(ω) The Earthlings and ETO Lose Their Minds at the Same Time
It wasn't until the following afternoon, a full day and night after a certain physics PhD named Ding Yi had taken the principles and design blueprints for the neutron disruptor back from Annie, that Annie's log briefing was finally updated on ETO's so-called "Wallbreaker" website, in the Wallfacer progress section. ETO did it reluctantly and awkwardly, and the update immediately set off a global storm of comments and heated discussion.
After all, that troublesome little girl Wallfacer, who spent every day eating, drinking, having fun, catching birds, fishing, and chasing pigs and leopards, had finally done something useful. The netizens of the world were genuinely relieved, and instinctively felt that their supervision and "advice" had worked.
Of course!
Positive comments were few and far between. Apart from the positive replies and comments at first, a storm stirred up by conspiracy theorists—especially after their self-important analysis—soon led many people to grow suspicious.
After all, Annie was just an eight-year-old girl, yet she had suddenly produced a "neutron disruptor," something many cutting-edge physics researchers and scientists had never even heard of, and didn't know what it was. If there was nothing suspicious about that, then they really were treating everyone on Earth like fools.
Some people did comment that Annie might merely be a front put forward by the PDC, and that behind her there was probably some powerful, professional secret research department.
But that theory was quickly shot down, because everyone on Earth knew that no secret department could remain hidden under the sophons' surveillance. It didn't make sense, nor did it conform to common sense. So the idea that some department or team was behind Annie quickly fell apart.
And so!
With deliberate and accidental nudges alike, angry