Since the artificial womb technology allows the population to reproduce completely without the help of the female Luo, the gatherers wondered why when they surveyed the underground facility, they only found traces of Connor's activities.

Connor landed quite a long time after the Gatherers logged in, and it was strange that he hadn't multiplied to grow the size of the underground facility during that time.

As the saying goes, more people have more power, this is not just a competition of strength, one more person means more creativity, labor, and Connor as a leader, the work pressure will be reduced a lot, if Connor increases the population, when the gatherers dive into the underground, they will see more than just underground facilities of that scale, it should be an underground city.

Connor expressed deep helplessness at the question.

"Because the artificial womb was damaged during the first tsunami, although I tried to repair it later, and the damaged parts were mostly repaired, the core circuit board was damaged and needed to be replaced, and I didn't have a finishing machine, so I couldn't repair it completely."

It's not that Connor doesn't want to increase the population, but he can't, the spacecraft is facing the impact of the Mach tsunami, and the internal environment at that time is like a high-speed drying of clothes in a drum washing machine, although it was forced to survive with the strength of the spacecraft's own structure, but many instruments carried inside the spacecraft caused some irreparable damage because of the tsunami.

This includes the artificial womb, a mechanical device that increases the number of people.

"That's unfortunate."

The gatherers sympathize with them, saying that they have also colonized across stars, and they can't imagine the daunting challenges that would be faced if colonizers lost the ability to expand their populations.

I'm afraid it's even harder than Connor the Lo, after all, the technology of the gatherers is to build a huge number of individuals, from the basic surface rhizomes to the giant organisms in the universe.

Of course, all of this is just an assumption formed by the hard analogy between the gatherers and the Luo people, and there are differences between them and the Luo people, and such differences are also doomed to the probability that they will encounter such problems is negligible.

Luo Ren's attitude is the opposite of that of the gatherer, and he is very optimistic.

"I'm lucky enough to survive the supersonic tsunami, although I'm the only one on the planet, but after the underground survival station is built, jobs like mining and planting are basically handed over to machines, and I spend most of my time lying in the hibernation pod and sleeping, waiting for my civilization to receive a distress signal and send a rescue team."

People have to learn to be content, after starting from the home planet, after experiencing so many things, after the ups and downs, what they get is a strong psychological quality, ordinary people can't stand being locked up for a week, but Connor can't stand it after a month, he said that he has seen it very openly, even if the naivety really collapses, he can watch the play calmly.

Thinking of something, Connor hesitated for a moment.

Eventually, Connor made up his mind to tentatively ask himself about the cartoon character of the Londiner on the wall of the room in front of him, that is, to ask the gatherers.

"Can I ask you some questions?"

"What do you want to know?"

"Who are you? Where did it come from? ”

Connor asked these questions nervously, because he wasn't sure what these aliens thought of him as an alien, and his life and death were completely controlled by a group of aliens who didn't even know what his body looked like, so he was furious in the bottom of his heart.

This is mainly because of the uneasiness caused by the unknown, which is also common in humans, is the evolution of the organism after a long period of evolution, and the evolution of the sense of crisis, such a sense of crisis will prompt the organism to try to understand the unknown, so as to achieve the purpose of eliminating the sense of fear.

And after eliminating the unknown, the probability of survival of organisms that know something about things becomes much higher.

Of course, it's not just that, the Luo man named Connor knows from the bottom of his heart that aliens won't talk to him about human rights and other things, and the other party may even have a different social structure than his own race, and he may save himself for some other purpose.

The purpose of his inquiry is not only to dispel his fear of the unknown, but also to try to understand the alien civilization that rescued him, at least to confirm whether this alien civilization is malicious or benevolent.

What is Malicious? What is Goodwill?

Malice is very aggressive, and kindness is not aggressive, which is the standard summed up by the Luo civilization itself.

Of course, everything is very complicated, and even human beings do not have absolute good and absolute evil, let alone a whole civilization. Therefore, the civilization of the universe should be a complex situation of a mixture of good and evil, not absolute black, nor absolute white, they should be gray, and different action strategies should be adopted according to different situations, some situations can become black, and some situations can become white, and what drives them to act like this is the interests, which are related to the interests of the entire civilization.

Connor hopes to use this to test whether the alien civilization that saved him is showing aggression or being willing to communicate in contact with his mother civilization, the latter is definitely what Connor wants to see.

It's easy to tell that a civilization that is willing to communicate doesn't mind showing information about itself to the other party.

Soon, Connor waited for the results he wanted, and from this, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Our civilization is called amoeba, and it was born from a star system thirty-two light-years away from its current position."

"What did you come to the black hole for? Or is it just a passing by? ”

The hanging heart relaxed, Connor turned to ask some questions that he was more curious about, it stands to reason that there should be no civilization willing to approach a ghost place like a black hole, after all, the black hole is such an extreme celestial body, and there are very few resources that can be used around it, if it weren't for the black hole companion that was sent to colonize, the Luo civilization would not have sent Connor to the vicinity of the black hole.

"We are here to build signal stations to make the coordinates of the black hole visible to improve the safety of interstellar routes."

"Starline? You will be able to achieve a large-scale interstellar voyage?! ”

Connor was stunned for a moment, then his emotions exploded, his eyes widened, and he stared directly at the cartoon image appearing on the wall of the room, as if he was very surprised.

The gatherers, for their part, were puzzled by Connor's reaction.

"It's a strange question, didn't you land on a black hole companion after an interstellar voyage?"