“If it's the fourth possibility, then the current situation is very bad.”

Bai Haozheng smiled wryly, “After discovering these suspected star gates leading to other realms, the official organizations quickly reached a consensus and sealed off the areas where the star gates were located on different continents.

No one is allowed to enter.

Unlike the gates in the hands of players,

Most of the other realm star gates are not very stable, sometimes expanding and sometimes contracting, just like when players control the star gates and continuously provide a small amount of spiritual energy, making it impossible to traverse—

Possibly because the distance is too far, the 'signal' is unstable, or the spiritual energy requirement is too great.

So far, only the star gate near the Mayotte Islands is in a state of long-term stability.

Therefore, the military vessels of various countries have blockaded the waters near the Madagascar archipelago,

And launched a step-by-step exploration of the star gate in Mayotte.”

Bai Haozheng spread his palms and said, "After confirming that the star gate can be connected bidirectionally, the official organizations of various countries must consider one point:

Behind the star gate are potential enemies,

Or friendly beings who can communicate, negotiate, and even form alliances.

Just like the question that has been discussed many times on the player forums,

When two civilizations with completely different geographical conditions, climates, races, cultures, development histories, and tech trees suddenly meet, the possibility of conflict is quite high.

The cognitive bias between the two sides

May be even greater than that of the Native American residents toward the Spanish colonists during the Age of Exploration.

Not to mention that both parties may be controlled by the Killing Game, and have already begun to move towards an era of national conscription, madly plundering resources and developing expansion.

Even if it is not for plundering resources, contacting an unknown civilization is extremely dangerous.

The differences between civilizations with different tech trees are vast.

A fanatical idealist may never understand what materialism is.

Moreover, there is a law for the contact between civilizations with different tech trees: the party that strikes first will have a huge advantage.

Taking a psionic civilization as an example, if tens of thousands of rigorously trained psionicists infiltrate the earth,

Even if their levels are not high, just middle-level,

They can easily lurk and infiltrate, replacing the middle and even high-level decision-makers of our civilization, creating an unprecedented chaotic situation.

And if we strike first, directly launch GPS satellites into the star gate, and then launch thousands of nuclear bombs while they are unprepared, directly nuking the entire surface of the planet,

Then even if that planet is full of soldiers, everyone is a Lv5, Lv10 player, and even has Lv30 players, who can easily crush the earth in conventional warfare,

I am afraid they will not be able to avoid the nuclear winter fate of being wiped out by nuclear bombs.

The first-mover advantage generated by civilization conflicts, in turn, promotes distrust between civilizations.

Across the star gate, both sides must consider whether the other side will suddenly use destructive means to directly destroy their own living forces and eliminate the threat.

The more you consider this possibility, the stronger the suspicion and conjecture become, and you even begin to suspect that the other party has begun to suspect your own suspicion of the other party in an infinite Matryoshka doll cycle.

That is, the so-called chain of suspicion.”

Bai Haozheng spoke until his mouth was dry, and used telekinesis to pick up the water glass on the table and took a sip, “We, that is, the official organizations of Earth, do not want to rashly launch a war in another realm.

The resources of the earth are now enough for us to develop for a long time.

But what if the other side is a barren other realm like the Desolate Lion's Demon Sunflower World?

The Desolate Lion and the others can actively raise their own people like poultry and livestock from birth to death for the sake of survival, and do everything possible to continue the civilization.

In order to survive, they can attack their own people, so naturally they can also proactively launch a war against the other world behind the star gate, which possesses unlimited resources, and even directly take ruthless measures to flatten any obstacles.

Based on this consideration, the official organizations unanimously agreed to deploy some strategic weapons in the area where the star gate is located,

And use several giant square boxes made of special alloys containing extraordinary power, like Matryoshka dolls, to wrap around the star gate layer by layer, shielding all the other party's detection methods.

Any scientist observing the star gate has to go through hundreds of physical and mental tests every time they pass through the protective door of the square box.

Including their family members, they must be monitored 24 hours a day.”

Bai Haozheng smiled wryly, “This content is actually the most highly classified information at the moment, and I and the other people in the office only recently had permission to access it.

The scientists in the sealed area can do very little. Each of them wears fully armed protective suits and stays in the third and fourth layers of square boxes from the innermost layer.

They observe the star gate through remotely controlled simple unmanned robots from the last century located in the smallest square box.

They are allowed to personally enter the smallest square box, but are not allowed to control the robot to touch the star gate, are not allowed to speak, and are not allowed to carry advanced electronic equipment—

In the 1970s, NASA launched the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, carrying a golden record, which contained sounds and images of various cultures and life on Earth, including human body contours.

Looking at it now, this is actually an extremely dangerous behavior.

If other realm civilizations learn about the Earth civilization's information, understand the Earth civilization's tech tree and the degree of technological development, and know the physiological characteristics of Earth humans,

They will be able to obtain enough information to conduct a rational assessment, deduce the current combat capabilities of the Earth civilization, and decide whether to fight or make peace.

The possibility of peaceful coexistence is relatively low.

There is still war and hatred among the various civilizations on Earth, and they have been fighting each other for thousands of years,

Not to mention peaceful coexistence with aliens who look very different and have huge cultural differences.

They may also think so.

And if it is war,

Then the other realm civilization that has enough information can completely spend the least cost and take targeted measures,

Such as投放吞噬能量的魔葵种子 (tou fang tunshi nengliang de mo kui zhongzi – deploying Demon Sunflower seeds that devour energy);

Deploying radioactive substances that pollute seawater;

After a few years or even ten years, after the earth's creatures are devastated and the civilization is cut off, they will leisurely cross the star gate to complete the harvest—just like they did to the Demon Sunflower World.

It is precisely based on this consideration that we allow scientists in the sealed area,

Using outdated robots from the last century, although inefficient, is the most difficult way to expose our own information to observe the star gate.

However..."

Li Ang read a sense of helplessness from his expression and said, "Let me guess, the other side thinks the same way?"

"...Yes."

Bai Haozheng smiled wryly and said, "During the last mutation in the Mayotte Islands, we suspected that the otherworldly transcendents on that end were trying to expand the star gate to its complete state, and the misoperation caused a tsunami.

Later, the star gate calmed down and we completed the blockade.

There was no movement on our side, and there was absolutely no movement on the star gate side.

No sending of papers, no delivery of poison, no dispatch of envoys.

The two sides are like hunters in a dark jungle, suspecting each other of posing a threat to themselves, and no one wants to be the first to make a sound and reveal information.

Until an hour ago, there was finally movement on the star gate over there.

They threw something over."

Bai Haozheng pressed the projector button, and a new three-dimensional projection was immediately projected in mid-air.

Li Ang frowned as he looked at the object presented in the three-dimensional projection, "This is...a pebble?"