The Great Depression was terrifying.
Famine raged everywhere.
People died every day.
Driven by the pangs of hunger, humans turned into beasts, gnawing raw on the corpses of their fellow beings.
In this era, slogans such as civilization, freedom, democracy, and human rights all became a pathetic joke.
Under the guise of the big picture of fighting alien civilization, the higher-ups demanded that the public surrender their rights infinitely.
They turned a blind eye as various military-industrial enterprises wantonly discharged pollution.
They used the military to control food and water, turning the whole world into a complete mess.
The Emperor, who burst onto the scene with charismatic leadership and a hardline stance, attracted countless people trapped in despair.
His speeches spread like wildfire, igniting the emotions of the populace everywhere and breeding a spirit of rebellion.
The Earth-Trisolaris Organization—ETO—also stoked the flames from the shadows, attempting to plunge humanity into endless infighting so it would be powerless to resist the Lord they served.
Realizing that the Emperor would never join them, the elites of the United Federation publicly declared the Emperor guilty of crimes against humanity.
They publicly denounced him for spreading reactionary ideas at a critical moment when humanity was uniting against alien civilization, calling him a running dog of alien civilizations attempting to consume human strength through internal friction.
The Emperor did not back down either.
He accused the United Federation of betraying its citizens.
He denounced how they used the so-called big picture to ruthlessly squeeze the lowest classes without bottom lines, leaving them starved and unclothed.
Before the enemy has even arrived, those poor souls are going to die at the hands of stupid politicians and ambitious careerists. They don't care about the life or death of Earth's civilization, nor do they care about the life or death of ordinary people.
If you let them continue messing around like this, not only will we fail to resist alien civilization, but we will destroy the Earth and destroy human civilization!
My compatriots, stand up and cry out! Raise your hands and rebel! Compatriots with a conscience, pick up your weapons, save our Earth, save human civilization, and give those unborn children a home.
We must overthrow those parasitic governments and establish a new regime where everyone is equal and united against the outside.
The Emperor's words were extremely seductive, inciting millions of young men and women.
They shouted various slogans, vowing to overthrow the old government and establish a new-era government.
A government that could at least guarantee their survival until the Doomsday Battle and possess the capability to counterattack the Trisolaris Civilization.
Among those who joined the Emperor, besides ordinary men and women, there was no shortage of social elites who commanded vast resources and professional skills.
They brought resources, intelligence, and various weapons and equipment.
Some even stole nuclear warheads.
If the United Federation dared to launch a nuclear strike against them, they would respond in kind.
They would stop at nothing, even if it meant shattering this world.
The deepest labyrinth of the Earth's internet.
The Trisolaris virtual world was running quietly.
A group of ETO members had gathered here, discussing the impending war.
After Evans died during Operation Guzheng, the ETO suffered a devastating blow.
When humanity proposed the Wallfacer Project, the Trisolarists, feeling threatened, restarted the ETO.
These Adventists, who were willing to die for the Trisolaris Civilization, gathered together once again.
The original ETO was divided into three factions: the Adventists, the Salvationists, and the Survivors.
Adventists: Hoped for the arrival of the Trisolaris Civilization to thoroughly cleanse the sinful human civilization.
Salvationists: Hoped for the arrival of the Trisolaris Civilization to save human civilization as it plunged into the abyss.
Survivors: Hoped that after the arrival of the Trisolaris Civilization, they would be kept as puppet troops or human traitors.
Under the crackdowns of various countries, the Salvationists completely collapsed, and the Survivors split off to form an independent force.
The current ETO was left with only Adventist members.
The Wallbreakers they dispatched had already defeated the Wallfacers Rey Diaz and Taylor.
The remaining matches were the showdown between Aristotle and Bill Shi'ens, as well as Luo Ji, whom the Lord regarded as the greatest threat.
"Humanity is always so foolish." Qin Shi Huang stood on a rock, holding that classic longsword in his hand.
"I thought the Great Depression was already their bottom line, but now I realize it was just the beginning."
"As soon as the war breaks out, we will figure out a way to make the warring parties drop nuclear bombs, turning the Earth into a nuclear wasteland and completely ruining human civilization."
"The descending Lord can then easily capture the entire Solar System and live happily here ever after."
"We still cannot let down our guard." Einstein said, "This fellow who calls himself the Emperor has a very mysterious origin. We only know that the other party walked out of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau; we know nothing about where he went to school, where he worked, or what his interpersonal relationships are like."
"Did Sophon not investigate detailed information on this person?" Confucius asked.
Einstein shook his head.
"Sophon can monitor the entire Earth, but the problem is that the information generated every second is too massive, compounded by the fact that it also has to compute and restrict human scientific research activities."
"Therefore, some unimportant information is cleared out at regular intervals to reserve more storage space."
Monitoring a planet was no simple matter, and the information Sophon needed to record every second was astronomical.
Quantum Induction Arrays could transmit information across distances, ignoring space.
However, this method of information transmission was similarly restricted by the laws of physics.
A transmission limit existed.
It was impossible to transmit infinite information simultaneously.
Besides, the information Sophon sent back was handed over to computers for processing.
The Trisolarans were also incapable of processing such massive amounts of information.
Much less monitor every single person simultaneously.
The existence of Sophon merely installed a camera next to every human.
That did not mean the Trisolarans could stare at humans twenty-four hours a day.
"Have Sophon increase its attention on this fellow; forget about past matters."
Qin Shi Huang said, "From now on, we must have a clear grasp of what this guy does every day."
"All comrades must remember our goal, which is to allow the Lord to easily take over this world."
"Humanity is already hopeless, and the Earth should belong to Trisolaris."
The war broke out.
The elites of the United Federation applied relentless pressure, attempting to force the Emperor to submit.
The Emperor, however, never thought of peaceful coexistence from the very beginning and aimed straight for war.
The two sides rapidly escalated from accidental friction to an all-out war.
At first, the elites of the United Federation were supremely confident.
They thought that a modern military integrating sea, land, and air would easily crush the rabble organized by the Emperor.
However, as soon as the war began, their confidence vanished, and they began to doubt reality.
The Emperor's incitement was simply too powerful.
Even within the Federation's military, there were followers of the other side constantly providing intelligence.
This led to successive disastrous defeats for the military, turning them into a routed mob.
The United Federation collapsed like a falling mountain, continually contracting its defense lines and losing territory one after another.
Later on, the President and his staff advisory group grew frantic with rage.
Claiming that everyone who defected to the Emperor had betrayed the great Federation, they issued orders to drop nuclear bombs on them.
This command became the final straw that broke the Federation's back.
As the known strongest weapon, nuclear bombs would inevitably cause massive casualties once unleashed.
Soldiers who still held a glimmer of hope for the United Federation defected to the other side one after another.
The general who received the nuclear launch order refused to execute it, unwilling to shoulder such a towering sin.
Once a nuclear bomb was launched, it would undoubtedly trigger a chain reaction.
As the final army group chose to surrender,
the United Federation declared its demise two months after the war began.
The Emperor announced the establishment of the Human Empire, issuing ultimatums to various countries and demanding they join.
"An other-universe version of the Human Empire." Raven shouted excitedly, "When we merge the two Human Empires at some point, we can get a Level 2 Human Empire."
By announcing the establishment of the Human Empire, the Emperor reached five percent progress on the Trisolaran Universe's Destiny Node.
Raven reaped a massive amount of origin power as a result.
Reward notifications also appeared on the Emperor's side.
Destiny Node changed by 5%, acquired Quantum Sensing Array Communication Technology, Sophon Manufacturing Technology and related knowledge, Thought Imprint Technology.
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