Start sweeping the universe by rubbing the CPU with your hands.

Coupled with that metallic-colored, serious face, as if wearing an iron mask, and this cold voice, as well as the row of high-level civilization officials with the same cold expressions behind the head of the red iron civilization, Li Yue only felt My scalp feels a little tight.

Damn, is this really a welcome ceremony? Why does it look a bit like the Hongmen Banquet...

Are these aliens here to trick people and then eat us?

After only saying two sentences, and not waiting for Li Yue to say a word, the leader of Chitie Civilization turned around and walked forward.

The heads of the human fleet were filled with anxiety, and the smiles on their faces froze, but they could only follow the footsteps of the leader of the Red Iron Civilization.

At the rear is a black iron-style hall, with human leaders placed at the front, and high-level officials of the Hematite civilization sitting next to them. Behind them, one after another, who was unknown but seemed to be a very high-ranking red iron man, sat upright, their faces also full of coldness.

After the red iron man sat down, he closed his mouth and stopped talking, and Li Yue could only start to wait.

Two minutes later, a red iron man with the same cold expression walked up to the huge iron platform in front of him.

The red iron man stood in the center of the stage, bowed to the audience below, and opened his mouth without any preamble.

Is this singing? Okay, let’s appreciate the art of Hematite Man...

"Ah~~~..."

The red iron man on the stage opened his voice and started to sing. His voice was full of ups and downs, full of high and low sounds, real and false sounds that Li Yue didn't understand, and he was confused when he heard it.

The Hematite people next to them seemed to have a little more softness on their cold faces.

After waiting for five or six minutes, the red iron man closed his mouth, bowed again, and then turned around and left.

The red iron men in the audience applauded at the same time, and the sound was uniform. It rang three times and stopped.

Li Yue looked confused.

The senior management of Hematite stood up, and Li Yue quickly stood up as well.

After this inexplicable ceremony, it’s time to get down to business, right?

The head of state Chitie said a word of "please" and led the team directly outside. Li Yue hurriedly followed, only to see the Red Iron head of state leading the team directly to the mothership's connection hall. Then a group of Red Iron people solemnly bowed to Li Yue and others at the same time: "Goodbye."

Goodbye again?

Goodbye God! We haven’t said a word about the business yet, and I haven’t said a word yet. Goodbye now?

Are you Hematite people humiliating us humans?

Damn it, at worst, I won’t make any money! The dignity of human civilization must be maintained!

Li Yue walked away angrily.

Returning to their own mothership, the senior leaders of the fleet were in a heated mood, and they were all furious.

I've known for a long time that the Red Iron Man was abnormal, but I didn't expect it to be so abnormal! Are these a bunch of lunatics?

Just when people were discussing plans to report to the ruling committee, then start the complaint process to the Silver Alliance, and recover losses from the Hematite civilization, a person next to them suddenly came in and reported: "The Hematite spaceships have all hoisted the black iron flag."

Li Yue knew this custom. Flying the black iron flag meant that an important person had passed away.

After some discussion, Li Yue decided to express his condolences. In any case, in human culture, the dead are the most important.

The call was connected, and looking at the head of the Red Iron Civilization on the screen, Li Yue considered his words: "We saw that your spaceships are all flying the Black Iron flag. I don't know..."

"Eloit dies."

"I'm sorry, who is Eloit..."

The Red Iron Führer showed a photo. Li Yue was shocked to see that this Iloit was actually the so-called artist who performed "Ah" on the stage before.

"This……"

Li Yue was shocked and confused.

"Eloit, our civilization's greatest and most venerable artist."

The Red Iron Head of State rarely used two adjectives to describe him: "Iloit is seriously ill and has withdrawn from the stage. However, when he heard about the arrival of humans, in order to express his gratitude, he ignored the dissuasion and forced his sick body to offer the best to the friends of mankind. Top performance. Later, his condition deteriorated and he passed away."

Li Yue subconsciously felt that this person was not trying to put the responsibility for Eloit's death on us humans, right?

We will not take this blame!

"I'm sorry, we..."

Just when he was thinking about words and thinking of words that were neither soft nor harsh, he saw that the head of the Red Iron Civilization still had a cold face: "It is an honor to be able to perform for my friends for the last time. Iloit died without a trace. Regret." Is this an attempt to morally kidnap us humans?

Li Yue's brain was spinning rapidly, preparing to listen to the next request made by the leader of Hematie Civilization, and then he considered the words and refused to go back.

After moral kidnapping, it’s time to make demands. Isn’t this routine?

But the leader of Hematie Civilization did not make a request, but said again: "Thank you human friends. Goodbye."

The communication was cut off, and Li Yue was stunned for a long time.

None of these Hematite people seem to be normal...

Then... should we complete this task? What should we do next? Should you go or stay?

After discussing for a long time, Li Yue still felt that he couldn't just leave like this. He would wait and see what happened for a while, and also take advantage of this time to get some information and see what the Red Iron Man meant.

After a period of inquiring, Li Yue gradually realized that he... seemed to have misunderstood.

These red iron men seem to really regard the death of Iloit as an honor... They really don't seem to intend to gain any benefits from this matter, they just simply believe that human beings are friends, and they can serve their friends. The last performance in the previous life is the greatest value of life.

They simply want to present the highest artistic level to their friends.

Although this seemed to Li Yue and others to be just an inexplicable noise.

After collecting some information about the rituals held by the Chitie people, Li Yue finally understood the thinking of the Chitie people.

The first time I met with the Red Iron Man, the welcome ceremony seemed to be just a simple welcome ceremony, and it was a very high-standard welcome ceremony, without any other inclusions.

Because in the eyes of the Hematite people, when you humans are here, we give a performance to welcome you, express our attention and enthusiasm, and then say goodbye, isn’t the ceremony over? What else do you want?

As for why they don't discuss cooperation matters, it's because the Red Iron people believe that everything that needs to be discussed has been written in the contract. They just need to act in accordance with the contract. What are they doing with all the red tape?

After figuring out these things, Li Yue sighed secretly.

"This civilization is really weird... Okay, you can do whatever you want, as long as you are willing to act according to the contract. We will do our project, pay the money and leave after the project is completed. No matter what happens in the future, it is none of our business."

After determining this overall strategy, the human engineering fleet finally began construction.

The aerosol mining project of Hematie Civilization is divided into three sub-projects.

The aerosol formed in the atmosphere of a gas giant planet in the Hematite Galaxy and was concentrated near the equator. If you want to mine aerosol on a large scale, you have to build a large number of flight bases in the atmosphere to purify and filter the gas of the gas giant planets.

But the gas giant has several larger moons above its equator.

Planets attract satellites, and satellites attract planets. Just as the moon causes high and low tides on Earth, these moons attract the atmospheres of the gas giants, causing huge flows of gas, or simply winds.

In an absolute sense, these winds are not too strong and their speeds are not too high. But the key is that the gravitational battle between three large moons causes the planet's winds to be extremely variable, which in turn leads to extremely chaotic climate.

This won't work. The climate is so bad that mining is impossible.

Then we can only find ways to change the orbits of these three satellites, push them farther away, and reduce their impact on the climate of the gas giant planet.

This is the first sub-project.

The second sub-project is to enrich this macromolecular compound called aerosol, which requires a large amount of water. The water content of gas in the atmosphere of gas giant planets is not high, so water must be replenished.

The water ice content in the planetary ring is small and cannot be replenished nearby. However, there is an asteroid belt about one billion kilometers away from this big planet, where there are many icy asteroids.

This is the second sub-project, which involves building numerous asteroid thrusters to propel many water-ice asteroids into collisions around the equator of the large planet, thereby replenishing this area with a large amount of water.

The total mass of water ice that needs to be pushed is on the order of billions of tons, and the project is extremely huge.

The third sub-project needs to be carried out within the atmosphere of the gas giant planet. The details are to build at least hundreds of thousands of large heating stations to heat the temperature of the gas area with a total area of ​​about one million square kilometers and a total volume of about one billion cubic kilometers, creating a Artificial cyclones come out and strip away air masses rich in interfering elements such as sulfur, iron, and nickel in the equatorial region.

These are the three largest sub-projects that require human execution. As for the rest, the Hematite civilization will take care of the rest, such as building filtration stations, building exchange bases, transforming the satellite environment, purifying and distilling devices, etc.

It is not impossible for humans to do it, and humans can do it faster and better. But the key point is that Hematite Civilization cannot afford that money.

According to the previously drawn up construction plan, more than one million human engineers and millions of "dummies", with the assistance of more robots, large-scale construction equipment, and transport spaceships, truly devoted themselves to the project.

Unlike the projects of other civilizations, Li Yue found the projects of Hematie Civilization quite strange.

Apart from necessary project notifications and coordination, there was almost no communication between the two parties. Everything was done independently within the framework of the contract, just like two completely independent engineering forces.

Well, these are indeed two independent engineering fleets, but...are we really working on the same project as you Red Iron people?

"But this is fine."

Li Yue comforted himself: "At least the rights and responsibilities are clear. What should I do, to what extent I should do it, and how to do it. Everything is clear at a glance, and there is no need to argue later.

I don’t have to go through the red tape of civilized exchanges and so on, so I don’t have to worry. "(End of chapter)