The spacecraft docked at the Crapple Research Station for several days. The rest of them had returned to earth, except for Hao Ren, Vivian, Lily, and Lil Pea. They had nothing to do there, so they went back to their normal lives. The four of them had nothing to do at home, so they just stayed and looked after the space station’s research facilities while waiting for the results of Zorm and Muru’s first phase.
On the sixth day, Hao Ren came to the central hall of the space station early in the morning. In the hall, he saw that Muru was chatting with Zorm. Muru had now been granted permission to move further freely. Apart from a few secret areas in the space station, he could move around freely in most places. Basically, he would come here and chat with Zorm these few days when he had the time.
To Hao Ren’s surprise, Vivian and Lily were here, too. They stood beside a tall crystal cluster and in front of them was a group of large vessels that were arranged neatly in a row, looking like water distillers. Those vessels looked like they were moved here from a lab. Several autonomous robots were flying around, helping to operate the vessels. Vivian turned her head to communicate with the tall crystal from time to time, and then observed the reactions in those vessels carefully, seemed to be immersed in the scientific research.
“Yo!” Hao Ren greeted them. Lil Pea, who was sitting in Hao Ren’s shoulder, also lifted her head, waving his little arm and shouting, “Yo! Yo!”
Hao Ren was holding Lil Pea so she would not fall down while looking at Vivian and asked, “What are you doing early in the morning?”
“I’m testing the activity of these lifeblood.” Vivian pointed to the experimental equipment in front of her and said, “These are the lifeblood brought from Holletta, which has ‘multiplied’ after catalytic replication. We want to see how these differ from the lifeblood used to create the biosphere and see if they can be used directly.”
Hao Ren saw the bright red viscous liquid flowing in the transparent compartments of the ‘distillers’. Those liquids were significantly more active than usual. Apparently, it was the result of the mental disturbances. There were six distillers and the motion frequency of lifeblood in each container was different. It seemed that Zorm was testing different control methods.
Vivian was an expert on the power of blood. Although the lifeblood was not normal blood, she was still able to help in this respect. However, Hao Ren knew nothing about it. He turned and looked at Lily, who should also know nothing about the lifeblood and asked, “Then what are you doing here? Helping?”
Lily pointed at Vivian and said, “Waiting for breakfast.”
“…” He knew it!
There was a synthetic food facility in the space station, but who was willing to eat that kind of food when Vivian was here? In Lily’s world, the most important thing in the universe must be food. Vivian sighed and stopped working on the lifeblood. She let those autonomous robots continue the work and walked toward the door. “Wait here, I’m going to prepare breakfast!”
“Awwoo!” Lily was wagging her tail happily.
“This husky’s last dignity is eventually lost to the food,” Hao Ren covered his forehead, sighed and said, and then looked at the tall crystal cluster and greeted, “Good morning! How’s it going? Looks like you’ve begun to interfere in the real world?”
“Yes,” Zorm replied cheerfully. “These lifeblood can be used! Its nature is the same as the one in the seed, with a little catalysis, I can create a variety of creatures in them! Good that you can get the lifeblood and the very energetic one.”
Hao Ren waved his hand and said, “There are still many people in this world who remember the Goddess of Creation. They have been preserving these things carefully. You should thank them. ”
“But we still have some problems,” Muru’s voice thundered from above, “Zorm’s current state limits its power. The areas it can control are very limited, and the accuracy is also a problem.”
Hao Ren looked at the tall crystal cluster. The holographic projection released from its surface showing the state of ‘Zorm’. Today’s status was:
O(∩_∩)O
Although Hao Ren did not know why this thing suddenly grasped the use of the emoticon, this way of displaying was very straightforward. At least it was much easier to understand than the previous one.
“Is it because it’s incompatible with the system of the Crapple Research Station?” Hao Ren asked while staring at the damn O(∩_∩)O until he could not stand it anymore, “Or do you need some new drivers?”
“Lack of direct contact and the organs needed to command the source of blood,” Muru said, and then sat cross-legged on the floor. The central hall was quaking as if the sky is crumbling as he was sitting down. “To control the lifeblood, Zorm requires a nucleus of the brain or similar nerve tissues to release signals. It also requires tentacles work like an antenna to produce the broadcasting function. But now all of its organs are burnt. With this crystal facility, it can only release a very limited mental signal, probably only a radius…”
Muru stretched out his hand, drew a circle and said, “From here to the position of the fish.”
Hao Ren turned his head and found that Lil Pea had already jumped to a place more than 10 meters away from him. He quickly took her back, and at the same time, he finally knew why Vivian was moving the lifeblood vessels from the lab to the hall—for the WiFi here…
The tall crystal cluster stood silently in the middle of the hall. Its surface was glittering with colors. It was not a device for releasing signals, but an interactive terminal for the mainframe of the Crapple Research Station. The crystal itself had a high energy affinity, so the Firstborn could use it to spread his soul power. The key problem was not whether this huge crystal could release the signal, but that Zorm needed a body.
A body that was no different from its original body and could be well compatible with the soul of the Firstborn.
Lily pinched her chin and pondered. And then she said, “This request is a little difficult to achieve. If you want to get some equipment, there are plenty in the landlord’s pocket. But it’s not easy for you to find a tentacle monster. They usually live in the little yellow book*…”
Hao Ren stuffed a bag of snack into Lily’s hands and said, “Don’t mess up, go and eat your snacks.”
Then he looked at Muru and said, “If you need a body… Actually, there’s a real one in this space station. You know what I’m talking about.”
“The two… guardians from Holletta?” Muru paused for a moment, then addressed the two samples in the container No.1 and No.2 as ‘guardians’. He knew the existence of the two Firstborn, but he shook his head and said, “It’s very wrong, it’s dangerous.”
“Can’t we just erase their souls and put Zorm in?”
“It’s easily contaminated,” Muru said with his deep voice. “Their crazy obsession has gone deep into every cell in the body, engraved on all the nerves and memory organs. You may not be able to completely erase these thoughts, and as long as there’s a little bit of it, Zorm’s will would have the possibility of being contaminated. After all, the strength of its soul has almost weakened to the limit. And this kind of contamination will be subtle and undetectable. It’s too dangerous. You’d better give up this idea.”
The tall crystal cluster was emitting a slow and gentle hum. Zorm was quietly listening to their discussion. It also knew that there were two other Firstborns in the space station, but Muru told it that the two Firstborns were in complete madness, and would not even listen to the orders left by their mother, so it was better not to touch them.
Out of the trust of its ‘gardener’, Zorm had already dismissed the idea of contact with his two ‘brothers’.
Hao Ren was thinking about any other possible ideas. Suddenly, he remembered something that he kept in the lab. “If those two can’t do it… I’ve got a backup plan here. Can we solve the problem of the brain nucleus first?”
“Solving the problem of brain nucleus means we almost solve all the problems. That’s the most important organ,” Uru said and looked at Hao Ren in surprise. “Do you have the brain nucleus of a guardian who has never fallen into madness?”
“I do have one!” Hao Ren clapped his hands and ordered the mainframe of the research station to send the two experimental vessels here. “I assure you it has never gone mad. It died 200000 years ago!”
A moment later, they heard a slight buzz coming under the ground near the tall crystal cluster, then the ground opened and two cylindrical containers rose from under the ground. Two red round organs were soaking in the containers.
Hao Ren looked at the surprised look on Muru’s face with pride, patted the cylindrical container and asked, “Come and see if the color is fine. Can we use it?”
Muru stunned for a moment and then muttered, “The color…”
Lily gave Hao Ren the side-eye while eating her snacks and muttered, “Without Vivian, he starts to talk nonsense again.”
*International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis