Poorly Informed
The meeting to finalize the list lasted a long time. As the meeting was about to end, a sociology researcher stood up and reminded them, "If we throw out so many things at once, it may arouse the greed of the Nair Civilization. Faced with huge benefits, they may take risks!"
"What's there to be afraid of? If they dare to have any bad intentions, the Lyra alone can grind them to dust in no time with just a few small cannons."
It's usually only someone like Yi Kai, born in the 90s, who has the maturity to swear in meetings. After saying that, Yi Kai turned to look at Yu Nanfeng next to him and raised an eyebrow. "You agree, right, Lao Yu?"
"Old Yu?! I'm in my prime, okay?" Yu Nanfeng thought to himself, but said aloud, "Oh right, you're absolutely right!"
Yi Kai scoffed, "What do you mean I'm right? I'm just a biology researcher, what do I know about warships and giant cannons? I'm just asking you, the great engineer."
"Why are you asking me? I'm just a blacksmith. The warship was designed under the supervision of Director Gao Kun. Go ask him." Yu Nanfeng started spouting nonsense.
"Alright, that's enough if there's nothing else!" Seeing this, Yue Yuan was the first to stand up and wave his hand, letting the two of them calm down for a while. However, he didn't say anything; it wouldn't hurt to crack a few jokes to relax when the meeting was coming to an end.
Then, Yue Yuan looked in the direction of the economist and finally reminded him, "Long Zelei, you only have one day left. You need to turn today's discussion results into a real list as soon as possible. I have already asked Long Xiaolin the meeting minutes to 'Tianhe Light'. If you need them, you can download them yourself later."
"No problem, Chief of Staff," Long Zelei nodded.
Long Zelei's surname is Long, but he has no relation to Long Xiaolin or Long Dalin. He is not a real economist, but rather someone in charge of logistics and resource allocation. However, he does understand economics, so he and an economics expert were responsible for compiling this list.
Basically, all the resources, items, technologies, and creations that could be put on the list had been discussed at the meeting. All Long Zelei and his team had to do was organize and summarize them, and then adjust the prices of various items on the list within a certain range according to their own understanding. It wasn't a difficult task.
So one day shouldn't be a problem.
After the meeting, Yue Yuan sent a message to Man Yuemei, who was located on the outer edge of the Meteorite Belt, asking her to pay close attention to the Pot Lid Vastness Star.
The reason for this reminder is that not long ago, the Lyra's main probe detected a peculiar spectral band within the vast interior of the Saucer Star System. Although it was only detected briefly, observers on Lyra suspect it might be caused by reflections from the surface of the battleship cluster.
The light originates from the vicinity of Gaseous Planet within this Star System, specifically the Gaseous Planet known as Saucer 4. At this point in time, it is approximately 3.7 Astronomical Unit away from Pot Lid Five Planet, and this distance is continuously decreasing due to the fact that both stars are orbiting their respective stars.
Based on their experience, the probes and observers judged that a Great Fleet should be hidden there, probably in the orbit of one of the Gaseous Planet's moons.
Although it had long been suspected that the Pot Lid Vastness Star was more than 73 Lake-Class Warship, the discovery of traces of another fleet still surprised humanity.
Humans wanted to send probes in to explore, but the Nair Civilization wouldn't allow probes to cross the orbit of Pot Lid Five Planet, so humans couldn't detect the exact situation.
But it doesn't matter. At such a distance, as long as the fleet takes any action, the exhaust flames will definitely not be blocked and will inevitably be detected by humans.
After keeping a watchful eye, everything remained the same.
Time quickly moved to the next day.
On the eve of the agreed-upon time for exchanging lists, the human personnel, as before, came to the Lyra Command Center and took their seats to wait for communication to be established.
"It's been a long time, Your Grand Governor!"
"Long time no see, Chief Commander!"
Once the Video Communication connected, Yue Yuan and the Grand Governor of the Nair People greeted each other first, then exchanged a few pleasantries and said some trivial things. After waiting for the agreed-upon submission time for the lists, they had their respective responsible persons send their lists to each other.
As soon as the humans received the list, the translation system automatically translated it and shared it on the Personal Terminal of the dozen or so people present.
Just a glance was enough to make many experts frown and then start whispering among themselves.
"Aside from the intrinsic value of the materials, mining and transporting one ton of gold requires 100,000 Nair Coin, one ton of chromite requires 10,000 Nair Coin, one ton of iron oxide requires 250 Nair Coin, and one ton of aluminum oxide requires 213 Nair Coin. What kind of nonsense is written on this Nair People list?!"
"Yeah, I remember Nair Coin are their internal credit currency, right? And this Magnetic Shield Technology costs 10.9 billion Nair Coin, what on earth is all this about! These Nair People say they've encountered other civilizations, are they just bluffing?"
"Wait, there's a special note at the end."
The group scrolled to the bottom of the list and indeed found a special note. One expert even read it aloud, "General equivalent reference standard: 'Energy Unit'. Energy Unit description: '1 energy unit is equal to the fuel consumed by a Lake-Class Warship during 10 full-power acceleration and decelerations.' The exchange rate is 1 Energy Unit equal to 100 Nair Coin."
"Tsk tsk, this equivalent is too vague, it's clearly an attempt to rip people off!" another expert said, shaking his head.
He immediately saw the true nature of the so-called Energy Unit, which was measured in terms of rocks that were everywhere, such as Heavy Nuclear Fusion fuel. Ten full-power accelerations and decelerations of the Lake-Class Warship seemed like a lot, but in reality, it didn't take Cold Nuclear Fusion fuel into account.
One is a rock that is everywhere on planets and in meteorite piles, and the other is Cold Nuclear Fusion fuel that requires certain technology and special materials to manufacture. How can they be confused?
After observing for a while, the humans generally felt that the general equivalent reference provided by the Nair People was highly unreasonable. Moreover, the list didn't include many technologies that the humans desired.
Well, the Nair People didn't even include the Space Elevator manufacturing technology, biological specimens, biological DNA maps, and living plant and animal samples that humans wanted.
This was quite unexpected.
Putting aside the Space Elevator technology, the fact that various biological samples and Biotechnology were not listed makes human experts highly skeptical that the Nair People's claims of communicating with other Alien Civilization are just boasting.
Although they shook their heads at the list from the Nair Civilization, everyone continued to read it carefully, since the list also included the required items as agreed by both parties.