Chapter 307 Gene memory
"It's time to go, why are you still in a daze?"
The soldier's reminder woke up the solar engineer suddenly. After looking around, he realized that he was still in the camp, and the expedition team with a large number of scientists was ready to go, and now he was waiting for one.
Engineer Sun gave an embarrassed smile, quickly packed his bags and entered the team.
But after that, he didn't talk and laugh like others, but silently thinking about what he had just experienced.
He saw hallucinations, so real that he thought it was reality.
Since he came to this home ship parasitized by a large number of strange plants, his experience about that virtual world appeared before him from time to time, making him feel like he was in that world again.
He once suspected that some kind of hormone secreted by these plants would cause him to hallucinate, but he never took off his protective clothing since he put it on. He also asked his teammates if they found any abnormalities, but there seemed to be abnormalities He is the only one.
He looked at the data of the environmental instruments without faith. Although he is the engineer in charge of the artificial sun, he can barely understand these tables and figures. The result is that the environment here is normal.
Even the atmospheric environment here is better than that on the "Song of Dawn" home ship. According to a certain biologist, the air level here is already very close to the level of the "parent star" in historical records.
Theoretically speaking, they can live normally here directly, and they are still wearing protective clothing, just following the long-standing guideline of "never take off the protective clothing at any time" in the "Alien Expedition Manual".
Since no one else is abnormal, the solar engineer is also increasingly puzzled by the hallucinations that appear on him.
According to the "Alien Expedition Manual", he should report his abnormal situation to his superiors at this time, terminate the expedition immediately, and receive treatment.
However, by a strange coincidence, he did not do this, but kept up with the team.
During the rare entertainment time on the home ship, he has also seen some power sources about "alien exploration". Generally speaking, his situation will lead to two consequences. One is that their team encounters a major crisis and wipes out. The other is that he is about to receive a lunch box.
He has a clear understanding of this image, and he also understands that his behavior of not following the "Alien Expedition Manual" is a serious violation, but he just doesn't want to stop.
He always felt that the tall tower covered with vegetation was calling him, as if he was shouldering an unprecedented important mission, and if he didn't go, he would regret it for the rest of his life.
The numb life in the past had a touch of beauty after a long absence, and the adventurous spirit that should not have appeared at his age was also ignited again. He finally chose the latter between living a mediocre life and dying brilliantly.
A scientist who was near the solar engineer suddenly felt an inexplicable change in this person, and the whole person seemed to be changing to another level.
But after a closer look, there was nothing abnormal. In the end, the scientist could only attribute it to his own illusion.
So the expedition set off under such circumstances.
In order to prevent predation by these translucent plants, they are sprayed with a special potion that can temporarily drive away predator plants.
According to the theory of the scientists who studied this potion, they are now walking herbicides in the eyes of these plants, and they will be instinctively disgusted.
The scientist also studied another kind of potion, which has the opposite effect of the potion on them now. It makes them become "walking poop" in the eyes of plants, which can attract this plant, but this potion has been rejected by everyone.
It's just that for the "bait" that may be needed, the group of them still brought a small amount of this potion.
Due to the new mission assigned by the government, their original course of action has also changed, from going straight to the "Control Tower" to searching for all information related to the "Fire Chaser" along the way.
So they need to take an extremely tortuous route, trying to cover every area on the home ship.
This is also the most severely damaged area. The translucent vegetation that is suspected to be closely related to the "Fire Chaser" seems to have exchanged fire with the guards of the home ship here.
However, as they got deeper into this area, they found that this matter seemed a bit complicated.
"This is…"
After cleaning up a piece of ruins that was not covered by plants, an accompanying soldier looked at the corpses in the ruins with a surprised expression.
They didn't see any corpses along the way. According to speculation, they should have been swallowed by these predatory plants, but there are still intact corpses here, which is a bit abnormal.
Autopsy experts immediately came forward to confirm the situation, and soon discovered an astonishing thing.
"The wounds on these bodies...appear to have been inflicted by our own weapons."
This incident instantly silenced everyone present. Originally, they thought that the home ship had been attacked by the "Fire Chaser" to become like this, but now it seems that there may be "internal" shadow.
The originally relaxed atmosphere of the expedition suddenly became dignified. Everyone could no longer smile, but went to the next area in silence.
The second area is the "scientific research area", where there are a large number of laboratories, and all the technologies that affect their civilization come from these places.
The solar engineer wandered aimlessly with the team, but when he saw a laboratory that was also covered by a large number of plants, he had the idea of "wanting to take a look".
At this time, the investigation of this area had already begun, so he applied to his superior for investigation rights.
Although he wondered when this solar engineer would be interested in participating in the inspection, his request was approved out of trust in the quality of his first-level engineer.
So the solar engineer entered the laboratory, and as if he had been here before, he walked through the darkrooms with ease, and finally came to a small room that was not too deep or invaded by plants.
It wasn't until he picked up an old diary in this small room that he woke up like a dream, and looked around in a little horror.
He felt as if he had been hypnotized just now, and when he came back to his senses, he had already arrived in a different place.
However, before he could think about why he came here, the diary in his hand attracted his attention.
Curiosity swelled unprecedentedly at this moment, as if countless voices in his mind were urging him to open this diary.
There seemed to be hallucinations in front of his eyes, and he was once again in that primitive world, surrounded by fresh air and lush green vegetation.
Finally, he opened the diary.
【I am First, an ordinary scientist who studies genetics】
【If you are interested in reading literary works, then you may have heard of my name, I wrote "Once Upon a Glory"】
【You may think that those fragments of the virtual world are synthesized by me based on my imagination and the inspection of some video records】
【But in fact, those pictures actually come from me, or in the genes of each of us】
【Our life, our birth, and our genes all originate from a plant, a giant tree of life】
【According to the current name, they are called—Fire Chaser】
(end of this chapter)