Deep Space Fleet

During the negotiations a few days ago, the other side had made a clear request that in order to enhance mutual understanding and smoother communication, not just talking on paper, the two sides could send several diplomats to conduct diplomatic activities in each other's territory.

Although it may be a trial, why don't human beings want to know each other better?

Especially how the opponent's industrial strength and technological strength are, it is definitely beneficial to collect more information.

It has been more than two years since humans settled down on this planet. The development of the surface heavy industry base has basically not been delayed, and various armed forces have gradually become sufficient. Under these prerequisites, people began to have enough confidence to meet each other. challenge.

Soon, a week passed, and the training of these diplomats was in full swing.

Wang Junpeng, who was behind all kinds of materials, was dizzy and miserable. He didn't even have time to pick up girls. Fortunately, this job sounds really cool. When my girlfriend heard about it, the admiration she showed could make one fly into the sky!

But I have to say that being an aboveboard spy is not so easy. If you want to get more information, you have to not only play tricks, but also use your eyes to see and your brain to calculate!

It is impossible for the other party to be stupid enough to tell you a lot of industrial data, but diplomats can use some external performance to estimate it. For example, how many people are there in a city, how many resources are consumed by a project, and how much output is there? These professional qualities and the ability to collect data cannot be obtained immediately, but must go through long-term training.

"Come on everyone! Diplomats from the other side's civilization are about to arrive, and you have at most one month left!"

...

At four o'clock in the afternoon that day, taking advantage of the temporary cessation of the large typhoon on the planet's surface, a small rocket was launched from the planet's burrow.

Under the raging jet flames, the rocket quickly broke through the atmosphere and separated a small space capsule.

The power system of this space capsule is not strong, and it needs a human shuttle to salvage it by itself.

"The planet's atmosphere is too dense, and there are powerful typhoons. It is really difficult to develop the aerospace industry... The space elevator is impossible, and it may be blown down by the typhoon."

"Yes, but... why are there no artificial satellites on the surface of the planet? Don't they need it?" Zhang Yuan and the others were also in a relaxed mood, chatting casually while looking at the distant fire.

"Maybe it didn't light up this technology tree?"

Many technologies are accidental products of flashes of inspiration, not inevitable events in history. Satellites, the Internet, nylon ropes, antibiotics, a lot of technology was born by accident.

"How did the rocket come from? Isn't it used to launch satellites?"

"I don't know..."

After being silent for a while, Zhang Yuan suddenly turned around and said a little seriously: "According to some conversations in the negotiation, we can speculate that because of this external environment, almost every individual in this civilization has a very serious wilderness phobia! "

"So, they don't like the empty outer space at all, and they don't have the same desire to explore as we do, and their tendency to colonize the outside world is not high. I even really doubt that they want to negotiate peacefully."

Captain Zhao nodded: "Hey, maybe it's because the typhoon eliminated all individuals without wilderness phobia."

"This kind of civilization that doesn't like to expand outward, if you don't see it with your own eyes, it's really... unimaginable."

In fact, this phenomenon is not incomprehensible. For example, in the earth, some creatures will commit suicide after multiplying to a certain number; there are also some animals that have no interest in expanding outwards at all, such as sloths...

As an expert in the history of new civilizations, Zhang Yuan quickly understood the deeper meaning of this strange phenomenon.

. Individuals in this civilization instinctively like a claustrophobic and narrow environment, which can bring a sense of security. Just because of the difference in the living environment that "typhoons often blow on the surface of the earth", there is a huge deviation in the ideology of the entire civilization

Compared with human civilization, this kind of mentality and subconsciousness may have certain inherent defects, which have caused a lot of obstacles when expanding to the outside world. Because human beings like spacious and bright environments, wilderness phobia is only a minority among human individuals.

However, this "flaw" is only a flaw that humans think of. Maybe the other party thinks this kind of consciousness is normal? It may even be felt that the colonial tendency brought about by the human mentality of liking a spacious and bright environment is very stupid. Because there are many powerful civilizations in the universe, if you accidentally hit a hard nail, it will be ashamed immediately.

Only by persisting like this can it last for a long time, isn't it?

"Hey, according to this reasoning, are human beings perfect?"

Compared with the trillions of civilizations in the universe, do human beings have natural defects that they are not aware of?

there must be!

And not a lot!

"Something that's ingrained in the culture, something that's not willing to change."

Zhang Yuan shook his head vigorously, temporarily putting these wild thoughts behind him.

Let's go back to the matter in front of us first. If long-term peace can really be achieved, it must be a good thing.

For such a long time, people have not done anything other than building nuclear warheads, including delaying the artificial incubation of a large number of babies.

The benefits brought by the war are too little, and the lives of the people are extremely difficult. Even if they are defeated, can they still go to the opponent's planet to plunder? Impossible!

And the current human beings really don't have much tendency to be aggressive. There are so many planets here. The opponent's one is not the best, and it is very difficult to develop, so there is really no need to kill it.

"Crew members, please pay attention, shuttle, the countdown to departure!" During the conversation, Captain Zhao issued an order.

"Five, four, three, two, one! Let's go!"

A few seconds later, a small shuttle blasted out from the mothership, spraying light blue plasma flames.

After leaving the mothership, it quickly became a tiny star point.

After two hours of tormented waiting, the small shuttle finally approached the space capsule. The driver pressed the button, and the carbon fiber ropes of several spring launchers were precisely hooked to the mechanical arm of the space capsule.

With such a heavy thing, the power of the shuttle is slightly insufficient, so it can only accelerate slowly, and then slowly pull the space capsule away from its original orbital position.

It took six consecutive cycles around Gliese 581g, and it took two days before it officially broke away from the planet's gravity and flew towards the satellite.

"Just stay there... Tell the diplomats on the other side that our people will conduct safety inspections on their space capsules." Captain Zhao said directly to the contact personnel.

"Understood."

This is also what was agreed in advance. Everyone is afraid that the other party is hiding something in the space capsule, such as nuclear bombs, or weapons of mass destruction such as biochemical viruses.

In case the other party wants to sacrifice the lives of a few individuals and engage in self-destruct attacks, it will always be human beings who suffer.

Anyway, even if some etiquette is lost, it is always right to be on the safe side.