During the development of the Kindling Human Civilization, they had encountered civilizations like this before.
Unlike when they faced ordinary alien civilizations,
whenever they encountered one of these "natural enemies,"
every intelligent civilization reacted in exactly the same way: fight to the death!
This was different from the choices animals faced when encountering their natural enemies: flee or wait to die.
After all, intelligent civilizations weren't animals that could only act on instinct and be controlled by it!
"Have you found any trace of the Shepherd Civilization?"
Wang Dong asked.
"No.
So far, we haven't found any signs of warships, bases, or anything else that might be connected to the Shepherd Civilization."
Liu Zhi's expression was grave.
Even after a long while, the Abyss Eye, combined with his ability, hadn't found anything.
That left him feeling somewhat frustrated.
"Based on the intelligence in the two Battle Reports,
the Shepherd Civilization may not be a conventional species.
The way its members exist may be entirely different from that of conventional civilized species.
We should try another way of searching."
Gao Luanqin offered.
"Since their target is the minds of intelligent life,
perhaps the Shepherd Civilization's individuals don't have physical bodies.
That would mean their civilization has no weapons like warships, either.
It would be difficult to find them through direct observation.
But we can try to see whether we can observe their traces indirectly by watching those low-level civilizations—their food!"
Liu Zhi immediately understood.
He had fallen into a mental rut.
He'd been using the Abyss Eye and his ability to search the space in this star region.
If the Shepherd Civilization really was, as Gao Luanqin had suggested, a bodiless existence like a "ghost,"
then it was only natural that his previous method had turned up nothing.
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