Beneath Deep Space

Faced with this dilemma of mutual distrust, there are currently two methods. The first is to keep consuming until the entire ring-shaped spacecraft has no energy. As long as there is no energy in the end, the Antek civilization will naturally make concessions.

However, the time required for this method is unknown. According to common sense, a spacecraft has a considerable amount of energy reserves and can last for a long time, ranging from several years to decades.

"After all, it is nuclear fusion. Dozens of tons of fuel can be used for a year, and it will last forever." One of the experts sighed slightly. People have no idea how much fuel is stored inside.

Second, one party must make concessions first.

Obviously, for now, no one is willing to sacrifice their own safety and make concessions.

"Alas... let the lizards decide for themselves. After all, it has something to do with their compatriots, and it's considered an internal matter." After a while, Yu Yifeng frowned and said, giving up the entanglement in this regard.

Soon, the new humans passed the news to all the lizard people exactly as it was, which directly triggered a huge response!

When they thought that there were so many hostages who had not yet been released, all the lizardmen rioted emotionally, accusing the Antaek civilization of its shameless behavior.

The two civilizations had already been at odds with each other for a long time, and now they seemed to have been ignited with a powder keg, exploding with a "boom".

Within the indigenous lizard civilization, there are even some extreme hawkish voices: It seems worth exchanging a population of 40 million lizards for a population of one million Antek civilization! Just fire and kill them!

This is something that the new human civilization did not expect. I did not expect that some lizards would be so radical.

Of course, most lizards still expressed firm opposition to this hawkish behavior, calling them keyboard warriors and spitballers.

Among the 40 million hostages are their relatives, friends, and all their property! They work hard on the metal planet not only for their families and children, but also to live in the ring-shaped spaceship. How could they just give up now? !

Three hours later, a large-scale lizard man meeting was officially held on the metal planet. Lizards representing various ideologies gathered together to discuss this important matter.

The upper echelons of these lizards have been divided into several different political groups, with different opinions from each other.

The first group were the lizard aborigines from the planet Nix who came here with the new humans, with a population of about one million. These people are not related to the lizards on the ring spacecraft, so their opinions are certainly more radical.

The second batch is the liberated lizards from the metal planet, which accounts for the majority of the population. And these lizards, due to historical reasons, have several different political groups.

In order to facilitate its rule and reduce rebellion, the Antec civilization once divided the lizards into ten industrial areas. Now that the entire history has passed three hundred years, there is no way for these ten political groups to merge directly.

"Each group represents the interests of different classes... Because of limited resources, competition was full of competition in the past. There was also some hatred between each other..."

"Political matters are very troublesome... There is no consensus on who is the boss and who has the final say." Xu Yunjin lamented.

Is a civilization that simple? of course not. When it is necessary, it can be consistent with the outside world, but when it is not necessary, it is always full of internal chaos. This is a low-level civilization.

"History has inertia. Even if there is a major turning point, it is still very difficult to suddenly get together."

Yu Yifeng also discovered a series of problems: "This also shows that the thinking form of the lizards has not broken away from the category of low-level civilization. How big a thing is it? Is it so difficult to think about things like power? If productivity in the future Now that we have developed hundreds of millions of times, do we still need to fight for such insignificant benefits?”

"...However, it would be better to split into several countries, just like the Red Flame Horn people..."

"We still have to create an incentive system that allows them to compete energetically with each other."

Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of something. There is always a gap between the naturally born interstellar civilization and the deliberately cultivated subsidiary civilization. The Antek civilization may have been cultivated deliberately, so... that's why it was so easy to surrender.

This natural social gap is caused by human factors and is difficult to make up for.

In this way, the discussion and decision-making between the entire Lizard senior management took a total of 18 hours, and they also had several quarrels with each other.

Perhaps they also realize that this is actually a huge opportunity to pursue power! Whoever solves this problem will gain great fame, there is no doubt about it.

After a long discussion, the lizard group really came up with a solution that was not a solution...

"Replace the hostages!"

There are a large number of lizardmen who are willing to use their lives to replace the 40 million kidnapped people.

On the one hand, it is really because of personal factors, including their friends, family, and children; on the other hand, for some politicians, if they risk their lives and the plan succeeds, there is no doubt that they can gain huge political prestige.

"The last batch of people in the Anteke civilization is only one million. We will use one million highly qualified laborers to exchange for 40 million hostages in the ring spacecraft. As long as the other party agrees to this plan, we think we can let them leave first... allow them to enter the superluminal state first!" This is the final plan presented by the lizards. "Will the other party agree?" Yu Yifeng frowned and looked at it for a long time, secretly sighing at the series of changes that have taken place in the lizards in this war. Because of the encouragement of various heroes, there are suddenly more people who dare to sacrifice. This is a certain change in the spiritual level of a civilization. No matter what the reason is, the lizards were able to gather one million warriors who dared to sacrifice themselves in just 18 hours. They are indeed very resilient. "This may also be the morale generated after a great victory." He thought secretly in his heart. "Since there is no better way, let's use this plan to communicate with the Anteke civilization!" He nodded and said to the assistant beside him. In the end, only 5% of the population of the Anteke civilization was left, all of which were randomly selected. They actually wanted to leave here very much. Most of the military strength has been handed over, and the arm cannot twist the thigh. Staying in this place for one more second means more danger.

But if they want to use one million lizards to exchange for 40 million, their safety will be greatly reduced. 40 million lizard hostages are the last guarantee. In the minds of these mantises, it is simply impossible to exchange the lives of lizards with theirs.

The whole negotiation was difficult...

It was rejected at the beginning!

They even proposed that a small population of new humans, such as 100,000 or 200,000 new humans, could be used to exchange these lizards... This is no problem.

But this plan was ruthlessly rejected by Yu Yifeng.

It's a joke!

It's true that subordinate civilizations are subordinate civilizations and need rescue, but it's impossible to take risks with the population of new humans. In Yu Yifeng's mind, the main and secondary have always been clearly divided.

"It is absolutely impossible to exchange the population of new humans for benefits."