Deep Space Wandering Fleet
Chapter 399 - 397: Visit to Taipu Star

Chapter 399: Chapter 397: Visit to Taipu Star

There was a lot of nonsense in this speech. A heart marching toward the Universe? The Taupe people didn’t even have a satellite when the others already had spaceships.

The yearly funding for this area amounted to just one or two hundred million, lower than the ticket revenue from a few concerts of a popular star!

"You can’t just say the technology is inadequate or that there isn’t enough funding allocated to launch a satellite, right?"

"Welcome the civilization from another Milky Way to communicate?"

Astronomer O’Brien turned his head away. How could these politicians be so shameless?

He pondered deep in his heart, if he spread this news and let all Taupe people know about the existence of an alien civilization, maybe the funding for the space industry would significantly increase? Without a hundred billion a year, there would still be several tens of billions, which could directly multiply by dozens of times.

"In fact, it’s not necessary. If an alien civilization suddenly paid a visit, the related funding would definitely skyrocket afterward..."

"Ah, hope... hope they are benevolent."

The end of the letter was a "symbolic" invitation.

"...We sincerely welcome human civilization to visit our city for scientific exploration, in the hope that our two sides can establish a cooperative relationship and forge a deep friendship..."

This invitation was half sincere, half feigned. Without an invitation, wouldn’t the civilization known as humans come to explore?

Of course, that would be impossible.

Anyway, just treat dead horses as if they’re alive.

The president read the letter several times and finally instructed the scientists to send the letter via telegram after finding no significant errors.

...

The human diplomatic team above the atmosphere soon received a related response.

In reality, more than one country replied to the letter, and the contents were largely the same. Many other countries didn’t respond at all, perhaps due to poor infrastructures that couldn’t receive human signals, or they treated it as a prank and ignored it...

"Ah, this is the huge gap in power. If a more advanced civilization asked to speak with us, how could we refuse? We’d be just like the Taupe civilization..." Wang Junpeng sighed but felt good nonetheless.

"This planet is actually divided into more than a thousand countries... With that, what kind of unity can you talk about? When over a thousand countries meet, a few days pass with everyone getting a word in." This young diplomat named Yu Jie seriously looked at the various replies, which contained some basic information.

The humans had already obtained this information, but he browsed through it symbolically.

"Otherwise, what did you expect?" Wang Junpeng said with a smile: "Uniting the whole world is not so simple; it requires both hard military strength and soft cultural power, to forge a community with a shared future. Earth Civilization hasn’t unified peacefully up to now; it’s not possible now and won’t be in the future. Geopolitics will always be there."

"Given this civilization’s geography and transportation infrastructure, it takes one or two months to travel from one end of the planet to the other. Some countries are like villages in the valleys, totally cut off. How do you propose unification?"

In the midst of this conversation, these young diplomats had already chosen the countries they wished to be dispatched to. Since they were to trade with this civilization, it made sense to choose the most powerful countries, for only powerful nations could provide more trade materials.

Some weak and small countries were inevitably not even considered, and it couldn’t be blamed on humans for not giving them a chance. Humanity had gone to experience the most advanced culture of others, not to experience some backward, ignorant cultures.

"We didn’t come here to be saviors... Whose fault is it that you are weak?"

After meticulous selection, a total of three countries were chosen: Ao Country, Lai Country, and Long Country. Following this, three space transport ships capable of overcoming the gravitational well of the planet entered the atmosphere at a delicate, inclined angle.

Due to the human body’s inability to adapt to the high gravity environment of this planet, humanoid robots were loaded inside the transport ships to go in place of humans. The diplomats inside Ying Sun were able to remotely control the robots through remote VR equipment.

This technology had become quite mature by now, only, due to the distance, there would be a certain degree of delay in controlling the robots.

"We should navigate Ying Sun to 20,000 kilometers above the surface of the planet. This way, the signal delay would be around 0.13 seconds, which is still acceptable."

Wang Junpeng quickly agreed. This time, the diplomatic mission would primarily be strategized by these young people. As long as they didn’t mess up, he would not interfere too much.

Thus, as the transport ship moved away, all the diplomats and scientific researchers lay down in hibernation chambers similar to boxes, closed their eyes, and began to remotely control the robots.

...

The howling transport ship emitted a thunderous roar as it descended slowly from the horizon. This kind of transport ship was a space plane, a flying vehicle that highly integrates aerospace technology with aeronautical technology, and its technical difficulty was much greater than that of rockets.

The designated docking point was a large airship military station. By executive order of the President, all military airships, as well as the area within a 10-kilometer radius, had been completely cleared.

"Boom!" When the transport ship landed, the enormous gusts made all the surrounding vegetation sway.

Many high-level officials from Ao Country gathered at this large airship docking station. They witnessed the descent of the transport ship, each lost in their own thoughts.

The President and the generals were anxious, yet they faintly held a glimmer of hope. Staff had once advised the President to stay behind the scenes. They believed direct contact with aliens was far too dangerous, but he had instantly refused.

Joking aside, if there really was danger, what difference would it make to hide behind the scenes? Just to die a bit later?

But if there were no danger, this could be a great event recorded by history!

And at the rear of the docking station, some scientists were stirred. The enormous space plane stimulated their neural circuits, making them eager to try. Especially the anticipated air vehicles, which could potentially be realized. For them, just witnessing the occurrence of this miracle was enough to be thrilling!

Hisss!

The doors of the transport chamber opened slowly, and a team of humanoid robots stepped out. Mr. President had already proceeded in his airship car to welcome them.

"So this is what aliens look like, huh? They do look quite strange... Are these robots really just robots? They look so much like biological entities..." O’Brien murmured softly to himself.

Almost all the Taipu people were so nervous at this moment that they could hardly speak.

Even though they had been informed in advance that humans could not directly adapt to the local microbial environment and that robot diplomats would be dispatched, it was still nerve-wracking. They feared that the aliens might suddenly become hostile and start a massacre. Some soldiers were on edge, knowing that resistance was likely futile, but still ready to resist.

In the eyes of the Taipu people, the robots were considered "strong artificial intelligence," the kind that possessed intelligence!

Anyway, they exaggerated however they could, as if the alien civilization truly knew and could do everything.