The attendees were still engaged in heated discussions in the Conference Hall.
Although Lu Bai had been the one who set this whole chain of events in motion, once he had said everything he needed to, there was no way for him to insert himself into the scientists' discussions.
The attendees each had their own circles.
The military brass had their own calculations. They exchanged opinions while considering what they could do under limited conditions if the Mona civilization launched a full-scale invasion.
The work of the city councilors was relatively easy by comparison.
By easy, I didn't mean they had little to do. Mainly, the shelter had contingency plans for situations like this, so they only needed to carry them out step by step.
The scientists from the Research Institute, meanwhile, were discussing the principles behind the technology the Mona civilization had demonstrated so far.
Of course, they didn't need to pull off something as outrageous as cracking the technology outright. It would be good enough if they could prepare for it, and better still if they could come up with practical countermeasures.
When civilizations clashed, there was never a single trick that could win every fight.
Every people that could be called a civilization had clawed its way out of hardship in its early days. At its core, every civilization knew how to find a way to overcome setbacks as soon as they arose.
Without that core, a people could hardly endure for long.
After all, making it through life with everything going smoothly was just luck, and luck never lasted forever.
Lu Bai sat for a while, then realized there was no point staying in the Conference Hall. He simply got up and went to the courtyard behind it to get some air.
But he hadn't been