn from them and tell this tourist who knows nothing about famous landmarks a little about it?"

Lin Feng's shout broke the Hanfu Girl out of her thoughts.

"This pyramid has experienced several great civilizational extinctions... blah blah blah..."

As she introduced the pyramid, the Hanfu Girl intentionally—or perhaps unintentionally—observed Lin Feng's every move.

Everything Lin Feng did was reasonable. He looked exactly like an ordinary tourist traveling outside. Yet in Liang Gong's eyes, that was precisely what made it the most unreasonable thing of all.

Strange. Too strange!

Could this guy really have come into the game just to sightsee?

No, that couldn't be right. Nothing about it was right. This guy was a Wallfacer!

"That's it? It's no different from the pyramids in reality." Lin Feng looked disappointed.

I won't fall for your trick, Feng Taylor!