Hao Ren had never expected to have a day when he would stumble into such incredible luck, but after hearing the two little green men discussing the matter, he immediately furrowed his brow and realized it was not so simple. The two little green men froze at his question as well. One scratched his smooth green scalp. "Ascetics? What do you mean?"
"Oh, nothing." Hao Ren hurriedly stepped closer. "Tell me about the orb, and those four people. I'm quite interested. Maybe I can help you investigate."
The two little green men exchanged a glance, seemingly unable to understand why an inspector would take an interest in meddling with this sort of matter. They were obviously happy about it, however, and the little green man who had brought up the orb earlier spoke up. "It happened several months ago. An explosion occurred near a mine on our Vassal State's planet. It might have been related to a Spatial Teleportation accident. After the explosion, we found four... oddly dressed humans at the scene. Well, they looked more or less like you. According to our classification system, they were Main Sequence Humanoid Organisms, Second Class. They couldn't communicate with us, and they had nothing on them that could identify them, but we did discover gravitational anomalies left behind by Spatial Teleportation at the site. However... our later investigation didn't turn up anything. We don't know where they came from, and they couldn't explain it themselves."
The little green man paused, seemingly recalling the details. "As for the orb, it appeared together with them. It seemed to be something very important, although it looked like nothing more than a metal sphere. They were the ones who called it an 'orb.' We originally wanted to study it, but we nearly got into a fight