I Am the Swarm

Although Luo Wen has never experienced this trick of red face and white face, he has seen and heard a lot. Even if what they say is true, it will have to wait until the real army is overrun. Otherwise, as soon as someone threatens, the swarm will immediately vote, and it will only usher in more progress.

Therefore, no matter how eloquently and emotionally the five-member group and those Trout diplomats acted, how touching they were, and how much they put themselves in the shoes of the swarm, the swarm remained unmoved.

After Frode, the person in charge of the Trojan civilization, almost stopped attending the seminar, the swarm also followed suit, and Marlene was no longer there, leaving only Denton to deal with the situation.

The behavior of the swarm humiliated the group of five and the Trojan civilization, and they clamored even more to make the swarm look good. But after the swarm mobilized tens of thousands of Taikoo class to the A11 base and surrounded the diplomatic fleet of the Trojan civilization, they stopped a lot.

Maybe they realized that the swarm was in a hurry, and they didn't know if the swarm would be wiped out in the future, but before that, they might be buried here first.

As a result, the meeting entered a harmonious wrangling time.

Not long after, perhaps because this kind of nonsense made the group of five feel bored, they even proposed to visit the Ratman civilization and the Rickon tribe. Although this proposal seemed to be a temporary idea of ​​the group of five, Rowan still tasted something different.

I remember that there used to be an understanding king who used to do extreme pressure in negotiations. He first put forward a condition that was completely impossible to be accepted by the other party, then wore down the other party's patience, and finally raised his real bottom line.

Applied to the current situation, it is miraculously very consistent. But in the Rickon tribe or the Ratman civilization, what secrets are attracting them?

Luo Wen pondered and analyzed carefully, and finally came to a conclusion.

The Liken tribe is probably a filler, because the Liken tribe dug up the spaceship left by the Ji tribe, and the Ji tribe's monitoring device was put in place because of this. It is estimated that the Ji tribe had known about their secrets long ago. Therefore, the real purpose of the five-person group should be the ratman civilization.

But what is the ratman civilization? Luo Wen, who built the Ratman Civilization single-handedly, can be said to have watched the Ratman Civilization grow up to the present. In his eyes, the Ratman Civilization naturally has no secrets.

But this relationship is unknown to outsiders. Moreover, the ratman civilization developed so fast that the Ji clan didn't even bury the spaceship, let alone activate the monitor. Therefore, the Ratman civilization is extremely mysterious in the eyes of the Ji clan.

If you think about it in another way, the development speed of the Ratman civilization is far faster than that of the original Ji clan, breaking the record of the original Ji clan. This alone is enough for the successors of the original Ji clan to explore the mystery.

However, Luo Wen felt that the truth was far more than that, and there must be other reasons for attracting the group of five.

Due to the lack of information, although Luo Wen has not fully figured it out yet, he already has some guesses. However, he still instigated Denton to reject the request of the group of five.

The Ji clan is the object of defense and the imaginary enemy of the swarm. It doesn't matter what the enemy wants, if they don't agree, it's over.

Time passed quickly amidst all kinds of gossip, perhaps because the five members of the Ji Clan felt humiliated, or because they were unable to show off their power under the siege of the Taikoo class. In short, gradually they stopped participating in the meeting, but hid in the Trout battleship all day long, not knowing what they were doing.

After a long time, Rowan even guessed whether they had gone to sleep. After all, this kind of time-consuming thing is really meaningless.

But since an agreement cannot be reached, and you don't want to lower your standards, what's the point of spending all this time here? Rowan was very puzzled by this.

Although Rowan is already a long-lived species, his actual lifespan may exceed the sum of the history of all members of the Star Sea Alliance, but in fact, his conscious time is only a few hundred years.

So he is still quite immature, and his understanding of the concept of time cannot be compared with those old civilizations with a long history.

After the technological level of a civilization has gone through the initial rounds of explosions, as the scientific theory becomes more and more perfect, innovation becomes more and more difficult. The stagnation of science and technology is a problem that all old civilizations will encounter. It is normal to have no significant progress for thousands of years. Even the original Ji clan who were so powerful at the beginning were stuck in the neck and fell into the dark era.

Therefore, when living in an almost constant environment for a long time, it is always easy to produce various problems. These problems are compounded by the time difference that occurs during interstellar travel.

One way to solve the problem is the "Youth Plan" used by the original Ji clan, giving up natural childbearing, and changing to collective raising, reducing the fetters of family affection, and fundamentally reducing the cause of the problem. Many civilizations have followed suit.

But in addition, some civilizations have developed another method, which is to develop the dormancy technology to the extreme, reduce those tedious preparations, achieve plug-and-play, and enter the dormant state anytime, anywhere.

At the same time, they will also vigorously develop industrial automation, coupled with the abundant resource reserves in outer space, social welfare can easily support all tribes. Everyone can live a good life without any labor. In addition to doing some things you like, you can enter dormancy most of the time to prolong your life.

In this way, when all the staff are in hibernation, there will be no such situation where relatives and friends travel across the galaxy once, and when they come back, they can only look for the past from the photos.

But the disadvantage of this method is that the development of the entire civilization is basically at a standstill, and it can only rely on its own money, and pin its safety on the rules of the alliance.

Fortunately, although there are intrigues and factions within the alliance, everyone is very tolerant of such a stagnant civilization. After all, before everything is settled, rashly provoking these stagnant civilizations and arousing their enthusiasm for forge ahead, wouldn't this increase competition and opponents for themselves?

Of course, the new forces in the outer circle are not eligible to enjoy this kind of stagnant treatment. Most of the ones who are eligible to enjoy it are the old civilizations in the middle circle or the inner circle. After all, their territory has been fixed. The forces are happy to see it succeed.

Most civilizations have to choose one of the above two options as their future development path, but some civilizations choose both.

For example, the Ji clan, they can rely on new forces to continuously replenish scientific researchers and promote the progress of society. At the same time, there are still some members who can choose to enjoy, and the group of five obviously belongs to the latter.

With key decision makers from all three parties barely present, the meeting about the Swarm joining the Alliance seemed like a farce. There are only some grassroots people arguing with each other every day, but no one has the right to back down on the issues in the debate.

And so things froze.