"You see, they use tools, they live in groups, they communicate with each other."

Gatherers on the terrestrial planets indicate why they do so, but such a standard is not accepted by all collectors.

"They don't even have clothes."

"But we don't have either." The gatherers on the Earth-like planet retorted.

“……”

Indeed, this counter-argument is problematic, and if it is possible to judge whether a species is intellectual, intelligent or not, with or without clothing, then the awakening of the race from the natural whole can be achieved too easily.

After some discussion, the collectors came up with a criterion for judging whether a species is intelligent and intelligent.

"It doesn't matter if you can use tools, at least you can make tools, and you can pass on your knowledge, so that you can be considered a qualified intelligent species, so that you can form a civilization, do they have these?"

Wisdom represents the ability to create, and conversely, it is understood that only by demonstrating the ability to create can a species be proved to be intelligent and intellectual.

Wisdom can naturally build civilization by assisting in the transmission of knowledge.

"I don't know, I'll see if I'll see if I'm here for a while."

……

On the surface of the terrestrial planet, in a dense forest of purple leaves, the four-legged creature discussed by the gatherers was sitting on a rock, happily polishing something.

With each movement of the four-legged creature, there would be a 'sigh' sound, which sounded so noisy that not a single other type of animal in the quadruped creature's surroundings was scared away by the strange sound made by the quadruped creature.

Even his fellow citizens kept this distance from him, occasionally looking at him strangely.

"Gurgling ......"

One of its kind walked up to the four-legged creature and danced at what the four-legged creature was doing, making all sorts of strange noises from time to time.

"Gurgling ......"

When the four-legged creature saw the actions of its kind, it stopped and screamed in return, and carefully handed the thing in its hand to the same kind for it to look at.

Simple actions indicate their social behavior, with the same kind of people being curious about what the quadruped is doing, the previous action is expressing the meaning of wanting to know, and the subsequent behavior of the four-legged creature is satisfying the curiosity of its own kind.

The four-legged creature has a stone in its hand, to be precise, it is a polished stone, the stone has a bladed surface, but because it is very blunt, it cannot be called a stone knife, the texture of the side of the stone can be seen to be polished, and you can feel the temperature generated by a long time of polishing when touched by your hand.

However, this kind of thing is too advanced for the four-legged creatures, so that they can't understand the effect of this thing except the grinder himself, and after observing it, the same kind of people go to other places with no interest, and the four-legged creatures repeat the previous grinding behavior.

All is calm.

"Grunt!"

Suddenly, a strange cry came from within the jungle, breaking the silence of the purple-leaved dense forest.

I saw a four-legged creature rush out of the forest in a panic, running forward desperately, and then a shadow suddenly flew out, and the hideous blood basin bit the fleeing four-legged creature in one gulp.

Seeing this terrifying four-legged creature had no determination to fight against it at all, they had already scattered and fled when the serpentine ran out, climbing towards the tree.

"Gollum!" The panicked screams of the four-legged creatures.

It was a long, python-like creature, but its mouth resembled flower petals, and the hard cuticles that were wrapped around the petals' mouth gave it a very aggressive feeling just by its appearance.

The size is large, and the open mouth of the blood basin is already the size of a four-legged creature.

Using the muscles of the petal mouth and the firm cuticle, the prey in the mouth is squeezed, and the rattle of broken bones echoes in the forest, which is extremely permeable.

The four-legged creature was crushed by the heart-rending screams and screams, and was finally swallowed by the snake-like creature in one gulp.

Squeak——!

Not satisfied, the serpentine creature that had eaten a four-legged creature hissed sharply at the other four-legged creatures around it, and the four-legged creature that fled to the tree panicked and climbed to the higher part of the tree.

Serpentine creatures began to climb up the trees, a skill they had evolved to hunt four-legged creatures.

This behavior has led to a chaotic sprawl of four-legged creatures in the trees, scrambling to jump from one tree to another, and no orderly behavior has caused a significant number of four-legged creatures to fall underneath the trees.

The serpentine then fell to the ground and began to hunt the four-legged creatures on the ground.

Just as the serpentine was eating, it suddenly felt a blow to its head, and something hit it on its head, and it was still fixed on its head.

Squeak——!

Hissing again, but this time from panic.

"Gollum... Gollum..."

"Gollum... Gollum..."

The four-legged creature in the tree looked at everything under the tree, and it turned out that a four-legged creature landed on the head of the serpentine creature, and then clung to it with its limbs to immobilize itself.

"Gollum!"

With the four-legged creature shouting, the stone blade in his hand slammed down on the serpent's head.

Because of this blow, the serpentine creature stinged and rolled in pain, and began to hit the thick tree with its body, breaking a tree equivalent to the waist circumference of an adult.

The four-legged creature that dared to fight back was thrown far away at once.

The serpentine creature looked at the culprit who caused him to be so embarrassed, of course, he hated it to the bone, locked on the four-legged creature in front of him, and with a flick of his tail, it hit the four-legged creature again, breaking his bones and tendons.

The carefully polished stone blade fell to the side, leaving only a deep mark on the serpentine's tail, not even a wound.

Seeing this, the serpentine creature arched its body and ejected, ready to deliver the final blow to the four-legged creature, swallowing the damn prey that dared to challenge itself.

Squeak——!

Boom!

With the sound of a clash of gold and iron, a creature blocked the serpentine attack, and the two fangs held the petal mouth of the serpentine creature, no matter how hard the serpentine creature moved forward, the creature that blocked it from affecting the hunt showed no sign of retreating, as if it was not a creature in front of it, but a boulder that it could not shake.

Poof!

The third limb easily pierced the serpentine's head, and the remaining fangs pinned the serpentine to the ground, no matter how much they struggled.

"Gurgling ......"

"Gurgling ......"

Both the four-legged creatures on and below the trees were shocked by the scene in front of them, and hid in what they thought was safe.

After confirming that the serpentine was dead, the gatherer picked up the carefully polished but unfinished stone knife with his tentacles, and after charging the monomolecular blade, he cut a sharp edge for the stone knife and handed it to the four-legged creature hiding behind the tree in the distance.

The four-legged creature was wounded, otherwise it would have run to the tree at the moment, instead of hiding somewhere under it.

"Goo... Grunt... Gollum ......"

The gatherer tries to prove his harmlessness in the language of the other's strange screams.

There was a stalemate for a moment, the four-legged creature still hiding in fear, and the gatherer kept handing it out.

In terms of patience, the four-legged creatures were inferior to the gatherers, and after almost a day and a half, the four-legged creatures were the first to start tentatively screaming.

"Gurgling ......"

It's like asking the gatherer for what it means.

"Gollum ......"

The gatherer responds, and maintains the motion of handing out the stone knife.

After another half a day, the four-legged creature approached the gatherer suspiciously, and then retrieved his stone knife from the tentacles.

The moment it was recaptured, the four-legged creature slammed back into its hiding place.

The gatherer watched as the four-legged creature went into hiding again, leaving some food in place before leaving, leaving the vigilant four-legged creature to watch from its hiding place.

Only when the gatherers are completely gone, the four-legged creatures are driven out, and the same kind of people in the trees dare to go to the ground.

The four-legged creature recovered from its panic and noticed the change in its precious stone knife, which it wielded and slashed at a nearby tree, leaving a visible wound.

The four-legged creature looked at the stone knife in his hand, then in the direction the gatherer had left, and after going back and forth a few times, let out a strange cry of surprise that seemed to be amazed.

"Gollum!"

Since that day, the planet's four-legged creatures have behaved strangely, building a grotesque object out of things like twigs and stones, and then collectively polishing the stones nearby.

A piece of radio information spreads outward from an Earth-like planet.

"There is a special creature on a planet with a complex ecosystem, which is initially judged to be intelligent, and is still in the transition stage between barbarism and civilization, and it is optimistically expected that they will complete the formation of civilization in hundreds of thousands of years."