"You've known this for a long time, haven't you?"

Wu Qing nodded, Shen Wen smiled, Xu Yan couldn't tell whether it was a mockery or a bitter smile, maybe there were both - this kind of smile appeared on the face of a Federation person, and it looked so awkward.

"We've been wondering why you don't know until now."

"I don't know what you can say!" Xu Yan almost subconsciously felt angry, and after this anger, he suddenly began to realize a more serious problem, "You have known it for a long time, and you must have known what to do, right?" Not only am I fake, but so are the two of you! ”

Xu Yan was like a person who fell into the water, and instantly grabbed a life-saving straw, and immediately asked: "Then what are we going to do?" You must have a solution, don't you? ”

Xu Yan looked at Wu Qing: "Aren't you the most familiar with the search and rescue team?" Have you ever seen such a good civilization, a hair can be exchanged for a spaceship...... He hasn't told you, how to deal with this kind of thing? ”

Wu Qing shook his head: "What you said...... I don't really remember. ”

"I remember everything, don't you remember?"

"Yes," Wu Qing said, "I just know that I have that memory, but I really want to remember it...... It's gone. ”

Xu Yan turned his head in disbelief and looked at Shen Wen again: "What about you, professor?" You don't remember either? What about the books you've read? ”

Shen Wen smiled bitterly: "Knowledge on earth is useless here. ”

"So what are you going to do?"

"There's nothing to do," Wu Qingdao, "now everything is task-oriented." ”

"Mission?" Xu Yan's whole body jumped up, "They don't recognize us!" What else do we help them with their tasks? ”

Xu Yan is obviously talking about the real Xu Yan, the miser who refuses to share the common wealth with him...... Even though that person is himself.

Wu Qing nodded: "At least this is the only thing we can do now." ”

Shen Wen also said: "They didn't abandon us, they just ...... We're completely different from them. ”

In this contact, the message sent by the search and rescue team did not clearly indicate the future arrangement of their fate, only that everything was still being discussed on the earth in the consultation meeting. But he also expressed something in his contact that he didn't explicitly mean - that is, their fate may not be so simple.

Wu Qing and Shen Wen got together, and after just a few discussions, they basically figured it out.

Since the search and rescue team said it so tactfully, what it really meant was obviously not good news.

And what if it's bad, how bad it is?

Wu Qing and Shen Wen thought about it in this direction, and combined with this mission, they both understood their situation by now.

"You mean that they can't catch us, and we have to take the initiative to send them to the door and cooperate with them?" After hearing the two of them say this, Xu Yan was so surprised that he almost couldn't close his mouth, "God knows what they will do to us!" ”

"We'll definitely be fine," after discussing with Shen Wen, Wu Qing has basically completely figured out these issues, including the way to cooperate, their possible fate in the future, and the interaction with the search and rescue team, "Just like the real Wu Xiaoqing, they are all fine now." ”

Xu Yan's mind hadn't turned for a while: "How can it be okay!" We're wanted! They caught us...... The purpose that will definitely force us to speak out! Can we say? ”

"It has nothing to do with whether it can be or not," Shen Wen said, "once you choose to cooperate...... In fact, a lot of things are out of control...... But it's hard to say that this kind of thing ......"

He looked at Wu Qing, and Wu Qing also looked at him.

From acceptance to contact to the present, the two have actually been concerned about this issue.

Their current situation is like a few people standing on the top of a snow-capped mountain, with a steep ski slope in front of them. If they choose not to move at the top of the mountain, everything seems manageable - the only problem is time, the cold will gradually make them lose their temperature, and it is likely that they will be incapacitated before they reach safety.

Corresponding to reality, this low temperature is the war situation.

The longer it drags on, the fewer opportunities the Federation has.

Choosing to cooperate is undoubtedly choosing a channel to solve problems quickly, which is fast, but once chosen, the situation they face will become extremely complicated.

"The first thing the federal government will do after we work together is make copies of us," and that's just the first step, of course, but the rest of the year will get faster and faster, "and they'll make tens of millions, even tens of billions of us...... By that time, what leaks do not reveal secrets...... It's all inconsequential details, and from a statistical point of view, the leak is certain, and we can't hide it, and we can't hide it. We can only control ourselves, but what about the other tens of billions of replicas? ”

Xu Yan was completely stunned by Shen Wen's fantasies of tens of billions of clones, and his tone began to tremble: "They ...... Isn't it the same as us? If we don't say ......"

"Who said the same? Are you the same now as you were when you first came here to participate in the mission? ”

When he first came to carry out this mission, Xu Yan's mind was full of the idea of actively performing in this mission, striving for "meritorious service", and then taking charge of himself, but now, ...... If there is a portal back to Earth now, Xu Yan is willing to get into it immediately, even if he resigns from Qinglan Consulting later, he will never want to live the life of a roller coaster like he is now. Hearing what Shen Wen said just now, Xu Yan felt that he had stepped on the gate of hell.

"People change," Mr. Wu said, "and the environment changes, and the speed of change is even faster than we think." Even if these clones are ourselves, what environment will they face, what challenges will they encounter, and how will they respond...... We will not know at all that the Federalists must have more experience than we have in this regard...... As long as they design this change of environment, they can definitely get all the information they want. ”

Xu Yan began to roughly understand what Wu Qing meant: "If we are all copied, then what about us?" What will you do? ”

"I don't know," Wu Qing said, "maybe they'll put us aside like backup data, and won't treat us badly, but they can't rule out treating them like ordinary replicas." We don't know the technology of digitizing consciousness...... Once we have chosen this path, we are not up to ourselves. ”

Xu Yan felt a burst of cold sweat all over his body.

At this time, there was a knock at the door - this was Wu Qing's personal game space, and this knock was a system sound effect he had set up, indicating that someone was applying to enter this space.

Wu Qing took a look at the information, it was Changbai.

"He must have known that," Mr. Shen said, "and the information was open to him, and he also had a library of Chinese characters." ”

The rest of the Federation, including the KPA, saw the original text of the contact, but because they did not have the corresponding script, they certainly did not know the meaning.

"Bacheng is here to speak with us," Shen Wen said, "let him in." ”

Changbai did come because of the content of this contact, and conveyed Changhong's opinion: "The people of the People's Army think that the search and rescue team is ...... There was no sincerity, they thought they would come to our aid with some weapons, or take them to the search and rescue ship to have a look. ”

Wu Qing did not speak, the search and rescue ship did not carry weapons, this is the biggest secret of their trip, and it must not be easily revealed to the People's Army. When he persuaded Changhong before, Wu Qing's reason was that he might get the corresponding support, but now he didn't see the support, and he couldn't even understand the text that was transmitted, which obviously made Changhong feel that he was being used.

In fact, it's true, Wu Qing was already using them, and it seems that they will soon lose their use value.

Now Wu Qing has no time to think about the affairs of the People's Army, and after meeting Changbai, he is more concerned about cooperation with the government.

"Cooperation?" Changbai was stunned by Wu Qing's idea. After listening, he subconsciously shook his head, "Don't even think about this idea!" Impossible! ”

"Why?"

Changbai didn't explain directly, but he paused, changed his tone and said, "Actually, I have another bad news to tell you today. The long star is dead. ”

"Dead?"

"His death sentence...... "The federal government will not tell you the slightest morality, nor will it keep any promises made to you, and they will turn their faces at any time if conditions allow." If you really choose to work with the government...... That would be a disaster for the entire Federation. ”

"Disaster?" Wu Qing felt that Changbai was a little sensational, "At least it can stop your military defeat." ”

"The attack of the Mind is not a threat to us, and I'm sure you've all heard that many of the Federation are ready to surrender the Mind Body."

"Intellectual...... I may not accept your surrender. "The path that Changbai said, if it were not for the existence of that mysterious A civilization, would have been feasible. The federal government will fall in civil strife and external troubles, and eventually the federal civilization will metamorphose into a new civilization dominated by AI, supplemented by humans, or even completely eliminated by humans.

However, the existence of civilization A, and the attitude that the federal government is destined to be unwilling to fail, completely blocked this road - as long as the federal government is forced by the military situation to launch a colony ship towards the system where civilization A is located in an attempt to protect itself, the two civilizations will almost certainly end together.

But this reason is also impossible to tell Changbai, and this point is also confidential.

The most ironic thing is that Wu Qing himself remembers a vague outline of this secret content - he doesn't even remember the whole process of his dealings with civilization A, and the detailed reason for exchanging his hair for spaceships. He just remembered the existence of such a powerful civilization.

In other words, when his replica is obtained by the federal government, his memory is not convincing, and this needs to be kept secret to a friend, because a friend will believe it, but it is not worth keeping it secret from the enemy, who will subconsciously question the accuracy of the replica's memory.

"If you're working with the government...... Your clones are going to create a huge moral crisis, and can you imagine that the lives that are exactly like you, countless lives, are being tied up in spaceships and engaged in pointless wars for the so-called reasons of the federal government? If this war is consumed in this form, the worst result will be ...... It's the 15 planets of the entire federation that could end up being completely consumed by the war. ”

Changbai said that this situation, Wu Qing has seen in the game, in the game, this kind of ending is the most unsuccessful ending, because both sides lost, completely lost.

Unlike a simple loser, even if one side loses, in the game they will only control the civilization, and the winner will step on the corpse of the loser, and continue the fire of civilization in this galaxy. But if this lose-lose situation is encountered, the 15 planets of the entire solar system will be completely fragmented because of the war.

The mass of the planet will be split into countless mass particles composed of warships that will drift throughout the galaxy. Without a stable source of gravity and a solid foundation for survival, even the most sophisticated civilization will gradually dim and eventually die like a torch without fuel.