That night, the higher ups of Phecda had a discussion about the latest news brought by Lucky.
Tong Ye and the rest naturally knew better than Gu Jun what kind of existence the Ulthar cats were. Gu Jun's main point was, they were a species with supernatural power, they could not be treated normally so there were many unknown risks involved in helping them.
On a smaller scale, would the safety of the team members who were sent to Ulthar be thrown into the sky like Lucky said?
On a larger scale, would humanity gain an enemy or rather, an enemy cat, one that was difficult to deal with?
And how to cooperate with Mysterium? These were all problems that needed to be considered.
Gu Jun joined the meeting and gave his opinion, "Send a team to Ulthar first. Follow Shi Yu's suggestion and talk to the cats. Also talk to the Great Atal to see if we can solve the conflict between the cats and the Zoogs. If the cats are interested in the grouse tribute, see if we humans can pay for it. "
If this could be solved peacefully, it was not just an alliance with the Zoogs, it was an alliance with the Ulthar cats.
Furthermore, Ulthar was not a dangerous place like the House of Worm, it was a peaceful and picturesque town. If this was on Earth, it could be developed into a tourist destination. It would attract a steady stream of artistic youths looking for a spiritual paradise.
The Ulthar cats were powerful, that meant their nest was very safe, it was not a place where the cultists could mess around.
This trip to Ulthar could be considered a vacation, and he could even have a heart-to-heart talk with the Great Elder Atal …
There were many reasons to take this risk. After all, if they could get results, it would be a huge breakthrough.
Even though the higher ups were inclined to agree, the discussion continued the next day. Even Ceng Chanjun from Mysterium joined the discussion.
That day, Gu Jun did not attend the meeting. He continued to participate in the team building work and accompanied Yu Chi's group to tour the revitalized Chi Lin City.
At night, he returned to Mo Bei Phecda Base outside Chi Lin City and headed to the autopsy room.
Over the past half a month, ever since the new system came online in his mind, Gu Jun would make use of his free time to practice his new investigative ability, 'Anatomy', to assimilate the energy from the City of Dusk. After dissecting the flying polypus hydroids, his Anatomy EXP had risen to 1500/5000 (Level 1/9).
Even though it was just a broken limb, due to the hydroid's large size, even one tentacle was bigger than several human bodies.
Before Gu Jun joined the autopsy team, they already had some results and unsolvable problems.
Be it an anatomist like Xiao Huiwen or someone with a spell background like Cai Zixuan, none of them could decipher the flying polypus hydroids' roar, flight and invisibility. Just like how they could not decipher how the Deep Ones could dive so deep, they could only attribute it to supernatural forces.
The name 'flying polypus hydroid' was not wrong. It was not a mammal, it did not have blood vessels or vertebrae. It was temporarily classified as a cnidarian, the starting point of the evolution of higher multicellular animals.
Similar to Cnidaria, its basic structure was endoderm, ectoderm and digestive cavity.
What could be called epidermis, muscle, or nerve tissue, though distinguishable, was in the container of the dissecting table a mass of slimy colloid, or fiber. It was impossible to fly with just these.
Gu Jun believed the answer lay in its nervous system. That was why the flying polypus hydroid was filled with tiny synapses, much more than normal Cnidaria. These synapses, effectors, neurons, and so on formed those natural biological effects.
Other than that, the colloid and fibers on the autopsy table were not the entirety of the flying polypus hydroid.
Only part of it was observable, there was something else that made up its physiology, perhaps dark matter.
Deng Ximei was the first to have such a feeling. After Wang Ruoxiang recovered and passed the examination, she immediately threw herself into the dissection work and felt the same way.
However, this was just a hypothesis, they could not verify it for now.
The flying polypus hydroids' mental pressure on the autopsy team was much greater than the bodies of the Deep Ones and zombies. Therefore, it was a bigger challenge for the autopsy team. They needed to work in shifts and the cleansing of the ancient seal stone to maintain the team's mental state.
Xiao Huiwen fought hard at the frontline of the autopsy table against the immense pressure. He fought to name the organs of the flying polypus hydroid.
Many of the organs could be named using the names of Cnidaria, like epidermis, mesenchyme and so on.
Since the structure of the flying polypus hydroid was very simple, after several months, the names of the organs had been decided and they would not be changed anymore.
Therefore, the moment he saw Gu Jun walk into the autopsy room in protective gear, Xiao Huiwen smiled. There was no pressure in his heart.
There would be no more unprofessional names like 'scaly tendon', it would be scaly vein, not scaly tendon.
However, to Ol 'Xiao's surprise, things still happened.
Gu Jun used his superhuman senses, observation and luck to find a kind of dendrite in one of the neurons of the flying polypus hydroid's stomach. After analysis, it was confirmed that this dendrite had a statistical difference from the dendrites of the other neurons.
There were many differences between the dendrites of different neurons, and they looked messy under the microscope. It was difficult to sort them out.
Furthermore, the function of the various neurons of the flying polypus hydroid was still unknown, so the autopsy team did not delineate them.
However, Gu Jun noticed that the dendrites in this part of the stomach were almost the same in shape and they had an unusually high number of branches. In fact, he had the illusion that when the stomach expanded and contracted, the dendrites twisted the nerves of the various neurons together and then transmitted them to the cell to cause an explosion.
He heard a shrill scream and a hypothesis came up. "Could this be the vocal organ of the flying polypus hydroid?"
Cnidarians did not have specialized respiratory or vocal organs, they communicated with the outside world through their mouth.
It was the same for the flying polypus hydroid. If its scream came from its mouth, it would either come from its mouth or its stomach.
Neither the autopsy team nor Gu Jun found anything like that from its mouth.
Due to this discovery and this hypothesis, Gu Jun named the dendrites in its stomach as' screaming dendrites'.
Xiao Huiwen's smile froze. He really had the urge to scream, to scream at the sky, scream at the earth, scream at Gu Jun …
Couldn't they … come up with a more professional name … Vocal Dendrites?
That night, Gu Jun participated in the autopsy for 3 hours. He raised his anatomical experience to 1800/5000 but he still did not trigger the mission.
He felt like he could still gain experience from the flying polypus hydroid but he was still far from reaching his limit. If possible, he wished to stay here for a few days.
However, on the afternoon of the third day after Lucky brought the news, there was not much time left before the deadline given by the Zoogs. The higher ups of the two worlds made a joint decision.
The human civilizations of both worlds would send a joint team into the Dreamlands to negotiate with the cats at Ulthar.
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