Once Bitten by a Snake, Afraid of Well Ropes for Ten Years

[Oh! It's unbelievable that you were able to traverse the stars without Controlled Nuclear Fusion. This is truly a miracle. Your courage is admirable. Brave and kind Human Civilization expedition team, you are the most courageous civilization I have ever seen.]

The Mining Area Patrol first praised human courage before giving his formal answer.

Of course I know your situation and can imagine your desire for Controlled Nuclear Fusion. I also really hope I can help you.

Of course, I hope you can become heroes of Human Civilization, and I also hope to see Human Civilization accept the culture of our Moke Star Civilization. However, I am very sorry to tell you that I do not know the key technical points of achieving Controlled Nuclear Fusion.

As you know, although our Moke Star Civilization once stood at the pinnacle of Level 3 Civilization, I was merely a Mining Area Patrol, not a scientist.

[Brave Human Civilization, although I don't know the technical details of achieving Controlled Nuclear Fusion, I do know some things related to my work. I can tell you... but alas, my base is running low on energy, so I implore you to send a spaceship here as soon as possible!]

After reading the reply, Yue Yuan was also confused.

The Mining Area Patrol's words made sense, just as a 21st-century miner might not know the technical details of the Qin Crossbow.

However, Yue Yuan felt that something was wrong, but the other party's reply was impeccable.

"Could it be that I'm overthinking things?" Yue Yuan asked himself.

After a moment's thought, Yue Yuan addressed everyone present. "My previous lies, while not entirely flawed, were not comprehensive either. Yet this Mining Area Patrol didn't suspect a thing. Do you think that's normal?"

That's true. Yue Yuan's words seemed reasonable at first glance, but upon closer inspection, they revealed flaws.

The idea that a civilization that hasn't even achieved Controlled Nuclear Fusion would send an expedition to other Star System in search of a breakthrough seems ridiculous. Of course, this could be explained as a desperate measure due to prolonged technological stagnation, but then it's accused of being xenophobic.

Xenophobic thoughts only arise after encountering extraterrestrials. How low is the chance of a civilization that doesn't even have Controlled Nuclear Fusion encountering extraterrestrials? Saying something like that is just nonsense.

However, the Mining Area Patrol did not respond to this information, which puzzled Yue Yuan. He had intended to use this question to probe the Mining Area Patrol's background, but he had no idea that he had punched a cotton ball.

"Perhaps the other side was so desperate to survive that they didn't think too much about it," one scholar replied. "If it were us, imagine we hibernated for 20,000 years, woke up to find ourselves trapped on a planet by our former nemesis, and then discovered a civilization. We'd probably react the same way!"

That seems to be the only explanation.

The scholar paused, then his bright eyes suddenly lit up. "If the Chief still has concerns, we can ask some other questions, such as the form and social structure of the Moke Star People. Also, we can tell him that we want to deploy a ground probe to his base, to scout the location in advance and collect route information for future rescue plans, so as to arrange the landing point of the Landing Ship and formulate a rescue plan."

"Chief, think about it. We've already said that we're a civilization that hasn't even achieved Controlled Nuclear Fusion. As such a low-level civilization, to launch a rescue operation on a planet, we need to know the specific landing area, right? Besides, we don't even know the exact location of the other side on the planet. Since that Mining Area Patrol said it's in an Underground Base, we should at least send probes to find out the situation of the passage and the landing point!"

Upon hearing the scholar's words, Yue Yuan's eyes lit up.

Yes, what could be more direct than simply sending a probe down to investigate? The fact that no one detected the 'Silver Mist' or the alien base before could be explained by the vast technological gap, but if we know the specific location, there's no reason why we still can't detect it.

If, as the Mining Area Patrol said, there is indeed a base here, and a surviving Moke Star People, then this matter is most likely true.

"Okay, reply to the Mining Area Patrol according to this instruction," Yue Yuan said.

At his instruction, this meaning was quickly rephrased by the scholar, then converted from "the Tianhe Light" into a signal code, and then sent out by Zhao Youqin.

After waiting for about half an hour, the Neutrino Communication equipment received a reply from the Mining Area Patrol.

[Sigh, it seems your Human Civilization really is as xenophobic as you say. This is truly unbelievable.]

At the beginning of his reply, the Mining Area Patrol expressed his confusion and helplessness.

Everyone glanced at the first sentence, then read on.

I know you are wary of me, but why is that? I've already given you all the Neutrino Communicator recorded in my base's data. Isn't that proof of my sincerity?

[I'm sorry, I was a bit emotional. But now I finally understand why you were so wary of me. It's all because of that damned xenophobic mentality. Under the influence of that mentality, it's perfectly reasonable for you to want to deploy the detector, and I had no reason to refuse.]

However, I cannot agree to this, because my base is running low on energy. If you send probes to meet me, I must activate the program that temporarily confuses the Nanobots consciousness; otherwise, your landing probes will be detected by the Nano Consciousness.

However, once this program is activated, the energy that the base should have been able to sustain for another ten years will be exhausted, and it will not be enough to restart when you send rescue ships in the future. In that case, the rescue will be meaningless, and I will die as a result.

However, while I cannot agree to send you ground probes, I can tell you my location and imagery of the base. Oh, and if you're still worried, I can also send you my individual life data.

At the end of the message, a video archive was indeed included.

After copying the video data onto a portable storage disk, Zhao Youqin played it on a standalone device that was not connected to the internet.

Everyone looked at the screen of the standalone device.

The content was indeed as the Mining Area Patrol had described: video footage of a base, complete with equipment rooms, control consoles, Hibernation Pod, communication equipment, power rooms, and so on.

However, the style of the various devices was very different from that of humans, especially the control panel, which had very few buttons. Everyone saw a helmet covered with many wires in front of the strange chair, and the large screen was the legendary Holographic Screen.

Judging from the way the cameras were shot, it was easy for everyone to tell that these images were taken by cameras located throughout the base.

The individual video footage mentioned by the Mining Area Patrol is also included in the base's video footage.