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Chapter 375 Interspecies Communication

Using all the resources of the Earth, the Blessed Maria is a research base disguised as a spaceship.

Ryan had just awakened from a four-year deep coma and his mind was still a little foggy, while Ding Yi was diligently exploring everything about the Blessed Maria.

Aside from being somewhat dissatisfied with the use of planet-devouring bodies as the spaceship's propulsion, Ding Yi wanted to replicate the Thousand Blessings Maria on his Earth in every other aspect.

"Why haven't they made a move?" Ryan asked Ding Yi anxiously.

"Do you still remember the characteristics of the asteroid?" Ding Yi asked Ryan.

"Why are you asking this? There are too many characteristics of asteroids," Ryan replied.

“Just pick the features you think are more important to talk about,” Ding Yi said.

"It should be the ability to absorb radiation. Most radiation-absorbing planetesimals can absorb it."

“The hull of the Thousand Blessings Maria has a layer of star-devouring material, which reduces many of the problems the spacecraft encounters when flying in space. All cosmic radiation is absorbed by the star-devouring material,” Ding Yi said.

"Is the asteroid a protective layer?"

"It also provides a temperature for the interior of the spacecraft," Ding Yi said.

Ryan Grace glanced at the laboratory thermometer, which showed that the temperature inside the spaceship was 25 degrees Celsius, a perfect temperature for him—neither too hot nor too cold.

“If the Eridanoids’ spaceship has some kind of scanning equipment to scan the internal structure of our spaceship, perhaps the protective layer of the planeteer can also help us resist the Eridanoids’ spying,” Ding Yi said.

“Why didn’t we think of scanning the Eridanus’s spaceship?” Ryan slammed his fist on his palm.

Ryan looked at Ding Yi; he wanted to do it.

“You are the captain,” Ding Yi emphasized once again.

“Actually, I’m not very comfortable in this leadership position. In my memory, I’ve always been the one being told what to do by others,” Ryan said.

Ryan felt a chill run down his spine as Ding Yi stared intently at him, as if he were being scanned by an X-ray.

"Okay, I'll get used to it. There's always a first time for everything."

Ryan sat in the pilot's seat, operating the controls. He never expected that he could so easily see through the structure of the Eridanus spaceship, but the distance was too great, so he could only see the general outline.

"It's over. If the Eridanus people can't withstand cosmic radiation, then most of the people on their spaceship are probably dead," Ding Yi said.

"You see, the only place we can't get through is the engine area."

"Their spacecraft has a bit of the Soviet style, like a powerful flying brick, unlike our 'Maria of Blessings' which is highly integrated."

The Eridanus's spaceship was over two hundred meters long, but its width was immeasurable, resembling an artificial sculpture flying in outer space.

"Their spaceship moved."

The Eridanus's spaceship moved slowly, gradually approaching the Myriad Blessings Maria.

In order to complete the docking of the two spacecraft, the Eridanus spacecraft carefully adjusted its angle.

When the Eridanus spacecraft came to a complete stop, the alien spacecraft extended a pipe toward the airtight transition chamber of the Myriad Blessings.

The airtight transition chamber of the Maria of the Blessed is indeed capable of docking, but the Eridanus spacecraft is still operational.

The robots working on the exterior of the Eridanus spacecraft used special materials from the Eridanus to glue the interfaces at the pipe joints, without taking into account the mechanical principles of the Marienbrück's docking mechanism.

Ding Yi and Ryan both put on Seahawk spacesuits. Ding Yi hid in a corner of the laboratory as originally planned, but he didn't bring a gun.

Using the Type 92 pistol inside a spaceship carries too many uncertainties; it would be disastrous if it accidentally hits some vital parts inside the spaceship.

Ding Yi could unleash electric attacks on his own, and compared to a pistol, he had more faith in the power of his own body.

The door to the airtight transition chamber was tightly closed, and Ryan stood in front of the door waiting for the greeting from the other side.

What kind of behavior qualifies as a greeting?
Ryan thought it was the sound of knocking. His mind was now filled with the traditional American image of a white-skinned, big-headed alien with a body shape similar to a human.

Ryan waited for a while, until there was absolutely no movement from the other side.

Ryan was still waiting when he heard knocking sounds coming from outside the docking point.

That location could only be tapped in space, and Ryan realized it was a robot operating outside the Eridanus spacecraft making the tapping.

The other side must have been ready; Ryan pulled the lever and opened the door.

As the hatch on his side opened, Ryan discovered that the Eridanus had built a wall in front of him, and each brick in the wall was made of a different material.

Ryan studied the wall tiles for a moment and realized the Eridanus's purpose: the other party wanted him to choose a material as a barrier for their meeting, and the other party did not intend to meet directly.

"Why is only one brick made of transparent material?"

Ryan pointed at the transparent brick with his finger, and he saw the Eridanus on the other side of the wall also point at the transparent brick.

“Is that your hand?” Ryan asked.

He heard a strange sound coming from the other side of the wall, like the song of a whale.

"Is this your language?" Ryan muttered to himself. "It seems you really are friendly aliens."

The Eridan man's strange hand tapped the transparent brick again, and Ryan pressed himself against the wall to look at the other side of the brick.

The Eridanus displayed a model of an astronaut and a model of the Myriad Blessed Maria behind transparent bricks, gesturing to Ryan, like a child playing with toys, to close the door of the airtight transition chamber.

Ryan did as instructed. After closing the hatch, Ryan heard the Eridanus people seemingly dismantling a wall, then building another one. Once everything was finished, the external robot knocked on the spaceship to remind Ryan.

"Let me see what's going on..."

When Ryan opened the door a second time, he was met with a transparent wall, and the Eridanus was on the other side of the wall.

“This isn’t what I expected,” Ryan said.

On the other side of the transparent wall was complete darkness, as if the Eridanus didn't need light. However, the light from his side shone on the Eridanus opposite him.

"What are you? A crab? Or some kind of shelled echinoderm?"

In Ryan's observation, the Eridanus was like a rock with five arms. Both were in a state of weightlessness; Ryan could only float, while the Eridanus could use one arm to grab a horizontal bar in the passage to stabilize itself, and use the other four arms to work.

Ryan felt a bit hot, but this was not an internal feeling but a physical sensation.

The Eridanus live in a high-temperature, high-pressure environment, and now heat is spreading to his ship through the Eridanus spacecraft's passageways.

Through a transparent wall, the Eridanus man personally showed the model to Earthlings.

"What does this mean? It's another string of beads..."

"It looks somewhat familiar..."

"So it was ammonia?"

Ryan drew the molecular structure of ammonia on the transparent wall with his hand and nodded.

The Eridanus seemed to understand Ryan's meaning and took out the pre-prepared components to add to the model of the ammonia molecule, which puzzled Ryan.

The Eridanus patiently showed Ryan the molecular structure, and Ryan counted a total of 29 ammonia molecules.

"The Eridanus first showed me an ammonia molecule, indicating that their air is full of ammonia and that they breathe ammonia. And do the 29 ammonia molecules that follow represent the atmospheric pressure on their side?"

"Let's just get through this part for now," Ryan said, nodding to the Eridanus.

The Eridanus man emitted a whale song.

(End of this chapter)