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Chapter 193 Cretaceous Past
About an hour later, the screen in the conference room suddenly lit up, and the messenger of the Devourer Civilization, Big Tooth, appeared on the screen.
"Hahaha, you awful jellyfish, we meet again!"
Upon hearing the other party's address, the assembled Trisolaran high-ranking members felt a surge of adrenaline.
This wasn't their first encounter with Big Tooth. Hundreds of years ago, Big Tooth had invited the Trisolarans to join the Carbon-Based Federation and become a subordinate civilization like the Devourer Civilization.
However, the Trisolaran civilization refused and fought a battle with the Devourer civilization, but neither side was able to defeat the other in the end.
However, if this were today, the Devourer civilization would be easily defeated by the Trisolaran civilization, with a civilizational gap of about one level between them.
This is also one of the fundamental reasons why the Trisolaran civilization refused to join the carbon-based federation!
Dependency theory!
Once one civilization exerts a dependency theory on another, the upper limit of the level of that civilization will depend on the upper limit of the level of the suppressed civilization.
This is why carbon-based federations were able to emerge under the Dark Forest Theory.
Dependency theory is essentially a one-way security declaration from one civilization to another. It is a means of self-emasculating one's own future development in order to demonstrate absolute security to its superior civilization.
The carbon-based federation is a community of civilizations formed by these dependent civilizations, allowing fragile civilizations to huddle together for warmth in the dark forest of the universe.
Unfortunately for the Devourer Civilization, the one that exerted its dependence theory on them was a Level 3 civilization.
Moreover, it seems that there has been no progress for almost 30,000 years. The reason is that the Federal Parliament civilization, which is suppressing them, is stuck at level 4 and cannot continue to upgrade.
This is a dead end: as long as the top-level civilization does not complete its upgrade, none of the subsequent subordinate civilizations can advance to a higher level.
Even if a more advanced civilization wanted to help you, it couldn't. The dependency theory was blocking you. Every civilization's technology tree grew from the root of the dependency theory. Unless you chose to sever all the roots of your civilization and start from level 0, you couldn't bypass the dependency theory.
Hundreds of years ago, before the Trisolaran civilization had even reached Level 2, it encountered the Devouring Civilization. Hundreds of years later, the Trisolaran civilization successfully broke through to Level 2, but the Devourers remained the same Devourers, without making any progress. This clearly shows that joining the Carbon-Based Federation would be a near-catastrophic disaster for the development of the entire civilization.
"Big Tooth, stop talking nonsense, you know why we're here!"
The military governor said coldly that they found communicating with this guy a real headache and wanted to end the call as soon as possible.
"How many times have I told you not to call me Big Tooth? My name is Daya. You disgusting creatures from the ocean are not only unpalatable but also talkative. I really hate you!"
When Da Ya said this, he even made a face as if he wanted to vomit.
Back when he was fighting the Trisolaran civilization, Big Tooth once tried to bite into a Trisolaran. The taste was so bad that it made him want to vomit, and he never forgot it. That's how he got his nickname, Big Tooth.
"I never expected that after hundreds of years, you would suddenly come to ask for the Federation's assistance. It seems that those little insects on Earth have caused quite a bit of trouble for you marine creatures."
Upon hearing this, the military governor couldn't help but retort.
"What right do you have to laugh at us? It's as if you weren't driven off your home planet by humans from Earth. At the very least, we failed in our invasion, while you lost your own home. How dare you laugh at others?"
These were truly harsh words. Da Ya was clearly angered by the military governor's words and snorted coldly.
"Hmph, then we at least once possessed Earth for about 100 million years, and defeated the ant civilization in the Cretaceous period. If it weren't for the observers interfering, how could we have been driven off our home planet by a bunch of hairless monkeys?"
Speaking of this, a sense of fear welled up in Daya's heart. Although he was not born in the Cretaceous period, he had learned about that battle from history books.
As early as the Cretaceous period, the Devourer Civilization occupied the Earth. They were the earliest masters of the Earth, or, to use a more familiar name, dinosaurs!
The Devourers and the ant civilization fought for control of Earth for many years, almost throughout the entire Cretaceous period. Although the ant civilization was small in number, it had the advantage of being numerous. The Devourers civilization only narrowly defeated the ant civilization at the last moment.
Just when the Devourer thought it would have complete ownership of this beautiful blue planet, that man appeared!
Lin Xuan!
Around 50 million years ago, this guy suddenly appeared on Earth and, without saying a word, proceeded to utterly crush the entire Devouring Empire.
At that time, the Devouring Empire's technological level was around the nuclear age. They had just mastered controlled nuclear fusion technology and were preparing to explore interstellar space when he single-handedly slaughtered nearly 80% of their people.
The Empire had used up almost all of its nuclear weapons, but to this man, their prized weapon was nothing more than a small flame that could be extinguished at will.
At that moment, the Devouring Empire was filled with despair.
But Lin Xuan had no intention of killing them all; instead, she gave them two choices.
Either the entire race is reduced to unintelligent creatures and domesticated, or they are forced to leave Earth.
The Devouring Empire chose the latter, building its own spaceship and fleeing Earth with its entire race, becoming homeless wanderers in the vast universe.
Later, after they were taken in as a vassal civilization by a Level 3 civilization of the Carbon-Based Federation, they learned that Lin Xuan was an observer of a higher-level civilization.
Unfortunately, their own planet became the experimental vessel chosen by the other side.
So they were kicked out of their own home.
Where does this make sense?
The good news, however, was that they learned that once the experiment began, Lin Xuan, as the observer, was not allowed to interfere with the progress of any civilization, not even if her race was wiped out by another civilization.
So, hundreds of years ago, the Devouring Civilization, filled with hatred, set sail with a fleet straight for the solar system, with the aim of descending upon Earth, slaughtering all of humanity, and reclaiming control of the planet.
In this way, even Lin Xuan couldn't say anything.
As it turns out, the Devourer Civilization seems to have an inherent tendency to be unlucky. Not only was their home taken over, but when they finally went to take revenge on the humans who had occupied their home, they encountered the Trisolaran Civilization, this unfortunate species, on the way!
At that time, the Trisolaran civilization had just grasped the Dark Forest Theory. When they saw so many fleets passing by Centaurus, they went to fight without saying a word.
The Devourers were completely stunned by the Trisolaran civilization.
I was just passing by, what are you doing here?
Just as the Trisolaran civilization realized that the other party seemed to have no hostility and was about to let the Devourers pass, Ye Wenjie's communication arrived.
Okay, regardless of whether there was hostility before, now there is.
If you want to conquer the Earth, I also want to conquer the Earth. We'll have to fight sooner or later, so let's settle it here!
The Devourers were incredibly unlucky; they fought the Trisolaran civilization for decades, constantly pushing it to become stronger and stronger until it was reduced to a Level 2 civilization.
War is, after all, the best catalyst for technological progress, but while the Trisolarans can upgrade, the Devourers are still stuck at the level of a Type 2 civilization.
Seeing that they couldn't win, the Devouring Civilization simply stopped fighting and didn't bother returning to Earth to seek revenge on Lin Xuan. Instead, they handed over most of the data about the Observers to the Trisolaran Civilization, leaving them to deal with the headaches.
This led to the subsequent meeting between Earth and the Trisolaran civilization, which in turn led to Lin Xuan being recruited and becoming the Fifth Wallfacer.
Everything changed completely from that moment on.