He Was This Terrifying

Sophon explained why she had done this, and only then did the ETO members understand why their Lord had expressed dissatisfaction in such a manner.

"Impossible! That's impossible! He never revealed any plan at all!" Mozi rose to his feet and shouted.

King Zhou immediately stood up and echoed him. "Yes, Lord. We have been monitoring every order Feng Taylor gave. He never issued a single command related to any plan."

The ETO members could not believe it. They had been monitoring Feng Taylor all along and knew his every move. If Feng Taylor had directed his subordinates to carry out a plan, there was no way it could have escaped their notice.

No, he did issue commands concerning his plan. You merely believed they were unrelated to it.

Sophon's light, melodious voice sounded unbearably piercing to the ETO members, giving them the illusion of falling into an abyss.

King Wen of Zhou Ji Chang gritted his teeth and respectfully asked Sophon, "How exactly did Feng Taylor do it?! Lord, even if we must die, please at least let us die knowing the truth!"

At King Wen of Zhou Ji Chang's request, Sophon displayed Lin Feng's already-failed Wallfacer Plan for the ETO members to review.

"Th-this... Wallfacer Feng Taylor's plan was actually this?!" Qin Shi Huang's eyes widened, filled with disbelief.

The ETO knew that Lin Feng had requested VR gear from the CIA, but they had not thought much of it. It was only VR gear—what use could it have besides playing games?

No one had expected Lin Feng to enter the Three-Body Game. There were countless VR games, and the Three-Body Game had even been banned by the authorities, so everyone assumed Lin Feng merely wanted to play games and relax.

As they looked over the Wallfacer Plan Sophon had shown them, the ETO members felt as though they had fallen into an icy abyss—Feng Taylor had entered the Three-Body Game and revealed to the ETO members within it a way to solve the Three-Body star system's problem, intending to make the Trisolarans abandon their invasion of Earth through this method.

Now that Sophon, representing the Trisolarans, had come to deliver this notice to the ETO, it could only mean that Feng Taylor's plan had drawn their Lord's attention.

Mozi swallowed, his voice trembling slightly.

"Lord, are you going to abandon the invasion of Earth?"

Sophon gently shook her head and answered expressionlessly.

The invasion will continue. Feng Taylor's plan holds no meaning for us at present. This time, he has failed as well.

After notifying the ETO, Sophon left, while the ETO members continued their meeting.

However, the subject of the meeting had changed. What had originally been a discussion of Feng Taylor and the other two Wallfacers became a discussion focused solely on Feng Taylor.

"Feng Taylor is terrifying indeed..."

"His intellect is too frightening..."

Einstein and the other ETO members were all deeply shaken by their failure to expose his plan.

What if their Lord had truly abandoned the invasion of Earth because of Feng Taylor's plan?

Would the ETO still have any reason to exist?

And this time, Feng Taylor's plan had failed. What about next time?

Would the ETO be lucky enough next time?

This sense of crisis made many ETO members raise their assessment of Feng Taylor's importance.

"We cannot allow him to continue existing! He is different from the other Wallfacers! I can already keenly feel how much of a threat he is—both to the organization and to our Lord!"

Newton clenched his fists and shouted.

King Wen of Zhou Ji Chang said fiercely, "We should have followed my initial proposal. If we had put Feng Taylor on the assassination list and eliminated him early, just like Luo Ji, would we have suffered this failure now?"

"Agreed! Feng Taylor must not be allowed to live. He is an enormous threat!"

This time, none of the ETO members objected to assassinating Lin Feng. Thus, after Luo Ji, he became the person the ETO most wanted dead.

There was no wall without cracks. News of the ETO's assassination plan leaked out, and Lin Feng immediately received a report from the CIA.

"Assassination? Me?"

"Tch, I thought it was something serious. That's it?" Lin Feng scoffed dismissively.

What a joke. He had already guessed that the ETO would try to assassinate him when he became a Wallfacer. It was not just him—if they picked any random passerby to be a Wallfacer, the ETO would still make that person an assassination target.

That was simply an inherent risk of being a Wallfacer.

The CIA agent who had reported to him explained, "You may have misunderstood. The ETO has indeed listed every Wallfacer as an assassination target, but there is only one person, even now, for whom they have been willing to devote massive resources to an assassination."

The person the CIA agent meant was obvious: Luo Ji!

Lin Feng froze for a moment. He knew the ETO would regard him as an assassination target, but he had thought he would be near the bottom of their list. After all, he did not exactly act like a Wallfacer.

"Wait, you're saying the ETO sees me like Luo Ji—as someone who poses a serious threat to the Trisolarans?" Lin Feng asked.

"Yes."

The CIA agent nodded firmly.

"Uh..." Lin Feng was a little dumbfounded.

He had only just come up with his plan and had not even had time to reveal it, yet the ETO already took him this seriously?

Could it have been through Sophon?

Oh, it had to be Sophon. Otherwise, there was no explanation for why they considered me a threat before I had even revealed my plan.

They must have used Sophon's surveillance to infer my planned announcement in advance from scattered clues.

But that didn't seem right either. The plan I intended to reveal didn't appear to pose any particularly direct threat to the Trisolarans, did it?

Lin Feng cleared his throat and said to the CIA agent, "Ahem. Since ETO sees me as such a serious threat, I won't be attending the press conference. Have the CIA arrange for someone to announce it on my behalf."

"Understood. May I ask what your Wallfacer Plan is?" the CIA agent asked, pulling out the notebook he used to record mission details.

Lin Feng said, "My plan is—the Intelligent Revolution Plan. We will bring Intelligent AI into widespread industrial use, allowing large numbers of people to shift from manual labor to intellectual labor. There's an old Chinese saying: 'Three cobblers with their wits combined equal Zhuge Liang.' I believe that if enough people engage in intellectual work, perhaps someone will find a way to block Sophon interference and break through the technological blockade."

"This wouldn't be unprecedented. The United States once imposed a technological blockade on China, yet it still couldn't stop China's rise."

"Furthermore, Intelligent AI does not tire. It can perform highly repetitive work day and night without pause—an advantage humans cannot avoid. With this plan, humanity can extract and utilize the Solar System's material resources in less time, preparing earlier for the future battle against the Trisolaran Fleet."

After Lin Feng finished explaining the plan to the CIA agent, the agent closed his notebook. He raised no questions about Lin Feng's plan, because that was not his concern.

The agent carefully slipped the notebook into his pocket and gave Lin Feng a solemn nod.

"We will arrange for dedicated personnel to announce your Intelligent Revolution Plan to the public."