1032 Strange Shepherds
The tentacles of the twelve giants danced wildly, not knowing what they were talking about.
The holographic projection slowly dances its tentacles and poses in various shapes under the control of the provenance, trying to communicate with each other.
It is impossible to predict whether or not they can communicate, but the speed at which the tentacles swing is slower, and it should be able to express friendship in a certain way.
The hologram's plausible "tentacle language" baffled the Big Macs, perhaps thinking that the compatriot they had never seen before belonged to a different species and spoke a dialect or foreign language, so they began to try to communicate with the imposter as well.
The two sides pointed to each other first, and then to others, and everything that could be seen with the naked eye was not spared, including the stars, and the computer recorded all the actions of the other party, and finally got the first batch of actions that could be understood.
Immediately, the provenance applied for a large amount of computing resources from the central computer of the base star, and began a frantic decipherment work.
Whenever an action is parsed, the hologram will try to use it again, probably sensing the friendliness of the holographic compatriots, nine of the twelve giants turn their heads away, and after returning to the material enrichment area, the clustered star-eating ants are released and start eating small celestial bodies in large areas again.
After a few hours, the two sides were finally able to communicate with each other with some content, and the parsing speed was greatly accelerated, and after five hours, the computer finally read the first consecutive sentence.
Although this sentence did not mean anything substantial, the three men on the bridge were still very happy.
The process of getting to know each other is just too monotonous. At this time, most of the people had already left the bridge, and only Ye Fei, Feng Lei and Xia Zhuoyan were still holding on.
If it weren't for Feng Lei's refusal to leave, I was afraid that Ye Fei would have disconnected the neural network long ago.
Ye Fei originally wanted to cut off the control of the computer and let Xia Zhuoyan take over the communication, but after thinking about it, he took the initiative to take over the control of the hologram and began to officially communicate with the Big Mac.
In order not to be too abrupt, Ye Fei chose the star-eating ant as the breakthrough point and asked, "What are those?" Are you of the same kind? ”
The Big Mac was very surprised, and quickly put on a few patterns, and finally the two tentacles formed the outline of the star-eating ant, to the effect of, "Don't you know about meat worms?" ”
"I really don't know." Ye Fei replied.
"And what do you eat?"
Hey? Only then did Ye Fei know that star-eating ants were free-range food for the Big Mac. So, aren't these giants guarding star-eating ants grazing?
Thinking of this, he re-named this huge cosmic creature: Shepherd!
I found the chatterbox. The communication between the two sides began to deepen gradually, Ye Fei learned more and more about the herdsmen, and finally figured out the basic situation of the herdsmen.
It is a race that lives by herding small cosmic creatures, and they possess a high level of intelligence. But I don't know anything about technology. Since the first generation of pastoralists produced wisdom, they have been cosmic creatures. So there is no recorded history, no concept of roots, they just graze their own "livestock". Constant wandering in the universe.
Ye Fei originally thought that the herdsmen traveled through the universe at superlight speed, but after asking, he learned that they did not have the ability to fly faster than light at all, and they all relied on sub-light speed to fly through the distant interstellar space.
Although they have evolved the ability to sleep, the seemingly calm universe is too dangerous, and the journey through interstellar space is full of dangers, so they will not continue to sleep, and every once in a while, they have to wake up to check the direction of flight and avoid dangers on the route in time, so star-eating ants are an indispensable source of food for them during their long journey.
Speaking of star-eating ants, they are also very magical creatures.
Despite the small size of this creature, it has its own system in its body, which can swallow small celestial bodies, absorb water and dust in them, and form a culture medium similar to soil in the body.
Unlike herders, star-eating ants go dormant after entering interstellar space and will never wake up until a new galaxy is created. In the dormant state, the activity of the star-eating ant is basically stagnant, and at this time, several fungi parasitic inside the cyst will regain their vitality due to changes in the environment and take root and grow on the culture medium.
During their long journey across interstellar space, star-eating ants digest these fungi for energy.
There are many other breeds of small cosmic creatures that herds by herders, but they are the favorite breed of livestock among herders due to this rare trait.
If it weren't for the star-eating ants' ridiculously low requirements for food, they might have been trapped here for lack of food this time when they entered this galaxy that was extremely lacking in substance.
Ye Fei took the opportunity to ask where this group of only a dozen herdsmen came from, and took the opportunity to learn about the situation of the herdsmen.
The herdsmen didn't have much concept of the starry sky, and the answers they gave were plausible, and Ye Fei finally figured out where the galaxy they stayed in last time was.
According to the herdsmen, the material in that galaxy is extremely rich, their ancestors have stayed there for a long time, and the number of herds has developed significantly, and the six largest of these dozen herdsmen were born and grew in that galaxy.
Newborn herders are fragile and must live in their mother's body like a kangaroo cub for a period of time until the hard shell of the body can withstand the harsh environment of the universe, before leaving their mother and learning everything about survival.
When these six herders came of age, they were divided into herds that were large enough for the first interstellar crossing according to the herdsmen's habits, formed a new family, and left the herd to live an independent life, and eight of the fourteen herders were the descendants they gave birth to during the journey.
If this family finds an extremely materially rich galaxy one day in the future, then they will also expand their herd there and spread out - although they know that the human relationship is not suitable for herdsmen, Ye Fei and the others still have great curiosity about how the four herdsmen form a family.
The answer to the question couldn't be simpler, don't look at the shepherds' huge size, but they are hermaphroditic, allo-fertilized creatures, and the offspring of six herdsmen crossed can ensure the production of enough bloodless individuals to ensure the normal continuation of the population.
Ye Fei can be regarded as completely collapsed in the chaotic and complex (Lun) relationship between the herdsmen, but he doesn't think it's strange when he thinks of the marriage of his brother and cousin in the name of the ancient representative brother and cousin. (To be continued......)