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--The following was automatically translated and synchronized with the language system of the Water Blue Star civilization--
Faint light from the cosmos filtered through the atmosphere, leaving only a dim glow to illuminate the world.
But to these individuals from interstellar civilizations, low light was no different from daylight.
Silulu (phonetic pronunciation) belonged to a humanoid intelligent species. He looked much like what humans called an elf.
His actual name, rendered in the language of Water Blue Star, was Linderson.
He was handsome and looked twenty, an elegant young man straight out of an Earth-era film.
A blue protective suit enclosed Linderson's slender figure, while his exposed, pale golden hair fell neatly over his shoulders.
Linderson came from the High Spirit Race. He had long participated in the Technology Recovery Investigation Team, leading twenty brave High Spirit warriors.
With their innate air of nobility and elegance, and the other species around them being painful to look at, the High Spirit Race resembled white cranes among a flock of crows.
The Technology Recovery Investigation Team was one of the groups responsible for tracking high-tech components.
Their superiors had issued orders, and almost as soon as the object landed, they had arrived in the area and begun searching.
And they had successfully retrieved it!
Linderson watched the mechanical body spit out a regular cube. No living being dared touch it again.
After all, no one knew whether a creation from the depths of the cosmos might do something unexpected.
The investigation team's mortality rate was second only to that of large-scale combat.
But someone had to do the job.
Linderson took out a large pair of tongs and stepped forward. He clamped them directly around the cube and applied force, only for the tongs to whip upward.
The cube remained