While waiting for the other party to give back information, the construction projects of the collectors have not been left behind, and they are still in a hurry, even more urgent than before.

This is an inevitable result, after learning about the new alien civilization, the gatherers who regard the alien civilization as a kind of resource as a race are naturally excited, and this excitement will turn into the driving force for their development.

The wait didn't last long, and soon, the gatherers learned of a reply from the unknown alien civilization.

Of course, this 'short time' is defined by the social outlook of the gatherers, and from the perspective of human society, it is a long decade, enough for a baby to grow into a bear child who is making soy sauce everywhere, enough for an adult to go from penniless to rich, enough for some new things in society.

"They replied!"

The collectors were all excited, importing the information they received into the Heavenly Machine, relying on their vast computing power to decipher the language.

After almost three months of operation, the content of the message was deciphered.

[I would like to extend my best wishes to the amoeba civilization that received this message.]

After a long period of creation and labor, the Carter people have lit the fire of civilization in Sori and created a rich and colorful culture, and have a preliminary understanding of the objective laws of the operation and development of the natural world and the Cater society.

But our world is still deeply flawed, hatred, prejudice, war, disease...... Due to the contradiction between the collective and the individual, individual freedom and power were squeezed and violated, and the vast majority of Carter members grew up under the shackles of confinement.

We in the Democratic and Egalitarian Carter Nation are committed to eliminating such injustices and shackles, so we need to eradicate imperial dictatorship and achieve the great emancipation of equal human rights in the world.

However, in order to achieve its own complete liberation, the unity of several countries with equal human rights is not enough to resist the evil imperial dictatorship in Sori! It is also necessary for the whole universe to unite for equality and human rights! More righteous forces in the universe are needed to step in!

Come here, unite the equals of the universe! 】

“…… Equal? ”

After going through the information, the gatherers exchanged information with each other and fell into a discussion.

Most of them have strange thoughts, always paying attention to the information of unknown civilizations that makes them feel strange, and it is understandable, after all, in the world of gatherers, there is no such concept of dictatorship and equality, they are indeed equal, all individuals are like this, only the will of the race is supreme and supreme.

But they are indeed dictatorships, and after the division of labor is determined, there will be a high degree of concentration of power, and the gathering of gatherers will only do more dictatorial things than dictatorial attention, so they will be efficient, united, and like one.

"Don't pay attention to the strange places, those don't matter, the important thing is that they give back the information, and the coordinates of their mother star are locked."

"Where?"

There are eager inquiries from collectors, and this is important to them.

"A star system five light-years away from us."

"Only five light years? So close, I thought it would be far away. ”

To the surprise of the gatherers, according to the original expansion plan, the stars five light-years away from their star system must be the target of the next star colonization.

Because of this, the collectors subconsciously excluded such close stars from the initial conception, and focused on searching for star systems within the range of ten to twenty light years.

With such a short distance, it only took five years for gatherers to reach it.

However, there are some minor problems.

"Our star orbit is still under construction, and so is the antimatter megastructure, which will take a while longer to complete."

"But we still don't know their level of technology, so how can we determine the way to do diplomacy?"

"In this case, wait until contact to think about it, don't worry, but it can already be determined that they have at least planetary energy utilization, because only in this way can they deliver information to us five light years away."

Through the transmission distance of information, the collectors judged the lower limit level of the alien civilization at a distance of five light years, and considering the problem of signal attenuation from the scale, a radio that can achieve a distance of five light years must have a planetary energy utilization, that is, the level of a type I civilization.

"Judging from the content of the message, the contradictions within their civilization are very acute, and perhaps at the time of the delivery of the message, they are engaged in an act of war."

"It's very likely that the message replied was full of individual emotions, but it's uncertain whether it's playing now, after all, this is information from five years ago."

Gatherers make rough judgments based on the content of the message, and if it is not for the extremely acute and irreconcilable contradictions, the individual who delivered the message will not include such information in the reply message.

In terms of content, the self-proclaimed "Carter Democratic and Egalitarian State" seems to take for granted that the gatherers must have the same structure and ideology as them, which makes the gatherers not very understandable at first, but after adding the concept of "war", everything becomes clear - this Carter country is suffering from the baptism of war, and is at a disadvantage of war, desperately hoping for an outside force to intervene.

"Light-year information delay is really a troublesome problem, when will the clan be able to solve it?"

Thinking of the light-year delay problem, the collector complained helplessly, and it was not only the collector on the side of the mother star of the Zeshu civilization who realized this problem.

"After all, we don't know what else can be faster than light, and that's something we can't do about it."

Towards the end of the discussion on the extraterrestrial civilization's reply message, another collector asked questions.

"There's one more problem."

"What's the problem?"

"What should we do with the sender's message inviting us to their civilization to fight? Promise them? ”

Blindly intervening in an unknown war is obviously a very brainless act, and no matter how you look at it, it is not in the interests of the community, so most gatherers refuse to intervene at first.

"Wouldn't it be nice to get involved in the struggle within their civilization? The purpose of the community has always been to observe. ”

"Obviously, this civilization has a fairly full understanding of the universe and civilization, and is not as weak as Luo Ren and Zeshu, and the sharp internal contradictions are often accompanied by strong aggression."

"But that doesn't mean they're going to be hostile to the race, and it's foolish to blindly erect hostiles."

"But you have overlooked one question – what is often accompanied by contact between civilizations?"

As soon as the question "...... this" came out, all the collectors in the channel fell silent, and there was a brief silence in the channel, and only after a while did the collector answer, "...... You're right. ”

"Then promise them, it's all the same anyway."

The stars flickered again, the stars in the cosmic background shook slightly, and the fate of the unknown alien civilization, five light-years away from the gatherers, was decided.

[Carter Democracy and Equality, our amoeba civilization has fully understood the problems encountered by your civilization and will arrive in your star system in sixty years, note: time unit conversion, one year is equal to 31,536,000 seconds, the definition of second time - at extreme extreme absolute zero, the time of 9192631770 times the period of the electromagnetic wave radiated when the transition between the two energy orders of the ground state cesium-133 atom tends to be stationary. 】