Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station-Chapter 580 - 181 Unexpected Reward, Unexpected Gain_3
Although many research facilities on the Space Station were destroyed by Zuo Jing, Chen Ming could still see that this was a large plant research and cultivation laboratory.
The research conducted here mostly involved crops that could be commercially cultivated in bulk.
However, what surprised Chen Ming was that the core of the research station’s overall operations was inside a laboratory at the very center of the Space Station.
At the entrance of this laboratory were several unsettling biohazard symbols with black letters on a yellow background.
And inside this laboratory, Chen Ming unexpectedly found something special.
A... no, a group of purple fungal creatures being cultivated.
Calling it cultivation is not accurate, as they had already escaped from the damaged cultivation chamber, killed several Zuo Jing members who destroyed the chamber, and began growing chaotically.
When Chen Ming looked over, these purple fungi had nearly spread everywhere in the laboratory. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖
Particularly concentrated in the cultivation observation room inside the laboratory.
They devoured all other petri dishes in the lab that were meant for cultivating various organisms.
However, the fungi did not touch the bodies of the few Zuo Jing members they killed, and even kept a certain distance from the bodies, not growing on them at all.
No one knows if it was related to the black-red blood mixed with some dead purple fungi flowing from the eyes, nostrils, mouth corners, and ears of the corpses.
The most distinctive feature of these purple fungi was.
They were Spiritual Creatures.
Even through the Gamma Core, Chen Ming could feel the extremely obvious Spiritual Energy Fluctuation from them.
At first, Chen Ming didn’t react, as he had recently encountered quite a few things related to Spiritual Energy, and this occurrence seemed a bit too coincidental.
However, upon careful thought, it didn’t seem that unreasonable.
After all, he was tracking Zuo Jing’s traces to come here.
And in Chen Ming’s impression, the things he encountered related to Zuo Jing seemed to have some peculiarities.
The first time was when he attended a government and Sinda Corporation auction meant to lure out Zuo Jing; he just got entangled in it.
In the subsequent events, it seemed Zuo Jing actively sought out him, a Psychic, for these occurrences to happen.
In some sense, wherever there is Zuo Jing, there is Spiritual Energy.
So this time, Chen Ming actively pursued Zuo Jing and encountered Spiritual Creatures, which didn’t seem unacceptable.
And in the computer of this laboratory, Chen Ming conveniently found the research records and all research documents of these fungal Spiritual Creatures.
The document also recorded the origin of these Spiritual Fungi Creatures.
They were discovered months ago by the main company of Harmony Company, that is, the mining company, when developing a planetary ore vein, found underground Spiritual Creatures.
The boss of Harmony Company knew the boss, so having the capability to capture this Spiritual Creature was quite normal.
And one month ago, Harmony Company transported a portion of these already-studied Spiritual Creatures here.
They wanted to study whether the special light radiation band of this star system’s star had any special effects on it.
Although the documents labeled it as covert transport, Zuo Jing’s appearance here to seize the Space Station suggested that the covert transport wasn’t that covert after all.
Surely, someone at Sinda got infiltrated by followers of Zuo Jing, and most likely they were already on the Space Station.
Chen Ming couldn’t understand why.
For some mining planets, even the Mining Space Station he once stayed at, he could understand why there would be Zuo Jing members.
After all, such work is extremely tough and demanding.
But for a Plant Research Station, a workplace requiring mental labor, the average IQ of the researchers should be higher than that of the general populace, right?
Could they still have been infiltrated?
Hard to comprehend.
Forget it, if it’s hard to understand, just leave it be.
In short, Zuo Jing knew there were poorly supervised Spiritual Creatures here, so they came to create trouble.
Yet, they didn’t know how to take these Spiritual Creatures, so they could only occupy the Space Station and wait for instructions from above.
That seems to be the case.
But the truth is somewhat different from what appears on the surface.
Chen Ming, from a terminal belonging to someone who seemed like their leader before it was dismantled, retrieved data indicating the actual situation.
Zuo Jing actually wanted to make a big move.
After all, they could all see the big biohazard warnings posted outside the laboratory.
And the order their leader received from above was clearer.
These fungal Spiritual Creatures have extremely strong transmissibility and harmfulness, causing significant damage when captured by Harmony Company; if unsupervised, they pose great danger.
That’s why Zuo Jing targeted these dangerous creatures.
They actually hoped someone would send a team to land on the Space Station, giving them the opportunity to spread the fungi.
This was Zuo Jing’s idea.
And when they initially destroyed the fungal cultivation chamber in the laboratory, they experienced the terror of these fungi firsthand.
As soon as someone really landed on the Space Station, they would immediately open the sealed laboratory door and use their bodies as carriers for infecting the newcomers.
Truly driving madness to its extreme.
