Interstellar boss, she doesn't talk about martial arts

Chapter 1680: Choose One of Two (First Update)
Xia Chujian smiled and said, "I really like what Chief Quan said!"

"I'll take it seriously!"

Quan Yuxun's heart suddenly beat faster.

He found it increasingly difficult to hide his true emotions before they met in the beginning of summer.

He used almost all the self-control in his life to keep that official smile on his face.

At this moment, he couldn't help but think that it was not easy to make Xia Chujian say "I like it so much"...

Because it is rare, we cherish it even more.

He felt that he seemed to have the bad qualities of men, that is, the easier it is to get something, the less he cares about it.

But the harder it is to get, the harder it is to let go.

This is the famous... sunk cost...

Quan Yuxun sighed in his heart, but still smiled and said, "Just take it seriously. When have I ever said anything that doesn't count to you?"

Xia Chujian gave him a thumbs up on the virtual display screen: "Chief Quan is worthy of being the one in the Senate!"

Then he changed the subject and said, "However, Chief Quan, there are some things that cannot be said too confidently. You are raising the flag... otherwise it will be embarrassing to get slapped in the face later, hahahaha..."

Quan Yuxun smiled slightly, changed the subject, and said, "I heard that the military only asked you to hold on for 24 hours, but you seem to have other plans?"

Xia Chujian stopped smiling and said calmly, "Well, you know, we can't leave all the seven billion people on Shaofu Star to the Zerg."

"To be honest, if possible, I don't want to leave a single person to the Zerg."

"Because everyone who stays will become food and gestational mothers for the survival and reproduction of the Zerg."

The habitual smile on Quan Yuxun's face gradually disappeared.

He was silent for a while, then said, "...Is it really that serious? Is it that we have to choose between us and the Zerg, and we can't coexist?"

Xia Chujian raised an eyebrow: "What? Chief Quan, do you still want to coexist?"

Kwon Yu-hoon said, “That’s not what I thought.”

Xia Chujian said: "Whose idea was this?"

Quan Yuxun did not hide it from her and said frankly: "During the Senate meeting, someone mentioned that if we really can't defeat the Zerg, can we negotiate with them..."

“They feel that everything can be discussed.”

"The so-called inability to negotiate is simply because the bargaining chips offered are not enough."

"This is true for all intelligent creatures."

"The Zerg are not insects without intelligence. They are intelligent creatures. Therefore, negotiations should be effective."

Xia Chujian sneered, expressing his disdain.

She said, "So what does Chief Quan think?"

Quan Yuxun said: "I'm not lying to you. I don't have any idea right now. Because I don't know which side's statement is true."

Those who disagree with negotiating with the Zerg believe that there is no way to talk at all because the Zerg cannot understand human logic.

Those who are willing to negotiate with the Zerg believe that as long as they are intelligent creatures, they can empathize with each other!
Power and training, I don’t know which one is right.

Therefore, Quan Yuxun neither stood on the side of the fight to the death faction nor on the side of the surrender and coexistence faction.

He came to see Xia Chujian to get an answer from her that he could trust.

Xia Chujian said: "If Chief Quan believes me, I can guarantee with my life that although some creatures are intelligent, they do not have the logical reasoning ability of humans, so it is impossible to empathize with them."

"For them, negotiation is never an option."

"In their minds, there is only the concept of winner takes all."

"They believe that losers should be exterminated and do not deserve to live."

"We have to lose the battle before negotiating with them. Do you think the Zerg are as spineless as those creatures in your Senate?"

Quan Yuxun said: "...Are you not expressing any emotion when you say this?"

"War is inherently bloody."

"But a bloody war doesn't mean there can't be negotiations after the war. What they said doesn't make any sense at all."

Xia Chujian refuted flatly: "What they said makes no sense at all!"

"I told you that we can't use human thinking patterns to fit the Zerg's thinking."

"In fact, even if we are all human beings, the difference between people can be greater than the difference between people and dogs."

"Do you know that there was a country that had obviously suffered a great defeat, but chose to deceive itself and others by saying that it had won a great victory? It even had a ten-day holiday in its own country to celebrate its victory!"

Quan Yuxun was stunned: "...Which country is this? How come I don't know it?"

Xia Chujian thought, this is a story my aunt once told me, can I tell you?
She waved her hand: "That's not the point. The point is that we can't use our wishful thinking to gamble on the magnanimity of our enemies."

"You can never negotiate with the Zerg."

"If one day they really agree to negotiate, it's not because they don't want to continue killing, but because they want to raise all of us humans without bloodshed, and use us as food and surrogate mothers."

Quan Yuxun stared at her and said, "Why are you so sure?"

Xia Chujian said to Quan Yuxun frankly: "Because I may be the one who knows the Zerg best."

"In case you didn't know, I've been to the Southern Cross several times."

"I know much more about that place than you do."

Quan Yuxun was surprised: "How did you get there?! As far as I know, the wormholes from the Beichen Empire to other countries were all destroyed on the first day the Zerg descended on the Beichen Galaxy."

If there were no wormhole, it would take Xia Chujian thousands of light years to make the trip!
Xia Chujian said calmly, "Huo Shuai took me there before. His bat fighter can jump through space."

Quan Yuxun was slightly stunned, then sneered and said: "Huo Yushen is really promising! He actually took you to such a dangerous place!" Xia Chujian said: "I asked him to take me there, you don't understand."

Quan Yuxun: "..."

My heart suddenly felt like it was pricked by a needle, and the pain slowly gathered in my heart. It was not very obvious, but the dull pain was like an unforgettable scar that remained in my heart and could not be touched. Only when it was touched could I feel the piercing pain.

He took a deep breath and said, "I really don't understand military affairs, but I understand human nature."

"He's using you! Can't you see?! Because you...so, he's using you to the maximum extent possible!"

Xia Chujian disagreed: "I know! I used him too. People use each other to show their value."

"If it was a one-sided exploitation, I would definitely be very angry."

"But it balances me out when I think about how I took advantage of him."

Quan Yuxun: "..."

He should have thought of this. Xia Chujian's perspective on the issue was, as always... beyond his expectations.

However, he did not object.

Moreover, he mustered up all his courage to speak ill of a man, just to make the man look bad in front of the girl he loved...

It's very ungentlemanly to do this.

He never thought that he would become such a despicable person in terms of emotions.

He never thought of himself as a good person, but certainly not a bad person either.

He's just a... selfish person.

These thoughts flashed through Quan Yuxun's mind, and he felt very depressed.

He smiled at Xia Chujian and said, "Well, I feel relieved knowing that you understand it too."

"If you have any problems in the future, you can always come to me."

"I'll get off first."

Quan Yuxun hung up the video call with Xia Chujian and sat alone in the room.

The sunlight shone through the half-open curtains, making the room half dark and half bright.

He sits right where light and darkness meet.

……

Xia Chujian had just finished a video call with Quan Yuxun when she received a video call invitation from Zong Ruoning.

Xia Chujian answered the call immediately.

Zong Ruoning's handsome face appeared on the virtual display screen.

Xia Chujian discovered that Zong Ruoning did not use a virtual background.

That side of his seemed to be his room.

Zong Ruoning said, "Chu Jian, if you need arms, Zong's military industry has a lot of stock, you can use it at will. All for free."

Xia Chujian said: "Teacher Zong, thank you for your suggestion. In fact, I have already visited your Zong family and discussed this issue with your grandfather."

"Your grandfather also agreed to give me all of Zong's military industry's inventory, also for free."

"But I refused. I want to stock the goods, but they don't need to be free."

"We are soldiers of the Empire. We do not need private citizens to arm us."

"This military expenditure was originally budgeted, but you didn't want it, so someone else took it away."

Zong Ruoning was silent for a while, then said, "...I was overthinking. You should also be careful on Shaofu Star."

"You are the commander. You don't need to fight the Zerg yourself."

Xia Chujian said: "I know, if there is no need, I won't do anything."

Then she asked Zong Ruoning: "...You have left Shaofu Star, right?"

"Your grandfather should have left too."

Zong Ruoning said: "I want to thank you for giving my grandfather a chance to enter the wormhole in advance."

Xia Chujian said: "I didn't help much. Your grandfather was riding on his family's private interstellar spaceship."

“It’s not my responsibility.”

"As for the wormhole... the interstellar spaceship in the airport is still being argued over the ticket issue."

"I asked them to think it over before applying to enter the wormhole."

"Since the wormhole is empty anyway, let your grandfather's private starship go in first. It won't get in anyone's way."

"Even if we take a step back, the weapons in your Zong's arsenal alone are enough to make your grandfather go first."

Contribution and acquisition are positively correlated.

Zong Ruoning knew that Xia Chujian didn't want him to think that the Zong family owed her a favor.

She is such a person who doesn't want to have anything to do with the nobles at all.

Zong Ruoning sighed deeply in his heart and said, "I was originally on Shaofu Star."

"But my mother fell ill again half a month ago."

"I sent her back to her parents' home, and I have been accompanying her on Beichen Star."

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