Silin used the foldable knife to look at the thing inside the fish's stomach. This big fish was completely dead, and its body was starting to change.
Hmm?
Silin's hand paused, and a black shadow shot out from the fish's stomach. Silin's free hand grabbed it with lightning speed.
It was a long thing that was as long as a finger. Its body was dark green, and it looked almost black at first glance. There was a big mouth on its head, and it let out a shrill cry that hurt people's ears. Many people who were busy turned their attention to Silin's hand.
"Wow, what is this? It looks like it tastes good! "Huimao was planning to run to the side to sleep, but when he saw this thing, he ran back.
"If you want to eat it, look for it yourself. There's more inside," Silin said.
Huimao sniffed the smell of this bug-like thing. He didn't care that it was dirty, and he went straight into the fish's stomach to look for food.
"What is this?" Shotton walked over and asked.
"It should be a kind of parasite. I've seen some people find parasites on the bodies of deep-sea fish. Although this big fish is not in the sea, it's almost there. I heard that the parasites in the deep-sea fish are very powerful." Silin observed the struggling parasite in his hand, and he put a stone next to its mouth.
Puff —
A hole was bitten out of the stone.
Everyone who saw this took a deep breath. Such a powerful thing was a parasite. If it lived in a human body, wouldn't it be dead? No matter how hard a bone was, it wouldn't be enough for it to chew.
After Silin cut off its head with the knife, this thing still struggled for a while before stopping. It was obvious that it had a strong life force.
Silin used the knife to rummage through the fish's stomach again. The parasites inside were almost eaten by Huimao. This guy was quite fast.
"Hey, wait, leave me some of that thing." Silin used the foldable knife to knock on Huimao's head.
Huimao, who was about to take a bite, spat out the thing in his mouth. "This thing tastes good."
"Of course, these are all things that absorb the Host's essence." Cillin stored the little green bean-sized balls into a special bottle. These balls were the eggs of the parasite he had encountered earlier.
Huimao, who had been tossing and turning in the belly of the fish, was covered in the green blood of the big fish. Silin kicked him into the river to take a bath, and only allowed him to go ashore after he was clean.
After arranging everything here, Shotton brought Silin and Huimao to the next team location. It was a land of ice and snow. It was also the coldest place on the planet. The area covered by ice and snow was also very wide.
Huimao found two kinds of ores there. One was transparent, and the other was white.
The transparent ice ore was a special kind of ore, not an energy ore. It could not provide energy, but this ore was very dense, and almost all of it was made up of water molecules. It was a high-density compressed water crystal. If it was turned into a liquid, its volume would expand by fifty to a hundred times. If it was placed in an ultra-low temperature environment, it would absorb the ice in the environment, integrate, and slowly "expand". It could be said that it was an excellent crystal for storing water. It was very useful for long-distance travel for the fleet.
The other kind of white ore was indeed an energy ore. It could emit a cold light source, and objects that were illuminated by this cold light would be instantly frozen.
Before this, there were only cold beam guns and airborne cold beam cannons, but there were no cold beam weapons that were more lethal and suitable for installation on starships. This white ore could achieve that effect, and the technical team was preparing to use this ore to develop a new cold weapon.
Other than this spot, the energy ores at the other teams' locations were about the same as before. That was why Huimao couldn't even be bothered to lick them. He was already sick of the taste.
Everyone was very excited now that they knew the location of the ores. However, Silin did not participate in the mining. Instead, he returned to the starship and slept for two days. The energy he absorbed had greatly affected the chips inside his body. While his genes were evolving, Silin needed to control the changes and take the initiative. He could not allow these changes to happen willfully, or he might even turn into a monster when the time came.
Shotton had already reported the matter of this planet to the A Team, and the A Team immediately sent people to the planet marked on the star map Shotton had given them. What the Sixth Team needed to do now was to mine while waiting for the A Team to arrive and hand the planet over to them. Then, they would proceed with the next step of their operation. Sector Z's planning mission hadn't been completed yet. Although these energy ores were enough to raise their influence in the Vanguard, they had to finish what they had to.
It had to be said that Shotton had chosen the right route back then. From the start of their voyage until now, other than some of their own kind at the outskirts of Sector Z, they had not run into a single Hunter regiment for a long time the deeper they went. Right now, there was not a single exploration team like theirs that had come to the planet's surroundings.
Sector Z was huge. No one could say for sure what they would encounter in the future, how many sacrifices they would have to make, and how much they would gain in the future. But no matter what, since they had made the choice, they had to keep going.
During this time, the logistics team members seized the opportunity to replenish their food supplies. Only with energy and food supplies would they be able to travel more smoothly in the future.
A technician had deduced a conclusion based on some parameter changes: Due to the effect of the energy field, there was a limit to the mining rate of the energy ores. There was a critical point to mining, which was also their equilibrium point. If this equilibrium point was broken, the planet would fall into chaos, and humans would not be able to stay on this planet for long. If it was serious, the planet's habitability would drop from Rank B to Rank C, or even lower.
After sleeping for two days, Silin returned to the planet.
"Hey, Kari, where's Silin?" Beaver asked. The man who had slept for two days had actually disappeared.
"That guy has been obsessed with parasites lately, and he went looking for them with Engi." The moment he thought of those disgusting bugs, Kari couldn't help but shudder.
At this moment, Cillin was watching Enji dissecting a crab. This crab was something he had come across by chance at the green riverside. It was nearly five meters long, and its entire body was covered in thick green fur. At the side, Huimao was happily tearing off the crab's giant pincers.
Engi picked out a bug from the crab's lungs.
"Oh, I didn't expect to actually have one." Engi smiled as he picked out a bug.
"I've only seen parasites in ordinary crabs, but I've never seen this one. But it should be about the same. We can study it when we have time. The infection rate and degree of this parasite are very high. They live in the lungs, stimulate and destroy the host's lung tissue, causing coughing and hemoptysis. Some even invade the brain and cause paralysis. "
The ones Engi mentioned were just the ordinary ones. The parasite he was holding was probably much more terrifying.
"We usually don't bring parasites onto the starship easily. The risk factor is too high, and if we lose control, the entire starship may die. Never underestimate these tiny things."
As he was speaking, Silin and Engi's communicators rang.
Silin turned on the communicator, and Kari's big face appeared on it. "Silin, the A Team is here!"
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