For everyone in Tiandao Palace, the cultural shock brought by this contact was greater than anything else.

Although they had followed Fang Zheng to other worlds before, those worlds still maintained similar civilizations and values. But just now, they encountered two completely different, even incomprehensible alien civilizations - well, for Fang Zheng, it was quite calm.

After all, he had seen things more ridiculous than this.

"Tell me, what should we do if we really meet this group of...aliens?"

Asuna thought about it for a while, but couldn't help but ask. She had no appetite for either Chicken Cack or Pooh Bear.

In fact, Asuna lost her appetite just looking at the chicken leg in front of her.

"We will not meet with them."

Fang Zheng was enjoying the meal very much.

"We won't have any contact with them unless necessary."

"Eh? Is that so?"

Ying Lili looked at Fang Zheng curiously.

"I thought we were going to go talk to them."

"What is there to talk about? Do you think aliens would have anything in common with us? The same goes for humans. Why do you think aliens would be able to communicate with you?"

"Well……"

Faced with Fang Zheng's question, Eriri was speechless for a moment, and then Misaka Mikoto took over the conversation out of curiosity.

"But we also have great power and civilization!"

"You haven't even left the orbit of the Earth and the Moon, so stop being so self-indulgent here."

Fang Zheng glanced at Misaka Mikoto.

"Don't think that you are very strong at Level 5, but to aliens, you are basically just mutants among mice. You are rare, but there is nothing special about you. If you want to communicate with advanced civilizations, you must reach the same level first. Look, if it were me, if I were not a human, I would not even bother with Academy City. When you drive on the highway, would you care about what inventions the ants in the ant nest next to you have made?"

“…”

Misaka Mikoto stopped talking, but her lips were pouted, and it was obvious that she was very unconvinced. But...what could she do even if she was unconvinced?

"Are you the same, Misaka-san?"

At this moment, Shokuhou Misaki was also unreasonable and retorted.

"You have never cared about those with low abilities or no abilities, have you? How much effort and pain they have put in to gain and improve their abilities, don't you, Misaka-san, care about them either?"

“Shokuhou——!”

Hearing this, Misaka Mikoto clenched her fists in anger, but she was speechless. Just as Shokuhou Misaki said, Misaka Mikoto had never thought about these issues.

"Okay, let's eat and stop arguing."

Fang Zheng was in no mood to watch them bickering at the dinner table, so he comforted them without saying anything else, then glanced at Shokuhou Misaki.

"You should also stop talking, or I'll send you to have a heart-to-heart with Saya."

"Well……"

Upon hearing this, Shokuhou Misaki's face turned pale and she immediately lowered her head and stopped talking.

In fact, after Shokuhou Misaki was captured by Fang Zheng, in order to prevent her from causing any trouble, Fang Zheng invited Shokuhou Misaki to have a heart-to-heart talk with Saya, and let Shokuhou Misaki go deeper into Saya's spiritual realm.

As a result, after the unprepared Shokuhou Misaki saw the world through Saya's eyes, her SAN value was immediately reduced to zero, and she almost had a mental breakdown. Fortunately, Fang Zheng was well prepared and let Kurumi use the Fourth Bullet to save Shokuhou Misaki, otherwise Shokuhou Misaki would have gone crazy.

Because of this, Shokuhou Misaki has a psychological trauma now, and she avoids Saya whenever she sees her...

The only thing that made Shokuhou Misaki feel balanced was that Misaka Mikoto was treated almost the same as herself. Well, although Misaka Mikoto asked to come here on her own initiative, Shokuhou Misaki knew very well that in Fang Zheng's eyes, Misaka Mikoto was not valued more by the other party than herself, which made Shokuhou Misaki more or less proud.

That's why she chose to confront Misaka Mikoto in front of Fang Zheng, jumping back and forth in the minefield, enjoying it.

At this moment, Nymph, who was eating at the table, suddenly raised her head.

"Master, the unmanned reconnaissance vehicle has arrived at the coordinate planet."

"Oh? Transmit the image over here and let's see."

Hearing this, Fang Zheng immediately became interested, however...

"Wait, let me finish this bite first!"

At this moment, Eriri ignored the lady's etiquette and finished the rice in her bowl in just a few bites. The black cat looked at her and sighed.

"Can you still eat? Forget it, I won't eat anymore."

As he spoke, Black Cat put down his chopsticks, and Felli stood up with a pale face.

"Sorry, I have to leave for a while..."

“Is it that exaggerated?”

Looking at the reactions of the people in front of him, Fang Zheng shook his head, then directly turned on the screen. Soon, a picture appeared in front of him.

It was a city covered in ice and snow.

Under the whistling snow and wind, you can see the dilapidated city. Their appearance looks a bit like a fusion of trees, steel and stone. If it was in its heyday, it might have been a different experience. But now, there are only a few ruins and Nymph's calm report.

"According to tests, this complex was built approximately 2,500 years ago and is now abandoned. There is no trace of life on the planet."

“…”

Looking at the dilapidated buildings and the dead, lifeless land, everyone in the restaurant had complicated expressions. You know, not long ago, they saw the satellite signals and images stored by the civilization on this planet. Although the two sides had different perspectives, no one thought that the final result would be like this...

"What is the reason?"

Fang Zheng picked up a piece of cauliflower and put it in his mouth, asking casually as if he was reading National Geographic.

"As of now? Because the movement of the star caused the planet to deviate from its original orbit, the temperature dropped sharply and the entire planet was completely frozen, which is equivalent to entering a long ice age."

"So the civilization on this planet is extinct, right?"

"Yes."

Fang Zheng sighed and shrugged his shoulders, while the others also had complicated expressions.

The extinction of a civilization... was too exciting for these girls. And Shirai Kuroko murmured to herself, with a look of disbelief on her face.

"I never thought that such a thing would happen just because of the change in the planet's orbit..."

"This is normal. Maybe this will be the fate of mankind one day."

At this point, Fang Zheng shook his head helplessly. This was the fate of a civilization that could not leave its home planet. It was because it was too fragile that a simple natural disaster could completely destroy its existence. It was like a primitive tribe living on a volcanic island. When the volcano erupted, they had no planes or ships to escape from the island, so they would have no choice but to die.

However, at this moment, Nymph's voice sounded again.

"Please wait... Master, we have an unexpected discovery!"

As Nymph spoke, the scene quickly changed, and then everyone saw a strange-looking steel spaceship parked in an open space not far from the building complex.

"What is that?!"

Seeing this, everyone immediately became interested, and Fang Zheng also made a gesture, and soon the picture was enlarged. Not long after, a rough-looking spaceship appeared clearly in front of everyone.

"Analysis of alloy quality... Over. Made of special metal, it was built about thirty years ago. Judging from the radiation, it uses a nuclear fusion power system. The level of analysis should be between Level 4 and Level 3 civilization."

Nymph operated the drone and quickly analyzed the spacecraft.

"Strong force flying bricks... it shouldn't be that simple, maybe it's because of the different degrees of influence of gravity?"

Fang Zheng carefully studied the spaceship on the screen in front of him. Its size seemed similar to that of a sailing ship from the Age of Discovery, except that it was sealed. Even if it used a nuclear power system, this shape should not be able to escape the gravity of the planet - at least it would not be able to escape from a gravitational circle like the earth.

At this moment, several thin figures wearing fully enclosed space suits walked out of the spacecraft - they were really thin. After wearing the space suits, the body shapes of these aliens were similar to those of the girls in the Tiandao Palace. It can be seen that if they take off the space suits, who knows how thin they will be.

“These people seem quite normal!”

Seeing this, Asuna breathed a sigh of relief. Although they couldn't see what these people looked like because they were wearing thick helmets, at least they had two arms and two legs. After seeing the Chicken and Pooh Bear before, the girls felt that their requirements for normality had dropped to a very low limit.

“I hope they don’t eat people.”

Fang Zheng laughed and then quietly moved the drone closer. The technology of this spaceship was quite backward. It had no protective shield and no special weapons. It didn't even have the most common missiles, only a few machine guns...

Well, installing a machine gun on a spaceship is a very weird operation.

Fortunately, this machine gun is remote-controlled.

Just as Fang Zheng was thinking about it, he saw these aliens take out a flag from the spaceship, stick it hard into the cold snow, and then kneel down and start to hit the flag - rolling around.

That's right, they hugged their knees, curled themselves into a ball, and circled around the flag.

"What is this doing?"

Even though the girls have been shocked twice in a row during this period, it doesn't mean they will get used to it the third time.

"Some kind of ritual, perhaps?"

"The rolling ritual?"

The girls became more and more confused, not knowing how to understand. However, Fang Zheng didn't care about that. Instead, he just stared at the flag. Under the severe cold, the flag was frozen solid almost as soon as it was unfolded, but because of this, the pattern on it could be clearly seen.

It was a large eyeball wrapped in twisted tentacles.

Hmm... this pattern is very familiar to Fang Zheng.

It seems that the goddess's thoughts may change, but her aesthetic sense will never change in her lifetime.