Chapter 1264: Second Negotiation The second round of negotiations began after all Civilization representatives were seated.

This time, the demeanor of these Civilization representatives was noticeably subdued!

This was precisely the outcome Yan Xia desired.

Facing true decision-makers is different from facing subordinates who merely follow orders.

The reason Yan Xia wanted to split the negotiations into a first and second half was that these Extraterrestrial Civilization representatives had been too aggressive before.

And this aggressiveness wouldn't change just because of a few words from Yan Xia; even if they were internally wavering, they would remain firm until they received concrete information.

Just like when they left last time.

Giving them time to deliberate was to allow these Civilization representatives to confirm certain possibilities. Once confirmed, the 'hard wall' imposed by their previous decision-makers would show cracks, and that would be Yan Xia's opportunity.

"I trust you all no longer have doubts about the previous matters."

"What is the outcome of your discussions?"

The Pidijiu Civilization representative spoke again.

"President, our conditions will never change!"

"Since the President is so clear, then he should know that Human Civilization, apart from things related to dimension, has nothing else that interests us!"

The technology of a single Civilization might not be as diverse as Human Civilization's.

But they are an alliance.

This alliance of Extraterrestrial Civilizations didn't just start now; it might have a history of hundreds of thousands or even millions of years.

They are actually more like the Civilizations within the Claw Star Cluster, possessing a certain degree of technological sharing. Moreover, in such a system, it's hard to say there aren't sub-peak Civilizations. Therefore, Yan Xia had long determined that the technology of these Extraterrestrial Civilizations was far more advanced than Human Civilization's self-developed technology.

The fact was indeed so.

Because up until now, Extraterrestrial Civilization has continuously supplied technology and products to the Rasti Federation and the Twenty-Eight Star States Alliance, which is a symbol of arrogance.

Even relative to sub-peak Civilizations, the technology and products supplied by these Unknown Civilizations to Human Civilization accounted for the majority.

Many technologies, despite being only 2.5 or 2.6 level Civilization technology, belonging to what Human Civilization currently defines as Category Three technology—that is, unimportant or unadvanced technology—should actually not be leaked during genuine competition.

'Even if I give you these technologies, you are still weak in my eyes.'

'We've given you these technologies, can you even decipher them? Don't be ridiculous.'

Such were likely their thoughts.

But in reality, Yan Xia had already sent a considerable amount of technology to Ella, and the Civilization Federation was already developing a 'virtual Civilization system' based on these technologies.

This means directly using massive computing power to trace back to the source, dismantle the technological roadmap, and then, following that roadmap, create billions of virtual worlds, accelerating their development to level 2.7 within these virtual worlds.

Of course, the technologies developed this way cannot all be considered true technologies.

Many technologies are actually 'imagination resources' that require further development in reality.

However, Human Civilization itself doesn't need to truly master these technologies; rather, it uses them to understand the Extraterrestrial Civilization's methods, hoping to quickly adapt to Extraterrestrial Civilization in future confrontations.

"You are truly making things difficult for me!"

"This is truly not something I don't want to do, but rather something I cannot do!"

Yan Xia wore a very helpless expression.

"Regarding the dimension aspect, our Rasti Federation has no knowledge reserves whatsoever; these all belong to the Civilization Federation."

"Although we are both Human Civilization and both called Federations, it doesn't mean the Civilization Federation will hand over this knowledge to us."

"Actually, I also want to complete this transaction with you, but the power gap between the Rasti Federation and the Civilization Federation is too immense."

"You should at least provide us with sufficient funding to help us defeat the Civilization Federation, and then we can discuss this point. At that time, I can offer the dimension information with both hands."

Yan Xia's attitude was also somewhat softened compared to before.

This gave the Extraterrestrial Civilization representatives hope.

They discussed for a while, and the Pidijiu Civilization representative still spoke: "We regret that we cannot provide funding for this."

In fact, they had some ideas for a transaction before, but after realizing that the Silver Heart Civilization's initial target was likely them, they felt that no combat power should be lost, and they must prioritize their own.

Again, the negotiations stalled.

Yan Xia had been waiting; these Extraterrestrial Civilization representatives surely didn't come back just to sit idly.

Sure enough, in the game of who would break first, the Extraterrestrial Civilization side still lacked composure, and a Civilization representative from the side spoke:

"Since we cannot reach an agreement on dimension and warship, then we can actually consider a different trade proposal."

Yan Xia showed a very interested expression.

"Oh? What proposal?"

"A Civilization Friendly Exchange Agreement!"

Yan Xia looked surprised; he truly hadn't expected these Extraterrestrial Civilizations to come up with such a thing after all this time.

"What is a Friendly Exchange Agreement?"

The Civilization representative explained: "It's essentially for Human Civilization to join our Civilization alliance, and we become allies!"

"Establishing a partnership from trade to strategic cooperation, our merchants can freely trade within your territory, and we can dispatch fleets to help you maintain stability."

"Of course, correspondingly, you can also come to our Civilizations to trade and dispatch fleets to our Civilizations."

"This way, you can leverage our power to expand without incurring any significant cost."

It sounded good, but Yan Xia quickly guessed what these guys wanted to do.

Free trade was essentially no different from bilateral transit rights.

The latter, strategic support, was their main objective.

Dispatching fleets meant direct participation in war, no longer slowly eroding through pretense, but invading Human Civilization through absolutely strong-arm tactics.

For example, in future wars, if their fleet achieved victory, would the conquered Star Country belong to Rasti or to them?

Actually, Yan Xia hadn't initially thought that these Extraterrestrial Civilizations would be so bold.

Upon closer thought, this approach was not without reason.

Sub-peak Civilizations, if they entered the system, would be physically targeted and annihilated.

But Unknown Civilizations were not included in this category.

The main reason these Unknown Civilizations didn't enter was actually that they didn't want to face war directly.

But if the outside of the system itself was the battlefield, and the inside was safe, then based on this logic, why couldn't these Unknown Civilizations take over Human Civilization's current position and become the proxy Civilization?

This might have been an initial idea of these Extraterrestrial Civilizations, rather than an impromptu one.

After all, the benefits of taking down Human Civilization were too great.

The pros outweighed the cons!

To state it so brazenly, Yan Xia was curious why these guys thought he would agree.

The Extraterrestrial Civilization representative smiled: "Your biggest opponent is the Twenty-Eight Star States Alliance, and their Civilizations have already mobilized and will arrive soon."

"At that time, the military strength of the Twenty-Eight Star States Alliance might increase tenfold or more. Can you withstand them?"

So that was it. They had confirmed this information during their time away, which made them so confident.

It seems Human Civilization's pressure is increasing again!

However, Yan Xia himself had no intention of refusing. In fact, the conditions proposed by the other party somewhat coincided with his own ideas; he couldn't even think of a reason to refuse.

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