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

Chapter 74 Curse Virus
Luo Qing had no way of verifying whether a symbiotic civilization of dinosaurs and ants existed.

Dinosaurs have fossils as evidence of their existence, but ants have nothing left.

Ant civilization is like water spilled on cement; it evaporates under the sun and disappears without a trace.

For humankind, 6500 million years is a very long timeframe. The total history of human evolution is only about 200 million years, and the recorded history of human civilization is only about 5000 years. The history of modern civilization is even shorter, only a few hundred years.

For Luo Qing, 6500 million years was also a very long time. In the cultivation world of his previous life, the average age of the Tribulation Transcending stage cultivators who were hailed as ancient was only around 1 years. There were only two Mahayana stage cultivators who were hailed as very ancient, and both of them lived more than 10 years ago.

I've never heard of a time quantifier like 6500 million years.

The Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago, is just one geological period on Earth. Earth™ has a total of five such geological periods.

Eon, era, period, epoch, period.

The period is only the third type. The eon, as the largest geological time unit, has four parts, with the oldest being the Hadean eon, which dates back to 4 billion years ago.

These time units, often measured in billions of years, made Luo Qing realize the scale of time once again. This led him to think about the time scale of the universe, which is already 138 billion years old. Aside from Earth's civilization and the Trisolaran civilization, how many other civilizations have merely existed for a fleeting moment in this vast world?

One can imagine that if the symbiotic civilization of dinosaurs and ants during the Cretaceous period truly existed, it must have been a very brilliant civilization.

However, such a civilization has left only a few metal fragments on Earth as a trace of its existence.

Of course, the dragon-ant symbiotic civilization is currently just a conjecture, without any substantial evidence to support it.

Whether this judgment can be put into practice still requires human effort.

The problem now is that it seems only one human is working on this.

Luo Qing stared at King Wen of Zhou, lost in thought.

"Professor Zhou, what is your ID in the Three-Body Problem game?"

"...You don't even know my ID in the Three-Body Problem game?" King Wen of Zhou was devastated.

"How would I know? I've never met you in the Three-Body game, except for Qin Shi Huang. I only know that you have a connection with ETO by combining various clues. As for the Trisolarans' evaluation of the dinosaur problem, you once mentioned this to people in ETO. This is one of the many pieces of information that the PDC has about ETO. Because it involves the Trisolarans, it was preserved and then I found out about it."

"My game ID in 'The Three-Body Problem' is 'King Wen of Zhou'."

"Wow, they both have the surname Zhou."

"King Wen of Zhou was Ji Chang, whose surname was Ji."

"Pretty much, aren't you also named Zhou Chang?"

Looking at the dinosaur fossil skeleton before him, Luo Qing pondered for a moment: "Professor Zhou, I won't make things difficult for you. I can sense that you have no karma, so no one should die because of you. I heard that Professor Ye Wenjie had a good relationship with you before retiring from Tsinghua University, but that's alright. On the other hand, I do need you to continue your research on the possibilities of dinosaur civilization. As for your position and role in ETO, I don't care about it, and it's not important."

King Wen of Zhou nodded.

Luo Qing then asked, "Professor Zhou, I heard that you haven't been promoted to full professor yet?"

Upon hearing this, King Wen of Zhou, who had spent most of his life as an associate professor, nodded with a bitter expression.

Luo Qing said, "Well then, Professor Zhou, I'll point you in a direction for promotion to full professor. If nothing unexpected happens, the reason your theory about dinosaur civilization has been repeatedly rejected is probably because the reviewers felt your theory had flaws. They didn't believe that clumsy, massive dinosaurs could develop such sophisticated civilizations. Now you just need to use ants to fill in that gap, and getting it published shouldn't be difficult." Zhou Wenwang said, "You seem even more eager than I am to prove the existence of dinosaur civilization?"

Luo Qing nodded: "Yes, I want to strike a blow to humanity's pride as the 'crown of creation,' to make them realize that humanity is not only not the protagonist of the universe, but not even Mother Earth's first child."

King Wen of Zhou said, "That's a very hurtful thing to say."

"There's no other way. Only by periodically undermining humanity's confidence can we promote the healthy development of civilization. This is the most important step in resisting the Trisolaran invasion."

"The Trisolarans are listening here."

"Let them hear whatever they want."

...

Copernicus and Ptolemy strolled through the streets of Taiyuan.

“Copernicus and Luo Ji are in hibernation, before our plans can be implemented,” Ptolemy said.

Copernicus looked at the bustling streets of Taiyuan and said, "Whether he hibernates or not will not affect our plan to kill him. How is your curse program coming along?"

"It's not going well. I feel like my Curse 2.0 has hit a serious bottleneck. Even after the upgrade, it's almost useless. It can't even beat 360's security antivirus program," Ptolemy said.

Copernicus shook his head: "Don't just keep revolving around your Earth. Look up at the sun more often and try releasing Curse 2.0. Even if it gets wiped out by 360's protection program, you can still gain some experience. Based on that experience, you can make some minor tweaks and maybe even create Curse 3.0."

“What good would it do to come up with Curse 3.0?” Ptolemy said. “The Internet of Things is not advanced enough yet. I feel that even if my Curse 3.0 is iterated out, it won’t be very useful in today’s society, which is mainly reliant on manual labor.”

Ptolemy pointed to Taiyuan. In 2015, in this most developed city in the world: cars were driven by people, shops were guarded by employees, bank branches had long queues, shopping carts in supermarkets needed to be pushed by people, and even the two beggars on the street were all manually propelled.

Interestingly, the two ragged beggars, who seemed to be novelists, were fighting over a plate of spoiled dumplings. Ptolemy, feeling sorry for them, went to a nearby shop and bought them two loaves of bread.

"I didn't expect you to be so kind-hearted," Copernicus mocked.

Ptolemy's expression remained unchanged: "My simple worldview is based on my kindness."

Copernicus scoffed again: "Women have a unique self-logic, focusing only on themselves and ignoring the objective world."

Ptolemy walked over, and she affectionately took Copernicus's arm, her tone sweet and gentle: "You talk like you're something special, do you really consider the heliocentric theory your own achievement?"

Copernicus chuckled coldly: "Let's go, buy a ticket to Antarctica, see if we can infiltrate the Antarctic hibernation base, find Luo Ji's hibernation pod with a hammer, smash it, and kill him."

Ptolemy said, "I won't stop you if you want to die."

Copernicus said, "Then loosen your grip a little; your football-sized chest is pressing against me."

Ptolemy said coquettishly, "That's gravity."

Copernicus pulled his hand away in disgust: "Gravity isn't a pair either. Let's go back. You continue tinkering with your curse virus and be a good curse warrior. I'll take charge of how to attack the Antarctic hibernation base. Don't be fooled by the fact that the organization has been wiped out. As long as Qin Shi Huang, the Wallbreaker, Newton, and the others are alive, the organization's sky won't fall."

(End of this chapter)