Getting a Technology System in Modern Day - Chapter 1022

Capítulo 1022: Difficult Decision

“So we are confident that they are not going to create the final bonding agent in the same way they converted some obscure chemicals into the final chemical they wanted, as they did during the attack on the Erythians?” the leader heading the meeting asked the scientist amidst the chaotic mental network, immediately silencing it.

“We can’t say for sure that there is no way for them to forcefully synthesize the binding chemical through multiple compounds, each producing chemicals which then combine to produce the binding chemical after two or more rounds of different chemicals combining. But discovering that is going to be nearly impossible, as there are more than ten thousand different chemicals in our bodies, and if you include external chemicals that enter our bodies, the number of possible mixtures increases exponentially.

That is not counting if their synthesizing method includes the external atmosphere as a factor as well, so it is very difficult to say at the moment. We don’t have a compass pointing us in the right direction, so we will have to venture in all directions in the possibility of discovering the possible answer, but we don’t have that much time on our hands,” the scientist said, feeling the headache of knowing the problem but not having any solution on hand.

“Isn’t it limited to those who have taken the vaccine?” the leader asked.

“No, the vaccine was just the way we discovered it could be used to do that, but the same process can be done through the available chemicals in our bodies, though through a much longer and complicated route, which the empire seemed to have wanted to avoid, hence the vaccines making it easier. But that doesn’t mean they can’t do it without someone having a vaccine,” the scientist said. Although he had discovered it, he was just a few hours past the discovery, so he was still having to fill in the holes in the theories while imagining the worst-case scenario. If he ended up underestimating it and the government moved forward due to his underestimation, the fault would fall all on him when they failed and suffered heavily.

“What if we purge all of the chemicals and things introduced into our bodies ahead of time, before they are triggered to cause the problem?” someone else asked, trying to see the possibility of it.

“Unrealistic,” he answered, short and brief, not even bothering to go into a lengthy explanation that doing so risked removing essential chemicals that might cause catastrophic failure of the body. But before even doing that, he would have to tell them that their entire body is made of chemicals.

The leader touched his imaginary body’s neck as he felt the stress of knowing a dangerous opening while having no capability to do anything about it at all. It was like watching a brakeless train coming to the end of the line; there was nothing you could do, leaving you to watch the catastrophe happen.

Silence followed for a few minutes before the Zelvora leader said, “Try to initiate contact with the empire,” earning him weird looks from all of those in attendance before he added, “discreetly.”

Their current alliance should have resulted in all of them being very close to each other, and it had actually happened, as they were sharing even their fighting forces. As Zelvora, they were always considered to be the rational civilization who many trusted. As a rational civilization, all of that cooperation was sent out of the window as their rationality told them that there was no benefit in remaining in the cooperation when their entire civilization was on the verge of being weakened to the level prior to their evolution, which gave them the mental abilities that brought them to their current level.

“Are we surrendering?” one person in the room asked.

“No, we are not. I’m trying to see if we can get some concessions in return for betraying our allies and aiding them in the war,” the leader said calmly, showing that he had already made up his mind.

“Why would they accept our offer when we have not managed to do them any harm over the past week, as they caused us untold damages from a distance?”

“At the moment, although they are dealing painful damages, all of them, barring the Erythian attack, are limited to single star systems. For those with thousands of star systems, they can handle the gradual loss of star systems, as it buys us time to potentially come up with a solution. But us joining them will allow them to gain internal information and even use us to misdirect the allied forces to a location where they can come and deal with them as fast as possible,” the leader answered, pausing for a moment before he added, “They can’t sustain their forces for too long, as they are expending resources that would strain even us to fight against all of the previous conclave civilizations. Now they have to fight us for more than a month, and although they can sustain it for longer, they would opt for a much shorter fight if it were available to them. That’s why they are trying to force us to surrender.”

“What if they are just playing with us?”

“What do you mean?” the leader asked the one who suggested that.

“While they were supporting Dreznor to take over a hundred star systems, there wasn’t even a hint of them suffering or straining their resources. And hours after we launched our surprise, they somehow, out of nowhere, deployed more than twenty billion avatars, and more of them kept being produced and sent to different star systems, with all of them being unique from one individual to another while looking completely new, indicating that they were recently produced. This means that the empire has a means of rapidly producing them at a faster pace than the entire Yrall coalition production line can produce. Not stopping there, we can say the same is for their fleets, which are now heading towards us at a crawling speed. So I don’t think any of our offers will be acceptable to them other than surrendering.”

“We are not surrendering, even if we have to fight to the last man, but I would be open to conceding territories and a few clauses,” the leader said after taking a moment to consider the man’s words.

“Let’s hope I’m wrong,” the man’s words were heard a moment later, knowing the likelihood of that happening was little.