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Language issues are relatively easy to resolve; both parties can quickly translate their conversation by finding some reference points.

However, the female leader clearly didn't have the patience to wait. After showing herself, she quickly left, leaving behind the female guard.

Afterwards, Regi learned the guard's name: Terra, who claimed to be the Queen's chief bodyguard.

Sure enough, it was royalty, but the empress herself seemed rather idle.

Regi couldn't understand the connection, but he didn't dare ask Terra, the alien female who was taciturn and difficult to communicate with.

Regi's guess was correct; the prison holding the Riken Race was indeed the Cat Ear Spaceship. His foresight had significantly improved the Riken Race's quality of life.

The alien race did not restrict their movements; they simply removed some parts from the spaceship's engines and shut down the artificial intelligence before allowing them to roam freely within the ship's cabins.

The Cat Ear Spaceship was towed to the T855 asteroid belt, where small asteroids could be clearly seen from the windows. Many alien creatures gradually arrived on board.

These are their researchers; they look much more normal, without those menacing armors. Do alien races really distinguish between researchers and military personnel so clearly? Can they tell the difference just by their appearance?

He had seen the guards' armor up close before; it was truly an extension of their bodies.

This is unbelievable.

However, seeing his old friend Lute's utterly disillusioned expression made him feel much better.

These researchers were very clever; they quickly learned the language of the Riken Race and, during the exchange, inquired in great detail about the function and principles of the various instruments on the Cat Ear Spaceship.

However, under Regi's secret instructions, the Riken Race did not honestly confess these matters.

The alien races didn't seem to care about this.

Gradually, Regi became quite familiar with several alien researchers, and learned from them that they called themselves the Swarm.

He didn't know what it meant, so he could only transliterate it, just like the Swarm didn't know what the Riken Race meant.

Subsequently, he gradually extracted a lot of information, such as why they didn't have long armor, who the female was that day, and who their leader was, etc.

"Morgan, why don't you guys have armor?"

"Because it's not necessary."

"You mean, you can grow it too?"

"Yes."

How does it grow?

"Just eat more."

For some reason, Regi always felt that this guy named Morgan was making fun of him.

Who was that female that day?

"Sarah Kerrigan".

What is her position?

"Commander."

"Is she your leader?"

"No, she is the leader of the Blade."

And what about you?

"I am a member of the Swarm."

Regi seemed to have discovered a secret and hurriedly asked, "Are you two races? Are you the Alliance? Blade and the Swarm?" No wonder they looked different; they weren't the same race after all.

He was just trying to fool him with the idea that eating more would increase his armor.

Morgan shook his head. "The Blade is the Swarm, but the Swarm is not the Blade."

"???" Regi pondered for a moment, then tentatively asked, "You mean Blade is a member of the Swarm?"

"That's right."

Regi filled in the blanks for a moment, trying to figure out Morgan's meaning. In his understanding, Morgan and his Swarm, and then they were divided into many factions, one of which was called the Blade, and Kerrigan was the queen of the Blade.

Yes, that's roughly the idea.

This is incredible intelligence. I wonder what their relationship is like, and whether there's anything we can use in it?

This alien race really doesn't know the wickedness of human nature; they say everything. I'll have to go back and discuss this with Lute and Kamas.

However, he couldn't show it yet, and continued, "Does your Swarm have a leader?"

"Have."

"Who is it? Can I see him?"

"You'll meet him sometime; he calls himself F2A." Morgan said with a strange smile.

"???" Are you kidding me? Although I don't know what it means, the style of this name is completely out of place with your names.

Morgan seemed unwilling to continue on this topic and instead asked him about the operation of some instruments.

Out of courtesy, Regi also said some trivial things, but he didn't reveal the core information at all. These were things he needed to save his life and buy time, so how could he easily reveal them?

Morgan clearly sensed Regi's thoughts, but he didn't seem to care.

That night, the three giants of the Cat Ear Spaceship secretly held a meeting while they were having dinner.

"I have a bad feeling," Lute said first.

"What's wrong?" Regi asked, puzzled. He had been feeling pretty good these past few days; the aliens were quite honest and answered all his questions, which allowed him to gather a lot of information.

"They were too honest."

"What's wrong with that?"

Lute was furious. "Are you out of your mind? Logically, you should have noticed it before me, after all, I'm just a science consultant."

Regi's heart skipped a beat. His old friend wouldn't say such things to him for no reason. Recently, because he had taken the lead in ordering the disarmament, preserving the relatively intact Cat Ear Spaceship, and providing the crew with a decent living environment, everyone had been praising his foresight.

The alien race treated them with courtesy and did not mistreat them. They answered almost all their questions, except for those about whether they could leave or when they could return to Riken Star.

This made him a little smug.

Only after Lute's reminder did he realize what was happening.

Yes, the other party's lack of embarrassment towards them is likely not out of friendliness or frankness, but rather because they have no chance of leaving this place alive. What use would it be to gather a lot of intelligence if they couldn't bring it back?

Thinking this, Regi broke out in a cold sweat. Fortunately, he realized his mistake in time; his feverish mind cooled down, and his intelligence returned. He pondered for a moment and asked Lute, "Do we have a chance to escape? They haven't restricted our freedom. Is there any chance to secretly repair the ship?"

"Run? Where can we run? It's impossible. The engines have been dismantled like that. Our engineers told me it's beyond repair, and even if it were repaired, we wouldn't dare to use it. Most importantly, the Light Sail are destroyed. Even if the Swarm doesn't chase us, it will take thousands of years to fly back to our Mother Planet using only the ship's engine speed. And that doesn't even take into account the energy reserves and the probability of it disintegrating midway."

Lute was on the verge of collapse.

"Since we can't escape, let's not think about it. Eat when you're hungry, sleep when you're tired. The worst that can happen is we die." Although Lute was having a hard time, Kamas was surprisingly open-minded.

The three remained silent. The meeting ended, Regi seemed somewhat depressed, not even wanting to mention the speculation that the Swarm had multiple mountain peaks.

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