Weighing the Options

Semi-Gaia Life Adelie's words made humanity feel that this was worth trying. Although the Level 5 Civilization Adelie spoke of was watching, it could not possibly arrive anytime soon. Even a Level 5 Civilization would need more than a decade to cross a distance of over a thousand light-years.

Meanwhile, it would take humanity at most a month or two to bring the Biosphere Spaceships near Adelie and make a round trip. There was no need to worry about anything behind them.

For that Level 5 Civilization to transmit what it saw here back to its headquarters, it would need to go through an Interstellar Signal Relay Station. As long as humanity was not unbelievably unlucky and did not happen to flee straight into the direction they were coming from, it would be fine. Well, even if they fled in that direction, they might not encounter them. Space was simply too vast. It was perfectly normal for two civilizations to pass each other in the starry expanse without ever discovering one another.

Especially in interstellar space.

Some wanted to give it a try and see whether they could take this Half-Gaia Life away. They believed that doing so would help Adelie and humanity's future alike. Just as Adelie had said, no Level 5 Civilization could refuse a Gaia Life willing to cooperate with experiments. Although Adelie was not a true Gaia Life, he would certainly be of use to humanity.

These people did not bring up arguments such as "Adelie's tragic past" or "his fate being as tragic as humanity's," because they knew Yue Yuan did not consider such things. Humanity did indeed share a tragic past with Adelie, and there was resonance born from shared suffering, but that was not a reason to help him. From Yue Yuan's perspective,