62: Chapter 62 Habitable Zone Battle: Surrender Ceremony

Upon hearing this, the members of the Earth delegation were all burning with anger, feeling that their dignity had been brutally trampled upon.

Someone even roared in resentment: "Are you insulting us? Are you insulting Earth?"

Ye Gui raised a hand, signaling everyone to calm down.

Chu Yuhang had not held him deeply responsible for the disastrous defeat in the Habitable Zone War.

However, if the negotiations to reclaim their 36 captured Earth Battleships and 82 personnel were to fail again, he would truly be in serious trouble.

Moreover, for a Wandering Earth, maintaining sufficient dignity in front of a powerful civilization that spanned two star systems was already very difficult.

So he said softly: "As long as we beg for surrender, will you return our Earth Battleships and personnel?"

Tu Kulei held his head high: "What do you mean by 'return'? The great and merciful Xingyang God pities all living things. We might, perhaps, bestow some things upon you at our discretion, but begging for surrender alone is not enough."

The faces of the Earth delegation turned even uglier; they all felt this was an unprecedented humiliation!

Ye Gui felt a tightness in his chest, but he still forced himself to ask: "Begging for surrender isn't enough? What else does your god want?"

"Presumptuous! The Xingyang God blesses all things and shines light upon the universe. How could He want the vulgar possessions of mortals?"

Hearing this, the Earth people felt a sense of relief, one after another exhaling in their hearts, secretly rejoicing that they finally wouldn't have to pay more.

Tu Kulei suddenly changed the subject: "However, we Blue Star humans do want something."

After speaking, amidst the astonishment of the Earth people, he took a quantum conductor from the hands of Xiliu beside him: "In addition to begging for surrender, you must pay a tribute of 1,000 conductors. You must also present the coordinates of the battlefield ruins!"

Everyone in the delegation was stunned. Blue Star truly had the help of a god. They even possessed information that only the high-level officials on Earth knew about, such as the ruins of a high-level civilization battlefield.

Ye Gui frowned: "1,000? We don't even have that many ourselves."

Tu Kulei's face was as calm as water: "That is for you to consider. I won't disturb you further."

Having said that, he turned and flicked his sleeves, leaving behind the pained and conflicted Earth delegation.

When the conditions were transmitted back to Earth, Chu Yuhang was furious, nearly going mad: "These bastards are bullying us too much! Inferior creatures!"

But thinking of those 36 superluminal Earth Battleships and the 82 personnel trained at great cost, he gradually calmed down after his rage.

He carefully calculated that the total number of quantum conductors dismantled and searched from the battlefield ruins back then was only a little over two thousand. After deducting various losses and those already assembled and used, there were only a little over a thousand left.

"Damn it!" Chu Yuhang slammed his fist down: "Is their god calculating this? They almost didn't leave me a single one."

As for the battlefield ruins, it was a massive, treacherous area. At the time, Earth had only managed to scavenge its outer perimeter after losing three Earth Battleships.

After careful consideration, he held an extremely long video conference with the delegation that had gone to Blue Star.

Everyone at the meeting looked pained.

The final result of the discussion was that if they could trade for all the Earth Battleships and personnel, the Earth people could bleed significantly!

Days of conflict and discussion had exhausted the food in the shuttle that the delegation had arrived in.

Ye Gui had no choice but to thicken his skin and find the Priest responsible for guarding the shuttle: "Is cramming so many people into a shuttle your way of treating guests? We are, after all, envoys."

The Priest looked disdainful: "You are envoys of the defeated side. With the Xingyang God above, even a drowning dog should be given warmth!"

After speaking, he clapped his hands, and a dozen people walked over carrying large silver trays filled with exquisitely styled and appetizing food.

Ye Gui took a vanilla ice cream, which was rarely seen on the Wandering Earth. As soon as it entered his mouth, the fragrance was rich and the texture delicate. But looking at the azure sky, thinking of the distant and uncertain new home for Earth and the humiliation at this moment...

With a heart full of mixed emotions, he couldn't help but shed tears. But not wanting to appear weak in front of outsiders, he immediately wiped away his tears and walked toward the Priest, painfully stating the results discussed by the delegation.

"We beg for surrender, and will hand over the conductors and the coordinates. We only ask to trade for all our Earth Battleships and personnel."

After a long time.

Tu Kulei arrived late: "Do not negotiate conditions with us; these things are what you should give. As for your Earth Battleships and personnel, I cannot make any guarantees."

The Earth delegation could no longer hold back, and the grievances of the past few days finally erupted at this moment: "You are too overbearing; there is no such way to bully people."

"If you were truly a civilized people, you wouldn't still be desperately oppressing and plundering us, the defeated, at this time."

Ye Gui, who had been holding back, gritted his teeth and said: "We will not back down again; this is our bottom line!"

Tu Kulei widened his eyes: "The war was started by you! With the Xingyang God above, everything has its price!"

After saying this, he stopped wasting words with these Earth people and went directly to the military.

He attended the high-level officer meeting of the Gospel Army and the Divine Guard Army as a representative of the Holy See.

At the meeting, Gu Shuiqing, as the leader of the hardliners, shouted indignantly: "Let those guys get out! We will not release a single prisoner of war, and we will not give them a single Earth Battleship!"

The steady Tomwence, facing the numerous hardliners, still proposed his own point of view: "The conductors are really important to us. Besides, our crew reserves cannot keep up, and idle Earth Battleships will only increase maintenance costs."

Two days later, Tu Kulei came to the protesting Earth delegation again and said with a look of great mercy: "We will bestow all the prisoners of war plus 6 Earth Battleships!"

Subsequently, the delegation continued to discuss for another half a month.

Just as the Blue Star military thought these guys were going to stay here mooching off food and waiting to die, Ye Gui came to them.

"32 Earth Battleships!"

"6."

"28 Earth Battleships!"

"6."

"20 Earth Battleships!!!"

"6."

Tu Kulei answered expressionlessly, then watched Ye Gui stagger away.

Another half month passed.

"15!"

"6."

Two months later, a grand surrender ceremony was held in the space dock above Blue Star.

The Xingyang Civilization, including the White Star Liz People and the Insayd People from the Southern Neighbor Two star system, all saw this grand occasion through holographic broadcast devices.

The Liz People were moved to tears, "You Earth people who used our entire race for death experiments, you have your day now!"

The children on Blue Star curiously asked their parents: "Didn't we capture 36 of their Earth Battleships? Why are we returning 6?"

The mother pinched his nose: "To trade for better things. And we don't have enough soldiers in our space force right now, so we can't use that many Earth Battleships. So you must study hard and grow up to be a Blue Star space warrior!"

Ye Gui held back his tears and finished signing. Tu Kulei took the document, examined it carefully for a while, and then said slowly: "Your personnel and the 6 Earth Battleships can depart tomorrow."