The leaping creatures stretched out their tentacles from their sides to salvage the wreckage of their enemies, and they were in no hurry to confirm the status of the Imperial Seed, for they already knew that the Imperial Seed had taken root in this star system.

What they need to confirm at the moment is what the teleportation ability of the enemies they are fighting with is what kind of teleportation ability is already considered a faster-than-light means, which is of great significance to the race.

What's more, the other side shows such a strong hostility towards them, if they engage in war with the race, the race is likely to be at a disadvantage, because of the speed of light limit, civilizations above the speed of light are to civilizations below the speed of light, like iron men to clay people.

The Gatherers sensed the threat in the true sense of the word, so they had to figure out how teleportation works and use it for the Race.

"Look, these space combat units, they all have pilots in them, and they are manually operated."

Peel off these strange combat units, the internal structure is unobstructed, the strength of these combat units is not high, the metal material is very ordinary carbon steel, the strength is not as high as titanium alloy.

The alien in the cockpit is 3.5 meters tall, hairless, covered in scales, with reddish-orange skin, regular horns on both sides of the skull, dark gray pupils, and eyelids closed left and right instead of up and down.

It has four tentacle-like arms, but unlike an octopus, these tentacles have bone support inside, a structure more similar to a tail, and a pair of humanoid legs that can bend forward.

Seeing that it wasn't a Seren in the cockpit, some of the gatherers were relieved.

"I'm not from Selene, I feel a little relieved, and I can save a lot of trouble diplomatically."

Oddly enough, the Gatherers are unable to understand the brain circuits of the designers of these objects, which resemble the Pilot, with four tentacle arms and a pair of legs.

But in space warfare, do you need these things? As far as the gatherers are concerned, it feels redundant.

The puzzled gatherers didn't dwell too much on this issue, and after dragging out the inconsequential pilot's corpse, they began to disassemble the wreckage of the combat body.

This dismantling makes them even more puzzled.

"These combat units are quite strange, there is not much mechanical structure inside, there is a lot of organic filling, and the mechanical shell on the outside feels more like armor used to strengthen defense."

It's like a doll, except that the cloth has been replaced with a carbon steel carapace, and the cotton inside has become an organic filler, which has somewhat subverted the perception of the gatherers, according to their original ideas, these combat bodies should be all kinds of complex mechanical pistons, master control computers, cables, etc.

"How do they do it? There is not even a console. ”

"Maybe it's the same as us? I've heard that Imperial is developing a neural bridging technology, and it feels a lot like this. ”

Some collectors have questions after hearing the new term.

"What is neural bridging technology?"

"It's something like a neuronal network, the pilot's nerves are connected to the machine, and the machine becomes a part of the pilot's body, which can be operated at will, and the empire intends to apply this technology to warships, and one person can operate a warship, and it is more flexible than the original operation mode."

“…… Actually, it's imitating us, right? ”

"According to time, the empire should have been developed, after all, hundreds of years have passed, and they are so smart, there is no reason why they can't develop it."

After briefly popularizing some new knowledge, the topic returns to the things they are currently concerned about.

"Don't talk about this, there's one thing that I'm curious about, do you have a mechanism to find these aliens to teleport? I've dismantled multiple wrecks and found nothing. ”

"I didn't find it either, what about you?"

"No ......"

The Gatherers dismantled the wreckage of the battlebody, resulting in nothing but a pile of organic filler and a carbon steel metal shell, and nothing else, leading to new ideas.

"Could it be that the teleportation engine is an organism, not a machine, you say? You see, the organic matter inside these strange combat units is 90 percent, and I think my guess is very valid. ”

The idea of the proposer is a combination of biotechnology and smelting technology, but on the outside it appears to be a mechanical structure, and the inside of the combat body is replaced by another special organic organism to make the combat body move.

"Wouldn't that be easier for us?"

Compared with the civilization with backward genetic technology, it is impossible to get a glimpse of the mysteries in the genetic blueprint without ten or eight years, but for the collectors who have lingulogized the gene, this kind of thing is like eating and drinking.

Thinking of it, they immediately went about it, and they began to analyze the genetic blueprint of the organic filler.

However, the truth is still beyond common sense......

"Huh? Strangely, the genetic information inside these organisms only comes from a kind of intelligent creature with a simple structure, and this intelligent creature does not have the ability to teleport. ”

The gatherers still found nothing, and the genetic blueprint expressed a different kind of creature, with two legs and a pair of hands, covered in red hair, with four eyes, omnivorous creatures that walked on the ground with their arms clubbed to the ground, acting as thighs, and moving on all fours.

Due to the creature's highly developed brain, past experience of collectors has determined that the creature is a sapient creature.

There is no doubt that the Gatherers' forward speculation has been overturned, and it is clear that the mechanism of teleportation is not derived from organic fillers, and is essentially irrelevant.

The gatherer became more and more incomprehensible, and the situation was like a bunch of inconsequential things coming together and then becoming an artifact.

"How is it possible, I'll see...... Belch? What's going on? ”

The proposer did not believe in evil at first, and after scooping up some organic filler with its tentacles and devouring it, it finally had to admit this incomprehensible fact.

After some fruitless discussion, another collector proposed.

"We can look for the wreckage of the battleship, and those battleships will also teleport, maybe we can find something."

"Agreed."

This suggestion was unanimously agreed upon by the collectors - the combat body was too small to be obvious, and if you look among the wreckage of those battleships, you might be able to find some clues.

Just as they were about to leave, suddenly, a string of Serene language messages from a certain planet was received by the collectors.

It was the Serens who were seeking to communicate—all the gatherers understood, eyes on the cluster leader.

"Uh......" The leader of the cluster muttered and replied, "You guys go first, I'll take care of the diplomacy." ”

"Okay."

Interplanetary communication was established, and the cluster leader was the first to read the information from the Serenes.

"Who are you, stranger?"

"We are amoeba, commissioned by the Empire to come and find the seeds of the Empire." The cluster leader replied.

At this time, the empress in an underground facility was slightly stunned.

Commissioned by the Empire? But Amoeba is an enemy of the Empire? If the empire wants to find seeds, won't it send its own fleet to find it?

Problematic! Big problem! The other party can't be trusted!

The Empress then began to draw a picture of what she believed to be the Empire, combining her own knowledge and the replies given by the leaders of the cluster—that Amoeba had wiped out the Empire, and that she had learned of the seeds that had been planted by the Empire from unknown sources, and that they had to hunt it down and kill it all in order to be sure.

Thinking of this, the empress couldn't help but feel a few heavy points in her heart, just the interstellar voyage has already explained how powerful the amoeba is today, not to mention that the age of this new empire is only a few hundred years, far from reaching the level of the peak of the empire, not even a mothership class.

This is a big crisis! A very serious big crisis! Those monsters will wipe out all the Serenes! - The Empress's face was gloomy, and she could already imagine the bloody images of Amoeba slaughtering the Serens after landing on the planet.

"Who are you? Enemy? Or friends? The Empress asked.

"We are gatherers from amoeba, and we have been commissioned by the Empire to find the seeds of the Empire."

The answer was repeated for the leader of the cluster with poor signal reception on the other side, and the signal was strengthened.

But this kind of answer is not good information from the empress's side.

"Please tell the truth, and don't try to deceive us with the kind of lies that can't be deceived in your civilization." The Empress replied solemnly.

Cluster Leader: ???

"Did you misunderstand the information we gave back?"

The leader of the cluster asked, it was completely confused, carefully recalling his reply just now, feeling that he had not said anything wrong, why did the other party answer like this?

"The Empire has been defeated, has it?"

The Empress made one last confirmation.

The leader of the cluster thought about it, and the empire chose to surrender, although the two sides did not fight in the real sense in the end, but it should be regarded as a kind of defeat, so they admitted this fact.

The gatherers had no intention of lying, after all, the lies they told were very lame, and the Serens were so clever that they would be able to hear it, and if there was any misunderstanding, it would only be meaningless to increase the diplomatic workload.

"Suffice it to say that we were commissioned by the Empire to ......"

"No more, amoeba."

The Empress interrupted the Cluster Leader's reply.

"Let's end this dumb riddle and see you on the battlefield."

Immediately, the Serens unilaterally hung up the interplanetary communication, leaving the cluster leader in the communication channel confused.

"So what the hell are you misinterpreting?"