Voyage of the Stars

"Where are you from?" Yue Yuan asked, looking at the short, oval aliens appearing on the screen.

His words were converted by the translation system into a language that can be understood by individuals of the Chiyan Civilization, and were transmitted from the Tianqin to a certain residential spacecraft of the Chiyan Civilization.

The Red Flame civilization has been completely disarmed, and the individual beings on the screen are their internally re-elected leaders with the permission of humans.

"Interstellar trading market." The new leader of the Red Flame Civilization who was questioned answered honestly. His words were also translated by the translation system and transmitted to the Tianqin.

So the answer Yue Yuan heard was the sound of a certain AI timbre in the human database.

"Where is the interstellar trading market?" Yue Yuan asked again.

"We don't know that they are not fixed in a certain star system, but will travel in the universe, and then trade and communicate with the civilizations they encounter. Back then, our Chiyan civilization just happened to be supplying supplies in a certain star system. Met them." The new leader of Chi Yan Civilization still answered honestly.

He is only forty centimeters tall, and his overall appearance looks chubby. There are four legs at the bottom that seem to have no difference in front and back to support the entire body, and above are two octopus tentacle-like hands, if these can be counted as hands.

It can be seen from the appearance of this new leader that although the living individuals of the Red Flame Civilization have four legs, their layout is not like the four groups of animals commonly recognized by humans. The entire body is parallel to the ground. They are also upright. body.

The overall look is like an upright egg with four legs on the bottom. Their skin is hairless and looks white and tender, but in daily life, they all wear a gel 'clothing'.

From the information in the database, humans have learned that the individual lives of Chi Yan Civilization are also dioecious and a combination of male and female. The bonding process is very fast, taking less than five seconds. After the bonding, the female individual will lay about a thousand eggs in a very short period of time. These eggs will become new ones under the body temperature environment of the male individual. life.

The amazing thing is that their male and female individuals have a large body temperature difference. Only the male's body temperature conditions can hatch offspring. Therefore, before entering the technological era, they formed a cooperative society very early.

It can be seen from the data that previous human anatomy results were indeed wrong.

All in all, the individuals of the Red Flame Civilization are creatures similar to egg-laying creatures on Earth. Judging from the number of offspring they produce, they are more inclined to aquatic creatures because their reproductive ability is too powerful for humans.

After one birth, there are thousands of offspring.

Of course, the incubation period is also long. It takes about three Earth years for humans to hatch. However, in the interstellar era, they have learned to use superb technology to create incubation chambers, which has greatly shortened the process.

This allowed them to have a steady supply of troops.

"What level of civilization is the interstellar trading market? What is their purpose? Does the merchant alliance you mentioned before exist?" Yue Yuan looked at this round individual of the Red Flame Civilization and asked again.

"I don't know, but they must be stronger than us, because when they arrived at our location, they appeared at super-light speed. We still remember that scene." The new leader of the Red Flame Civilization placed his arms in an S shape. Then he continued to answer:

"We don't know their purpose, but one thing is for sure. They are indeed doing things in the way of space merchants. Even if they encounter us who are weak, they do not plunder us by force, but trade fairly with us.

As for the existence of the Merchant Alliance, we don't know. Our commander-in-chief said this back then, probably just to deceive those fledgling civilizations. "

"Well, what do you think? People treat you with fair trade, but you come to this star field to cheat and cheat under their banner afterwards?!" Yue Yuan nodded and asked curiously.

"It's because our previous high-level officials were obsessed with it." The new leader of Chiyan Civilization sighed a little as he said, "Actually, when we decided to come to this star field, we did not come because this star field was a safe star field. Fei planned to do things in the name of the Interstellar Trading Market from the beginning.

The fundamental reason is that we accidentally learned that there may be ruins of an advanced civilization in this star field. This is the fundamental reason why we came to this star field. We did not even inform the interstellar trading market about this news.

The reason why we came up with the idea of ​​robbing weak civilizations was only after we learned from the interstellar trading market that this star field was a safe star field. The purpose was to improve our own power as much as possible before looking for the remains of advanced civilizations. Technological strength.

Because we know that in addition to the benefits of exploring so-called civilizational ruins, there are bound to be many dangers involved, so we only temporarily came up with the idea of ​​low-level civilization in this star field. "

"Not for their home planet?"

"Well, that's one of the reasons." The new leader of Chiyan Civilization said with some embarrassment: "We want to get more data on living planets so that we can create more powerful life potions. Fortunately, we met the great earth civilization, This prevents us from going further down this wrong path.”

Yue Yuan didn't care whether he understood the new commander's knowledge of current affairs or not, so he nodded habitually and said: "Where is your home planet?"

"I don't know. Since the moment I was born, we have been a wandering civilization. When I was growing up, I didn't see anything about our home planet." said the new leader of the Chiyan Civilization.

A civilization that has even lost the memory of its home planet, Yue Yuan is very curious about how they developed to this point, but regarding this topic, not only does the new leader not understand it, but there is no record of it in the Red Flame Civilization database.

This is very confusing.

It stands to reason that a living entity that has developed to a third-level civilization, no matter how much it is ignored, will always have records about its home planet. Just like human beings today, although the earth is long gone, there is still information about the earth in the database.

In Yue Yuan's view, there are two possible reasons for this situation. First, this so-called Red Flame civilization probably developed from a certain group that fled. Second, this Red Flame Civilization is an experimental civilization created by an advanced civilization.

Of course it's just a guess, there are no concrete clues at all.

Some of Yue Yuan's questions are recorded in the Chiyan Civilization database, and some are not.

From the database records of the Chiyan Civilization, humans have clearly discovered that there is a problem with the history of the Chiyan Civilization. They have records of primitive living conditions but no corresponding environmental records. They have descriptions of their physiological adaptation to the environment. But there is no description of other beings living with them.

There are obvious gaps in their history.

Moreover, humans have also discovered an interesting phenomenon. The system used by the Red Flame Civilization in mathematics is not the binary system of their two tentacles, nor the hexadecimal system of six hands plus feet, nor the number of suckers on their tentacles. sexagesimal.

But it is an inexplicable decimal system.

This is completely inconsistent with the general rules for the use of mathematical systems in the development of intelligent organisms.