"From a rational standpoint, I think we'd be better off not provoking him."
"After all, up to this very moment, the other party hasn't shown us any hostility whatsoever."
At the end of his remarks.
After hesitating for a few seconds, the scholar, still intending to offer a warning, said to the commander, "Perhaps we could try communicating with him."
Hearing that.
The commander could only fall silent at once. He knew the other party was right.
If you couldn't beat them, you joined them. It was a little humiliating, but circumstances were stronger than men.
Besides.
Compared to that.
The most humiliating thing would surely be being unable to join even if you wanted to.
Thus.
For a while, he could not help but secretly deliberate over whether to send someone to make tentative contact with the other party.
"What if we gain something from it?"
At the same time.
Thinking of the other's sudden appearance.
Then thinking of those meteorites that had suddenly descended upon Earth more than twenty years ago, inflicting tremendous damage upon human civilization.
He could not help suspecting whether those meteorites had been deployed by the other party, or whether the two actually had some close connection—especially when he saw the other party seemingly using that activated meteorite fragment to quietly sense something.
That suspicion immediately reached its peak.
Had the other party come to Earth precisely to investigate those meteorites?
However.
Suspicions were merely suspicions. He ultimately had no way to learn the truth.
He could only sincerely hope that the other party bore no hostility toward human civilization.
Otherwise.
They would truly face the danger of utter collapse.
At that same moment.
Because maintaining his current state required consuming a vast amount of the Law of Karma every moment to preserve its