"I'm not threatening you. I'm just stating a fact, a fact that you think you should deliberately ignore."
Hearing Bai Ge's sudden words about the right to survive, the Mercury were stunned.
Mercury was dumbfounded. Weren't they having a good conversation just now? Why did he suddenly become so fierce?
"Why did you suddenly say something so cruel? We are all civilizations … "
Bai Ge said, "Is it cruel? Even if you are a peaceful civilization, you are still constantly depriving other creatures of their right to survive. You treat all species on the same planet the same way … "
"What makes you think that we, who came from a distant galaxy, will give you the right to survive?"
"Could it be that you relied on the so-called exquisite and obscure elegant art to survive from your many natural enemies in the Desolate Age to this day?"
The body fluids of the Mercury evaporated from the surface of their bodies and condensed into mercury droplets.
The cold communication from outside the atmosphere made them feel like they were sitting on pins and needles.
It was as if the next second, a terrifying destructive weapon would be shot out from the huge battleship.
A few of the Mercury suddenly realized from Bai Ge's words how rotten their minds were.
In fact, in the early days of their civilization, they deprived countless species of their right to survive.
When they didn't have to work hard for simple survival, they continued to cause the extinction of many species for the sake of art, technological progress, and various desires.
They had the right to do this, but it didn't fall from the sky. They also came to this point in the cruel competition of nature.
Survival was not something that could be easily obtained, but it had to be fought for.
However, when they ruled the entire planet, they had the illusion that they should be the masters. They instinctively felt that other creatures should have the obligation to let them continue to live.
"We are all civilizations, we can communicate …" The Mercury still wanted to say that the contact between civilizations should be different from the competition between species.
Bai Ge said, "It is precisely because you can communicate that you have the basic right to be communicated. You should be glad that we are indeed not a civilization that loves to destroy, and you are not the kind of creatures that can't establish communication. Otherwise, you wouldn't even have the right to communicate. "
"But this doesn't mean that you have the right to survive at the same time. If you want to survive, you must show us that you are worthy of us not destroying you in this precious communication opportunity."
"Do you understand? The survival qualification is the first item we're going to sell you. "
The Mercury man wanted to cry, but no tears came out. This was too realistic!
In their minds, since this civilization was willing to exchange their technology, they might be able to obtain the interstellar navigation technology they wanted if they tried their best.
Originally, he was still fantasizing about obtaining the help of an advanced civilization and allowing his technology to soar.
But in the end, Bai Ge directly gave them a real and extremely cruel commodity — the right to survive.
If you want to talk about other things, sure, buy this first.
Yes, everyone was a civilization, so they still had the right to buy it.
If it were chickens, ducks, geese, or some other species that couldn't express their thoughts, they wouldn't even be able to buy it …
When did the Quicksilver people ever discuss with the native animals that they ruled how to carry out this kind of survival exchange?
If it wasn't charity, then it was disregard.
The Mercury people, who understood this, were secretly arguing with each other.
Many of them couldn't accept such a cold deal. If they wanted to buy technology, they had to buy their lives first.
Instantly, the first contact between civilizations changed from a peaceful exchange to a battle for survival without smoke.
They now had to do their best to fight for the right to live in the hands of a powerful civilization.
Just as the Mercury people were frantically discussing, in Virgo, Goethe couldn't help but say.
"Brother Death, what's the difference between this and robbery?"
Bai Ge said, "There's no difference. This is robbery."
Making the other party pay something of value in exchange for his life was a classic robbery.
However, was there anyone in the universe who would maintain morality? Could a matter between civilizations be called robbery?
In Bai Ge's eyes, this civilization was almost worthless. If they were to talk about specialties, it would be their artistic achievements.
But what was the use? Bai Ge wasn't even interested in establishing a trading channel with them. The people of the Celestial Nation at least had personal strength and could go to various dangerous places to work. They also had high potential and could create extremely useful spells, magic treasures, and so on.
However, the Mercury people's potential was even lower than that of the Earth civilization. Their physical fitness couldn't even be used as laborers.
To be honest, after discovering the situation here, Bai Ge wanted to turn around and leave.
However, the Mercury people still wanted to trade. If they wanted to trade, then so be it. Maybe there were some specialties that Bai Ge hadn't discovered? But they just had to beat around the bush. They obviously wanted it, but they were stubborn on the surface. They even had a sense of superiority because of their high artistic achievements.
A race whose advantage was art and whose people spent a lot of resources to create wonders to satisfy their vanity. What right did they have to look down on an unfamiliar civilization that could kill them in seconds?
They really didn't have any self-awareness. Such a decadent civilization deserved to be robbed.
"I'll only give you 30 minutes." Bai Ge gave a final notice.
A huge object shot out from the Virgin Spaceship.
This scene immediately scared the Mercury people. Fortunately, it wasn't a weapon, but a huge hourglass.
They didn't know what an hourglass was, but it didn't stop them from recognizing that it was a timekeeping device.
It was a spiritual hourglass made by Ling Dang. The sand in the hourglass flowed from the top half to the bottom half, and it took exactly 30 minutes.
The Mercury people could intuitively understand the passage of time like this.
At the same time, a huge planet suddenly appeared outside the atmosphere. At such a close distance, its gravitational field quickly affected the entire hemisphere, causing a huge tidal effect.
Strong wind pressure, sweeping cold currents, friction between different atmospheres …
The Mercury people were horrified.
"That's … a planet?"
"Where did it come from? How did it suddenly … "
The planet that appeared was Pluto. It was much bigger than it was at the beginning, and its volume was only one-fifth the size of the moon.
It suddenly appeared, covering the sky and the sun!
For people standing on the planet and looking up at the sky, a celestial body as big as the moon suddenly appeared outside the atmosphere.
The visual impact was unparalleled. It was as if the sky had collapsed.
Pluto didn't fall. It could fly on its own. Pluto pulled away from places that were too close, and only let its atmosphere stick to the planet's atmosphere.
Then, like an instructor examining a student, it wandered back and forth near the planet …
One moment, it ran to a satellite, the next moment, it jumped to the north pole of the planet, and even circled the planet at high speed.
Flames were everywhere in the sky. High temperature gas filled the sky, forming a blue flame belt. A huge number of charged particles were violently moving.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom …" Huge rumbling sounds were incessant.
Lightning bolts danced everywhere. Plasma flames and high-speed charged particles were mixed together.
"What is this? Why can the planet move freely? "The Mercury people didn't see any obvious thrusters on Pluto.
In fact, even if there were, such a huge thing couldn't move so flexibly.
Bai Ge said, "Combat unit."
"Combat unit?" The Mercury people knew that this thing was a weapon of this civilization.
But this kind of weapon was beyond their imagination.
They actually used a planet as a combat unit, and this seemed to be only one of the weapons carried by this battleship.
Not to mention where it was installed before, just the fact that it could transform a natural planet into a combat unit was already incredible.
Pluto was actually no longer what it used to be. There was a heart-shaped basin on its surface. Although the rainstorm hadn't formed a sea yet, the erosion of the water had left water veins in all directions on Pluto's surface.
Under the active transformation of Ling Dang and Little Ming, the layers of mountains were arranged in a regular pattern around the heart-shaped basin, standing tall in the north, south, east, and west.
The earth's crust was constantly changing, transferring harder materials to the surface. There were also immeasurably deep sinkholes that went straight underground, emitting red light and releasing heat to change the atmosphere's temperature.
Two sinkholes like this were like two eyes on Pluto, watching them.
Through electromagnetic detection, the Mercury people could sense that there were a lot of metal objects inside Pluto. They were connected into a vast expanse, and there were tens of billions of them.
At this moment, the five satellites of their mother planet were all captured by Pluto.
Through the magical binding, the five satellites were like balls that were pulled by ropes, spiraling down their orbits and following Pluto.
Looking at such a spectacular scene, two symmetrical earths were nothing.
"What a great project! This is a great project that has reached an incredible level of technology! "
The sentimental Mercury people cried. They saw a super wonder that their civilization would never be able to create.
Although it wasn't very artistic, this kind of brilliant creation had a kind of shocking power in itself.
There wasn't too much deliberate design or soft decoration, and there was a kind of natural and intuitive beauty.
It could shock people directly from the bottom of their hearts, and it was a kind of pure art in itself.
And this wasn't something that was created for the sake of artistic achievement. It was just a weapon.
Some of the Mercury people suddenly felt it.
When technology stagnated, there was no broader vision and creativity.
Art would only become obscure and boring under extreme refinement and deliberate carving by humans.
In a narrow world, creating so-called perfection in a closed environment would only drag the civilization to its demise.
"Ten more minutes …"
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