Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 629 - 625 Complex Situation

Zhang Yuan took a deep breath, looked at the silent middle-aged man, and finally contained his complex emotions.

Humans are such strange creatures; even when things go as planned, truly accepting them is still incredibly difficult. People always hope for things to move in a better direction, but how can life be that easy?

After the meeting ended, the New Human diplomat corps urgently deployed, passionately and fiercely denouncing the Reichmia Civilization at the Dyson Sphere Union meeting, demanding its immediate withdrawal from the New Human Civilization embassy, only to return defeated.

The majority of civilizations offered verbal support, but no practical action was taken, they merely watched with cold indifference.

Ten days later, the leading diplomat, Yang Fan, stepped off the spaceship, touched his head, and suddenly thought to himself that rhetorical battles were quite exhausting too.

On stage, facing a group of aliens, he complained about his territory being appropriated; first, he stated his side’s inherent rights, then broke into curses, both comical and frustrating...

What is all this about?

"Failed, didn’t you, Old Yang?"

Zhang Yuan gave a wry smile when he saw him and asked.

"... Not failing would have been strange! Just cursing a few times, how could that possibly win back our land! You think these interstellar civilizations are philanthropists? Doing interstellar charity?" Old Yang shook his head, "If generals on the battlefield can’t secure it, don’t expect diplomats to."

Immediately upon these diplomats’ return, all the high ranking officials reconvened in Qicheng’s grand meeting room.

"I’ll talk about the current situation..." Old Yang cleared his throat, regaining calm, "It’s not just our civilization that has been oppressed."

He briefly introduced the political maneuvering among the three major forces, how six medium-sized forces were starting to form a new Alliance, and some smaller forces were flipping sides...

In such a state, a whole set of complex interstellar rules had formed.

"So all the civilizations are sending their chess pieces, constantly probing and instigating others; if two forces can’t resist the provocation and go to war, other civilizations can benefit from it."

"And the situation we are facing is exactly like this..."

"Three months ago, a large transport fleet of a Level 4 Civilization being attacked by antimatter missiles while transporting goods to the Dyson Sphere! Shortly thereafter, a Level 4 Civilization named Comoros suffered attacks from several parties..."

"Whether these attacks were real or fabricated, we find hard to discern; perhaps they were just excuses invented..."

"Two months ago, senior generals from two civilizations were assassinated during a meeting, one survived and the other died..."

"As a result, the two civilizations accused each other of initiating this assassination."

"We can only hear some rumors; the true situation remains utterly obscure to us..."

It’s not that the diplomats aren’t capable, but—there simply isn’t a channel to investigate these matters. Launch spy satellites? Or implant codes in the aliens’ systems? What a joke!

People can only grasp what happened to these civilizations roughly in the union meetings.

"Fortunately, our involvement with the external world isn’t extensive, so we haven’t been embroiled in various conflicts."

Zhang Yuan was sweating from what he heard, the situation in this dreadful place was extraordinarily complex... Every step was like walking on thin ice!

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After understanding the basic situation, everyone commenced the second phase of the agenda.

Captain Feng cleared his throat, saying first, "... First a simple judgment, regarding the Reichmia Civilization occupying part of our territory, it actually represents a test by a power behind them, aimed at humanity."

"Regrettably, we don’t even know who is provoking us."

"These trials will become more frequent and severe, until they fully occupy that territory."

"The other side thinks that if we want to get involved with this Dyson Sphere, it’s highly unlikely that we’ll give up on those interests. If there are other hidden forces behind us, it’s possible they could reveal themselves now..."

"So, our previous judgment was essentially correct."

Li Zhendong suddenly said, "Why don’t we just declare that we are giving up this piece of Dyson Sphere territory? Let the civilizations that want a piece of this territory fight among themselves?"

Zhang Yuan shook his head, "The likelihood of success is very low! It’s clearly impossible for us to give up this land at this moment. The aliens aren’t fools; they’re targeting us humans, not other civilizations."

"Swallowing up these little fish first is a consensus among the great chess players."

"Furthermore, one more piece of Dyson Sphere territory is not of much use to them. Our piece of land is isolated, and there are no special structures around it—taking it is basically pointless. The likelihood of a dog-eat-dog scenario is very low."

"On the other hand, if we issue this statement, the Reichmia Civilization might just take over all the territory right away."

"Then, we wouldn’t even have a reason to condemn them... It was us who gave it up; how could we complain? Complaining verbally isn’t too bad right now!"

Zhang Yuan’s reasoning was sound; within the territory of the new humans, there were no functional buildings, limiting its strategic value.

Diplomat Old Yang sighed and said, "However, during our brief contact, some civilizations have been trying to align with us. For example, the neighbors from the Walker Alliance have been negotiating with us for a while, and they hope to pull us to their side."

Captain Feng asked, "What did they say?"

"Start with technology exchange to build mutual trust, then expand the exchange... That’s basically the process."

"As long as we are willing to pay a small price, some Amoeba Points or technology they don’t have, they would help us reclaim this territory."

"The Walker is a formidable and not-to-be-ignored political force." Captain furrowed her brow, weighing whether the conditions offered by the Walker concealed a larger trap.

Old Yang spread his hands: "Given our current situation, do we need the help of this Walker Alliance for a while?"

"If we don’t take any action, within two months’ time, other civilizations will have claimed that part of the Dyson Sphere. In one or two years, this part of the starry sky might become chaotic, starting by pushing out some neutral smaller players..."

"Or it could lead to proxy wars, which are also possible."

Zhang Yuan looked at the data in his hands. Don’t be fooled by the calm in this part of the starry sky. In fact, according to the current situation, proxy wars had already begun.

Great Forces wouldn’t clash directly. Instead, the small pieces were fiercely contesting each other, with endless conflicts and contradictions arising.

"Considering the current situation..."

Firstly, he still didn’t believe that expanding exchanges with the local Walker Alliance was a good thing.

Thinking from the most malicious perspective, people didn’t know if the Reichmia Civilization that occupied human territory was the Walker’s pawn!

If it was sent by the opponents to occupy the space, and humans naïvely fell into the trap, it would be nothing but self-inflicted misery, essentially getting duped and even helping the other side count their profits!

"Cough, cough... it’s not impossible."

Secondly, the so-called technology exchange wasn’t really meaningful because the Walker was a very old and strong Level 4 Interstellar Civilization that had already started exploring Level 5 Civilization technology.

Besides Magnetic Field Perception, what else did humans have that was worth their coveting?

Yes, they were all-around stronger than the New Human Civilization in terms of military, technology, population, and other aspects.

Would they just give humans technology for free, letting people reap the benefits? Of course not!

Why were they here forming cliques to seize Dyson Spheres? On one hand, it was because Dyson Spheres produce a significant amount of antimatter energy; on the other hand, it very possibly related to the practice of Cosmic Governance!