Planetary Museum

For the sake of confidentiality, the meeting was chosen in the dormitory rented by the company.

Xu Yan and Wang Youquan cleaned the living room, moved the dining table, and arranged a circle of seats. The venue was simply set up.

The table is an ordinary dining table, not too big, for five people, plus a computer, it seems just right to sit down.After sitting down, Wu Xiaoqing closed the curtains and turned on the projector.

The ppt was just made by the search and rescue team. It can be regarded as clearly explaining what Wu Xiaoqing saw and heard during this trip.After everyone was seated, the search and rescue team started the meeting.

"...The current situation is that it is impossible for us to use force to force the other party to agree to our request. This is the biggest difference between this mission and the previous missions," said the search and rescue team after briefly introducing their current situation. Made a concluding statement, "This means that, in this mission, our lives... are even difficult to guarantee."

"From the point of view of intelligence, these two civilizations are obviously civilized countries." Shen Changwen is more optimistic. "As long as we don't anger them when we are not sure, we should not take any action against us."

"Civilized countries..." Yevgeny obviously had a different opinion on this, "Every country at war is a beast."

Wang Youquan and Xu Yan looked at each other in blank dismay. The thoughts they had before coming to the meeting were all replaced by fear.After hearing the search and rescue team mention that life was in danger this time, both of them read a meaning from each other's colliding eyes: "Really?"

On the ppt, at this time, Wu Xiaoqing asked the search and rescue team to draw a simulation map of the opponent's spaceship based on his own memory.

"In terms of size, such a spaceship is several times larger than our aircraft carrier," said Yevgeny, who is a half-arms expert and is particularly interested in these alien aircraft, "not to mention that it can directly It took off vertically... Do you know how much energy is required to push such a heavy object into orbit? This is not just a matter of energy, but also the heat resistance of the spacecraft engine itself... Such a large volume, at such a high altitude It has not disintegrated under the acceleration... You must know that the aircraft carrier floats on the water. It is difficult to maintain its own structure when it is so large... To achieve the level shown in the picture is very difficult for our existing technology. It’s unimaginable on a level.”

"If a spaceship like this comes here, it can sweep the entire earth," Shen Changwen added, "It is impossible for our missiles to catch up with it in a vacuum..."

Wu Xiaoqing noticed the atmosphere at the venue and made a joke: "Now it seems that we are not going to invade them, but they are coming to invade us."

Before the meeting, Shen Changwen chatted with the search and rescue team. He probably knew that Wu Xiaoqing had changed a spaceship, so he asked, "Then let me introduce our intrusion tools."

Then it was time for the introduction of the search and rescue team.

To put it simply, the spaceship that Civilization A gave to Wu Xiaoqing was a rescue ship used by Civilization of the search and rescue team.As a rescue ship, one of the most important features is that there are no weapons on board.

The material of the ship comes from ion spraying, which is a relatively high-end manufacturing mode in the civilization of the search and rescue team.The specific method is a bit similar to 3D printing, the difference is that the basic equipment for printing uses equipment similar to high-energy accelerators, which first add materials at ultra-high speed, and then directly hit the target area as needed.The materials manufactured by this technology have almost reached the limit of physical design-the atomic structure inside the material is carefully built, and the atoms and molecules that make up the material are coded like bricks.

According to the search and rescue team, the biggest feature of this manufacturing method is that the manufacturing speed is very slow—of course, it is slower than the civilization of the search and rescue team.Such a spaceship would have taken 30 years at that time—imagine, relying on ions to continuously hit the target area, accumulate them, and finally form a solid material with a certain thickness.It can almost be said that the entire spacecraft is "woven" layer by layer with atomic looms.

Compared with the craftsmanship that Wu Xiaoqing learned from c civilization, this kind of craftsmanship is still obviously advanced.But there is no absolute advantage - the physics of this universe has an upper limit after all, no matter how strong a material is, it is impossible to exceed the limit definition of physics.As far as the ordinary material world is concerned, the search and rescue ship used by the search and rescue team, which is suitable as a spaceship material, has already reached the apex of technology.Going up, whether it is the pursuit of sturdiness or lightness, there may be better options, but they are not particularly suitable for spaceships.

If the pursuit of indestructibility is blindly pursued, the civilization to which the search and rescue team belongs may be able to use pure neutrons as the material for the fortress—this material may be able to build an indestructible planet, but it is obviously impossible if it is used on a spacecraft—this The flexibility of this spaceship will be reduced to a minimum, and in the end it can only become a living target.Although the neutron material is dense and strong, as long as the energy of the attack is sufficient, it can still be broken down.

Only from the technical level, the rescue ship must be slightly more advanced than the combat ships owned by bc civilization, because the search and rescue team civilization itself is proficient in high-dimensional transmission technology, and this rescue ship is naturally the same.As long as they are willing, it is impossible for the rescue ship to be defeated by bc civilization-as long as their flight range is not close to the planets controlled by bc civilization.

If the rescue ship carries a weapon system, this mission will be simple. They only need to wander around the opponent's star system, or fire at a place far away from the opponent's orbit. With the help of teleportation technology, rely on one ship to conquer the two There is nothing wrong with civilization.

But the problem now is precisely that there are no weapons on this ship.

This is like an aircraft carrier without aircraft—without weapons, no matter how strong the ship is, no matter how flexible it is, it is just a higher-quality target.

"Is this possible?" Yevgeny was a little whimsical, "We can use the weapons on the earth on the spaceship... At least, we still have a nuclear warhead in our hands."

What Yevgeny was talking about was obviously the one they left in Ascension Realm.

"Except for nuclear warheads?" Wu Xiaoqing was not very hopeful about this idea. "This is a war at the space level, and the combat distance is at the level of millions of kilometers, or even hundreds of millions of kilometers. What weapons on earth can fight at such a distance? Still maintain precision strikes? As for nuclear bombs... The two civilizations of BC do not lack such weapons. For them, this is only a conventional weapon-I have seen their military fortresses, and there are no ground buildings at all , C civilization can even hollow out the entire planet. A nuclear warhead from the earth half a century ago... Even if it explodes in their central city, it will not change fundamentally. Moreover, our mission this time is to persuade , Forced landing by force... is basically impossible. Don't talk about bc civilization, if you take this rescue ship to the earth, it is impossible for the earth to surrender."

"I don't mean real threats," Yevgeny added. "You should have heard stories like this. A couple fights in the street. The husband beats his wife very hard, and the wife screams for help all over the street. But When enthusiastic passers-by come over and use force to dissuade the husband, the wife will instead help the husband beat the person who rescued him..."

"The relationship between b and c is probably not as simple as a husband and wife." Wu Xiaoqing has seen the scene when the fleets of civilization b are dispatched. He can fully imagine that if these aircraft can reach the orbit of a planet smoothly, they will carry all the weapons they carry. Throwing it down... Even with the technical level of the earth, the surface of the planet can be completely beaten without a blade of grass.

This level of war is obviously not the level of a couple fighting - if everyone just swears at each other on the Internet, fights in the parliament, throws benches and shoes, etc., it can barely be said that it is a fight.

Everyone was silent for a while.

The search and rescue team opened up a new topic: "Let's talk about something simple first, what is the name of our past this time?"

Shen, Wu, and Ye were all taken aback when they heard this—in name?But soon realized.

Strictly speaking, in the first three missions, they all concealed their identities.The first time they went to rescue primitive people, they would not tell primitive people that they came from the earth, or from the civilization of the search and rescue team, because there is no meaning of communication.The same is true for the second time, falsely claiming to be an envoy is [-] times more effective than claiming to be an alien.As for the third time, because the other party had already acquiesced that they were "mortals", Wu Xiaoqing simply admitted it.

The reason why the name issue is not related to the above is mainly because these three civilizations are "not very civilized".In fact, for an uncivilized country, it seems to be the only law in the world to fight if you can beat it, and obey it if you can't beat it.

But this time is different. What they need to face is a civilization that is quite similar to the earth and more advanced than the earth.To deal with such a civilization, it is very important to have a reason that the other party can fully believe.

"It can be said that it is here for scientific investigation... It can be said that the rescue ship is a scientific research ship... It can even be called space travel," Yevgeny said, "but it certainly cannot be called a rescue..."

"Why?" It was the search and rescue team who asked back.

"Because every civilization has self-esteem, and the stronger the civilization, the more excess self-esteem," Yevgeny apparently has his own historical memory of this, "Even if the Soviets lined up to buy bread every day during the Cold War, it was impossible for the Soviets to accept the The food aid from the United States... If we say that we are here to rescue them and save their civilization from destroying, we will be regarded as enemies first! Since they have the courage to start a war, it shows that both sides think they have a high chance of winning! Rescue civilization? Nothing The question is to support their opponents. If we say that we support them, it is tantamount to making them admit that they must lose - no civilization will admit it, so we have done bad things with good intentions."

"But if it's not in the name of rescue... how can we proceed to the next step and stop this war?"

"I think, based on our current conditions," Yevgeny slowed down his speech, let the search and rescue team slowly follow his speech speed, and translated his Russian into Chinese, "should not consider the issue of preventing war first. Yes. What we are saving is only civilization, just like the mission you carried out before - although I did not participate, I admire your timely decision. You have the whole world to save, but due to reality, you just Saved a small part of a kingdom. This is the attitude we need most in rescue missions.”,

"Now, please think about it, we have a spaceship that will not be affected by the war, and it can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people inside - just this spaceship, we can save more than your previous mission Summed up."