Chapter 85: Faking it

This day is an important day to decide the fate of mankind!

Oliver stood in front of the recording desk and took a hard breath, his heart still beating wildly. He could be said to be the person with the strongest mental capacity on the Noah, but he was still extremely nervous.

Although the temperature inside the ship had been maintained at about 23-24 degrees Celsius, he still felt the impatience welling up deep inside. It was hot, very hot, and he felt that his body was sweating all over. He was really nervous and tried hard to calm his heart.

"Tough", "camouflage" are the main keywords of this plan, in the whole process, the human can not show any hint of stage fright!

In fact, humans are just a cat, but they have to disguise themselves as a tiger, and have to roar every now and then to prove that they are real tigers ... Nowadays, humans just have this feeling.

According to the scientists' projections, in the universe, after two civilizations with similar levels of technological development meet, the greatest possibility is ... mutual probing as well as skirmishes! Then both sides found that the cost of going to war with each other is too great, before the possibility of peaceful contact. Mutual exchange of information or trade, etc. ...

One does not know whether the Dark Forest theory is correct or not. But according to the human position, if the benefits of war, less than the price to be paid, then war will not break out.

In the end, all human behavior is for the acquisition of benefits, and perhaps other civilized races as well.

Assuming that interstellar civilizations are rare, then the species that can develop the ability to navigate interstellar must be very intelligent. If this hypothesis is valid, we can sit and talk, there is no need to fight to the death. Death is something that any creature wants to avoid, and there is no hatred, no need to go to war.

But having said that, people do not know the logic of each other's dealings, whether they possess morality, whether they are belligerent ...

People can only bring their intelligence to bear and execute the scenario that has the greatest success rate!

"The other side should be intelligent and logical, otherwise science and technology would not be able to develop. There is nothing wrong with seeing them as an intelligent species ..." Oliver took a deep breath, they have to follow this thinking and communicate with each other.

The first step in the "camouflage plan" is communication, or rather - deterrence!

Just like countries living in peace, there are boundary lines between them. A powerful interstellar civilization will not let an unknown alien ship approach them. According to this logic, humans are bound to pre-empt each other by being the first to warn each other, instead of just hiding.

Only in this way can we show that we are a powerful civilization with equal status with the other side!

So, how to warn? How to warn forcefully but appropriately? This then became the topic of discussion that the experts focused on these days.

After careful discussion, they came to the conclusion that they should use radio and take the lead in sending signals to the alien civilization!

Just like various countries on Earth, when fishing boats and planes cross the border, they are bound to warn first in a righteous manner, and only if the warning is not heeded will deeper conflicts occur ...

Well, things may be different in the universe. But in any case, such a warning is most in line with the logical human scenario ... If the universe is not a dark forest, there is bound to be nothing wrong with a warning first!

"... We are a powerful human civilization! Must be calm and cool!" Oliver kept silently reciting these words in his mind and began to calm the restlessness in his heart.

People do not want to use text telegrams, because human information encoding ability is not high, maybe in the eyes of alien civilization is a symbol of weak queen ... so that it is likely to reveal directly. And send a string of voice messages there is no such problem, as long as the sound waves as complete as possible to record in, with the simplest encoding on the line.

Oliver's tone can not be too hasty or agitated, can be faintly angry, like equal parties telling a matter of business in general: you crossed the line, leave, or it will start a war. Yes, that's it ... we both are equal!

After a long time, he slowly spoke: "Unknown alien ship, your side has exceeded our delineated security boundaries, leave quickly! If you do not leave, the consequences will be borne by all of you!"

Oliver finished in one breath, feeling that he had done pretty well this time.

He listened to the recording a few more times and did not and found too much fault. If he sounded timid or anxious, he would have to re-record it, and this was his third recording.

The words used here are very delicate, like what "delineated safe distance", "by your side to bear", is completely pulling the skin of the tiger, scare people just ...

Many of the scientists below began to nod, and a psychologist at the head of the group said, "That's it, there shouldn't be much of a problem this time."

In fact, the aliens absolutely could not understand Chinese. With just this one sentence of information, even if the other party's technology was powerful, it would be impossible to decipher the relevant meaning. Especially Chinese, which is the most difficult language for humans to learn!

But it does not matter, they do not need to understand, just let them know - humans are warning them!

This is also the human "camouflage" plan to play the mysterious point ... unknown is the most terrible thing, alien civilizations do not know what humans are talking about, will certainly have certain concerns and questions.

In this way, they will produce a kind of impenetrable psychology to humans, the best result, is to scare them away!

The experts get busy, they will send this voice message through a large radio station. The power of this radio station was up to 30,000 watts, so the other side would surely be able to receive it clearly.

"Captain! The speed of propagation of radio is also the speed of light, it will take about 8.57 days for the other side to receive this message ... sure to send it?"

Oliver sighed lightly and nodded heavily again, he didn't know if he was doing the right or wrong thing ...

According to the vision of some scientists, in the dark universe, without the presence of visible light, it is difficult to find an object that does not emit any radiation itself, or only emits a trace of radiation. Therefore, as long as humans maintain radio silence, alien civilizations may not be able to discover the Noah.

But this idea was soon overturned. Who knows how long they will stay in the solar system, and who knows if they will probe Mars? As long as a few survey satellites are launched on Mars, the Noah can be discovered. It is better to place your fate in the hands of illusory luck than to control it in your own hands ... This is what Oliver, and most people, think!

"Send!" With Oliver's command, the string of voice messages was sent out by the radio.

Oliver immediately ordered the Noah to take off from the ground and slowly float above the Martian atmosphere. A large pile of "dummy" gun barrels glowed slightly, making an imminent attack!

What followed was an anxious wait, the radio transmission to the target took more than eight days ...