Chen Chen put the box beside him, lay down on the bed by himself, closed his eyes, and waited for the scan results of the reflection crystal.

The scanning process was unexpectedly short, only a few minutes to complete, and then the image crystal automatically returned to Chen Chen's body.

The reflection crystal is one with Chen Chen's soul, so the transmission of information with Chen Chen is also very fast, and it is completed in a moment's time.

After receiving the information, Chen Chen frowned and opened his eyes: "The development of things ...... It's a bit unexpected......"

According to the scan results, this meteorite is not a fragment of a man-made object as you guessed, but a seed.

It grows like a plant, but the body is made of metal, the seed of a special life.

In contrast, in order for the earth's plants to germinate, they need to be put into the soil, and they need to be watered, and some of them need to be soaked in water to sprout before they can be planted in the soil.

For this metal seed to germinate, it needs to be placed in a metal element.

Already refined, pure iron is the most suitable, followed by aluminum.

But these are not the point, the point is that this seed, like a dandelion, was scattered to the earth by itself, or was artificially released and thrown to the earth.

Or if the spacecraft transporting these seeds crashed and accidentally fell to Earth, it is completely unknown.

If it is naturally scattered, then there will definitely be no relevant information on the seeds, and if it is artificially released, it is estimated that no information will be left.

When earthlings plant food, flowers and trees, although they will improve the seeds, they will not be idle and bored to engrave their names and origins on the seeds, and then plant them.

Therefore, even if it is artificially released to the earth, it cannot release the information itself at present.

"But now that you have the method of planting, you can try to cultivate it yourself."

"For it to sprout, it needs to be in iron or aluminum...... Forehead...... Wait...... Aluminium ......"

Thinking of this, Chen Chen suddenly reacted, the box used to hold the meteorite now is made of aluminum!

So Chen Chen immediately sat up, took the box again, held the meteorite in both hands, and lifted it up, and then found that the aluminum alloy suitcase also followed.

Just as a plant takes root and sprouts, and the roots grasp the soil, the metal seed and the aluminum suitcase are already connected.

Chen Chen put down the box, looked down at the place where the meteorite and the suitcase touched, and immediately found that this metal seed was still different from the germination of a plant.

Where it connects to the suitcase, it is not sticking out of the roots to grasp, but merging with each other.

Just like two different colored liquids, when mixed together, the colors will be neutralized.

The original silver-white aluminum alloy suitcase chassis has been dyed with the black color of the meteorite where it comes into contact with the meteorite, and the color of the black meteorite and the suitcase has become a little lighter.

Without high-temperature refining, two different metals began to fuse!

If it were an ordinary person watching this scene, he would definitely be shocked,

But Chen Chen was very calm, not to mention that Chen Chen had basically understood the life form of this metal seed, and Chen Chen's own experience was not comparable to any earthling.

The interstellar civilization empire in which Chen Chen lived in his second life directly ruled was almost as large as a galaxy.

There are all kinds of intelligent life living in the empire, and all kinds of strange creatures are also alive.

Chen Chen has seen and heard of all kinds of strange substances and life, including various forms of silicon-based life, metal life, and magnetic field life.

Silicon-based life looks like stone, metal life is more like a plant, and magnetic life is like a ghost, invisible or intangible.

So now, when he saw the fusion of the metal seed and the suitcase, Chen Chen only felt novel, without any mystery and fear.

But not being afraid, not being afraid, does not mean letting things go.

Chen Chen has an interest in cultivating it, but he can't let it grow freely on its own, it must be completely under his control.

So Chen Chen released the Reflection Crystal again, this time not scanning the metal seed, but letting the Reflection Crystal dip directly into it.

Chen Chen knew that the way metal life was conceived and grown was similar to that of plants, but when she matured, it was more like a mechanical structure.

All kinds of machinery on the earth, in fact, have a control circuit, a little more complicated, there will also be a memory chip, to store the user's settings, the most complex, will be directly controlled by a computer.

And in such a metal life, there is also a similar structure, and its function is actually very similar to that of the human soul.

It's just that because this control system is too simple, it can only make simple responses, without any intelligence, so it can't be called a soul.

That's why Chen Chen calls this structure the "core consciousness body".

Chen Chen now wants to use the reflection crystal to erase the original consciousness of the seed, and then generate a consciousness body that is completely controlled by himself.

It's like completely formatting the original system of the computer and installing a completely new system yourself.

The consciousness body made of the reflection crystal is much more advanced than the original metal seed.

If the original consciousness is a simple mechanical control software, and the image crystal generates this new consciousness, it is a complete operating system.

It turns out that the growth of metal life is almost instinctive, completely unaware of the trade-offs, constantly absorbing metal elements, and then forcibly piling them up.

Their final appearance can be the shape of any creature near their body, or it can be completely indescribable.

Now that the Reflection Crystal has taken over its control, it can refine the absorbed metal elements, like peeling off the skin, and expel useless impurities.

In this way, the metal composition of this can be adjusted to the most appropriate proportion, and at the same time, its appearance can also be controlled, and it can grow in the direction set by Chen Chen.

The work of reflecting the crystal was quickly completed, flying out of the meteorite and returning to Chen Chen's body.

Then, Chen Chen looked at it, and the meteorite suddenly shook violently.

It turned out that the charred black shell, like the wall skin of an old house, fell down one by one with the shaking of meteorites.

The meteorite kept shaking, and the shell kept falling.

And this peeling, there is more than one layer, as if it is an onion, peeling off one layer, and another layer.

With each layer shed, the color of the meteorite turns white by one point.

In just a few minutes, the meteorite, which was the size of a high school textbook and more than 10 centimeters thick, was reduced to a metal ball the size of an egg.

Its color has also changed from charred black to shiny metallic silver.

This is the effect of Chen Chen controlling the seed, using its innate ability to remove the impurities it brought from the mother's body, as well as the burning marks left when it passed through the atmosphere.

However, the remaining metal balls are not only iron, but also have some other components.

It's not that Chen Chen can't rule it out, but he left it on purpose.

Because of the pure iron element, the texture is soft, and after adding a certain percentage of carbon, it will become a hard steel, and then adding a certain proportion of chromium or nickel, it will become stainless steel.