Chapter 426 A-001 Non-Human Vine Dangerous Creatures and Area C - Senior Researcher ()
A-001 Non-Human Vine Dangerous Organisms and Area C - Senior Researcher (Ten)
The life of a researcher can be roughly divided into two steps.
The first is to find suitable research topics to conduct research and obtain results;
The second is some private life.
For many ordinary researchers, they often even need to be careful about other people's eyes while doing their own research.
It is a common knowledge among all researchers that the value of research can be stolen.
The new batch of researchers in Area C were particularly wary, and every time they entered the laboratory, they were met with silent vigilance from other researchers.
Some newcomers may not realize what this kind of vigilance means at first, but after experiencing it many times, they will understand it.
"What's so great about that? He just came in a year or two earlier than us. You really take yourself too seriously."
The newlyweds started to huddle together as usual, and naturally someone couldn't help but start swearing during the meal.
"Keep your voice down, others can hear you."
Someone reminded him.
"I heard it, so what else can they do to me?"
After saying this stubbornly, the man bit the spoon and glanced at the people around him, but finally kept his mouth shut.
Someone looked in this direction, with naked malice and ridicule in his eyes.
How could they not know what the newcomers are thinking?
Humph, when they find that they cannot submit any value every year, they will know how important it is to protect value.
Not all laboratories are like C-01 before. They were obviously a bunch of idiots but they were lucky enough to be protected for two years before being cleaned up.
Someone couldn't help but muttered something in his mind.
"It would be great if I was in that useless laboratory. I heard that in order to keep him, the higher-ups give him high-level rewards every year. If those A-level rewards fell into my hands, how could I continue to stay in Area C? I would have already..."
He said it unintentionally, but the listeners took it seriously. A new researcher who happened to be passing by him getting his lunch quietly pricked up his ears.
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A huge vine stretched out a branch and crawled towards the feeding point, throwing down a bloody animal - one could vaguely see that it was a pig.
The vine quickly crawled towards the food. The tip lifted slightly, and the blood clot weighing hundreds of pounds was directly lifted by this end. The thicker part immediately wrapped around the pig, like a giant snake opening its lower jaw to swallow the whole thing. The pig was soon swallowed up, corroded, and dissolved by the vine until not even its bones could be seen.
Song Ning stood quietly in front of the glass and quickly recorded it.
"So you need to eat."
He muttered to himself, and his eyes couldn't help but sweep over the half of the standing figure again.
Three days after being transferred to the breeding area, he finally found out what the other party's food was.
A-001 is both like a living thing and has some plant characteristics - for example, it likes dark, humid but warm places. This seems to make A-001 feel much better, because he took a walk around the vines this morning while they were motionless.
As soon as he stepped in, Song Ning's legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground.
His hands and feet seemed to be restrained by some invisible existence, and his fingertips on the ground seemed to be eaten away by something bit by bit. He wanted to stretch out his hands to support himself, but a rich fragrance immediately filled his entire nostrils as if it were real.
With every breath he took, the fragrance seemed to crawl down his trachea into his internal organs, until it invaded his stomach and deeper into his body.
His vision was gradually being eaten away by the darkness, as vines crawled all over his body. The sticky, huge, cold vines were like some kind of cold-blooded reptile, wrapping him up bit by bit. For a moment, a dangerous thought even flashed through Song Ning's mind - A-001 wanted to eat him, and perhaps his entry was a mistake, and A-001's food might include humans.
The breeding area has apparently been transformed by A-001 into a perfect breeding ground.
But obviously he was wrong, A-001 did not eat him and let him go.
In the end, Song Ning didn't know how he crawled out.
When he opened his eyes, three hours had passed since he entered the breeding area.
Every inch of his flesh and bones seemed to have been dissolved and then kneaded together again. He lay on the ground for a full half hour before he finally figured out how to control his limbs.
This is a very dangerous behavior, Song Ning thought.
If someone loses consciousness in the breeding area, and the creatures being raised are unknown, any researcher should report this situation immediately.
But when Song Ning recovered his strength and stood in front of the glass and saw the vines crawling all over the place, he had no intention of reporting it at all.
He just walked to the glass and looked quietly at the pair of eyes that were still closed.
"Are those bumps on your vines buds? Do you want them to bloom?"
Song Ning looked at A-001 who had just eaten and guessed.
The figure still didn't open his eyes, and Song Ning's mumbling received no response.
He should be angry, Song Ning thought.
But he just watched A-001 quietly after he finished eating, then turned around and left temporarily.
He needs to eat too.
As usual, Song Ning drank two tubes of nutritional supplements and returned to the glass to continue observing.
He adjusted the temperature in the breeding area a little higher. Song Ning took a look at the panel and raised it again until it reached thirty-six degrees.
"This temperature? Yes, you like this temperature."
Song Ning stopped to adjust and recorded it.
"Thirty-six degrees, why is it this temperature? I thought you would like it to be a little damper and colder. Isn't this temperature too high?"
Although Song Ning raised the question, he even raised the temperature in his hand by 0.5 degrees.
The humidity and stickiness in the breeding area became more intense, and the fragrance gradually increased in concentration, verifying Song Ning's unique observation - this temperature was indeed more preferred by A-001 inside.
"That's it. The right temperature, enough food. The only thing left is a sense of security."
Song Ning thought.
If all these elements are gathered, those eyes will wake up.
The question he wanted to know would be answered - is the juice secreted from the A-001 vine and the sweet and tempting rotten aroma a signal that A-001 wants to enter the reproductive period?
If so, what is A-001 courting?
How do they reproduce?
Thoughts popped up in his mind one after another. Song Ning pressed his hands tightly against the glass, unaware that his eyes, which used to be as calm as water, were now filled with some strange madness under his silver-white eyelashes.