Due to the need for confidentiality, the meeting was held in a dormitory rented by the company.

Xu Yan and Wang Youquan cleaned the living room, moved the dining table again, and set up a circle of seats, and the venue was simply arranged.

The table is an ordinary dining table, not too big, five people, plus a computer, it seems just right to sit down. After sitting down, Wu Xiaoqing went to close the curtains, and then turned on the projector.

The PPT was just made by the search and rescue team, and it can be regarded as a clear explanation of what Wu Xiaoqing saw and heard during this trip. After everyone was seated, the search and rescue team began the meeting.

“…… The current situation is that it is impossible for us to force the other side to agree to our request by force, which is the biggest difference between this mission and the previous missions," the search and rescue team made a concluding remarks after giving a brief introduction to their current situation, "which means that in this mission, our lives are safe...... It's even hard to get covered. ”

"Judging from intelligence, these two civilizations are obviously civilized countries," Shen Changwen was more optimistic, "as long as we don't provoke them without being sure, we shouldn't take any action against us." ”

"Civilized nations......" Yevgeny apparently disagreed, "countries at war, each one is a beast." ”

Wang Youquan and Xu Yan looked at each other, and the thoughts they had before coming to the meeting were now all replaced by fear. After hearing the search and rescue team mention that their lives were in danger this time, both of them read a meaning from the eyes of each other colliding with each other: "Really? ”

On the PPT, at this time, Wu Xiaoqing let the search and rescue team draw a simulation of the opponent's spacecraft according to his own memory.

"In terms of size, such a spaceship is several times larger than our aircraft carrier," Yevgeny said, half of whom was an expert in weapons and was particularly interested in these alien vehicles, "not to mention that it could take off directly vertically...... Do you know how much energy it takes to put something so heavy into orbit? It's not just a matter of energy, it's also about the heat resistance of the ship's engines themselves...... With such a large volume, it has not yet disintegrated at such a high acceleration...... You must know that the aircraft carrier floats on water, and it is difficult to maintain its own structure when it is so big today...... To achieve this level of performance in the picture is unimaginable for our current level of technology. ”

"If one of these spaceships comes here, it can sweep the entire earth," Shen Changwen added, "It is impossible for our* to catch up with it in a vacuum......"

Wu Xiaoqing noticed the atmosphere in the venue and made a joke: "Now it seems that it is not us who are going to invade them, but they are coming to invade us." ”

Shen Changwen had chatted with the search and rescue team a few words before the meeting, and he probably knew about Wu Xiaoqing's change of spaceship, so he asked, "Then let's introduce our invasion tools." ”

Now it's time for the search and rescue team.

To put it simply, the spaceship that Civilization A gave to Wu Xiaoqing is a rescue ship once used by the search and rescue team civilization. One of the most important features of being a rescue ship is that there are no weapons on board.

The material of the boat comes from ion spraying, which is a relatively high-end manufacturing mode in the search and rescue team civilization. The specific method is a bit similar to 3D printing, the difference is that the basic equipment of printing is a device similar to a high-energy accelerator, which first adds the substance to ultra-high speed, and then directly hits the target area as needed. The materials produced with this technology have almost reached the limits of physical design - the atomic structure inside the material is carefully constructed, and the atoms and molecules that make up the matter are stacked together like bricks.

According to the search and rescue team, the biggest feature of this manufacturing method is that the manufacturing speed is very slow - of course, it is slow compared to the search and rescue team civilization. It would take a full 30 years for such a spaceship to be made - imagine that ions are constantly hitting the target area, accumulating, and finally forming a certain thickness of solid material. It can almost be said that the entire spaceship is "woven" layer by layer with atomic looms.

Compared with the process that Wu Xiaoqing learned from the C civilization, this kind of technology is still obviously advanced. But there is no absolute advantage - after all, there is an upper limit to the physics of this universe, and no matter how strong a material is, it cannot exceed the limit definition of physics. As far as the ordinary material world is concerned, it is suitable for being used as a spacecraft material, and this kind of search and rescue ship used by the search and rescue team has reached the pinnacle of technology. Further up, whether you're looking for sturdiness or lightness, there may be better options, but for ships, it's not particularly suitable.

If the pursuit of reduction is not urgent, the civilization to which the search and rescue team belongs may be able to use pure neutrons as the material for the fortress - this material may be able to build an indestructible planet, but if it is used on a spaceship, it is obviously impossible - the flexibility of such a ship will be reduced to a minimum, and it will eventually become a living target. Although the neutron material is dense and strong, it can still break through as long as the energy of the attack is sufficient.

In terms of technology alone, the rescue ship is definitely slightly more advanced than the combat ships owned by the BC civilization, because the search and rescue team civilization itself is proficient in high-dimensional teleportation technology, and this rescue ship is naturally the same. It is impossible for a rescue ship to be defeated by the BC civilization if they want to, as long as they do not fly close to the planets controlled by the BC civilization.

If the rescue ship carries a weapon system, the mission is simple, they only need to wander around the opponent's star system, or fire at a distance from the opponent's orbit, with teleportation technology, relying on a single ship to conquer these two civilizations is no problem at all.

But now the problem is precisely that there are no weapons on this ship.

It's like an aircraft carrier without planes - without weapons, no matter how strong and agile the ship is, it is just a higher quality target.

"Can that be?" Yevgeny was a little whimsical, "We can use the weapons on Earth on spaceships...... At the very least, we still have a nuclear warhead in our hands. ”

What Yevgeny said was obviously the one they left in the Ascension Realm.

"What about other than nuclear warheads?" Wu Xiaoqing was not very hopeful about this idea, "This is a space-level war, and the combat distance is at the level of millions of kilometers, or even hundreds of millions of kilometers. What weapon on Earth can maintain precision strikes at such a distance? As for the nuclear bomb...... The two civilizations of the BC did not lack such weapons. For them, this is just a conventional weapon - I've seen their military fortresses, there are no ground structures at all, and Civilization C can even hollow out the entire interior of the planet. A nuclear warhead from half a century ago on Earth...... Even if they explode in their central city, there will be no fundamental change. Moreover, our mission this time is to persuade peace, and to use force to make a forced landing...... It's basically impossible. Not to mention the BC civilization, take this rescue ship to the earth, and the earth will not surrender. ”

"I don't mean the real threat," Yevgeny added, "and you should have heard stories of husbands and wives fighting in the streets, and the husband beating his wife so badly that the wife was screaming for help all over the street." But when zealous passers-by come and dissuade her husband by force, the wife will instead help her husband to beat the man who saved him......"

"Between B and C, I'm afraid it's not as simple as husband and wife." Wu Xiaoqing had seen the scene when the group of planes of Civilization B was dispatched, and he could fully imagine that if these aircraft could successfully reach the orbit of a planet, they would drop all the weapons they carried...... Even with the technological level of the earth, the surface of that planet can completely ensure that there is no grass to grow.

This level of war is obviously not the level of husband and wife fighting—if everyone just swears at each other on the Internet, fights in the council, throws benches and shoes, and then reluctantly talks about fighting.

There was silence for a moment.

The search and rescue team opened a new topic: "Then let's talk about something simple, what is the name of our past this time." ”

Shen, Wu, and Ye all froze after hearing this—in name? But it soon became realized.

The first three missions were strictly speaking of a disguise for their identities. The first time they go to save primitive people, they will not tell primitive people that they are from the earth, or from the search and rescue team civilization, because there is no meaning of communication. The second time is the same, falsely claiming to be an oracle, the effect is 10,000 times stronger than claiming that you are an alien. As for the third time, because the other party had already tacitly acquiesced to them being "mortals", Wu Xiaoqing simply admitted it.

The main reason why there is no nominal issue in the past is that these three civilizations are "not very civilized". In fact, for uncivilized countries, if they can fight, they will fight, if they can't fight, they will obey, and the law of the jungle will eat the strong, which seems to be the only law in the world.

But this time it's different, what they need to face is a civilization that is quite similar to the earth, and more advanced than the earth. When dealing with such a civilization, it is very important to have a reason that the other party can fully believe.

"It can be said that I came here for a scientific investigation...... Describe the rescue ship as a research ship...... It can even be called space travel," Yevgeny said, "but it certainly can't be called a rescue ......"

"Why?" The rhetorical question was the search and rescue team.

"Because every civilization has self-esteem, and the stronger the civilization, the more self-esteem there is," Yevgeny apparently has his own historical memory of this, "during the Cold War, the Soviets could not have received food aid from the United States, even if they lined up every day to buy bread...... If we say that we are here to rescue them, to save them from the destruction of civilization, we will be regarded as enemies in the first place! Since they have the guts to start a war, it shows that both sides think that they have a good chance of winning! Rescue civilization? There is no doubt that they are the opponents who support them. If we say that we support them, we are asking them to admit that they will be defeated, and no civilization will admit it, so that we have done bad things with good intentions. ”

"But if not in the name of rescue...... How do we move on to the next step and stop this war? ”

"I think, given our current conditions," Yevgeny slowed down and asked the search and rescue team to follow his pace and translate his Russian into Chinese, "we shouldn't think about what to stop the war first." We're saving civilization just like you've done on that mission before — and although I didn't participate, I admire your timely decision. You have an entire world to save, but reality has saved only a fraction of the people of one kingdom. This is the attitude we need most to carry out rescue missions. ”、

"Now, think about it, we have a ship that won't be affected by war, and it can hold hundreds of thousands of people inside - this one spaceship alone can save more than you can from all your previous missions combined."