Fortunately, Shen Shi still has confidence in this.
Perhaps his birth determined some of his shortcomings, but the foundation he now holds determines his extraordinariness.
In an interstellar world where even emotions can be assuaged and controlled, what cannot grow?
At this moment, Shen Shi focused his attention on the team's discussions. A simulated shape-shifting material transformed into a notebook, recording all the key contents and organizing them well.
It must be said, some things indeed broadened Shen Shi's horizons.
The Western Alliance and Eastern Country appear hostile in commoners' eyes, having moved beyond mere "disputes." Yet, until now, Shen Shi realized there are still numerous collaborations between the two countries, and while the Western Alliance and the Nia Empire seem like inseparable good brothers, there are also many interest conflicts between them.
And when facing the mysterious alien visitor, the "black ball," the three major forces have their own thoughts under the premise of cooperation.
Some of these things may never be known to ordinary people.
Shen Shi watched in astonishment.
While love and hate might dominate individual relationships, when it comes to collectives, it's more about interests.
Unconsciously, a day and a night passed, and the symposium on the alien visitor finally yielded some results.
Not merely preliminary agreements of various cooperations, but also deciding to proactively probe the black ball's purpose.
Once the decision was made and authorized from above, the major radio telescopes on Blue Star directly sent wireless signals towards the black ball's location.
The content of the signals was also meticulously designed.
Including sound, pattern coding, and text encoding... all information was expressed in every conceivable way with two words.
— Peace!
At this moment, Blue Star was like a toddling child, facing a giant hidden within black mist, cautious with every move, otherwise, who knew if this behemoth would suddenly reveal an iceberg and crush them underfoot.
And Shen Shi also felt it was appropriate.
From the standpoint of the human high authorities, they naturally did not want the suspected alien arrival on Blue Star to become known to the public.
This would bring chaos to the order.
To them, the best scenario would undoubtedly be establishing stable contact between the aliens and the upper echelons of each country.
Secretly providing technology, high tech, etc., they would then gradually release it for civilian use.
However—
No time!
If there were no alien invasion, perhaps Shen Shi would follow the thoughts of these people, becoming the protagonist of a city-based black tech novel, rolling out various future technologies, slowly strengthening his motherland, benefiting humanity.
But confronting the imminent invader, Shen Shi knew he needed not just some level of cooperation, but the entirety of humanity's efforts!
Perhaps the existence of aliens might bring some temporary disorder to order.
Yet if they couldn't resist the invaders, the vast majority on this planet would lose even the qualification to create chaos!
Thus, shortly after, the research team on the high seas was suddenly struck with shocking news.
"What did you say?" A man, Villard Richard, the representative of the Western Alliance, nearly jumped in place, eyes wide as he looked at the messenger in front of him, "Is what you said true?"
"Absolutely true!" The messenger wiped the sweat off his forehead, equally wearing a life-questioning expression in his demeanor.
It was evident his expression had been maintained for quite some time now.
The messengers of other countries were in similar situations.
To prevent aliens from having powerful electronic intrusion techniques, all signals on this battleship were jammed. To know external news, they could only use messengers dispatched from surrounding ships, as did other countries.
Clearly, they all received the same information at this moment.
The "black ball" responded!
Just shortly after they sent radio signals to the black ball, it responded!
And it also used radio!
Even utilizing Blue Star's reply code!
But contrary to their imagination, this reply was not only for them but for the entire globe!
"Regarding the radio signal sent by the black ball, we've recompiled it through numerous methods, but for safety's sake, to avoid possible hidden additional information, it indeed contains just one sentence, or accurately, four words."
The messenger from Eastern Country also bore a look of disbelief as he conveyed to the Eastern Country representative, "'I am back!' Yes, just those four words, moreover in Eastern Country Language, using the text encoding most commonly used by us! Most importantly! Ten minutes ago, every TV and every webpage worldwide displayed these four words! The entire process lasted half a minute, we simply can't comprehend such intrusion methods! Nor can we stop it!"
The Eastern Country representative, Tao De, though only in his forties, quite fit and not overweight, was similarly beaded with sweat on his forehead.
Clearly, he recognized the implications of this situation.
The aliens didn't intend to hide their arrival!
"Are those really the four words? Other countries too?" He hit the key issue with this question.
"Identical message! I'm referring to the text!" The messenger replied.
Tao De took a heavy breath.
Of all the countries in the world, with all their languages, why did the aliens use Eastern Country Language, and say 'I am back' while directly hacking into television and the internet?
Could the aliens above have visited Eastern Country before?
Or is this a message intended for someone in Eastern Country?
The black ball not only demonstrated its overwhelming electronic intrusion capacity but also made its existence known to the entire world!
What does it want to do?
What is the significance of "I am back"?
Tao De wasted no time diving into the tablet brought by the messenger.
There was even more detailed information on it, including many videos and photos.
Originally playing TV shows, even online TV, instantly switched screens showing these four standard Eastern Country words, just as websites did, using the most obvious fonts to spell out these four big characters in the most prominent places!
As soon as the thirty-second mark was reached, everything returned to normal.
No doubt!
The other side was not only highly familiar with human media means but was announcing its presence to Blue Star in such a manner!