"I'm in."

The leaping creatures sit right next to the side of the mothership-class ship, and the rhizomes are chemically etched out of the holes, which in turn give birth to the Gatherers, who use this method to invade the interior of the ship through the small holes.

At the same time, the rhizomes will be crowded, ensuring that the leaping organisms will not leave the spacecraft, and that the internal air pressure of the spacecraft will not change.

The collector looked around, it was in a corridor, the collector had an airtight gate on the left and right, and could hear a burst of suspected alarms, presumably the owner of the ship had sensed the invasion of the collectors.

However, this thing is useless for the Gatherers, because the Gatherers can fiddle with chemistry, and it is perfectly fine to break through the airtight locks in the same way as they break through the ship's armor, and as long as the matter remains in the molecular state, then the Gatherer's method will always work, the difference is only in the time consumed.

The gatherer looked at the airtight locks on both sides, and then gave birth to another instance.

Normally, when people are faced with a fork in the road, they will generally pick one of the forks in the road to go down, but the gatherer does not need to make a choice, they can increase the value of the individual, take a fork in the road themselves, and other people of the same race take the fork in the road of their own choice.

"Let's split up." The gatherer said to his kindred.

"Okay."

After thinking about it, the gatherer had a word of advice for this newborn kindred.

"Remember to keep in radio contact at all times, you go that way, I'll go this way."

"Hmm."

The Gatherer's method of dealing with the ship's hull was also used on the airlock, and after etching a suitable hole, they split into the opposite side of the airlock.

One thing that attracts the attention of gatherers is the age of the ship.

While using chemical coordination to etch the outer armor of the spacecraft, the collectors also measured the half-life of atoms, which turned out to be 700,000 years.

After a period of exploration, the gatherer radioed other individuals, during which it encountered multiple forks in the road, and spawned several of its own species to explore.

"Where have you been?" The gatherer asks for their nearest kind.

"I'm still in the channel, there are so many dividers that it takes some time to penetrate them with chemical coordination."

After confirming the situation, the collector told his own family that these newborns were still inexperienced, and they were not even proficient in how to turn their brains.

"So far, no aliens have been found, which is strange, you have to pay attention to concealment, if you are attacked in such an environment, I can't provide you with support."

"Okay, I'll be careful." The newborn individual answered.

The Gatherer retracted his attention to himself, and in front of it was a closed metal door, which was not in appearance the appearance of an airtight door, which was the door to a certain room, rather than an airtight lock passage.

"I've found a room here and I'm trying to get in."

The old way, with chemical coordination, even though the strength of the metal door is extremely high, the collector can easily enter the back of the door.

The Collector enters the back of the door, vigilantly observing its surroundings and digitizing its visual information to radio its fellow citizens outside the ship.

The room is large, but not high, the big one is only long and wide, and you can see a lot of tables and chairs, and at a glance, it looks like a farmland where tables and chairs are grown.

"It feels like a place on this ship for food......"

The gatherers outside the spaceship muttered when they saw this.

"On what basis do you think so?" Other people asked.

"There are a lot of tables and a lot of space here, similar to the 'cafeteria' on the Seren side."

"What is the cafeteria?"

Today's gatherers don't have a deep understanding of the Seren, because many of them have never seen the Serens since birth, and the reason why they know about the Serens is purely because they are in their knowledge and memory, and they once threatened the survival of the entire race.

"It's a place for eating, and the Serens are weird in some ways, they like to eat together, unlike us, they waste some time on moving around, and because of these inexplicable behaviors, their production capacity has been very inefficient." The gatherer answers the questions of his kind.

"And what can be found in a place like this?"

"Uh...... Let me think. The gatherer was silent for a moment, then tentatively replied, "Alien diet?" ”

There are other individuals who give more appropriate answers.

"At the very least, we can understand the elemental composition of each other through their food."

The exploration continues, and the collectors rely on the infrared perspective to wander around in places where there is no light source, touching east and west, like curious babies.

"There's a lot of dust accumulated, and it looks like it's been a long time since it's been used......

The tables and chairs are neatly arranged, but there is a lot of dust accumulated on them, and the spaceship uses the ship's rotation to create artificial gravity, which also leads to the conditions for dust accumulation.

After searching around, the collectors didn't find much of a place, only found a place that was different from the table and chair, this place had a lot of buttons, and there was a solid long table separated from the large space where the table and chair were located, and what seemed to be a piece of the board could be seen on the long table.

"Didn't see any food, no garbage, very clean ......"

The muttering gatherer's gaze suddenly froze in one place, and it saw behind a pile of silicon crystal slabs displaying many ornate-looking containers, colorful but also transparent, and it could be seen that the liquid was inside.

"Huh? This is ......."

The collector didn't hesitate too much, and even took out a transparent container and opened the package.

It didn't think too much about it, and just drank the liquid in the container.

"It's ammonia."

The collector makes a judgment that the liquid being drunk can be analyzed by the collector's miraculous stomach to obtain the most precise proportion of the liquid composition, down to the molecular level.

"There should be something else...... Pregnant! ”

The collector saw a crimson button on the wall with a lid, and without even thinking about it, it let go of the lid and pressed it down.

Immediately, the entire cafeteria instantly became brightly lit, and the ceiling, floor, and walls in the room were all turned into light bulbs, emitting bright light.

"Oh—it's lit up."

In addition to these changes, the collector also heard strange noises, and following the sounds, a pair of robotic arms could be seen sticking out of the wall, unaware of what they were busy with.

About six minutes passed, and the robotic arm held a plate and handed it to the gatherer.

In the middle of the plate is a charred black object, on which a transparent pale green liquid is poured, and the periphery of the plate is decorated with green plants.

"Uh...... This is for me? ”

The gatherer was stunned, it could see that it was a piece of food, so he took the plate, rolled up the charred black object with his tentacles, and ate it in one bite.

"Ahh......h

"This genetic structure is...... Silicon-based organisms? ”

Although the high temperature causes the gene chain to disintegrate, this does not prevent the collector from analyzing the origin of the food, after all, the heat of the furnace has not yet reached the point of destroying the atomic structure.

The collector then proceeded to another analysis, which was more difficult because it had to use the remaining fragments of the gene to reversely learn what kind of organism the food came from.

Generally speaking, this is a very difficult thing to do, as if you had pinched a stone into powder and then put it back together into the original whole stone, and there was no difference at all.

But the collectors can do it, because they have lingulogized the genes, and the genes are just a language for the collectors, and they can say whatever they want, without having to look up the dictionary and spell it word by word.

"Let me see what this gene expression is."

"Strange, according to the expression of this genetic blueprint, the transcribed organism should only be the size of bacteria, why is this food so big?"

The collectors were puzzled by the answers they had found, and the previous half-life estimates of 700,000 years made the collectors' doubts even wider.

Obviously, in 700,000 years, the sow will definitely be able to climb the tree, a civilization, no, without a civilization, the people on a spaceship can develop on their own, it is enough to build a civilization, and this civilization has the ability to develop far beyond the height of the gatherers.

After a few more laps, the gatherer found nothing new, so it decided to go elsewhere and continue its exploration.

Soon, the gatherer discovered that the doubts and accidents in the cafeteria were nothing compared to what they saw afterwards.

Destroying an airtight gate, the collector came to a large space, everything in front of him suddenly opened up, this time not only the length and width, but also the height, this is a cube space with a length and width of three kilometers, and the building is a pillar, supporting this space.

Walking in this place, the gatherer was like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, dazzled, and couldn't help muttering to himself.

"What is this place?"

Retracting his thoughts, the collector noticed that this place had also been unused for a long time, and a lot of dust had accumulated.

"Take another half-life sampling."

The gatherer stopped walking, grabbed a little material from his feet and put it in his mouth for analysis, and the result was the same as before.

"700,000 years."

Continuing to explore, the gatherer came to the foot of the tall buildings and supporting columns, some of which were dirt and not covered by the floor.

"What are these open spaces?"

The gatherers were puzzled - could it be that the ship's builders were lazy?

Gatherers outside the ship answer this question.

"It's supposed to be a potted planting area, and the Serens like to put some useless eggs in their ships."

"Don't say it so absolutely, maybe this is a food planting base, or an air circulation room, and there is this kind of special space in the Carter spaceship, using the photosynthesis of plants to circulate air."

It also went around several times, but the collectors couldn't find any useful clues, and all kinds of signs inside the spacecraft indicated that the spaceship had been unused for a long time.

"Maybe there are no aliens on this ship at all."

But this doesn't make sense in theory, because 700,000 years is really too long, and the spacecraft is still moving all the time, which increases the probability of encountering danger exponentially.

"If none of the people on this ship exist, who replied to us before? And if it is unmanned, how can this spaceship exist for 700,000 years? ”

After some discussion, the collectors still couldn't come up with a conclusion, because there was too little information at the moment.

"Anyway, let's find the source of the message that replied to us before making a conclusion."

As the collector was about to leave the room, his hearing immediately caught the approach of an unidentified object, like something rolling.

"Voices? It's that direction! ”

It took only a second for the collector with five senses to locate the source of the sound.

When I looked closely, I found that the source of the sound was indeed rolling, it was a metal ball, on which you could see the lines of many mechanical parts, which should be the service robot on this spaceship.

The orb of the machine hears the approaching collector and unfolds into a robot.

It greets gatherers first.

"Hello."

"The machine can talk?"

The gatherer looked at the robot in front of him in amazement.

"It should just be a program."

The gatherer outside the ship expressed its opinion, but it did not hold water.

"No, it's speaking Seren, and if it's a programming program set up by the maker, it shouldn't be able to speak Seren."

The program is dead, and the only way the ship can access the Seren language is the language text that the gatherers have delivered for diplomatic purposes.

This also proves that there are agents on this spaceship!

More likely, the agent is the robot in front of the collector!

"You...... What is it? The gatherer asked faintly, with some wariness, "A life?" Or is it just a machine? ”

"What you asked... Three questions... I can't... Answer you... Because I'm also... Don't know the answer. ”

The robot's stumbling answer may be that the program is not good enough, or the hardware is not up to par, and the words to the collector are intermittent.

"You're coming for me?" The gatherer asked.

"Yes."

"What are you looking for me to do?"

"Seek... Your... Help. ”