"In that case, I'll go meet that civilization!" Wang Fumin let out a long, stale breath, seemingly having made up his mind. "It's not as if I can cultivate to Old Zhang's level and suppress an entire civilization single-handedly. Sooner or later, we'll have a close encounter of the third kind. If we can establish friendly cooperation with this civilization, sooner is better than later!"
"Even if we can't cooperate, we should at least be able to avoid a conflict..."
"You have a point." Qin Yiwei fell silent for a moment, then patted Old Wang on the shoulder. "Then... I'll persuade the others. Make your own preparations too."
"To address Earth's resource shortages, under the Supernatural Alliance's overall coordination, multiple nations have jointly assembled an oceangoing fleet of sixteen warships and over twenty thousand soldiers, seeking supernatural mineral deposits around Earth!"
"Meanwhile, our high-altitude observation balloons have discovered an extraterrestrial civilization more than sixty thousand kilometers away. They appear to be mining underwater minerals or conducting some sort of monster-farming operations."
"A human diplomatic delegation led by Comrade Wang Fumin will set out into the Demon God's Sea to make contact with this extraterrestrial civilization."
The announcement naturally sent shock waves through Earth's population!
What was going on? They were suddenly going to make contact with aliens?
Arguments raged online. Some supported it, but the overwhelming majority opposed it. After all, most ordinary citizens leaned toward caution and feared contact with the outside world.
They only wanted to live their own quiet little lives. Problems ten or a hundred years down the line were not part of their considerations!
But as the saying went, opportunity knocked but once. Judging by its outward appearance, the foreign civilization they had encountered was not a technological civilization and possessed no particularly powerful