At this moment, the group of people that Chen Zeng brought came back first. Everyone was carrying two or three water bottles in their hands, and a few others came back with a bluish-blue, tumor-covered plant. Now, those tumors still spewed out bunches of branches and leaves that exuded a suffocating stench, and the whole room was filled with a disgusting smell in an instant.
Many of Chen Zeng's subordinates looked reluctant and disgusted, complaining that they didn't sleep well and ran out to get these things back. Apparently Chen Zeng followed Ethan's advice and didn't tell others about the video. Taniseer smiled and said to Chen Zeng, "It's hard work."
Chen Zeng sighed, "I hope it's really useful. However, we also brought back some other plant and animal samples, can you take a look?"
Tanisel readily agreed, and followed Chen Zeng through those Ethan to notice that many Alpha non-humans stared at Tanisel with some kind of greedy eyes, whispering to each other, and making faint laughs, Can not help secretly surprised, there is also a trace of inexplicable unhappiness. Although Tanisel is good-looking, he is an Alpha after all. Are these people already so thirsty? And they knew that it was a very task, but they didn't know they were nervous, and they didn't know if they had brains. If you give them an idea of what kind of things they might face, see if they still have the heart to think about this mess.
A non-human person probably saw the contempt in his expression, turned into anger, strode towards him and grabbed his collar, "What the hell are you looking at!"
Ethan instinctively shrank his body, trying to get rid of the opponent's restraint, "I didn't look at you!"
Another non-human person came over and persuaded, "Jeff, take it easy, he's from Samuel."
"Hmph, if Samuel really values him so much, why doesn't he have any teeth marks on his neck yet? And Scott almost marked him, and it's still like nothing, if it's the old Samuel, Scott His teeth have been broken long ago." The man named Jeff stared at him disdainfully, as if he was looking at a worthless bitch, "Don't think it's a big deal for you to kiss Samuel, an Omega does that. I think it's just a toy that Samuel found." Ethan's self-esteem took a heavy blow again, his face was hot with anger, and his teeth were clenched.
But he didn't dare to show it, he knew it would only make things worse. So he suppressed his anger, lowered his eyes, and whispered, "I shouldn't have looked at you just now, sorry."
"You know you're scared now?" Jeff shoved him back before letting go. Ethan's center of gravity was unsteady, he staggered back two steps, and accidentally kicked the wine glass that was holding the bug upside down, making a crisp sound. He secretly said that it was not good, so he hurriedly lowered his head to check. Fortunately, the wine glass did not overturn, but just moved the position with the bugs inside.
This sound drew Jeff's attention to the ground, and his eyes immediately straightened.
"What the hell is that!"
Ethan hurriedly stood in front of the wine glass and said hurriedly, "The priest said you can't touch it until you figure it out!"
However, he was rudely swept away, and the other party ignored his warning at all, and squatted in front of the monster. His face was usually disgusted and half curious, and he tilted his head and muttered, "This thing seems to have Zhang Ren. face?"
The other non-human also leaned over. Ethan watched as they put their hands on the glass and picked it up.
He knew he should call Tanisel, the priest had a program that could control all the inhuman collars, which could stop the two men from going on.
But he didn't speak, just stood silently and looked at them. In the depths of his eyes, there was a kind of coldness that he never showed on weekdays.
Losing the confinement of the glass, the monster that was motionless suddenly reacted. Its front end lifted slowly, bending out a flexible arc, as if looking at two strange humans curiously. The folds of its eyes seemed to be wriggling, and the tufts of black hair protruding from the round hole-like mouth were also flying and wriggling in different directions. Jeff took a cigarette out of his pocket and used it to poke the monster's limp body.
In an instant, a beige mucus was suddenly sprayed from the end of the monster. After encountering the air, the mucus condensed into a network as fine as blood vessels, and sprayed all of it on Jeff's face. There is simply no time to react or dodge. Jeff screamed and fell to the ground, reached out to wipe his face, but wiped off something sticky in his hand, which smelled like vomit. He screamed in disgust, attracting everyone's attention.
Tanisel strode forward, and upon seeing this, glanced at Ethan with a bit of reproach. Ethan shrugged, feeling a little unhappy and a little guilty. They don't know if there is any virus on this monster, and whether it will be dangerous to touch it. At that moment, he thought it would be good to have Jeff as the test subject, but he didn't listen to him anyway.
His inner conscience woke up from a short hibernation, so that he did not have any pleasure in revenge, but was as uncomfortable as swallowing a fly.
A few immortals hurriedly found napkins to wipe Jeff's face, and when Tanisel was just bending over to pick up the wine glass, Jeff suddenly scolded angrily "Damn bedbugs!" After all, he stepped on it. past.
It was too late for everyone to stop his stupid behavior.
Hearing a puff, the monster's soft body burst open under his feet. At the same time, countless beige and black mucus condensed into thin lines at the same time, like a rapidly spreading spider web blasting on the ground. A lot of them splashed onto the clothes of people nearby, and Jeff was the first to get the semi-sticky substance stuck to his trousers, hem and even the back of his hands.
Unexpectedly, Ethan saw that the substance that came into contact with the skin shrank rapidly, as if it had been absorbed. The mucus that had been sprayed all over the face just now disappeared from the skin, and only those that fell on the cloth and hair were still there. He was the only one who noticed this anomaly, and even Jeff himself didn't seem to feel anything.
Tanissell stared at Jeff, his gray eyes bursting with astonishing anger, and the tightly pursed corners of his mouth made him suddenly dignified, and the other Alphas who were about his height also lost their momentum. Seeing him like this, Jeff's arrogant arrogance subsided a little, and he explained, "It's just a bug anyway."
"Just a worm?" Tanissell's words carried some disturbing depth. "Maybe you are just a worm too."
After he finished speaking, he ignored the inhuman, and did not give him any electric shocks as punishment. He just squatted down, carefully sucked up the mucus with a siphon, and put it into a hollow he had just found in the laboratory. In the test tube, be careful not to get those things on your skin. Ethan called the base computer Gina to find a cleaning robot to clean up the filth on the ground. Although Jeff doesn't seem to have anything, he has an intuition that it's best to try not to touch too many people.
Samuel came back after a while. The rest of the squad also arrived gradually. The rancid smell of the black juice quickly filled the entire main base building, and Ethan stuck two tissues in his nose before he could barely hold back the nausea. After a night of tossing, it was almost dawn, and everyone found the empty dormitory rooms, and they all went into the sleeping cabin to make up for their sleep.
Ethan didn't want to sleep, he was afraid that the terrible entropy would come while he was sleeping. He stayed in the pale hall, sliding his hands on the transparent desktop, and quickly browsed all the development materials about Base 18.
He remembered that when the Red Earth development plan was implemented, many people opposed it, and the first one was a famous female Alpha Doctor named Bai Luoshan. She is a well-known expert on species research on the edge of the Milky Way, with at least two doctoral titles and one researcher title, and was even personally received by the Great President Abiya. She strongly opposed the development of the red earth, and even wrote several letters to the president herself, persuading her to stop the plan to develop the Hera galaxy.
Bai Luoshan believes that the star field where the Red Earth is located is too barren, and some nearby planets that theoretically should have formed civilizations long ago are all barren and withered, so that the Red Earth is deeply trapped in what they once thought was the "death star field". "The center has never been found. Why there is such a vast sea of death in that corner of the Milky Way has always been a mystery, and in a lonely sea of dead stars, why there are signs of life activity on Duduhong Earth. She doesn't think it's accidental, like a mirage that appears in the desert, even a bit like a trap.
In recent years, Bai Luoshan has been fascinated by the research of the primitive intelligent civilizations in the remote star fields, so that people have some magical obstacles. He always talks about the collective memory of the universe, the creatures in the five-dimensional space, and the superintelligent species. She kept taking her followers on the Internet to warn the Energy Bureau, saying that this planet is regarded as a "hell"-like place by many marginal civilizations, and that rashly setting foot in it will only bring unprecedented disaster to Earth civilization. However, she never explained the specific disaster, nor did she provide any substantive evidence. She just kept citing frescoes, poems, and myths and legends of those marginal civilizations to confuse people.
At that time, the Energy Bureau was extremely anti-Beluoshan, because the Red Earth was a rare opportunity for the Energy Bureau, which had not discovered a new resource station for many years. Before that, the Earth Alliance's rare earth metals and water storage were in a hurry, and it would cost too much to buy them from alien countries, so the President gave them a one-year deadline to find new resources. In that year, the Energy Bureau was like a deep purgatory, and everyone's heads were pinned to the waistbands of their trousers. They were almost desperate to search for habitable planets in remote areas, and finally found this miracle at the end of the year, but the doctor who stood and talked without back pain told them not to go
Just because of the songs and legends of some barbarians, do you want the director of the Energy Bureau to lose his head
Because of Bai Luoshan's great influence, Ethan ran around with the director Abel, lobbying the members of the three major parliaments, and even alarmed the president himself.
That was the only time Ethan saw the most honorable person in the Earth Alliance - President Abia. At that time, he was waiting in the bright, clean and tall Victorian-style corridor, and his sight passed through the tall French windows and the mottled tree shadows, and saw Aibia who was joking with her second lady, Bo Huang, in the garden. She is well-proportioned and tall among women. She has neat but feminine short hair. She wears simple dark clothes. The chief said something eagerly.
If you don't know her noble status, you'll think she's just an ordinary good-looking female Alpha, not at all like the goddess who are praised in the songs that are always played on the street, as if there will be thousands of lights on her body. .
Later, the president seemed to be bored, waved his hand casually, stood up, pulled up her wife and left. Ethan saw the director hurried back, but his face that had been tense seemed to finally loosen up.
Ethan heaved a sigh of relief.
With the special approval of the President, the first batch of pioneer spaceships were launched. Although there was a little trouble in the middle because the Eves also tried to land, fortunately, they were resolved satisfactorily in the end, without causing unnecessary disputes.
But now, Ethan began to suspect that Bai Luoshan might be right.
He doesn't understand her complicated theories, but he just remembers what she said, we think we have the ability to conquer the universe, but in the face of real chaos, human beings and all other interstellar civilizations have done all kinds of things to survive for thousands of years. Struggling hard is really pointless.