Chapter 182

His words terrified the fleet members even more.

This technology, which requires no medium, ignores shielding, and broadcasts indiscriminately at the level of consciousness, has completely shattered their understanding and is even more terrifying than the way the other party appeared.

The commander was the first to react; the synthesizer's speech noticeably sped up, and it asked directly in their language within the warship:

"Territory... Do you belong to this civilization? How did you decipher our language? What kind of communication method is this?"

He was testing whether the other side had completely monitored the fleet through communications.

However, little did he know that thought is faster than language, and before he could speak, Wen Jing had already sensed the message he was sending through his mental power.

The next moment, her mental broadcast came again.

"No, I don't belong to this primitive tribe."

The commander immediately retorted, "Then how can you say this is your territory? According to the ' Pioneering Code,' this is the first star system that our Forging Alliance discovered and effectively managed."

"The Pioneering Code? That's the set of rules for you primitive tribes, what does it have to do with me?"

"Primitive tribes? Us?"

Everyone on board the warship felt deeply insulted.

Apart from the fully mechanized commander, all the other members who were not yet fully modified instinctively raised their pincers and made a 'click-click-click' sound, which was a sign of their rage.

As the dominant civilization at the pinnacle of technology and military power in this small nebula, how could they tolerate being scorned as a primitive tribe by a strange civilization?

Wen Jing completely ignored their reactions and said matter-of-factly:

"Of course, once you hand over all your civilization information to me, you will be considered a primitive civilization."

Upon hearing this, the Forging Alliance fleet collectively erupted in fury.

"Submit all information related to civilized behavior?!"

The commander uttered a muffled sound unlike anything he'd ever heard before, "Is this your civilization declaring war on my civilization?"

To everyone's surprise Wen Jing replied, "Declare war? No, you have no right to make my civilization declare war, just as you are not declaring war on the primitive tribes on this planet."

"I'm just informing you in my personal capacity--"

"You and they are all primitive tribes on my territory. Only after handing over all your information about civilization will you be considered a primitive civilization on my territory."

This planetary conquest was not only Forging Alliance's homeworld, but was being broadcast live across all their territories.

At first, the home planet did not know what Wen Jing had said with his mental power, and only knew the commander's reply, but the communications officer quickly synchronized the situation.

This information silenced the fleet and the entire Forging Alliance behind it.

After the silence comes the explosion.

"Arrogant! Arrogant! Declare war immediately! The dignity of the alliance cannot be desecrated!"

"But the communication skills she demonstrated..."

"It might just be a special signal jamming technique. The warship has been hacked, and all its information equipment is under enemy control, so it's sending false information."

"If this civilization truly possessed technological strength far surpassing ours, they would have already invaded our home planet. Why are they still communicating with our fleet on a primitive planet?"

The Forging Alliance quickly reached a consensus.

Even if Wen Jing has demonstrated teleportation and communication technologies that they cannot understand, it only means that she is skilled in this area and deserves attention and vigilance. It is absolutely impossible for them to hand over all the information about their civilization just because of this.

As a militaristic civilization that adheres to the principle of survival of the fittest, the way to the Forging Alliance and alleviate internal conflicts is through external expansion.

This conquest is being broadcast live to all members and vassal civilizations of the civilization, and any retreat at this moment would be a huge blow to the alliance's prestige.

"Where is your territory? Where is your civilization?"

As a mature civilization, although enraged, they were also more militarily conscious and sought to obtain information about Wen Jing through communication.

She also generously stated, "The entire area, with a diameter of 30,000 light-years, is my personal territory."

"As for my civilization... when you can find the location of my civilization, you will no longer be considered a primitive civilization."

This answer surprised the Forging Alliance once again, prompting a thorough Analysis.

"A star field spanning 30,000 light-years is just a personal territory... How vast must the territory of her civilization be...? No, she must be trying to intimidate us!"

"That's right. Why would such a civilization require us to hand over our civilization information? They could just take it without us even noticing."

Some people said, "Is it possible that she wants us to follow the rules she set? She said earlier that if we hand over information, we become a 'primitive civilization,' no longer a primitive tribe..."

"Absurd! Civilizations that hold such ideas are now our enslaved races. You should stay away from those inferior people!"

The fleet soon received a secret order from the Alliance—or rather, a statement of intent.

Most of the high-ranking members of the Forging Alliance believe that Wen Jing's identity is most likely from a dominant civilization two hundred light-years away, the closest to them. Their technology is more advanced in terms of signal transmission, but their military strength is inferior.

Therefore, while continuing to send Wen Jing various questions to probe his intentions, they issued and executed new orders to the entire fleet:

"Railgun array, adjust orbit..."

"Avoid unknown entities and continue firing towards the original target!"

They neither rashly attacked Wen Jing, nor did they leave as she had suggested; instead, they continued their unfinished conquest.

If we back down, it's tantamount to acknowledging the other side's order and surrendering our territory.

Therefore, continuing to attack the Starshine People is both a statement of non-acceptance and a test of Wen Jing's abilities.

If you refuse their request, what will they do? What can they do?

The next moment, just as the Forging Alliance had guessed, Wen Jing did indeed move.

Just as the railgun barrels flashed with a dangerous light, she raised her jet-black forelimbs and pointed them at the massive, disc-shaped landing ship through the void.

There was neither dazzling light nor an explosion of energy.

Starting with the railgun barrel forged from 'corundum,' the highest achievement in materials science within the Forging Alliance, the technology quickly spread to the entire behemoth's weapon systems, external armor, propulsion systems...

The dark metallic gray color, as if painted by an invisible brush, forcibly altered the basic properties of all matter in the blink of an eye.

From materials with distinct functions, they were transformed into a unified... gold.

Chapter 182

How can one obtain technology and information from a civilization that is actively waging war and expanding, adhering to a military doctrine of the survival of the fittest?

The answer is simple: use their way of understanding the universe.

For a clearly social Darwinist entity like the Forging Alliance, any appeasement or negotiation is tantamount to a sign of weakness.

To expect such a civilization to sit down and calmly engage in friendly negotiations or fair trade is nothing short of wishful thinking.

In their cognitive framework, goodwill is weakness, and sharing is equivalent to surrender.

Therefore, when Wen Jing appeared on the battlefield, he did not use the normal methods of contact with the Light Language Civilization, nor did he unnecessarily side with the native inhabitants of the attacked planet.

Instead, they directly declared to them that this place, and the vast star field encompassing their expansion area, were their territory.

When you're traveling, you give yourself your own identity.

After careful consideration and Analysis, she identified herself as a member of a mysterious, super-civilization.

This is a mirror image of and a transcendence of the Forging Alliance's own operating logic. They believe in "I am strong, I conquer," so she uses an even stronger "rule of power" that they cannot refute to engage with them.

It must be said that this logic is actually closer to human nature.

Perhaps different independent civilizations share this commonality, while civilizations like the Light Language Civilization are the outliers.

As for why she doesn't directly represent the super civilization she fabricated, but rather an individual within that super civilization, it's to leave room for error and imagination in the background.

As an individual within a civilization, if she claims to have claimed 30,000 light-years as her private territory, then the entirety of this civilization's territory, its capabilities and technologies, are all open to her speculation.

For example, Wen Jing could claim to be a powerful individual within the civilization, with other members having smaller territories than him, or he could claim to be a nobody within the civilization. In that case, the territory of a 'super civilization' could be expanded indefinitely.

Secondly, she had only two purposes in actively contacting the Forging Alliance: one was to gather information about civilizations to gain Skill Points, and the other was to protect the Light Language Civilization discreetly.

As an individual, her demand for all civilizations within her 'territory' to hand over all information and her prohibition of inter-warfare behavior can be reasonably explained—because she is an individual, she can be 'willful' and make rules based on her own preferences.

If she claims to represent a civilized attitude, then she will have to consider more factors in terms of behavioral logic, which will make her more constrained.

When Wen Jing told them that "only primitive tribes that hand over all their information can become primitive civilizations," he was essentially building a regional order in advance.

In this way, she is not biased towards any side, but is simply carrying out her own order. This not only fundamentally eliminates the possibility of the Forging Alliance threatening the Light Language Civilization in the future, but also paves the way for her to systematically 'collect' information on other civilizations within a range of 30,000 light-years, providing an irrefutable reason.

Of course, the prerequisite for all of this is her extraordinary power as Awakened.

Among the Awakened, there exists an absolute and unique form of identification, which is probably a commonality among beings who have entered higher-dimensional spacetime.

This distinction was clear even in the Federation. Excluding tactical concealment created by secret techniques and characteristics, under normal circumstances, whether a person is Awakened is as clear as a firefly in the dark to other Awakened.