Sword of Daybreaker

More than once, Gawain will feel a strong and obvious personal and emotional characteristic in the reply sent by the Noy. Whether it is joy or rush, or anxiety and expectation, the Noy seems to send a message They all expressed these emotions straightforwardly. They never seemed to worry that such emotional exposure would cause the "negotiation" to fall into passivity. Although Loren did not mean to pit the other side, Gawain still felt that Noy This characteristic of human communication is somewhat subtle in the context of official communication between the two civilizations.

There is no other reason, just because in various situations known to Gao Wen, the contact between the two forces (especially the early contact) should be an extremely cautious and convergent process, and the two sides should hide the feelings of the negotiators as much as possible. Volatility, hide the psychological weakness of one's own ethnic group, and hide all the true intentions that have nothing to do with the content of the negotiation or that should not be shown temporarily, because only in this way can we ensure our own initiative in the negotiation process to prevent the opponent from catching the weakness and loopholes.

In this regard, Loren has been doing well. The Alliance has organized a large-scale translation group of star solvers and an advisory group of scholars covering almost all fields, using giants such as synthetic brains and computing centers to assist communication personnel. Analyzing intelligence and inquiring about information, the information Loren sent to the other side has always been modest and prudent. Behind every "communication person" who is directly in charge of the conversation process, there are hundreds of pairs of eyes staring at every letter he sends-Danno It doesn't seem to be the case on Yiren's side.

This makes Gawain often curious, and he can't help but guess what caused the "extraordinary honesty" of the Neues. This may be related to the two different cultural environments, or it may be due to the urgent situation today. It is also possible that the neural structure of the Neue people is different from that of the Loren people, and it is even possible that... this seemingly undefended "frank attitude" itself is also a very clever negotiation and psychological trick.

But these are not important. At this moment, Gawain's attention is still on the interstellar communication that has finally recovered.

The prepared text was quickly sent to the communication system of the Antavien and turned into a signal fluctuation that suddenly spanned four light years. The Loren Union briefly introduced the superluminal communication array repairs to the Noyes during this period. Work, introducing the parameters of today’s communication antennas, and using this as the basis for the communication mode after negotiating with the other party. With the support of the newly repaired main antenna, the signal transmission across the star sea is clearer and more stable than ever before-and without suddenness Worry about disconnection.

Gao Wen only made the initial signal response (that is, the "being"), and then handed over the specific communication work to the expert team located in the Solin Control Center, and he was watching the progress of the communication between the two distant civilizations. .

Regardless of whether it is the Loren League or the Noyes, obviously there is not much interest and leeway in greetings. After a few simple greetings (or mutual reporting of safety), the topic of the two sides naturally turned to the top priority of both parties' attention— Resistance to the demonic wave.

The printing terminal creaked, and the paper tape was slowly spit out between the shaft and the gears. The words sent by the Noy were translated and appeared in Gavin's eyes: "...During the period of communication interruption, we are still continuing. Debugging the "Unified Field of Mind" system set up around the planet. This large-scale system consists of tens of thousands of nodes and complex transmission lines, and their construction time spans 1,400 years. The oldest and most primitive nodes can even be traced back to the Dark Ages. We must confirm that all parts of the entire system are in a usable state. This work has not yet been completed..."

Immediately after the paper tape was a message from the Loren Alliance: "... Loren has determined the plan for building a defense system. We will prop up an energy shield over our home planet and unify our minds. The shield merges into the home planet barrier."

After this sentence was sent out, there was obviously a long period of silence on the Noi side. Gawain didn’t need to guess that he knew that the opposite should be greatly shocked at this moment. "What is it? Now here it is said that a home planet barrier can be built within a year and a half. Considering the general technical level of the two sides in the previous exchanges, Gao Wen feels that if he is a Neue , Then he must have a thought in his mind at this time—how much did the grandson on the other side hide? !

After all, it took the Noyes for 1,400 years, relying on the conditions of the foresight and advancement of the prophet, to finally knock out a defensive barrier over their home planet. "Engineering" can be fooled.

Sure enough, after a moment of silence, the Noyes sent a series of inquiries. The creaking sound of the printing device when the paper tape was spit out sounded like a rush: "You will build a barrier to the home planet? Not a local one. Refuge? Can you support an energy shield covering the world in a year and a half? Is this simple for you?"

Gao Wen's gaze fell on the paper tape, and at the same time, Amber's voice suddenly came out from the air beside him: "It sounds like the other side was taken aback..."

As the words fell, Amber's figure gradually emerged from the air. She jumped from the shadow crevice to the ground with ease, and she moved her chair from the side to the opposite side of Gawain's desk, and followed her in her room the whole time. It's just as natural in it.

"The Loren League and the Noyes are equivalent to two Mengxins who have just met on this vast interstellar stage. Everyone thinks they are very good, and they think that the opposite should be the same as themselves, but now there is one who claims to be Mengxin. The guy suddenly took out from his pocket the baby who took four hundred years to come out. Everyone must think that this grandson has a big size behind him. "Gawain didn’t care about this guy’s overly casual behavior, he just He shook his head, casually typed metaphors in the way he was most familiar with, and then sighed again, "But the point is, we are actually real dishes..."

"Stop, stop," Kohaku was still watching the play at ease just now. At this time, he was directly confused by the long series of "Cecile the Great's Wonderful Parable of Gawain", "You The new vocabulary is a bit over-the-top, I won’t be able to translate it for a while..."

"Then don't translate, I'll explain to you later," Gao Wen waved his hand and interrupted before Amber finished speaking. Then he turned his gaze to Bertila in the communication video, "Be honest. , Resisting the demonic wave requires the cooperation of the two civilizations, and the Noyes should not be allowed to make wrong judgments about the Loren Alliance."

The feeling of being a big boss is good, but you have to consider the actual situation, especially when the two civilizations are preparing to fight against disasters together, and the crisis of the doomsday is about to come, it is not a wise judgment to make your own image too strong and mysterious. , It’s like two rookies teaming up to take an adventure. It’s not terrible if you pretend that you are a master. What’s terrible is what if the rookie really believes in the face—there has never been a history of swollen faces and fat guys who accidentally use too much force. The idiot who beat himself to death, so this misunderstanding is best solved at the beginning.

The paper tape of the printing device continued to be pushed, and the Loren Alliance quickly responded from many prepared copywritings: "Please don’t misunderstand, the Loren Alliance has not built a mother from nothing in a short time. With the technology of the Star Barrier, we have used many clever methods, including borrowing the power of the planet itself and the legacy left by the sailors, in order to barely achieve such a miracle within a limited time..."

This time, the Noyes responded quickly, and the new paper tape was quickly spit out from the machine: "This is still worthy of surprise. Your resilience and academic organization ability under extreme conditions far exceed our expectations. "

After that, the signal transmission stopped for a while before the news from the Noyes continued. Amid the creaking of the machinery, the printed paper tape was continuously spit out: "In fact, since the last time the communication was interrupted, we have been Worrying about this matter—building a “unity field of mind” that is enough to protect the entire civilization is an amazing scale project. Putting the entire planet inside the barrier is the safest, most effective and most difficult solution. We have used a long Time to do this, and you don’t have such time.

"During the period of communication interruption, our scholars have made many deductions specifically for you. Please do not regard this as an offense-according to our limited knowledge of the'Loren League', according to our understanding of the barrier project Knowing that we have exhausted all the deduction routes, and we can't find a path that allows you to completely resist the demonic wave and survive...

"We feel sad and regretful about this. The only feasible solution we can think of is a limited-scale shelter, and the success rate of these solutions has never exceeded 30%... In the most pessimistic forecast, we Even think that the Loren League will choose to give up.

"Now, we are very happy to see that you have found a path to hope. We are very happy to see the possibility that in the near future, there will be another intelligent civilization that will survive with the Neue people. Come down and survive this cold winter in the star space. After all, it is not easy to find a'friend' in this vast sea of ​​stars."

Gao Wen quietly watched the paper tape spit out from the printing terminal, tapping his fingers on the desktop unconsciously, and then whispered for a long time: "The Loren League has not considered giving up hope from the beginning. Opportunities are always won by themselves. However, it is too early for the Noyes to breathe. We have only solved the problem of the mother planet barrier, but the greater hidden danger of divine disaster is still hanging over the Alliance."

"Should this matter be revealed to the other person?" Bertila's calm voice came from the communicator, "This may further expose our social model and stage of development."

"Reveal," Gawain nodded with little hesitation. "The previous two exchanges were too rushed. We and the Noyes did not communicate frankly and adequately on many key issues. This has caused us to suddenly discover our minds. The hidden dangers of the unified field will fall into chaos, and similar situations are best avoided. As for exposing social patterns and stages of development..."

Gawain paused when he said this, and shook his head slightly: "It's all this time. It's really life-threatening to care about this and that. Fortunately, there is at least four light-years of stars between us and the Noyes. , What is exposed now, will not have such a long-term impact."

"Yes, brother Gawain." Bertila nodded slightly, and then gave orders at the Thorin Command Center. The Star Dispersers immediately began to get busy, and the huge shadow that the Loren Alliance was facing was finally exposed. In front of the Noi people.

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After the divine disaster was sent, the signal of the Noyes was interrupted for a long time, and the opponent seemed more shocked than when they knew that the Loren Alliance could support the home planet barrier in a year and a half. This window of time continued. It’s been so long that if it weren’t for the superluminal communication array to show that everything was normal, Gawain would doubt if the signal between the two planets had been broken—but in the end, an exclamation came from four light-years away. Still passed to him.

"You are facing the hidden danger of losing control of the gods?!" The clear and sharp letters on the paper tape seemed to reveal the extremely unstable emotions of a communicator four light years away. "Have you not completed the symbiotic transformation with the gods?"

"The development process of each civilization is different, and the order of the outbreak and resolution of various problems will be different." Gao Wen once again took over the communication authority. In the field involving the gods, he obviously has more say. "In fact, We have entered the process of transitioning into a state of symbiosis with the gods, but unfortunately, all of this is still in the early stages.

"Here, we also happen to have a question-are your gods also the result of the projection of thoughts? Is your'symbiosis' state also based on'unbinding' the gods from thoughts?"

After waiting for a while, a response from the Noi appeared on the paper tape: "The'pioneer race' believes that the order in this universe is even and universal, and the gods behind each wise race should be consistent. There were some problems in the translation of the word'thinking' just now, but we guess that what you are referring to should be the same thing as we know.

"Yes, the gods of Noy are also the manifestation of this kind of'projection', which is the result of the disturbance of the mental projection of the huge ethnic group in the deep layers of the universe, and thanks to the precious knowledge and certain heritage left by the pioneer ethnic group for us, we In this respect... it seems that some detours have been avoided.

"Our'symbiosis' is indeed based on the contact of unbinding the gods from the state of projection. This involves a large-scale mental alignment of the ethnic group and the transformation of social order. We completed this about 460 years ago. One process.

"We... didn't anticipate the special situation of the Loren League, which made us feel ashamed. Under the blessing of the pioneers, we passed this difficulty too easily, and this blinded our eyes.

"This suddenly exposed problem is very serious. It directly threatens the plan to resist the demonic tide. We are worried and expectant to ask whether the Loren League has a solution to this problem? We...do not want to see the only one. 'S friend failed."

Gao Wen fell silent. He weighed carefully for a long time before finally giving a response: "First, the Alliance is ready to face all difficult challenges, whether it is the gods or the laws of the universe that stand in front of us, "Mother Star Barrier" 'The plans will continue to advance, and the Loren people will never give up survival.

"Second, we are not completely without the means to fight against the divine disaster. Although the Lorenians are advancing the symbiosis and transformation with the gods, in extreme cases, we will have to fight head-on with the out-of-control gods. Although this is difficult, We have indeed fought this kind of battle and have accumulated victory experience."

After sending this message out, Gao Wen let out a sigh of relief. He thought it was enough to be open and honest, and enough to express his attitude and determination.

And the response of the Noyes came a little faster than he expected.

The printer terminal creaked, and a series of question marks came out on the paper tape: "???"