After passing through the garden of Mengyu Palace and bypassing the Government Affairs Hall on the west side, you can come to the teleportation station leading to the big teleportation gate. Luo Ji took the staff and walked into the teleportation station. She was already planning to leave.
This visit was just a signal, and naturally someone would explain the rest to her. Luo Ji stepped into the door of the teleport station, but waited at the door for half a minute, and then walked towards the teleport gate.
Sure enough, the moment she touched the portal, a cry came from behind: "Your Highness Luo Ji! Your Highness Luo Ji! Wait! The Queen wants to meet you!"
Luo Ji retracted her feet, turned her head and said with a very surprised look: "The Queen wants to meet me?"
"Yes, Your Highness, I'm sorry, I'm afraid you have to postpone your next arrangements. The Queen has something very important to see you for!" said the female diplomat Atu with an apologetic expression.
Luo Ji frowned slightly, but still turned around and walked outside the teleportation station, and said: "No matter what, it is my honor to meet the queen."
Atul breathed a sigh of relief, and then smiled. She thought that Luo Ji was probably the best-tempered Asgardian, but if it were any Asgardian, she would have snorted and walked away.
But on the way to the throne room, Artu still tried hard to make amends: "I'm really sorry, Your Highness Luo Ji, the queen's summons is very urgent, and we also received a short notice. Maybe there is something important..."
Luo Ji nodded and said nothing, but she knew very well that she was playing a double act with Thanos. In fact, she had been waiting for the queen to summon her.
Luo Ji entered the throne room and saw the queen standing in front of the throne. She put her hand on her chest and bowed slightly in salute. This was a relatively solemn etiquette in Asgard, but it was still not the most solemn.
The Queen of the Shi'ar Empire is on the same level as the God-King of Asgard. Luo Ji is a foreign guest, so the etiquette can be relaxed. Although she does not have to kneel down on one knee, the range of her kneeling is too small, which can be said to be slightly inappropriate.
Discourteous.
The queen noticed her actions and sighed slightly in her heart. She knew that this kind of private visit and suddenly calling people in to receive her would definitely lead to scandal, and she would be at a disadvantage from the very beginning of this negotiation.
Now it just depends on whether Thanos's inference is correct, the Queen thought. In fact, she is not willing to admit that an outsider is actually more sober than the staff maintained within the royal family.
But all monarchies have the same problem. The nobles always only look at their own interests and always tend to be conservative in national affairs. The advice the Queen can get from them is to reject everything and maintain the status quo.
But it is obvious that the Queen of the Shi'ar Empire has more foresight than these nobles. She knows that the struggle in interstellar society is like sailing against the current. If you do not advance, you will retreat. Continuing to maintain the status quo means inevitable decline.
After adjusting her mentality, the Queen took the lead and said: "Long time no see, Your Highness Luo Ji, how is Your Majesty Odin?"
"The Father of the Gods is very kind. I greet you on his behalf, Your Majesty."
After a brief exchange of greetings, no one could benefit from it. Although Luo Ji's behavior was a little cold, it was flawless and not offensive, and the Queen could not find any faults.
"I heard from Poehler that you know something about our dimension cutting and transportation technology, and think we are on the wrong path?" the Queen asked.
"This technology is a hot topic in the Shi'ar Empire recently, but it is actually not a new technology. When I was young, I heard that the Shi'ar Empire was researching this technology. As for whether it is right or wrong, at least in my opinion
It seems that this may not be able to solve the shortcomings of the large portal..."
The Queen hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to speak out. She started pacing in front of the throne and said in a low voice: "You didn't come here for no reason, and I didn't summon you just for greetings..."
"We all understand the plight of the Shi'ar Empire and Asgard. I think that maybe in some ways, we can complement each other. Now that you are here, I take this behavior as a signal to seek cooperation.
Naturally, I want to talk to you about the current situation between us..."
Luo Ji's eyes paused for a moment, and I didn't intend to beat around the bush anymore, but lowered my eyes and said, "Asgard is indeed facing some problems now, but compared to the plight of the Shi'ar Empire, what we are encountering is just a small trouble.
…”
The Queen weighed it in her mind, and finally decided to use the answer Thanos gave her. She said: "Asgard wants to give up conquering the universe and no longer use extreme violence to gain profits, but such a change will also make the nine major
The subjects of the kingdom are in panic."
"They are not sure whether Asgard can use diplomatic means to obtain the same abundant resources as before. They don't know whether they can still develop under such conditions... You need to stabilize the people's hearts."
"Similarly, when you enter the interstellar society, your label will no longer be Asgard, but the nine kingdoms. The powerful side of the gods will be weakened, and people will pay more attention to the overall strength of civilization."
"But among the nine major kingdoms, the gap between the upper and lower limits is too big. Civilizations like humans do not yet have the ability to colonize the stars. You want to make up for this shortcoming, but you are suffering from the technology tree developed based on divine power.
There is no way to use it for those races with weak bodies."
"Your spaceship does not have any life support system, almost no safety measures, no disaster warning, everything is for attack power, because the gods do not need these, you only need to sail the ship, fire the cannon, and then join the gang, but
Other races can’t.”
"You cannot find a new technological route based on your physical weakness. There is neither time nor need, because you know that you are the alternative in the universe, and apart from that, there are many suitable for these weaklings.
The technology of race.”
"But you also know that this can be regarded as one of your few weaknesses. Once discovered by militaries such as the Kree Empire and the Skrull Empire, they will definitely launch a technological blockade on this matter, so you are here as a private person.
, want to send a signal to us and reach cooperation..."
The Queen looked at Luo Ji, and Luo Ji's expression looked very stiff, as if someone had revealed something in her mind.
The queen felt a little proud, and she narrowed her eyes slightly. It seemed that Thanos was indeed well-deserved, and he had hit all the targets and had no plans left.
But soon, Luo Ji's expression returned to normal, and she sighed and said: "Her Majesty the Queen's wisdom is really admirable to us. We do not speak secretly. This is indeed the case."
"Unfortunately, the Shi'ar Empire's predicament may not be easy to solve. Your system determines that you cannot have the mobilization speed and execution ability of a military country. Your technology is not inclined to war, but it is among the three major empires.
The richest."
"The Kree Empire and the Skrull Empire have been using force to oppress and plunder resources from the Shi'ar Empire. Their usual methods are to spread panic, provoke ethnic and regional conflicts, cause social and economic instability, and force industries to flee. For hundreds of years,
Come on, this situation happens all the time."
"In this case, we will open the sky and make it clear that the Shi'ar Empire and Asgard should indeed cooperate. You have wealth, status and trade routes, and we have force, weapons and deterrence."
"More importantly, you have always been a business empire and have never provoked a war. We don't have to worry about your external aggression after solving the internal crisis. And our population is too small, making interstellar colonization almost impossible, and you don't have to worry about us reentering the economic society.
After that, it will develop into the fourth empire and occupy your position."
"In this case, our cooperation is a match made in heaven. It is time for the interstellar society to change its balance."
The queen stopped in her tracks and turned to look at Luo Ji. In the eyes of the young prince, she saw unspeakable ambition. The queen closed her eyes gently, sighed, and asked: "You
what do you want?"
"Your dimension cutting and transportation technology serves as a deposit and a guarantee for my return to the God King."
The Queen frowned. Luo Ji's answer was beyond her expectation. She showed a little surprise at first, but then hesitated and said seriously:
"Now that we have been honest with each other, I don't want to play tricks on this issue and destroy the basis of our cooperation. I have to explain to you that I can provide you with this technology, but I'm afraid it is far from what you expect."
"I know that cutting dimensions instead of space sounds very scary even in the interstellar science community. After all, dimensions can be said to be an independent world. If you can have an independent dimension, then you can combine all the dimensions without dimensions.
The civilization that has undergone leapfrog technology is blocked at the door.
"But because of this, the difficulty of this technology is beyond anyone's imagination. The Shi'ar Empire has devoted all its efforts to researching it for hundreds of years, but the final result is just an empty shell."
"how do I say this?"
The queen showed a somewhat embarrassed look, as if she felt a little ashamed to confess this matter to outsiders, but in the end, she still said: "Cutting dimensions is the ultimate goal, and now we are still far away from this goal..."
"So far, we can only cut a small piece of dimension, but cannot transport the entire dimension. The cutting range is not much larger than those common broken dimensions at the edge of the universe. Moreover, the lack of dimensional structure will cause the cut dimension fragments to be very small.
It will collapse soon because it cannot support itself..."
Luo Ji blinked, and she understood what the queen meant. If, as the queen said, this technology can only go so far, then it is indeed just an empty shell.
Many people may think that cutting off a small part is good, but in fact, there are many such dimensional fragments at the edge of the dark universe, which were left behind when the dimensions collapsed. Such fragments have no effect at all, because they do not
Complete, so fragile.
No civilization would move its possessions to this dimension, because it may collapse at any time due to structural instability. By then, the property will definitely not be salvageable, and it would be good if people can come out alive.
"What about transportation technology? Can the things in the cut-off dimension fragments be transported simultaneously?" Luo Ji asked again.
"That's possible, but it can only last for a short period of time." The Queen replied, "And if you don't take things out before the dimension collapses, everything will disappear as the fragments collapse."
"So, have you ever tried to fill in the cut dimensions again?" Luo Ji asked another question.
The Queen nodded and said: "We have tried everything regarding this technology. However, if we want to fill it back, the conditions are very strict. It can only be placed in the original position and cannot fill other holes. There must be no external interference when putting it down.
The parameters of the universe must be completely consistent, otherwise there is a possibility of damage..."
Luo Ji nodded and said, "Okay, then we need this technology."
The Queen raised her eyebrows in surprise. Luo Ji shook her head and explained: "We don't need it to really do anything. The point is that we have achieved significant results through diplomacy. As long as this result has a good name, it will be fine."
The queen suddenly realized that, indeed, if it was to stabilize the people's hearts, she should make a good start with the technology that sounded powerful.
As for those technologies that can really come in handy, won’t there be follow-up cooperation?
The Queen nodded, and then began to discuss the specific matters of cooperation with Luo Ji.
Soon, Luo Ji walked out of the throne room. The moment she passed by Thanos who was entering the throne room, the two exchanged a look, calm but undercurrent.
The curtain of the interstellar stage opened, and the strange dance of two evil wolves, one light and one dark, had just played the first drum beat.
