As you can imagine, the ship's presence must have been made up of well-trained personnel from the Azure Star authorities, so they quickly recovered from their curiosity and shock and returned to work, and Sandora and I didn't worry about being watched like a rare animal—while we were prepared for it and didn't mind attracting the attention of the locals, it wasn't fun to be heavily watched. Come on,.!

At the end of the day, there were only a few people in front of us who seemed to be of a high level, and one of them was the leader of the previous exploration team, Old Man Joe, but I prefer to call him a strange old man.

"Do you think aliens must grow crooked melons and cracked dates?" I bared my teeth and glanced at the strange old man.

"According to my research, because extraterrestrial creatures evolved in a completely different natural environment, and may go through completely unimaginable evolutionary paths, and have their own different origin ancestors, it is almost impossible for extraterrestrial intelligent beings to appear on two different planets......" The old man didn't seem to hear the ridicule in my words, and replied very seriously.

"Well, the theory is correct, so there are innumerable kinds of strange alien creatures," I replied casually, "but because of the gods...... Well, for some reason, humanoid creatures in the form of you and me do make up the vast majority of all intelligent beings. ”

The old man immediately took out his small notebook from his arms, took notes seriously, and halfway through writing, he suddenly froze, as if he suddenly realized something: "Wait, you just mentioned countless strange alien creatures...... You mean. In this universe, there are countless intelligent beings!? Like us, intelligent beings who can consciously learn, evolve, and explore the truth of the world, yearning for the stars and the sea? ”

I glanced at the other man, and suddenly it seemed to me that this was a lovely old man—the way he looked at him now made me think it was necessary to answer this question seriously. So he nodded solemnly: "Exactly." The universe is not inhospitable, and there is another planet with life less than ten light-years away from your galaxy - of course, I can't tell you exactly where they are. Nor can it tell you if they are friendly or not. But what is certain is that extraphylogenetic life exists, and it is widespread. And there is not only extra-line life. There are also extraterrestrial life, the world outside the universe, where there are also countless intelligent beings. You should not be able to explore that step yet, but if you persevere, one day you will find that everything is bigger than you imagined. ”

The old man's eyes widened, and he even forgot to continue writing his notes, and beside the old man, an old man dressed in a completely different white robe, who looked no younger than Old Man Qiao, stepped forward, folded his hands on his chest, and said in a very reverent tone: "God has also revealed this to us in a very subtle way. That's why we've persevered so far, and we've gone into the cold of space. ”

Seeing that Sandora and I were focused on themselves, the white-robed old man bowed slightly, and said in a calm and powerful voice: "Introduce yourself, I am the person in charge of the space exploration of this planet. You can call me 'No' and welcome you once again to this planet favored by the gods. I hope that the two sides will be able to conclude this historic exchange in an atmosphere of peace and friendship. ”

Sandora and I remembered that we hadn't introduced ourselves yet, so we said our names, but we didn't mention the Empire or anything like that: because they didn't know anything about it anyway. We just told the old man named "No" that the two of us were on a long trip with a fleet and that it was a complete accident. Unable to restart the journey for the time being, it is possible to stay in this star system for a few days - that should be enough.

After introducing myself, I couldn't help but turn the conversation to what the other person had just said about my god.

"God...... Gave you tips on space exploration? What kind of gods do you believe in? ”

As soon as this sentence came out, I felt a little inappropriate, because I suddenly remembered that when I was chatting with Lilina before, the other party said that when interacting with different races, the issue of religious belief should be put at the bottom of the list, and it is more appropriate to discuss religion after the two sides have a deeper understanding to make sure that there will be no conflicts on sensitive issues due to misunderstandings. As a result, I can't help but mention it now.

Anyway, Sandora and I hope to have a friendly and pleasant exchange with these curious indigenous people.

Fortunately, the other party didn't seem to pay much attention to my question, he just smiled and nodded: "We believe in the great god of war, a powerful, wise, and loving god. His appearance put an end to the era of ignorance of the Blue Star, the worship of the god of war, and the unity of the various races that were originally divided and conquest, the god of war guides us that the real enemy should not be the one who has the same blood as himself, and the real war should not be used to burn the homes of his compatriots. Under the protection of the god of war, the blue star has today, and understands the meaning of the truth of the world, we began to explore the broader world realm, in the hope of seeing the incomparably vast world truth in the mouth of the god of war. ”

I thought about it and felt that I still couldn't help it: "...... Are you sure you believe in the god of war? How do I feel that this does not fit the positioning of the word 'God of War'......"

"There shouldn't be a position for God in the first place," the white-robed old man looked at me very seriously, "Mortals always impose a lot of their own habitual understanding on God, which only limits the purity of faith. The true gods are gods, who possess wisdom and power beyond mortals, who know what we do not know, and who can therefore guide us, and this is not limited to how the gods claim to be, for the gods are omniscient and omnipotent in all the realms that shallow mortals can reach. The fact that the great god of war sometimes calls himself the god of light does not affect our faith......"

Me: "......"

I couldn't help it, and secretly touched Sandora's arm: "Why do I suddenly have a sense of déjà vu?" ”

Sandora tilted her head, "Same as above." ”

But now doesn't seem to be the time to continue discussing the other party's beliefs, because the old man in the white robe told us. The spacecraft is about to enter the planet's atmosphere, and the end of the trip is near the capital of the Azure Star (it is said to land on the outskirts), which has no name for the time being because the author has not yet thought of it.

The Blue Star's magic spaceship is obviously not very mature in terms of technology, and when it lands, it still needs to prepare a set of rather complex gravitational traction and impulse buffer fields on the surface to land smoothly, so it wastes a lot of time when landing, and in the process of carefully falling into the buffer field in this magic spaceship that seems to be a bit old, we see the scene outside through a large screen located at the front of the control room. Just as we expected. The landing site of the ship is far from the city, and the end of the horizon is still a wasteland. I wonder if all the spaceship landing sites on this planet are set in such a desolate place - according to their skill level, it shouldn't be like this. There is only one explanation: the authorities do not want the landing of "aliens" on the planet's surface to cause a greater impact on the population.

Sandora and I were seven parts curious and three parts funny. Under the "escort" of the old man "No" and the old man "Joe" (why is the name of the indigenous people of this world so strange), he walked down the gangway of the spaceship, and at the landing field, there was already a large group of people waiting in a neat line. All dressed gorgeously and politely. Even if the cultural forms are very different, I can smell the well-trained from them.

I don't know much about this world, and I can't judge the identity of this group of people by the clothes and clothes on them, but I can roughly judge what kind of people they are based on just guessing: the second-in-command of politics, the second-in-command of the military, the second-in-command of science and technology, and the second-in-command of relevant departments. The number one will certainly not be here: as long as they have the slightest normal vigilance when confronted with this "supernatural contact", the number one should be crouching in the bomb shelter by now.

I suspect that before the spacecraft had broken into the atmosphere, Sandora's and I headstickers should have reached these people, so when the two "aliens" appeared. All eyes fell on us with great precision, and even the human elite, who were the best at hiding their emotions, looked a little uncontrollable at this moment. This kind of onlooker made Sandora a little unhappy, so Her Majesty the Queen snorted dissatisfiedly, and everyone fell into a brief state of panic. After a few seconds, there was no more direct gaze.

"You are very welcome to this planet, I am the Deputy Speaker of the Blue Star, and our Speaker, the supreme ruler of the planet, is preparing a more formal welcome for you, so I can't come in person," a middle-aged man in black who looked in good spirits stood at the front of the queue. He greeted us warmly, but when he spoke to us, his eyes were tilted upwards and looking at the clouds in the sky, how strange and strange his posture was, this middle-aged man looked very excited, and I could feel the tension in his bones - everyone on the scene was the same, as peaceful and friendly as possible, paying close attention to every movement that might cause misunderstanding, but not hiding the tension in his heart, and ...... further away

If my psychic sense is correct, I feel like I've spotted a circle of troops.

Of course, Sandora also sensed the various energy reactions that locked here in the distance, but she just smiled indifferently, Her Majesty the Queen, who was strict and indifferent, would not be angry about such a thing now. For this is not a provocation, but a normal reaction of a lower civilization confronted with supernatural contact for the first time - after a certain amount of goodwill and strength from the visitors from outside the world, they show the same goodwill, and at the same time be prepared for the unexpected. Most indigenous civilizations should have this level of vigilance, if not higher. There is even a course in the Imperial Military Academy dedicated to this project, called "Behavioral Analysis and Classification of Isolated and Civilized Civilizations in the First Contact with Civilizations Outside the System", which contains about hundreds of reaction patterns that different civilizations may produce when they first contact with aliens, and they are all empirical. This course is aimed at students in the college who are interested in becoming "pioneers", teaching them how to become excellent aliens who can quickly establish bilateral consensus with the local natives. Due to the increasing rate of expansion of the empire and the discovery of more and more indigenous civilizations within the borders, this course is quite popular, and by the way, the honorary editor-in-chief of the relevant textbooks is Her Majesty the Queen next to me......

Therefore, Sandora has quite a lot of experience with aliens, not to mention her usual extreme harshness and indifference to outsiders. But when it comes to the cautious and nervous natives in front of us, she is more forgiving than I am — and of course, she is still insensitive to the look in her eyes.

The group of people who had come to host the "aliens" first expressed their wishes for peace in a brief but clichéd diplomatic expression, and then invited Sandola and I to their makeshift "meeting room" for a while. In fact, the so-called living room is a large white yurt-like house next to the landing field, and based on the state of its base, I judge that this thing has just been airdropped onto this wasteland - the landing will take no more than fifteen minutes. However, this hastily prepared house has all kinds of facilities in it, and after discovering that the "aliens" look like humans (anyway, why do I feel so awkward about this sentence?). They simply decorate the room according to the habits of their own race. Sandora and I said we were used to it, and tactfully hoped they would relax a little more - really, they would be so nervous again. I'm going to get nervous.

Nima, I actually came down to see the scenery, but how did it become a state visit......

"Really. You don't have to be so serious, I feel weird that I'm not used to," looked at two apparently hand-picked linguists (or negotiators, perhaps?). Sitting across from me and Sandora, showing a cordial conversation, followed by the uncle who sat down with a small notebook and was about to take notes, and there was a large group of guys who looked casual but maybe some kind of expert scholar special forces Schwarzenegger in their bones, I felt a little crying and laughing, "We just passed by, the fleet can't go, so stay here for a few days, you are so solemn and make me feel that the fleet has caused you trouble......"

Sitting in front of Sandora and I were a middle-aged man and woman. They were a little confused when they heard my words, and then they looked at each other: "This is a historic moment for our planet, but it doesn't seem to be a ...... to you What's so special? ”

That's the problem, the natives of this planet are in a period of high enthusiasm for space exploration, and they are passionate about life in outer space (of course. They hadn't imagined the level of extraterrestrial beings yet), but they had never seen real aliens, so when they saw the Fifth Fleet suddenly appear over the planet, they were more panicked than excited - well, and the alien threat theory, in short. They look at my landing with Sandora in the light of a turning point in history. In our eyes, the situation is just the opposite, this is a plan to go out, and then to plan out of the plan, it is also a trip......

The diametrically opposed judging criteria lead to the fact that the two sides are always a little different from the same channel, especially when I feel that someone is arranging various sensitive instruments outside the room, which makes me feel even more disobedient.

Perhaps the only thing to be happy about is that Sandora and I haven't met the kind of mad scientist who wields little throwing knives and is eager to slice aliens into research, otherwise we'd have had fun - but think about it, when you have a bunch of alien ships over your head that are more than a dozen times the size of your own planet, and they don't know why they will use dandruff to destroy your home planet, normal people probably don't dare to think about "slicing".

"There's no way," Sandora spread her hands, "The semi-civilized civilization that has just left the home planet will have this situation when it comes into contact with the alien race for the first time, and today's situation is still good, because of the fleet, the local race will not have an overreaction, in many cases, it is not uncommon for the two sides to directly break out into conflict, no matter which world is not peaceful." ”

She told me, but the experts around her were recording quickly, occasionally talking in a low voice, and the two negotiators in front of her also bowed their heads and muttered a few words, and the middle-aged woman looked up: "I think we know what the differences in ideas between the two sides are." We are obviously still a young civilization, and we have seen the outer world for the first time, but you have traveled to countless planets and are accustomed to this...... But please understand how excited we are now......"

I waved my hand at her: "I understand, our elementary school textbooks have talked about how to be a good alien with five lectures and four beautiful aliens, so I'll try to get used to it - as long as you don't watch too cruelly." Affect our mood. ”

Another middle-aged male negotiator grinned: "Of course, we'll pay attention. Also, we are glad that we have met friendly alien guests, and many people have expressed panic at your presence, and now it seems that the great god of war is still protecting his people, and we are stepping out of the cradle on safe ground. ”

Hearing the locals talk about their gods again, I felt a lot of curiosity in my heart, so I said, "Well, if we can, we want to see your gods...... Well, I mean look at your churches and stuff. Sandora and I were interested in the religious side of things. ”

Asking questions such as "where is your god, what does he look like, how do you know if he exists or not" are quite reckless and can easily cause conflicts, so it is better to show that they are interested in their religion, neither too attentive nor blindly questioning, which is the key to communicating with believers - Lilina.

And I'm really interested in their god, whoever he or she is, a god who encourages his followers to study space and find aliens...... This is a bit high-end. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

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