The Great Star Voyage
Chapter 338

Scientist

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Humans were unaware of the internal discussions within the Nair Civilization, and because the Nair Civilization did not want to make the changes too obvious immediately after the negotiations resumed, humans did not notice any difference for the time being.

The Nair People simply shared some of their biological resources with the humans after the discussion resumed.

The two sides went through several more rounds of discussions in the following negotiations, and the video conference ended there.

Of course, before the recess, both sides agreed on a time for the next round of negotiations.

The meeting lasted about six hours, but the two sides didn't actually reach a formal agreement on many things; most of it consisted of drafts and exchanges of opinions.

This is normal, after all, trade negotiations between civilizations cannot be concluded in just one or two video conferences.

That said, this meeting was actually the longest it had been in the past few days. If the humans hadn't suggested that it was going on for too long and needed to be adjourned, the Nair People would have continued their discussion without realizing it.

In fact, after their previous internal discussions, the Nair People had already determined some policies for humanity, such as accelerating the extraction and replenishment of resources for humanity on the one hand, and slowing down the trade negotiation process on the other.

The former's purpose is self-evident: to ensure that humanity has enough fuel and supplies before the arrival of the Second Star Region Transport Fleet, so that they can leave in advance.

The slowdown in trade negotiations was naturally for this purpose. While delaying the trade negotiations, the Nair People also appropriately relaxed and showed generosity regarding the content of the negotiations, taking into account the arrival time of the Second Star Region Transport Fleet.

This is to create the impression that "it doesn't matter how much I pay now, I can get it back anyway".

The sole purpose of this is to mislead humanity, making them suspect a conspiracy or sense danger, so that they will leave before the Second Star Region Transport Fleet arrives.

In this way, the First Star Region will be able to use all sorts of things obtained from trade with humans to manipulate the Second Star Region at will.

The Nair People of the First Star Region believe that if this plan succeeds, everything they have given to Human Civilization can be returned to the First Star Region in double measure.

This approach is indeed risky, but if successful, it would strengthen their First Star Region while weakening the Second Star Region, and even giving them some control over it. This would give their First Star Region a much better chance of victory in the war for unification.

Humans were completely unaware of all of the Nair People's schemes.

However, the slowing down of the pace that the Nair People exhibited during the subsequent negotiations was noticeable to the humans.

The most obvious thing is that at the beginning, each break was to end when the humans needed to eat. But later, whenever it was time for the humans to eat, the Nair People would deliberately not talk about serious matters and instead talk about some lighter topics.

It was during this process that humans and the Nair People gained some understanding of each other's biological characteristics beyond their physical appearance.

For example, the Nair People knew roughly how often humans needed to eat to maintain bodily functions, and humans, in turn, knew the Nair People's eating patterns.

Both also need basic necessities like oxygen and water. But that's about it; they know nothing about each other's diets or physiological needs.

As time passed, the trade negotiations between the two sides gradually achieved considerable results through rounds of discussions.

Finally, during a video conference, the Nair People brought up their long-planned scheme: to purchase biological resources from other civilizations that humanity had acquired from the Interstellar Transaction Market.

Humans readily agreed to this request.

It wasn't that humans knew about the Nair People's plans, but rather that when they boasted about a map of Milky Way Galaxy power and Interstellar Transaction Market, human experts predicted that such a thing might happen, so they had already discussed it internally in advance.

Because of the contingency plan, the humans took the demands made by the Nair People as a test of their boasting, which was quite an unexpected turn of events.

Of course, humans have never been to any interstellar trading markets, so the other civilization resources they bring out can only be the assets of those civilizations they have encountered before.

Moreover, since it was said to be purchased from the Interstellar Transaction Market, the humans didn't give up too much. They only agreed to give the Nair People a few thousand of a certain kind of animal that humans used as meat, which they obtained from the Dog-Headed People Planet, as well as some plants obtained from Wolf Star.

The reason for giving items from two different biospheres was mainly to demonstrate my experience in the Interstellar Transaction Market. The other item was from Wolf Star because the DNA of the organisms there is left-handed, the opposite of that of the Dog-Headed People Star.

By testing their DNA, it is certain that these two products are not from the same biosphere.

Because the Nair People said they would buy these things at a high price, humans priced them at a hundred times the price they would have given the Nair People for biological resources. The reasons given were that the Nair People wanted to buy them back at a high price, and that the long distance and the dangers of space travel affected them.

However, the price was eventually negotiated down by the Nair People, from 100 times to 80 times.

The Nair People initially thought the prices were too high, but humans claimed that "a Low-level Civilization might not even encounter Interstellar Transaction Market even after traveling for ten thousand years," and at the same time, they used the excuse that it was difficult for Cosmic Civilizations to meet each other to drive up the prices of other civilizations' biological resources.

The Nair People had no choice but to accept it.

However, because the transaction was not large, even at eighty times the price of the Nair People's biological resources, it was only enough to purchase their entire Space Elevator Technology Tree and related research insights.

It's not a loss at all.

However, to the Nair People's surprise, after the two sides happily agreed on the deal during the video conference, the humans raised something that made all the Nair People present furious.

Yue Yuan smiled and looked at the Grand Governor of the Nier people on the big screen, and said, "Your Excellency Grand Governor, as you can see, we have gained a lot in the interstellar trading market, broadened our civilization's horizons, and learned many secrets between civilizations in the universe."

Grand Governor should also know, the pursuit of higher scientific peaks is the goal of every civilization. This is why there is mutual exchange between civilizations, why Top Civilization open Interstellar Transaction Market, and why we have pleasant exchanges.

Therefore, in order to promote exchanges between the two sides and enhance the friendship between our two civilizations, we would also like to purchase some of your scientists.

"What? What did you say? Excuse me, Chief Commander of the Human Fleet, could you please repeat that?" The Grand Governor of the First Star Region of the Nair Civilization was a little confused. He had clearly heard the voice coming from the translator, but he found it unbelievable, so he wanted to confirm it again.

"We want to buy your scientists," Yue Yuan repeated, this time with a serious expression to show that he was being very serious.

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