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Wallbreaker Project
Wallbreakers are members of the ETO who are assigned to monitor the Wallfacers’ plans to try and determine the true intent of the Wallfacers behind those Wallfacers’ lies and deceptions as part of the Wallbreaker Project. There are three Wallbreakers, and one is assigned to each of the Wallfacers except for Luo Ji. The ETO determines they don’t know enough about Luo Ji to assign a Wallbreaker to him.
Wallbreaker Quotes in The Dark Forest
The The Dark Forest quotes below are all either spoken by Wallbreaker or refer to Wallbreaker. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Pages 150-169 Quotes
Rey Diaz wheezed […] while pulling his hand back to cover his eyes. When Allen drove over to him, he had fallen to the ground. With difficulty, Allen helped him into the backseat. “Sunglasses. I need sunglasses.…” He half-reclined into the backseat, his hands clawing at the air. Allen handed Rey Diaz a pair of sunglasses he found on the dashboard. After he put them on his breathing grew smoother. “I’m all right. Let’s get out of here. Quickly,” he said feebly.
“What on earth happened? What’s wrong?”
“It might be the sun.”
“Uh … when did you start having this sort of reaction?”
“Just now.”
The peculiar phobia for the sun that afflicted Rey Diaz pushed him to the edge of mental and physical breakdown whenever he saw it and kept him confined indoors from then on.
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Pages 212-229 Quotes
He stood on the ice, his teeth chattering in the cold, a cold that seemed to come not from the lake water or icy wind, but from a direct transmission from outer space. He kept his head down, knowing that from this moment on, the stars were not like they once were. He didn’t dare look up. As Rey Diaz feared the sun, Luo Ji had acquired a severe phobia of the stars. He bowed his head, and through chattering teeth, said to himself:
“Wallfacer Luo Ji, I am your Wallbreaker.”
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Wallbreaker Term Timeline in The Dark Forest
The timeline below shows where the term Wallbreaker appears in The Dark Forest. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Pages 25-43
...knows his true name, but he will eventually come to be known as the Second Wallbreaker. As he is lying in bed, a sophon’s text appears before his eyes. The sophon...
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Pages 43-61
Meanwhile, the sophon communicates again with the Second Wallbreaker. The sophon says the Trisolarans previously didn’t care about the possibility of humanity escaping, but...
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Pages 131-150
...the three Wallfacers go to the Meditation Room. Hines asks if they’ve heard about the Wallbreaker plan, which the ETO announced on their public website.
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Pages 189-212
...Tyler’s house and asks to speak to him. The man says that he is Tyler’s Wallbreaker.
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After Tyler talks with his Wallbreaker, he goes to see Luo Ji. When Tyler sees Luo Ji, he’s struck by how...
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Tyler explains to Luo Ji that his Wallbreaker exposed his entire plan. His Wallbreaker, he explains, figured out that Tyler had become disillusioned...
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After Tyler explains what happened with his Wallbreaker, Luo Ji is speechless. Still, he can’t be sure whether to take what Tyler says...
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Pages 212-229
...the ice. Once he does, he says to himself, “Wallfacer Luo Ji, I am your Wallbreaker.”
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Pages 282-306
The man says that he is Rey Diaz’s Wallbreaker. He says that compared to Tyler, Rey Diaz is a brilliant strategist but that the...
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Rey Diaz then asks why it matters if his plan has been exposed. The Wallbreaker responds that the Trisolarans aren’t worried about Rey Diaz’s plan because it is ultimately unfeasible....
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Pages 329-354
...on the video feed, she turns to Hines and tells him that she is his Wallbreaker. Everyone listens. Keiko explains that Hines was and always has been a staunch defeatist and...
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