Coveting Shu after gaining Long.
It originally meant forging ahead boldly and making the right decisions, but it gradually came to mock those who never knew contentment and always wanted more. It was more or less synonymous with insatiable greed.
Humanity was now the same in its pursuit of scientific technology. They had already confirmed that they could understand the Awakeners' characteristic technology, yet the scientists remained unsatisfied and turned their sights toward the Precursors' characteristic technology.
However hard humanity tried, they still could not understand the Precursor Artifact. They could not comprehend how the Precursors had made macroscopic objects undergo quantum tunneling, much less master it.
Many scientific teams had worked at it for centuries, yet they remained stuck in place.
It seemed that the human race was not omnipotent after all.
Still, compared to the Daya Civilization, the fact that humanity possessed its own characteristic technology was beyond doubt. Even if they could advance no further in the field of mental consciousness, humanity could still claim that its characteristic technology was on par with the Awakeners'.
That alone was enough to place humanity near the top of the Level Six Civilization pyramid.
After learning that humanity possessed the technology to create warships capable of super evasion like the Awakeners', the Daya Civilization was extremely envious. Even though humanity had already told them that they could not use such equipment, they still could not help repeatedly requesting to purchase it.
There was no other reason—they simply refused to give up.
Humanity did not reject them outright. However, they said that they could only sell the equipment after they had fully mastered and manufactured it themselves. After all, they could not possibly transfer equipment given to them by the Awakeners to the Daya Civilization.
As for the terms of exchange,