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The speeches at the United Nations General Assembly this morning were incredibly bizarre, but strangely, Tang Chao found himself listening, and the more he listened, the more interesting it seemed.

You have to admit, these people who make a living in their respective fields have impressive rhetoric, much better than that technical guy reading out data at the beginning.

No wonder these people can fool some into believing them and make a living doing so.

Of course, the reason he found it interesting might also be because he understood the truth about this alien incident.

No rush, with a relaxed mind, one will always notice things that others don't.

Happy times always pass so quickly. The morning flew by, and during lunch, they watched the news.

The protesters outside hadn't dispersed but had spread out to the side to eat easily prepared lunches. According to reporters who also stayed, their food wasn't brought from home but was distributed by various guilds and civil organizations.

Clearly, this was also likely a business.

Tang Chao had experienced this kind of thing several times, especially after this morning's 'entertaining speech session', so he was no longer surprised by these things.

However, the outside world remained pessimistic about the purpose, process, and outcome of this conference, with more insults than rational voices.

It seemed that even people who hadn't cared before were caught up in the hype and began to worry about humanity's fate after the arrival of aliens.

After all, the significance of online discussions among netizens is definitely different from a dedicated United Nations conference. The United Nations is relatively authoritative.

However, until the final conclusion is reached, most people are still waiting quietly.

After lunch, the delegation leader and the permanent representative to the United Nations gathered everyone for a small meeting because, starting in the afternoon, the conference on the topic of 'extraterrestrial civilization' would officially begin.

The conference was scheduled to last three days. Half a day had already passed, leaving two and a half days. The plan was to spend one day deciding on a search plan for the unidentified probes and the last one and a half days drafting the 'Human Civilization and Extraterrestrial Civilization Contact Convention'.

This amount of time was clearly insufficient, but this was a special case being handled urgently. Humanity currently knows very little about the unidentified probes, so everything needed to be done quickly.

In the next few days, they could first draft an outline, set the basic directions, and then gradually refine it later.

After all, humanity shouldn't encounter real aliens anytime soon.

Well, hopefully.

If they really did encounter them, they would act according to the basic directions, and the rest... they would adapt flexibly.

Putting everything else aside, all countries should agree on the most basic rule: no one can contact extraterrestrial civilizations privately.

This 'privately' includes individuals, single organizations, and single countries.

As a result, the permanent representative said, 'Starting this afternoon, everyone needs to be on their guard. Although this conference is about 'extraterrestrial civilization,' the struggles within human society cannot be underestimated, especially regarding the Americans. You must be careful of their rhetorical traps.'

'Although they agreed to this cooperation, they will definitely try to create a sole leadership and then obtain that right for themselves.'

'Please remember, under no circumstances can we agree to this. Our view is still to rely on the United Nations, with all countries jointly carrying out this important task.'

'Only in this way can we guarantee our own due rights and the rights of everyone...'

The permanent representative's speech made everyone nervous.

Although this conference was 'external,' the Americans had too many precedents in this area and often acted unpredictably, plus their current president was a famous unpredictable person...

Originally, everyone thought that maybe 'two negatives would make a positive,' and the Americans would start acting more predictably, but everyone was overthinking it. Only in mathematics do two negatives make a positive; it doesn't exist in reality.

Just like novels need logic, reality doesn't need that messy thing at all.

Speaking of which, the Americans have grabbed credit and command before, not just once or twice. Especially through its powerful film output, after a few movies, it really becomes the savior of the world.

The key is that some people actually believe it, just like some people believe that these aliens are saviors.

With the reminder, the delegation members perked up and prepared to deal with the afternoon meeting properly.

Sure enough, looking at the American delegation's area in the afternoon, there were no more of those messy people, and at least their clothes were much more presentable.

Reality is different from movies; you can't just randomly assemble a team to save the world.

But the Americans are awesome. Other countries only have one delegation, while the Americans can arrange two groups of people.

The afternoon's meeting content was indeed hardcore. Without those eloquent rhetoric masters, the scientists' words could always make people sleepy.

Especially those representatives from various countries who didn't understand this field.

But they couldn't sleep; many things were waiting for them to vote on.

When it came to using which method to search for the unidentified probes, people did form many disagreements. The scientists advocated using both methods, which would definitely be the fastest, but economic experts calculated the costs and said that the combined method was not cost-effective and too expensive.

Humanity hadn't really reached a moment of life and death, and there were still various places where money needed to be spent, so they could only agree to one.

They even had to find various reasons to reduce funding and shrink the entire project to the extreme.

Some people were already convinced that 'the probe was made by aliens,' but some people didn't believe it at all.

After all, the public information stated that it couldn't be confirmed that the thing was definitely an alien probe. The current definition could only be 'unidentified probe'.

This thing was like 'unidentified flying objects.' Most of the so-called flying saucers sighted were basically man-made, and some were simply natural phenomena.

So the two sides started arguing.

The scientists weren't sure if the thing was alien, so they needed to find it, but to find it, they needed to spend a lot of money and consume a lot of social resources.

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This was inevitable. Everything that scientists wanted to do was inseparable from money, but most scientists didn't control production capital, and even if they controlled some, it wasn't enough for one mission to consume.

And private companies were even less likely to pay for this kind of mission. Only national finances could do this kind of thing.

Fortunately, some companies were 'silly' and actively stood up to bear the responsibilities entrusted by history.

Many scientists were waiting for this moment.

Because the meeting agenda stated that Navigator Company had a Mars probe to be launched soon, which could participate in this mission.

They just wouldn't have thought how awesome Navigator's mission was.

In their minds, this Mars probe definitely wouldn't make it in time for this mission. It would take several months to fly, and by the time it arrived, the opportunity might be long gone.

They also didn't know why Navigator wanted to launch a Mars probe at this time, but theoretically, a Mars probe could be launched at any time, it was just a matter of cost-effectiveness.

Perhaps Navigator had other testing or experimental missions.

Although it couldn't directly participate in this mission, Navigator's Mars probe could play an important role in this mission.

If Navigator added a probe, then they should be able to persuade a certain country to give up its in-orbit Mars probe to carry out this major mission.

That country was Tianxia.

Because among those present, it was estimated that only it might agree to this plan.

Everyone didn't want to use their own probes for the mission, simply because the future benefits were too unclear. If their own probe died during the mission, then they would no longer have a Mars probe.

Mars was too difficult to handle, and everyone only had one little treasure that could operate.

明明自己有，结果为了参加一个不确定的任务，搞得自己没有了，但其他国家依然有，心态可能都崩了。(Original Chinese sentence - This sentence appears to be unintentionally included and should be translated.)

Clearly they have one, but as a result of participating in an uncertain mission, they no longer have one, but other countries still do, their mentality may have collapsed.

And now that Tianxia added one, regardless of whether Navigator's probe could successfully enter Mars orbit in the future, let Tianxia do the mission first.

Scientific matters should not allow politics to have excess reaction time.

If Tianxia agreed, regardless of whether it fought for it or not, it would definitely gain the leading role in this mission.

Then, in order to balance its contribution and pull the leading role towards its side, the Americans should agree to build the Horizon Telescope project, and may even pay more.

This, too, was a competition.

Also, it was the scientists' calculations.

They just underestimated Navigator Company and underestimated Tang Chao's strength.

"Our probe weighs 32 tons and is designed to reach Mars in one month!"

The scientists: "Hiss--"