"He's awake."

"But the body hasn't recovered yet."

"Try to communicate with him now?"

"Don't be in a hurry for now, give him some time to recover, and let him get familiar with the unfamiliar environment by the way."

"Is it really necessary to be so careful?"

"We can't stimulate this hard-to-find alien to the point of a mental breakdown, in that case, we can only treat him as a material resource, do any of you want to see such a bad result?"

"Then keep waiting."

The Gatherers have not disappeared, of course, they have always been hidden on the outside of the room, or rather, the room where the aliens are, as part of their assemblage.

This is mainly to prevent the aliens from waking up from hibernation and receiving too much information stimulation at once to prevent mental breakdowns from occurring.

Gatherers often see this kind of plot in Selene sci-fi films, and they are not sure if the alien found near the black hole is as fragile as the Seren.

Of course, if the collector is used as a reference template, this information shock can only be regarded as a breeze, but if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what if, if this alien goes crazy, the clue of the collectors to find a new civilization will be broken, which is an unacceptable loss for them.

The alien in the room barely supported his upper body to sit up, almost two weeks had passed since he regained consciousness, and now he had recovered a lot of physical functions, but he couldn't get out of bed and walk.

The alien looked at his hands first, then at every part of his body, and he breathed a sigh of relief after making sure that there were no missing arms or legs.

That's when I started to look around and get a full picture of the room I was in.

A pure white and empty room, the four words "four walls" are very suitable for today's scenes, the whole room is just a bed, a small one-legged round table, and a transparent cup, where the alien's vision is clear, there are no secrets.

What the collectors want is such an effect, a clear environment, the easiest thing is to let people let down their vigilance, the relaxed spirit helps to restore physical health, and can also play a buffering role for the impact caused by the first contact later.

The alien does not feel hungry, because before he wakes up, his stomach pouch is implanted with a highly compressed organic polymer by the collector, which can maintain body functions for a long time without eating, and it is a special compressed biscuit, but the density is higher, and the hardness is even higher than that of some alloys.

It's just that, although it won't be hungry, it still needs to be replenished, and the organic water bladder transplanted into the alien's stomach bag has been absorbed in two weeks, and the alien who has been able to sit up is extremely thirsty at the moment.

He naturally saw the water on the table, picked it up cautiously, looked at it for a while, put it in front of his nose to smell it, and then tentatively licked the clear liquid in the cup with his tongue.

All indications are that the liquid in the cup is colorless, odorless, and non-volatile, and is probably the substance he needs most, water.

But the alien was cautious, he resisted his thirst, poured some water from the cup on the sheets, and closed his eyes and waited.

Outside the room, some of the collectors who had been observing the aliens' every move showed dissatisfaction because of the aliens' actions.

"He's too careful, if we were going to kill him, he'd be dead."

"In an unfamiliar environment, it's normal to be vigilant."

"I don't understand why he deliberately poured out the water from the cup, can anyone explain?"

"Soak the fiber with the liquid in the cup, and then wait for the fiber to recover, observe the softness and hardness of the fiber, if it is the same as the original, it means that the liquid in the cup is most likely water, if it is hard or other changes, it means that the cup is not water, or there are many unknown impurities in the water."

"That's right."

In the room, the aliens drank the water in the quilt with confidence after confirming that the sheets were not abnormal.

However, it is a pity that this alien still miscalculated, and the glass of water was indeed added by the collectors.

That cup is not water, it is a transparent organic solution, which can accelerate the body's metabolism and replenish the vitamins in the alien's body, it has a taste, if it is a Seren or a human drink, it can be tasted, and the taste is still very strong, but the collectors specially prepare it for the alien's physiological system, so when the alien tastes, this glass of solution is colorless and tasteless.

The liquid poured on the sheets is not much different from the water, mainly because the sheets are alive, not only the sheets, but also the beds, tables, and cups are all living special organisms, but it looks like the latent skills of non-living gatherers in the Seren society are not practiced in vain.

No matter how careful the aliens were, he would never have thought of this.

A few more weeks had passed, and it had been about a month since the awakening, and the aliens were able to walk on the ground, but with the support of the wall.

The aliens also became a little agitated during this time.

He groped his way along the walls of the room, trying to find an exit from the walls, but it was a futile endeavor, as the gatherers were able to do molecular-level processing, and creating a room without gaps was not a big problem.

Sometimes, the aliens will shout loudly in their own civilized language, but the collectors can't understand what he is saying, considering that the aliens are still in the recovery stage, so they all pretend not to hear, and remain silent, in short, what is the problem until it is completely recovered.

In this way, another month passed unconsciously, and the aliens no longer shouted words that the gatherers did not understand from time to time, but shrank in a corner of the room, as if they had Alzheimer's.

"How's he doing?"

"It's a lot better than before, and he doesn't make any more noise, which shows that his mental state has recovered well."

"Isn't that good? Why do I think he's going to be stupid? ”

"Is there one?"

The collector looked at the alien nested in the corner suspiciously, he was like an autistic child, he was nestled in the corner without saying a word, without any behavior, even breathing very steadily, it is not too much to say that he is in a vegetative state.

"Leave this alone, when will we communicate?"

"Wait a little longer, and you should be almost in a groove! How could he want to kill himself?! ”

Before the gatherer could finish delivering the message, the alien in the room took a move that they didn't expect, and he prepared to die.