Chapter 690: Chapter 483: The Chess Player Who Overturned the Chessboard!

In this Civilization Trade Mall, the number of Seventy-Five Level Civilizations is actually not small at all.

At a glance, there are at least more than one hundred participating in commodity trade.

And this is definitely not all of them.

Human Civilization had already confirmed that the Civilization Trade Mall has a certain “regional division”; each individual does not see all the civilizations that have displayed their goods.

This can be verified by Affiliated Civilizations.

Although after the Affiliated Civilization relationship is confirmed, the Civilization Trade Malls of all civilizations exist within the same plane, the trading civilizations recorded under the same level by these Affiliated Civilizations could be consistent or inconsistent with the trading civilizations encountered by Human Civilization.

Therefore, the number of High-level Trial Civilizations is very likely to be quite substantial.

And there is logic behind this.

Normally, civilizations that have developed to this level are extremely rare and may even take an incredibly long time to achieve.

But under the rules and regulations of the Civilization Trial, as long as one can survive the trials, there will eventually come a time when they reach this step.

It is unknown how long the Civilization Trial has been running, nor how many high-level civilizations have been accumulated over this lengthy period.

However, after conducting intelligence and knowledge trade with many civilizations one after another, Human Civilization has confirmed one thing.

The Alliance is indeed not something you can enter or even learn about casually.

“We have contacted fifty-three Seventy-Five Level Civilizations, among which two civilizations clearly know the existence of the Alliance, one cannot be sure whether it is a member of the Alliance, another can be determined not to be, in addition, there are seven civilizations that are suspected of knowing the existence of the Alliance, being very secretive and cautious with our probes, with unknown intelligence, and the remaining forty-four civilizations can basically be sure of having no knowledge of the Trial Civilization Alliance…” Dong Gong reported the summary of information over this period at the meeting.

The focus, however, is still on the very first civilization, which is the “Eternal” civilization.

It is the only civilization whose membership in the Alliance is uncertain.

Because its response was direct and straightforward.

Without much concealment, it clearly informed that it was aware of the existence of the Alliance.

Clearly, it must have a certain understanding of the Alliance.

In this case, some caution is necessary.

But Human Civilization is not planning to ignore it.

Probing the Alliance is a must; currently, apart from the very limited intelligence provided by Ming Hong, there is no channel of contact, and this Eternal Civilization could very well be an opportunity.

So, after negotiating a round and grasping more intelligence, Human Civilization officially reached out to the Eternal Civilization.

The response was very straightforward.

It inquired in return whether the other party was a member of the Alliance.

Although it was a counter-question, the information implied in this statement was not insignificant–it at least acknowledged that Human Civilization also knew of the existence of the Alliance and, most likely, was not a member of it.

After that, it was a waiting game for a reply.

Equally prolonged.

It can only be said that negotiations between civilizations are inherently complex; it is not a matter between two individuals, but between two vast civilizations.

Shen Hao handed this matter over entirely to others, yet he remained attentive.

After waiting for nearly two to three years, the reply finally arrived.

Compared to before, this time the reply was more direct.

The Eternal Civilization, having seemingly conceded proactively in the previous probing, showed their sincerity.

They indeed were not members of the Alliance, but had once deeply interacted with another member civilization of the Alliance, which also possesses the ability to transmit intelligence and trade knowledge inheritances through the Civilization Trade System.

This was the reason for their question.

If Human Civilization is not a member of the Alliance, then they are willing to pay a heavy price to trade the means to lift trade restrictions.

“The civilizations that are members of the Alliance also have this kind of cheat-like ability,” Shen Hao narrowed his eyes; this was not unexpected.

Some cheats can only be used in past versions, otherwise, the many civilizations that developed the cheat panels would not need to send the cheats back to the past.

The Civilization Trial System is constantly self-upgrading, which is why the cheats must continue to be optimized.

Therefore, unless there is a second cheat panel sent back to the past, the cheat owned by Human Civilization should be the most powerful in the current timeframe.

Of course, this does not mean that the Trial Civilization Alliance does not have cheats available at the current stage.

Based on basic logical reasoning, a civilization that discovers a loophole in the Civilization Trial System will first think of exploiting that loophole for the benefit of their own civilization, rather than creating a cheat to give to other civilizations.

As Human Civilization continues to grow stronger, encountering civilizations with cheat abilities is inevitable.

Clearly, today is the day that happens!

Facing the Eternal Civilization that approached with sincerity, even actively placing themselves in the position of the requester, Shen Hao carefully pondered before giving the main points of the reply.

The ability of Human Civilization was obtained from a powerful civilization encountered in a certain Trial, without the ability to pass it on to others, but they agreed to exchange and share other intelligence about Alliance civilizations with the Eternal Civilization.