The Tula people's underwater vehicle is not a submarine as humans generally think, but a kind of thing called an "underwater aircraft", as the name suggests, it is a vehicle that relies on the force generated by the current during navigation to float and dive.

Because the Tula people are an aquatic civilization, their attainments in fluid mechanics are very terrifying, and the human submarine is a joke in the eyes of the Tula people, which is completely inferior to the underwater aircraft that combines the essence of fluid mechanics of the Tula people. Of course, human beings can now make underwater vehicles that use similar principles to float and dive, but now human beings are busy scouring resources in space, and there is no demand for underwater transportation, so there is no focus on development, and some scientific research organizations that have a demand for underwater transportation directly buy underwater aircraft of the Tula people.

Twelve Tula Presbyterian Elders boarded a large underwater plane and arrived on time at the sea surface structure where Lin Youde and the others were now.

In order to show respect for the Presbyterian Church, Lin Youde took the initiative to say that the meeting could be held in the water, so when there were still three minutes before the scheduled time, Lin Youde was already stuffed with water breathing and nasal congestion, suspended in the large conference room under the water of the structure. Xia Yongzhi and Freya floated next to Lin Youde in swimsuits, and in order to prevent their bodies from floating around during the meeting, the three of them had ropes tied to their waists.

Lily, who couldn't attend the meeting, was on guard on the structure, and the two first-year girls who came to play with her were still in the water with Mr. Stockings.

When the elders entered the venue, the current caused Lin Youde and the three of them to touch each other.

The Tula, who was the first to enter the room, spoke first, uttering a fairly standard human language with the Tula's vocal cords: "Hello, nice to meet you." Mr. Lim. ”

Lin Youde and Xia Yongzhi glanced at each other, and they both saw a slight surprise on each other's faces. As for Freya, the feeling of surprise had already spread to Lin Youde through the connection between the two. In addition to surprise, there is also a bunch of boundless nonsense, which is very Freya's style.

"Hello, it's an honor to accept the invitation of the Elders." In response, Lin Youde also used his vocal cords to pronounce Tula, and even used nanomachinery to forcibly create ultrasound - yes, the orthodox Tula language mixed ultrasound communication, but after entering the universe, the Tula people discovered that the ultrasound part of Tula would complicate communication, and they had to allocate additional communication bandwidth to convey the ultrasound part. So the Tula people adapted the Tula language according to the characteristics of radio communication. It has become a language that can fully convey meaning without ultrasound and only sound.

However, in formal settings, the Tula still speak orthodox Tula.

It's similar to the reason why humans can rely on radio waves to communicate, and they often use their vocal cords to speak.

Elder Tula, who had just spoken to Lin Youde, rolled around, to be honest, these elders should not be young, and it was a bit strange to see them so happy.

"Although I want to continue to use human language for talks, but unfortunately my understanding of human language is very rudimentary, and I am not up to this task, please allow me to use my brain companion to translate." After saying this round respectfully. Elder Tula added, "You can call me Elder One." ”

But can it be like that?

"No problem, aren't the advisors and experts we send to the human side also named by you humans according to their preferences, our two cultures are different. Don't worry too much by human standards. ”

So Lin Youde nodded, but thinking that this was a conversation with the Tula people, he just nodded and rolled his body according to the Tula people's "expression" system. As a result, the rope used for fixing was rolled up for a long length, and the whole person sank down by dozens of centimeters.

"You're messing with it." Xia Yongzhi asked through the carbon nanofilaments connected by the two. "You represent at least half of humanity now, okay?"

Lin Youde could only slowly turn his body back as it was, and returned to the height at which he had just floated. But the body tilted uncontrollably, and her legs and Xia Yongzhi's legs slammed together, and her head leaned against Freya, whose chin just pressed against the top of his Heavenly Spirit Gai.

The Tula people over there, probably out of politeness, ignored Lin Youde's actions and went straight to the point.

Elder No. 1 was the first to speak: "We know what you're looking for, in fact, the races of the entire galaxy are quietly looking for the legendary treasure star. At present, among the dead stars in the galaxy, almost all of the debris is large enough and the pulse is strong enough to be found, and the super-civilization comes from outside the galaxy, and the saying that it is just a 'passerby' has become popular in the past hundred years, and at the same time, there is also the theory that the Big Ten have carved up the secrets of super-civilization. But a different version was put forward more than a decade ago. ”

"I guess that's my dad." Lin Youde interrupted Elder No. 1's words.

"That's right, it's your dad. However, the argument he put forward seems to be nonsense at all, and it is logically inconsistent, and full of loopholes. But when it comes to supercivilizations, there are plenty of people in the galaxy who are willing to try everything they can. Of course, no one came to fruition, but at this point someone in your father's team got into a fight with him and left the group, and this person claimed that your father had perfected his reasoning, filled in all the logical loopholes, and it was only a matter of time before he found the supercivilization's home planet. ”

Lin Youde knew that Xia Yongzhi and Freya were both looking at him with concerned eyes, and he himself was just listening to Elder Tula No. 1 without saying a word.

"Later, your father died." Elder No. 1 ended the narrative in this abrupt way, "No one knows if he really plugged all the logical loopholes in his conjecture, but everyone feels that Lin Zhengyi has mastered something, and then he was killed by someone who now enjoys the convenience of super-civilization. ”

"Someone who enjoys the convenience of super-civilization?" Lin Youde couldn't help but ask, "Is there really such a person or organization that is now famous throughout the galaxy, and it will definitely become the fastest rising race-"

- Wait, it seems that there is a race that has risen very quickly.

Elder No. 1 spun around in the water, and it seemed that it had already guessed what was going on when Lin Youde suddenly stopped talking just now.

"That's right," it said, "a lot of people think that you humans killed your own star of hope, because humanity has already drawn the lottery, but it will take time to digest the super-civilized technology. Haven't you noticed that your human enemies have suddenly increased lately? The Pengrui people, who were originally allies, colluded with the Na'vi people, who had always had a bad relationship, and the pig tribe, who had always hated humans, were willing to suffer the consequences of the defeat of the war and the punishment of the Galactic Council, and also forcibly launched an arbitration war to divert the human fleet and create conditions for the seizure of the super-civilization relics possessed by your humans. Now the Na'vi and the Penrui have once again deceived the upper echelons of your humanity and instigated a civil war among the people. ”

Lin Youde was silent, but his brain was running rapidly.

Lin Youde had always attributed the targeting of human beings to the vigilance and hostility of other races due to the rapid rise of human beings, but he still felt a little far-fetched. Even if the Na'vi people are a race with a similar ranking, the Pengrui people obviously have an advantage in the ranking, and their comprehensive strength is indeed much stronger than that of humans, but it is really a bit unimaginable that they are so deliberate about targeting humans or something.

After the first Sesley mission, Lin Youde returned to the Big Horn space station and asked Noah to collect a bunch of information on Peng Rui's internal affairs, and found that the anti-human hawks and pro-human doves within Peng Rui had engaged in a rather terrible internal struggle for decision-making power, and the political situation had been in turmoil for about half a year.

However, coupled with the reason that Elder No. 1 said, it immediately felt that this situation was very normal.

Whether it is Peng Rui or Neville, they really think that if the human race is not cleaned up, it will definitely rely on the research and analysis of the super-civilization heritage and finally step on their heads.

If you think about it, the recent new work of the Belle family is just a testament to what humanity really has in its hands on the extraterrestrial regime that believes that humanity has mastered a great deal of supra-civilizational heritage.

"Your Excellency Elder No. 1," Lin Youde finally asked, "Don't the Tula people think that humans are hiding the secrets of supercivilization?" ”

"Actually, we don't have a common opinion, you know, we rarely argue about an issue for a long time, we tend to put different opinions together. But this time the elders were divided, and our Presbyterian members have always been even-numbered, and there is a high probability of a tie in the vote, in fact, the Presbyterian Church was set to be an even number to circumvent the principle that the minority obeys the majority, and we very much do not want to see the so-called 'majority violence'. ”

While Elder No. 1 was speaking, Lin Youde looked at the other elders in the room, guessing which elder thought that the human race had hidden the super-civilization home planet - no, Elder No. 1's statement just now speculated that half of the elders should think so.

"In other words, you didn't agree on it, but you still decided to send someone on our ship, in case we really went to find the supercivilization home planet, you earned it, right?" Lin Youde summed it up.

"That's about it. But we also believe that you may be just a decoy to lure other galactic civilizations and other forces within your human race to keep an eye on you, so that the true treasure hunting expedition can do its own thing with peace of mind. ”

"But if you send volunteers on the ship now, isn't it equivalent to giving us more weight and increasing the chances of success in luring the enemy with our bait?" Lin Youde deliberately took "decoy action" as a tacit premise and said.

"That's right, if you're bait, our actions do add to your credibility, and in doing your backstage boss a favor. Later, when you want to negotiate, you will also have more bargaining chips in your hand. However, as a major advocate of sending support personnel, I felt that we would get more than a personal debt on this trip. I don't think you'll leave empty-handed even if you can't find a supercivilization home planet, and that's what my sixth sense tells me, it's been accurate for so many years. (To be continued......)