Voyage of the Stars

Humans can only judge the use of various facilities in the base by the appearance of them. Whether they are living places or workplaces, or breeding grounds for other organisms, plant cultivation bases, etc.

From this point of view, it seems that Chi Yan Civilization was not in a hurry when he left.

In fact, what humans don't know is that the reason why the Red Flame Civilization was able to move the base so cleanly was all because of the foresight of their previous commander, who made them prepare to evacuate in advance.

"These guys didn't leave anything behind!" Yue Yuan sighed while switching between detection screens.

As time goes by, the exploration of Chi Yan Civilization is coming to an end, but no valuable information has been found.

If humans were still a second-level civilization, they might still be interested in the base materials of the Chiyan Civilization, but in the eyes of humans today, these materials are worthless.

Just when Yue Yuan was interested in the situation of the bases on the three planets, the voice of the person in charge of communications sounded in the command center: "Commander Yue, information from the Third Fleet."

"turn around!"

After saying this, Yue Yuan stood up from his seat, controlled the magnetic switch on his clothes through his brain chip, and walked slowly towards the porthole.

The Third Fleet is still in the orbit of the thirteenth planet, so the information sent is naturally not a real-time communication, but a paragraph and some picture and video information.

Following the operations of the communications staff, Bu Guiyu's avatar quickly appeared on the virtual screen. He gave a formal military salute, and then said: "Shuai Yue, the battlefield cleaning has been completed. We found these things. .”

After Bu Guiyu said this on the screen, some pictures appeared on the split screen next to his avatar.

Sparks flickered everywhere in the picture, and there were red iron juice, steel fragments, damaged wire pipes and other debris floating everywhere. Many things were unrecognizable from their original appearance.

Yue Yuan glanced at it and recognized the situation inside the damaged battleship. The still intact round crystal in the picture should be something like a screen.

This should be a picture taken from the perspective of a robot cleaning the battleship.

Sure enough, the next moment, he saw a small robot passing through the screen, spraying tail flames. It stretched out its robotic arm and groped for a while in a junk pile, and then it grabbed an iron lump.

This thing is as big as a bottle of water, but it is not cylindrical, but an oval like an egg. The material is a certain alloy, with an obvious retractable mechanical structure on the surface, which looks like an iron egg.

Well, it was indeed an iron lump, at least that was Yue Yuan's first impression, but what Bu Guiyu said next refreshed his understanding.

"This is the space suit of an individual life in the interstellar trading market. The two protruding retractable structures on the slightly smaller round head are its gripping parts, and the four below are... well, they can be regarded as four legs. Yue Shuai, look at it. , this is the form of individual life in the interstellar trading market,

We have dissected them, and they are a kind of life form similar to marine molluscs. Although their skin is smooth, their toughness is very good, so good that it cannot be cut with ordinary knives. It is comparable to rubber. "

The First Fleet has just discovered that the so-called interstellar trading market is actually called the Red Flame Civilization. The information has not yet been synchronized to the Third Fleet on the thirteenth planet, so Bu Guiyu's words call it an interstellar trading market.

Following Bu Guiyu's words, the video also switched to the scene of a human robot cutting open an iron egg and taking out an obviously lifeless alien from it.

The creature in the iron lump is very small, only about 30 centimeters in length. It looks round and soft. It has four legs and two hands. The legs are obvious, but the hands have no obvious features such as fingers. Look. It looks more like an octopus with a group of tiny suckers like tentacles.

If you add some tentacles to it, it will probably become the image of Cthulhu the octopus in people's minds. After seeing this image, Yue Yuan finally confirmed that the passage discovered before was the entry and exit passage for the life entities of the Red Flame Civilization.

At this time, Bu Guiyu continued: "We analyzed their spacesuit life support system and found that although they are soft-bodied creatures, they are not aquatic. They just live in a relatively humid environment. Well, I should say hot and humid. Their normal living temperature About 60 to 70 degrees Celsius,

From our human perspective, they are oviparous life forms. Some sporadic information shows that their offspring hatched from eggs. However, we did not find any of their eggs in the wreckage of the battleship.

Biologists believe that they should have some mothers specialized in laying eggs, because although we found more than one individual life in the wreckage of the battleship, we judged that they were different male and female individuals. The reason is that we have obvious findings in their body structure. In order to achieve mutually concave and convex symmetrical physiological structures,

But what surprised us is that after scanning, dissecting and analyzing their basic cell structure and genes, we did not find that either of them has obvious ability to reproduce. Well, maybe their breeding method is different from what we know. different.

Some experts speculate that the male and female individuals on these battleships do not have the ability to reproduce offspring. They should have some maternal bodies that are specialized in breeding offspring. Of course, maybe we have guessed wrong, but no matter what, we still don’t know how they reproduce. As for the offspring, it is not clear how many new individuals they will have after one birth. "

After reading the information from Bu Guiyu, the First Fleet finally knew more about the Red Flame Civilization, at least their life form.

Immediately, everyone on the Tianqin also expressed a few emotions.

"I didn't expect them to be so small."

"Isn't it? If I hadn't seen the way it was pulled out of the space suit with my own eyes, I would have thought it was their pet!"

"They seem to think that we humans look like kobolds. I wonder what they thought when they saw the 2.5-meter-tall kobolds."

"What you are saying is that they are also a dignified third-level civilization, and they are also a civilization that has the courage to pretend to be an interstellar trading market. They must have seen a lot of other alien life, and no matter how they behave, they cannot show that they have not seen it. Their appearance in the past is at most a bit surprising, just like the way we see their life forms now."

While these people were discussing curiously, the personnel responsible for watching the planet base detection suddenly said excitedly: "Everyone, new discovery, new discovery!"

Everyone turned around and saw that this person's personal screen was displaying a strange cavity structure. There were various hemispherical devices inside. The cavity was so densely packed that it numbered at least a hundred thousand. More than one, these devices are connected to many pipes and look like devices that store something.

The person who can be responsible for detecting intelligence is naturally not just a mouthpiece. He must have extremely strong professional knowledge. In fact, this is also the case. The Tianqin starts as an expert at the lowest level.

The person in charge shouted excitedly and then continued: "Based on the information from the step commander, I think this thing is most likely a breeding base for individuals of the Red Flame civilization. And these hemispherical devices , judging from its size, it should be a place to place their offspring in the 'egg' state. We have found more than one such breeding base. It seems that the Chiyan Civilization adopts artificial breeding, er, industrialized breeding of offspring. In this way, they can have It makes sense why so many living beings are sailing battleships.”

In fact, humans can also set up a breeding base for offspring in this way, because after advancing to the third level civilization, artificial embryo technology has been realized, but the ethical and moral hurdle has not been passed. The most important thing is that after strong artificial intelligence is put into use and the battleship model is determined, the human fleet does not need so many soldiers. Therefore, the new government has not implemented this birth model.