Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

Not long after, when he heard a mess of footsteps outside the door, and the loudspeaker shouted "Don't resist, resist strictly", he lay back on his seat in peace.

He knew that he had made the right bet.

...

"It's a good thing he met you. Otherwise, if you are really the kind of bad subspace creature who purposely disguised himself to catch... penguins, wouldn't he be pushing his own civilization to the end of the road?"

While Xier was talking, she hugged the purring orange cat in her arms. The two tails of one cat and the other were slowly swinging in the same rhythm, indicating that the owner was in a state of peace of mind.

After all, for those civilizations who do not have a deep understanding of subspace science and do not know that "hostility" is actually their "essence" rather than "expression", it is indeed necessary to worry about conspiracy theories symbolically. That kind of unprecedented hostile creature that can hide so deeply.

But they really don’t need even a little bit of symbolic worry—even if emotion and trust factors are excluded, from the perspective of rational laws alone, the more you understand the subspace, the more you can understand the redness of the subspace. The special existence can never be disguised by that kind of hostile creature.

What's more, these cubs still have a conscious connection with Hong, and can directly and fundamentally negate the possibility of her disguise - to make that conspiracy theory come true, I am afraid that only by modifying the laws of physics can it be done.

"That's not true." Hong shook his head, "He actually came prepared, if I'm really that kind of hostile creature in disguise, then the erosion will only stop at him and the subspace that brought him in The communicator can no longer send out."

"That would be fine."

"Well, according to my few minutes of understanding, he is not the kind of young and frizzy, who communicates rashly without knowing the seriousness of the matter. He just met me by chance, but a very planned, strategic, and at the same time Taga who sacrificed his consciousness."

Red added.

"That sounds good." Seele put the cat down, and moved her ears slightly, "So, what does he want you to do to help him convince the rest of the Taga civilization that you are indeed what he said? "

"Actually, there's nothing to do. I just send out some newsletters and send some boats to cooperate. The main work still needs to be done by himself. After all, if they don't want to believe this at all, all my actions will be nothing but nothing. It was treated as air, as a cooperating with the words and deeds of the 'traitor' to invade the Taga civilization."

Hong spread her hands helplessly: "It's the first time that a civilization distrusts me so much, even Kion didn't take the possibility of 'I'm a hidden hostile subspace creature' to heart.

"However, there is really no way around this. Half of the population has been eaten by subspace creatures. It is normal to make such a decision."

"That's true."

Xi'er agreed with Hong's point of view - after all, they are outsiders who can stand up and talk without back pain. In this kind of matter, they have far less right to speak than their own people who have experienced pain.

In any case, if you want to convince the Taga civilization, the most important link is to have their own people come.

Fortunately, Hong provided this taga named Ed with a very valuable and important information that their entire civilization had never thought of before.

Hong believes that this will greatly increase his possibility of persuading the Taga civilization.

Because, the so-called communication pollution——

It's actually fake.

...

"Is what he said true?!"

At the meeting, a bald, highly respected Professor Taga slammed the table and stood up, his voice full of disbelief.

"Professor Marcus, we all know that this news is very shocking, but please calm down a little bit - we don't want to change a new table." After appeasing the head scientist of subspace After coming down, Professor Taga, who was in charge of the report, nodded his head and replied, "We are still unable to fully confirm its authenticity, but after several hours of urgent investigation and data review, we have to admit that what he said There's a good chance it's true.

"No matter from the relevant personnel involved, all the top-secret data that he has absolutely no access to in his current capacity, and even those of us who have personally participated in the research only know the tip of the iceberg. While perfectly explaining all the phenomena that the "communication pollution theory" can explain, it also explains many phenomena that the "communication pollution theory" cannot explain or only barely explains.

"All the indications tell us beyond doubt that what he said is very likely to be true."

The professor clicked on the screen, switched the PPT to the next one, and added: "At least, what he said can't be completely wrong. The pollution incident is definitely not what we thought before. Contaminated, and it is even certain that this is not the main factor-there must be more important reasons that we did not realize before."

"This... this is really..."

Not only him, but several other scientists were also unwilling to believe emotionally, but began to believe rationally.

It's just that this guess is too amazing, not only to overturn many of their studies over the years, but also to let the public know that the sacrifices they have made to prevent pollution over the years are actually completely useless, and even It is also necessary to "reverse the case" for many victims who were originally given the name of heroes, turning them into "accomplices who assisted the religious order in creating the 3.15 tragedy."

As long as there is a little other possibility, Taga is unwilling to believe this matter-however, the reality tells them mercilessly that this matter is indeed true.

The "very likely" in the professor's mouth is actually just giving themselves a final step-so much ironclad evidence, if you continue to believe that the "communication pollution theory" is true, then it will be true. Irresponsibility of adding civilization and desecration of one's own academic integrity.

After some intense discussions, in the end, the vast majority of people agreed, or at least acquiesced, to the implementation of this matter.

They have overturned the fundamental premise of the entire "Great Silence" policy - the "communication pollution theory".

Instead, there is an "inner ghost theory" that the subspace network is polluted because of the gap deliberately released by the internal traitors.

Although the macroscopic manifestation of both is that the network is polluted, thus spreading a large amount of subspace erosion from Taga who has used subspace communication, and does not deny the possibility of spreading pollution among intelligent creatures, but obviously, this The two are not the same thing after all.

Because after clarifying the way of pollution, they have already understood that subspace erosion cannot actually be transmitted through simple non-subspace communication-now that it is very reasonable to think about it, if it is really a communication, it can be transmitted. In the case of pollution, subspace creatures would have filled the universe long ago, so why would it take so much effort, and spend a lot of time and energy to support corrupt civilizations?

It’s just that they were too panicked back then, and the subspace scholars were basically Taga who suffered the brunt of the pollution. Among the Taga who escaped by chance, there were no scholars who really knew enough about subspace.

Therefore, when they resumed after the disaster, due to their erroneous understanding of the pioneer documents and the deliberate guidance of the opponent's subspace creature, they were led to the wrong way of thinking and failed to discover the real crisis hidden within civilization.

However, because they directly implemented the "Great Silence" policy that was far beyond the opponent's imagination, it led to self-defeating. On the contrary, they directly lost the possibility of further invasion of the Taga civilization, which indirectly led to the opponent's lack of soul replenishment. As a result, the Tukeka civilization was forced to give up its development and fight in advance, and finally suffered a crushing defeat and completely perished.

The wrong theory, but in the end it also brought the right method, providing an excellent and indispensable assist for the Cat League.

This can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, right?

Volume 231 The Road to the Cat Alliance: Chapter [-] After the Silent Era

After nearly a month of buffering, internal reassurance, and public opinion coordination, finally, on a sunny morning, the current leader of Taga came to the surface, stood on the largest central square of their home planet, and sent a message to the entire Taga The seven planets of civilization, more than 27 shelters, and [-] billion people announced——

The "Great Silence" policy, which has been in place for more than 100 years, officially ends today.

Although public opinion guidance has been done in advance, some hidden problems have been released during the nearly one-month buffer, and most people have accepted the "end of the Great Silence" which can be called a major change in reshaping society, and I also learned how this change will affect their lives through the mouths of some middle-aged and elderly Taga and scholars, and I think I am fully prepared.

But when that day really came, they discovered that the magnitude of the change was far greater than most of them imagined.

For some middle-aged and elderly Taga who have grown up before the war, this is just a restoration of their social appearance when they were young more than 100 years ago. It has become a big silence, but they who have experienced those at least know how big the change in this policy is, and they have enough psychological preparation.

But for the new generation who now occupy the vast majority of the population of the Taga civilization, some of them grew up in the "Dark Age" when the Taga civilization was retreating steadily. This group of people has a very vague impression of the pre-war society. .

Not to mention, the vast majority of the new generation were actually born in the period when the Taga civilization was defeated and the shrunken planet, the population dropped sharply, and the Great Silence Policy began. Their understanding of the pre-war period is really limited to textbooks The empty talk, at most plus the tip of the iceberg that the elders occasionally talked about.

For this group, which accounts for more than half of the population, many of the changes after the lifting of the Great Silence Policy are very unfamiliar and unbelievable.

For example, although I have heard countless times from scholars and elders that "wireless communication should be an easily accessible part of people's lives, not a dangerous facility that is not used between planets unless necessary", but when they really When they saw these wireless communication devices that were originally labeled as "anti-social behavior" being used casually by the elders, they really realized the weight of this sentence.

Even if young people are very receptive, they will still feel very uncomfortable when faced with this kind of change that shatters all their past worldviews.

For them, overnight, the familiar world suddenly became extremely strange, and they had to start from scratch and relearn the world like children.

But fortunately, under the orderly guidance of the administrative department, the vast majority of people can still start the transition to the new era relatively smoothly. The social order and management are operating normally, and there is no confusion. The Taga government has brought no small amount of relief.

At least they don't have to devote energy to appease the mental unrest in the country while dealing with this wasteful material industry.

Compared with those people who are trying to adapt to the "post-silent era society", the government has to do more, more complicated, and more challenging their three views and experiences.

For example, conducting diplomacy with a civilization that possesses seemingly benevolent subspace creatures, and whose technological and military strength is crushing.

"Once upon a time, we were like them, flying freely in the sky and the sea of ​​stars."

Looking at the cat alliance aerospace plane slowly gliding on the temporarily opened runway, the Supreme Leader of Taga, Abel Krill heaved a long sigh, and his tone was full of mixed feelings.

The former Taga civilization had a peak population of tens of billions, a peak fleet mass of over [-] million tons, mining stations all over the planets, people lived and worked in peace and contentment, lived a happy life, and could walk freely on the surface without worrying about being contaminated by radiation—— However, after the arrival of those nasty Tukeka, all has come to naught.

Today's Taga technology is rapidly retreating, and the industry has been sluggish for a long time. Except for the workers who ventured to the ground for mining and the army used to prevent the bombing and landing of the church, most of the Taga can only hide underground for refuge since birth. Among them, most of them float to the surface of the water for a short glimpse of the starry sky.

According to their estimates, it will take at least 200 years for Taga to restore its productivity to roughly the level before the war. All the added territories must be returned.

But obviously, it is impossible to achieve these two points-they did not snatch the territory from them. For the Cat League, they defeated the sect with their own hard work. won these territories.

Therefore, the Taga cake layer does not have any hope of taking back these territories. For them, the core interest is about the ownership of the seven Taga habitable planets-this is something that cannot be given up , As for the rest, they are all extraneous things, things that Taga, who is now in a state of disuse, has no ability to pay attention to.

"Welcome to the capital of the Taga civilization, respected Messenger of the Cat League." Abel, who has urgently practiced the Cat League language, has a weird tone, but it is no problem to understand, "I am the current leader of the Taga civilization. , Abel Krill."

"Mr. Abel Krill, thank you for welcoming me personally." Hong nodded slightly, "I am the current leader of the Cat League, you can call me Hong."

Abel was taken aback for a moment, feeling that something was beyond his expectation.

Logically speaking, shouldn't the messenger be sent for the first meeting?

He originally thought that being a supreme leader to greet the other party's envoy in person was enough to make the other party face-although there was a bit of suspicion that their position was too low, but Abel believed that at the current level of Taga civilization, In the face of such a civilization that although we don't know the details, but is sure to be many times stronger than them, we can't take it too seriously.

"Sorry, we didn't know that you would come in person before, please forgive me if there is any negligence."

Although I don't know why the other party dared to let the leader of the civilization visit a civilization that he had met face-to-face for the first time, but since it happened, he must show great care to entertain the leader of this alien civilization. .

"It's okay, it's because we didn't notify in advance." Hong smiled——in fact, it's because they didn't know, otherwise, if the other party knew her life form in advance, they wouldn't be able to achieve the "reshaping" that they should have. The role of "Three Views".

"This is not a good place to talk, why don't we move to the conference hall for now, what do you think?"

"it is good."

Hong nodded, and began to walk towards the scheduled negotiation location with this short Taga—it wasn’t that Abel was too short, but that Taga itself was a relatively short creature, with an average height of only about 1 meter. Even Xier can stabilize them when they come over.

However, for intelligent creatures, whether they are physically strong or not is obviously not a very important thing. Intelligent creatures and intelligent creatures look at intelligence rather than body shape.

And according to Hong's understanding, Taga's intelligence is not as clumsy as they appear on the outside.

"By the way, Your Excellency Hong, may I ask if the name Hong is a relatively common name in your civilization?" After casually chatting about some topics to bring the relationship closer, Abel asked casually, "Because Many of the documents you sent were signed by your name."

In fact, he was just asking casually. After all, according to the data they obtained in the Cat League language, combined with the information sent by the other party to assist Ed these days, it seems that naming by color is a very common style in the Cat League.

At least, many of the signatures are all kinds of names with colors, and the information about the subspace is even more red-they even speculate that this "red" is likely to be a large project team or simply The name of some kind of artificial intelligence, otherwise it cannot explain such a high frequency of occurrence.

"no."

"Oh, if...huh?"

Abel responded subconsciously at first, and then realized something was wrong.

"In our Cat League, Hong is not a common name." The other party wagged his tail, with a smile on his face, "Actually, I am the only one named Hong in the entire Cat League."

When Abel was a little dazed, the deputy on the side spoke properly and said, "Then, those documents..."

"It's my signature - no one stipulates that civilized leaders can't do research?"

"So that's the case, I was negligent."

Although he didn't quite understand why the leader of an interstellar civilization still had time to do research, even such an important research, Abel put it aside first-their understanding of the Cat League was only a small amount of information provided by the other party That's all, at most, add a little reasonable brain supplement and speculation.

Maybe they are such a civilization?For example, only those who are at the top of the scientific research field can be elected as leaders or something. It seems reasonable for this situation to happen in a materialist country.

He nodded, feeling that there was nothing wrong with it.

"That..."

Just when he was about to bring this matter up with other topics, another deputy came over suddenly and gestured vaguely—knowing that it meant something urgent, he apologized to Hong and let the other towers Jia continued to follow Hong to the meeting room, while he walked aside.

"What is it?" Abel asked.

"Boss, Your Excellency just said that she is the only one named Hong in the entire Cat League, right?"

After getting Abel's unknown affirmation, the deputy reminded nervously: "But, don't forget, according to Researcher Ed, the *subspace creature* he was talking to—

"Just call it Red!"

Abel was taken aback for a moment, then looked in the direction of Hong in shock.

He saw that strange but unexpectedly cute creature was standing there, showing him a meaningful smile.

Immediately, under the puzzled gazes of the other Taga, she silently made a few mouth shapes—although Abel's proficiency in cat language is not enough for him to understand the meaning by mouth movements alone, but obviously , the other party is not speaking cat language.

She speaks Taga.

It means—

it's me.

"No way..."

Abel stood there in a daze, muttering to himself

At this moment, Abel felt that the matter had completely exceeded his control, and it could even be said that it had completely exceeded his imagination.

It is beyond the imagination of everyone in the Taga civilization.

On this day, the Targa once again witnessed history, witnessing a phenomenon that was not even seen by the pioneers and was previously considered completely impossible.

A subspace creature who came to this universe and personally served as the leader of civilization.

Not gods.

but leaders.

Taga now understands why the Cat League can trust her so much, trusting a subspace creature that is theoretically hostile to this universe.

Because of her, she sees herself as a member of civilization.

They are all part of the Cat League.

This is the cat alliance.

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