Chapter 914: I've Been Here (I)
"Hello sir, I don't know what you're talking about, this is the base of humanity on Mercury, we are just a civilization that has just stepped out of its native planet, and is learning how to extract resources from stars,"
"I'm sorry, we can't send you home right now, but the door of human friendship is always open to you."
Schiller stood next to the hospital bed and smiled at Ronan, but Ronan was unmoved, he turned his head to look at the few humans outside the observation room.
One of them looked very young, wearing a sweatshirt with a cartoon pattern printed on it, and looked in through the observation window with some curiosity.
Another person in a uniform and holding a red and blue shield was arguing with another mech-clad man, and several others in a researcher's uniform were holding data and comparing them with each other.
The outside of the whole ward seems very normal, everyone has something to do, and the communication with each other is very smooth, just looking at this scene, people will think that they were really rescued by strangers and sent to the hospital.
But Ronan sat up from the bed, and he showed a sneer, and then said in a cold voice:
"Skrull, you always pretend to be clever like this, but you don't know that the huge flaws have been revealed in your speech and demeanor and the setting of the scene, and this trap is childish to me as ridiculous."
"You call yourself a human, but you can accurately call out my race name at the first sight of me, and even distinguish my military rank."
"There are many civilizations in the entire universe that have heard of the prestige of the Kree Empire, but most of them are just a peep into the leopard, there is only one race, and they know us very well because we have fought wars that have lasted for thousands of years, right? A lackey of the Skrull Empire? ”
Ronan looked relaxed and refused to show the slightest sign of weakness, leaning against the wall behind the hospital bed and saying, "This is only the first serious mistake you have made, and the second flaw is that you call yourself human. ”
"Human ...... Human ......" Ronan muttered the name of this race a few times in a frustrated voice, and then spoke: "Perhaps, in the more distant universe, not many people have heard of this race, but who has not heard of humans in the civilization in this galaxy group?" ”
"There are too many cosmic demon gods from the earth, and there are too many powerful cosmic beings who have something to do with the earth, but what is very curious is that this is a very weak race, and it has not yet stepped out of their home planet, which has become a cosmic legend in this galaxy group, and even the indigenous races at the end of the cantilever have heard of such a legend."
"Yes, from the point of view of you Skruls, how far backward can a civilization be? Isn't it backward enough not to mine the sun? Isn't it primitive enough to build a base on Mercury? ”
Ronan laughed disdainfully and said: "But all this is taken for granted, because you are too far away from the era of barbarism, and after you escaped from the galaxy of your home planet like a stray dog, too many fragments of history were left in the universe, which makes your excavation of history can only rely on speculation." ”
"Do you think that a weak race like humanity can probably only build such a base of the solar Proxima Centauri, and can only come up with a life support system for ordinary humans to survive, and can only use primitive lamps hanging on the ceiling to illuminate......"
"But what you don't know is that humanity should be a race that has not yet left its home planet, just like the Kree people in the past, let alone building a base on a planet close to the sun, and it will take a long time for them to even throw a chemical-fueled rocket on the nearest moon to their home planet......"
"The heat of the stars is not enough for you, but it is extremely deadly for humans, and a life-sustaining system that can survive in extremely high temperatures is a basic technology for the Skrulls, but it is difficult for humans to reach the sky."
Seeing Schiller's darkening complexion, Ronan took advantage of the victory to pursue, and he said, "...... Not to mention, your omissions in details. ”
"What I use is the undamaged Kree Empire officer translation system, which has been entered into the tens of thousands of languages used by all civilizations in the interstellar society, especially in this galaxy group, and naturally includes human languages."
"But what you don't know is that human beings are a multilingual civilization, although we have included many languages used by human civilization, but members of multilingual civilizations, in the process of communicating with their peers, often use certain transliterated words of other languages, especially some emerging words, after changing their voices and pitches, they cannot be perfectly translated by translators."
"But just now, when I was lying here listening to you say hello, the conversations of all the people outside the observation room were translated very completely by the translator, without any words that were difficult to translate, and there were no unique tone words."
Ronan spread his hands and said, "What does this mean?" This shows that the vocabulary of human civilization you use is the same as ours, so you will not know those localized words. ”
Ronan shook his head and said, "This is the typical example of you, Skrulls, who are clever and mistaken for wise. ”
"You want to disguise yourself as a weak human to lower my vigilance and win my favor, but who doesn't know that the Shapeshifters have special abilities that allow them to disguise themselves as any race in the universe?"
"Do you think I'll be defenseless about this?" Ronan looked at Schiller and said, "Instead of convincing me that a weak race like humanity has traveled thousands of miles to the star sector of the Kree Empire, on a planet without an atmosphere and still producing dangerous explosions, it is better to make me believe that the Skrull Empire has been reduced to a starport that sneaks up on others with suicide attacks......"
“…… Enough is enough, you thief!" Schiller's face became colder, he narrowed his eyes, looked at Ronan and said, "Keep your mouth shut and stay here honestly." ”
"Thief, thief, thief...... You will know the word, and you have been repeating it since thousands of years ago, as if you were just an innocent victim. Ronan's tone deepened, and he continued:
"You have been educated so that you will never understand that the so-called gifts you give to other races are not helping the universe to prosper, but creating more massacres and exterminations."
Ronan folded the fingers of his hands, he lowered his head and said, "The reason for the thousand-year war is that you think the Kree stole your technology, and you bite back. ”
"But really, if you are truly so powerful and benevolent, you should not have to choose between the Cree and the Kotati."
"You asked each of us to build a spectacle to judge the potential for civilization to develop, we built a great Blue City, and they built a Kotati Garden."
"It is impossible to see who is better in these two buildings, but you chose the Kotati as the winners, not because their gardens are really more beautiful, but because they are willing to flatter you, to lay down their arms, and to become unarmed gardeners."
"You are not choosing the seeds of civilization with more potential, but the lackeys who will be more helpful to you."
"You think that by helping the Kotati, you are providing more new forces to the universe and making the universe more prosperous, but you have not thought about what the Kotati will do when they have more advanced weapons than us."
"Will they be like you, chanting ideals?" Ronan shook his head and said, "No, they will only take the resources and technology you give and raise the butcher's knife against us, the more you give, the more Kree will be slaughtered." ”
"The Cree are not lambs to the slaughter, and in the face of this foreseeable and tragic future, we must resist with all we can against the impending destruction of the future."
"We take your ships and technology, not steal and plunder, this is the price you should pay, the price you must pay for your eternal superiority, and for the arrogance that will eventually destroy you."
Schiller looked at Ronan, and several people outside the observation window also stopped talking and moving, and they all looked at Ronan with some silence, Ronan did not look at them, but said:
"If you don't give enough, then don't give, all civilizations are struggling in the dark, and if there is no savior, then they will not resent anyone, and resentment has no meaning."
"But if you descend upon them and give them hope and give them a brief life of abundance without really saving them, you will only plunge them deeper into despair."
Ronan's eyes fell into deep darkness, and he looked at Schiller and said, "The Skrulls want to be the loving fathers of the universe, but the resources and technology you have thrown out will not be exchanged for anything but to raise a group of wolves like us. ”
"If you are not really selfless, and you still have to choose between helping other civilizations, and choose the one that is most beneficial to you, then you will only reap one thousand years of war, and in the end you will perish because you are not selfless enough and not selfish enough."
Schiller was silent for a while, then gently pushed his glasses and said, "Perhaps, the Skrull Empire is not unaware that when he helped the Kotati civilization, he had already dug a grave for the Cree civilization. ”
"Perhaps, when he has to choose one of the two civilizations that is more helpful to him due to the predicament of reality, and abandon the other, and let himself fall into strategic calculations and judgments of gains and losses, the so-called ideal you hear is only a slogan."
"However, when you saw that the main ship of the Skrull Empire crashed into the first starport of the Kree Empire without making any announcement...... Are you happy? ”
Schiller saw that Ronan's fingertips stiffened slightly as he asked the question.
"Because of such shameless behavior, it will completely end the era when they still have their ideal home planet."
"From the moment they took the initiative to provoke a war in order to show their might, the former Skrull Empire was already dead."
"So, Mr. Ronan......" Schiller said in a murmuring tone, looking at Ronan, "I just want to ask you one question......"
"Before that, before you know for sure, when you think that he is still alive and can still fulfill his ideals, what are you afraid of?"