Chapter 165: A Week!
Lu Yiming found his room to live in and sighed softly.
He joined the expedition this time, on the one hand, his spiritual resistance was the strongest in the entire Vault, and there was no way, as the tallest of the shorts, he had to be hard-headed.
On the other hand, he is also responsible for investigative functions to a certain extent.
After packing up the props at hand, in addition to various weapons and equipment, he also carried two small drones.
These small drones have been carefully adapted in the laboratory with a variety of detection equipment, making them ideal for mind possession.
Manipulating these drones through the way of mind possession is equivalent to turning into a "drone", which is much more flexible than using a remote control, and the ability to reconnoiter the surrounding area will also be greatly improved.
Of course, mind possession also has limitations, without the assistance of the Internet, he can only maintain a distance of 300 meters at most, and no matter how far he goes, he can't control it. Moreover, ultra-long-distance control is very energy-consuming, and after a long time, it is easy to fall into a state of exhaustion.
After placing all the luggage, Shi Dayong gathered everyone and said, "Our destroyer will sail on this sea for a while, looking for a suitable landing site, and the closer it is to the relics of intelligent life, the better. ”
"During this period, first observe the movements of 10 rats to see if these rats will behave strangely. After that, if there are no surprises, we will take a series of actions. ”
"Don't be overly nervous, just keep training your routine. And you need to be careful to wear a gas mask if you can, even if scientists think the air here can breathe normally, it's best to bring it outside...... The rooms are equipped with air conditioning and filtration systems. ”
The weather in this world is relatively hot, and it is very easy to sweat profusely when you put on a gas mask.
In addition, the destroyer is not a spaceship, so there is no way to achieve complete air isolation.
"Major Shi, you should be nervous, right? You're not usually so verbose......"
A soldier behind him said with a smile.
Shi Dayong's face darkened, and finally sighed: "Hey, who said it wasn't...... I've always had some strange premonitions. We have to get the information in the ruins as soon as possible, and only by knowing what danger there is here can we ensure the safety of [Yoyo Reading]. ”
"With this heavy burden on your back, can you not be nervous?"
"Okay, okay, let's disband, everyone is busy with their own business. Don't be too nervous either. ”
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In the following time, everyone used military drones to constantly reconnoiter at high altitudes, while paying close attention to the movements of the rats released.
Professionals also drew maps of the coastline. There is a rough record of where the transport ship landed, where it was suitable for digging mud, where it was suitable for cutting down trees.
If it weren't for the safety regulations, the loggers would have been impatient!
The vegetation in this rainforest is abundant, the food is naturally quite abundant, and some wild fruits even grow the size of a fist, and the natural habitat of these rats is quite moist.
However, the strange thing is that the number of creatures in this tropical rainforest is not very large, except for a few small animals with a small body and some fierce insects, it is not at all as dense as a normal rainforest......
Because of this strange discovery, the expedition team in the destroyer was always in a wait-and-see state and did not enter at will.
"It's not right, the number of species, it's too small...... Why? ”
The first day has passed, and all 10 baby mice are alive!
A few more have already dug holes in the ground and are ready to live here for a long time.
The next day, a rat got food poisoning after eating a red fruit.
Its two hind legs fluttered a few times and died heroically, and the remaining 9 still had no abnormalities.
The corpse of this dead rat became a feast for a swarm of insects. The insects are oddly grown, looking like a hybrid version of a fly and a spider, flying and jumping, and they eat their muscles and suck the sap from their acid through their muscles.
The scientists in the destroyer, observing with relish these insects eating the corpses, appeared to be extremely heavy.
On the third day, another rat was swallowed by a long snake the thickness of an arm, and the number of survivors was 8.
For this scene, the people in the destroyer did not make any fuss, and surviving in the wild was a rather cruel thing in itself. The fittest survive, and the unfit are eliminated.
These rats have been kept in the laboratory for a long time, artificially fed, and naturally do not have much survival skills.
They just have a little bit of survival instinct from their genes, and it's normal for them to have a high mortality rate.
Ordinary species predation is not too dangerous for humans.
On the fourth day, magically ...... There were no rats dead!
However, one of the rats seemed to be sick, and its body functions had decreased considerably, and according to the equipment, its body temperature had risen and its heart rate had become very fast. It lay on the ground and didn't try to move.
This situation made the staff slightly nervous, but as long as there was no large-scale plague, occasional illness was understandable
Day 5......
Day 6......
In this way, a week passed, and 10 rats were killed by various accidents, food poisoning, disease, or some small carnivore, for a total of 5 deaths.
The other 5 are still alive, and one of the lucky rats even met the native creatures underground, successfully blended into them, and completed a mating!
"I'm dizzy, it turns out that there are normal rats here......"
When they saw this batch of wild mice, the expedition team finally couldn't help it.
"Well, it's almost a real hammer, we humans can adapt to the microbial ...... here to a certain extent."
"There are similar rats in this forest, well, I don't think there's any need to continue this experiment. Since there are wild rats, the rats we released will definitely be able to survive normally! Although the current mortality rate is as high as 50 per cent, that is without any protection, and it is nothing higher than that. ”
Yes, no danger was found!
Everyone was a little out of breath.
Seven days was enough time for the expedition to go deep into this land and retrieve a lot of information, but they had been on the ship for so long.
It's really ...... What a waste of time!
Shi Dayong stubbornly said, "Or, observe for a while?" I didn't find any danger here, it felt a little weird anyway......"
One of the hot-tempered superpowers said, "But we can't delay here indefinitely, can we?" What if you don't see the danger all the time? Been waiting here?! ”
The crowd chattered and divided into two factions: "Or observe for another week?" Don't rush this kind of thing. ”
"A week, that's too long. We've been waiting here for 7 days, are we going to continue? Microorganisms are also not dangerous, do you wait a month, a year? ”
"Maybe, the more you delay, the more unsafe it becomes!"
There was no unanimity.
"Captain, what do you think? If you have any opinions, you might as well say it directly," Shi Dayong asked.
As the chief captain of the sheriff, Lu Yiming's power and prestige are naturally quite large, and he can even overstep his authority and forcibly command the army. Of course, there is no such need now, and it is impossible for him to use this right to forcibly pretend.
Lu Yiming pondered for a while, frowned and said, "Everyone should know." There must be disasters on this continent...... Otherwise, there is no way to explain why this native intelligent civilization disappeared, and there is no way to explain why those brain-controlled bugs fled this land......"
"The most important thing is that there are very few animals here, we only found small animals, and the larger animals are completely absent."
"I think there are three more possibilities now!"