Chapter 1545 - Intelligence from N-4 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Hao Ren was always curious about the “society of survivors” on the Zenith and the lunar base. But since he had never been able to contact them directly, his understanding of the society was only based on Nolan’s limited observational data, which was clearly far from enough.

The arrival of N-6 brought him a great surprise, but before he could ask N-6 about the society, another “source of intelligence” was sent to his door voluntarily.

N-4 said that she knew a lot more about Zenith and the base on the moon than N-6 because of her long service life. While it did not give her more comprehensive access than N-6, it did give her more information about the society of survivors. But she also wanted more information on the background of the “space visitors” before she shared what she knew.

Trust was based on mutual goodwill. Even if Hao Ren wanted to know only the most basic information about the Zenith and the lunar base, which he could easily obtain at first glance by flying there in a spaceship, he had to exchange his chips.

“We come from a different galaxy—I mean an entirely different star system,” Hao Ren explained, feeling he had nothing to hide. “Coming to your planet was a complete accident. We came to this system in search of a… very, very old entity, but after we entered the galaxy, we hit a space disaster. As a result, we had to make an emergency landing on this planet once the ship was badly damaged.”

“We found traces of civilization on this planet, so we’re curious,” Vivian explained. “One of our main tasks is to travel in space all year round, to deal with various civilizations or cultural relics, to observe and document the ecology of civilizations, or to collect and preserve cultural relics. So while we’re here on this planet to repair our spacecraft, we’re studying the native civilization.”

“Observing civilization ecology? Collect cultural relics?” N-4 was a high-level artificial intelligence with a lot of emotion, so she could express surprise. “Is there such a career?”

“Have you heard of corpse collectors? That’s what our landlord does, but he doesn’t deal with dead people, he deals with dead civilization!” Lily added.

Hao Ren covered half of his face. “That’s not what I remember in the workbook. That’s not what the inspector does…”

The data terminal tapped him on the head. “It’s pretty close…”

However, Lily’s simple and crude explanation was very effective. N-6 and N-4 understood Hao Ren’s work immediately. There were also special recovery forces in the executors. They occasionally brought back wounded and incapacitated soldiers from the battlefield, but more often they retrieved debris of great value, such as chips that record first-hand battlefield data. In the battle with the planet devourer, there was far more debris than casualties.

“So clearly we are pacifists. Protecting the fruits of civilization is what we are good at.”

N-4 looked at the man in front of her, trying to determine how likely he was to lie by measuring his facial expressions, eye movements, and heart temperature. Although she has not been exposed to real humans, the physiological parameters of humans were known to all executors. But it soon occurred to her that she might not be able to use those rigid parameters to judge the ‘person’ in front of her because this was a space visitor who looked a lot like a human, but who knew what he looked like when he lied.

“I want to believe you,” N-4 thought for a moment and said, “but I saw you guys paint the image of the predator on the spaceship’s armor as a totem. I think that’s the way a warlike nation expresses itself—if there’s anything wrong with my understanding, please explain why.”

A predator? Hao Ren thought for a while before he realized what she meant… It was Lily’s sticker!

Everyone in the back was laughing at Lily. Lily stamped her foot in anger to defend her authority. “What are you laughing at? Don’t I look mighty after the transformation! Hello! Even the aliens agree!”

“Ahem, you’re quite a… cute husky, but we really can’t see how mighty you are.”