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

Chapter 189 God

“Big Tooth,” Luo Qing said calmly.

"Awoo!" Big Tooth stood at attention, its short forelimbs giving the super bug a standard dinosaur salute.

"I ask you, how far has the Devouring Empire progressed in the field of gene technology?"

This question caught the attention of the Australian governor standing nearby.

In the past, human civilization has also tried to interrogate this giant dinosaur, but has never been able to obtain more information from it. If the Wallfacer clone could get the dinosaur to reveal more information about the Devouring Empire, it would naturally be helpful to humanity.

Big Tooth said respectfully, "Great Super Bug, our Devouring Empire is not good at genetic technology. The Devouring Empire hates technology in these subtle areas. The Devouring Empire prefers large, hard, and violent technology."

Our understanding of genetics, particularly that of dinosaurs, is still in a relatively early stage, perhaps even less advanced than that of humans and insects.

Kind-hearted Luo Qing asked in bewilderment, "As an interstellar civilization that has been wandering for 6500 million years, haven't you ever tried the path of genetic evolution?"

Big Tooth shook his head repeatedly: "No, the dinosaurs didn't want to work on their own bodies. In the distant Dragon Ant Civilization, the scientists of those ants systematically studied genetic technology, but none of that technology has survived."

Kind-hearted Luo Qing said, "It's really strange. Humans have only been in the atomic age for 200 years, yet they've already come up with all sorts of messy scientific directions, even developing unethical technologies like human-animal hybridization. Didn't you dinosaurs ever conceive of similar technologies during your 6500 million years of wandering?"

"Really not." Da Ya shook his head very sincerely.

Kind-hearted Luo Qing continued, "Since you haven't made much progress in gene technology, what about your other technological levels? For example, computer technology?"

"The Devouring Empire's computer technology is extremely advanced. Or rather, the Devouring Empire's supercomputer is the Devouring Giant Ring itself. The Devouring Mothership is itself a super ring computer, with a length of 20 kilometers, capable of providing the Devouring Empire with massive computing power," Big Tooth said proudly.

But this data did not frighten the kind-hearted Luo Qing and the governor.

The two looked at each other.

Kind-hearted Luo Qing continued to ask, "Our human supercomputers are the size of a house and can perform tens of trillions of calculations per second."

"The computers of the Devouring Empire are stronger! Even a small node of the Devouring Empire's computers is stronger than your supercomputers. You know nothing of the Empire's greatness."

"Oh? So your supercomputer can simulate the movement of the entire Milky Way galaxy?"

Da Ya was stunned.

"How is this possible? Simulating the movement of the Milky Way... that requires such powerful computing power, something the Devouring Empire couldn't do."

Kind-hearted Luo Qing and the governor exchanged another glance, both understanding each other's meaning.

A 550W quantum computer can analyze computational data from the entire Milky Way galaxy within an hour.

Even for the Virgo Supercluster, a 550W quantum computer could completely analyze it over thousands of years.

Of course, the above-mentioned analysis refers to the analysis of hypothetical simulation data. In reality, humans know nothing about the basic data of most stars except the Sun, so analysis is out of the question.

'It seems that the dinosaur civilization's computer technology is still at the level of electronic computers, only the computers are extremely large in scale and have a very high computing power.' Kind-hearted Luo Qing transmitted his thoughts to the governor.

The latter nodded almost imperceptibly.

Big Tooth suddenly realized something and let out a startled cry: "Have you ever seen a civilization that can analyze data from the Milky Way?"

"You've been wandering for 65 million years and haven't seen it?" Luo Qing retorted.

"Of course I've seen the Devouring Empire before..."

A barrier suddenly rose out of thin air, isolating the six-dimensional sophon's perception and preventing other sophons from spying on it. Big Tooth, seemingly oblivious, continued, "During its wanderings, the Devouring Empire encountered several top-tier civilizations and even befriended a god..."

The Australian governor and the kind-hearted Luo Qing asked almost simultaneously, "What god?"

"God forbids us to speak... Even if you kill me, I still can't speak. In short, the Devouring Empire has a deep friendship with that god... It is this friendship that has ensured the Devouring Empire's stability during its 6500 million years of wandering. God likes us very much."

"Hiss..." Kind-hearted Luo Qing realized that the problem was serious. He thought the future would be a war between humans and dinosaurs, but he didn't expect that there were people behind the dinosaurs.

That so-called god must be the embodiment of some advanced civilization, perhaps even a civilization like the Risk Takers.

'No wonder the dinosaurs were able to roam this dark forest universe for 6500 million years without encountering attacks from advanced civilizations; it turns out they were being protected.' Kind-hearted Luo Qing frowned in deep thought. He had the memories of his original body, so he naturally knew about the theories of the bright ocean and the dark forest.

The Australian governor couldn't help but ask, "Will the god you speak of interfere with the war between the empire and humanity?"

“No, that won’t happen.” Big Tooth shook his head: “Actually, that god only exists in the history books of dinosaurs. The last time the dinosaurs saw him was 2000 million years ago. Although there have always been rumors that His Majesty the Emperor of the Devouring Empire has a way to contact the god, it is just a legend.”

It seems we won't get any useful information, so Luo Qing removed the anti-intellectual barrier.

Seeing that neither Super Bug nor Official Bug spoke, Big Tooth's sense of superiority immediately rose: "The dinosaur civilization has experienced a lot. Human Bugs, you are still too young."

"Shut up! I gave you 6500 million years, and all you've developed into is a giant tire. And you still have the nerve to talk?" Kind-hearted Luo Qing scolded.

The governor standing nearby shook his head: "Stupid dinosaurs. If humans had 6500 million years, they might have become the rulers of the galaxy."

Big Tooth's face turned red as he argued, "You wretched insects, do you even know that in this universe, it's normal for life to remain unchanged for tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years? Stagnation in the development of civilization is the norm. What civilization experiences technological explosions every day?"

Big Tooth jumped up and down and said loudly, "A civilization, when there is no survival crisis, will form a stable civilization ecosystem, instead of being like those despicable human insects who are constantly fighting each other and waging world wars."

You know, the dinosaur-ant symbiotic civilization 6500 million years ago lasted for tens of thousands of years in peace! If it weren't for those little ants stirring things up, the first world war between dinosaurs and ants would never have broken out. If that world war hadn't led to the destruction of Earth's ecosystem and forced the dinosaurs to leave Earth, what would you human insects have to do with it?
Stagnation of civilization is normal, and so is the cessation of evolution of a species. Take the Po River civilization, for example; they were the same hundreds of millions of years ago, and they remain the same hundreds of millions of years later, without any difference or development.

Finally, when the Devouring Empire devoured Eridanus, the Eridanus worms evolved all sorts of bizarre things to rebel against the great Devouring Empire, but it was too late.

The behavior of humans and insects who readily conduct genetic experiments on themselves in an attempt to change the very origins of civilization is incredibly audacious, even in the context of the entire universe. Dinosaurs would never have considered growing wings on themselves; that's something only pterosaurs would do.

"You insane human insects! You're born warmongers, developing spaceships and super nuclear weapons without any external enemies... I already regret coming here."

As he spoke, Da Ya began to sob.

After Daya finished crying, the kind-hearted Luo Qing asked the quiet Six-Dimensional Zhi Zi beside her.

"Zhizi, do you agree with what Daiya said?"

The Six-Dimensional Sophon jumped off Luo Qing's shoulder and floated in front of the two people and the dragon, displaying a line of text:

[Agreed. The evolution of civilization is actually a result of environmental pressure; the external pressure exerted by the environment is the driving force behind its evolution. Without external environmental pressure, it's normal for a civilization to remain unchanged for tens or even hundreds of millions of years. During the hundreds of millions of years of invertebrate life on Earth, invertebrates did not evolve civilization because the environment of the ancient oceans was simply too favorable; Earth's life only needed to undergo minimal evolution to ensure its survival and development.]

While Tomoko was saying those words, Daiya was also secretly observing it.

Finally, Big Tooth couldn't help but ask, "Super Bug, what is this...? I've been curious about it for a long time."

The six-dimensional sophon became arrogant, and the mirror sphere became fuller, but it ignored the large lizard and gave no reply.

“It’s just a monitor, you don’t need to worry about it,” said the kind-hearted Luo Qing.

(End of this chapter)