Elaine shuddered and retreated behind Hawking.

Hawking looked calm. After a brief moment of stagnation, he instantly accepted the claim that Huang Ji was not a human being.

Even if Huang Ji looks exactly the same as humans.

Hawking was not afraid of this at all, and was more excited and curious.

"So who are you? Hua." Hawking's electronic voice said.

"I am just a primitive civilization enthusiast." Huang Ji seemed to be stating a fact.

"..." Hawking was silent.

He had a lot to say, but his body limited his language output speed.

Just when he was anxious, what he wanted to say was presented directly on the computer and played through the synthesizer.

Synthesizer said: "I have considered the existence of aliens, and even deduced them many times. After all, I mainly focus on cosmology..."

"Huh? Oh oh...hahaha...abcd...what did you do? Hua?"

Hawking immediately appeared on his wheelchair personal computer as long as he wanted to say something, and it was delayed for less than a second.

Huang Ji said: "A trivial technique."

He just used the Buddha's bone finger to transmit what Hawking wanted to say to the computer. Of course, in Hawking's view, he thought it was human-computer docking technology.

There are also such technologies on earth, but they are very immature and require access to a large number of neural sensors. Huang Ji seems to have done nothing, making the human-computer docking technology silently.

Hawking immediately said: "Among the aliens I envision, you are the most incredible one. A primitive civilization lover... to be honest, I never thought of it."

Huang Ji said without comment: "Then what would the interstellar civilization you envision look like?"

Hawking said: "In my opinion, human contact with extraterrestrial civilizations will inevitably bear a terrible price."

"This is a necessity brought about by the huge power gap. If extraterrestrial civilizations discover humans, then humans will face huge despair. Even if aliens do not choose to destroy humans, humans will only be like a toy."

"Even an alien's interest behavior will bring unbearable consequences to humans."

"It is very likely to be destroyed or enslaved, and being assimilated is the best result. The so-called common development in the movie is completely unrealistic... that is an opera."

"The interstellar civilization discovered the earthlings, just like the Spanish discovered the Americas. They brought devastating blows to the locals. War, plague, looting and famine filled that continent for hundreds of years, until the three American civilizations disappeared..."

Huang Ji said: "You are right in the general direction, but it's too radical."

"Yes, I have overlooked an important issue. Humans may also encounter individuals of interstellar civilizations. The behavior of individuals cannot be evaluated in terms of the collective interests of civilizations." Hawking said.

When Hawking imagined the picture of encounters between cosmic civilizations, he always deduced from the perspective of a whole civilization.

But when Huang Ji said, "I am a primitive civilization enthusiast," Hawking realized it!

He thought a lot in a short time and realized that there were many kinds of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, which were much more complicated than he had imagined!

For example, if you meet a maverick individual, he can be very friendly.

Huang Ji said: "It is very inappropriate to use European colonists to conquer America to compare the relationship between interstellar civilization and the earth."

This metaphor is very famous, so many people believe that the earth discovered by aliens will be as miserable as the Americas discovered by the Spanish back then.

But in fact, this metaphor is a hooligan.

Hawking asked, “Is there anything wrong with this metaphor?”

Huang Ji said: "Spain conquered there for gold and for the extremely rich resources there. What do you think there is the earth?"

His words immediately pointed out the most hooligan thing about this metaphor.

For resources, why do aliens do it? For gold? It is impossible. There is much gold in the universe, civilizations that can cross the interstellar world, and some are desolate planets that can dig gold.

Any mineral resources on Earth are not scarce in the universe. Take the solar system as an example. In fact, it is not Mars or Venus, but the asteroid belt that is more suitable for collecting minerals than the Earth...

Hawking said: "Life on Earth is the most precious thing, and the value of other substances is not much higher than that of stones."

"Humans...humans themselves are the most valuable beings on earth."

"I admit that this metaphor is not appropriate, but it does not prevent interstellar civilization from bringing destruction and disaster to mankind. Indulging human progress will pose a threat to them."

Huang Ji said: "The analogy closest to the truth should be the indigenous tribes in the Amazon jungle that were still in an extremely primitive stage."

"You study them, observe them, and occasionally contact them, hoping that they can one day get out of the jungle, get an ID card, and integrate into modern society..."

"But I never want to destroy them, right? Maybe some people want to enslave them, but mainstream morality does not allow it, nor does the law."

"More importantly, do some people think that the primitive natives of the Amazon will pose a threat to South American countries?"

Hawking was stunned as if he was immobilized. He was silent for a long time, thinking about Huang Ji's words.

After a while, he said: "The primitive tribes of the Amazon are also humans, so we don't want to hurt them. Compared with interstellar civilization, the two races have a huge gap in thinking. How can we integrate into their society when we develop?"

Huang Ji laughed: "Each civilization has its own unique society. In geographical restrictions such as the Milky Way, several internal civilizations combined are a larger society. They are relatively independent and united with each other. They occasionally fight but have the collective empathy of a wise civilization."

"This is much more complicated than human society, but from human society, you should be able to see its shadow."

"If the earth's civilization enters the interstellar world but cannot integrate into this society, then the first thing that cannot bear social pressure is the earthlings, not other mature civilizations."

Hawking's brain thought like a storm that in the society on earth, there are strong countries, weak countries, beliefs, systems and cultures. They constrain each other and develop together, suppress and support each other, attack and love each other, but they form a very complex society.

In Huang Ji's words, it seems that this is true between interstellar civilizations.

Hawking said: "On Earth, if a primitive tribe walks out of the jungle, it will eventually be accommodated by modern society because they will work hard to integrate into society, work, study, and create value! Maybe a former indigenous person will optimize their former culture and become a best-selling writer. Maybe a former indigenous person will draw inspiration from his former music and become a sought-after singer... Maybe a former indigenous person, or descendant of an indigenous person, has a unique and unique thinking, and has made some inventions in the future, which will help the progress of society."

"If the indigenous people threaten society and feel that they can't integrate and buy a gun to rob, then they will naturally not be recognized by the society and will eventually be shot dead by the police."

"Those who cannot adapt to society will perish themselves, not society..."

Huang Ji smiled. This was also what he realized recently when he watched the astrological constellations at night, studied repeatedly, and finally realized.

Hawking also understood at one point and quickly followed his pace.

And gain insight into a very critical element, interests, in the picture of cosmic civilization.

There must be contradictions between civilizations, but there are even more contradictions within civilizations, and contradictions are everywhere.

There may be races in the universe with absolutely unified thoughts, but they are definitely a minority.

So far, human beings have never truly united to do one thing, because interests are not unified enough.

The only thing that is passive is to form a complex and diversified society.

Even if the catastrophe is imminent, there are a lot of different voices inside the civilization...

There will even be people driven by selfish interests to downplay the crisis: ‘Ah, it doesn’t matter, everything is fine, it’s just that a small problem will pass soon’. ‘Ah! Maybe we have a better way to solve this problem.’

As long as multiple interstellar civilizations appear in the Milky Way in the same era and communication can be achieved through technology, a larger society will eventually be formed, because war is far less valuable than communication.

Even the Spanish colonists initially wanted a new trade route. They met with the emperor of the Inca Empire. Both sides could not even speak the language, but they still completed the transaction. As a result, they accidentally passed the smallpox over and killed tens of millions of people before they decided to conquer, because the cost of war had dropped greatly.

When the first two civilizations contacted each other, the other party took action first. Then the side lost at most one spaceship. It is impossible for the entire civilization to move the planet over to meet others, right?

After losing some of the benefits, our side also understood that the other party was a very cruel and warlike civilization, so there was nothing to say, just fight.

On the contrary, when the spacecraft came back safely and brought back the information of the strange civilization, both sides established a basic understanding: 'Oh, he was not a warlike civilization at least. Maybe he was lying to me? Oh, lying, I only saw his actions.'

War is the last resort. The United States took the lead in inventing nuclear weapons and did not dare to attack the Soviet Union. On the one hand, it was for the economy, and on the other hand, the United States did not know whether the Soviet Union would also develop such a terrifying weapon. So it chose a softer way to isolate it, influence it, and finally fission it.

Among strange civilizations, the one who dares to shoot first must be the weakest one...

Huang Ji said: "It seems you understand, Professor Hawking."

"Those who integrate into society are just a gear, and society will never fear a gear."

"If you can't integrate, then the first thing you are crazy is you, not us. You are restricting new members of a society, law, economy, technology suppression, cultural exchange, public order... There are too many things that can restrain a weak civilization. The value of smart creatures lies in living. Only living smart creatures can create wealth, and any group can only adapt to society."

"The barbaric and rough practices of destruction and war are the means only an incompetent society will choose."
Chapter completed!