"Do you think they are alive?" Lu Heng looked at Bona in disbelief.
"Yes, although they don't breathe, and their actions don't seem to be controlled by a brain, some creatures on other planets are in that state. We don't think the zombies you mentioned are lifeless."
Fine, perhaps these aliens had a different concept of life than humans. Lu Heng didn't want to argue with them about it.
"How many of you came to Blue Star?"
"Fifty-four," Bona didn't hide anything.
"We came to Blue Star in a small spacecraft, unable to bring too many people." Bona tried his best to communicate with Lu Heng using Blue Star's methods of communication.
After arriving on Blue Star, they had downloaded many video materials and learned the knowledge here.
"The fifty-four of you built such a large city?"
Lu Heng surveyed the surroundings. They were now back in the tall building Lu Heng had first entered.
"This isn't actually very difficult. The main thing is that our materials are limited, and the usable resources on Blue Star are even fewer. However, some of your metals are also very useful. After we improved them, they are still passable."
"So, you plan to coexist with the zombies on Blue Star like this?"
"Not exactly..."
"Bona, I heard that person came last time." Before Bona could finish, an alien, slightly shorter than Bona, appeared inside the building.
This alien was also standing on a platform and floated in.
Lu Heng looked at the object, which resembled the electric balance scooters people often played with before the apocalypse. However, the alien's version was more exquisite and made no sound when moving.
"This is Bola, my sister," Bona introduced the alien who had just entered.
—Female?
Lu Heng's mind suddenly conjured this word, but looking at the one who had just entered, he couldn't discern its gender from its appearance.
As if sensing Lu Heng's confusion, Bona said without any emotion, "We are hermaphroditic. After reaching adulthood, we can freely transform our gender. However, after transforming once more, we cannot change it again."
Lu Heng stared at them, dumbfounded. "Has she reached adulthood?"
"Not yet, but she has the idea of transforming into a female. We have too few females on Blue Star this time, so reproduction still needs females to do."
"Cough..." These aliens truly had no qualm about discussing sex. It seemed he was being too prudish.
"Are you sick?" Bola curiously examined Lu Heng.
"No."
"Then why..."
"Bola, are you done with your tasks?"
"Not yet. I just heard that another alien came, so I came to take a look."
Lu Heng... I've become an alien?
"You've seen them before. Those hundreds of people last time, didn't you capture a few for research?"
"Some people were researched by you. What happened to those people?" Hearing that some people had been researched by these aliens, Lu Heng immediately had a bad feeling.
"No, I was just very interested in their bodies and studied them carefully. Those people were eventually taken away by Bona, and it seems they left with you."
"Bola, hurry back to your work. You know, we have a lot to do."
"But..." Bola didn't finish her sentence. Under Bona's not-so-intimidating gaze, she stopped speaking and left.
However, before leaving, she took out something and fiddled with it in front of Lu Heng.
After Bola left, Bona spoke to Lu Heng again, "Bola is still young, but she will reach adulthood in a few years."
"How long is your lifespan?"
"Calculated according to Blue Star's calendar, we can live for about 1500 years."
Lu Heng... They probably wouldn't die even after he had gone through several cycles of life and death.
"Approximately how old is adulthood?"
"300 years."
Fine, their adulthood alone was enough for him to go through several rounds of life and death.
"If you want to survive on Blue Star, I don't think humans can stop you. But I want to understand your language and culture, so that it will be easier for humans to communicate with you in the future. After all, we have some differences in cognition."
"You want to learn our technology?"
"Something like that. But with our lifespan, it's probably not realistic to fully understand your technology. However, we can start by understanding each other through culture."
"That's fine. We have already completely mastered the various cultural knowledge on Blue Star. Your technology is indeed too backward. We can convert our culture into a form that you can understand and deliver it to you."
"That would be even better."
Lu Heng thought that as long as he could decipher their writing, he could find other ways to learn their technology from the region connected to his space.
Always keep a backup plan; this would provide an extra layer of security for humanity.
Bona signaled Lu Heng to wait. He temporarily left and returned shortly after, placing a small box in front of Lu Heng.
"This is for you. I have already converted our writing into several languages on Blue Star. You can use this to understand our culture. However, there is a lot of information here, and you may need to spend a lot of time studying it."
"It's fine, I'll find someone to study it."
Wuming City actually had many hidden talents. It was possible to find a few scholars to study it.
"Actually, there's a faster way to learn this, but I don't know if you would like to learn it that way."
"What way?"
"By implanting this information into your brains, you can quickly absorb it as your own knowledge."
"Trepanation? You mean, you have to break open a human's brain?"
"No, it's through brainwaves, inputting information into the human brain," Bona patiently explained to Lu Heng.
They were on completely different technological levels. Lu Heng felt so insignificant at this moment. His confidence as a high-level ability user, gained through magic crystals, now seemed so pathetic in the face of absolute technology.
Lu Heng knew that if these aliens wanted to kill him, he probably wouldn't have much chance to resist. Perhaps he wouldn't even have a chance to enter his space to hide.
However, he personally didn't want to try the method of inputting information through brainwaves.