"They- what are they doing——? Zhou Xin asked with a puzzled tone.

"This can't be the way they greet each other when they meet, right?" After a moment's hesitation, Spred continued in a strange tone. Although they had visited many civilizations before and seen a lot of normal or strange greeting behaviors, the action of raising both hands above their heads was the first time for everyone present, and this unreasonable action made them feel a little strange.

"It's just a matter of putting your hands up, what are they doing with their heads down?" Looking at the next actions of the aliens in the camera, Dart suddenly laughed, "I don't think they are greeting us, but like they are surrendering to us." ”

"Seriously, this is the first meeting between the two of us." Although Zhou Xin couldn't help but laugh a little at this time, he still said seriously, "If you annoy the other party because of an action, I'm afraid we will suffer in the end." ”

"Well, I'm just talking about it, and they won't hear it here anyway." Dart muttered under his breath.

"Strange, how do they keep this motionless?" At this time, Zhou Xin didn't hear Dart's self-talk, because his whispering had been masked by Spred's question, "Could it be that they are waiting for us to respond now?" ”

"In that case, let's let the probe go up and find out the situation first." After thinking about it, Zhou Xin, who had no other way, had no choice but to say.

At the same time, the five-person team that just came out of the submersible in the picture -

"Captain, why haven't they reacted yet, I'm dying." Mondcomb said bitterly. Due to his arm injury, it was quite a burden for him to keep his hands held high for a long time. In less than five minutes, he was a little overwhelmed.

"We're their prisoners now, and we have to hold on if we can't hold on." The captain reminded in a low voice with a warning tone, "It's just a pain in your arm right now, and if it's because of your abnormal behavior that causes the other party to attack, then it won't be as simple as pain." ”

"Uh-huh." Mondcombe, who was enduring the pain on his arm, could no longer speak, and he reluctantly responded.

"But captain, it's not a way for us to keep raising our hands like this." The woman asked, "Are we going to keep this action if they don't react?" ”

"What's the solution?" The captain replied helplessly, "Who knows if unauthorized action will cause any misunderstanding, let's be honest for the time being." Maybe the other person is watching us right now. As soon as he finished speaking, Pavro's voice rang in his ears, "Captain, they moved. ”

"Well, they should be finished. Don't move, lest you mislead them. The captain reminded in a low voice again.

Out of the corner of everyone's eyes in the team, the probe that flew onto the platform first slowly circled around them a few times, and then gently stopped in front of the five people. Looking at the detector in front of them, which seemed to be staring at them like a monster, the five of them were as nervous as prisoners waiting for their verdict. Under their protective suits, Mondcombe, who was also enduring the pain on his body, was already soaked in cold sweat, and although the others were not so exaggerated, they were not much better.

"Brother Captain, what should people do next?" At the moment when the probe stopped in front of the five people, on the Voyager, Atlas was asking Zhou Xin at a loss.

"How?" Zhou Xin was slightly stunned, and then subconsciously replied, "Since the other party has already taken the initiative to show up, then we naturally have to respond." ”

"People know we need to respond, but how do we respond?" The little girl asked, embarrassed. Before he could finish speaking, Dart interrupted in a strange tone, "What do you mean by how to respond?" They have already taken the initiative to greet us, of course we must not be rude, we must also say hello to them. ”

"Ask, say hello? But they still can't understand their language, so what should we say hello to them? This answer was really unexpected, and Zhou Xin and the others were all stunned after hearing it. When Zhou Xin came back to his senses, he smiled bitterly: "It's really embarrassing now, the main owner has been found, but we don't have a way to communicate with him now." What to do next, it's impossible to just leave them dry. ”

"If it really doesn't work, then bring a few of them back first." Dart made his suggestion decisively, and then he explained, "Anyway, Atlas has already started to parse the other party's language, and with the few of them, plus the information sent back by the infiltrated probe, it shouldn't take long to understand their language." So we can bring them back first, and then we can talk to those people after we understand their language. ”

"I do." After Dart finished speaking, Spred, who had been thinking for a while, said slowly, "Although we can't understand their language yet, we may be able to try some simple communication with them in other ways." As he spoke, his hand pointed to the big screen, "For example, there is a way to learn." ”

Just hearing these four words, Zhou Xin understood, "You mean to imitate the other party's movements to respond?" He nodded thoughtfully, "Well, that's a good idea." ”

"But don't you think they're acting too strangely?" Dart continued, "I don't think it looks like a greeting. ”

"As you know, we can't look at a civilization that we don't know about yet, and maybe what seems strange to us is a common action for them every day." Zhou Xin replied casually, "At least judging from the current situation, the possibility that their actions represent the meaning of greeting is still very high. ”

"Actually, it doesn't matter if it doesn't mean that." Spred added, "Anyway, we're going to have to bring a few of them back in the end, so it's okay to be wrong, but if you guess right, you might be able to increase their favor, so why not." ”

"That's right." Zhou Xin agreed. Since this is going to be done, the detector with the short robotic arm on the table is not suitable. With one of Atlas's commands, the detector on the table quickly disappeared from the five-person team, replaced by an engineering robot that was more similar in size to a human......