A relatively “beneficial” price

  "You engineering staff need to take a vacation once in a while! If you keep working overtime like this, you might become mentally unbearable and rebel again!"

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

  The mobilization work of the community is in progress in an orderly manner, and he himself has also learned some medical knowledge and emergency repair knowledge of spacecraft.

  Even if the mothership is really blown up, some of the population can escape using some escape craft.

  Anyway, this kind of thing is something to be prepared for.

  The person on the screen is none other than Ye Kaifu. As the head of the underground engineering team, this guy works much harder than Zhang Yuan. He is disgraced all day long.

  "Rebellion? How is it possible? Everyone is very happy. The sooner it is built, the happier everyone will be!" Ye Kaifu said with a smile: "This battle star must be saved! If it cannot be saved, everyone will rebel."

  "That makes sense..."

  "I watched a recent military interview, and the content above is very serious. What is the situation outside? Can it be defeated? The general has been arguing on TV, but in the end he did not answer this question."

  "Haha, you want to know? This is a secret, I won't reveal it!"

  "You can't really beat it, right?"

  Zhang Yuan suppressed his smile and looked at the gray-black, desolate battle star outside the window, plus more and more small guard-class military spacecraft.

  Most of these are troops in training.

  He still doesn't know whether humans can complete the construction of the curvature engine of this planetary fortress and escape from this area.

  "The strength on paper is indeed inferior. We don't even have battle stars... However, fighting a war is not just about strength on paper. We also have to consider the casualty rate we can withstand."

  "There is a big difference between a civilization that can withstand a 5% casualty rate and a civilization that can withstand a 50% casualty rate. Anyway, you heard what the show said."

  "Okay, okay, I basically understand...just go about your business and don't bother me anymore."

  Ye Kaifu hung up the phone and just clenched his fist secretly, hoping to hold on for a while longer.

  …

  The not-so-peaceful days passed by in a hurry.

  On this day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the new human civilization suddenly received a notice from the military: An alien spacecraft stayed near the human air defense identification zone and requested diplomatic dialogue!

  It's rare, really rare.

  Since adopting the strategy of "swearing and scolding" in the joint meeting, the new human civilization has basically stopped communicating with the outside world.

  All civilizations stay far away from human beings, for fear of provoking this "hedgehog".

  Naturally, the New Humanity did not dare to neglect requests in this regard, and quickly dispatched a spaceship carrying more than 50 diplomats to have a dialogue with them.

  There are a large number of drones and early warning aircraft wandering near the New Humanity's air defense identification zone. These drones are non-luminous and in a semi-stationary and semi-stealth state, making them particularly inconspicuous in the dim starry sky.

  But they are the main force in the first line of defense. Once an alien spacecraft approaches, they can identify it...

  After a day-long exchange, the spacecraft's diplomat returned with important news.

  "...It's the civilization that bought additional color perception papers, called the Apollo civilization. They want to buy more technology related to intelligence."

  "However, we did not provide anything in this regard and rejected their request..."

  "At this juncture, it's better to have one less thing than one more thing. Alas."

  In normal times, this transaction request would be normal and people would be eager to do so, but now it is a bit weird.

  "Is that so...what does this civilization think that it comes here to communicate at this time?" Captain Feng asked, feeling a little incredible, "Did they encounter some problem? They urgently need this technology?"

  The diplomat spoke again: "Maybe it's because the papers we sold in the past were far from enough to meet their needs... After being rejected by us, they wanted to exchange related additional sensing technologies."

  "They want to meet our scientists and have a scientific dialogue... They say that there are some unclear parts of those papers and require a series of explanations. The specific questions are in this form..."

  "Is there something unclear? You can't..."

  "Didn't the original transaction use the Amoeba faction's market as an intermediate platform?"

  Zhang Yuan frowned and thought, what the hell is this Apollo civilization doing, and it wants to do scientific research at this time?

  However, since he wrote the paper himself, he still patiently read the other party's problem description carefully. If you can answer it, then just answer it and send the other person away quickly.

  In the end, he shook his head: "These questions are not within the scope of the extra color paper. If they are all answered, it will be another general direction. They can get all the extra perception! There are some things that we ourselves do not understand. They are using their hands empty-handed!"

  "Unless they pay more amoeba points, we won't be able to answer part of it."

  But it is impossible for this civilization not to know this. It will definitely not be aimless, and it will most likely come with a certain purpose.

  So suspicious!

  Captain Ms. Feng stood up and asked: "How do they set the price?"

  "I haven't said anything yet, but I'm asking for scientist exchanges."

  "After communicating, how do I trade? Do I use amoeba points to trade?"

  "probably."

  "Now there is no middle platform. Should we give them the paper first, or should they give us the amoeba points first? How can both parties trust each other?"

  These problems are thresholds that cannot be bypassed.

  If both parties cannot trust each other, then there is no choice but to not trade. This is a very simple truth.

  Li Zhendong had a sudden thought: "Or maybe this Apollo civilization wants to win us over to join their forces?"

  Diplomat Lao Yang replied: "I don't know... they didn't say this clearly, they just wanted to get this content."

  "We directly said that New Humanity does not have this content! But they are still there."

  A general patted the table: "Then just reject them! Is there any need to be so long-winded?"

  After a long while, Captain Feng nodded: "Okay, then send an electromagnetic wave to ask them to leave quickly...be a little more polite."

  After sending this electromagnetic wave, the alien spacecraft hovering near the New Human Civilization Air Defense Identification Zone did not stay and left quickly.

  "I hope it's just that this civilization suddenly lost its mind..."

  Seeing this scene, Zhang Yuan frowned, feeling something was wrong.

  As a result, a month later, this civilization came again. They actually wanted to buy this planetary fortress that humans were developing!

  And it also offers a relatively "beneficial" price: 1,500 amoeba points!

  This price does sound pretty good, because the original price for humans to purchase this battle star did not cost so many amoeba points.

  If you really sell it, you can still make some money for no reason.

  However, humans have been developing it for a while and don't want to sell it just to earn some amoeba points.

  This planet is the capital for future development. After selling it for a small profit, it would be quite difficult to buy another one.