Bluffing

The threatening declaration made by the Kun-Tai Civilization through the Milky Way Galaxy Axis Alliance certainly threw a bucket of cold water on humanity's confidence in victory.

This alien, who couldn't defeat humanity on the battlefield, once again taught humanity a lesson by exploiting the information gap regarding Cosmic Civilizations.

It is obvious that the basis for, or the target of, this declaration of threat must be a civilization that knows little about Cosmic Civilizations.

And Human Civilization is precisely such a civilization.

The Milky Way Galaxy Axis Alliance is something humanity only hears about from the radio; everything else is unknown to them, including the other civilizations mentioned in the broadcasts.

Therefore, among the many scholars' speeches, one point was actually omitted: the impact of the Kun-Tai Civilization on the survival environment of other Cosmic Civilizations, or rather, civilizations in the cosmic environment.

Yue Yuan had thought of it, so after he had 'Tianhe Light' send a communication request to Zhao Youqin, he shared his idea.

The response was enthusiastic, but it was mostly just heated discussion.

The discussion still didn't yield a clear answer; it only revealed which possibility had a higher probability and which had a lower probability.

Yue Yuan did not blame anyone for this outcome, because he knew that humanity's understanding of the Kun-Tai Civilization and other Cosmic Civilizations was based on its own thinking and speculation.

It's good enough to be able to arrive at some probability estimates, since these seemingly non-conclusions are inferences based on facts.

There is a considerable distance between the Lyra and the research spacecraft where Zhao Youqin is located, so they cannot be connected as easily as the others in the Lyra formation.

While waiting for the connection to go live, Yue Yuan continued to discuss the authenticity of the information with the experts and scholars. Of course, there was no real progress, and the Science Officer's analysis from a scientific and technological perspective was also not very effective.

It's frustrating, but it's a perfectly normal fact.

Five minutes passed like this.

The Video Communication was finally connected, and the moment Yue Yuan saw Zhao Youqin's avatar appear, he briefly summarized the content of the previous discussion on the Lyra.

However, Zhao Youqin's reply was very slow.

Several minutes after he finished repeating the story, Zhao Youqin began to speak on the screen.

Yue Yuan knew that this was due to the communication delay.

"Chief, it was indeed me on duty at the time, and I did do some research on that Intelligent Broadcast, but so far, there hasn't been much progress." Zhao Youqin's avatar spoke, his voice from a few minutes ago, Lyra could only hear now.

"The research project is still ongoing. Our idea is to modify the operating mechanism of our own Signal Receiver so that it can directly not receive broadcast signals."

But as you know, those advanced civilizations are very difficult for us humans to understand at this stage, because we simply don't know what their mechanisms are. I reckon the chances of making any progress are slim.

"As for that broadcast you mentioned, there's no need to worry. We can't do anything about it, and Kun-Tai Civilization certainly can't preserve that broadcast information for that long either."

Yes, Chief of Staff. That broadcast did indeed occur while I was on duty. I didn't delete it immediately; instead, I disconnected the Signal Receiver and studied the signal for a while, but I couldn't figure anything out."

Zhao Youqin seemed to know that the communication delay was severe, so he didn't say a word and wait for Yue Yuan to ask before speaking the next sentence. However, because he hadn't prepared at all, his answer wasn't very fluent and sounded somewhat chaotic.

"Well, how should I put it? The fact that we haven't figured anything out means we're helpless with that broadcast signal. We only know that there's a piece of information in the Signal Receiver, but we can't do anything to that information except import it into the Central Computer or delete it."

Even when testing the receiver, the testing device showed everything was normal. Any software that tried to perform other operations on the information could not find the information, just like a ghost, which was very strange.

But the information didn't last long; even if we didn't delete it, it disappeared on its own in less than three days, just as abruptly as it appeared.

"I think it was deliberately set up by the Silver Heart Alliance, or there is another possibility: that the information cannot act on its own, perhaps due to technological limitations, or perhaps such technology has time limitations. Who knows about things from advanced civilizations!"

I think it's a technological limitation. Otherwise, why would they need to appear on Signal Receiver and wait for the receiver to operate it? They could just appear directly on the Central Computer, complete the manufacturing process themselves, and then send the information themselves, wouldn't that be enough? Clearly, the Silver Heart Alliance doesn't have that kind of invincible technology either.

"Faster than light speed. Hmm, it's many times faster than light speed, and it's also semi-intelligent and unknowable. These are the characteristics of that broadcast message. Other than that, we know nothing."

"Oh, right, it's not like we came away empty-handed. During the research, we concluded that so-called Superluminal Communication should be some kind of technology that can be achieved through information means. Judging from the broadcast content, Superluminal Communication doesn't seem to rely on any specific equipment. Otherwise, it wouldn't explain how we could import information into the Central Computer and it could automatically generate Superluminal Communication program. However, we have no clue what it is, and this is just speculation. We can't do any of the theories or experiments. No, we can't even imagine what it would be like."

"In short, the claim made by the Kun-Tai Civilization that they used a broadcast to summon the Silver Heart Alliance ships to perish with us is completely unfounded, unless the Silver Heart Alliance conducts another interstellar broadcast now. By the way, the data from my research that time is stored in the Physics Academy's documents, numbered 754599317."

After hearing Zhao Youqin's reply, everyone on the Lyra who participated in the emergency video conference breathed a sigh of relief, and also knew that the discussion no longer needed to continue.

Yue Yuan was also decisive. He first replied to Zhao Youqin's message, and then directly announced the adjournment of the meeting.

After closing the video conference, Yue Yuan retrieved his research records from that year and carefully studied them word by word.

It's a research report, but Yue Yuan hasn't made no progress over the years. At least he can handle research papers and such.

After spending half an hour reviewing all the research materials, Yue Yuan finally felt relieved. Zhao Youqin had described the research process in detail, including every step.

"It seems the Kun-Tai Civilization is truly desperate; they even came up with this kind of idea. But it is indeed a brilliant idea; it almost scared someone to death." Yue Yuan smiled wryly as he closed the research data.

If Zhao Youqin hadn't done research specifically on this, and hadn't unfortunately waited three days to 'watch' the information disappear on its own, humanity would have truly been fooled this time.