"That’s an amazing idea! Hehe... now I look forward to seeing how the food or the drink prepared with this water would taste like..." Shemented with shing eyes of happiness.


    "Okay, we should collect some water and leave quickly before we face a headache." Mouthing this, he turned his head toward the spaceship momentarily. Following his gaze, five Worker Robots exited the spaceship in an orderly fashion. Each of them was carrying a 200-liter 55-gallon drum as they casually walked toward the river before starting to fill them up.


    In the meantime, as the Worker Robots filled one 55-gallon drum after another, Virus and the golden beauty had nothing better to do, so they could just sit under the shade of a tree with strange leaves in the shape of mugs while watching the Worker Robots do their job.


    "The leaves of this tree are so weird, master. We could literally use it as cups to drink water whenever we feel like it... if there are any intelligent races on this, it must be nice for them to have ess to mugs whenever they feel like it..."


    "You’re the weird one for thinking that!" Barked Virus in response.


    Not paying any attention to his sentence though, she continued, "Since I’m the first person to see the tree, I shall name it... hmm... let’s just call it the ’Mug Tree’."


    "It already had a name. But sure, ’Mug Tree’ sounds appropriate."


    Happily, she said back, "Right?! Named it like that because it literally bore us mugs!"


    "No shit!"


    "Oh, right! Master, where do these waterse from?" Staring at the waterway, the golden beauty questioned.


    Standing up, Virus severed a single mug leaf as he strolled toward the river. While dunking the leaf into the water flow, he borated, "This wateres from deep within the itself, probably the deepest spot this kind of water can exist in."


    "Oh, is that so? So is the water so extraordinary because it gets mingled with some unique material under the ground?" Looking at her master’s strong back figure, she queried.


    "That’s not what makes the water so special... apparently, what makes this water exceptional are three things. First, it’s a certain attribute of this to attract energy from the entire Cigar Gxy. Second, it’s the position of this in the Cigar Gxy, which is said to be exactly in a spot where it makes it possible to attract energy from all over the gxy itself. And thest but not least is the unique energy of this gxy which adds that certain characteristic to the water itself." Taking out the mug leaf full of Water of Life, Virus drank all of it in one go.


    Giggling in humor, she phrased, "Hehe... so it’s the energy or rather... the smoke of the Cigar Gxy that’s unique. Hehe... anyway, joking aside, that’s really aweso-"


    Roar!


    She was just about to finish her praise of the water when she was interrupted by a strange roar.


    Shocked, she turned in order to see the source of the noise...


    But what she witnessed next stunned her even further.


    Because, in front of her, there were two 1 meter pitch-ck beasts which were very simr to panthers! However, unlike panthers, even their eyes were entirely ck. Moreover, their paws were more simr to the fingers of a human being, only, instead of nails, there were sharp ws attached to the end of them. This fact alone made them much more dangerous than panthers with ws.


    Still, to the golden beauty, these parts weren’t the astonishing points of the beasts in front of her. The astounding fact was that the two beasts were wearing leather armors on their bodies and they had even trimmed their ws and fingers with some iron-like materials!


    Even more so, the golden beauty could swear those sharp eyes which were gazing at her were totallyprehending exactly what they were looking at!


    "M-master... what are these things?" Asked the golden beauty with a bit of a chill apparent within her tone.


    Not making any sudden movements, while staring at them, Virus replied, "Didn’t you ask if there were any intelligent beings present on this? Well... you’re looking at them. At this moment in time, this is the current dominant race on the... they were lucky enough for their brains to evolve to the point of acquiring consciousness and free will. Though they’re not as smart as humans, they still have some basic wisdom."


    "Ah... you mean... they are capable of thinking?" Said the golden beauty. In return, Virus responded with, "What else could I mean! Yes... their intelligence can be ced somewhere between apes and humans. Anyway, you can address their race as Panumans."


    "Seriously?"


    "Yeah."


    "Ok..."


    "Grr... owl... grrri, grroarrrrrr?" Suddenly, one of the Panumans started producing weird noises.


    "What’s happening right now?" A bit speechless by the continuous weird noises the Panuman was making as if it was expecting her to understand its growls, helpless, she could only turn to her master.


    "They just demanded an answer from us, they asked, ’What are we? And why have we intruded into their sacred ground of Water of Life?’."


    "For real?"


    "Yeah... lemme transmit theirnguage knowledge into your mind, you’ll get it then." Muttering that, Virus sent a lot of information regarding the Panuman’s currentnguage into the golden beauty’s head.


    "Oh... I see!" Receiving the knowledge of theirnguage, a shimmer ofprehension passed through the golden beauty’s eyes.


    After that, she inquired, "But why do they consider this ce their sacred ground? Could it be they’re also aware of the value of the Water of Life?"


    "Of course! Their evolution toward gaining consciousness itself mostly took ce because of the presence of the Water of Life. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have acquired wisdom at this point. They were still far from it." Virus exined.


    Understanding the situation, the golden beauty stated, "Oh... I see! So they evolved because they continuously drank from the Water of Life!"