Seeing Through

"This won't affect the Hope's speed," the Science Officer replied.

Upon receiving the Science Officer's reply, Yue Yuan immediately ordered the Fire Control Officer on board the Hope to control the bombing of the Callisto Warship via the automated system.

Upon receiving this order, the Fire Control Officer on the Hope, who were bored out of their minds, immediately became incredibly enthusiastic and threw themselves into various pre-aiming calculations.

Seeing this, Yue Yuan nodded secretly. It seemed that these people also hated Silver Mist to the extreme.

Indeed, no one can help but hate Silver Mist. If they didn't know the vast difference in strength between humans and Silver Mist, the soldiers of the Armed Forces Department would probably have charged in recklessly.

Taking advantage of this time, Yue Yuan sent another message to the Silver Mist Consciousness: "Hey, you're not even willing to answer our little question before we die. Fine, in that case, you won't get anything. You want our technology, right? I'll tell you now, if you refuse to answer our last question, then we'll have no choice but to blow ourselves up."

Faced with the threat of humanity's incompetence, the Silver Mist Consciousness seemed completely unconcerned. A few minutes later, it replied, "You won't self-destruct because you are Carbon-based life. Furthermore, I've already detected that you have an industrial base on planet Ross 154-7."

Yue Yuan was not surprised that the Silver Mist Consciousness had detected the industrial base on Ross 154-7, because the Silver Mist was now very close to the planet.

However, Yue Yuan was clearly not satisfied with the Silver Mist Consciousness's answer, because he discovered that the Silver Mist Consciousness had taken it for granted that Carbon-Based Lifeforms were not prone to self-destruction.

Upon seeing this answer, Yue Yuan immediately thought of the possible reason, which was probably the problem with the Moke Star People.

It's probably because the Moke Star People don't have a culture of self-destruction that the Silver Mist Consciousness made such a presumptuous statement.

"Hmm, it seems that the Silver Mist Consciousness also has limitations," Yue Yuan thought to himself. He suddenly felt that the civilizations this Silver Mist Consciousness had come into contact with were probably only the Moke Star People who created it, and humans.

It seems that the Silver Mist Consciousness is also a country bumpkin.

Thinking this, Yue Yuan continued his plan to disgust the Silver Mist Consciousness: "Heh, you're wrong about that. We humans are a great race. In our xenophobic culture, life forms from other civilizations are not worthy of coexisting with us. Since you're unwilling to say anything, then we'll just have to blow everything up."

"Let me tell you, we've installed numerous self-destruct devices on Ross 154-7. If you continue to remain silent, we'll blow up the base immediately. You'll get nothing then, and how will you explain yourself? Poor thing, you're going to be wiped out by yourself for forcing humanity to self-destruct everything. Tsk tsk tsk, truly pathetic. It's worth it for our human expedition team to take you down with them before we die."

Yue Yuan's words were pure nonsense. Humans simply didn't have time to return to Ross 154-7 to set up the self-destruct program. In short, he was just indulging in empty talk because he couldn't win in person. His statement about 'you being erased by yourself' was based on previous speculation, telling the Silver Mist Consciousness: We know your form of existence; you are merely a copy. Any mistake in pursuing us humans will immediately result in your original being being erased.

As long as it caused the Silver Mist Consciousness distress, Yue Yuan was happy. He felt incredibly aggrieved about this whole affair.

They were tricked by a Silver Mist Consciousness and there was nothing they could do about it. If Controlled Nuclear Fusion hadn't been achieved, they wouldn't even have been able to escape.

"We just want to know how the war between the Moke Star People and you ended 20,000 years ago. You shouldn't be the original consciousness, right? Alright, if you're unwilling to answer this question, then we'll have no choice but to detonate all the hydrogen bombs we've deployed." Yue Yuan added at the end, and then had 'Tianhe Light' send the information to the Silver Mist Consciousness.

The claim that the self-destruction was fake was simply based on calculations; after this conversation, the Hope's speed began to surpass that Silver Mist.

Thus, the Silver Mist Consciousness would inevitably realize that it could not catch up with the Hope.

"Commander Yue, half of the one hundred hydrogen bombs on the Callisto Warship have been dropped. Should we continue dropping them?" At this moment, the Fire Control Officer turned his head and asked.

"Keep it!" Yue Yuan replied.

We need to keep some hydrogen bombs on hand; they are currently the most powerful explosive weapon that mankind possesses, and we can't just use them all up at once.

The journey to the Starry Road is long and the universe is so dangerous; without any reserves on hand, one will never feel at ease.

Although the Hope's arsenal could also produce weapons and ammunition, most of the crew would be in hibernation during the voyage, and it wouldn't be practical to wake them up only to produce weapons and ammunition when a situation arose.

"Understood!" the Fire Control Officer replied with delight. "Fifty hydrogen bombs should be enough to give that patch of Silver Mist a run for its money. If it discovers us late, we might even be able to take it down!"

He seemed very confident in his bomb-throwing skills.

Just then, the Silver Mist Consciousness sent a reply to the Hope.

Yue Yuan paid attention to the relationship between the reply time and the location of the Silver Mist, and found that this reply took much longer than before.

Having noticed the difference, Yue Yuan only pondered for half a second before having his answer.

However, he still wanted to confirm, so he said to the communications officer, "Switch the radar frequency to the area where Ross 154-4 is located and see if there are any other Silver Mist."

Yue Yuan suspected that, faced with his nonsensical words, the Silver Mist at the front couldn't make a decision on its own and turned to ask the main body behind it.

If the Hope probe detects that there is still Silver Mist behind it, and the time difference between this and the response from the Silver Mist Consciousness in front matches the time difference, then Chen Haiyu's analysis is correct.

"Commander, there's Silver Mist, even larger than the one before. This batch of Silver Mist has already crossed the orbit of Ross 154-5, and there's a large batch behind it that's using the magnetic field of this Giant Gas Planet to accelerate."

Upon receiving an affirmative answer from the correspondent, Yue Yuan understood.

Only after confirming this did he and the others check the Silver Mist Consciousness's reply.

[Well, you really are an unusual Carbon-based life. In the words of the Moke Star People, you've gone mad. Your self-destruction philosophy completely violates the principles of life. It's truly unimaginable that such an irrational Carbon-based life exists.]

The Silver Mist Consciousness in its incomprehension of the human self-destruction narrative, followed by a series of statements of dubious veracity.

[I can answer your questions. Based on this, you shouldn't self-destruct, because it would be useless. In my calculations, the power of your nuclear explosion cannot completely destroy all the data on your spaceship. By the way, even if you destroy all the data and then self-destruct, we have ways to recover it.]