After receiving the prey exchanged by the experimental subjects, Simmons initially thought it was the kindness shown by the aborigines.

However, when the experimental subjects took the initiative to bring their prey to exchange supplies with him for the second time, Simmons actively tried to approach them, but found that when he took a step forward, the aborigines looked at him.frowned.

He cleverly understood the meaning and stepped back to his original position.

"What's the reason you came to see me?" He asked proactively.

The experimental subjects pushed the prey they brought forward: "We want to exchange something with you."

Simmons was stunned for a moment, and he also knew about the fact that the experimental subjects put a bunch of animals outside their starship a few days ago.

"This is what I plan to give you." Simmons vaguely felt that some of the concepts of these aborigines were a bit deformed, and he only emphasized that, "I am willing to give it to you, so there is no need to exchange it with other things."

But the aborigines understood what he said, but they were not very willing to do what he said, and insisted on completing the exchange.

77 took a step forward, put the vine tied with the prey in his hand, then stepped back and stood by 76's side.

Simmons subconsciously took a step forward to catch up. Almost at the same time, 76 blocked 77, trying to block Simmons' sight.

Simmons had no choice but to back away, tied the vines to the nearby tree, and signaled to the experimental subjects that he had accepted it.

"I'll get you some food." He said and turned back.

Thinking of a group of aborigines outside holding the prey he had caught and wanting to exchange food with him, Simmons hesitated in choosing various snacks, and always subconsciously considered whether the people outside would like them when picking them up.

But he quickly remembered that he basically had no communication with the aborigines outside, and naturally he didn't know their preferences.

In the end, he picked out some snacks and pushed them out with a small cart. He thought of something before he hesitated and put some of them aside before going out.

After he went out, he looked at the expressions of the aborigines. Seeing that the food was obviously half less than last time, there was no expression of dissatisfaction on their faces, but they dragged the small cart after he let goGo over and start dispensing.

Until the end of the distribution, they didn't show dissatisfaction with the amount of food Simmons brought over. Simmons frowned even more when he saw this.

They are obsessed with exchange and barter, but they don't know how to measure the value of the items they exchange, or they don't understand the concept at all.

Seeing that the subjects were about to turn around and leave after getting a satisfactory snack, Simmons stopped them: "Wait a minute."

The experimental subjects stopped and looked back at him seriously, intending to listen to what he had to say.

"It's just part of this exchange," Simmons said. "There's some stuff I just didn't get out."

——

The subjects waited for him outside for a while, but Simmons came out with not only food, but also a scale.

Before handing them the snacks, Simmons brought the scale over and placed it between himself and the experimental subjects.

He raised his eyes and looked at the experimental subjects: "Do you want to continue exchanging with me in the future?"

The experimental subjects nodded.

Seeing this, Simmons continued to speak: "If we want to exchange, I think we should formulate the rules first, right?"

After he finished speaking, the test subjects showed blank eyes and looked at him with an incomprehensible expression.

"Why make rules?"

Simmons had already guessed and was mentally prepared for their performance. He continued to speak, trying to guide the experimental subjects to consider this issue.

He cleared his throat: "There is a saying in my hometown, that is, there is no rule without rules."

35 waved the vine, subconsciously asked: "What are the rules, and what is the radius?"

The other experimental subjects also looked at him with curious expressions, like a group of curious children.

Simmons suddenly got stuck, and now he doesn't have the two ancient drawing tools, the rule and the ruler.

He finally squatted down, took a branch, sharpened it with a dagger, and drew a circle and then a square on the ground.

He tapped the ground with a branch: "This is a square, this is a circle, and the ruler and the moment are the tools used to correct them."

Simmons carefully explained the meaning of this sentence to the experimental subjects, but he soon discovered that due to the lack of physical demonstrations and the cultural differences between the two sides, these aborigines quickly lost their understanding due to half-understanding.Interested.

Simmons pinched the bridge of his nose and thought, if he wants to teach them, he probably needs to start with the alphabet. Maybe after he leaves, he can buy some early childhood education books for them, so that they can slowly get in touch with the outside world.language.

Looking at the test subjects who lacked interest and whose eyes had begun to wander around, Simmons turned the topic back: "In short, if you want to exchange things with me here, you need to follow my rules here."

He noticed that after his voice fell, the subjects quickly put down the snacks in their hands, subconsciously took a step back, and looked at the vigilance in his eyes, which made Simmons's heart tighten.

Like some sort of reflex left over.

——

Simmons's mind was spinning fast at this moment. He took the initiative to step back a little, trying to show that he had no malice towards them and was harmless, and then he said: "The rule I said is to determine how much meat to use.How many snacks can you exchange with me?"

Hearing this, the expressions of the experimental subjects relaxed a little, but they still didn't take the initiative to move forward.

The experimental subjects didn't talk to him very much, and no one answered, so Simmons could only continue talking by himself.

"Why determine the rules?"

"Because the food we use to exchange has value." Seeing the confused expressions of the experimental subjects, Simmons didn't need to think about it to know that they didn't understand the word "value".

But the question asked by the experimental subjects was somewhat beyond his expectation: "Why does food have value?"

In the understanding of the experimental subjects, being valuable is equal to being able to be used for experiments.

But food is only for eating, and have never seen a scene where food is used for experiments.

77 asked him: "We have value, but food can only be eaten, why is it also valuable?"

Simmons raised his eyes subconsciously. At a certain moment, he looked at the genuine doubt in 77's eyes, and somehow wanted to avoid his eyes.

He suddenly didn't dare to think about the meaning behind this sentence, he always felt that there would be something behind it that would subvert his concept.

"We are different." Simmons planned the subjects and himself into the scope of "us".

"The value I just mentioned is generally a measure of items, and it is fixed." Simmons looked at these experimental subjects seriously, "But we are different."

"We're priceless," Simmons said.

"What is priceless?"

"It means that we—me and you are all precious and cannot be measured as objects."

"It's not measured by how much other people can get from us by being used, but that we are born here, alive, breathing and beating, that's good enough."

——

In order to avoid going deeper into the previous topic, Simmons, who was interrupted again, took a breath and continued the original topic.

"Let me give you an example." Simmons took a bag of snacks from the trolley and glanced sideways, "This is a bag of jerky."

He took the package of jerky in one hand, and with the other hand picked up a smaller animal from his side.

"In the beginning, I would exchange four packs of jerky with you for such a prey."

"Then the second time you came, I only gave you a pack of jerky. Do you think it's too little?"

One of the subjects, the original owner of the animal in Simmons' hand, said, "No."

"What about you?" Simmons asked the other subjects.

The rest of the experimental subjects also shook their heads. They were only obsessed with the process of exchanging, but they didn't have any concept of the specific amount of exchanging.

Realizing this reality, Simmons threw all the things in his hand aside, and said with some headaches: "Okay, you don't mind, I mind."

Simmons took the scale at hand, pointed to the display screen and numbers on it, and told the subjects how to use the scale.

The experimental subjects' familiarity with numbers made him even more skeptical that the aborigines in front of him might not be creatures that evolved naturally during the evolution of the planet.

But now he doesn't bother to think about what he has and what he doesn't have. Simmons puts aside factors such as the price and rarity of these food stars, and simply exchanges them according to their weight.

"We're trading by weight now."

Simmons asked the subjects to look at the numbers displayed on the scale: "We exchange 1 to 5."

He said: "That is, you exchange five times the weight of meat with me for the same weight of snacks."

"Not only this time, but also in the future, we will fix this rule now."

Although they were a little unclear about Simmons' actions, seeing his serious expression, the subjects nodded in agreement.

Seeing this, Simmons breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at the experimental subjects: "So give me the snacks in your hands first, and I will redistribute them to you according to the animals you brought." He knew the memories of these experimental subjectsVery good, I can clearly remember what I brought here.

The experimental subjects didn't have any objections, and gave him all the snacks in their hands first.

After collecting the snacks from the experimental subjects, Simmons began to distribute them according to weight. During this period, because the snacks he brought were not enough, he had to go to the starship to get some of his own inventory..

After the distribution was over, the subjects quickly left here with their own things. 77 and 76 looked at the snacks in their hands that were distributed more than at the beginning: "He is so strange."

Hearing what 77 said, 76 nodded in agreement.

——

After all the experimental subjects left, Simmons stood there looking at the direction they left. He remembered the many materials that were still missing on his starship, and suddenly sighed.

Wanting to leave here is not something that can be done in a short while. Before leaving, he suddenly wanted to do something for these aborigines.

Simmons thought, at least before leaving, let's correct their somewhat deformed concepts.

——

The experimental subjects knew nothing about his thoughts.

76 and 77 will still lean together to help each other at night, and with the end of spring, the restlessness that is difficult to resolve has finally slowly subsided.

But the two snakes, who are used to being in close contact with each other, are no longer satisfied with the distance before the arrival of spring.

And the desire to express in front of the other party some time ago also disappeared with the spring, but the possessive desire for the other party is still there.

76 was chatting with another experimental subject, and the other experimental subject came over when 77 was not there, and when he saw 77 was not there, he asked by the way: "Where did 77 go?"

76 said: "He's by the lake and should be back soon."

Sure enough, 77 came back not long after. When he came, the conversation between 76 and another experimental subject was in the middle of it.

When 76 was chatting with another experimental subject, 77 couldn't help but put his tail on his tail, and tightened it slightly, feeling the force from the tail, 76 looked in 77's direction, and thenI saw 77 blinking at himself.

76 stretched out his hand, held 77's hand in his palm, felt that 77's hand moved slightly in his palm, and then settled down, and then 77 leaned a small part of his body weight on 76's body, naturally inserted into the topic between the two experimental subjects.

Although the other experimental subject knew that 76 and 77 were very close, it didn't feel much when they were with other experimental subjects, and it was especially obvious when the experimental subject faced it alone.

He touched the tip of his nose, and muttered in a low voice: "I don't know why, but I always feel that I really want to look a little redundant now."

Hearing his words, 76 and 77 couldn't help laughing, 77 curled up his tail quietly, and then began to reflect on whether his reaction was a little obvious just now.

But the experimental subject on the opposite side just mentioned it casually, and he quickly thought of another thing: "Speaking of which, I remember that some other experimental subjects seem to be similar to you."

As he spoke, he listed some experimental subject numbers for 76 and 77, and they were all in groups of two experimental subjects, especially those two experimental subjects who lived together as a partner.

"Strange..." He muttered to 76 and 77, "Could it be because they have lived together for a long time?"

As he spoke, he couldn't help scratching his head, and said to himself: "How about I also ask if there is anyone who wants to live with me?"

——

The visiting experimental subject left soon. He came here mainly because he remembered that he hadn't seen 76 and 77 for several days.Only the experimental subject lived in a large territory, and it was inevitable that they would feel a little lonely after a long time.

What he shared with the two snakes was about Simmons.

There is nothing new recently, so some experimental subjects who have nothing to do will stroll around the vicinity of the Simmons starship after eating and drinking, watching his behavior from various hidden corners.

After all, was still curious about Simmons.

He is very similar to "Mom", but completely different, so the experimental subjects want to see the difference more clearly.

After receiving the prey from the experimental subjects, Simmons didn't touch the food in the starship much, but processed the food and ate it.

In the first two days, he was basically inside the starship. After seriously considering what to do for these aborigines before leaving, he changed the matter to outside the starship.

After all, apart from exchanging snacks with Simmons, these aborigines basically would not appear in front of him, so he decided to change his way and began to approach them proactively.

After thinking about it, Simmons decided to start with food.Some of the items on the starship are complete, and Simmons decided to use barbecue to lure the aborigines out.

He quickly set up a fire outside the starship, and the prey sent by the experimental subjects were disemboweled, cleaned, smeared with spices and placed on the fire. It didn't take long for the enticing fragrance to slowly spread around.

Simmons seemed to be serious about grilling meat, but in fact, his attention had been on the environment for a week. When he saw a bush swaying in a small arc, a flash of clarity quickly flashed in his eyes: "So it's hidden here."

He has always guessed that there will be experimental subjects silently observing him in the dark, but he has never seen it before.

"What kind of meat is that?" After listening to another experimental subject's words, 77, who came to watch curiously, looked at the piece of meat that was dripping with oil. It smelled more fragrant than dried meat.

"It seems to be the prey that No. 35 brought over last time." 76 said, he saw the fur around Simmons that had not been thrown away after processing.

76 and 77 have also caught this animal before, but they don't have such a strong and attractive aroma.

Their eyes quickly fell on the fire burning below. 76 and 77 hadn't seen the fire yet: "What is that?"

——

After seeing Simmons barbecue, 76 and 77 turned over there from time to time, secretly hiding in the dark to observe.

Not only 76 and 77, but other experimental subjects have also developed a lot of interest in this extraordinarily fragrant meat.

Simmons knew that the subjects were there since the first time they accidentally made a movement in the bushes, and he didn't startle the enemy, but continued to barbecue at a fixed location every day according to the amount of three meals a day, changing patternsMake the meat more and more fragrant.

At the same time, the subjects felt more and more that the meat in their mouths was tasteless.

But what they didn't know was that Simmons, who hadn't waited for the experimental subjects to appear, was actually a little impatient. He had been eating barbecue every day recently, and he felt that he was starting to get a little angry.

When Simmons began to consider whether to eat a lighter food first, an experimental subject came out of the dark first.

"How do you do it?" he asked Simmons. "Can you teach us?"

The other subjects also came out from behind one after another. Simmons glanced around and found that they were all familiar faces he had seen on the first day.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered that, except for the faces he saw for the first time, he seemed to have never seen any strange faces behind him.

But logically speaking, a group should still have cubs and old individuals, not young adults.

Simmons' thoughts were quickly interrupted by the words of the experimental subjects: "We can exchange prey with you."

They looked at Simmons: "We can catch you any animal you want."

"I can teach you." Simmons quickly responded, but he did not respond to the topic of their prey exchange, "I want to exchange with other things."

He looked at the experimental subjects, and 77 didn't know what new ideas he had, but during the recent period of getting along, they barely had a certain degree of trust in the person in front of them.

"Then what do you want to exchange with us?"

"I want to know your names." Simmons thought about it seriously, and finally came up with this answer.

But the experimental subjects didn't reply him immediately, they seemed extremely surprised by Simmons' request.

In other words, they don't actually think that their numbers can be used as bargaining chips for exchange.

"Why the name?" 77 asked suspiciously.

Simmons sat cross-legged: "In our previous exchange, what you exchanged was food, and what I exchanged for you was also food."

"But what I'm teaching you now is the method of grilling meat, not the food."

Simmons thought, in a sense, it is a more abstract existence.

"But why must it be a name?" 35 pressed again, it seemed worthless.

"But this thing has value to me." Simmons said, "It's important to me."

77 looked at 76 and saw the same confusion in his eyes.

Obviously last time he said that the value is fixed, but now he said that the value of knowing the names of the experimental subjects is measured by Simmons himself.

"That's weird." 77 muttered in a low voice, but he was the one who wanted to exchange, since he didn't mind, the experimental subjects didn't mind either.

"Have you considered it?" Simmons' eyes were a little encouraging, "Will you agree?"

"We can tell you the name to exchange." 77 said, "if you confirm that's the only request."

"I'm sure." Simmons said affirmatively.

Now that he said so, the subjects no longer refused, starting with 13, and reporting their numbers one by one.

"13."

...

"154."

When he heard No. 13 announce his number, the smile on Simmons' face froze.

77 noticed that after reporting the numbers of all the test subjects, his expression became very strange.

"Can you write it for me?"

After Simmons finished speaking, he saw the number 13 on the soil, imitating his previous appearance, and wrote a 13 in interstellar language.