At this time, Li Quan had already boarded the flagship of the largest mothership of the Swan fleet with Lin.

He set out as soon as the UN peace engagement failed. After infiltrating, he discovered that the technology used by the swan fleet was at least a few hundred years ahead of humans. Previous estimates differ. It reminded him of one word: a technological explosion.

Under his propulsion, the earth society has almost completed the normal situation of more than 500 years of technological climbing in 25 years. A number of technologies were already ahead of the Swan fleet. But he overlooked the fact that if his own side is improving, the other side is also developing.

Obviously, during the long voyage at a distance of 2,300 light years, there was also one, if not several "technological explosions" within the Swan fleet. Once again, the power of science and technology far surpasses that of human beings.

He witnessed the imminent collapse of the United Nations fleet under the attack of the Swan fleet. The UN fleet was only capable of inflicting a small amount of damage on the opposing side, and then it was destroyed one by one by the red light emitted by the various motherships, and all of them were destroyed.

He's not a scientist, and he doesn't know what kind of technology that red light contains. He only knew that it was impossible to win from fighting technology. In the end, humanity is still left to attack from within the enemy on his own.

So here he came.

However, the result surprised him, and it was a bit ridiculous.

Inside the mothership is a labyrinth of its own underworld. When he finally found the alien hiding in it, not to mention that the other party had a very strange appearance, he originally thought that there would be a big fight.

As a result, he couldn't laugh or cry, and when these aliens saw him and Lynn, they immediately raised it, hoping to negotiate peacefully with him.

Li Quan could feel that these alien creatures, which looked like squids walking upright, and their whole body was swarthy and shiny, and they seemed to be very nervous when facing him.

The other made a strange, small sound. Language communication was not a problem, and Lynn translated the strange sounds of the other party for him.

Opposite Li Quan was a large group of alien creatures. Each instance looked the same: the surface of the body was dark and shiny, like a layer of melted asphalt. The body shape resembles that of a marine mollusc that walks upright with its tentacle feet, and it is generally two meters tall.

"Who are you?"

"I am the guardian of humanity on this planet." Li Quan replied.

"Please forgive your sins. We don't know that this world has a high-level life shelter. ”

Advanced life? Li Quan was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but glance back at Lin.

"Then you ......"

"We want to surrender."

"Surrender?" Li Quanqiang couldn't hold back the surprise on his face. And even if he made a surprised expression, the other side probably didn't know what it meant.

He was amazed at the performance of these aliens without a fight. He was ready to plant a few forests in this supermothership, but he didn't expect this to end.

"Are you willing to surrender?"

"Yes."

"Hmm...... This is good. ”

“……”

Li Quan thought about it carefully and said, "First of all, stop attacking. Then, tell me why you're here. ”

"The ground offensive was stopped just now."

"Very well, tell me why you have traveled all the way to attack humans?" Li Quan asked.

"We are here for iron."

"Iron?"

"Allow us to show you a picture."

After receiving Li Quan's affirmative answer, he didn't see any movement of these alien creatures, and the surrounding environment immediately presented a 3D stereoscopic projection.

The projection picture is extremely real, making Li Quan feel as if he has come to a strange planet for a moment. He knew he was still inside the supercarrier.

In the next ten minutes, Li Quan witnessed the rich and tragic history of the reproduction of a great civilization, which made him feel quite complicated.

This alien civilization, which has a completely different physiological structure from human beings and even has a different material basis, has an admirable history of civilization, brilliant and long, singing and tragic!

"Tu" is their name, just like "human".

Tu's home planet is a hellish cold planet that is absolutely uninhabitable to humans. A mixture of slurry, sulfide and a highly corrosive gas covers the entire surface. From a cosmic point of view, it looks like a pitch-black stone in the universe.

The civilization experienced by Tu was initially much more difficult than that of the earthlings.

The natural resources hidden deep in the mud have seriously slowed down the progress of civilization. In the Stone Age, which was much longer and longer than human beings, Tu, who had just given birth to the spark of civilization, and experienced the destruction of civilization by several violent planetary disasters, was finally able to develop into the most primitive tribal civilization.

The harsh planetary environment makes Tu spend more time than humans and other civilizations on Earth at every stage of civilization development.

However, even so, this industrious and unyielding Tu civilization still developed step by step to the pinnacle of science and technology, which took a total of 390,000 years. Tu has finally become a bright flower of civilization in the universe like the earth.

Tu Wenming's tenacity made Li Quan awe-inspired.

And its ending made him sad.

War!

The ultimate outcome that no civilization may be able to avoid. Tu was also not exempted.

"10,000 years ago, our home planet finally came to an end – a complete depletion of resources. In order to snatch the last remaining resources, a shameful war has broken out within our civilization. The power of the nuclear burned everything, and the planet eventually fell apart. Our home planet, gone. ”

Li Quan was silent.

Nuclear warfare!

Will humanity be able to avoid the same end of destruction?

"After the war, we had to become a wandering civilization with only 70 million people left from hundreds of billions of people. We used the remaining resources, built seven emigrant ships, and embarked on a long interstellar voyage. But this can only delay the doomed demise of our civilization. ”

"Until you find us?" Li Quan asked.

"Yes. Perhaps it was the gift of the god of the universe, and we heard a faint signal by chance in the silent and cold cosmic space. It was you humans who sent it a long time ago. We never imagined that other civilizations would be so close to us......"

"A long time ago?" Li Quan felt that this should not be the behavior of this generation of human civilization. At least with the 5,000-year-old civilization of this generation of human beings, it has not yet had the ability to make a voice that Tu could receive.

Maybe it's a civilization that perished in ancient times. Li Quan guessed.

"What is even more commendable is that after making simple physiological inferences about life on earth, we were surprised to find that for Tu, an incomparably rare resource, it is unusually abundant on earth."

"You mean...... Iron? Li Quan was a little puzzled, "But as far as I know, iron is a basic metal, and it should be very common in the universe." ”

"Yes. Ordinary iron is very common in space, and the same is true in our home planet. Rare, it is an iron atom that is in a free state. That's the foundation of our lives. Without it, Tu will not survive. ”

"Iron ...... in a free state," Li Quan touched his chin thoughtfully.

"A wandering civilization that has lost its home planet, in order to maintain its civilization, there is only one way, and that is to find the resources needed for survival in the interstellar world. After repeated verification, we decided to take a gamble and seize the only hope. And so began our great expedition! The social form, the inclination of resources, the direction of science and technology, everything made the greatest concessions to this great expedition......"

In the process of Lin's translation, Li Quan felt a sad emotion from the spirit of these alien beings.

"But, perhaps, the God of the universe has never favored us to slaughter. Our race, from the beginning of its birth, has never had an easy road. This expedition, we know, will not be. Disaster soon followed.

"On the way, a thousand light-years away, we came across a hidden gravitational reef in space. That is the biggest obstacle to astronautics, the invisible dark matter devil. The expeditionary fleet suffered heavy losses. That time, we lost a third of our population. ”

"Originally, we thought that everything was over, and Tu had once again overcome it. But over the next 20 years, a terrible plague broke out in the fleet without warning. Later we learned that it was the genetic damage caused to us by the influence of dark matter, which we were unable to detect. This time, we lost the remaining half of the population. ”

Li Quan was silent.

One-third, one-half, behind these cold numbers is the continuous withering of a civilization. This civilization has been devastated by catastrophe, and it is impossible to imagine how much suffering they have endured and how much they can survive.

"The Great Plague has finally passed. The people are dying day by day. We had a population of 70 million before we set off, and when we approached the solar system ten light-years away, we had three percent left.

"Subsequently, we experienced irretrievable physical damage to the hull of the fleet due to the long interstellar travel of time. I had to lower my speed halfway through. Doubled the planned sailing time. For the first time, Tu experienced the despair of the whole race in the silent and cold universe. We thought it was going to be the end of it. ”

"What happened next?" Li Quan asked. He unconsciously had a sincere curiosity about this tragic expedition of civilization.

You must be familiar with this word: the explosion of technology. Yes, we are experiencing technological advances that are not seen in a millennium. Perhaps all the pressure of survival has finally been converted into the final release of our race. Technological advances that suddenly appeared, solved all the problems that arose. We've repaired the ship and maintained the ship's biome, which is on the verge of collapse. We set out again with renewed hope. And then you already know it. It's a pity that Tu proved that the God of the Universe is really not on our side......"

Li Quan let out a long sigh and nodded.

"We would like to leave if you allow us. We'll leave the sector and promise not to return. Before we came, we had no idea that there was a superior life shelter here. ”

It's time to make a decision.

Li Quan thought about it for a quarter of an hour. He had received a message from the city of Rim India, and at this time the offensive on the ground had stopped, and the swan fleet had indeed abandoned the offensive before, and at the same time released the captured humans.

At this moment, the people on the ground also noticed that the spider machines had stopped and stood still. I don't know what happened, but countless people were already cheering. The army began to take advantage of the opportunity to regroup, shrink its defenses, and cover the evacuation of the population to the outskirts.

These aliens from the constellation Cygnus seem to be honest. Li Quan pondered for a long time, and finally spoke again.

He said, "I accept your surrender. I have one request, though. You must make amends and apologize. After all, you were the ones who started the invasion and killed so many innocent humans. Speaking of this, Li Quan's voice was cold, and there was undoubted majesty in his tone.

The negotiations went more smoothly than he expected.

"Of course, we are willing to compensate. It makes sense. The other party immediately replied, "However, we will not apologize." ”

"Oh? Why? Li Quan asked with a slight frown.

The other party replied: "There is no right or wrong war between two civilizations. Only the victor can survive. ”

……

No one knows exactly what happened on the mothership.

The people only know that the human race of the earth is on the verge of extinction, and it is the Heart of the Forest Company that saves everyone. It was Li Quan who used his personal power to make the alien civilization surrender to humanity.

Countless people are cheering: Savior!

This appellation is no longer superficial. It became a fact!

The news of the surrender of the swan fleet to humanity spread like wind across the globe. The aliens offered to compensate for the damage caused to the earth, which lifted everyone's spirits. On specific matters of reparations, the reorganized United Nations hopes to convene a global conference, and the reparation plan should be proposed by all countries and implemented by the people of all countries. This is an equal right that all escaped human beings should have.

Li Quan agreed to the UN's request. The specific compensation plan will be discussed within a few months.

The day of the alien surrender was spontaneously considered by the people to be "Earth's Independence Day". Every day people celebrate wildly, rejoicing in the aftermath of the catastrophe and remembering those who have unfortunately lost their lives.

Although the cost is huge, humanity has finally taken that step.

I believe that in the near future, human beings will be able to recover with the compensation of aliens and enter the era of the universe!

Back in Huanyin City, Li Quan had a lot of worries for several days.

He didn't know why, but he always felt in his heart that this matter should not be over yet.

……

The new book is open!

The author column on the home page can be seen, and the title of the book "Plane Rhapsody" is looking forward to everyone's onlookers!