This was truly...
At such an answer, the relevant authorities could only shake their heads. Fortunately, another abductee gave them an answer. She said the aliens had told her that they might have come to Deep Blue Star because they had discovered some kind of resource there.
The reason she said "might" was because she had made the whole thing up herself. Not a single alien had told her that. She had lied solely to obtain a reward from the authorities.
Yet such a lie had once made the upper echelons of the Deep Blue Star Three Kingdoms extremely nervous, to the point that their highest military institutions had discussed countermeasures overnight.
However, several years had passed since that claim surfaced, and the supposed alien spacecraft mining some resource on Deep Blue Star had never appeared. Only then did the relevant departments of the three nations realize that they might have been deceived by that abductee.
They also discovered that the alien abduction incidents seemed to have passed a turning point. During the first few years, they constantly heard reports of Deep Blue Star People being abducted by aliens. But as time passed, such news became increasingly rare, until there had not been a single abduction incident for several consecutive years.
This left the three most powerful nations on Deep Blue Star deeply puzzled. They even worried that the aliens had simply left, since they had not found any trace of alien spacecraft over the years.
When they heard the false news that the aliens might be here to mine resources, Deep Blue Star's higher-ups had been terrified. Now that they believed the aliens might have left, they felt deeply reluctant to let them go, as though they had missed something important, and frantically began searching.
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