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

Chapter 177 Preparing for War
Having learned the correct direction of the Devourer mothership, and with peace negotiations completely broken down, the Earth United Government began deploying a large number of nuclear weapons in the direction from which the Devourer mothership was heading.

Dinosaurs have no sophons, and Big Tooth has been placed under house arrest; this will be a war full of intrigue and strategy.

At the call to action, all of humanity prepared for war.

Protecting the Earth has become the most practical slogan.

Unlike the Trisolaran crisis three hundred years later, the Devourer crisis is imminent, and the messenger, Big Tooth, has given a precise time of 84 years (Crisis Era 205) for the Devourer spaceship to enter the solar system.

84 years is too short, too short for a human to live a full life. After the great trough ended, thanks to advancements in medical technology and the nourishment of super herbs (green and healthy foods), the average human lifespan has reached 120 years.

Most young people, barring unforeseen circumstances, will live to see the day of the Devourer Crisis.

This is a life-or-death crisis that truly affects everyone. The urgent desire to survive has sparked a surge in joining the space force. Nihilists and those who adopt a "laissez-faire" attitude have been widely criticized by all sectors of society, while hedonists and virtual reality enthusiasts have been completely despised.

News about dinosaurs quickly became the hottest topic of public opinion, and the methods of fighting against dinosaur civilization became a major topic of discussion in human society. The once-popular Three-Body crisis was suddenly forgotten.

The fear of dinosaur civilization also fueled hatred towards the Trisolaran civilization.

The reason is simple: even in this critical moment, the Sophon has not lifted its blockade on human technology.

During this period, many debate programs raised similar questions, such as: which civilization, the Devourer Civilization or the Trisolaran Civilization, is stronger?

The answer almost always leans towards the idea that the Devourer civilization is stronger.

The reason for this overwhelming opposition is quite simple: the Devourer's mothership is five times the size of Earth, while the Trisolaran fleet is about the size of a human star-class warship. If the Trisolarans had the technological scale of the dinosaurs, why would they be afraid of three suns?

Although some of the Trisolarans' unique technologies, such as sophons, remain unmatched by humans, or their expertise in virtual reality (the Three-Body Problem game) and bio-genetic technology (gene missiles), they still possess unique advantages.

However, these unique technologies don't seem to be that "powerful".

On the contrary, the power of the Devourer ship is visible to the naked eye!
Most space warfare military experts believe that if humanity can defeat or stop the Devouring Empire's invasion of the solar system in the solar system decisive battle 84 years later, then the Trisolaran fleet will definitely not be a match for humanity.

After eliminating these two enemies, humanity will continue to exist in the universe for generations to come.

Under this public opinion, in order to mobilize human civilization to a greater extent, the Earth United Government released all the video materials brought by the Eridanus girl.
Almost everyone witnessed the horrific scene of the Devourer mothership 'devouring' Eridanus.

Ten thousand supply pipelines, each tens of thousands of kilometers long and several kilometers in diameter, descended from the inner ring of the Devourer mothership to the equatorial surface of the planet, and then took 100 years to completely devour the entire surface.

Hundreds of billions of individuals from the Po River civilization vanished completely along with their beautiful ocean in this horrific act of genocide.

But this powerful and shocking scene of extinction did not frighten humanity; instead, it inspired anger and fighting spirit in human civilization.

Seeking revenge for the kind, refined, and beautiful Poyang civilization also became one of the reasons for humanity's declaration of war against dinosaurs.

As for ants, which have been reduced to tiny insects, neither humans nor dinosaurs paid them the same attention.

But some people take it seriously.

When the Earth United Government delivered a declaration of war to the Devourer Civilization's envoy, Big Tooth, the kind-hearted Luo Qing specially "invited" a brown ant and endowed it with simple intelligence, inviting it to witness the war between humans and dinosaurs.

After learning the whole story, the brown ant, dragging its ink, wrote a crooked line:

Please give life a chance to live.

The human representative said to the little brown ant, "Humans will do their best for all life on Earth."

The messenger, Big Tooth, let out a disdainful howl.

Stellar-class warships began to expand production, and the production of stellar-type nuclear bombs was accelerated. Jupiter's atmosphere, which contained raw materials for hydrogen bombs, was regarded as the most critical nuclear bomb production base for the future.

Amid the crisis facing the dinosaur civilization, humanity finally lifted the restrictions on MOSS, allowing it to cooperate with the Digital Republic in deploying a defense line around the solar system, especially by removing various restrictions on industrial robots.

A large number of industrial robots and space-based operational machines emerged from various human factories, were transported to near-Earth orbit via space elevators, and finally boarded various spacecraft to fly into the distant sky.

If you want to snowball your combat power to the maximum in a short period of time, then relying on the power of intelligent machinery is unavoidable.

In this sudden dinosaur crisis, the political status of the Joint Space Force was once again elevated.

In the past, the United Space Force was always subject to the control of the Earth United Government, which was inefficient due to the buck-passing among its member states. Therefore, for its own development, the United Space Force conceived the idea of ​​political independence. Taking advantage of the Dinosaur Crisis, the United Space Force, wanting to break free from the cumbersome system of the Earth United Government, put forward its demand for political independence. After many rounds of negotiations and discussions, the Earth United Government finally acquiesced to the United Space Force's independence and completely lifted the restrictions on its political power.

After gaining independent political power, the development of the Joint Space Force accelerated significantly.

The Joint Space Force has three fleets, distinguished by the manufacturers of the starships:

The Asian Fleet, built under the auspices of China and the Pacific Front.

Europe, the European Fleet built under Russian supervision,

The American Fleet, built under the auspices of the United States and the Latin American Alliance

The three fleets successively declared independence, and the Joint Space Force was also reorganized into Fleet International. Each of the three fleets possessed the independence of a sovereign nation, and Fleet International became a political entity nominally on par with the Earth United Government.

Of course, despite their political independence, the three fleets still revolve around the Earth United Government. The reason is simple: the Earth United Government always represents the most fundamental interests of all mankind.

Unlike humanity's alarming reaction, the Devouring Empire's response was much more subdued.

Despite the fact that the dinosaur messenger, Tooth, is under house arrest by humans, the Devouring Empire has no intention of rescuing the dinosaur or sending a second negotiating team.

The dinosaurs had learned through the powerful optical observation capabilities on their mothership (a super optical telescope with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers and a length of tens of thousands of kilometers) that human civilization on Earth in the solar system seemed to be developing quite well, and had even entered space on a large scale.

But the dinosaurs still didn't pay much attention to these mammals.

The spaceships built by these tiny insects might pose a slight threat to the great Devouring Empire, but not a significant one.

There are millions of ships like the Devourer mothership, which uses nuclear fusion propulsion to launch nuclear missiles.

A massive technological scale.

This is the Devourer Mothership, which has accumulated advantages over 6500 million years.

On Earth, there are only a few tiny insect warships, and although they have extended their military boundaries and fleet tracks to Jupiter's orbit, they are still just fragile little insects.

Not to mention that human civilization's technology is not as advanced as that of the Devouring Empire, even some civilizations with slightly higher levels of technology have been conquered by the Devouring Empire due to its sheer size.

Those civilizations were completely unaware of the sheer size advantage that devoured the empire.

Of course, out of respect for the human insects, the Devouring Empire also began to try to launch more probes toward Earth, but it will take at least several decades for these probes to reach the solar system orbit.

Humans do the same thing, but they are more clever; their probes usually take an arc before going over.

The Earth United Government and the Devouring Empire began sending high-speed probes to each other.

The pre-civilization and the current civilization from Earth began a life-or-death struggle.

As for Big Tooth, the messenger of the dinosaur civilization, its situation was rather unique. Before the peace negotiations, Big Tooth could still return to its spaceship to rest. After the peace negotiations broke down, this large dinosaur was confined by humans to a place similar to a zoo.

This is, after all, a living dinosaur, and humans still value it highly. Moreover, according to the kind-hearted Luo Qing, the dinosaur tastes similar to chicken and is quite good.

To please the kind-hearted Luo Qing, this dinosaur must also be saved.

As for Big Tooth's little spaceship, it was no exception to be hacked and reverse engineered by humans. However, people discovered that the technology of this little spaceship was not much higher than that of human spaceships. The crudeness of its internal flight control system further shocked humanity.

So much so that a warship manufacturing expert, upon seeing the internal structure of the small spaceship, exclaimed: "This thing can fly? This thing can actually reach 1% of the speed of light? Isn't it just an alloy shell with a propulsion system?"

Of course, these experts soon discovered the advantages of dinosaur technology: dinosaur civilization possessed advanced materials technology and even more advanced nuclear fusion technology.

Supermaterials technology made the Devourer Mothership a reality, while more advanced nuclear fusion technology gave the dinosaurs the means to travel to the stars.

For the same volume, the power of a human-made controlled nuclear fusion propellantless propulsion engine is less than 1/10 that of a dinosaur.

Oh well, I'll take whatever I can get.

(P.S.: The author was set up by his family and is a bit unstable. There will only be one update today. I will make up for the missed updates tomorrow. I am very sorry and beg for your forgiveness. Orz)

(End of this chapter)