There wasn't a fleet as the gatherers expected, all that existed was a spaceship.

The ship was about the size of the mothership, and at the bow was a slender tube that stretched out for seven or eight kilometers, from which plasma was continuously gushing out, and it was here that the light that the collectors saw.

After some observation, the collectors were able to get a general idea of the structure of the ship, and the plasma that erupted from the bow of the ship would be thrown to the rear of the ship after the ship moved, so that it would form a plasma shield in front of the ship, which could be used to defend against interstellar atoms and small meteorites.

However, this plasma shield is inferior to the antimatter shield of the gatherers, that is, it has limitations in its protection, if a meteorite is very fast, or extremely massive, the plasma shield does not have time to vaporize it, and the meteorite passes through the shield, which will be a heavy blow to the ship.

To understand more intuitively, if a person passes through the flame of the lighter with his fingers, as long as the speed is fast enough and the flame is quickly swept over, the fingers will not be burned in the slightest, and the person will only feel the heat for a moment.

"Drop the signal progeny."

One of the leaping creatures drops a glowing ball of flesh from the bow of the ship, slowing down both the ball and the leaping creature.

The Meat Ball will emit a regular glow, but these regular lights do not contain any meaning in it, the purpose of the Meat Ball's existence is only to show the gesture of the gatherers - we are trying to communicate with you, and if you are friendly, then you should cooperate with us.

"Free up the radio band."

Subsequently, the gatherers radioed a copy of the Serene Renaissance texts as a translation in the direction of the mothership-class ship.

Gatherers who don't have the ability to translate unfamiliar languages don't have the ability to translate them, so they want to ask each other to translate their own language, so that they can also communicate - seeing such a huge mothership-class ship that can move across star systems, the gatherers don't suspect that the owners of this strange ship don't have such capabilities.

After waiting for a while, the collectors did not wait for a reply from the other party.

"They didn't reply."

"What should I do in this situation?"

The gatherers did not consider this possibility, because at the beginning of their departure, they only considered the operational problem, and subconsciously ignored the problem of how to deal with it if it was a non-combat unit.

"If they're silent, we can't be sure if they're malicious or benign."

Distressed by the Gatherers, the five Gatherers split into two groups, one believing the ship to be benevolent and the other the opposite.

"It should be well-intentioned, right? Otherwise, it would have been attacked a long time ago, wouldn't it? ”

"It could also be malicious, maybe waiting for us to slow down."

Eventually, the gatherers gathered their opinions and they decided to board the ship.

"Then let's go up and have a look."

"How? This ship has a plasma shield."

"This shield is only to protect the front half of the ship, just like our antimatter shield, it is used to prevent the material entities in the universe from colliding with the ship, and we can board the ship from its tail."

Collectors soon came up with a way to bypass the plasma shield, which wasn't too difficult for them.

"But if they were a malicious civilization, would they deliberately snipe us at the tail?"

Some individuals expressed concern, and other gatherers felt that this concern was justified, and suggested another way to break through.

"Either you don't use a weapon to blow up the plasma jet in front of the ship."

"No, we're not familiar with the inner workings of the ship, and if we do this, we'll kill the aliens in the spaceship, or worse, if we blow up the spaceship, we'll get nothing."

The core of the plasma jet does not know where the ship is located, it is the source of the spacecraft plasma, and if you just blow up the vent, it will not help at all, and even if the spacecraft's plasma vent is blocked, the ship will be at risk of self-explosion.

After one more discussion, the gatherers made a decision.

"In that case, let one entity land on the ship through the tail, and the other individuals are on standby, if they are attacked, they can be judged as a malicious civilization and can launch an attack on them."

The leaping creatures that had previously dropped the meat balls began to change their speed, and then changed course to approach the tail of the ship.

After some effort, the Gatherer approached the tail of the ship and was gradually reducing its speed to a level comparable to that of a giant ship.

Looking at the back of the spacecraft from the collector's angle, you can see huge circular concaves, which are the propulsion vents of the spacecraft, and the radius of each concave is not less than three kilometers.

"I've reached the tail of the ship and started trying to get closer to board."

The gatherers were not in the mood to see such a man-made spectacle, but instead attached to the ship's hull at the edge of the ship's thrusters, ready to violently break through the obstacles and enter the ship's interior.

However, before the gatherers could react otherwise, a message from the ship itself was revealed to the gatherers, the language of the Serenes.

The other party successfully translated the text given by the collectors!

"Odega civilization, we are an amoeba civilization, we are also a civilization of good will, I hope to establish further peaceful exchanges with you."

Since the other party has replied, it means that the gatherers do not need to use violent means.

But not long after the gatherers thought like this, the signal released by the spacecraft did not communicate in detail according to the wishes of the gatherers, but only repeated the previous information meaninglessly.

Gatherer: ???

The gatherers were surprised, but didn't think much of it, just thinking that they might not be fully proficient in the Seren language, so they handed over another message and continued to wait.

"We hope to establish a further exchange of information with you, which will increase mutual trust."

"Aren't you going to say anything more than that?"

"Your ignorance will be seen as hostile by us, and this is a last reminder that for the safety of both of us, please establish a channel of communication with us."

The gatherers delivered the last message titled 'Reminder' pronounced 'Warning', and they had run out of patience to wait.

However, the answer is still ......

"What should I do?" Questioned by an individual attached to the ship.

The first time the gatherers encountered such a situation, it used to be either friendly or hostile, and even if it was somewhere between friendly and hostile, after the last warning of the gatherer, there should have been a reply, but the current state of affairs is really intriguing.

After some thought, the gatherers made a decision.

"The original plan was to force boarding, and they ignored the information we sent, so we will go to them and talk to them face to face, and if there is an act of resistance, we will disarm them by force."

"Understood."

The ship's outer gatherers agreed with the idea, but just as it was about to be powerless to break through the ship's hull and enter the interior, its bioradar suddenly picked up a large number of entities.

From the direction they are traveling, it can be seen that the target of these unidentified entities is the gatherer attached to the outside of the ship!

"It's an attack! Everyone is ready to ......"

The other gatherers reacted immediately, with a large number of guns aimed at the ship, the electromagnetic orbit had begun to warm up and recharge, and the gamma-ray cannon was loaded with ammunition.

The whole process is done in one go and completed in less than a second.

Just as they were about to launch a high-energy offensive, they were stopped by gatherers attached to the ship.

"Wait, I can handle it, don't cause more damage just yet."

These offspring released by the spaceship have almost no attack power against the gatherers, and they do attack, but the hot lasers they release also cut through all metal plates, which is useless against the highest level of amoeba combat individuals such as leaping creatures, and accelerating the cooling cycle of solid helium can be completely harmless.

But these progeny are different, even if the collector uses low-power gamma rays, they can easily destroy a large number of progeny, gamma photons are not enough to destroy the mechanical structure of the progeny, but it has a fatal blow to the electronic chips carried by the progeny, and it didn't take long for these progeny to be cleaned up.

On the side of the spaceship, after the child body was released, there was no movement, no other attacks, and no supplementary child body came in to fight.

This behavior is even more incomprehensible to the gatherer.

"Why didn't they react? That's it? ”

The gatherer, who thought that the other party would still make some moves, watched suspiciously.

On the other hand, gatherers preparing to board the ship began to use the coordination properties of chemical bonds to etch and destroy the ship's hull.

With a cup of tea, the gatherers were able to open a tunnel that connected to the interior of the ship.

As it was about to enter, the other gatherers told it.

"Be careful, we share a vision."

"Understood."