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

Chapter 184 Ita
While developing space military capabilities and allocating resources to space forces, major powers have never given up on developing their own regional military capabilities.

Especially in the 30 years since the end of the Great Depression, while the United Government has been working hard to develop space military capabilities, major powers and supranational organizations have also developed considerable military strength with limited resource investment.

The choice to develop one's own military power is unrelated to geopolitical conflicts between countries. The reason why countries continue to develop their own military power is due to a historical lesson.

Eight years into the Crisis Era.

During the Pacific Coordination-2015 military exercise, Wallfacer No. 5 used its own methods to penetrate 217 human capital warships and destroy 1782 armed ships, dealing a heavy blow to the major powers at the time.

With the traditional navy coming to an end and the significance of traditional national armies being negated, humanity's attention shifted to the study of space warfare, and the old armaments became obsolete to varying degrees.

Military engineers from various countries are now researching space warfare.

以至于类似“J20”、“F22”、“S57”等21世纪初的老式空军军备一直被各国用到了21世纪中叶，坦克和战舰，同样三四十年没有换代。

During this period, human conventional military equipment, both in terms of quality and quantity, regressed rather than progressed.

The armies of various countries 50 years into the Crisis Era are no stronger than those at the beginning of the Crisis Era. Cutting-edge technology has been invested in space, and as the status of space forces has risen steadily, the status of traditional soldiers has plummeted.

The decline in the traditional status of military personnel has had a very negative impact.

The excellent spirit of traditional soldiers has been undermined by self-doubt, and the worst consequence of this self-doubt is a decline in the fighting will of soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of armies in various countries is also declining.

It was against this backdrop that the ETO terrorist organization, led by Hu Hai, brought profound disasters to countries around the world whose military capabilities were inadequate.

After the 'Ark' space station crashed and the No. 3 space elevator was destroyed, the PDC issued a 'declaration of war'. The coalition of various countries organized by the PDC officially declared war on the Trisolaran rebels. However, at the beginning of the war, the coalition made little progress, especially in the early battles, which almost all ended in failure.

With intelligence from the Sophons and military technology provided by the Trisolarans, the Trisolarans' ideological imprint rebels moved with impunity, defeating superior numbers and winning repeatedly.

The accumulation of Qin Shi Huang's thirty years was astonishing. The weapons and equipment used by the Trisolaran rebels, who had been secretly developing for thirty years, were even more advanced than those of the Allied forces, which were still using early 21st-century military equipment.

Throughout the entire "World Anti-ETO War," the PDC suffered far greater losses than the ETO. While the role of the Sophon was certainly played, the outdated weaponry was also a significant factor.

In the 55th year of the Crisis Era, the world's anti-ETO war has reached its most difficult moment.

The Trisolaran rebels' capture of the Egyptian capital marked the fall of much of Africa, with dozens of sovereign African nations perishing as a result.

The coalition forces that landed in Africa also suffered repeated defeats, and even retreated to the Middle East at one point. Faced with the Trisolaran rebels’ hybrid formula guided by the sophons, the coalition forces were forced to use a large number of tactical nuclear weapons to reverse the decline.

The main force of the coalition navy—the old Nimitz-class and Ford-class aircraft carrier battle groups led by the United States—was completely annihilated by the Trisolaran rebels' hypersonic missiles.

The coalition's air force also failed to gain the upper hand. Whether it was fifth-generation or sixth-generation fighters, under the Sophon's transparent vision and supercomputing power, ETO only needed to set up a few top-level anti-aircraft guns with high rate of fire, high precision, and long range to easily knock all the fighters to the ground.

Desperate, the Allied forces even resorted to using outdated weaponry from the 20th and 19th centuries, such as the heavily armored 'Kinov airships' from the Soviet era, to replace fighter jets in bombing missions.

In the end, the coalition could only hold out against the Trisolaran rebels in the Sahara Desert region by relying on its land forces.

In this situation of being unable to win after a prolonged battle.

Ultimately, the three permanent members of the UN Security Council broke away from the sluggish and inefficient command system of the Allied forces and began to fight independently.

The three permanent members of the UN Security Council each displayed the same fighting spirit they had shown in the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the Korean War. Despite their technological disadvantages and one-sided access to information, they simultaneously captured three important strongholds of the Trisolaran rebels with inferior forces, giving these arrogant Trisolaran rebels a good lesson in what "great power will" truly means.

Thus, the remaining allied forces quickly followed suit, and after a year of fierce fighting in Africa, they finally completed the encirclement of Kepler, the headquarters of the Trisolarans.

This gave humanity the opportunity to use stellar-type hydrogen bombs.

And ultimately secured the final victory in the global war against ETO. Although the war was won, the ETO terrorist organization led by Hu Hai, with only a rebel force of around several hundred thousand people, inflicted nearly a million casualties on the human coalition.

This is the deadliest war in human history since World War II.

It was after this global war against ETO that countries around the world began to reflect on their actions. In order to avoid a repeat of the tragedy, they began to redevelop conventional military equipment.

Seventy years after the Crisis Era, signs of a major downturn have begun to emerge. Global food problems and unequal distribution have worsened, leading to growing rifts between major powers, who are increasingly wary and defensive of each other. Furthermore, they have all intensified their arms race, further enhancing humanity's conventional military capabilities.

The awakening of Luo Qing, the Wallfacer, and the end of the Altar of Truth prevented the outbreak of this potential "Third World War." With the arrival of the Green Grassland Era, various countries have put forward more ideas for the development of conventional military equipment.

A prime example is the development of space-based aircraft carriers.

Space carriers are a new type of weapon developed by mankind about 60 years after the Crisis Era, following sea-based aircraft carriers in the 21st century. They utilize controlled nuclear fusion and plasma jet technology and are among the most powerful conventional weapons in the atmosphere.

While planetary and starship-class warships are powerful, they are ultimately interstellar warships and cannot perform precise military missions within the atmosphere.

The total number of space carriers currently in service with humanity is around twenty. Compared to starships, this number is not small. After all, these are products secretly manufactured by various countries, and it wouldn't be wrong to say that they were squeezed out from the scraps of spaceships.

In terms of combat power, aerospace carriers pose no threat to space warships. Even a single planetary warship could destroy an entire aerospace carrier in a short time. This is a suppressive attack from space orbit on objects flying in the atmosphere. Even so, major powers are still tirelessly pursuing and full of interest in this type of military equipment.

No matter how powerful a space warship is, it belongs to the United Government and the International Fleet, while an aerospace carrier is truly their own treasure.

Of course, being inferior to space battleships does not mean that space carriers are not powerful. In fact, the combat power of space carriers within the atmosphere should not be underestimated. If humanity had possessed space carriers during the global anti-ETO war in the 50th year of the Crisis Era, the battle against the Trisolaran rebels would have been much simpler.

The weapons and equipment of spacecraft are almost all weakened versions of those on space carriers. While fulfilling the role of an aircraft carrier, they also serve as an arsenal, making them a comprehensive air combat platform that combines the characteristics of an aircraft carrier and a battleship.

Since its invention, the space carrier has undergone seventy or eighty years of development, and its technology is now highly mature. In Crisis Era 132, the space carrier battle group system remains one of the important pillars of national military power and a vital force for the United Government to maintain stability within the Earth.

Now, three such military pillars have emerged, pressing down on the nerves of the people in the Zambian region.

Thus, they were surrounded by such a large force.

Kind-hearted Luo Qing quickly searched the entire Zambia and successfully located the chief scientist of the "Angel Age" genetic organization, who was hiding in a bunker.

Although the kind-hearted Luo Qing was mentally prepared, she still couldn't help but be shocked when she saw this person.

This scientist named Ita actually transformed himself into an "angel" with four pairs of pure white wings!
Surrounding the "angel" Ita were more than a dozen "little angels" who had not yet grown their wings. It was clear that they were new "angel humans" who had undergone genetic modification through a breeding factory.

But the kind-hearted Luo Qing was not fooled by this seemingly beautiful scene. When he arrived, he had already seen far too many deformed beings whose genetic modification had failed.

"Ita, the chief scientist of Angel Era, right?" Kind-hearted Luo Qing confirmed.

"It is I, Mr. Wallfacer."

Facing the Wall-Bender's clone, Ita folded his wings and knelt respectfully on one knee on the ground.

Kind-hearted Luo Qing nodded. He looked around at the timid angel children and said to the scientist kneeling on the ground, "Now, I'll give you ten minutes to convince me."

Just as Ita was about to speak, Luo Qing's next words floated over.

"But don't talk about personal suffering experiences, that's meaningless."

(End of this chapter)