Changkong Fighter

Chapter 135 Alien Civilization Individual
The tentacles covered with some kind of protective "shell" stretched out of the hatch and explored for a week before retracting.

Looking at the nimble tentacles and the light patterns constantly crossing the surface, the experts discussed in a low voice.

"Mollusc?"

Humans are no strangers to mollusks, especially the deep-sea myriapods. Octopuses, in particular, have brain development and thinking abilities similar to humans, and their skin can change color.

Flexible tentacles also meet the most basic need for the development of civilization: making tools.

Without flexible "hands", it would be impossible to manufacture the most basic production tools and then continue to develop more advanced equipment.

Octopuses possess approximately 5 million neurons and a well-developed nervous system, including a main brain responsible for processing sensory input, learning, memory, and coordinating complex movement patterns. Each of their eight arms also has specialized nerve cords, allowing them to operate somewhat independently of the central brain. However, this is the first time humans have encountered a Myriapodinae subfamily capable of developing its civilization to this level.

The tentacles retracted into the spacecraft and there was no movement. However, everyone present could not help but become alert, especially the Jiaolong Commando. Several members holding shields held their shields in front of them to provide cover for their teammates.

Time passed by minute by minute, and the Jiaolong commandos would not rush forward, so the two sides just confronted each other.

Suddenly, the colorant on the ground showed signs of being squeezed, as if something invisible had drilled out of the lifeboat, and several "footprints" appeared on the ground!
"Colorant!"

The captain of the Jiaolong Commando shouted.

boom!
A colored bullet was fired, and the members of the Jiaolong Commando Team lowered their goggles. The spectrum that was invisible to the naked eye could be seen with night vision goggles.

The colorant exploded, and countless dust particles stuck to the invisible object. In an instant, a thermal image appeared in the eyes of the Jiaolong Commando team members. It was a "top-heavy" creature, very funny, just like the animals in Tom and Jerry, walking out step by step on tiptoe. Although it was unknown how good this thing was at swimming, it looked very capable.

"Net gun! Grab it!"

The main way to deal with aliens is to capture them. After all, a lot of information about alien civilizations can be obtained from them.

boom!
The gunpowder drove the net gun forward, and the net bag opened in the air, and with a whoosh, the alien whooshing out was caught in the net made of high-strength material. Suddenly, the alien began to struggle, twisting its tentacles constantly, and the way it struggled looked like an octopus caught in the net bag.
After struggling for a few times and seeing that it could not escape, the alien removed its optical camouflage and revealed its full appearance to the Jiaolong Commandos.

A mollusk about 1 meters long with flexible tentacles. Under the light, through its translucent body, you can clearly see the organs inside the body that look like internal organs, as well as a pair of big eyes.

After magnifying the details, you can see that this pair of eyes is not structured like that of humans. It has many hexagonal compound eyes inside, a bit like the compound eyes of a dragonfly. These compound eyes converge together to form a structure similar to the pupil.

The soft-bodied alien stared at humans with its big, kazilan eyes, the tips of its tentacles lit up fluorescently, and it curled up into a ball and became quiet.

The alien did not explode and hurt people like in the movies. Instead, it "crouched" in the same place very rationally. The color of its skin also changed, creating an extremely striking contrast with the surrounding environment. While obscuring its internal organs, it also allowed the Jiaolong Commandos present to clearly identify its position.

Is it indicating that it won't run away?

Seeing this, the Jiaolong Commando team present did not move. The two sides just stared at each other, watching the mollusk move its tentacles from time to time.
"Captain, what should we do?" The Jiaolong commandos looked at the motionless alien. This thing didn't feel like an animal at all to them, but more like a "human". It was obvious that it knew it was at a disadvantage and tried to do things that would not make them overreact.

Little did I know that the experienced Captain Jiaolong was also at a loss at this moment. He didn't know what to do, but at this time he still asked his superiors: "Captain! The aliens are very quiet. What's next?"

"Calm it down first." The captain was also having a headache at the moment. His specialty was commanding ship operations, not communicating with aliens, so he could only follow procedures.

"understand!"

Comfort? Captain Jiaolong thought for a moment and said loudly, "Hey! Don't move! We won't hurt you!"

After saying that, the captain seemed to be worried that the other party didn't understand, so he used sign language to gesture, hoping that this soft alien could understand.

Swish, swish, swish. In response to the captain of the Jiaolong Commando, only the surface of the soft alien began to show different colors.

Then, both sides fell into silence. They couldn't communicate effectively due to the language barrier.

So the question is, how should humans communicate when they meet aliens for the first time?
"How should we communicate with it?" the chief asked, looking at the experts from various fields sitting in the expert seats.

"Captain, based on their life forms, and using our current life sciences combined with astronomy, we can infer that the aliens' home planet is likely a red dwarf, a low-light-intensity/high-ultraviolet planet, or a tidally locked planet in the eternal twilight zone. The presence of catalytic inert gases in the atmosphere is not ruled out."

"Red Dwarf?"

The leaders at the University of Tokyo are all very capable. The light emitted by red dwarf stars is much weaker than that of the sun, sometimes less than one ten-thousandth of the sun's luminosity, and cannot be seen with the naked eye on Earth.

Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth, is also a red dwarf star, only 4.24 light-years away.

Alien mollusks that grew up on red dwarf stars are highly sensitive to light and have advanced optical technology.
"So, we want to crack its 'optical communication' key?"

"Yes, that's difficult. If the other party's eyes are like those of a mantis shrimp, then we'll have to rely on instruments to complete communication."

Mantis shrimp can see colors, and their color vision range covers the entire spectrum that humans can see. They can also see ultraviolet and infrared rays that are invisible to humans. Some mantis shrimp can even distinguish up to 16 colors.

In addition, mantis shrimp can not only recognize linearly polarized light, but also see circularly polarized light, which makes it an extremely advanced optical detector.

The two sides live in different environments and have different ways of communicating. One uses sound and the other mainly uses optics. Even the soft aliens may not only release a spectrum visible to the human eye, but also infrared and ultraviolet bands that are invisible to the naked eye.

Fortunately, these spectra can be captured by optical sensors distributed around.

(End of this chapter)