Is This Your Plan?

The antimatter particles deflected back collided with the Sun's ordinary matter, and the annihilation of matter and antimatter released electrically neutral gamma rays.

Gamma rays carried no charge and were unaffected by electric fields, so naturally they would not be deflected by the Solar Satellites, much less return to the Sun. As a result, the Sun would lose mass.

All they needed was to build enough Solar Satellites to envelop the Sun. After that, it was simply a matter of waiting.

"What about heat buildup? How would you handle cooling?"

"That's easy. The Solar Satellites could use liquid hydrogen coolant to lower their temperature. The used liquid hydrogen coolant could then cool through thermal radiation. The efficiency would be low, but that could be compensated for with quantity. The hydrogen needed for the liquid hydrogen coolant could all be harvested from the solar wind."

"This would take far too long. One of the suns might swallow the planet before it's finished."

Liang Gong did not think highly of the solution Lin Feng had proposed. The timescale was too great, the project far too massive, and the three stars were constantly moving.

"There's no need to completely consume the mass of one sun. The purpose of consuming solar mass is merely to disrupt the current chaotic state of the three-body system. Once one sun becomes lighter than the other two, it will be flung away."

"As for materials, they can be collected from the solar wind. The Solar Satellites would serve as both deflectors for antimatter particles and material collectors. The dust released by three suns should be three times that of the Solar System, at the very least..."

As long as the balance was broken, the problem of the Three Suns would naturally be resolved.

If the three-body problem could not be solved, then turn it into a two-body problem! The two-body problem was easy to solve!

As Lin Feng carefully reviewed the plan he had laid out, searching for any loopholes, he noticed Liang Gong staring at him blankly.

"Why aren't you saying anything?"

"I'm thinking, Passerby A, what exactly is your brain made of?" Liang Gong murmured.

Lin Feng's expression changed. Covering his head, he replied firmly.

"Impossible! Don't even think about it! Even if this is only a game, I'd never let you crack open my skull! That would traumatize me for life!"

"What kind of thing is that to say? Do I look like someone who worships violence?"

The Hanfu Girl was both annoyed and amused. She waved her little fist and glared at Lin Feng with wide almond eyes.

"Not just look like it. You definitely are."

Lin Feng pointed at Liang Gong's raised fist, wearing an expression that said, See? I was right.

"You... you... I'm not talking to you anymore! Hmph!"

Puffing out her cheeks, Liang Gong angrily turned her head away.

Not long afterward, Lin Feng had to leave the Three-Body Game again because of something in the real world.

As they were about to part, Liang Gong suddenly asked a question.

"Passerby A, what if your method doesn't work? What should we do then?"

The eyes were the windows to the soul. Lin Feng could tell that Liang Gong was asking this with complete sincerity.

Thinking of her identity as a member of ETO, Lin Feng smiled faintly.

"Doesn't work? Then we'll think of another one."

"After all, there are always more solutions than difficulties."

After Lin Feng vanished, Liang Gong looked at the empty platform atop the pyramid and murmured to herself with a complicated expression.

"Feng Taylor, is this your plan?"

Three light-years from the Solar System, Alpha Centauri, the Trisolaran Homeworld.

"So... you brought us the plan he proposed?"

"Yes. This is the plan proposed by Wallfacer Feng Taylor. He hopes that by solving the problem with our suns, the fleet will abandon its invasion of the Solar System."

After The Leader read through the plan Lin Feng had described to Liang Gong in the Three-Body Game for solving the problem of the Three Suns, it casually tossed the report aside.

"The problem between us and humanity does not lie there. Feng Taylor's plan has no meaning. He has failed."

"You are against war, and you like Earthlings as well. But when putting your beliefs into practice, I hope you do not forget the compatriots beside you."

The Leader looked calmly at its subordinate. Its words were like sharp blades, making the subordinate who had delivered the report tremble.

"I understand."

After returning to her post, Liang Gong continued monitoring Earthlings through Sophon.

"We can clearly communicate faster than light, yet the chain of suspicion between civilizations still cannot be broken."

Trisolarans had no privacy. Their thoughts were expressed directly. A colleague beside Liang Gong learned what she was thinking and rejected it.

"It is not that it cannot be broken. It is that no one has the courage to break it. If it fails, it means the entire race will be reduced to ashes. No one can bear such a price."

Hearing that, Liang Gong felt even more sorrowful.

"You're right. In this universe, love is a luxury. Sigh..."

That sigh was filled with bitterness and helplessness.

"What is it? Can't you see I was playing a game?"

Having left the Three-Body Game, Lin Feng asked the maid beside him with some dissatisfaction.

Being dragged out of a game world felt like being kicked out halfway through using the bathroom.

It was awful, leaving him with a deeply irritated feeling.

"Didn't you say you were working earlier?"

The maid froze, immediately confused. She had assumed Lin Feng was carrying out Wallfacer work. Who would have thought he was playing a game?

Lin Feng also realized he had let something slip. He gave a dry cough and shot back with feigned annoyance.

"Is playing games incompatible with work? Can't playing games be part of the plan? Do you know you interrupted my work? Are you that eager to defect to ETO?"

"Uh... I'm very sorry for disturbing your work. But this was your previous instruction. You said that if anything concerning the other Wallfacers happened, no matter what it was, I had to inform you."

The maid hurriedly explained. She had known about ETO when she first came here to work.

Lin Feng thought it over. There had indeed been such a thing, except he had said it to the CIA at the time. Then he remembered that this maid had been found with the CIA's help and understood.

"Mm, that did happen. What's wrong with the other Wallfacers?"

"Manuel Radiiaz and Bill Shiens want to see you," the maid said.

"Were they exposed by ETO and couldn't take it?"

Hearing that two Wallfacers wanted to see him, Lin Feng immediately thought of the scene in the original work where Taylor wanted to meet Luo Ji.

No way, were they coming here to kill themselves?

The thought instantly made Lin Feng feel terrible.

The maid hurriedly waved her hands in explanation. "No, they haven't been exposed. They simply want to see you."

"They're just coming over to see me?" Lin Feng asked.

"Yes."

The maid nodded.

"It's not urgent?"

"Yes."

The maid nodded again.

"Then it's fine. Tell them to wait until tomorrow. I'm not free today."

Lin Feng let out a sigh of relief and flopped back onto the sofa in boredom.

"Huh?"

The maid was a little dumbfounded. They were Wallfacers of the same rank—was he really just refusing to see them like that?

"What do you mean, 'huh'? This is part of the plan."