Deep Space Wandering Fleet

An unexpected Alliance indeed!

Even the upper echelons of the new humans took quite a long time to gradually confirm that this fact was beneficial to the future of humanity before they resolutely made up their minds.

If this matter were suddenly made known to the general public, there was a certain probability that it would generate strong xenophobic sentiments. Such xenophobic sentiments were likely to be irrational. The masses would also worry that this inexplicable Half-sphere Civilization might pose a latent danger or deceive humanity...

Therefore, the measures that government officials could think of for the time being were to slowly guide public sentiment over time. With longer coexistence, more contact, and deeper understanding, announcing the news might be slightly better received.

But what would the final result be? Nobody knew. Forming an Alliance was indeed a bit sudden; there was a possibility that after careful analysis, the people would welcome it with open arms. There was also the potential for direct emotional outbursts, where no matter the justification offered, they would not trust it, blindly opposing for the sake of opposition.

According to current estimates, neither pacifists nor nationalists were in high proportion among the populace, but nationalists, especially the extreme nationalists, often had higher combativeness and could make a louder noise in society.

Therefore, when to announce the possibility of "comprehensive cooperation" between both sides became a difficult problem...

It was indeed a headache!

...

A year passed just like that.

Zhang Yuan was incredibly busy during this period; he was always traveling outside, discussing the details of cooperation with the Half-sphere Civilization.

Comprehensive cooperation was not easy; the entire negotiation team was divided into twelve modules, with a total of over a thousand people!

Zhang Yuan was mainly responsible for the "Clone Ancestors" matter, which was of utmost importance to the Half-sphere people.

Initially, the Half-sphere Civilization's conditions were extremely harsh, demanding that humans clone the ancestors 100% within fifty years!

What a joke, he dared not agree to such a term and spent a great deal of effort explaining over and over, yet those Half-sphere people, whenever this matter was raised, seemed to enter a state of frenzy, clapping and twisting their bodies, turning their heads, simply not listening.

The occasional outbursts of collective mental illness in the Half-sphere Civilization gave him quite a headache. In fact, aside from this major issue, the Half-sphere people were quite easy to negotiate with, but as soon as it came to discussing ancestors, they would become insanely fanatical.

Later, Zhang Yuan and other negotiation representatives resolutely gave these frenzied individuals the cold shoulder for several months. Only then did this group slowly calm down and abandon their unreasonable fantasies.

After some negotiations, both sides signed a relatively reasonable treaty, with the New Human Side promising: within a hundred years, to help the Half-sphere Civilization advance from the current 90% to 99% memory restoration progress, equivalent to progressing one percent point every ten years.

Also, they attempted to help the Half-sphere Civilization improve the success rate of memory implantation, reducing the likelihood of giving birth to imbeciles.

These were the limits that the New Human Side could promise.

As for the subsequent progress from 99% to 100%, the difficulty was much greater than all previous stages combined; they could only leave it to fate and luck. Zhang Yuan could not promise this at all. It was like proving a world-class Mathematics problem; some things could be stuck for hundreds or thousands of years. Helpless was helpless, and it wouldn't shift because of the subjective will of a mathematician.

Cloning ancestors was the same; the road ahead was visible, so promises could be made. But to promise things that were vague and elusive, wouldn't that make one a swindler?

After calm and serious discussions by the Half-sphere Civilization's high-level leaders, they agreed to this proposal.

The Half-sphere Civilization had been striving for this goal for tens of thousands of years and would not mind another few hundred to a thousand years, as long as they could see progress. They should be content with that.

As for the occasional outbursts of fervor, it was merely the instinctual emotions in memory going wild.

The signing of this agreement meant that the first stage of negotiations had come to an end, and both sides had established a very good foundation for cooperation.

Looking at the time, 12 months had already passed... The activities like raw material supply chains, knowledge competitions, and academic exchanges had already been in full swing, and on their side, they were a bit of a lag.

"It wasn't easy!" After the treaty was signed, Zhang Yuan also breathed a sigh of relief, feeling like a large stone had been lifted from his heart.

The thought that he might create a Level 5 Civilization by his own hands, including the possibility for humans to become a Level 5 Civilization, stirred an uncontrollable excitement within him.

He listened as his colleagues heatedly discussed and celebrated the completion of the treaty.

"Thank goodness the memory templates of the Half-sphere Civilization don't have much data, otherwise, we would have been powerless. The larger the body of knowledge, the more complex the inheritance, the lower the success rate. Genetic memory is a complicated subject..."

"Genetic memory must be developed! As long as the genetic memory is strong enough, stable enough, it can overcome genetic instincts."

"But only to a certain extent, not completely overcoming instincts!"

"But do we really want to copy the Half-sphere Civilization's model? Aiming to clone ancestors? Isn't that a bit odd?"

"We can certainly switch to another one."

All experts in the sci-fi laboratories, emotionally charged, were vigorously discussing these issues.

Because this research was indeed related to "genetic memory" and they had acquired a large number of test subjects for free! Endless volunteers for experiments, where else could one find such an opportunity?

As long as the probability of producing imbeciles was significantly reduced, humans could use this technology.

Of course, it was difficult...

The more abstract the knowledge, the more difficult it was to understand, and humans had yet to decipher what "subjective initiative" truly meant. If the memories forcibly implanted could not be understood, they would be of little significance.

It was like memorizing a formula by rote; if one only memorizes it without knowing how to calculate or in what situations to use it, what use would it be? It was also like a 3-year-old child reciting Tang poetry, "Goose, goose, goose, your neck crooked to the sky as you sing..." He was merely reciting mechanically, likely unable to comprehend the content.

The most important point of genetic memory was understandably "understanding." If this issue could be resolved, mass-producing top talents would become possible, allowing geniuses of this generation to create more knowledge to pass on to the next.

With this continuous accumulation, a technological explosion would soon occur.

(I've been having a tough time writing the latest chapters, deleting many... It feels a bit like I've hit a bottleneck, after all, the longest I've ever written before was 1.7 million words, and this book is almost surpassing that now.

Also, to recommend a book: "Dao and Carbon-based Monkey Rearing Guidelines", recommended by the operation officer, Miss Sister. Those interested can take a look.)