Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 140 Seven-Day Rescue Plan
[Breaking News]

Luo Qing, the Wallfacer, announced a halt to space investment and a full shift towards ecological and economic reconstruction.

(Live report from UN Headquarters)

Today, Luo Qing, the last conscious Wallfacer of human civilization, announced the launch of the "Earth Rebirth Plan" via a global live broadcast. This is the first Wallfacer plan issued by Luo Qing in fifty years.

The Wallfacers demanded an immediate freeze on non-essential space construction projects, with resources instead being concentrated on ecological restoration and economic recovery as part of the plan.

Despite the support of most developing countries, as well as the African Union, ASEAN, and the Latin American alliance, the Wallfacer Project's proposal to "suspend space construction" has sparked controversy within some scientific communities. Astrophysicist Professor Chen pointed out in a commentary: "Suspending the construction of space warships and related preliminary research could cause humanity to lose a critical technological window before the Trisolaran crisis."

In response, the Wallfacer emphasized: "The space-based armed forces that have been developed for fifty years are still no match for me. Under the premise of the Sophon blockade, the so-called 'key technology window' of mankind does not exist. Rather than continuing to move forward on the muddy road with half the results, it is better to stop and take a good rest."

The Wallfacers' decision shattered humanity's space-first strategy since the Trisolaran crisis, triggering a global uproar. In the past week, the Wallfacers organized their second-largest war exercise in history, the results of which fully demonstrated the Wallfacers' correctness and advanced nature.

After a brief discussion, the United Nations, major powers, and supranational organizations successively announced their support for the Wallfacer program.

According to the plan submitted by Wallfacer Luo Qing, the Space Force's ongoing construction of a star-class warship fleet, space city, and extraterrestrial resource extraction projects will be temporarily halted. The saved resources will be used in three main areas:
1. Blue Star Recovery Project: Initiate ecological restoration in regions such as the Amazon rainforest, the South Pacific, North Africa, Siberia, the South Asian subcontinent, North America, East Asia, and Australia, reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration to the level of the crisis era decade within ten years; relocate 47 large-scale controlled nuclear fusion facilities around the world to space to mitigate the Earth's greenhouse effect.

2. Economic Revitalization Plan: Relying on round soap bubbles to assist in surface transformation, while restoring the ecology, vigorously promoting the development of traditional handicrafts, replenishing non-essential goods, revitalizing the private economy, and improving people's living standards until twenty years into the crisis era.

3. Agricultural Revitalization Plan: Luo Qing clearly pointed out that it is an inhumane act to allow ordinary people to consume purely industrial food for a long period of time, and bluntly stated: "What is the difference between this and feeding only fasting pills to the servant disciples?"

Luo Qing explicitly listed "the key task of agricultural modernization" and "the economic recovery project during the Great Depression" as core tasks. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in response to the demands of the Wallfacers, simultaneously released a supporting plan: Within the next five years, a "10 Billion Mu Smart Farmland Plan" will be launched globally, aiming to increase the area of ​​genetically modified crops to 180% of pre-crisis levels within ten years through the promotion of genetically modified crops and the construction of a MOSS-based climate regulation system.

During a live television broadcast, Luo Qing, a Wallfacer, repeatedly emphasized that the Great Depression has indeed arrived, and humanity must confront the problem of "the imbalance of the Earth system caused by excessive space exploration." He stressed that future human civilization cannot be built on the ruins of our home planet. We need to give Earth a period of recovery.

As of press time, four supranational organizations and 77 countries have signed the Earth Regeneration Initiative Cooperation Agreement, and the first batch of ecological restoration projects will be launched in the arid Amazon rainforest and the Pacific Rim industrial belt.

Commentary: Under the shadow of the Trisolaran crisis, Wallfacer Luo Qing's "contraction strategy" is a "deep breath" for civilization. Only Wallfacer Luo Qing can put the brakes on the inertia of the entire civilization's development. This is our good fortune. Perhaps in this protracted braking process, humanity can learn to hear the heartbeat of its home planet—the starting point of all civilization's dreams.

It's time to take a break.
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After the Wallfacer project was announced.

Luo Qing began to use violent means to reshape the Earth's ecology.

The first day of the Wallfacer Project announcement.

A towering, icy sword with a diameter of a thousand feet appeared in the Earth's North Pole. The low temperature, through the interaction of the Earth's atmosphere and ocean currents, brought cold air to the whole world, and the global average temperature dropped to the level of the first year of the Crisis Era.

This summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the 50-degree Celsius heat that often occurred in East Asia quickly disappeared, and summer temperatures of 30 degrees Celsius arrived.

In the sun-baked, withered park, amidst the countless soap bubbles that burst and reformed, people cheered as they ventured outdoors. Cool raindrops fell, and the young people of the new era truly experienced the beautiful, dreamlike summer of the golden age that the older generation spoke of.

The Wallfacer Project was announced the day after it was announced.

A green wooden sword, like an endless tree, was plunged into the Amazon River. The Amazon rainforest revived and was reborn around the green wooden sword. After about six hours, the "lungs of the earth" were completely reshaped, and the rushing Amazon River reawakened the lifeblood of South America.

The deeply grateful Latin Alliance immediately coordinated the creation of a giant, round soap bubble that covered the Amazon rainforest, protecting this hard-won ecological recovery.

The Wallfacer Project was announced on the third day.

Luo Qing arrived in Africa, where the earth was cracked, the land was parched, and wildlife populations were almost completely extinct.

Unlike other regions, the weak African Union is unable to produce a large number of round soap bubbles to combat the deteriorating ecological environment. The few soap bubbles it has are used to protect Egypt and major cities in the Nile River basin. As for the tens of millions of wildlife communities across Africa, it is naturally powerless to protect them and can only hope that the natural ecological reserves established by various countries can preserve the last bit of genes.

Because of the extreme aridity, Africa is one of the most severely desertified regions. Near the equator, the surface temperature in Africa has reached as high as 60 degrees Celsius. Coupled with the extremely dry climate, there are hardly any microorganisms left. As a result, Luo Qing saw a large number of undecomposed mummified wild animal carcasses.

The mummified carcasses of these various large animals did not rot; instead, they gathered in the last dried-up puddle, desperately awaiting their doom. Even Luo Qing clicked his tongue when he sensed the endless migration of medium to large wild animal carcasses in his divine sense.

First, cool down the temperature, then bring rain, and after turning the arid deserts of Africa into muddy land, then sow the seeds of life.

Compared to the Amazon rainforest, Luo Qing will have to work much harder on ecological restoration in Africa for a longer period of time.

Day four of the Wallfacer Project.

middle East.

The Middle Eastern countries, once prosperous due to oil, were nearly destroyed by environmental degradation. They attempted to form the Gulf Alliance, a supranational organization, to unite their forces and save themselves, but failed due to internal conflicts that prevented them from consolidating their power. By the time Luo Qing arrived in the Middle East, the vast peninsula had dwindled to less than a million inhabitants, all struggling for survival and relying entirely on UN aid. The governments of the Middle Eastern countries were practically defunct.

Dubai, once a super-city in the Middle East, has fallen to a similar fate as Taiyuan, becoming a vast, desolate desert.

Luo Qing's understanding of the great downturn has also deepened.

Luo Qing realized that the fact that the United Nations could still keep 70 billion people from collapsing under these circumstances was already quite an achievement.

Day five of the wall-facing project.

Siberia is completely desertified, and Russia, barely clinging to life, is relying on aid from both the European Union and a major southern power...

Day six of the wall-facing project.

The South Asian subcontinent: the Indian government, which has collapsed and rebuilt countless times but ultimately crumbled; regions dependent on the autonomy of various princely states; urban deserts that have suffered several large-scale humanitarian disasters; a social system still entangled in a deadlock due to the caste system; and that stellar nuclear bomb that no one cares about anymore...

New Delhi has been completely destroyed, and the star-shaped nuclear bomb has long been ineffective. Luo Qing silently retrieved the dead nuclear bomb.

Sigh, let's save people first.

Day seven of the wall-facing project.

Australia, almost completely rusted, and the coastal cities near the coast that barely survive on round soap bubbles.

Compared to the previous regions, Australia is slightly less difficult to redevelop, given its smaller population, which is concentrated along the coast.

But Luo Qing became increasingly alarmed the more he tried to reform her.

In this great trough, only three human factions truly stabilized and were able to survive without Luo Qing's intervention: the European Union, East Asia, and the United States. All of them are located near the habitable latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Even the Pacific front led by Russia and Japan was struggling to hold on.

During this major renovation that lasted seven days, Luo Qing quickly realized a problem.

If we were to leave for an extended period of time, Earth's ecosystem would collapse. The Trisolaran crisis has also drawn all of humanity's attention, leaving humanity no time to look back at Earth and making self-salvation completely impossible.

But I can't just stay on Earth as a babysitter forever, can I? Should I stop cultivating in seclusion? How can I become stronger and fight the Trisolaran fleet if I don't cultivate?
It seems like I'm stuck in a vicious cycle, what should I do?
Luo Qing suddenly recalled a prophecy made by the Future Historians school decades ago:

If external forces prevent the true great trough from arriving, then humanity will never be able to take the crucial step of rebirth from the ashes. The birth of some ideas requires the deaths of countless people.

Luo Qing still remembers asking himself, "What kind of idea requires the death of countless people to be born?"

The person's reply was:

"Give civilization to time, not time to civilization."

There were still some late at night.
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