Once billions of people across the world had been fully mobilized, the resulting transformation in productivity was visible to the naked eye. After losing a precious sophon in the incident at the United Nations conference hall, the Trisolarans grew cautious. They no longer dared send sophons to spy on humanity's classified facilities, since the priests responsible for security there could unleash divine spells at any time.
The spells came without any warning or prelude. When a sophon was struck by one in a Secret Laboratory and forcibly reduced in dimension again, a quick-thinking Astartes warrior blew it apart with a single shot. After that, the Trisolarans finally learned to behave.
Nanite Robots were strategic equipment, and even the Trisolarans had few of them. After losing two on Earth, they had no choice but to abandon their attempts to interfere with humanity's high-energy particle experiments and instead gather public information to keep track of humanity's movements.
Then they discovered a horrifying sight. Faced with the imminent threat of extinction, the once-fragmented Human World had united and unleashed unprecedented efficiency, embarking on mass industrial production.
In the past, uneven development on Earth had left the world with only a handful of industrialized nations. Now, under the coordination of the Dawn Church and the five great powers, industrial bases were springing up all over the globe. All kinds of new machinery and equipment, never seen or heard of before, were cropping up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.
Humanity's vitality was evident in the ever-rising number of new patents and inventions around the world.
Crisis Era Year Four, just one year after the Wallfacer Project.
At the Jinwu Project base in East Continent, Wallfacer An Yunfei and a group of scientists stood before the base's screens, silently watching engineers busily inspecting the