Chapter 426: Chapter 253: Long-Awaited Black Market Transaction_2
At this time, within the Solar System, there is also such an intermediary station.
If necessary, the Three-Day Civilization can, in the shortest time, teleport billions of Primordial Energy Consciousnesses of their people here, then materialize them into entities, forming a massive Primordial Energy Device.
But the shortcoming is probably that this Primordial Energy teleportation can only teleport consciousness entities.
Even if you count the few materialized Primordial Energy Devices, they are still at a disadvantage on the front battlefield.
Perhaps for this reason, the Three-Day Civilization actually does not have much ambition to invade the realm of the real world.
Their cultural philosophy is to abandon reality and live eternally in the Primordial Energy World.
However, the Three-Day Civilization has a strong desire for this trade market that humans possess.
The reason is also simple.
The trade market itself, in the eyes of the Three-Day Civilization, is an extremely powerful Primordial Energy Device!
Extracting human consciousness to converge in this virtual yet real Primordial Energy World, and achieving meetings over eternal distances, they even suspect that the trade market’s teleportation technology, which completely ignores distance, transforms matter into Primordial Energy—this is a field that even for the Three-Day Civilization is still in a "fantasy" stage, yet it exists so realistically in this Relic Device.
How could this not drive them insane?
Among all civilizations, the Three-Day Civilization is the one most eager to acquire this device!
And this desire is one of the reasons Shen Shi first sought them out.
After some preparation, Shen Shi walked in without any hesitation.
"This place is not open to outsiders."
As soon as he entered, colorful lights flowed everywhere, countless consciousnesses transformed into a unified voice focusing on Shen Shi’s brain, yet perfectly stopped on the edge of being deemed a consciousness attack.
It can be said to display the power of the Three-Day Civilization to the fullest.
Shen Shi, of course, was not affected; he just observed his surroundings.
After entering, he found himself in a gray area, surrounded only by colorful lights, able to perceive presences wrapped around him, but unable to see any shadows.
It had a dreamlike and fantastical feel.
"The rule of the trade place is such; if you have a shop, you cannot always keep it closed." Shen Shi’s consciousness was also conveyed.
"State your purpose." The collective consciousness of the Three-Day Civilization wasted no words.
Shen Shi always felt that as civilizations continued to develop, their characteristics seemed to have a tendency towards unification.
Which was efficiency and rationality.
Gus Land was like this, and so was the Three-Day Civilization.
At this level, all feelings, even courtesy, seemed to lose their inherent function, especially towards the outside, serving as a collective consciousness of civilization, leaving only pure rationality and efficient calculation.
This also made scheming increasingly difficult.
If you want to convince them, you must and can only come up with reasons sufficient to convince them.
Understanding this, Shen Shi wasted no more words.
"I come from the thirteenth position," he said.
With just this one sentence, the shop closed its door.
Shen Shi understood he had come to the right place.
This was an attitude, a willingness to listen.
The so-called thirteenth position actually has no specific saying, but just by saying this, the other party can understand that Shen Shi comes from an unknown B-level Civilization conducting continuous transactions behind human civilization.
Not belonging to the Mude System, unknown direction, not strong in power but with the ability to protect the mystery of its presence, it is also qualified to shelter human civilization, even using human civilization’s trust to acquire this incredibly powerful Relic Device.
"Purpose?" The collective consciousness of the Three-Day Civilization asked again, still maintaining a concise style.
"I believe there is a possibility of alliance between us." Shen Shi was not concerned, and efficiently laid out his cards, "Among all civilizations in the current trade market, only three truly understand the value of the trade market and its importance, they are us, humans, and you; I believe you know the risks of continuing like this."
Facing such a civilization, even rhetoric must come with concrete evidence; verbal rhetoric is meaningless, so Shen Shi was too lazy for idle talk.
He speaks the truth.
"We have raised objections." The consciousness of the Three-Day Civilization was straightforward, "There is no evidence that compressing the existence of human civilization can achieve sovereign themes; some possibility is that the Relic Device may disappear along with the human civilization."
The actions the other civilizations are taking sound like there should be no issues.
Having the dispatched people gradually replace the representative of the original human civilization to fully control the relic.
But there is no evidence proving this is feasible.
At least for now, the new market endpoint still only descends upon 100% humans.
Those of the Alien Race, even if they shift their Primordial Energy World and become human, only have entitlement to inheritance.
Or, so-called granted rights.
Just like how a master generously grants a servant.
If the servant wants to seize more of the master’s property, it may not necessarily be easy.
This risk is not only seen by the Three-Day Civilization, but by all other civilizations as well.
Yet they still choose to proceed this way.
The reason is also simple, merely if not gained then destroyed.
All decisions are based on interest, with tangible interest and comparative interest; even if this device could bring them tremendous benefits, if others also gain it, especially greater gains, then comparative interest becomes a deficit, hence destroying the device becomes an interest-maximizing choice.
But the Three-Day Civilization is different.
They see hope for more advanced technology on this device, as well as the future their entire civilization dreams of.
"Humans trust us." Shen Shi said directly, "And they only trust us because we are the weakest. With the power of human civilization, they are fully capable of catching up within a certain period, then establishing an equal identity with us, and this trust born because of weakness, yet is firm due to weakness."
"Trust alone is not enough." The Three-Day Civilization understood Shen Shi’s point.
He who grasps humanity, grasps the device.
The Three-Day Civilization cannot protect humanity, let alone the trade market, because they are within the Mude System, unable to contend against nine equally matched, familiar powerful civilizations.
But this mysterious thirteenth civilization is different.
Though weak, they are outside the Mude System and deeply trusted by humans.
Even now, there are already some humans in their hands.
The Three-Day Civilization understands this is their trump card to forge an alliance with them.
However, this thirteenth civilization is indeed too weak, able to protect only a very small part; to truly acquire this device, they must obtain a large number of humans, which is something that no civilization can accomplish under the current circumstances.
Even with trust, it doesn’t work.
"We need a powerful warship, at least reaching B9 Level, only required to have basic ability of escape in the presence of other civilizations." Shen Shi stated.
"Reason." The consciousness of the Three-Day Civilization remained emotionless, succinct and cold.
"We will provide greater support to human civilization." Shen Shi said, "Not just B1 Level warships, but continuously improve, boost the confidence of human civilization, maintain the purity of its culture meanwhile also gradually granting them the means to escape."
This time, the Three-Day Civilization did not respond quickly.
Because this is no longer a simple trade.
Shen Shi is effectively exchanging future promises for present interests.
Facing the silence of the Three-Day Civilization, Shen Shi was not in a hurry.
He does need such a fleet, even among these powerful B-level civilizations considered top-level, and can indeed rely on this fleet to continually distort the current state of the third future line, so the trade he proposed is genuine.