"Hello."
While Lu Heng was stunned, he heard other people greeting him.
Lu Heng looked around. He couldn't see any humans nearby. Through the barrier beside him, he could still see the earthen wall he had built outside.
Here, one could see the outside scene, but from the outside, only an image was visible.
"Hello."
Once again, the same greeting sounded.
This time, Lu Heng was certain that the voice was coming from the alien creature opposite him.
"You can speak the language of Blue Star."
"Yes, after we came to Blue Star, we learned the local language."
"You? You have companions."
"Yes, you can follow me. Don't worry, I won't harm you."
Lu Heng glanced at the alien creature opposite him. After dismantling the pile of junk tied to himself, he walked towards the alien creature.
"What's your name? I know you Blue Star people have your own names. I have a name too, I'm Bona."
"Lu Heng."
"Where did you get the robots from our world?"
Bona stood on a floating platform and didn't need to walk. Lu Heng found that thing very novel.
"Well, a place, where the environment is similar to yours."
"Also on Blue Star?"
"Sort of."
"Hmm, but why didn't I sense it? If other companions had also landed on Blue Star, I should have been able to feel it."
"Really? Perhaps it's too far, so you can't feel it."
"No. The range for us to receive signals from our companions is very wide. As long as we are in this galaxy, I can detect it."
"How did you come to Blue Star? The air and gravity here are different from your world."
Lu Heng spoke to Bona with a bit of caution, not answering his questions, and constantly observing the surrounding environment.
"Let's go inside," Bona said, standing in front of a tall building and addressing Lu Heng.
"The space here seems larger than outside," Lu Heng said, looking at the building that was clearly taller than the exterior.
"Yes, our technology can change the environment within a space, including the actual area and volume, as well as the gas and temperature within the space."
"So, this is a space, and you've also modified the environment here."
"Actually, our world and the environment on Blue Star are similar. This is also why we chose to come here."
"It's not entirely the same, though. I remember the air in your place was still a bit different from Blue Star."
As they spoke, Lu Heng was taken by an elevator directly to the very top floor.
Bona glanced at Lu Heng's equipment and said again, "You can take off your spacesuit. The air here is not dangerous for you."
"But as far as I know, Blue Star creatures lose their vitality and become very slow when they breathe the air of your planet."
"You've researched this too? It seems you've really been to our world."
"It was just a simple study. Your technological level is much higher than Blue Star's."
"What is your purpose in coming to Blue Star?" Lu Heng was led to a place with transparent walls all around. He created a chair for himself and sat down.
He didn't dare to sit on the chairs here. What if these chairs were equipped with some high-tech binding devices, and he would be tied up as soon as he sat down?
Bona was still standing on that small platform. When he made a gesture as if to sit down, an image of a chair was projected onto the platform, and Bona's body was firmly seated on that image.
"Our planet was attacked by other planets. Later, we built a space city. But after living in that city for a short time, we were attacked by other creatures again.
The original space city was severely damaged, and our remaining survivors began to flee everywhere.
Our resources were running out, and we couldn't build a new space city. So, we started searching for habitable planets in various galaxies.
Fortunately, I found a place in this galaxy with a living environment similar to our planet."
"Are you planning to occupy this place?"
"Not yet. I initially thought there were no living beings here, so I did have the idea of continuing to reproduce here.
But after I arrived here, I discovered that there were already living beings, and you were thriving. I also abandoned the idea of summoning other companions."
Bona communicated with Lu Heng as much as possible using the communication methods he had learned on Blue Star, and he did a good job. At least so far, Lu Heng could understand what he expressed.
"So, are you going to leave Blue Star?"
"No. Although I won't summon more companions, I won't leave either. Our resources are no longer sufficient to build a new technological planet, and the resources available here are not enough for us to build a new planet."
"I see that the space here is quite large, and it's enough for you for now. But in the future, as you multiply, will you have the idea of occupying us and enslaving our planet's humans?"
"No. We will always remember how our planet and space city were destroyed. Those creatures from other planets destroyed our world. We will not be like them; we love civilization."
Lu Heng pondered the truthfulness of the other party's words. He couldn't read the alien creature's thoughts at the moment, so he couldn't be sure of the truthfulness of what he said.
Sensing Lu Heng's doubt, Bona spoke again, "Let me show you the prosperous scene of our planet."
With that, the transparent wall in front of Lu Heng turned into a screen, and the scene Lu Heng had seen in the projector reappeared.
Flying vehicles shuttled orderly in tall buildings. These flying vehicles were not on any physical tracks; they floated in the air, but their routes seemed to be planned.
Some tall buildings had small platforms extending out, where various flying vehicles could temporarily land. Alien creatures like Bona would "walk out" of the flying vehicles and enter the buildings.
The world in the image was like the science fiction movies Lu Heng watched, full of technological development.
"Because we love peace, we have devoted all our energy to technological development. This has also allowed our people to gain more knowledge and understand many mysteries of the universe. In our ten thousand years of development, our planet has become more beautiful, and our people have lived in peace and harmony."
"Where did you get the resources to build such magnificent cities?"
"We have mining machines in outer space. There are many usable resources in the entire universe. However, this is also the root cause of our planet's destruction."