How could they let two unknown alien life-forms enter the human Underground City so easily? Tens of millions, nearly a hundred million humans lived there too.
If disaster struck, it would become an uncontrollable tragedy.
But some also believed humanity needed outside help to improve its chances of resisting foreign enemies.
Minutes and seconds ticked by, yet the two Luo Qis remained exceptionally calm.
Even Shi Zhongming, who was relaying messages, felt awkward about stalling any longer. At last, the council gave its reply, ordering him to agree immediately and invite the two into the Underground City.
"I thought you wouldn't agree. You can call me No. 1, and him No. 2," the levelheaded Luo Qi Replica said.
Their identical appearances might make them impossible to tell apart, but the numbers 1 and 2 appeared on the chests of their clothes.
A line of smart city cars arrived. Like a puppet controlled from behind the scenes, Shi Zhongming opened the rear door of a silver-white car with no rearview mirrors for them.
After taking the front seat of the shared smart city car, Shi Zhongming continued asking questions along the way.
"Do you know where the large battleship approaching Water Blue Star came from?"
"No."
"Then are there other civilizations observing Water Blue Star?"
"We don't know."
Behind the scenes, humanity's AIs analyzed every exchange.
Shi Zhongming kept asking, "Where is Earth?"
"Very far away."
"Can you provide aid to Water Blue Star?"
"That isn't my decision to make."
Replica No. 1 sent a remote command for the battleship to retract its boarding ramp. It began expelling vast streams of ions, retracting its landing supports as it rose into the sky.
No. 1 surveyed the car's two rows of seats. The synthetic leather was spotless, and the interior was spacious.