Chapter 1087 - What do you mean by only? (1/2)

It wasn’t the first time Jiang Chen had spoke in front of an audience, but it was his first time in front of such a high-profile audience.

He took a deep breath, and cleared his mind. With all eyes gathered on him, he slowly said, “There may be doubts in the minds of everyone here, whether it’s regarding the topic to be discussed or the summit itself.”

“I don’t have much to say here. Taking the literal meaning, the theme of this summit is security.”

“It’s not security between countries and not related to any territorial disputes, sovereignty disputes, or politics. Don’t show impatience; I’m not joking. Everyone, I’m not an alarmist, but we’re on a fine line between life and death.”

Jiang Chen noticed that when he said this, there were whispers. From the closest representatives, he was able to clearly see their disbelief.

It was just like he said something ridiculous.

Jiang Chen completely expected this reaction. Although evidence about the existence of extraterrestrial civilization and acts of aggression were summarized in the doc.u.ments, the audience wasn’t the director of NASA or ESA but senior foreign minister of each country, after all.

They weren’t experts in the area. They wouldn’t take everything Jiang Chen said for truth. It would take time to verify.

After a moment’s pause, Jiang Chen went on.

“Just a month ago, Celestial Trade s.p.a.ce Department discovered an interesting phenomenon when observing extraterrestrial planets and exploring extraterrestrial civilizations.”

The image on the holographic screen turned into a star map, and in the center of the star map was the Gliese 581 galaxy, 2 degrees north of the Libra-β.

“Gliese 581g. According to our researchers, the planet has a 90% chance of life.”

The UA delegation couldn’t sit still. The man sitting next to Secretary of State Kerry pressed the b.u.t.ton next to the microphone and requested to speak.

Jiang Chen didn’t mind that his speech was interrupted and gestured for him to continue.

The man stood up and fixed his microphone, then he put his hands on the table and looked at Jiang Chen with his eyebrows furrowed. He kept an oppressive posture and said, “NASA long ago conducted a detail observation on the Gliese 581 galaxy fifteen years ago and reached the conclusion that this blue-green pattern may contain life.”

Benjamin stood up straight, shrugged and said with a mocking tone, “But your researcher apparently didn’t pay attention to the journal ‘Science.’ Even as a layman, I know that four years ago, a paper published by the University of Pennsylvania researchers in Science pointed out that the planet didn’t actually exist and it was a color ray error caused by the stellar magnetic field burst of the 581d.”

“If you want to divert the attention of the international community to your ignorance in outer s.p.a.ce, you may wish to utilize a more realistic excuse and not blame aliens.”

When Benjamin said this, the venue became rattled.

Although the aeros.p.a.ce technology of Celestial Trade was indeed powerful, the UA was also an established aeros.p.a.ce power. While they might be slightly inferior in terms of hardware, their soft power couldn’t be underestimated.

Celestial Trade just said that there was life on Gliese 581g, yet the representative of UA immediately stood up and slapped his face. If the UA proved that the planet didn’t exist four years ago, then why did they come here for a meeting? To listen to nonsense from Celestial Trade?!

Anger was boiling among the representatives.

After his speech ended, Benjamin didn’t sit down immediately. Kerry, next to him, crossed his arms and looked at Jiang Chen. He wanted to see how he defended himself in irritation.

Stein raised an eyebrow and put his ballpoint pen on the table. He was very curious about how Jiang Chen, who was exposed on the spot, would defend himself.

The Hua Foreign Minister sat in silence, the Russian Foreign Minister and his deputy exchanged looks. The French Representative began to check his watch impatiently…

Jiang Chen’s calm reaction surprised Secretary of State Kerry. It was too calm that almost made what just happened boring.