Chapter 36 - Were Aliens So Easy to Fool?

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

In an ordinary room in the Academy of Science, George was still calculating complicated mathematical formulas while Professor Eugene was answering a phone call, nodding from time to time.

After Professor Eugene put down the phone, he walked to the front of George and gently tapped the solid wood table with his hand.

With this, George, who had been engrossed in solving the problem came back to reality.

George lifted his head left and looked at Professor Eugene.

“Professor, what’s wrong?”

Professor Eugene then told his student the contents of the phone call.

“George, the plan to launch the probe has been moved forward to tomorrow morning instead of three days later!”

This unexpected result made George somewhat dazed.

“Professor, why did they suddenly move the launch date of the probe ahead? Did something happen?”

Professor Eugene simply nodded and continued to explain the reason for the early launch.

“You don’t know this, but the plan to get probes close to the alien starship had been agreed on with other countries that could do so. All the countries had signed an agreement to do so at the same time as planned.”

After hearing his professor’s explanation, George, whose logic had been improved, immediately thought of a possibility.

As expected, the reason that Professor Eugene said was exactly what he had just guessed.

“Hmph, one of the countries has unilaterally broken the agreement and is preparing to launch their probe early tomorrow morning.”

George feigned surprise.

“Which is why the probe that we originally planned to launch three days later will also be launched tomorrow morning?”

“Yes, and we have to launch the unmanned probe ahead of them!”

The sudden change made George feel very anxious, as it would disrupt his original plans.

If the date to launch the probe had not been moved forward, three days was more than enough for him to advance his brainwaves.

However, now that the probe would be launched tomorrow morning, even if George did not sleep, it was almost impossible for him to advance his brainwaves to be more than 30%.

30% was the target he set as a result of his estimation.

When he was solving the problem previously, the activity of his brainwaves had been more than 20%, but he hadn’t received any instructions from the alien starship.

This meant that his brainwaves were still not strong enough to be detected by the alien starship.

As for whether George’s brainwaves could be detected by the alien starship after its activity reached 30%, it was not up to him to decide. It would depend on the alien starship.

Just as George was thinking, the phone in his pocket vibrated.

He knew that there must be a new message that had appeared in the alien chat group.

George immediately stood up and looked at Professor Eugene.

“Professor, I’m sorry, I need to go to the bathroom.”

After George entered the bathroom, he immediately took out his phone from his pocket and entered the alien chat group.

The chat interface indeed displayed the latest message that had been sent by the Selkians.

[I found that the brainwave enhancement methods in the group files were too outdated. I just uploaded an advanced version of the brainwave enhancement method.]

After George saw the message sent, he was surprised and had mixed feelings at the same time.

It was obvious that the purpose the Selkian had sent this message was to lure him into taking the bait. If George did go to the group files to read and download the advanced brainwave enhancement method, it would completely expose his identity that he wasn’t someone from a super civilization.

However, George was indeed very eager to read about the new brainwave enhancement method.

The contradictory emotions fought each other in his heart.

NASA was going to launch the probe tomorrow morning. Once they discovered that there was no life inside the alien starship, the crazy humans would most definitely speed up the fight for the alien starship.

For George, the earlier he became the owner of the alien starship, the less trouble he would have.

After all, to let an alien starship hover in Earth’s outer space alone could cause global panic.

In the alien chat group, after the Selkian sent the message, there were no new messages n in the group.

George was very depressed now. He really wanted to open the group file and read the new brainwave enhancement method, but he couldn’t expose his true identity.

“I have to think of a method. It’s best if I can still read the document without arousing the suspicion of the aliens.”

After his logic was improved, George’s ability to deal with extremely difficult problems was much stronger than before.

It didn’t take long for him to come up with a good idea.

The Selkian was usually very arrogant and full of himself in the chat group, which made him very unpopular.

George planned to use the fact that the Selkian was unpopular in the chat group to obtain the advanced version of the brainwave enhancement method.

Now that he had a clear solution in his mind, George decided to start implementing it.

He first left the bathroom and found Professor Eugene in the office.

“Professor, I want to take a rest first. My Head is a little heavy from calculating all the math formulas earlier.”

Ever since George had successfully solved the difficult problem, Professor Eugene was treating his student as some treasure.

“Go ahead. You must sleep more. I will wake you up after I have asked them to prepare dinner in advance.”

Then, under Professor Eugene’s concerned gaze, George left the room and returned to the single room the Academy of Sciences prepared for him.

After entering his room, George locked the door from the inside and began to implement the method he had just thought of.

First, he would privately chat with the Sarlatian in the chat group because the Sarlatian who was also from a high-level civilization had always hated the Selkian.

George wanted to use this to use the Sarlatian’s hatred towards the Selkian to achieve his goal.

The interface of the chat group changed as George opened the private chat interface with the Sarlatian, and he entered a message into the chat bar.

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The message George sent to the Sarlatian did not contain any words, only an ellipsis.

He was testing the other party’s reaction to the ellipsis, because not only had the Sarlatian sent a bunch of friend requests to him earlier, but he had even said unflattering words about the Selkian.

Soon, the Sarlatian took the bait and replied with many messages in the chat.

[Great being from a super civilization, are you replying to my previous messages? ]

[As you can see, the Selkian is making slanderous comments about you in the group!]

[I will not let the conspiracy of the Selkian succeed!]

When George saw this, he had a rough plan in his mind. He immediately continued to enter messages in the chat bar. This time, he entered text messages.

[What conspiracy? I did not look at the messages in the chat group!]