This device was specially created to collect information about different planets.
Different planets have different characteristics. Some of them may contain substances that are unheard of on Earth, or they may have toxins that are invisible to the naked eye. In order to better understand the information on different planets, such instruments have been developed... Of course, Xia Zhiye has not used this thing yet, but at least it looks like a fool-proof operation.
According to Dr. Sevge, Xia Zhiye got the extraction device: "And then?"
"Any loose tissue on the ground can be extracted. This is the first step..." Dr. Sevge's "first step" gave Xia Zhiye a bad feeling. Then he heard Dr. Sevge say, "Then what you need to do next is to adjust the second regulator from the left side of the operating panel to .5, and then..."
Then the nightmare of summer night began.
God knows why it is so complicated
Isn’t it because humans are inherently lazy that science was born and there are so many inventions
People were too lazy to fan themselves, so electric fans were invented.
People were too lazy to walk, so they invented the car.
Too lazy to calculate, so I invented the computer...
Why, even now, when information is so advanced, is there still such a cruel operating system
The entire instrument's operating panel is densely packed with a total of 72 operable devices, a small half of which are buttons, and the majority are regulators. Different scales have different functions, and different buttons switch to different modes...
For the next three hours, Xia Zhiye tried hard to stay calm... but unfortunately, he still broke down in the end.
Just like a headless fly, being commanded by Dr. Sevrig!
To be honest, if it weren't for Dr. Sevger's help, he would have wanted to smash the junk in front of him into scrap metal and throw it into the universe to become a piece of cosmic garbage. It wouldn't matter even if he became completely devoid of public morality!
Three hours later, Xia Zhiye finally sorted out everything according to Dr. Sevge's instructions and transmitted the information.
He thought this was the end of the nightmare, but then he heard Dr. Selvig say, "Wait a minute, I need to organize the information and make this report readable."
"… how long it takes?"
"soon!"
Dr. Sevge swore, and then the two men cut off communication.
With nothing to do, Xia Zhiye just found a place to sit down. Next to him was a symbiont clinging to a stone, disguised as thousand-year-old mud. It was black and looked like it was suitable for being fired. It felt like it could be made into some amazing porcelain.
Since there was nothing to do, Xia Zhiye poked the symbiote with his finger.
The symbiote didn't react at all, but its body surface was soft. Xia Zhiye poked it again... The symbiote was a little annoyed. It was originally in hibernation, so why would this idiot disturb its sleep
The whole body moved limply to the other side... It was not as lively and energetic as Xia Zhiye saw in the laboratory, and it was not as arrogant and domineering as it would pounce on people when it saw them.
If we have to make an analogy, the symbiotes in the laboratory are like Teddy bears who are always able to fight, while the symbiotes now are a bit like old turtles who are always three steps behind in everything.
"So, their so-called hibernation is not a deep sleep?" Xia Zhiye thought thoughtfully: "They still maintain their perception of the outside world and have stress responses, but they don't have any active characteristics... Hmm."
He sat there and waited for a while, then picked up a book and started reading.
An hour passed quietly, and Summer Night had read most of the book, but there was still no news from Dr. Sevge.
"What about the promise of quick response?"
Xia Zhiye frowned. He had been reading a book with great interest, but suddenly he couldn't read a single word.
I turned around and saw the symbiote again.
This guy changed his place and continued to look like a thousand-year-old mud, with no intention of moving at all.
Xia Zhiye chased after it, stretched out two fingers, and "picked" it off a stone.
A mass of black matter was slowly squirming in Xia Zhiye's hand. It didn't seem to have any emotional fluctuations, nor was it aggressive... But just based on its strange and unpredictable properties, it was a pity that the people at the Life Foundation had the courage to bring this thing to Earth.
"Let me think..."
Xia Zhiye stroked his chin and thought for a while, feeling that the venom thing was actually quite dangerous.
What if this time we get back not a few samples, but dozens or even hundreds
Or what if it wasn’t just one rioter who ran away, but dozens or hundreds of people
What will happen then
From the incident of the Life Foundation, we can see that some organizations in this world already have the ability to access space.
In this case, is it necessary to take a certain degree of precaution in order to prevent them from bringing back something dangerous from space
“Wouldn’t that be too broad?”
Xia Zhiye thought about it and inexplicably felt like he was acting like a fussy person.
There's a hammer here and a pestle there, and there's trouble everywhere
“Forget it…” The communicator in Xia Zhiye’s hand rang. The symbiote in his hand was still wriggling hard, so he simply put it into the decomposition space first.
He turned on the communicator and Dr. Sevger's face appeared in front of him. He looked serious and not in a good condition.
"Don't tell me it's bad news?"
Dr. Sevge said helplessly: "It is difficult to classify it as good or bad... In short, you judge for yourself. I will pick out the key points for you. First of all, the comet you are on now does not have the ability to reproduce life. This is not only because there is no ecosystem on the comet, but also because this comet has a special energy fluctuation, which I named... Summer Energy."
“… You’ll get scolded if you just give it a random name.” Xia Zhiye’s face turned black. What the hell is this name
"From the test data just now, this energy source is actually the main reason why the symbiont fell into sleep."
Dr. Sevge said: "If we have to say it is bad news, it is that other planets should not have this kind of energy fluctuation. At least, none of the planets that have been detected so far have the corresponding energy." (To be continued)