"What do you mean?"
Tang Wenshan's brows drew tightly together. "Isn't this superluminal communication?"
"Quantum action at a distance has been experimentally verified..."
Lü Yongchang shook his head meaningfully, cutting Tang Wenshan off.
"No. This kind of superluminal communication is merely a shortcut."
"Mr. Tang, haven't you noticed that each of our superluminal communication devices can only contact its paired device?"
"One pair of entangled photons can only produce one pair of superluminal communication devices."
"And those two devices can only receive messages from each other."
"Normal communication equipment has never been restricted to one-to-one connections."
Tang Wenshan's expression shifted slightly.
Swept up in the joy of the successful experiment, he had unconsciously overlooked such an important point.
"What's more, we have to send the corresponding terminal to the destination before we can establish superluminal communication with that location," Lü Yongchang continued. "That means if we want to communicate with other civilizations, we still have to rely on electromagnetic waves, an extremely 'slow' means of communication."
"Unless we send a quantum communication terminal there first."
Tang Wenshan's frown deepened.
He pondered for a moment, then said quietly, "But... but that's a drawback of quantum superluminal communication. We have no way around it."
Lü Yongchang said nothing and merely nodded silently.
Was there really no way around it?
Thinking of how the technology tree system still classified them as a level-one civilization at the very bottom, Lü Yongchang's eyes betrayed a barely perceptible bitterness.
Perhaps humanity's technology was simply too primitive.
Half a month later.
The Human Federation's Starship base, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
"Andrew?!"
Hong Fan's unmistakable voice rang out through the base. "What are you doing here?!"
Seeing the man who had once saved his life, Andrew immediately broke into a radiant smile.
Laughing heartily, he strode over to Hong