United Nations Decision

The United Nations hastily convened this emergency session at the fastest possible speed.

Yet the first order of business was not how to deal with the alien, but a denunciation of the Pacific Rim Coalition's twenty-one member states by numerous countries.

Many countries believed that the incident had begun with the greed of certain authoritarian figures among those twenty-one nations. Disregarding the danger Earth already faced from invading alien monsters, they had insisted on harming the space alien, provoking his actions against Earth.

The Pacific Rim Coalition's twenty-one member states had to bear primary responsibility for this incident involving the space alien.

A country swiftly called for a vote at the United Nations meeting, arguing that the Pacific Rim Coalition's twenty-one member states must put Earth's safety first, accept blame for this matter, open up their technologies together to advance Earth's technological progress, and face the alien as one. If necessary, they should carry thorny branches on their backs and confess their mistakes to the alien.

By a wide margin of 115 to 78, the vote found the country's proposal reasonable.

The representatives of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council darkened, and directly rejected the proposal by a three-to-two vote, with an additional veto.

Of the Security Council's five permanent seats, three were held by countries from the Pacific Rim Coalition.

The representative of the country that had made the proposal flew into a rage and slammed both hands on the table. He argued that they had to bear the main responsibility. The public outside was condemning them in droves—when peaceful communication had been possible, why had things been forced into hostility? All because of the greed of certain people in power who disregarded Earth.

They had to give all humanity on Earth an explanation.

The Pacific Rim Coalition's twenty-one member states quickly took action. Most presidents and people in power publicly apologized, announced that they would no longer hold positions related to public decision-making or politics, and pledged to devote the rest of their lives to charity in order to make up for their past mistakes.

The public had plenty to complain about, posting directly on official websites around the world, only for their comments to be controlled and deleted one by one. In the end, they went to the space alien's video and found that its comment section had been improved and updated, with all kinds of topics neatly categorized and no deletion of sensitive remarks. They flooded in one after another to vent.

"????"

"Even if they stop being officials, won't they still live better than 99 percent of people?"

"Everyone, let me be honest. If the alien starts a war against Earth because of their decisions, the ones who will die and suffer casualties will absolutely be ordinary civilians. Those people in power who apologized won't have a damn thing happen to them. And ordinary civilians will still have to pick up weapons and protect those people in power."

"Most decisions are made by people who will not be affected by them."

"I believe slogans calling on everyone to defend Earth will appear soon, urging us all to fight bravely and protect the planet."

"Don't lose faith in humanity, this is human nature, human nature!"

"If war breaks out, I will still be an ordinary person defending Earth and protecting humanity."

"Everyone, you're overthinking it. Based on the latest video analysis, Professor Kenra of the Cambridge Computer Institute has calculated that the alien's physical toughness has reached at least an absurd level. If Earth's strongest material has a strength of 10, then the alien's body would have to measure 30 to remain completely unharmed by a Sidewinder Missile."

"At the same time, judging from the tank firing in the video, the alien catching a shell by hand, and the speed at which he went from inside Anchorage Base to outside the plaza, he was moving at around Mach 40."

"And the fastest nuclear missile currently on Earth is only around Mach 28."

"When humanity's strongest weapons cannot threaten the alien at all."

"This war cannot be fought."

"I call it: a massacre!"

"If he wants to, humanity will be slaughtered like livestock."

"So the alien has already been gentle enough by not immediately carrying out a worldwide slaughter."

"Then what does the alien want?"

"Everyone, I have a suggestion. Let's immediately support the space alien's rule over Earth. We can count as his followers and save our worthless lives in one stroke. [doghead.jpg]"

"You're too late. The Space Alien Support Association next door has already surpassed one billion members..."

"Damn it, I awakened too late. I'm joining now."

"Don't lose heart, everyone. Please choose our civilian organization, the Earth Defense Force. Those with strength, contribute strength; those with people, contribute people. Let us fight together to defend Earth. It doesn't matter if you live too far from headquarters. Every cent you give will be used to protect Earth. Earth Defense Swiss account: 613546*3434"

Topic after topic filled the comment section. People from all over the world, anyone who could get online and had a phone, joined the discussion and picked their own preferred topics.

The Space Alien Support Association in particular had the slogan: We are the space alien's staunchest supporters. When he conquers Earth, it will also be the moment we are honored with glory. (As followers, the space alien will surely need us, and we will not die in this war.)

In an instant, the Space Alien Support Association had seized upon the public's greatest concern—their personal safety. Those who joined it immediately felt far more at ease.

Many entire families, from young to old, even joined together.

Whether it was real or not, they would join first and leave a good impression on the alien.

Especially after experts analyzing the videos all concluded that Earth had no hope in a direct confrontation with the alien, the public grew even more terrified.

But now that they had joined the Space Alien Support Association, they instantly felt comforted.

They were alien supporters, after all. Surely the alien would not kill them too, right?

All kinds of opinions and discussions emerged endlessly, including the life-preserving psychological comfort of the Space Alien Support Association.

There were also people filled with fierce courage who resolved to resist to the bitter end, forming the Humanity Self-Rescue Heroes Association, believing Earth absolutely could not be handed over to the alien.

There was also the Mutual Destruction Society, which gathered extremists planning to seize control of the world's nuclear weapons and negotiate with the alien, threatening him with Earth itself—if that failed, they would all perish together and leave him with a ruined Earth.

All kinds of differing proposals were brought before the United Nations.

The main issue was that humanity's weapons truly could not catch up with the alien.

And even if they did develop nuclear weapons that could match the alien, they still had serious concerns.

When were nuclear weapons at their most powerful?

Everyone at the United Nations knew that merely seeing the alien's formidable body of steel in the video had already cast a shadow over their hearts.

Soon, the many nations of the United Nations reached a decision. They would temporarily placate the alien with goodwill. If the alien needed a region as his territory, they would see which country's land he took a liking to, let them negotiate internally, and carve out a place for him.

In short, they would lead with goodwill and stall for time. Perhaps, while stalling, they might find the alien's weakness—or perhaps their weapons would advance, and they would develop something capable of killing him.

With the strategic policy decided, the United Nations quickly sent personnel to Anchorage Base, preparing to express apologies for what had happened and offer goodwill to the alien.