Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 632 - 628 A Relatively "Generous" Price

"You engineers should take a break occasionally! Always working overtime like this, you might just snap and rebel!"

On this day, Zhang Yuan joked to the electronic screen.

The community mobilization was proceeding orderly, and he had also learned some medical skills and emergency spaceship repairs.

Even if the Mother Ship were destroyed, by utilizing escape spaceships, part of the population could be saved.

It’s always better to be safe than sorry.

The person on the screen was Ye Kaifu, the leader of the underground engineering team. This guy was even busier than Zhang Yuan, always covered in dust and dirt.

"Rebel? How could that happen? Everyone is happy, the faster we build, the happier everyone is!" Ye Kaifu laughed, "We must protect this War Star! If we can’t, then everyone might just rebel."

"That makes sense..."

"I watched a recent military interview, the content was very serious. What’s the situation outside? Can we beat them? This general has been beating around the bush on TV and ultimately didn’t answer the question."

"Haha, you want to know? That’s classified; I won’t divulge it!"

"Could we actually lose?"

Zhang Yuan’s smile faded as he looked out the window at the bleak, gray War Star, accompanied by an increasing number of small Guardian-class military spaceships.

These were mostly armies in training.

He still didn’t know if humans would be able to complete the curvature engine construction of this Planet Fortress and escape the area.

"In terms of paper strength, we are indeed weaker; we don’t even have a War Star... But war is not just about paper strength, it’s also about the casualty rate that can be endured."

"A civilization that can endure a 5% casualty rate is very different from one that can endure 50%. You’ve heard it on the program as well."

"Alright, alright, I’ve got the gist...go on with your work. I won’t bother you anymore."

Ye Kaifu ended the call, just clenching his fist in secret, hoping to hold on a little longer.

...

The days, filled with uneasy quiet, rushed by.

On this day, the Diplomatic Department of the New Human Civilization suddenly received a notice from the military: An Alien Spaceship was situated near the Human Air Defense Identification Zone, requesting diplomatic dialogue!

This was very rare, extremely rare.

Since adopting the strategy of "verbal bashing" at the federation conference, the New Human Civilization had hardly engaged in any diplomatic communication.

All civilizations stayed far away from humans, fearing to provoke this "hedgehog."

Regarding such a request, the New Human Side naturally did not dare to delay and quickly dispatched a spaceship, loaded with over 50 diplomats, to engage in dialogue.

Near the New Human’s Air Defense Identification Zone, numerous drones and early-warning aircraft wandered, all unlit, in a semi-static, semi-stealth state, barely noticeable in the dim starry sky.

Yet, they were the primary force of frontline defense, able to detect any approaching alien spaceships...

After a full day of dialogue, the diplomats on this spaceship returned with significant news.

"...It’s the civilization that purchased the thesis on Extra Color Perception, named the Apollo Civilization. They want to purchase more, specifically technologies relating to Intelligence."

"However, we did not provide such things and rejected their request..."

"At this point, better to have less trouble than more. Sigh."

Normally, such a trade request would be very common, people would welcome it, but now it felt a bit strange.

"Is that so... What is this civilization thinking, coming here for exchange at this time?" Captain Feng asked, feeling somewhat incredulous, "Could it be that they’ve encountered a problem? Are they urgently in need of this technology?"

The diplomat spoke again, "Perhaps it’s because the papers we sold them in the past didn’t fully meet their needs... After being refused, they now want to exchange about the Extra Perception Technology."

"They want to meet our scientists for a technological dialogue... They said there are some unclear points in those papers, and they demand a series of explanations, the specific issues are in this spreadsheet..."

"Unclear points? That can’t be right..."

"Wasn’t the initial trade done through the Amoeba Faction’s market as an intermediary platform?"

Zhang Yuan frowned, pondering what the Apollo Civilization was up to, choosing this time to delve into scientific research?

Still, since he had written the papers himself, he patiently reviewed the opponent’s problem descriptions. If he could provide answers, he would just do so and quickly send them off.

In the end, he shook his head, "These issues are not within the scope of the Extra Colors paper. If we answered everything, it would lead to an entirely different direction. They could gain the entirety of Extra Perception! There are things we ourselves don’t fully understand; they are trying to get something for nothing!"

"Unless they pay more AmiBa Points, we could answer some of it."

But this civilization would surely be aware of this, certainly not making such requests aimlessly, they likely came with a specific purpose.

Highly suspicious!

Captain Feng stood up and asked, "How did they make their offer?"

"They haven’t yet, just requesting to exchange with scientists."

"After the exchange, how will the transaction be conducted? Will it use AmiBa Points?"

"Probably... I guess."

"Now that there is no intermediary platform, do we first give them the papers, or do they give us AmiBa Points first? How can both sides trust each other?"

These problems are unavoidable thresholds.

If neither side can trust the other, then they simply can’t transact. It’s a simple truth.

Li Zhendong suddenly wondered, "Or perhaps, the Apollo Civilization wants to entice us to join their forces?"

Diplomat Old Yang replied, "I don’t know... They haven’t explicitly said so, just wanting to acquire that aspect."

"We’ve clearly stated, the new humans don’t have that content! But they are still dawdling."

A general slapped the table, "Then just flat-out refuse them! Do we need to beat around the bush?"

After a while, Captain Feng nodded, "Alright then, we’ll send an electromagnetic wave, tell them to leave quickly... and keep the tone somewhat polite."

After sending this electromagnetic wave, the alien spaceship lingering near the New Human Civilization’s Air Defense Identification Zone didn’t stay any longer and quickly left.

"Hope it’s just this civilization suddenly going brain-dead..."

Seeing this scene, Zhang Yuan frowned, vaguely feeling something was amiss.

Then a month later, this civilization came back, unexpectedly wanting to purchase the Planet Fortress that humans were developing!

And they even offered a relatively "generous" price: 1500 AmiBa Points!

This price indeed sounded reasonable, considering the original price paid by humans for the War Star wasn’t as high.

If truly sold, it could unexpectedly earn some money.

But humans had already been developing it for a while and didn’t want to sell it for a small profit in AmiBa Points.

This planet was a capital for future development. Selling it for a small gain and trying to buy another one would be exceedingly difficult.