Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 734 Booker

Compared to the attention paid to the Booker species, the guide group of the dynamic picture civilization did not even look at them. They were just busy introducing things about the Booker species to humans and the Orange Star civilization.

Therefore, the human expedition team obtained the information of Booker class for the first time.

Shi Lifen controlled the tactical armor to walk while looking at the information sent by the dynamic picture civilization. From the introduction of the information, it can be learned that the Booker class is the only native intelligent life on this planet. According to the research of the dynamic picture civilization, their intelligence has been born for about 10 million years.

That is to say, it took the Booker people 10 million years from consciously learning to use tools and making tools to today's electrified society. Of course, this is only an estimate. After all, the dynamic picture civilization does not have the ability to go back in time. They just combined the historical data of the Booker people and their own archaeological findings to make an inference.

From this point of view, archaeological technology in the interstellar age is also a craft and is not outdated. Archaeology can not only be used on low-level civilizations, but also when discovering a planet with life, it can be used to learn about the evolutionary history of life on the planet. It can also be used when discovering the remains of other civilizations.

From the appearance, the Booker species, like most animals on this planet, has a six-legged structure, but walks on four legs. The front two legs have evolved into a grasping hand structure. However, unlike human hands, they do not have a thumb-jointed structure, but instead hold things through a curled grip with three fingers.

Judging from the bone structure and historical evolutionary characteristics of the hands, their hands tend to evolve towards an antagonistic structure, but it seems to be still in the process stage.

As for the four legs, they are more magical. Their evolutionary process is completely different from that of the hands. Even Shi Lifen, who was looking at their evolutionary data, doubted whether the hands and feet of the Booker species belonged to the same race, because their legs are actually hoof structures.

According to the classification of animals in the Earth era, this type of hoof structure belongs to the order Perissodactyla, but it does not have a single toe like a horse hoof, but three toes, just like their hands, but it has no grip at all and can only provide support for the body, which is similar to the function of a cow's hoof.

There is a tail connected to the spine behind it, and its body is covered with blue hair, with its genitals at the rear. From the overall structure, the lower body is somewhat similar to that of a deer, while the upper body connected to the two hands is slightly bent upwards behind the front legs, but not long, with two hands on both sides. Overall, it looks a bit like the animal people imagine - a centaur.

However, they are not completely the same. First of all, their upper bodies are not similar to humans at all, and they are not as tall as people imagine centaurs. Their heads are not similar to humans at all, but they have long cheeks. The horse face is very appropriate for them. The length of their front legs and back legs is also different. The front legs are high and the back legs are low. The back is tilted downward at 10 degrees. This structure is not conducive to riding or running. It is estimated that they can survive in nature because they have evolved wisdom. Otherwise, they would have been extinct long ago on this planet full of beasts.

Their eyes are located on the sides of their heads.

Seeing this eye layout, Shi Lifen, a biology expert, immediately thought that this creature was a herbivore. Sure enough, it was clearly written in the information introduction that the Bucs evolved from a herbivorous creature and were a pure vegetarian.

Many plant leaves and roots on this planet are in their diet, and they also occasionally eat some gravel, especially pregnant Bucks are most eager to eat gravel. They eat stones for two reasons: one is to help the stomach digest plants, and the other is to absorb the large amount of calcium in the stone to prepare for egg laying.

Their physiology is somewhat similar to that of egg-laying birds on Earth, but they do not lay eggs at a regular time like birds. They only lay eggs when fertilized.

They are not mammals in the classification of plants and animals. They naturally have no mammary organs, and both males and females have blue hair. It is impossible to tell the gender from the appearance. They are difficult to distinguish between male and female, at least from the perspective of humans.

Regarding this point, Shi Lifen, who has seen many aliens, no longer finds it strange. After all, the Nair people were like this at the beginning, and it was impossible to tell whether they were male or female from their appearance.

Bookers are very large, each one looks like an elephant, so it’s no wonder they need such a large means of transportation.

Of course, elephants like the Booker are not considered large on this planet, they can only be considered lower-middle sized, and there are many large wild animals in the wild.

As for a creature previously photographed by a human research vessel, its body length has reached 20 meters and its height is 13 or 14 meters. Its weight has not been calculated specifically but it is at least more than 20 tons. It is definitely a giant creature.

When we first saw this animal, we felt like we were back in the Jurassic movie. There are more than one kind of tall animal, and there are also many smaller animals. Judging from the size data alone, the Bucks belong to the lower middle of the food chain.

This is indeed the case. From the information sent by the dynamic picture civilization, we can see that the Booker race was food for other beasts in ancient times until they learned to use their brains to make and use tools.

It can be said that this is a planet from the Age of Behemoths, or it can be said that this planet is in the Age of Behemoths, but intelligent life did appear in the Age of Behemoths.

Of course, this is just what Shi Lifen believes based on the history of biological evolution on Earth. In fact, the evolutionary process of each race on each life planet in the universe is different. For Earth, there is the Age of Behemoths, but for other planets, there is no such thing, because the Age of Behemoths is their modern times.

Compared to the creatures on this planet, humans are very small, and the individual lives of the animated civilization (Gurgi civilization) are even smaller. Without the power of science and technology, humans and Gurgis would be completely vulnerable in front of the Bookers.

However, the reality is that the Booker species are ruled by aliens that are dozens of times smaller than them. They raise these creatures, which they once thought were just insects that they could kill with one horn, as animals in captivity and sell them to aliens as merchandise.

As the only intelligent creatures on this planet, the Booker species are not inferior to alien civilizations in size or intelligence. They only lose in luck and development time.

If they were given a few hundred more years, they would be able to develop nuclear fusion technology and head for the stars, at least they wouldn't be wiped out like they are now. And after developing into a first-level civilization, even if they encounter a dynamic picture civilization, their fate might not be the same.

Unfortunately, the Bookers had bad luck. Before their civilization had enough time to ferment, their path to progress was cut off and they became commodities of other civilizations.

(End of this chapter)