Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 175 The Puritan Church
The first negotiation with the Devourer's Messenger failed.

Despite humanity's clear expression of its unwillingness to become part of a civilization devoured, Big Tooth remained unyielding, stating unequivocally that this was humanity's only 'way out'.

Otherwise, the great Devouring Empire will declare war on the Earth United Government.

During the time that humanity was arguing with the Great Tooth, they discovered that the Devourer civilization seemed unaware of the existence of the Trisolaran civilization.

Zhizi never appeared in this negotiation of civilizations.

For some reason, humanity did not inform the Trisolaran civilization of the Great Tooth or the Trisolaran fleet about their existence.

People also noted that after Good Law cleared up the initial behavior of stopping Big Tooth from eating people, he hardly participated in any negotiations between humans and Big Tooth.

When someone found the kind-hearted Luo Qing and asked him about his attitude, his response was: "If you have to ask me about such a small matter, then you might as well give up the Earth."

After saying this, Kind Luo Qing took the Pojang girl and left New York. When humans found Kind Luo Qing again, he was taking the Pojang girl to do a bungee jump over the sea of ​​clouds.

Some say that the kind-hearted Luo Qing possesses more kindness than the Wallfacer Luo Qing, but correspondingly, the other party is not as easily moved by human pleas as the original Luo Qing.

This is a more carefree, happier, and kinder alter ego.

This kindness is all-encompassing; Luo Qing is kind not only to others but also to herself, ensuring she doesn't fall into any moral dilemmas.

Humans cannot morally blackmail the kind-hearted Luo Qing.

Furthermore, the Pope of the Baroness Church publicly stated: "Humanity should learn to know when to stop. Senior officials, led by the chairman of the coalition government, should learn to be grateful to the Lord (referring to Baroness), instead of recklessly and irresponsibly dumping all problems on him. The Lord is merciful, and this is not a reason for you to repeatedly bother him!"

(Note 1: The [Bailo Puritanism] is also called the [Bailo Puritanism], or simply the [Purist], and also known as the [Purist Cult]. It was originally a fan group composed of a large number of movie fans, but in the 8th year of the Crisis Era, following the [Pacific Coordination-2015] exercise, it completely transformed into a religious sect. The religious figures call themselves 'Purists', but they have drawn a clear line between themselves and the Puritans in history.)

In the 36th year of the Crisis Era, after Luo Qing's first long seclusion, the [Byroqing Religion] entered a period of rapid development. Fifty-five years into the Crisis Era, the [Byroqing Religion] surpassed Hinduism to become the fourth largest religion in humankind, after Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam. Because this religion is a derivative existence under Luo Qing's influence, various countries have a rather ambiguous view of it and generally do not obstruct the Byroqing Religion's offline missionary activities.

The Baroness Church has extremely close ties with the historical "Future Historians." Several high-ranking government officials have publicly declared themselves "Puritans." The church has engaged in numerous online debates with the Earth-Three-Body Organization and has not lost out. Any negative online comments about the Baroness Church will be relentlessly attacked by the church. The famous U.S. President Grant (the White-Haired President) was one of the church's popes.

Because of its powerful online presence, this sect possesses a terrifying ability to manipulate public opinion, and its doctrine consists of only one thing—how to teach humanity to be grateful to Luo Qing.

The activity frequency of the [Byropuric Church] is inversely proportional to Luo Qing's. When Luo Qing emerges from seclusion, the sect actively reduces its external activities to diminish its presence. After Luo Qing's seclusion, it makes a high-profile comeback. (The Pope of the Byropuric Church frequently criticizes the Earth United Government; this is a daily pastime for the sect.)
After being severely reprimanded by the Pope of the Baroness Church, the coalition government finally realized its mistake and stopped paying too much attention to the Wallfacers' attitude. Instead, it began to study on its own how to conduct the second phase of communication with the Messenger Tooth.

Human civilization would not have wanted to declare war on dinosaur civilization unless it was absolutely necessary.

On the one hand, the technological scale displayed by the dinosaur civilization was simply too enormous. If the dinosaur civilization were to recklessly crash its Devourer spaceships into Earth, Earth would have no way to stop them.

Even if the Devourer spaceship were to be destroyed by a stellar nuclear bomb, the resulting wreckage could easily destroy the entire Earth.

This level of destruction is not simply about destroying the surface; it would completely tear the planet Earth apart, rendering the entire planet extinct.

It is precisely because of this that humans believe that the dinosaur civilization is naturally in an 'invincible' position, and that this war should be avoided unless absolutely necessary.

Moreover, humans and dinosaurs both originated from Earth, and four light-years away, another enemy is watching all of this with predatory eyes.

Humans speculate that the Trisolaran civilization had the idea of ​​sitting back and watching the two civilizations fight to the death, so that they could both be weakened and then profit from the conflict. However, this idea has not been verified in any substantial way.

Of course, people are also very curious about one question: If humanity is ultimately defeated in this war, then the Devourer civilization will undoubtedly ruin the entire planetary ecosystem of the Earth and even the solar system. What will the Trisolaran fleet do then?
It's important to know that through the early ETO, humanity learned that the Trisolarans still valued Earth itself.

Unfortunately, Tomoko never expressed any opinion. Some people even went to ask the six-dimensional Tomoko who was being chased and bitten by the stray dogs, but she just flew out of the doghouse and ignored everyone.

In the second negotiation with the Great Tooth, the humans deliberately set the negotiation location at an archaeological site. On the Loess Plateau, the archaeological site resembled a sliced ​​mille-feuille cake—layers of excavation squares were neatly arranged, dark brown soil was turned over and piled up, and several archaeological experts wearing sun hats and some sophisticated engineering robots squatted in the archaeological pits, gently scraping the soil walls with hand shovels.

In the distance, beside the mound of earth crushed by heavy construction excavators, many reporters held up their cameras and took pictures against the light. A large number of human hosts, protected by a group of heavily armed soldiers, escorted the exceptionally tall dinosaur over.

The construction site was noisy, with the voices of countless people mixed with the buzzing of drones hovering overhead, all carried by the wind on the plateau. But Da Ya's voice still ripped through the wind with its roughness.

"Little bugs, why did you bring me here?"

Dinosaur Tooth looked at the bustling archaeological site with great bewilderment, its golden vertical pupils filled with confusion.

The accompanying historian turned and pointed to the site being surveyed, saying with great emotion, "Mr. Daya, what we are currently exploring is the legendary ruins of the ancient city of Loulan, which disappeared a thousand years ago. Through the latest geological radar scans, we have discovered that this place preserves an important trade route of the ancient Silk Road, as well as traces of the daily life of a once-prosperous city. This is a trade bridge built by our ancestors across deserts and seas with courage and wisdom! Such relics of civilization spanning thousands of years."

Civilizations like the ancient city of Loulan are countless in this ancient land. Next to the ruins of this ancient city, there is another dinosaur fossil site that has already been developed. I believe that, in a sense, it is your uncivilized ancestor.

This is a magnificent continent with a history spanning tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of years. Do you really have the heart to devour and destroy everything here in such a brutal, unreasonable, and utterly devoid of beauty? Even if you only wanted to conquer the Earth, we could discuss it, but the Devourer wants to consume this! This isn't just for humans; it was once the home of your dinosaurs too!

After reciting these words, which he had memorized countless times, the historian stared wide-eyed at the dinosaur.

“Human insect, do you know what the great Devouring Empire cares about the least? We care about history the least. History is the most useless thing. This ancient city you’ve excavated, or the dinosaur fossil remains next to it, don’t mean much to me. Compared to these unrealistic, extinct things, I’m more interested in that earthen mound.”

Big Tooth pointed to the mound of earth dug out by the excavator next to him with his right forelimb.

"What else is interesting? It's just a piece of land." Someone said, puzzled.

"No, our old friends are still there."

Big Tooth trudged over with great clumsiness. Since the mound was on the opposite side of the archaeological pit, he had to step over it. Without hesitation, he stepped over the soil that had been meticulously maintained and carefully cleaned bit by bit with small brushes and shovels. This drew angry glares from the archaeologists, but they were completely oblivious.

Then Big Tooth stepped over the so-called dinosaur fossil pit, crushing its ancestor's skeletal fossils to pieces, its steps still without any hesitation.

As they walked until they reached the mound, Big Tooth's steps suddenly became lighter. Then, with an unusual agility and gentleness, Big Tooth gently squatted down and used its forelimbs to poke at the brown soil.

The soil was still somewhat damp because it had just been turned up by an excavator.

The government officials who were following behind quickly caught up.

They saw an anthill that had been completely destroyed by an excavator.

"Ah... old friends, so you've been here all along."

A strange light flashed in Big Tooth's eyes. It carefully picked up the patch of sludge containing many dead ants and examined it closely.

Big Tooth said to the human, "That super bug is right. Earth is not just the Earth of dinosaurs and humans, but also the Earth of ants."

And now you humans are destroying this anthill that has existed for over 5 years for your own archaeological activities, just for your irresponsible archaeology! Archaeology that is utterly meaningless to civilization!

As everyone stared wide-eyed, Dinosaur Tooth casually uttered the next sentence:

"I have decided to declare war on humanity on behalf of the Devourer Empire, and the reason for this declaration is: to avenge this tiny group of ants."

"The Devourer's great ship will arrive in the solar system in 84 years. Before then, you can try to convince me, but please don't use morality as an excuse. The great Devourer realized earlier than you that morality is the most useless thing in this universe."

(End of this chapter)