Over the next few days, Luke continued to play the long game, silently monitoring the high school boy Ueno and allowing the guy to sneak around to look for someone at night.
The progress of the interrogation of the two monsters in the space has also been greatly improved, and we have a general understanding of the origin of these monsters.
It is said that they came to Earth mixed in with the Leonid meteor shower, and the "guide" was the returning deep space probe of the Life Foundation.
The species calls itself by a strange cry, which apparently has no corresponding word in the languages of Earth.
Luke simply named them parasitic beasts based on their habit of parasitizing other creatures.
The reason why they are not called parasites is to avoid confusion with things like roundworms.
Parasitic beasts are quite intelligent and have complete societies.
After one of their kings discovered a deep space probe, he realized that it was some kind of man-made product.
As usual, the king launched a batch of parasitic babies, which followed the probe to Earth.
Ueno wasn't lying about the number of hundreds of thousands he mentioned.
The special meteorite shell that launches the cubs can ensure that the cubs can hibernate for a long time.
But whether you will encounter dangers such as planetary meteorites, gamma-ray bursts, black holes, etc. during this period depends on luck.
The harsh traveling environment forces parasitic beasts, like many other animals, to release a large number of young each time to ensure a certain survival rate.
Anyway, the young ones are similar to ten-centimeter centipedes, and the production cost is not high, so we can afford to waste them.
From this point of view, the parasitic babies launched are similar to gold nuggets, they are just cannon fodder for exploration.
The difference is that the society of parasitic animals is more like that of insects, and the act of launching young is similar to the swarming of bees and ants, which is a means of continuing the race.
Therefore, the parasitic beasts on Earth will not be like the symbiotes, sending coordinates for help when they get the chance.
They can neither do it nor have the concept of doing so, because the Earth is the "new territory" of these landed parasitic beasts.
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Luke compiled this first batch of intelligence and sent it to the team members.
In addition, Tony and Phil also sent out one copy each, which was both a warning and a notification.
Tony himself is a strong backer, so the Avengers naturally have everything they need and their strength is steadily increasing.
Phil controls the new S.H.I.E.L.D. and buys a lot of equipment and supplies from the big boss who sells everything.
Although the new SHIELD is not as large as the previous SHIELD, it still maintains a certain strength.
Forget about Nick Fury, this guy is hiding somewhere to cheat people.
Both sides responded quickly, saying that they would keep an eye out for relevant information and share any findings with Luke.
Luke finally breathed a sigh of relief and finished his work for the day.
Just as we were about to call Selina who was working nearby to go out for a midnight snack, a message appeared in the team channel: "Neon's pinball machines are the same as our slot machines."
Luke: ??? Why did Damon let Mindy play this
It's no big deal for Mindy to lose, but it would be troublesome if she lost so much anger that she smashed someone else's store.
Even those in Las Vegas use mathematics and probability to rip people off openly.
He looked at Mindy's coordinates and found that she was also in Sapporo, and there were four teammates' signals gathered with her, and her father Damon's signal was in a hotel one kilometer away.
There was no doubt that she had met up with her four little turtle brothers at night and was looking for a place to play.
Luke: ... Never mind. They either have a father or a master. If they cause trouble, they will be greeted with loving education, such as Mickey's Trouble House or something.
An hour later, in a yakitori restaurant (a Japanese grilled chicken skewer restaurant), Luke just persuaded Selina to try the taste of grilled chicken butt.
Of course, he wasn't so crazy as to trick her into eating a lantern.
Selina took a bite, chewed it twice, and immediately spat it out.
The remaining chicken butts were thrown to Gold Nugget without hesitation. Doghead didn't dislike it at all and ate them one by one with their delicious bites.
Facing the angry Director Sai, Luke quickly handed over a string of grilled chicken skin: "Not tasty? Well, then let's eat this."
Selina: "What the hell was that just now? Why did it stink so bad?"
Even though the glands in the chicken's butt had been removed in advance, the smell still couldn't escape her keen sense of taste.
Luke shrugged innocently. "The owner recommended it. He said it's a special dish that sells very well here."
Selena doesn't cook, so she has no impression of chicken butt.
Although she always felt that something was wrong, she accepted Luke's explanation when she saw some people around her eating roasted chicken butts.
As a foodie, it is normal to find local delicacies that locals love but outsiders find hard to eat.
For example, in a place that sells braised large intestines, some people say that it cannot be washed too clean, otherwise the original flavor will be lost.
Even Luke was shocked at that time and gave up trying the large intestine.
He actually likes to eat large intestines, but he admits that he is not good enough to eat it in a place popular with diners with "heavy tastes".
Next, grilled chicken livers, grilled chicken wings, and grilled chicken necks were served one after another, and Selena forgot about the chicken butt.
Only Luke was looking at the virtual light screen, where he had just taken a picture of her eating a chicken butt, and he thought to himself: the materials for the emoticon package have become a little richer!
At this time, Mindy suddenly sent a message on the virtual light screen: "Well, um, we seem to have found some clues about the parasitic beast."
Luke was startled: "Where is it?"
Mindy: "In a 24-hour supermarket on the edge of Sapporo, I met a guy whose head suddenly turned into a blade tentacle and poked Mickey."
Luke felt something was wrong: "Are you injured? Anything else?"
Mindy: "We're fine. That guy's tentacle chopped off the armor on Mickey's back. However, the supermarket and the pinball shop next door were badly damaged. Does this count?"
Luke: ... I knew it.
In fact, we can’t blame Mindy and the others.
She arrived in Sapporo in the evening, stood up her father, and asked the four little turtles to come out and play.
The five guys arrived outside the pachinko parlor, thinking it was some kind of gaming machine.
There were a few minors who didn't like playing games, so everyone unanimously decided to go in and take a look.
After losing a few Fukuzawa Yukichi cards, Mindy became a little unhappy.
Technical Turtle Donnie quickly comforted her, saying that the probability of this kind of machine must have been adjusted, and it was normal to lose.
When Mindy heard this, she immediately felt that she had been cheated, and she had been cheated in front of a group of friends.
She rolled her eyes and asked Donny if he had any way to "fix it". Donny patted his chest and assured her that it was a piece of cake.
With the help of its three brothers to block the way, it quickly used nano data cables to modify the circuits of the pachinko machine, giving it a high chance of stopping on the winning pattern.
After Donnie finished his work, Mindy immediately continued to play and won non-stop.
This method is simple and crude, and the pachinko parlors in Japan are not run by serious people.
The black skin of the little turtles was suspicious in the first place, and the fact that they were gathered together before was even more suspicious, so the society members who were watching the place came over to question them.
After just a few words, Mindy, who was looking for trouble, broke down the negotiation with the other party and a fight broke out between the two sides.