Forty-nine rules of the end times

Chapter 329 Hidden Rule Fifteen
"No prize for guessing: What type of life form is this alien intelligent entity?"

"I guess it's carbon-based, like humans. That's what makes communication worthwhile."

"What's the point of making it like a human? Ideally, it should be silicon-based. This might even offer some insights for the development of artificial intelligence."

"The flesh and blood are weak and the machine is soaring!"

"I'm daydreaming again. I wish there was a beautiful angel robot like the ones in anime!"

"What I'm more interested in is the Firebringer's note in the rules: 'Humanity is not alone in the universe.' Maybe those cosmic civilization alliances in science fiction movies really exist. Just thinking about it is exciting!"

"Even if it exists, so what? With humanity's current level of space exploration, we can't even leave our own galaxy. No matter how big or wonderful the outside world is, it has nothing to do with us."

"So, the Fire Stealers are definitely aliens, right? Sigh... Why wasn't the first civilization to come to Tianshui benevolent and advanced? Why did it have to be a destroyer!"

The release of the new rules unsurprisingly sparked a frenzy of discussion online.

Compared to the previous rules, this one, which simply doesn't have a penalty for failure, is a relief, allowing people to take a break.

The prospect of this upcoming alien intelligent entity feels like science fiction has come to life, with everyone eagerly anticipating what the aliens actually look like.

Brigade base.

After the new rules were released, Guan Tong and Shang Yuanzi only discussed them briefly.

Before the Firebringers deployed the alien intelligent beings to Tianshui, humanity had no information about them whatsoever.

What form of life it is, what impact it will have on humanity, whether it is good or bad, we will only know after it arrives.

After exchanging a few words with Shang Yuanzi, Guan Tong silently opened the terminal panel to check the hidden rules for this event.

Hidden Rule Fifteen: The Cost of the Answer

[Hidden rule: The alien intelligent entity deployed on Tianshui will change its interaction mode according to its appetite.]

[Note: When the returns are high enough, would the high cost be an acceptable option?]

……What does it mean?
Guan Tong read the hidden rules but didn't fully understand them.

However, he instinctively disliked this hidden rule.

The words "high cost" in the note gave him a bad feeling.

He went online and saw that, in addition to speculation about extraterrestrial intelligent beings, some people were also speculating whether the administrator of the House of Ascended would sell or publicly disclose hidden information.

Official accounts from several countries are also waiting.

Guan Tong decided to wait and see for the time being.

He won't reveal hidden rules unless he understands them himself.

Then came the waiting.

He and Shangyuan Zi waited until noon, exactly three hours after the rules were announced, when the Fire Stealers were to be deployed.

At that time, the satellite observation departments of several major countries were fully staffed, and soon they discovered something.

"Appeared!"

A burst of cheers erupted inside the North Star Space Agency's workspace.

"Not on the ground! In space!"

"An unusual signal has been detected! Something has appeared in the orbit of Tianshui Star!"

"Is that a spaceship?! How did it appear out of thin air?!"

In satellite footage, a dark brown, flat, round spacecraft that looks somewhat like a human chocolate chip cookie suddenly appears.

NASA employees stared intently at the screen, each with an expression of disbelief on their face.

"It's spatial warp! I bet it's spatial warp!"

"Could it be similar to the principle of teleportation devices? Like a jump through a wormhole?"

"It's falling rapidly!"

The instruments emitted sounds, and after the strangely shaped spacecraft appeared in orbit around Tianshui, it quickly began to fall and enter the atmosphere.

"Calculating the landing point..."

"According to calculations, the spacecraft will land on the Senantata Icefield in the Kingdom of Sisia! The landing time is approximately... and the specific coordinates are approximately..."

The data was quickly processed by NASA staff using computers to generate results, which were then reported to decision-makers.

After receiving the results, the decision-makers immediately communicated with Cisya.

……

"Was the alien intelligent entity deployed in our Sisia?"

After receiving the message, Yelena felt a little pressured.

She just became governor on January 1st, and her deployment in Sisya will undoubtedly bring her country into the global spotlight.

This was undoubtedly a test for her, who had just taken office.

But this is also an opportunity.

If she can handle this well, it will prove that she is capable enough to serve as governor and will also shut up the opposition who keep bringing up her age.

She acted immediately, summoning her most trusted advisor, Stochsky.

"I have a task for you."

"Give the order, Your Excellency."

"Take a rapid deployment team and immediately proceed to the alien spacecraft landing site in Senantata. Establish a perimeter around the spacecraft. No one is allowed to approach the landing spacecraft before the Joint Contact Team of the Human Alliance arrives. This includes your team, of course."

"clear."

Schorchin received the order and set off immediately.

Yelena then ordered the Sisyah contact delegation to prepare. Following the release of the rules, each nation immediately assembled a team to conduct the first contact with the alien intelligent beings.

These people include scholars, military personnel, and in some countries, artists are also included in the ranks.

This is because it is uncertain whether the alien creature has any preferences.

However, the top decision-makers in each country have remained consistent in not participating in the first contact.

This is from a security perspective. No one can guarantee that the alien entities released by the Firebringers won't be aggressive.

Yelena strictly adhered to the resolution agreed upon by the Confederation of Peoples and did not attempt to have her country's delegation go to make contact first, taking advantage of her "first come, first served" position.

Within half an hour, delegations from other countries arrived in Cisya and formed the “Human Rights Consortium Contact Delegation”.

The delegation was quite large, with a hundred people, plus some guards, making it nearly three hundred people.

Under Yelena's arrangement, the three hundred people immediately headed to the Senantata Icefield.

This extremely cold place, rarely visited by outsiders, would probably never have been visited by many members of the delegation if it weren't for this incident.

After some time, the delegation arrived at the spacecraft landing area.

Many soldiers in thick combat uniforms had already set up a cordon nearby; this was the mobile unit led by Stochastic.

She went forward to greet the delegation upon seeing their arrival.

Only after verifying their identities and completing a second confirmation via remote communication with Yelena did she allow the soldiers to pass.

"You arrived a long time ago, did you witness its landing?!"

One of the delegation members asked Sgorchin urgently, but his eyes were fixed on the alien spacecraft that looked like a cookie or chocolate chip cookie magnified a thousand times.

“I saw it,” Sgorchin said. “It was like… jelly, and it bounced twice when it landed on the ground.”

jelly?

Everyone was baffled by what they heard.

However, they didn't say much to the soldier, Sgorchin, and after passing through the guard post, they all gathered in front of the spacecraft.

Hey! Hello! Alien!

"Come out!"

Someone shouted, but it immediately drew disdain from those around them.

"Don't make such a fuss, acting like you've never seen anything like this before!"

The speaker straightened his clothes, bowed slightly to the spacecraft, and said politely, "Welcome to our beautiful Tianshui Star, guests from outer space."

The spacecraft did not respond.

The group looked at each other, puzzled.

Some people used sound waves, signal transmitters and other equipment to try to notify the alien intelligent beings inside the spacecraft in a non-verbal way, but it was still no use.

Not only were the people at the scene confused, but the hundreds of millions of viewers around the world watching the live broadcast were also dumbfounded.

Indeed, people believe that this historic moment of "third kind of contact" should belong to all of humanity, not just to a select few.

Therefore, the entire contact process was broadcast live, and almost everyone who could watch the live stream stayed in front of their screens to watch, putting everything else aside.

"What's going on? Why isn't it coming out?"

"Could they have died inside? It's like a science fiction movie, with only alien corpses left inside."

"Those people at the scene are so idiots! What are they all standing there for? If it won't come out, why don't you try to go in and take a look?"

"We can't even see the entrance to this cookie-shaped spaceship, how do we get in?"

The viewers of the live stream were posting a barrage of comments, and they seemed even more anxious than the people in the on-site contact team.

Guan Tong and Shang Yuanzi were also watching the live stream at the same time, and they were equally confused about what was going on.

Could the fire-bringers really make a mistake? That's highly unlikely...

Just as everyone was puzzled, and some even planned to try to "go inside and investigate," the spacecraft finally made a move.

A vertical, barrel-shaped nozzle bulged out of the spacecraft, followed by a black, sticky substance that shot out from it.

The hundreds of people in the delegation all looked up in unison.

The next moment, the sticky, gelatinous substance fell towards the crowd.

A collective gasp rippled through the crowd. Most people instinctively moved aside, while others stood frozen in place, unsure of what to do.

Two members of the delegation, a man and a woman, stood frozen in place, immediately covered and enveloped by that thing.

Then a sizzling sound that made your teeth ache came out, like a splash of hot oil on a cake.

In less than a few seconds, the man and woman were completely devoured, leaving not even a scrap of clothing behind. The clump of black mud lay limp on the ground, resembling a large, ugly, black rag.

Hundreds of people at the scene, along with hundreds of millions watching the live broadcast, were stunned after witnessing this scene firsthand.

After a brief silence, chaos erupted at the scene.

"Ah!" someone screamed.

"...Stay away from it!"

"Quickly! Soldiers!"

The contact group retreated one after another, and the soldiers, covered in cold sweat, raised their weapons.

Just then, a strange, low murmur came from the clump of black mud.

"Taste...gives me food...answers...questions..."

(End of this chapter)