The Nangong couple were still curiously studying the furnishings in Raven 12345's manor when Hao Ren had already started chatting with his Goddess: "...Anyway, that's what happened. Then I brought the two of them here."
Raven 12345 looked thoughtfully at the black metal box Hao Ren had brought back. "Another one died prematurely... and it was destroyed by the Firstborn too. You said this time a race called the 'Starry Sky People' appeared?"
"Yeah." Hao Ren nodded. "The people on the Ark called them the Starry Sky People, while the Horleta people called them the 'Allies of the Stars.' The basic meaning is about the same—they're both referring to visitors from space. But so far, all we've collected is visual data. Whether there are any surviving Starry Sky People in the Dream Plane is still impossible to say."
Raven 12345 looked at the image of the Starry Sky People projected by the Data Terminal beside them. It had been extracted from the Ark Mainframe, and she noticed something. "They seem to be a type of energy-based life-form... spiritual entities, with no material component."
Hao Ren sensed that Raven 12345 had not finished speaking. "So what?"
"That means they don't seem to have evolved from the Primordial Seed. I analyzed the original blood samples you brought back and discovered that the Primordial Seed's preset templates could only evolve carbon-based and sulfur-based life-forms. Under suitable conditions, it could also absorb the semiconductor minerals contained within planets to create silicon-based ecosystems—but all of them stopped at life-forms with physical bodies. These Starry Sky People should be a naturally occurring species."
"The Sirens on Ayo were also naturally born." Hao Ren recalled that ocean planet. No traces of the Firstborn had been found there, so he and Raven 12345 had ultimately concluded that the