"In fact, the Earth also has the ambition to contribute to the Milky Way. The crocodile's smile continued: "But as you can see Lord Elaini, our level of technology is not advanced. Our star field is also barren. ”

Li Jie was telling the truth, and Elaini nodded as he heard them. Li Jie continued: "But we on Earth know very well that it is always better to have one more friend than one more enemy in this world. ”

"We have no intention of invading other star civilizations, and we don't have the ability to do so. Since Star-Lord came back last time, he had said about the Galactic Alliance, about the Nova Legion. So we've been thinking about what we're going to do for the Galactic League. ”

"We're just a civilization that has just entered the universe, and for some reason we've acquired some armed technology that allows us to build starships. However, our overall level of science and technology is still low, and we are always people who walk on one foot. ”

"Some progress in the military industry does not say anything about the civilization of the earth as a whole, and we still have a long way to go before we can become a true interstellar civilization. We hope to join the Galactic Star Alliance and get more exchanges and development in it. "Li Jie first set the positioning of the earth's civilization at a very low position.

Because what he is trying to do is not suitable for the earth to be too showy, especially in terms of technology. The Earth is still very weak.

Let's take a look at the Zetari attack this time. Li Jie and the others have been planning for so long, with mental calculation or unintentional, the whole battle is still in their own hands with the initiative, and an ambush circle has been set up in advance, and there are even reinforcements from the Nova Legion behind.

Although the Zetarian fleet was completely annihilated, the Venus fleet still lost almost a quarter of its warships. Where there is a war, there must be casualties, and the record of zero casualties can only be an accidental legend, or a one-sided crush.

And he was only dealing with a detachment of the Zetarians, who were employed by the Skruls. It can be said that this wave of Zitari who came to attack the Earth is only in charge of the mercenary business among the Zitari pirates. Not the main fleet of Zetari.

Just to deal with a partial division, Li Jie and they wasted so much strength. What if it's Zitari or even Skrull's main fleet, even if it really wants Asgard to call for help, and let the Ancient One come to the rescue.

So Li Jie now knows very well where the earth is currently located, and he can't be complacent just because he won a battle. The victory in this war is more of a political connotation.

Let Earth have a certain amount of talking capital after joining the Nova Legion, and tell the other members of the Covenant that we have defeated the Zetarians in the past, and we are not soft persimmons.

But this attitude naturally can't be shown to Elaini now, and Li Jie is counting on her to help him lobby the other higher-ups of the Nova Legion. Of course, as one of only fifty Ten-Captains of the Nova Legion, Elaini himself belonged to the upper echelons.

"You're right, Nightcrawler. Elaini nodded, and she agreed with Jack's words, "Star-Lord and I have reported on the level of civilization on Earth. With the exception of the starships, your overall level of civilization is not particularly high. Just entered the interstellar age. ”

"And there is a standard to join the Star Alliance. It is impossible for us to accept all civilizations to enter the Star Covenant at will, because the civilizations after entering the Star Alliance have obligations that need to be undertaken, and naturally they also have the right to enjoy the Star Alliance. Elaini's expression was a lot more serious when she said these words, and the happy expression dissipated a lot, but at least she was still in a good mood now, so the timing of Li Jie's conversation was still very right.

"After joining the Covenant, the Nova Legion is obligated to take on their own defense. For example, the attacks of the Space Pirates, such as the attacks of the Zetarians this time, or the scattered attacks of other small groups of pirates. The Nova Legion will also open up a number of publicly available tech projects for Covenant members to browse and study. "What Elaini said was the benefit of joining the Star Alliance and accepting the jurisdiction of the Nova Legion.

"Of course, rights and obligations are reciprocal. The Nova Legion maintains peace in the galaxy and beyond, prohibits civilization-destroying slaughter wars, and more. But there will always be clashes between civilizations, and some clashes will inevitably rise to the point where war is needed to resolve them. It is also impossible for the Nova Legion to mediate these wars endlessly, because the more intensely some wars are suppressed, the more ferocious they will be when they suddenly rebound. ”

"We agree to a limited armed conflict to decide what to do, but we will prioritize the interests of the members of the Covenant. Elaini said it very bluntly, as long as there are people (including aliens), there will be rivers and lakes, and this rivers and lakes will have struggles, and this struggle can also be interpreted as politics.

"As I said earlier, the Nova Legion formed the Covenant from a good perspective. Members have rights and obligations. These include providing resources to the Nova Legion, opening ports, allowing members of civilization to join the Nova Legion as elite warriors, and more. And all this has a threshold. Elaini got to the point, which was the main purpose of Li Jie's conversation with Elani this time.

"If a civilization is too low-level, then it will be difficult for him to provide the Nova Legion with everything I mentioned above. It is an iron law that the Nova Legion strictly forbids higher civilizations from attacking lower civilizations that have not yet entered the interstellar age. The development of civilization should conform to its natural laws and should not be forcibly undermined by external forces. ”

"And when civilization enters the interstellar age, this protection will slowly disappear, because at this time, the conflict of interests between interstellar civilizations will slowly occur. You can understand it as the kind of player in the Earth game who has a newbie protection. At this time, he has no novice protection, but his level is not high and his equipment is not strong, so he is easy to be killed by high-level players. "Elaini looks like he's played the Earth game too.

"Yes, Lord Elaini. Li Jie chimed in: "That's exactly what I'm worried about. Earth's civilization is now only protected by a fragile layer of eggshells, and before we spread our wings and become eagles, we hope that our civilization will take refuge under the wings of the Nova Legion. ”

People must learn to be soft, and the current earth has no way to deal with the powerful Nova legion. Moreover, the Nova Legion is also orderly, kind, and upright, and it is still guaranteed to join them.

"But, as I said. The earth is now in a very awkward stage, and the level is not up or down. It's hard to say whether or not Earth civilization will be accepted by the Nova Legion. Because the Earth may only demand from the Legion for a long time, and not be able to reciprocate. You know, a virtuous chain of interests is an equivalent exchange between each other," Elani said: "Only an equal exchange, not a one-sided demand, can maintain a pleasant and long-term cooperation." ”

"And the Legion also needs to take into account the thoughts of other Covenant members. "Elaini is talking about very real problems.

And when the topic came to this, Li Jie nodded and said, "That's why I proposed to His Excellency the Ten Commanders that the Earth provide logistics and entertainment services for the Nova Legion. ”

Elaini pondered for a moment and said, "But the Legion is not necessarily willing to pay for these expensive entertainments, which are not a necessity. "Although Star-Lord opened an Earth Entertainment City after returning to Xandar Star, the fee is not high, but it is not low. And even so, Star-Lord also said that this is already a low price not counting the transportation fee.

The high cost of good entertainment products is a universal cognition, and even in Xandar is a normal cognition.

In the face of Eleni's inquiry, Li Jie immediately said: "Your Excellency Eleni, we can promise. We will provide all services at cost price and do not earn any fees. There are even some services that we can offer for free, and that will be our contribution to the Nova Legion. "Li Jie swears by it.

He sighed in his heart: cultivating the market requires some costs.