In addition, there is another layer of concerns in people's minds.
"Earn amoeba points? How to earn them? Money first or goods first?! We're afraid that if we hand over this battle star, the other party won't pay us any more, and we won't get anything!"
So in the end people rejected this transaction.
The Apollo civilization didn't say anything and left the air defense identification zone of the new human civilization directly, as if nothing happened.
The behavior of the Apollo civilization these two times was very strange, a bit like the eve of the conspiracy, everyone was feeling confused...
At this time, Zhang Yuan and other sensitive people felt that something was wrong. There was a high probability that this Apollo civilization was not sincere in the transaction.
But he has ulterior motives!
Zhang Yuan explained: "...We have clearly sent out our own political signals in our previous actions and will not participate in the competition for Dyson spheres, so we have been quiet for ten years."
"In the past ten years, there has been no external harassment."
"It's noisy outside, with people coming and going, quite lively, but we are developing quietly here. Apart from scolding Rehemian civilization a few times in the joint meeting, we don't do anything else, and we don't receive much attention. The rest is civilization has not chosen us as its first priority."
"But just because there was no civilized attention to us before, it doesn't mean there will never be harassment..."
"Now I think this harassment is coming."
"The emergence of this Apollo civilization is a sign. The external interstellar situation has transitioned from the first stage to the second stage."
These words caused everyone in the conference room to talk a lot. Some people were discussing and suddenly seemed to realize that they understood the purpose of these civilizations!
The new human civilization is developing a battle star, which is a relatively big temptation for other forces. This battle star is only a semi-finished product, and it will not have high combat effectiveness until it is actually developed.
It can't move or rotate. Even if people lay some firepower on the ground, it's just a fixed target.
And the new human civilization is just a weak, fourth-level civilization. Judging from the current appearance, it does not have any allies and does not have high military strength.
In addition, New Human Civilization has sold some "extra color" papers in the past. Even if it signed a series of confidentiality treaties, who knows the final results. Some insiders will inevitably have some daydreams.
This is definitely something that is extremely difficult to study. Any kind of additional perception technology is as difficult as a black box. If you explore part of the fog, you will have an extra advantage. If a certain civilization cannot enter now, it may still be impossible to enter tens of thousands of years later.
A military expert analyzed with a wry smile: "So, don't think that we are a very clumsy, featureless civilization. We are still quite capable... Just the content that has been exposed is enough to cause some The attention of civilization. At least this Apollo civilization has noticed us, and even its allies, the forces behind it."
"The Apollo civilization is probably just a chess piece on the surface..."
"...During the whole process, there must be some civilization that thinks that as long as it threatens us, maybe it will succeed? Maybe we can get some benefits? This battle star will soon have mobility, If we want to threaten oppression, we only have these few years."
"They may think that picking up a battle star for free is not free! Or they may be able to blackmail them into getting some good stuff! Do you think that's right?"
There was silence in the conference room.
Zhang Yuan answered: "Yes, this gentleman is right. If the other party has this intention, after we reject it, this type of diplomatic activities will definitely escalate gradually, and then slowly escalate to verbal threats. Including armed threats."
"The other side is equivalent to paying homage first and then attacking, and it gradually puts psychological pressure on us."
"We must be prepared for this!"
After listening to this analysis, everyone felt a "thump" in their hearts. A very bad possibility had happened!
Someone asked: "Is it possible for the two sides to go to war?"
"It's hard to say...it depends on the other party's willingness to fight, as well as our determination and courage to defend this planetary fortress. How much price can we pay for it? If all the living forces are devoted to the process of defending the planetary fortress, everyone will Do you think this is necessary?"
Everyone was silent.
It's definitely not cost-effective to kill everyone, but who wants to be blackmailed for no reason like this?
A battle star is worth more than a thousand amoeba points, this is obvious.
Its value is high, but not too high, and not low either. It is at least equal to the labor force of a third-level civilization for one or two thousand years!
Additional sensing technology is worth six thousand to ten thousand amoeba points. Fortunately, the other party was not sure and could only make vague guesses in his mind. If humans were more strict in their tone, the other party should not be able to detect anything. After all, humans are a completely closed civilization and do not communicate much with the outside world.
"Is such a benefit worth launching a full-scale war against a level-4 civilization?"
Zhang Yuan shook his head, unsure.
If it is a new human civilization, think about it and forget it. New humans don't like plundering. People generally feel that their own lives are important. What's the use of fighting?
But for other civilizations, maybe!
No one is sure what these alien civilizations think.
This feeling is very worrying. Everyone has witnessed an interstellar war with his own eyes. Everyone knows that this kind of war is life-and-death, happens in an instant, and the outcome is unpredictable.
Human beings do not know the performance parameters of the other side's warships, and the other side does not know the various parameters of the human spacecraft. Although there are previous interstellar wars as comparisons, the spaceships of each civilization are still very different.
All in all, the attacking side often has an advantage over the defensive side. The undeveloped war star of mankind cannot move, so it is a living target in war.
Zhang Yuan said: "But if we ourselves feel that it is uneconomical to devote all our soldiers and warships to fighting to the last soldier because of a mere battle star..."
"So, this strategy of extreme pressure is very successful in itself and has a high success rate."
If they really fight, they will either win completely and save their planetary fortress; or they will most likely lose miserably and lose their own life and this battle star.
"In this case, it is better to retreat directly."
"After long-term preparations, our civilization will be able to evacuate this battle star in just half a day."
"But what is the cost of retreat?"
After a while, information expert Li Zhendong stood up and said: "Let's not talk about retreat first. Let's analyze it from the other side's perspective... There should be bigger forces behind the other side that are testing us. Otherwise, how can a single fourth-level civilization Might they come to provoke us? We are all level 4 civilizations, and there is no way the other party will be unharmed."
"But we don't know who this big force is. Can we guess the force behind it?"
"Apollo civilization..."
Several diplomats looked ashamed. It wasn't that they were incompetent, but that this ghost place was so complicated. There were many civilizations that they had never had any dialogue with. How could they possibly guess who was behind it?
Maybe the name Apollo Civilization is all fake!
Although the two parties had transactions before, they knew very little about each other. It was just a business deal at the beginning.
Li Zhendong continued: "Secondly, I think this Apollo civilization does not dare to start a war rashly. If the opponent can use force to eat us, there is no need to act like this... Couldn't they just start a war?!"