When the people in the office saw Jiang Yu, they were first somewhat excited, then they became wary.
Because the current situation had far surpassed everyone's expectations, everyone wondered if they had been influenced by Paradise?
Jiang Yu spread his arms and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the humans of the future have deterred the enemy for us, and now the enemy has retreated!"
Everyone found it increasingly incredible, "The humans of the future?"
"Yes, the humans of the future!" Jiang Yu said with a smile, "But this news can't be made public just yet. We will only announce that it was the Dark Forest Law that drove the enemy away!"
It was only then that people began to clap and cheer, the crisis had truly been resolved!
After everyone cheered for a while, Jiang Yu stretched out his hand and pressed down, and everyone immediately quietened down.
Jiang Yu said, "Now is not the time for celebration, begin the post-crisis work immediately!
"Tally the casualties, and restore social order as soon as possible.
"Also, the New Continent Star System has been exposed, we must make our way to a new planetary system quickly.
"Such migration may not escape the watchdogs of Paradise's creators, but we still must do it, and we need to go further, to try our best to get out of their surveillance!
"Finally, we need to select a batch of Wallfacer candidates soon!"
Everyone started bustling about without asking why.
Jiang Yu slowly sat down at his own seat, a wave of fatigue sweeping over. He wanted another cigarette but found that there were none left in the metal cigarette case.
Jiang Yu smiled helplessly, leisurely putting the cigarette case away. The feeling of surviving a catastrophe wasn't actually all that marvelous.
It was then that Number Three passed a cigarette to Jiang Yu, and then lit it for him.
Jiang Yu took a drag, "Why do I always feel like this isn't over yet?"
Number Three said, "Perhaps you are worried that in the years to come, we will have to face pressure from the creators of Paradise. A slight misstep, and this deterrence could become unbalanced."
Then he asked, "Why are you in such a hurry to select Wallfacer candidates?"
Ten years ago, Jiang Yu had planned on training the next generation of Wallfacers, but since Jiang Yu had started working again, the matter hadn't come up again.
Now that Jiang Yu suddenly brought this up, Number Three suspected that Jiang Yu must have paid a huge price in this deterrence, making him unable to continue as a Wallfacer.
Jiang Yu explained, "In my life to come, like Teacher Logic back in the day at the deterrence center, I must deter the enemy at all times, without the slightest slack.
"So, I won't have much energy to do the work of a Wallfacer anymore."
Number Three nodded, accepting the sacrifice, "I will arrange it as soon as possible."
Jiang Yu looked at everyone busy at work and revealed a relieved smile.
No matter the cost, he was willing to do it for humanity's survival.
Number Three also went to do his own work, leaving Jiang Yu alone in the conference room, sitting there quietly. But as long as he sat there, everyone felt very settled in their hearts.
Just then, a buzzing sound reverberated in Jiang Yu's mind, and the interface of the "Wallfacer's Shop" suddenly appeared before his eyes involuntarily.
Jiang Yu was slightly stunned, then his consciousness immediately entered the "shop."
The intelligence Q&A column flashed, and Jiang Yu seemed to realize something. He hurriedly clicked on it, and then a baritone voice said:
"Hello Wallfacer Jiang Yu, I'm glad to have the chance to speak with you."
Only a voice could be heard, but no image, and this voice wasn't the one from JK15 before.
Jiang Yu asked, "You are…"
The other party said, "My name is Liu Siqi, and you should have guessed it. I come from the future. 'Wallfacer's Shop' has always been under my maintenance."
Jiang Yu laughed, "No wonder my deterrence worked so well. It turns out the future really can project power into the present!"
"No, no, no, this time is an exception," Liu Siqi explained. "This time is the only time I will contact you, and also the last time I will contact you.
"The role of 'Wallfacer's Shop' ends here, but we will continue to protect your consciousness in the future."
Is this the end?
Jiang Yu said, "Indeed, the problems with Paradise weren't resolved just because of the deterrent I established."
"Yes, some incidents did occur after the deterrent was put in place, but they have been completely resolved now," Liu Siqi said. "Just now, we eradicated the creators of Paradise."
Jiang Yu couldn't hide his surprise, "Is it really exterminated just like that?"
"Yes, although the power we dispatched was limited, the enemy at that time was quite easy to handle. You won't have to worry about the pressure from Soulreapers anymore, oh, in the future we refer to the creators of Paradise as Soulreapers."
Jiang Yu laughed, "It's really comfortable to have support, especially when that support is ourselves! Hahaha."
"This is exactly what I was about to explain," Liu Siqi said. "We didn't eliminate the Soulreapers just for you. In battles against God-level Civilizations, it's necessary to eradicate its present, as well as its past and future!"
Jiang Yu immediately stopped laughing, realizing things were more complicated than he had thought.
Liu Siqi continued to explain, "'Wallfacer's Shop' is more like a coordinate we placed on you, so we could use it to locate what we call 'the Soulreapers of the past.'"
"When humans of the past interact with the Soulreapers of the past, we could immediately trace this coordinate to influence the past and ultimately eradicate the Soulreapers completely."
Jiang Yu was starting to understand, "All this was premeditated! Ah, perhaps 'premeditated' isn't quite the right word. It should be said that everything was planned!"
Then he smiled, "I am glad I could contribute to the future."
Liu Siqi sighed, "However, for your era, the loss incurred by stepping into the trap of Paradise is quite significant.
"Based on my estimates, Paradise's second wave of attacks has collected the consciousness of tens of millions of people, meaning tens of millions have died."
Jiang Yu fell silent; the cost was indeed significant.
Liu Siqi tried to comfort Jiang Yu, "For a war of God-level Civilizations, such a loss is considered small.
"Sorry, these words might sound like a jerk, but we had to do it. Otherwise, the Soulreapers that took us centuries to eliminate now could never be utterly rooted out."
Jiang Yu didn't continue the topic. In any war, one's own side is bound to suffer losses. It wouldn't make sense for only the enemy to die and not one's own people.
He asked, "Ji Kang said I am a Stitcher. Is it you who stitched me into the Trisolaran World?"
"Not us. You are a trans-universal Stitcher, and we still don't possess that technology."
"Not you? Then who is it? Could it be humans from an even more distant future?"
"We don't know."
"You don't know?"
"Right, because this kind of stitching might not necessarily be done by us."