Chapter 120: Awakening_1

In the eighth year of the Crisis Era, dozens of meters underground in a location in Mongolia.

Inside room thirty-nine, a strange person who looked as if they had an exoskeleton lay motionless under a glass dome.

By now the strange person had stopped moving, devoid of any signs of life.

Thirty-six, who already appeared as a teenager, stood in front of the glass dome with a look of regret, "You've held on for so long, must have been tough on you.

"Now it's over, and finally, you don't have to suffer anymore."

With a long sigh, Thirty-six looked up at the ceiling and said, "I should get ready to go out too! It's no good staying detached from the world."

...

Darkness appeared, before which there was not even darkness but only the void.

Jiang Yu faintly heard a sound and struggled to open his eyes, only to find himself unfamiliar with the light, as if he didn't know how to use light to see the world anymore.

After a while, Jiang Yu's vision gradually began to return, and he saw a blurry face.

He heard someone beside him saying, "Mr. Jiang, welcome to the eighth year of the Crisis Era.

"Don't be anxious, it will take some time for your vision to recover.

"This awakening went very smoothly, so you can rest assured and recuperate. We'll arrange for your family to visit you in two days."

Jiang Yu closed his eyes again, feeling every cell in his body exhausted, and he fell into a deep sleep once more.

Upon waking again, Jiang Yu's vision had indeed recovered, but he still couldn't speak and could only stare blankly at the ceiling.

To pass the time, he reviewed plans like the "Greenfield Project," "Moon City Project," and "Black Square" in his head, organizing what to do first after waking up.

Jiang Yu also often visited the "Wallfacer's Shop," where he was surprised to find his Deception Points had accumulated to more than seven hundred thousand!

Although his body was in hibernation, the "Wallfacer's Shop" was still operating, continuing to accumulate Deception Points from various sources.

The price for the "Stealth" item had doubled, now costing forty thousand Deception Points.

The original "Moon Resource Map" had been bought, and now it had been replaced with the "Mars Resource Distribution Map," worth five hundred thousand Deception Points.

Jiang Yu didn't think twice and bought it immediately, deciding to keep it in reserve for later use.

Following that purchase, the next item updated to the "Venus Resource Distribution Map," also valued at five hundred thousand.

This time, Jiang Yu couldn't afford it.

The Moon and Mars resource maps brought great pleasure to Jiang Yu. He enjoyed looking at the Moon's ring mountains and checking the terrain on Mars; for someone from an arts background, all these were quite novel.

When Jiang Yu was finally capable of basic communication, his parents were at last permitted to visit him.

His parents looked a bit older, but their spirits were good. His mother chattered about this and that while feeding Jiang Yu chicken soup she had stewed all morning.

Jiang Yu was still unable to eat solid food, but he could drink soup now.

His father, silent, simply watched as Jiang Yu's spirits slowly improved and smiled sincerely.

That evening, Jiang Yu's parents stayed in the hospital room, planning to care for Jiang Yu for the next few days.

The next day, Jiang Yu had regained the ability to communicate normally, and Jiang Shiliu and Di Fengyi were the first to visit him.

Jiang Shiliu had grown much taller and was already a teenager.

Di Fengyi, however, had put on some weight, having grown noticeably rounder since before Jiang Yu had gone into hibernation.

Having experienced hibernation for the first time, Jiang Yu felt as if only a few days had passed and these two people had changed dramatically.

In the days that followed, Bil, Qi Guanglu, Lu Qingfeng, and others came to see Jiang Yu. Wu Zheng and Bo Xiangdong from the Great Northwest, and Beck from across the ocean, also visited.

They all tacitly avoided talking about work, agreeing to discuss the progress of their plans only after Jiang Yu had fully recovered.

The hibernation awakening system, although fairly mature by now, still required a week of recovery. Afterwards, there would be a period of weakness, but fortunately, there were no lasting side effects.

Yang Dong had also visited, only staying with Jiang Yu for half a day before she had to return. After finishing her current project, she had entered the controlled nuclear fusion group. Controlled nuclear fusion technology was now in a critical stage, and her work was extremely busy.

After a week in the hospital, Jiang Yu's bodily functions finally returned to normal.

On the day of his discharge, Jiang Yu saw the reluctance in his mother's eyes, but he still had his work to do.

Jiang Yu's father was more open-minded. As he left, he patted Jiang Yu's shoulder, telling him to do well in his job.

Jiang Yu didn't dare to look back at his parents again. He just waved to them with his back turned and got into the car.

It wasn't until he saw his parents also get into their car that Jiang Yu wiped the corners of his eyes and said to Di Fengyi, who had put on a bit of weight, "Everyone knows that Wallfacers have supreme power, but who knows how great their responsibilities are!"

Taking the opportunity, Di Fengyi reported, "In the last two years, the voices against the Wallfacer Project have been growing louder. I really don't understand what people are thinking?

"Before, everyone saw the Wallfacers as saviors, now they're calling them power monsters!"

The car started moving, and at Jiang Yu's direction, they first headed to the "Greenery Project" team.

Jiang Yu lamented, "The masses have always been short on patience. In their eyes, it's been five years and the Wallfacers have yet to come up with a plan to defeat the Trisolarans, so of course they're disappointed!"

Then he sighed deeply, "For the Wallfacer Project, the first twenty years were a golden period.

"After twenty years, everyone's sense of urgency will wane, and both Wallfacers and the Wallfacer Project will fall out of favor."

Di Fengyi was somewhat moved, "Should we accelerate our plan, then?"

Jiang Yu waved his hand, "Some arrangements must be completed in the first twenty, no, in the first ten years. Then I will have real power and won't have to worry about being kicked around like a football by them."

Then Jiang Yu asked, "What changes have occurred in the world in these five years?"

Di Fengyi was well-prepared, "The standard of material life worldwide has fallen year by year, and now the standard of living domestically has regressed by at least ten years.

"Because the power of capital has always monopolized the world's energy resources, it has severely affected the PDC's mainstream defense plans. The Western world is striking at the power of capital.

"India and Germany have become permanent members of the PDC, indicating that the international political system formed after World War II has been shattered.

"Although there has been strong opposition to the Wallfacer Project, there is another extreme where a very large part of the world is blindly worshipping the Wallfacers. I hear it's almost becoming a religion.

"Even rumors say that Wallfacers are gods with supernatural powers in human society.

"Among your supporters, similar rumors have also appeared, but they were quickly managed by the cultural companies.

"Another Wallfacer, Tyler, is doing very well with his project; it's said that he has gathered a large amount of macroatoms.

"Limited by current technology, the other two Wallfacers, Rediaz and Heinz, seem to have hit a bottleneck in their projects.

"Wallfacer Logic is still living in seclusion.

"And..."

Di Fengyi looked at Jiang Yu's expression before continuing, "Just recently, the United Nations passed a new bill, claiming to use all technologies to combat the invasion of the Trisolarans.

"They bypassed the previous bill about reviewing the 'Poison Apple Project' documents, changing it from a unanimous voting system to a majority rules system, abolishing the original veto power.

"The Genetic Modification Technology and Brain Implant Technology that you have been trying so hard to prevent have been disclosed to the public."

Di Fengyi thought Jiang Yu would be furious, but Jiang Yu only sneered, "If someone wants to die, I can't stop them."

He thought for a moment and then said, "In this event, ETO is probably behind it by eighty or ninety percent, my contact..."

Di Fengyi reminded him, "Colin Edmund."

At the outset of the Wallfacer Project, Jiang Yu had deliberately avoided PDC's scrutiny, so he had given his contact a nominal position, and now he had even forgotten his name.

Jiang Yu said, "Right, Colin. Tell him to inform PDC to investigate those who pushed this bill. They are bound to find a bunch of ETO members!"

As they spoke, the car had already arrived at the "Greenery Project" team's location.