After he left Jiang Chen’s office, Kelvin repeated what the boss told him in his head.
Five days later, the Outer Space Security Summit was going to take place. At the meeting, Celestial Trade would publicize the evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and demonstrate its aggressive intentions… In fact, the latter didn’t need to be proved. Two civilizations with completely different values never have the options to exist in harmony from the start.
Since both sides were bugs in each other’s eyes, only one option existed to prove who stood at the top of the food chain.
War.
Kelvin looked down at the documents in his hands again, recalling the task his boss gave him a minute ago. It was the first time in his life he felt the burden of the task on his shoulders.
…
After a long working session into the evening, Jiang Chen did not go home immediately. Instead, he took a boat and went to Coconut Island alone.
The island was completely transformed into a transit point between the modern world and the apocalypse. Every month, a ship sailed to the island, unloaded food, daily necessities, and other materials, and occasionally transported tightly sealed containers.
Some of these containers contained advanced industrial machine tools, some were T3 Power Armors produced in the Sixth Street, and some were other high-tech products.
Although no soldiers were stationed on the island, a drone attack formation guarded the island. Foreign agents certainly thought about investigating the “mysterious island”, but not one succeeded.
On the small island, Jiang Chen stopped the boat at the dock. After the drone confirmed his identity, he went to the warehouse in the center of the island.
In the corner of the warehouse sat a lonely machine Jiang Chen named Hamster Killer No. 1. The last time Lin Lin used this machine to transfer a hamster from the modern world to the apocalypse, and then back. They finally made the breakthrough in interdimensional travel from 0.1 to 1.
Although there were still some ways to go before making interdimensional travel for humans a reality, it was definitely a good start.
However, Jiang Chen did not expect this device to come in handy so quickly.
Jiang Chen sat beside the machine, took out a few test tubes filled with dark green liquid from his pocket, placed them in the center of the two discs, and then connected the lines to turn on the power. Looking at the electricity arcs jumping, he pressed the switch with a numbing sensation in his skull.
It took a while and some effort before he sent the test tubes to the apocalypse. Jiang Chen then closed the machine and traveled to the apocalypse.
…
One of the test tubes contained the material extracted from the nest, and the other tubes contained spores and larva extracts. The cells in the test tubes were not killed. It was still possible to see the peristaltic movements of the unknown substance through the dark green culture solution.
After she received these tubes from Jiang Chen, Lin Lin immediately locked herself in the lab.
Jiang Chen did not have to wait for long before the lab door opened again. Lin Lin waved her hand and called Jiang Chen in. Next to a special microscope, Jiang Chen saw the tubes he brought with him on the test tube rack and two familiar-looking tubes.
From the labels attached to them, he recalled where the two tubes came from.
“The samples you brought are obviously not the same as ones from Fallout Shelter 005 and the ones from the city center. But there is a lot of similarities in the DNA code. The nest you encountered is an upgraded version. But due to dysplasia, many functions were inhibited.”
After listening to Lin Lin, Jiang Chen’s eyebrows suddenly twitched.
“Dysplasia?”
Hundreds of tungsten bombs and an entire Power Armor Brigade finally took care of this mess, and you are telling the ones I encountered has dysplasia? What do I do when there is a fully functioning one!
Lin Lin nodded.
“Yes, if you provide enough organic matter to it and give it plenty of time for photosynthesis, digesting and absorbing those organic matters into its own components, the nest will gradually develop into a complete form. Based on a simulation of its DNA code, it will become a terrifying existence that can’t be eliminated.”
Lin Lin then paused and said with a stern expression. “At least with the existing means, I can’t think of a way to kill it. Every spore cell has the ability to grow into a nest, and the number of splits is no longer limited. Unless we can kill every spore, then a nest may pop out from somewhere, someday.”
The evolutionary speed of the nest made sent chills down his spine.
For they who completely abandoned it, Earth would be a completely strange planet. Whether the gravity or air composition or magnetic field environment, even if they understood it, it wouldn’t mean they could 100% adapt to it. In a war, humans first occupied the home advantage.
However, on this strange soil, each time they interacted with humans, their abilities would evolve at an incredible speed. If the nest infiltrated Earth a few more times, it would be hard to say how Harmony will fulfill their aggressions.
After Jiang Chen realized the severity of the problem, he debated for a moment and immediately ordered.
“Organize the information about the nest. Focus your analysis on the similarity of the X2 bacteria and the T series viruses in genotype. In addition, give me a separate paper file and an electronic file. It would be great if the electronic file can include images that are easy to understand.”
“Hey, I am not your assistant. This will be very tiring!” Lin Lin pouted and protested.
“Ten boxes of mango pudding.”
“Hmm…” Lin Lin debated for a while, as if she was making a big concession, before saying, “Fifteen boxes of strawberry pudding,”
Jiang Chen shook his head.
Is this difficult for me?
“I will bring them to you next time. But wait, I thought you liked mango?”
Lin Lin stuck out her tongue and looked away. “I still have too much mango pudding. I haven’t finished the ones you brought me the last time.”
The amount of work to sort out the data of the nest was not small, but it was not difficult for a digitalized human. After getting her promise of the pudding, Lin Lin promised Jiang Chen to complete the report in three days.
From the research institute, Jiang Chen returned to the mansion through the back door.
Before coming to the apocalypse, he had already told Ayesha that he would stay in the apocalypse for the next three days until Lin Lin completes the report. This information would play a valuable role in the Outer Space Security Summit.
The attention of the global community completely depended on this information.
