"We, the Havilah Civilization, are a peace-loving civilization. For a long time, we have always done our best to avoid conflict with any civilization or existence, and have always adhered to an independent development model, quietly developing in this vast universe.

We are very much looking forward to peaceful and friendly exchanges with you, who have come from afar, but unfortunately, a single solar system cannot accommodate two civilizations.

To avoid misunderstandings between us, we sincerely hope that you can change your course and proceed to other solar systems. At that time, we warmly welcome you to send a visiting fleet to our civilization. If you agree, we can also send a visiting fleet to your civilization's station for a visit.

We sincerely wish your civilization eternal existence in this vast universe, and we also sincerely wish the flower of peace can bloom between our civilizations.

Respectfully, from the Havilah Civilization's Head of State and all intelligent life within the civilization."

This message included numerous words and sentence structures that could be used as reference, allowing Tom to understand their language and writing system by analyzing those words, and thus comprehend the meaning of the message.

Tom had done the same when he communicated with the Bluetoth Civilization.

Tom referred to those words and sentence structures used as reference as a "dictionary." And it now seemed that sending one's civilization's "dictionary" to a civilization hoping to establish communication was a common practice in this universe.

When he first received this message, Tom was somewhat surprised.

He hadn't expected that a randomly selected solar system would already be inhabited by a civilization.

This civilization clearly understood the way of survival, knowing to employ "environmentally friendly" methods during large-scale material collection or construction to minimize their impact on the environment and thus reduce the probability of exposure.

Otherwise, during the previous exploration of this solar system, Tom would have certainly detected traces of a civilization inhabiting it, and would not have chosen it as a target.

It was now clear that the civilization had seen the deceleration plume of his fleet, and thus discovered his approaching movement, which led to this message.

"I have been fleeing in this universe for several millennia, traveling a total distance of hundreds of light-years. It's quite normal to occasionally encounter a civilization over such a vast distance," Tom pondered silently.

"Based on my previous deductions, given the existence of a large number of natural disaster civilizations that use 'orthodox intelligent civilizations' as resources in the universe, it's basically impossible for peace to exist even between two civilizations with good intentions towards each other.

Once another civilization is encountered, the safest approach is to immediately steer clear.

Now, if I insist on entering this solar system and continue to decelerate, a war will likely break out.

In this message, besides stating their position and their desire to avoid war, there's also a great deal of deterrence…"

This deterrence was not explicitly stated in the message content.

Tom keenly perceived that the act of sending the message itself by this civilization, which called itself "Havilah," was a form of deterrence.

His fleet was currently still about 4.6 trillion kilometers, or approximately 0.5 light-years, away from the main star.

And this message was sent via electromagnetic waves!

For an electromagnetic wave message to travel 0.5 light-years and still not attenuate to the point of merging with the cosmic background radiation, still being easily deciphered, one could imagine the immense power of its emission.

Such high emission power, in turn, implied what kind of formidable technology?

From this single point, Tom could analyze that the Havilah Civilization's technological level must be above his own.

Tom did not believe that every intelligent civilization could have his kind of fortuitous encounter, possessing such unique abilities.

So, for an ordinary intelligent civilization to develop independently in the vast universe to the Strong Nuclear stage, and with a technological level even surpassing his own…

To what extent were this civilization's resilience and wisdom, as well as its survival ability, environmental adaptability, internal organizational structure, and so on, strong?

Consider this: even with his own abilities, breaking through electroweak to reach Strong Nuclear was fraught with thousands of difficulties. How much harder would it be for an ordinary intelligent civilization to develop to Strong Nuclear?

No civilization that has survived and developed to a certain stage in the universe is to be underestimated.

Tom decisively stopped the deceleration maneuver, immediately manipulated the fleet to change course, and began flying in another direction.

The fleet was too massive, and changing its course was not an overnight task. Even if the course adjustment began immediately, the fleet would still approach that star due to inertia, potentially getting as close as about 0.3 light-years before passing by it.

At the current distance between the two sides, Tom also did not have the ability to transmit an electromagnetic wave signal.

But that was fine. The change in the fleet's plume should be clearly detectable by the other party, allowing them to determine that his course had changed, thus avoiding misjudgment.

Time passed quietly, and soon, Tom's fleet reached its closest point to that star.

From there, Tom sent a message in Human Civilization's language, accompanied by a dictionary.

"Respected Havilah Civilization, we are the Human Civilization from the distant deep space. We stumbled upon this place by chance and were previously unaware that this solar system was already occupied by your civilization.

We deeply agree with your proposal and profoundly concur with your judgment that 'a single solar system cannot accommodate two civilizations.'

Our side has already adjusted our course and will depart from this solar system to seek another for stationing.

If there is an opportunity in the future, our side also sincerely looks forward to friendly exchanges with your esteemed civilization.

Respectfully, from the Human Civilization's Head of State and all intelligent life within the civilization."

After this small interlude, Tom no longer concerned himself with the matter.

Friendly exchanges? Forget it. Right now, I just want to be alone and quiet, and preferably, no one bothers me.

Time passed quietly. Just as Tom's fleet continued to move away from this solar system, he suddenly noticed something amiss.

From within this solar system, he saw flashes of plumes.

Based on the intensity, the scale of this fleet must be considerable. At the same time, judging by their course… this fleet seemed to be on a collision course with his own fleet in a few years!

Tom's heart instantly grew heavy.

At the same time, another message was transmitted.

"Respected Head of State of the Human Civilization, after careful deliberation, our side has decided to yield a planet for your side to station.

…"

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