Stellaris from the Automata Era

But Yan Luo knew that this was bullshit!

Voyager can't go anywhere. Without the third cosmic velocity, it can't leave the solar system!

Of course, Yan Luo had heard a long time ago that the traveler had reached the Pluto zone and encountered a rare four-star conjunction phenomenon. Perhaps relying on the slingshot theory caused by accidents in nature, it could barely break through the speed of the sun's gravitational blockade.

But what happens after that?

The main star of Brogden Fungus is 900 light-years away from the Earth. Please remember that this is light-years!

The third cosmic speed is 16.7 kilometers per second. How much coincidence does it take for Voyager to accelerate again and again during its journey and finally land accurately on the mother planet of Borlaug?

Therefore, Yan Luo did not think from the beginning that the origin of the Blog mushroom had anything to do with him.

However, when the mushroom in front of them directly took out a hand-drawn picture of human appearance, the atmosphere on the scene suddenly changed to the style of World Heritage application.

No, it cannot be said to be a World Heritage application. After all, in the real dimension, the inventor seems to be still alive.

"This isn't me..."

"But human senior, I think he looks like you."

"You're right, he does look like me."

Well, it seems that it really is Voyager’s golden disc.

It’s hard for Yan Luo to explain it in words. Don’t you alien races see other species as all the same?

It is true that the other party's hand-drawn drawing does have a human appearance, but why is that European person said to look like Yan Luo?

But one thing is certain: the origin of mushrooms seems to have been influenced by humans.

Let’s not try to figure out how the ancient Voyager managed to pass through the layers of light speed and reach the land of mushrooms.

After all, it has been almost 10,000 years since humans launched the probe, and any accident that happened in the meantime is acceptable.

In short, after a friendly chat and heart-to-heart talk between the two sides, the topic gradually deepened.

"Senior, why are you hitting our friends the slime?"

In fact, the mushrooms should be the reinforcements invited by the slime next door.

Generally speaking, it should be difficult for civilizations to develop this kind of mutual trust, but mushrooms are somewhat different.

After all, their real motivation for breaking out of their home planet is to make friends with other alien life forms.

And if Yan Luo's estimation was correct, the slime should have had a lot of contact with the mushrooms, and it might not have been friendly communication at the beginning.

After witnessing the power, force and bizarre ideas of the mushrooms, the slime naturally would not be stubborn enough to be their enemy.

The fact that it can use mushrooms as a mediator proves that slime is a relatively flexible species.

Of course, it would still be a bit of a headache if mushrooms stood on the opposing side.

If I'm not mistaken, Mushroom is definitely a military regime, which can be understood as a regime that is more difficult to deal with than a businessman like Slime.

Fortunately, there is a solution.

"Because I want to be friends with the slimes, but they don't seem willing to do so."

That's it! That's why we say language is an art.

For Mushroom, this sentence is like a correct password.

It might even have caused some resonance, and Mushroom in the communication even complained to Yan Luo.

Its fluttering tentacles also seemed to testify to its emotional excitement.

"Indeed, it's really hard to communicate with the slimes. We only became friends with them after sending our fleet there."

"So it's all the slime's fault."

"Yes, it's all their fault."

Perhaps the slime never imagined that there seemed to be something wrong with the reinforcements he brought.

Of course, despite the complaints, after the mushrooms criticized the slime for its non-cooperation, they still remembered the other party's commission.

"Senior...about the slime..." Yan Luo had no idea what Mushroom's expression looked like, and even if he knew, it probably wouldn't be obvious from his appearance. However, from Mushroom's slow tone, he could still sense that he was thinking hard, choosing his words. "The slime said they want to make friends."

"That's great! I've been connected to them for a long time."

Given the current situation on Earth, there is probably no room for further expansion for the time being.

Although it is not impossible to continue pulling if all the mechanical fleets in the Koprulu sector are pulled over.

But Koprulu is not a peaceful area either. There are three traitorous races controlled by the Xel'Naga, and a series of events are still unresolved.

What's more, the mechanical life forms regard that place as their main business area. To put it bluntly, 90% of the current military strength of the earth is maintained by the mechanical fleet.

If we don't put more people there, it will be difficult to ensure the safety of the rear.

And..compared to the slime, does the mushroom have more divisions?

From the current conversation, we can understand that they seem to have beaten the slime. Does this mean that they are stronger than the slime?

Even with the reference from the stars, Yan Luo could not guarantee whether Mushroom would forcibly intervene after refusing peace talks.

Since the first phase of expansion has been met, why don’t we just stop here and sit down and have a good chat.

"Senior, I will connect you right away."

Perhaps having achieved his psychological expectations, Blog Mushroom looked somewhat satisfied.

After discussing business matters, it seemed like it wanted to talk about some personal issues.

"Senior, besides the golden disc, what is the other gift in your detector? Our scientists have been researching it for a long time but haven't figured it out yet."

"What gift?" Yan Luo frowned.

Then Mushroom showed him some specific pictures.

It was a sealed, shiny black box with some patterns carved on it. The specific image was roughly a spherical object with several pairs of wings.

At first glance, it is easy to think of the angels in the original Bible that make people lose sanity.

From the perspective of craftsmanship and appearance, there is not a single crack in the box, so there should be no option for people to open it.

It looks exquisite overall, but the only inconsistent part is the two protruding cylinders under the base.

There are two lines of tiny text written on both ends of the cylinder.

'Please enter the magic element here.'

Hell, it wasn't even a Voyager that arrived on the mushroom planet.

Amidst all the thoughts, Yan Luo suddenly had the idea of ​​getting this thing.

"This is not a gift, but our relic."

Article 271: Reconciliation

Yan Luo felt that he was being a little shameless.

However, the excuse of human extinction is really useful. From the current point of view, Blog mushrooms are a group of emotional creatures.

If you think about it carefully, they can be influenced by many aspects such as music and culture, and they have the courage to break out of the universe. It seems that their emotional threshold is really low.

Just a few half-true and half-false excuses for human extinction are enough to make their eyes blur.

If it weren't for the fact that their appearance really didn't suit human aesthetics and was naturally disgusting, even Yan Luo would still find them somewhat cute.

"In short, you have to be clear. Our species is essentially extinct. That box could be a relic launched by our compatriots in their final struggle."

"..."

The common language used throughout the article is "maybe", "perhaps", and "seems". To be honest, even if someone catches them in the end, they can still explain it by saying that the investigation was not thorough enough.

Besides... Yan Luo also told a lot of truth, so he just omitted a lot of things.

Anyway, with the exquisite art of language, Mushroom quickly expressed that he would return the "legacy" of mankind so that Yan Luo could reminisce about the past.

Of course, Yan Luo also said that after his death, he would have the humanoid return the box to Mushroom to establish good relations with his neighbors.

All right, let's get this over with.

...

The peace talks between the slime and the mushrooms were actually held quite smoothly under the witness of the mushrooms.

However, from a historical perspective, this meeting is not so much a peace talk as it is a way for Earth and Bolan to normalize diplomacy after a misunderstanding and conflict.

It would be better to say that after the slime is tamed, its territory is redistributed.

According to the cultural tradition that slime can change its appearance, the slime that came for the talks naturally changed its appearance.

However, their appearance of a human body below the head and a mushroom above the head is indeed a bit unbearable for people on Earth.

"Can you guys change your look?"

"understood."

Then came the strange species with a human head and a mushroom body...this one was even worse than the previous one!

In fact, if the Earth could take a deeper look at the history of the rise of slime, it would find that this is not a huge problem at all.

They were still at the stage of eating raw meat and drinking blood, and had not even raised flames. They relied on transforming into the cubs of dominant creatures to avoid the initial threats.

In their eyes, taking on the appearance of another creature, or part of its appearance, signifies weakness.

Although subsequent evolution and intellectual breakthroughs have made this concept much weaker.

However, the two heavy punches from the mushroom and the earth directly knocked out the memories sealed deep in their DNA.

If you could turn the page forward, you would find that the tentacles most commonly used by the slime are in the shape of mushrooms.

Even though their previous conflict with the mushrooms was not too intense, there was not much loss at all.

But subconsciously, their bodies admitted it very honestly.

And the Earth...really hit them on the head, especially after learning about the other party's subsequent fleet size and technological transformation capabilities.

As a shrewd businessman, he will definitely not continue to suffer losses, even if he shouts that he is not convinced, it is only because he is stubborn.

Moreover, it would be difficult for the upper-level narrator to polish the part describing the war, so it would be more practical to skip directly and look at the post-war impact.

In the end, the Earth quickly gave up on trying to keep the slime's shape harmonious and unified.

"Regarding the United Group provoking this war and conflict, we on Earth should have no objection to taking a few star systems as compensation, right?"

Because this meeting is a face-to-face negotiation between the two species, Yan Luo, as a human, will not be present in person, and the slime is not qualified for him to come in person.

Therefore, the control of the main meeting was handed over to the humanoid senior representative Hong. Even when not facing humans, this humanoid lady in fiery red still had a strong element in her.

Of course, the slime representative may also be very aware of the current situation, and the Earth has taken away some galaxies that are unsuitable and have few resources.

Therefore, when faced with the Earth's request, he nodded very straightforwardly.

"No problem, please continue."

"And regarding your species stranded in our territory..."

Wait? We want to talk about this?

The ooze represents the full-headed man up.

The huge extra population is indeed a considerable burden for them, and the Slime has never been able to or will not keep idle people.

Of course, according to modern economics, there is actually the concept of demographic dividend.

However, a necessary condition for a demographic dividend is that citizens must have a certain purchasing power to support economic consumption and circulation.

As for what the slime citizens are made of...poor, poor, and damn poor.

In a country built by capital, even the middle class may be burdened with a large amount of debt, which is enough to ensure that they cannot be repaid in their lifetime, and may even need to be passed on by their descendants.

So essentially they just have an upper layer and a lower layer.

Similarly, let alone the idea that knowledge can change one's destiny, this is an important means of control by the upper class. You can learn about the mature student loans in democratic countries.

Let’s put it this way, the reason why the slime is still willing to provide a living standard that will not starve people to death is mainly because it is afraid that the population will suddenly drop too much, causing a social collapse.

From another perspective, the slime itself cannot support so many people, let alone the earth.

Anyway, the Earth will definitely not be returned, so we have to find an excuse.