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Evenson arrived at the company, where things were extremely busy as some kind of sorting operation was underway.

After Evenson got there, he saw the Eredar Twins standing off to the side. The company's Chief Scientist, Gernos, was standing amid a huge pile of documents with his assistants, occasionally picking up a file to examine it before tossing it aside.

Evenson had come here to unload goods before, hadn't he? Naturally, he had unloaded all the goods he got from The Collector here for Gernos and the others to analyze. What else did you think it was?

"You're back?" Saloras shot Evenson, who had just arrived, an annoyed glare. "Do you have any idea what an enormous, tedious, and boring job you left behind?"

There were three whole truckloads of documents, all of them paper files. They could not be searched electronically at all and could only be analyzed through manual reading. One could imagine the sheer workload involved. Moreover, these documents looked as though they had been bundled up straight from a recycling depot. There was no classification whatsoever; everything had been piled together in complete chaos.

"Couldn't be helped." Evenson scratched his head helplessly. "For the exchange of knowledge between different civilizations, paper documents are the best medium."

Alien technology was so advanced that they naturally had things like portable storage devices. But could Earth's computer systems even be compatible with them? Even when playing a game, you had to consider system compatibility, let alone electronic equipment from an alien civilization. Forget everything else—the USB ports might not even match!

"They aren't having any trouble reading them, are they?" Evenson quietly asked the Eredar Twins. Since all these materials came from alien civilizations, the writing used to record them was naturally alien as well. Evenson felt that their