Modern people fell into despair, one after another!
"This is the apocalypse—the real version of the apocalypse!"
"You were just bragging about mushroom missiles. Why don't you take them out and fire them now?!"
"What if we can't hit them?"
"Let's be blunt: this is a dimensionality-reduction strike. They can turn invisible and use mental spells, while we're all physical-based. They counter us completely!"
There were still plenty of people who understood the situation.
Modern people had active imaginations. Once they thought it through carefully, they understood.
"At most, we can hold out for ten thousand days. In three years, they'll wipe us out!"
"Serves us right." Some oddballs actually gloated. "Humanity drove large animals extinct. Now it's someone else's turn to drive humanity extinct!"
"Yeah. Humans have only existed for a few million years, yet we killed off large animals that had reproduced for hundreds of millions of years. Killed them clean, ate them clean."
"There are no more large carnivores or major predators. Only lions and tigers remain, and there aren't many of them overall."
"Wait, what are you talking about? We made mistakes, but now everyone knows to protect animals. We've even overcorrected!" someone else retorted.
"That's right. Honestly, if humanity hadn't entered modern society sooner, begun to understand the importance of protecting animals, and implemented extensive conservation measures—"
"Under normal circumstances, lions, tigers, and elephants would have gone extinct before long as well."
People discussed it sorrowfully online.
They felt deeply wronged.
The ancients had committed evil, but people now had put strict protections in place.
They had ensured the normal reproduction of many animals.
In many regions, wolves had returned, wild boars had returned, and all kinds of birds were recovering at astonishing speed in the wilderness and forests.
Once humanity's conservation measures were put