In the dark night, a gatherer separated from the rhizome, but it did not move. It just stood quietly on the huge rhizome that looked like the ground, staring upward into the night.

Without the pollution of the fire of civilization, the night sky looks extraordinarily bright, and the stars cover the entire sky. This is a beauty that is difficult to see in the big cities on the earth.

【Huogu, what are you looking at?】

The collectors were basically arranged by Huo Gu to hide in the shelter built by Ming. This collector simply hosted Hogu's organic organisms.

"Look at the stars."

[…I remember that collectors’ visual abilities are not outstanding, right? Wouldn’t it be better to use other organisms to observe celestial objects?]

The collector's observation function is not strong. After all, in the original intention of manufacturing, he is just a 'laborer', and his strength is only endurance.

If you want to observe the movements of celestial bodies, you can use organisms that specialize in receiving electromagnetic waves to observe. Using collectors to observe is extremely inefficient in Ming's opinion.

So Ming feels very strange about this.

"I'm not here to get information, I just want to see more."

The gaze of the gatherer who stayed in Huogu revealed a hint of unknown meaning as he focused on the starry sky.

"If you don't look more now, you won't see it again in the future."

【???】

【What happened?】

[The aliens probably haven’t discovered our plan yet.]

"No, don't be nervous. It's not about the aliens. I'm talking about other things."

"Speaking of aliens, we will have a battle with their fleet in a few days."

When Huo Gu mentioned this, he felt a strange fluctuation in Ming's mind.

"Ming, are you nervous?"

This is how Huo Gu interpreted this strange fluctuating emotion.

[This... In your own words, Huogu, I always feel a little uneasy.]

Fear of failure, not wanting to fail - this is Ming's idea.

It's not that Huogu couldn't understand Ming's situation. This was the first time that he had been the leader of a plan. In the past, he either worked alone or cooperated. This was the first time in his life that he was pushed to the center and took the lead.

"Accidents are more likely to occur if you are in poor condition."

"Don't be burdened. If there is an accident, I will help you make it right."

【Yeah, I get it.】

Although Ming still had an emotional impact after learning the information about Huo Gu, it was much calmer than before. By analogy, it was equivalent to the difference between a strong wind and a huge wave and an ordinary ocean tide.

Ming remembered the purpose of coming to Huo Gu.

[By the way, Huogu, do you have that kind of... uh, distant target? 】

[No, no, no, it doesn’t seem to be called that...]

【How to say...】

Ming's expression is very confusing. Although there is a life field that can ignore communication barriers, if the meaning of the expression is ambiguous from the beginning, then even the life field will appear very weak.

Huo Gu summarized the fragmentary information expressed through Ming and made tentative inquiries.

"You want to say 'ambition'?"

【Yes, that's it.】

"Why do you suddenly want to ask this?"

[Si has obtained a lot of knowledge and information from the aliens before. While helping to sort it out, I saw some event records from the aliens. 】

Ming's piece of information successfully aroused Huo Gu's interest.

"Event record? Tell me about it."

[In the early days when the alien civilization was still developing, there existed certain large creatures with the ability to far overwhelm individual aliens. They could go to the sky and into the underground sea, and could use a variety of chemical attacks with their mouths. They liked to rob the status of the alien civilization.

Extremely tall female individuals imprison them in their own nests.】

"For food?"

【...It seems not.】

[In short, after the alien colony was attacked by this creature, the female alien mate began to embark on a journey to rescue the abducted female. After experiencing various encounters, strength will be gained through the interaction of experience and various factors.

Enhance, finally defeat or kill the large creatures, and rescue the imprisoned female...]

[...After returning, he became the person with the highest power and status in civilization.]

Why do I always feel that this alien's "event record" is so familiar? - Huo Gu felt a little baffled, but he still thought about it carefully.

“So what does this have to do with ‘ambition’?”

Huo Gu thought about it for a long time, but couldn't figure out what this 'ambition' had to do with.

[Don’t you think it’s a great thing for that male alien to dare to challenge an enemy whose strength is far different from his own? He knew he couldn’t win, but he still chose to challenge because he had set that for himself

An almost impossible goal.]

When describing it, Ming was a little emotional. It seemed that the record of this incident made him feel very excited.

However, Huo Gu was indifferent to it.

"That's 'bravery' plus 'opportunity'. It's a nicer way to call it. But it's more like 'impulse' plus 'luck'. The final result is 'accidental', a matter of probability, and has nothing to do with 'inevitability'.

"

"And I think this doesn't seem to have anything to do with 'lofty ambitions', right?"

Huo Gu still couldn't understand why Ming thought of 'lofty ambitions' because of that - because the thinking mode is different, so the understanding is also different?

Probably because the radio waves were not up to par, Ming gave up explaining and forcibly changed the topic to the previous issue.

[So, Hogu, what is your lofty ambition? 】

【You must be so powerful, right? Tell me.】

Ming was looking forward to it. Huogu could feel its emotions. It seemed to have determined that Huogu had such a thing. At first, it was not thinking about whether Huogu had it, but about what Huogu's "lofty ambitions" were.

It was hard to refuse such kindness, and Huogu couldn't refuse it. He thought for a while and made an answer.

"Well, actually I also have great ambitions."

"That is - live forever."

【Just...this?】

If you describe the dark feeling vividly, it is probably equivalent to a basin of cold water suddenly extinguishing the flame.

"Well, that's it. The longer I live, the more scenery I can see. Maybe I can touch these in person in the future instead of just looking at them like now. I can't bear to give up this opportunity."

Huogu acted as a matter of course, that was its original goal and this has been it from beginning to end.

【But this is too...】

"Insignificant?"

【Isn't it?】

As the collector of Hogu's host body, he shook his head slightly, and the micro-movements of human thought acted on this organism.

"You think so because you haven't seen enough things."

Huogu returned his attention to the starry sky above his head. Compared with the vast and vast night sky, the collectors under the canopy of stars were as tiny as dust.

"One day you will find that even if you just want to live..."
Chapter completed!