Chapter 37 - A Windfall?

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

George deliberately made it so that his image in front of the aliens was very cold and mysterious. Only by doing so could he deceive the aliens and make them believe that he was from a super civilization.

As expected, the Sarlatian replied to the message very quickly.

[Oh, great being from a super civilization, it is a given you haven’t paid any attention to the boring chat group. The Selkian had said that your planet is not a super civilization, but instead likely to be a low-level civilization!]

“Humph, this Sarlatian is quite cunning as well. To think he wants to use the Selkian’s doubts about my identity to see if I’m really from a super civilization.”

George had a conclusion in his heart. Through the conversation with the Sarlatian, it was very likely that the Sarlatian did believe that he was from a super civilization.

He continued to type the words that he had already thought of.

[The Selkians? Are they also a super civilization? I don’t remember that the super civilizations had a planet with such life forms!]

The Sarlatian was probably shocked by George’s message and did not reply immediately.

This was the effect that George wanted. He kept instilling the idea of the super civilizations into the Sarlatians, which would make them believe that George was indeed from a super civilization.

Not long after, the Sarlatians sent out another message.

[Great being of a super civilization, that Selkian is merely from a high-level civilization in the universe, and not a super civilization. It’s normal that you don’t know about them.]

[Please allow me to dispel your questions.]

[The reason is the Selkian has accused you to be a creature from a low-level civilization is because he found that you had downloaded a document about low-level brainwave enhancement from the group file.]

George was fully aware of what the Sarlatian was talking about. The key now was how he should eliminate the suspicion of these aliens.

[A document about brainwave enhancement? I remember now. I did download a document from the group files. I thought it was the latest version of the brainwave enhancement methods, but only after downloading it did I find out that it was of the lowest level, so I didn’t even read it.]

To better deceive the Sarlatian, George waited for a while before continuing to send another message.

[Could there be a creature from a low-level civilization in the group? To think they shared such a low-leveled brainwave enhancement method! I have a top-level brainwave enhancement method, but I will not share it in the group file!]

A top-level brainwave enhancement method!

The Sarlatian was immediately attracted upon seeing those words.

[Great being from a super civilization, can I use other conditions to exchange for the top-level brainwave enhancement method?]

George had been treating the Sarlatian as a big fish, and now the big fish had finally taken the bait.

George continued to send messages to lure the other party.

[Hmph, I believe you know that only a few super civilizations in the universe can master top-level brainwave advancement methods!]

[Great being of a super civilization, please forgive my rude request. The Sarlatians only have a high-level brainwave enhancement method. If you are willing, I will send the high-level brainwave enhancement method over, can you help me modify it? Of course, I will pay an additional fee of 500 billion cosmic dollars, what do you think?]

“500 billion universe dollars! What’s the use of giving this thing to me? even if it’s useful, I can’t receive it!”

Seeing that the Sarlatian was willing to pay up to 500 billion universe dollars, George was moved, but unfortunately, he didn’t have a universal account, so he naturally couldn’t receive universe dollars.

[Universe dollars are utterly useless to me!]

George’s words were true, but the Sarlatian took it in the wrong way.

[Great being from a super civilization, it was my mistake. Money is indeed of no use to you. I will change the 500 billion into the unique secret technology of the Sarlatians, how about this?]

“Secret technology? Unique?”

George did not expect that he would gain windfall when he was just trying to get the advanced brainwave enhancement method.

However, George could not immediately agree to the Sarlatian’s request as this would make the other party feel that he was easygoing, and might even expose the truth that he was from a low-level civilization.

The mention of the Sarlatian’s unique secret technology reminded George of the video that the Mocalians had shared before.

The Mocalians were very talented in space technology and had developed space storage cards, which was the Mocalians’ unique technology.

He was very curious as to what the unique technology of the Sarlatians was!

George waited patiently for more than an hour before he sent another message to the Sarlatian.

[Send it to me and let me take a look first, then wait for my message!]

George deliberately did not give any promises.

One had to know that in space, the calculation of time varied largely. The amount of time that the other party had to wait was completely up to George himself.

If one calculated according to Earth years, waiting for a few years or even decades might only be a very short period for the high-level alien civilizations.

Not long after George sent the message, he immediately received a message from Sarlatian and a document that was sent along with it.

[Great being from a super civilization, thank you for your help. Please accept my respect for you!]

Attached with the message was the advanced brainwave enhancement method!

George immediately downloaded the document after seeing that the Sarlatian had sent it over.

“Not bad, I have successfully obtained the advanced brainwave enhancement method!”

“Wait a minute, didn’t the Sarlatian say that he would also give me a secret technique of theirs? Could it be that he will only give it to me after I have finished modifying the advanced brainwave enhancement method?”

This made George somewhat uncomfortable. Weren’t the Sarlatians too rigid in their ways?

Just as George was ridiculing the Sarlatians for being stingy, another document popped up on the private chat interface with the Sarlatian.

After George saw the name of the document, he almost turned pale with fright.

The document was named “biological genetic modification method”.

George had never thought that the unique secret technique of the Sarlatians would be the genetic modification of living things.

After all, let alone the innumerable living things in the universe, there were countless kinds of living things on Earth alone.

If taken literally, the genetic modification method would be to use unique biological technology to modify the genes of low-level living things, so that they could obtain abilities comparable to high-level living things.

When George saw that the document on the genetic modification method had been successfully downloaded, he immediately clicked on it to view it.

The interface that appeared in front of him displayed information that was originally in an alien language, but that had been quickly translated into the widely used English by the chat group system.

Very soon, George was attracted by the contents displayed on the first page of the document.

“Low-level organisms can be genetically modified to become high-level organisms? Is it so powerful?!”

George read for a while and realized that many of the contents were beyond his current understanding. This should be related to the utilization rate of his brain.

It seemed that the priority now was to increase the utilization rate of his brain so that he could understand the technology that the alien civilizations had mastered.

Next, George planned to stay up all night to advance his brainwaves to the detectable level of the alien starship..