Future Shennong Space

Ji Mingxiao's job is to take care of various plants every day, and then record various data.

They began to come into contact with some important plant samples, those from the earth, and they also knew the purpose of coming here for an internship, which was indeed related to the cultivation of the antidote.

The same method as Shelley is currently being used here, by simulating the environment of the earth to grow the raw materials for these antidotes.Although it is much more refined, the effect is not very good, it can only guarantee their basic survival, and it cannot be popularized.So now many researchers are still working on more applicable new methods.

Interns are not exposed to deeper things, and everyone's task is basically to take care of the simulated environment and record daily data changes.There are many heavyweight researchers involved in this project, and some relatively basic experiments will be operated by interns, so they will learn a lot.

Ji Mingxiao has the same tasks as them, but his work is relatively free.Because in addition to these, he has one more thing than others, which is to do mental power experiments on the petri dish that Cecil specially gave him when he is free every day.

"The ability of mental power is not stable in the early stage. Level 9 to level 10 is an important period for it to start to take shape. Any thoughts you have during this period may affect its specific performance." Cecil said to him.

"Although it is a bit selfish, you also know the predicament we are facing now. So I still hope that you can try your best to think of a way to solve this problem when experimenting with mental power. Maybe the ability you will eventually form will help us. If you need spiritual power development potions, we can provide them at any time, but I don't recommend you use external power to improve."

Solution?

The original earth plant samples are grown in the petri dishes, and the people here take good care of them.But at present, they can only grow in a specific environment, so the biggest problem is to solve their reproduction problem and how to adapt to the outside environment.

It's easy to say, and the purpose is clear, but it's really not easy to operate, because Ji Mingxiao doesn't know how to make the mental power play such a role.When even he himself feels confused, let alone how to operate it specifically.

What he can do now is to stimulate the growth potential of plants with spiritual power, and try his best to increase the number of green light spots.In this way, the growth of individual plants is surprisingly fast, but it does not help the problem they are trying to solve.

Moreover, this method consumes mental energy very quickly. It usually only takes a few minutes to complete an experiment, but it takes a long time for his spirit to recover. In addition, the two of them live together now. He wants to return to the space and use physical training to recover his mental energy. There is no way.

Time always flies when I am busy, and three weeks have passed since the internship.

Seeing that all the people who came to practice together have gained something, but there is still no progress on the problem he most wants to solve, Ji Mingxiao is almost a little depressed.

This morning, when he rushed to the laboratory ahead of time as usual, he found that someone had appeared in it earlier than him, and was standing in front of the petri dishes where he was conducting mental power experiments and observing something.

Judging by the white hair on his head, it could only be that person who appeared here.

"Professor Sharp," he greeted, "good morning."

The man turned around, and it turned out that he was the person in charge of their internship, and also one of the heads of the simulation ecology laboratory, Professor Sharp.

However, no matter when you meet this professor, he always looks stern with a straight face.But now the expression on his face is much gentler, and he even greeted back: "Morning, Classmate Ji."

He pointed to the shelf behind him, "Are these your latest achievements?"

Ji Mingxiao walked up to him and found that several plants in the direction pointed by Professor Sharp had bloomed, and one had small seeds on it.

He nodded. "Yes, but it doesn't help our current situation."

"Don't worry." Professor Sharp had a smile on his face, "You've done better than many people. And it's just a few days. If we can solve these problems so quickly, we will Didn’t everything you did become a joke?”

Ji Mingxiao was a little embarrassed, he was indeed a little anxious.

"However," Professor Sharp said to him, "your psychic powers may really be a direction, work hard, there will be infinite possibilities in the future."

"Thank you." Ji Mingxiao said sincerely.Probably because the person on the opposite side looked much more amiable than usual, he couldn't help but ask, "Professor, do you also have psychic powers?"

Professor Sharp glanced at him in surprise, and shook his head slightly, "No, my mental power is level 7, which at most makes me smarter, and I can process some complex information more easily than ordinary people, but it's not enough. The extent of the ability to emerge."

"But I know that spiritual power is a very complicated power, especially when the ability is formed, any of your will will affect it."

"I know," Ji Mingxiao said, "Mr. Cecil told me, but if I really want to form the corresponding ability, shouldn't I have a clear direction first? Or, at least I need to know that I should How can I make it form in the direction I need."

"I probably can't help you with this problem." Professor Sharp pondered for a while, "But as far as I know, maybe you can try to find the root of the problem you want to solve, and it may help you find the direction."

The... source of the problem?

Ji Mingxiao seemed to have been knocked hard by someone, and he stood there in a daze.

When he came back to his senses, he didn't know how long it had passed.Professor Sharp left a long time ago, and when he left, he graciously closed the door of this small laboratory for him.

Now he is alone in this laboratory, and it is quiet.He raised his wrist and looked at the terminal, it was almost noon.

How long has passed?

The thoughts in his mind were still a little messy, he thought for a while, walked to the door and opened the door of the laboratory.

Shelley was waiting for him at the door, and greeted him when she saw the door open.

"Want to have dinner together?"

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Professor Sharp's words seemed to turn on a certain switch, which made Ji Mingxiao feel enlightened.

After sorting out his thoughts, he re-adjusted his direction, began to search for some information, and applied for some new plant samples.

And when he opened the interstellar network interface to inquire about something, he discovered that the gossip about Sterling's love affair had disappeared from the interstellar network at some point.

So, even though he's said before that he doesn't care, has anyone done something about it?

Ji Mingxiao originally wanted to laugh, but a warm rising emotion was choked in his chest, and he suddenly couldn't laugh anymore.

Forget it, he said to himself, if someone is willing to treat you like this, what more do you ask for?

What needs to be done most now is to make yourself stronger as soon as possible, otherwise, how can you be worthy of him.

Shelley finds that her classmates and roommates seem to be a little different recently.

He was a hard worker before, and now he is even more than before, and there is a certain urgency in this effort, as if he is eager to prove something.

He returned to the dormitory later and later, and got up very early in the morning to go to the laboratory.Shelley occasionally felt him coming back when she was drowsy, but when she woke up in the morning, the opposite bed was empty, as if no one had come back.

A few days later, Shelley went to find him in his laboratory and found him gazing at a petri dish in his hand.

A small rice seedling was planted in a petri dish, the leaves were slightly curled and yellowed.Shelley was a little curious about what he was doing, but soon discovered that the curly leaves of the seedling slowly stretched out at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the color returned to a healthy dark green, and a new leaf emerged from the Pull out the middle and stop after growing a few centimeters.

Shelley's eyes widened.

The petri dish was put on the shelf, and Ji Mingxiao turned to greet him.

"Hey, Shelley, what can I do for you?"

Shelley looked at him strangely, and found that apart from his complexion being a little too pale, he actually seemed to be in good spirits.

Freak, he complained in his heart, but on the surface he still maintained his usual attitude.

"Today is the opening ceremony of the Mecha Ranking Tournament. Professor Sharp specially took half a day off tomorrow. Now everyone has gone to the restaurant, waiting to have dinner together after the start. I didn't see you, so I came to look for it."

"The ranking match is about to start?" Ji Mingxiao was a little surprised, "So soon."

Shelley looked at the row of petri dishes behind him, "Do you want to go and see together?"

"Of course I'm going." Ji Mingxiao said, "I don't want to miss such an important event."

When they arrived at the restaurant, it was still a little late, and the performances for the opening ceremony were coming to an end.On the huge projection wall, thousands of mechs posed in the air in a very spectacular shape, collectively firing artillery shells for ceremonies, colorful glare and smoke burst out in the air at the same time, and there were things like ribbons flying all over the sky.The audience at the scene cheered, and the atmosphere was extremely enthusiastic.

The restaurant also burst into lively cheers.Before today, Ji Mingxiao never knew that there would be so many people in the Academy of Sciences, and the entire restaurant was almost full.

The opening ceremony was in the morning, because the time was different, it happened to be evening here.In addition to tomorrow's holiday, everyone seemed to have no scruples. The table was full of food and beer, and many people directly took bottles to bump into each other to celebrate.Ji Mingxiao suddenly remembered the scene where the guests and the staff of the restaurant watched the World Cup together.

Many things, even after thousands of years, the same scene will still appear.

Ji Mingxiao laughed, pulled Shelley to join the lively crowd, and grabbed two bottles of wine and stuffed one of them into Shelley's hand.

"Cheers!" He smiled and touched the bottle with him.

Shelley seemed a little overwhelmed, holding the bottle in a daze for a moment, but quickly realized, smiled and touched the bottle with him.

"Well, cheers."

The cold beer entered the stomach with a slightly bitter taste, and the whole person couldn't help shivering, but it made people feel more energetic in an instant.

The opening ceremony has already begun to show some contestants entering the arena, accompanied by background sound explanations.Don't look at these scientific researchers who are usually calm and self-sustaining elites, but now, when they see their favorite mech fighters, they will whistle and scream like ordinary fans.

The surrounding environment was noisy, and Ji Mingxiao pulled Shelley to squeeze forward, trying to find familiar people among a large number of contestants.But the more people crowded forward, he and Shelley were soon separated.

When he realized that the hand holding Shelley was empty, he looked around, but he didn't see Shelley's figure.Some popular player appeared on the screen, and there was a burst of screaming around him, and a roar in his ears.

Forget it, it's all here anyway, I'll look for it later.Thinking like this, he drank the last sip of wine in the beer bottle, and then someone stuffed a new bottle in his hand soon.The other party was also a young man, and he said something to him, but the surroundings were too noisy, and he couldn't hear clearly at all, but he still smiled and touched the bottle with the other party.

After drinking another bottle of beer, a person he was familiar with finally appeared on the screen.

He had been paying attention during the mech competition audition, and earned a lot of credits by betting on him. There would be no one else except Li Yiming.

Judging from the order of appearance, his previous ranking should not be too bad.Ji Mingxiao watched the black and red mecha appear on the field, and when the cockpit opened to reveal a familiar face, he couldn't help smiling, and took a bottle of beer from someone who didn't know.

His alcohol capacity has never been good, and after the third bottle of wine, his mind began to appear dizzy.Someone still stuffed wine into his hand, as if everyone had entered a state of carnival collectively, and didn't want to see anyone's hand empty.When you drink to a certain extent, everything around you seems to have nothing to do with you, and you can't accurately judge the sense of distance.The environment is still noisy, but the noisy sound can enter the ears, but can no longer enter the brain, and has almost lost the ability to think.

When the contestants came to the end, the background sound announced an all-too-familiar name, and the loud screams from around almost pierced Ji Mingxiao's ears.He stared blankly at the extremely dazzling silver mecha that appeared on the scene. When the cockpit opened, the familiar dark hair, familiar resolute face, and deep blue eyes made him forget everything in an instant.

His heart seemed to have been hit hard, his mind went blank, no matter how noisy the surrounding environment was, he couldn't get into his ears at all, and he focused all his attention on the person in front of him.

But that person only appeared for a short dozen seconds, and when that figure disappeared from his sight, he suddenly felt empty.

Someone around him grabbed his arm, and someone said something loudly to him, he was taken aback for a moment, then turned around and hugged him, and burst into tears instantly.

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When he opened his eyes, Ji Mingxiao found that he had already appeared on the bed and changed into pajamas.

He was still holding a coat in his hand. The uniform style of the uniform didn't tell who it belonged to at the moment, but when he saw Shelley on the opposite bed, he could probably guess it.

If he is drunk, he likes to hug people and cries when he is in a bad mood. This habit has not changed, so he rarely drinks alcohol, and even if he does, he will pay great attention to controlling the amount of alcohol.

Yesterday... probably just wanted to take the opportunity to vent.

He was far less let go than he imagined, and kept saying he didn't care, probably trying to deceive others and himself.

How could you not care?

The person he likes, such an excellent person, who is coveted by many people...

Of course he wanted his name to appear side by side with Xiao so that everyone would know, but how could he do it now.

Holding the coat in his hand in a daze for a while, he put down the coat and clicked on the terminal in his hand: it is more than three o'clock in the morning.

Unlike the usual sleep until dawn after drinking, he is very sober now, and there is a strange impulse in his mind, urging him to lift the quilt and get out of bed.He didn't wear a coat or shoes. He walked out of the room in his pajamas and walked towards the laboratory with bare feet.

It was the dead of night, and the place was far away from the lively areas, and the surroundings were dead silent.

Put the identification on the induction lock of the laboratory, and the door slid open silently.

The laboratory was also quiet, and there were usually a few researchers who liked to stay up late, probably also participated in the party yesterday, so now there is no one here except him.

A few emergency lights glowed faintly in green. He didn't turn on the lights, and entered the small laboratory where he usually stayed in the dim light.After closing the door, he took out a small instrument from the space button on his neck and opened it.

This instrument is a gadget given to him by Percy, which can shield the surrounding signals, and when the monitoring instrument detects it, it will only find a blank space.

If there is a monitoring instrument that really captures the current scene in the laboratory, it will definitely be seen that a person suddenly disappeared from the laboratory after taking the petri dish on the shelf, as if he had evaporated.After a short period of time, the person reappeared out of nowhere and put the petri dish back on the shelf.

At around five o'clock in the morning, Ji Mingxiao returned to his dormitory and lay back on his bed. This time he fell asleep peacefully.

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Many people watched the opening ceremony yesterday and drank a lot of wine. This morning, because Professor Sharp gave everyone half a day off, many people slept until almost noon.

When Ji Mingxiao woke up, he seemed to have completely forgotten what happened yesterday. Shelley looked at him with weird eyes for a long time, and finally patted him on the shoulder quite speechlessly: "I think you should drink less alcohol in the future. Bar."

Ji Mingxiao was baffled by him at first, and immediately nodded in agreement when he heard the words: "I think so, try not to drink alcohol in the future."

But when he was wearing slippers, he looked at his feet strangely: there was a layer of dust on the soles of his feet, some small scratches, and two blisters.

when did it happen?Could it be that after he drank, in addition to the problem of cuddling and crying, he also added sleepwalking?

Just as he was puzzled, Shelley had already started calling him to have lunch together.He could only put the question aside, quickly went to the bathroom to take a shower, then changed his clothes and followed Shelley to the restaurant.

There were a lot of people in the restaurant, and when he sat down to eat with a plate, the news on the projection wall was broadcasting the opening ceremony of yesterday's ranking competition.

Before the end of one piece of news, there was a sudden pause in the middle, and then another piece of news came in.

"In the early hours of yesterday, the Federal Security Agency released a set of evidence, confirming that the mutated Zerg that caused panic in many areas before was artificially synthesized by a biological research laboratory in the Lagu galaxy. They deliberately changed the Zerg gene and tried to cause panic in the Federation... ..."

"This mutated Zerg has a very strong ability to parasitize and infect, and has caused huge casualties in remote areas of the Federation. It has been contained by Brigadier General Sterling earlier. Whether this behavior is a personal terrorist act or whether there is other support behind it is currently unknown to us. I know. The federal government lodged a strong protest and solemn representations to the Ragu Star Empire on this matter, and hoped that the other party would respond to this matter as soon as possible..."