Chapter 89: Three Strategies
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
One the internet, there was an endless discussion about the hidden agenda behind preordered robots, and it became the hottest topic.
Finally, the Earth Federation issued an announcement.
“Due to the enthusiasm of netizens for robots, we are canceling the reservation system…”
“We are introducing an open pre-sale system without any restrictions on the number of orders, ensuring that everyone can partic.i.p.ate and benefit…”
“Within one year, each person can purchase one robot, and the robots will be delivered based on the order of signing the contract…”
Before the robots are delivered, the loan repayments will be temporarily suspended…”
This announcement caught the attention of the entire planet.
Within a short span of half a day, one billion people signed purchase contracts and eagerly awaited the delivery of the robots.
In Xia City Base,
“Senator Chu, someone overseas has captured clear pictures and videos of the s.p.a.cecraft…”
Colonel Chu took the computer and saw that the s.p.a.cecraft was identical to the warships they had seen before.
It seems to be a transport ship…”
“Why would they send so many transport ships to Earth?”
“Senator Chu, take a look at this!” Senator Zhou handed over another photo.
Senator Chu looked at it and saw an oval-shaped device emerging from the depths of the sea, drilling towards the bottom of the transport ship.
“This is a resource collection machine that appeared on the moon…”
Colonel Chu was shocked, “Could it be that they sent so many warships and resource collection machines to steal resources from Earth?!”
Senator Zhou nodded, “One of our submarines tracked a mining device…”
“It was found to have dived into the seabed. As you know, we humans are not capable of mining deep in the ocean…”
“How could they do such a thing?!” Colonel Chu was astonished.
The mighty extraterrestrial civilization was actually stealing resources from their Earth.
Senator Zhou shook his head and sighed, “We are weaker than them, and that’s why it’s like this. The good news is that they are at least restrained and going to uninhabited areas…”
Do we have any way to stop them?!”
“No!
Senator Zhou shook his head, “The think tank has a.n.a.lyzed it. For now, the best course of action is to pretend we haven’t seen anything and turn a blind eye…”
How infuriating!
Colonel Chu was very frustrated. He couldn’t help but to sigh at how powerless the humans were.
“I guess we can only pretend we didn’t see them..”
“Well, you know about this matter. Now, let’s discuss the issue of preventing the aliens from building the Skynet…”
The two of them moved to the conference room, which was already filled with people.
A member of parliament with a slight smile on his face spoke up when everyone was present, “Since everyone is here, let’s get started!”
Senator Sun nodded and spoke first, “Let me talk about the robot pre-sale… As of now, the number of people who have signed contracts to purchase robots has exceeded one billion. According to the trade agreement with the Moon, we still need 30 billion Blue Moon dollars worth of resources to complete the orders…”
After he finished, Colonel Chu also stood up and said, “Let me talk about the situation of the Maglev buses. Since they are for commercial use, there aren’t many who qualify to partic.i.p.ate…”
“A total of 830,000 Maglev buses have been ordered, which means we still need
830 million Blue Moon dollars worth of resources to complete the orders…”
Another member of parliament stood up, “Regarding the light tweezers’ ladder, there aren’t many orders, only 100,000 seats…”
When you add up all these products, we are still short of 30 billion Blue Moon dollars worth of resources.
“We have a debt, but the key now is how to persuade Zhao Yu to deliver these products first…”
Senator Zhou looked around and asked, “Does anyone have any ideas?”
A young sage in his thirties raised his hand.
Chen Xiao, you go ahead!”
Chen Xiao stood up, eager to make a name for himself as a newly promoted sage.
In the current situation, the Moon aliens are strong, and our side is weak…
Although the Moon could easily destroy us, they have shown some courtesy by maintaining a semblance of equality due to the s.p.a.ceship repair incident…”
It appears equal, but it is unequal in every aspect. We have made compromises on almost all our demands to the Moon…”
“Although this is decided by force, have any of you thought about one thing?
Senator Zhou timely asked, “What is it?”
Chen Xiao smiled lightly, “Why does the Moon want to maintain an appearance of equality?”
Everyone frowned and pondered.
Colonel Chu thought for a moment and said, “For the Moon, forcefully enslaving us is not the best option!”
“That’s right!”
Chen Xiao nodded, “Forceful enslavement would provoke our resistance and rebellion, which would be detrimental to technological advancement and s.p.a.ceship repair.”
“In the past few days, after I obtained the information, I have been a.n.a.lyzing the actions of the Moon during this period…”
Before the a.n.a.lysis, let me state a premise, which is that the Moon’s intention or sole purpose is to repair their broken s.p.a.ceship…”
“Considering from the Moon’s perspective, I have come up with three strategies. One for the best situation, one for the worst situation, and one for in between…”
“The Moon’s worst strategy is to forcibly enslave Earth, which means slowly advancing Earth’s technology while facing resistance from the Earthlings…”
“Obviously, this is not a good strategy for the aliens as they might not even help Earth advance in their technology. Perhaps all the fighting might just force them to be stuck on the Moon forever…”
“This is the worst strategy for them, and the fact that the Moon has not chosen it for more than five years proves that they won’t resort to it unless it’s absolutely necessary!”
“A better strategy is to interact with us the way they are doing now, maintaining a certain level of equality on the surface, using calculated friendliness to confuse us, thus promoting technology and science to repair the s.p.a.ceship and return to their home planet.”
“Until they achieve their goal, we have a certain degree of autonomy, just like the current situation. The Moon is merely exchanging resources with us for their technology products without interfering in our internal affairs…”
“But this strategy also has risks for them. If we humans happen to learnt about their true intentions and the possibility of them destroying Earth…”
“In that case, we humans will pretend to be obedient to the aliens and will secretly slow down the progress of our technological advances, because if we are progressing too fast, these aliens might just destroy us as soon as they could leave the Moon…”
“I even wondered, could Zhao Yu intentionally reveal to us the Dark Forest Law, in order to encourage us to develop technology in secret and not fully trust the aliens?!”
This statement caused a commotion in the room.
No one had considered this possibility before. Before, they all a.s.sumed that Zhao Yu had been completely brainwashed to become a representative of the aliens.
But now, it seemed to make sense. Otherwise, there was no reason for Zhao Yu to inform them about the Dark Forest Law.
If it were another alien negotiating with them, they would surely stabilize the situation and present a false image of a harmonious universe.
Before the crowd could further diverge in their thinking, Chen Xiao continued, “I’ve been thinking, since the Moon has been in the solar system for five years, why did they never reveal themselves until the White Rabbit 9 landed on the moon?”
Colonel Chu interjected, “We’ve a.n.a.lyzed this situation before. After the Moon crashed, they were repairing their s.p.a.ceship and only recently made some progress…”
“That makes sense!”
Chen Xiao nodded and continued, “But have any of you considered that the Moon might have regained some power even before these five years?”
“This is where I get to the best strategy that they have. After investigating Earth, the Moon decided to secretly promote the development of science and technology. That’s why they abducted a group of Earth people five years ago…”
“Their goal is to release them at the right time and quietly foster technological advancement and scientific progress. This way, there would be no need for the middle strategy of pretending to cooperate while opposing us in secret…”
“During these five years, they should have been researching the direction and technology to promote scientific development, preparing to deliver them to Zhao Yu and others for their private development on Earth…”
Unfortunately, the landing of the White Rabbit 9 disrupted their best strategy, forcing them to execute the middle strategy of engaging with us openly and advancing scientific development…”
“Until they achieve their goal, they have no reason to directly shift from the middle strategy to the lower strategy. That would be too radical. If the Moon could endure for five years, they can endure much longer!”
At this point, Senator Sun interjected, “Have you strayed from the topic? We are here to discuss how to prevent the aliens from installing Skynet!”
Chen Xiao nodded, acknowledging the interruption, and smiled, “What I mean is, when Colonel Chu negotiates with Zhao Yu about Skynet, as long as we openly consider the situation from their perspective, for their own good, they won’t have a reason to refuse…”
Colonel Chu pondered. After listening to Chen Xiao, he was starting to have some ideas of how to talk to Zhao Yu the next time he meets up with him..