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

Chapter 297 Nations Around the World Are Ready to Fight (4k)

Within the Solar System Fleet, subtle undercurrents are churning the fleet's ecosystem, with various power transitions and censorship processes rapidly spreading throughout the fleet's ecosystem.

The Solar System Intelligent Life Joint Conference and the Trisolaran Negotiation Conference are just around the corner, and maintaining stability is Fleet International's top priority.

Unsurprisingly, news of the hidden dangers in the ideological imprint exposed by Hines's breach was strictly suppressed, and all centers of belief were sealed off.

The fleet was assembled under the guise of a grand military parade and an upgrade of the Iron Curtain device, consisting of almost all of the star-class warships except for the Luo Qing and the five star-class warships escorting the Trisolaran probe.

Subsequently, political investigations under various pretexts began, and the captains of half of the star-class warships in the three fleets were investigated. Some people from the Common Era who had never been exposed to the thought imprint temporarily served as executive captains of the warships.

Because of the 'mishap' of the thought imprint, the status of the ancient people in the solar system fleet experienced a great leap forward. Some ancient soldiers who were discriminated against by modern soldiers in the fleet ecosystem gained their rightful place in this dramatic power shift.

One point needs to be emphasized: as the investigations of the three fleets deepened, they all discovered that, due to differences in the quality of space forces, the proportion of crew members on planetary-class warships who had used the mind imprinting facilities was far higher than that on stellar-class warships.

After all, the young crew members of the Stellar-class warships are the elite of the entire human world, and these elites are mostly full of self-confidence and rarely have a need for using thought imprints. The crew members who use thought imprints on the Stellar-class warships are mostly the older crew members from seventy or eighty years ago.

The percentage of crew members on planetary-level warships who have used the ideological imprint is even higher, reaching almost 30%.

However, none of the three fleets conducted a large-scale review of planetary-level warship groups.

Limited by fuel and ecological technology, planetary warships lack the ability to travel between stars, thus making them naturally immune to escapism.

It can't run far, it can't escape, and it's not harmful, so let's leave it for now.

Moreover, compared to the current solar system fleet, the planetary-level warships are actually already a "redundant force".

The reduction of planetary fleet size occurred in all three fleets.

These warships, which can only navigate within the solar system, will lose much of their significance after the War of Devouring ends. The future solar system fleet is destined to venture into the vast galaxy.

If it weren't for the threat of the Devouring Empire, the Solar System Fleet wouldn't have been operating at full capacity in its secondary space docks to produce so many planetary warships.

Fifty thousand planetary-level warships are too many and must be decommissioned.

This is similar to the reason why no country has maintained an army of more than five million since World War II.

As a result, the War of Devouring lost nearly 7,000 planetary warships, which were not recovered after the war. The remaining 40,000-plus planetary warships have been gradually and selectively decommissioned in the past two or three years, and converted into civilian spaceships or interstellar cargo ships. Now there are less than 20,000 planetary warships left.

After the devouring crisis ceased, both Fleet International and Earth International reached a consensus: to gradually change the political system of the Space Force in the human world.

It is important to understand that the Fleet International was essentially created from scratch by the Earth International. Both internationals believe that the next task is to further develop the economy within the system, build a prosperous solar system economic ecosystem, and rely on the vast resources of the solar system to ensure that human civilization continues to follow a path of sustainable development.

With a favorable economic development, we should continue to improve the status of scientific workers, rely on the "truth" bestowed by the risk-breakers, vigorously promote technological development, and strive to achieve a new round of technological explosion within the next 200 years, enabling mankind to realize the great journey of "visiting the Three-Body Problem," "voying to the Po River," and "sailing towards the Milky Way."

Taking Earth International as an example, apart from the regions directly under the United Government, all the major local powers, regional powers, and supranational organizations have repeatedly improved the welfare of their citizens after the war.

The surface cities that have been slowly developing on Earth for two hundred years are now undergoing large-scale development again. Africa is a classic example. Among the member states of the United Nations government, even the weakest African nation has formulated a 30-year plan to build 30 huge African cities.

(Note: Megacity concept: The diameter of the central urban area exceeds 100km)

In addition, the trans-Pacific hypersonic sky electromagnetic ring bridge, more space elevators, sky cities based on strong magnetic levitation technology, and a three-dimensional urban architecture integrating underground cities, surface cities, and sky cities, which the coalition government has been longing for, have all been put on the agenda.

With the six continents of Asia, Europe, Africa, North and South America, and Oceania already fully developed, humanity has turned its attention to Antarctica. Since the Antarctic hibernation bases are no longer needed, small, corporatized hibernation companies have replaced this historically unique, super-official hibernation base.

China has proposed the "Antarctic Garden Project," which envisions using "new solid" materials created by large-scale nuclear explosions to create a tunnel from Mohe through the Earth's core to the Antarctic Peninsula for use in a train journey between Earth and the core.

(Note: The "new solid-state" material is one of the emerging technological achievements of mankind after breaking the sophon blockade. In the experiment of destroying stellar nuclear weapons, scientists used "sugar-coated" nanomaterials, which are far superior to traditional "flying blade" materials, to wrap alloy materials. After being compressed by the huge centripetal pressure generated by the overpressure nuclear explosion, a new solid-state material was formed. Its density is extremely high, between that of ordinary solid and degenerate matter of white dwarfs. It can sink in the strata and has extremely high strength. The invention of this material was inspired by white dwarf fish.)
The United States has proposed the "Nano Dome Project," which aims to deploy a "dynamic dome" composed of trillions of nanosatellites in low Earth orbit over the next 50 years. These satellites, connected by a quantum network, can refract sunlight to regulate global climate and even project giant holographic images outside the atmosphere by adjusting their arrangement, becoming billboards for the Earth.

Russia has proposed the "Arctic Project," which plans to develop the Arctic permafrost over the next thirty years to make use of its cold climate.

The European Union has proposed the "Ecological Cocoon Project," which aims to build a giant ecological network in the Alps, Pyrenees and other mountain ranges by the middle of this century, covering major industrial areas and cities in Europe. Essentially, it is to build a super-large-scale round soap bubble covering various countries, attempting to simulate the native climate of different regions in Europe, such as restoring the medieval forest ecology of the Paris Basin.

Japan has proposed the "Army Islands Stabilization Project." In order to alleviate concerns about geological instability, Japan, a major member of the Pacific Front, dreams of using ultra-high strength nanofiber composite materials to implant tens of thousands of 20-kilometer-long anchoring posts deep into the earth's crust from its main islands, such as Hokkaido, Honshu, and Kyushu, over a period of 100 years, making the Japanese archipelago a stable island that locks in the earth's crust.

Australian government, South American government, Indian government...

In short.

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As various resources are increasingly concentrated on global resources, the civil engineering industry, after a 200-year slump, is experiencing another boom. Civil engineering graduates are suddenly highly sought-after by major construction companies, earning hourly wages higher than the daily wages of ordinary government employees.

As for graduates in the traditional quantum computing industry, they can only look up at the illustrious civil engineering graduates, regretting why they chose the wrong major four years ago, and then spend the rest of their lives in the virtual world receiving the minimum unemployment benefits from the coalition government, suffering and regretting their mistakes.

Even Luo Qing, after hearing about these welfare systems, adapted the work system of the Human Emperor Banner to the times, and uploaded the scientists who had worked for more than a hundred years to the Digital Republic, giving them a permanent vacation.

(Note: Luo's upload method is not traditional copy and paste, but rather an upload based on the quantum origin.)
Before the crisis of being devoured is resolved, people will still need to undergo mandatory and necessary labor hours to earn certain luxury non-living goods.

Now, the final working hour system has been gradually phased out.

In theory, a person in the new era can play from childhood to old age.

In this era, you can easily fulfill the first six levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs: physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging needs (love in the virtual world is still love), esteem needs, cognitive needs, and aesthetic needs.

Only the need for self-actualization remains.

However, this need can also be easily met. Under an extremely generous welfare system, since everyone is just relaxing, you only need to make a tiny bit of effort to achieve the seventh level of self-actualization.

A young person willing to work becomes the object of fierce competition among countless companies.

(Note: To safeguard social health, the constitution of the United Government stipulates that companies must maintain a certain number of human employees. Companies that fail to meet this standard will face extremely high fines from the United Government. The new era of business competition is all about finding ways to poach employees from competitors.)

For young people, the company's attitude is: if you want to be an artist, we'll hand you a paintbrush; if you want to be a writer, we'll hand you a keyboard; if you want to be a musician, even if you want to play with the Zeng Hou Yi chime bells from the Warring States period, as long as it's not the original, we can make an exact replica for you, even restoring the bronze rust.

Please, please come work for two hours at my company. You can work three days a week, two hours a day. You don't have to do any actual work, just clock in. As long as you're willing to come to work, the company can provide you with anything.

Even so, very few young people still take the initiative to work.

Whenever someone from the Common Era tells a modern person a story about companies from their time, the modern person's first reaction is disbelief.

Holy crap, how could your company back then be so awful?

Aren't capitalists all kind-hearted people?
Thus, people of the Common Era, especially those who hibernate after 2025, introduced modern people to a novel set in the Common Era.

During the Common Era, there was a very popular urban fantasy novel called "Kunxu," which combined the then-popular fantasy culture with a capitalist, ultimate style. The unique features of Kunxu depicted in the novel greatly shocked the new generation.

Because fulfilling the seventh level of self-actualization is too simple.

This led psychologists to develop an eighth theory of needs: the need for self-transcendence.

This barely stumped most people.

Surpassing oneself has always been the most difficult thing.

People like a former NATO commander-in-chief who rose from a low-ranking soldier to the interim commander of the European Fleet, or someone with exceptional self-control who was able to rise to the top levels of government or even become a national leader under extremely rigorous vetting, or a self-made business tycoon, all belong to this category of ruthless individuals.

Contemporary human civilization still maintains sufficient mobility among social classes, ensuring that ordinary people always have ample channels to move up in the political, economic, and cultural spheres.

This liquidity is monitored by MOSS.

Despite the fact that high welfare systems lead most people to become complacent, it is illegal for any private entertainment company on Earth to promote "entertainment for the masses." Whether it is the United Government or the three major fleets, they are still encouraging and promoting the hard-working spirit of humanity.

Even within society, under the influence of the people and some organizations, the excellent historical spirit of hundreds of years ago continues to be passed down, and this widespread propaganda has played a significant role in this society.

This positive propaganda also ensures that ordinary people in the grassroots of human society are always awakened and actively transforming into the elite class, thus guaranteeing the advancement and elite nature of the upper echelons of human society.

Even the slogan "No pain, no gain" has always been displayed in the basic education system of mankind.

In this era, if you want to achieve an ecological class leap, you only need to put in a tiny bit more effort than those who enjoy the benefits, and you can immediately reap rich rewards.

Unfortunately, the majority of people still crave the virtual world.

A very interesting little thing: although Luo Qing has gone into seclusion, he still erected a message board at the entrance of the Wallfacer's Courtyard. This message board has no barriers, and travelers from all over the world can use it to make pilgrimages, confide in others, ask questions, or even question others.

The message board is not directly managed by any government organization; it is controlled directly by the "Puritans" of the Byrochin sect.

These "Puritans" are also die-hard fans of Islam from all walks of life. However, compared with other non-secular religions, this new era religion has no rules or restrictions. In addition to people, cats can believe, dogs can believe, and even sparrows in the sky, dolphins in the water, dinosaurs on land, and even glowing creatures walking around with nuclear fusion reactors on the roadside can be worshipped.

The only restriction the Baroness Church placed on its message board was that it did not allow insults directed at Baroness.

Of course, nobody usually does that.

Non-human creatures are not subject to these restrictions, since you don't know what that flashing, glowing thing is saying in its so-called 'light language'.

What's even more interesting is that Luo Qing answers every question. Even when he's in seclusion, he still replies to these inquiries from all over the world at a rate of tens of thousands of replies per second.

According to the public pronouncements of the Pope of the Byroic Church, Byroic responses to messages on the message board are done manually by a highly sensitive quantum computer, demonstrating great sincerity and not by an AI personality. Anyone who does not believe this can apply to view the surveillance footage of Byroic's meditation room.

So some people actually checked the surveillance footage and uploaded the images to the internet.

In the surveillance video, Luo Qing sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, his left hand resting in front of him, while his right hand moved like a phantom, frantically typing on the keyboard. Small sonic booms kept appearing above the keyboard as his fingers tapped so fast. He was genuinely and diligently replying to messages from all over the world.

Even questions about glowing puffies will be answered with flashing replies on the message board.

Truly, he is a sage.

The travelers who leave messages on the message board range from heads of state to roadside idiots, and naturally include some highly influential people in society.

A female leader from the grassroots organization Old Star Anchor once typed a question into the message board.

[Luo Qing, the Wallfacer, why don't you use your influence to get the world moving, to get the vast majority of people to realize their value, to work, to strive, instead of wasting their lives in a meaningless virtual world?]

Luo Qing's reply to her was:
Everything has meaning, including living in the virtual world. The fact that most people are immersed in the virtual world rather than the real world only proves one thing: the real world isn't good enough, and that's my fault! If every individual in this world could have their wishes fulfilled, why would anyone seek happiness in the virtual world? Ultimately, it's because reality isn't good enough, and I, as a cultivator, haven't done enough. I should sincerely reflect on myself!

The questioner remained silent.

(End of this chapter)