The precious and endangered egg case of the star butterfly showed such powerful vitality in the hands of a half-baked botany assistant.
As the one who took care of it, it was hard for Lin Xi not to feel gratified by this.
However, there were certainly people on this spaceship who were worried about the existence of the egg case.
"You think it's out of hibernation?"
More than ten days later, in the medical room that Lin Xi was quite familiar with, his brother Bryce folded his arms across his chest, stared at Lin Xi for a long time, and then slowly asked.
Before this, Lin Xi had just finished complaining to him about the endless and helpless insect plague. By the way, he also mentioned the egg case of the star butterfly.
However, when Lin Xi heard Bryce's worried question, he couldn't help but make a face in his heart.
He must be too tired to be so confused, otherwise he wouldn't have let slip that he also told the other party about the star butterfly egg case. Based on past experience, Lin Xi could guess what Bryce was worried about with his eyes closed.
Bryce had always been a little overprotective of him, ever since the accident all those years ago.
Heavy maternal love - for some reason this word always reminds Lin Xi of Bryce.
But no matter what he was thinking in his heart, Lin Xi still appeared calm and composed on the surface.
He shrugged at Bryce. "Of course, that bug egg is about to turn into a tentacle monster now."
Bryce's medical room is not too large. Three treatment devices have occupied most of the space in the medical room. Next is a very small traditional operating room (the existence of this place alone can show how ancient the Apollo is), a disinfection room, and another disinfection room, but this space has been transformed into a leisure space where Lin Xi and Bryce are now talking.
Behind Lin Xi was a row of gleaming silver metal cabinets, which contained many delicious things that made Lin Xi salivate. However, Bryce kept the passwords to the cabinets very strictly, so Lin Xi never paid attention to them.
At this moment, Lin Xi was occupying Bryce's expensive zero-gravity work chair, which was not something that the two brothers of Bryce's family could afford - Alyssa bought this work chair a few years ago and gave it to Bryce as a birthday present.
Lin Xi lay there stretched out, and thinking of the relationship between Alyssa and Bryce, a faint envy arose in her heart.
Because his body was relaxed, he was somewhat absent-minded.
"Moreover, as an egg case, it absorbs nearly one liter of nutrient solution every day. This is not what a dormant insect egg should do."
Lin Xi said to Bryce.
"That doesn't sound normal."
Bryce said seriously.
Lin Xi yawned: "Maybe? I will ask Ando to take a look at that thing later..."
"You can ask him to take the egg case back. This kind of thing belongs in the lab, not in your bedroom."
Bryce repeated his request.
Lin Xi couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
"Okay, I will. I'll go find Ando later—"
He paused, then raised his hands in surrender to Bryce. "How long are we going to continue this conversation? When, for God's sake, am I going to get my calming gel?"
"I'm still waiting for your blood work before I can tell if I can prescribe you some more gels. Oh, don't look at me like that, you act like you don't know you're addicted to gels. Seriously, you should get rid of that egg as soon as possible. I can't believe Professor Ando would do such a thing as leaving an alien egg on your bedside table for you to take care of? Are you kidding me—"
"Dear Bryce, please, focus your attention on your poor weak and neurasthenic brother instead of your head full of bug eggs, okay?" Seeing that Bryce's face was getting worse and worse, Lin Xi could only interrupt him forcibly, "Besides, I'm tired of the topic of bugs. Really, I've been fighting the damn bugs in the greenhouse during the day, and I still dream about those bugs when I lie in bed at night. Don't mention bugs to me anymore, just prescribe some calming gel sticks for me, I promise I won't abuse it again, I just need a little help from it, so that I can sleep well and not have any nightmares - if I go on like this, I will definitely die suddenly!"
Lin Xi shouted at Bryce, with a hint of fatigue and collapse that was difficult to conceal.
Very rarely, what he said this time when he asked Bryce for the calming gel stick was almost entirely true.
Ah, yes, that's why he's here.
Lin Xi is now facing the insect crisis of his life: the endless insects in the laboratory and greenhouse during the day, and the hazy and extremely terrifying winter solstice at night.
Every day, when he lay sleepily in his bed trying to have a good rest, nightmares would follow him like a shadow and come flooding in.
Lin Xi couldn't even remember the last time he had a deep and sweet dream. Now, whenever he thought of dreams, his mind was filled with those overwhelming dreams. Even though the impressions of those nightmares became extremely vague and thin after waking up, the deep-rooted fear still left a faint mark in Lin Xi's heart.
If it weren't for the last cardiac arrest caused by the sedative gel stick, Lin Xi might not have come to the medical room to wait for "official approval" at all - the unlucky guys in the exploration team had much more generous quotas for gel sticks than researchers like him.
"Well, you do look a little more haggard than before."
Bryce looked at Lin Xi, pondered for a moment, and nodded.
But then, he lowered his head to study the physical examination of Lin Xi that had just been sent to him.
"Although your physical examination report shows that... all your body functions are normal." Bryce turned on the terminal, and all the data about Lin Xi appeared in the air.
Lin Xi looked at the report and a look of suspicion appeared on his face.
"This is impossible - did you accidentally upload the model data? I feel like I'm dying every day these days..."
He asked subconsciously, but did not wait for Bryce's response.
He turned around and was startled by the serious look in Bryce's eyes.
"Bryce?" he asked. "What's the problem?"
Bryce stared at the data in a daze, and it took him a while to come back to his senses.