It is difficult to get aliens to learn the language of the Collectors, because it is not easy to learn a language, and the Collectors do not have the technology to help the aliens speed up their learning progress.

However, the reverse is much simpler, the collectors have supercomputers that can decipher the language, and the larger the amount of text, the lower the difficulty of deciphering, and with such a living text as aliens, the difficulty of deciphering is almost none.

The two sides will soon be able to communicate normally.

"What's your name? What is the ethnicity? Where did it come from? ”

After being able to communicate fluently, the collectors gave priority to asking these three questions, and the aliens were cooperative, and answered the collectors' inquiries truthfully without hesitation.

"Connor, the Rothians, from the six planets of the Radiant Galaxy, Kosan."

"How long have you been on that planet?"

"Eleven Fei Wheels."

The alien who called himself Connor was still very cooperative in answering the collectors' inquiries, without the slightest sense of evasion.

"What did you get to that black hole companion star?"

"I was assigned a colonization mission by the government to go to that planet to colonize."

Speaking of this, Connor, who had no emotion just now, had emotional ups and downs in his words, and he added resentfully.

"Those bastards only think about their political achievements to gain more voice among the people, and deliberately distort the data information of some probes to coax idiots like me to go to that planet and die."

"Colonization? You alone can reproduce? ”

The gatherers were not surprised by this answer, this was something they had guessed earlier, but there was one thing they were still puzzled about, because since it was a colony, there was no reason for there to be only one alien who went to the alien colony, the alien intelligent race that called itself the Luo people was a sexually reproducing biological individual, and they needed a mother of the opposite sex to be able to reproduce offspring.

Moreover, given the diversity of genes, in order to avoid gene collapse, a sufficient number of male and female individuals are required to travel to the alien planet.

There are various speculations among the collectors about this issue, but the one that most collectors agree on is that these Luo people were killed, and this Luo people are currently the only survivors, which is very likely, after all, there is a terrifying natural phenomenon such as the Mach tsunami on that planet.

However, the truth is that there is something different from what the gatherers think.

"My civilization has developed artificial womb technology, and the population can be conceived by machines."

It is not easy to colonize across stars, because it requires higher speed to maintain it across large-scale space-time of light years, and higher speed requires more energy, and the possible output is limited after all, so in the end, the mass of the object traveling across the star is as small as possible, because in the case of the same amount of energy, the small mass means that the energy consumption can reach a higher speed with less consumption, and it can also be easily decelerated.

The larger the volume, the greater the probability of being hit by a meteorite in the open space between the stars, and the lower the overall strength.

For a variety of reasons, the tendency to sail across star systems is to have a smaller mass as a whole, a smaller volume as possible, and a higher intensity as possible.

In order to reduce the mass and volume, the number of people carrying the spacecraft also needs to be added, after the artificial womb technology is developed, the colony spacecraft only needs to carry a gene pool, an artificial womb device, and an operator is enough, there is no need to bear a large number of personnel loads, after these crew members are deleted, a large number of life support areas can also be deleted, only one hibernation pod is needed, like entertainment facilities, the spacecraft only needs to meet the needs of one person, not to meet a group of people.

As for the ethical and moral issues raised by the artificial womb giving birth to a population, are these issues more important than the expansion of civilization? Unimportant.

The gatherers quickly figured out the cause and effect, and the situation of these Luo people was very similar to the Empire's seed plan, except that the Empire did not unlock the artificial womb technology, but directly let the female crew take on the work of population reproduction.

Once the question was answered, the collectors continued to ask.

"How did you survive such a harsh surface environment? We want to know the details. ”

Connor was questioned by the collector and became immersed in his memories of his time on the black hole's companion star, recounting his survival in a nonchalant tone.

"When my spacecraft just landed on that companion star, it was not lucky, and it was soon devastated by the planetary tsunami, but fortunately, although the bastards of the government had no conscience, they at least did a good job, and the spacecraft was strong enough to withstand the first wave of the tsunami."

"But this is also the limit, the spacecraft will definitely not be able to resist the second wave, after I quickly analyzed the situation, I used the construction machinery in the spaceship, excavated the ground, before the next tsunami, let the spacecraft lower than the ground, and then used a simple smelted metal plate, covered on the top, survived the subsequent tsunami, and then to the back, I continued to deepen the excavation of the formation, and also established a simple underground survival station."

It was not difficult to avoid the Mach tsunami, and the gatherers who landed on the planet did so in a similar way, and as long as they were below the ground, the Mach tsunami would be much less powerful.

However, this approach also leads to another question, which the collectors ask.

"If you're above the ground, you're going to be eroded by a tsunami, so why would you want to build a big metal building above the ground?"

Connor was slightly stunned and answered the collectors' questions, "That's the radar antenna, I need to send a distress signal to my civilization and let them save me." ”

The antenna cannot be below the ground, which will affect the transmission and reception of the signal, which is very far away, and after such a round of signal weakening, it is even more impossible to send the distress signal to the home star, so Connor must keep the antenna above the ground, but there is a Mach tsunami above the ground, and the tsunami will inevitably destroy the antenna.

So what to do?

Connor came up with the idea of enlarging the antenna to create a large, sturdy metal structure, and among the various geometric design options, he chose the geometry of the quadrangular platform as the template for the antenna.

The answer that the quadrangular platform is an antenna came as a surprise to the collectors, which they did not expect, mainly because of the error of empiricism, which subconsciously assumed that the antenna was a very thin and long metal body, so they did not associate the quadrangular with the antenna from the beginning.

"Since you've already developed underneath that planet, why don't you increase the population? That should make a colony. ”