Sima Yun was silent for a long time before saying, "You're right. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info is unwilling, as long as there is a slight opportunity, he will want to catch it. ”

Maybe the Reaper is also an alien civilization, but whether Zhuang Bifan can defeat the Reaper is still one thing. Optimistic estimates may be that those civilizations stand by and watch, and then the Aurora forces are victorious, and those civilizations take the opportunity to turn against the Aurora civilization.

Zhuang Bifan changed his mind in just one day, and did not show enough enthusiasm for the Khafatra mission. The other party offered to see the warships of the Aurora civilization, and he allowed people to take them to visit. To negotiate, he gave full authority to Deville.

Except for a regular meeting with Crown Prince Fatel, he has not been seen in front of the people of Khafatra since. The task of contacting the mission was given to Deville.

It is said that when he arrived, Crown Prince Kaffatra was always smiling. But when he left, he was already expressionless. Needless to say, his trip did not serve its purpose. At the scene of "farewell" to Kafatla, Zhuang Bifan did not appear.

Zhuang Bifan was already on the Hanwu on its way to the Pontutru system. At the invitation of the Nilo civilization, he visited the Nilo civilization.

The Han Wu was directly replaced to a distance of only eight light-seconds from the administrative star, the capital of the Niluo Kingdom. In order to prevent the Nilo civilization from thinking that he was too rude, the next voyage of the Hanwu needed to be a regular voyage.

On this trip, he brought three motherships, the Hanwu and two other general-class motherships. Three motherships are sailing at a speed of 4,000 kilometers per second towards the capital of the Kingdom of Nilo, the planet of Nilo.

The Nilo civilization sent an escort fleet in accordance with interstellar convention. It's just that the twenty-four battleships that are more than 1,000 meters long are like small ants surrounded by three elephants around the three motherships.

Zhuang Bifan did not visit Nilo Civilization in advance for no reason.

The Nilo civilization seems to be in a hurry, and within three Nilo Star days, he has proposed to the observers of the Aurora Forces three times to invite him to visit. He also heard that the fleet of the Pontutru civilization was waiting for it, and it seemed that it was going to completely annex the Nilo civilization.

Zhuang Bifan already had plans to visit, but of course he would not watch the Niluo civilization being annexed. The Nilo civilization is the civilization he aims to befriend. He didn't want this potential helper to be destroyed.

However, at this time, Zhuang Bifan was not concerned about the affairs of the Niluo civilization. He's communicating with Deville.

"So, the equality they propose is based on the state?"

"Yes. Crown Prince Kafatra made this statement clear. According to them, many civilizations have merged, but they are still divided internally. If it is based on civilization, it will allow separatism to run rampant. ”

That would make sense. Zhuang Bifan sneered. "That's normal, though. Whether it is Kaffatra or other higher civilizations, there are many civilizations that have been conquered and annexed, but still have not yet fully integrated into their existence. ”

"I guess their purpose is more than that. If we agree to their proposal, the civilizations they conquered before the alliance will be considered legitimate. We can only recognize their annexation. ”

"Also, we are outsiders, and we use voting to decide the disputes of this galaxy cluster, and we can't veto dozens of votes from them anyway?"

"The most important thing is that if that alliance is successfully concluded, we will be the one to be excluded. Other civilizations will be closer together because of this alliance. Dewell added.

Crown Prince Kafatra brought Zhuang Bifan an alliance plan to maintain the peace of the cluster and promote the development of civilization. That seems to be fair to all civilizations. But it is obviously very unfavorable to Zhuang Bifan.

Crown Prince Cafatra dared to propose such a plan, of course, because he felt that the Aurora forces needed to ensure peace within the galaxy cluster so that they could fight together against the Reaper enemy in the future.

In the originally relatively peaceful galaxy cluster, there have been many disputes between various civilizations recently, and even wars have broken out for control of lower civilizations. That was clearly putting pressure on him to agree to Qaphatra's proposal.

But they didn't know that he didn't have to join forces with them to fight the Reaper. He left those advanced civilizations behind in the hope that they would not have internal friction and would have the strength to fight when they were threatened by the Reapers, so that they could show a little strength in wartime and delay the Reaper fleet.

Those civilizations felt that it was their last chance. It seems that their purpose is not to fight the Reaper, but to unite against him as an outsider.

Now it seems that he had thought of a plan to properly nurture these high-level civilizations so that they could increase their strength as much as possible before the arrival of the Reapers, but he had made himself a fool of himself.

And Zhuang Bifan's kindness, in the eyes of those advanced civilizations, became their weapon, which was his weakness.

Perhaps it was because of that that that reason why the other party lost his smile when Deville rejected Crown Prince Fatel's plan.

Since those higher civilizations were plotting against him like that, there was no need for him to think about them anymore.

He thought for a moment and said to Dewell, "We can sell some armaments to those low-level civilizations. Gold can be exchanged. ”

"Gold as currency?" "Using precious metals as currency is already a monetary policy that has lost its value. Deville didn't understand Zhuang Bifan's thoughts. "Marshal, if we were to trade with those of our civilizations, I think we would do well to settle in our currency. ”

"No, just use gold!" Zhuang Bifan insisted. “”

Zhuang Bifan, of course, knew the benefits of the coinage. But the objects of his support will only be those low-level civilizations, and he has nothing to think of those civilizations to buy, and those civilizations will not have enough currency to trade with him. And to be able to develop an interstellar civilization, it is impossible not to know the disadvantages of handing over monetary power to others.

If he insisted on using the Aurora currency as the currency for trade calculations, it would make those civilizations think that he was trying to use currency to control them. If you do that, you won't be able to get them to really agree with the kindness of the Aurora forces.

Of course, he knew that the gold standard had long since ended on Earth, but the best thing he could think of right now was to use precious metals as the settlement currency. That's something that all civilizations have, it's just a matter of quantity. When the Aurora forces trade with them, gold will also become a trade commodity. That's not entirely without benefits.

Zhuang Bifan insisted, even if Deville had an opinion, he had to keep it: "Yes, marshal." I'm going to let people make plans. ”

"Also, if other low-level civilizations ask us for help, they can consider it as long as they are likely to throw themselves at us. ”

"Yes, I understand. ”

"Then so be it!" Zhuang Bifan turned off the communication signal.

He now felt that those high-level civilizations were not well cultivated, and he didn't have to expect them to help him at a critical time. In that case, it is better to foster a low-level civilization. Maybe that wouldn't help him against the Reaper. But once the Reaper is defeated, these low-level civilizations will be more beneficial to his future plans.

He turned to Koster, who was accompanying him, and said, "When we go back, we can plan to encircle and destroy Gutila." ”

"What about the other three advanced civilizations?"

"Since they like war, let them go to war. ”

Zhuang Bifan said lightly: "As long as we don't fight with them, the more elated they are, the more stable we will be." ”

Koster blinked and said, "I see." ”

The Hanwu sailed for about half a day and arrived at a distance of 150,000 kilometers from Nilo, and the three motherships finally stopped sailing, and then made a synchronous voyage in space on the backlit side of Nilo.

After the battleship was moored in this position, Zhuang Bifan and they needed to take the landing ship to bypass Nilo Star and land again. On the front of Niluo Star, on the dock of Niluo Star, King Niluo led a group of officials to hold a grand welcome ceremony for Zhuang Bifan and his party at the pier.

After a series of complicated rituals, Zhuang Bifan and his entourage took a small flying machine of the Nilo civilization to the Nilo Palace.

The fleet of aircraft landed outside the square outside the Royal Palace. Zhuang Bifan and King Nilo came down from the same flying machine one after another.

The Nilo people are very ugly in Zhuang Bifan's aesthetics. They are slender and porous, but have no visible hair. The skin is blue-white, with only a pair of nostrils facing the sky and no outer nose, and the mouth shape is somewhat similar to that of earthly humans, except that the purple lips are very thin. The eye has no eyelids, but it has an instantaneous membrane. The pupil of the eye is large, taking up half the size of the eye. The ears are tubular and resemble the green giants in the movies.

Zhuang Bifan followed King Nilo from the flying machine to the ground, got into a wheeled convertible, and slowly walked towards the palace. There is a large number of Nilo people in the square. He wears a Nilo communicator. Listening to the shouts of the Nilo people, it seemed to welcome his arrival. It's just not known if it was summoned or if they came spontaneously.

However, Zhuang Bifan came to "show goodwill", he smiled, and frequently thought about the Nilo people who didn't know what they were shouting and waving.

He waved his hand and said to King Nilo beside him, "Your Majesty, you have made me deeply honored!"

"We are also honored that Your Excellency has chosen our Kingdom of Nilo as the object of your first visit. ”

Although both sides are polite, this can also deepen the "friendship" between the two sides. After all, the two sides have the intention to make friends.

Zhuang Bifan said with a smile: "There are two reasons why I chose Nilo Civilization as the first object of my visit. The first is that your invitation is very sincere. Second, we have received help from another higher spiritual civilization, and we know that as long as we treat each other sincerely, pure spiritual civilization will always treat us as friends. ”

When King Nilo heard this, he was obviously stunned for a moment, but immediately smiled and said, "We are indeed living in peace with any civilization with 120,000 sincerity. Our purely spiritual civilization is indeed more sensitive in distinguishing between good intentions and bad intentions. ”

Zhuang Bifan's words reassured King Nilo a lot. Perhaps other advanced civilizations also know the benefits of the development of a spiritual civilization, but they also guard against the development of a spiritual civilization. There is no civilization that is willing to selflessly help them develop. If the Aurora civilization has that kind of understanding of spiritual civilization, it doesn't matter whether Zhuang Bifan's statement about having a favorable impression of pure spiritual civilization is true or not. At the very least, diplomatic exchanges between the two sides would be much more relaxed for the Nilo civilization than with Pontutru.