Volume 3 Chapter 51 Transaction
While taking the elevator from the underground hibernation room to the surface, Taiyin reported the latest situation.
"The target asteroid belt is ring-shaped and orbits around a star. The three largest fragments, each as big as the moon, are gathered in the same area. There are the largest number of fragments around it. It is speculated that this is where the original Earth-like planet was located."
"And near these three largest fragments, the autonomous mechanical aggregate that went out to conduct reconnaissance discovered traces of alien warships."
"Alien warship? The ruins are still intact?" The first thing Lin Xu thought of was the ruins of the warship of the Norse civilization that he encountered last time.
"The warships are in good working order, and preliminarily judged to belong to two forces. It seems that both sides are wary of each other and are cautious about contact. The autonomous mechanical aggregate is keeping surveillance from a distance, and it seems that neither side has discovered the autonomous mechanical aggregate." Taiyin explained.
"Not discovered? What does their technological level look like?" Lin Xu asked with concern.
"Based on the comprehensive assessment of existing intelligence, the other side's technological level is far lower than ours."
"Okay, then continue monitoring." Lin Xu nodded.
"Human Lin Xu, I need to remind you that Earth is about to reach the target galaxy. Given the size of Earth, we may be discovered at any time."
"Let's monitor them first and wait until they find out." Lin Xu said after thinking for a while.
So the Earth continued to sail towards the target galaxy as planned.
As the distance to the target galaxy gets closer, the speed begins to decrease.
From twice the speed of light, it slowed down to one tenth of the speed of light, then to one hundredth, and then to one thousandth.
The Earth slowly merges into the planetary system of the target galaxy and rapidly approaches the asteroid belt.
At the same time, near the asteroid belt, a temporary caravan consisting was cautiously coming into contact with ten warships of the Republic of Mali.
The warships of both sides are huge motherships.
Although the mother ship of the temporary caravan looked extremely messy, it had everything it should have.
So each side had ten motherships, and each released a large number of fighter planes to block each other's sight and prevent the other side from launching a sneak attack.
After the alert was completed, the leaders of both parties resumed communication with each other.
On the side of the Republic of Mali, there are two Malians who are 80% similar to humans, but their skin is blue.
On the temporary caravan side, there are ten captains. There are huge differences between these ten people. Some are 70% to 80% similar to humans, while some are completely different from humans. Some even have four arms and do not even look like mammals.
But there is one thing that is very consistent: these races with very different appearances all walk upright, freeing two or four hands to make tools. This shows that the ability to make tools is the first step in the evolution of intelligent creatures.
"We need to get ten warp engines first before we can hand over the Chaos Energy to you."
"What a joke! Who knows if you have Chaos Energy in your hands?"
"You can send someone to confirm it in person."
"How can we confirm it? Chaos energy cannot be described or recorded. Anyone who sees it will become confused and crazy. Do you have a way to make people stay awake after seeing chaos energy?"
"If we have a way, we don't have to be interstellar merchants here. We can directly become guests of advanced civilizations."
"Since there's no other way, are you kidding us?"
"We naturally cannot solve this problem that even advanced civilizations cannot solve, but we can use another method. Send someone to try to use instruments to record the chaos energy we have kept. If you see garbled characters after recording, wouldn't it prove that it is real chaos energy?"
"Who knows if you used information interference."
"So what do you say we should do?"
From the very beginning, the transaction between the two parties was full of mutual distrust.
So the situation remained at a stalemate.
Finally, it is the Republic of Mali. Because they often trade curvature engines with advanced civilizations, they have a better understanding of them and know some of the methods they use to identify chaotic energy.
Although the advanced civilizations were as powerless as the lower civilizations when facing chaotic energy, they had at least summed up some experience.
One very important point is that although chaotic energy cannot be described or recorded, it will cause information interference to the observer's mind and drive people crazy.
But it is not so much that the chaotic energy pollutes the observer's mind, but rather that the amount of information contained in the chaotic energy is too huge, and the observer cannot understand or process this information.
The same is true for instrument records, which cannot understand or process this information, so only garbled characters are generated.
Therefore, if you want to identify whether an object is chaotic energy, you must first check whether the object can drive people crazy and whether it cannot be recorded by any instrument.
A more useful approach is to observe whether the amount of information contained in the object is large enough to be beyond comprehension.
Of course, the Republic of Mali will not tell the caravan about this method.
After a pretend discussion, he reluctantly agreed to the caravan's proposal and sent people to use instruments to try to record the chaotic energy in the caravan's hands.
However, after the recording was completed, the Republic of Mali first confirmed that what the instrument recorded was indeed garbled code. No matter whether it was an image or something else, it was all garbled code when played back.
Then, he did not try to decipher the garbled code, but instead observed the garbled code generated inside the instrument to see if the amount of information exceeded his understanding.
It's like a person is eating, singing, giving a speech, swearing at others, tasting wine, and brushing his teeth at the same time, all happening in the same second. This is totally impossible.
The final result is that the amount of information in the garbled code is indeed more than we can understand.
But even so, the Republic of Mali is not sure that this thing is chaos energy.
Because none of them had ever seen chaos energy, it was a legend that only circulated among advanced civilizations.
Moreover, even in advanced civilizations, one unit of chaos energy is a treasure that is enough to trigger a war.
Finally, they decided to take a gamble.
And just like that, the transaction began.
For this transaction, each of the ten motherships of the Republic of Mali carried a spare warp engine.
The ten motherships first released curvature engines with a diameter of one kilometer from the warships.
The temporary caravan was shocked when they saw ten curvature engines actually appear before their eyes.
The transaction was conducted with caution and prudence on both sides.
At this moment, the alarm suddenly sounded.
There is a planet approaching rapidly.
Flying planets? Are you kidding?
When both parties saw the report, their first thought was that it was impossible.
But then, everyone was stunned.
