Chapter 46 Collection of Samples_1

"Click~"

The hatch door slowly opened, and Captain Eric, holding a gun, emerged first and then stood on the barren land, surveying his surroundings before finally looking thoughtfully toward the distant Blue Forest.

The winds on the surface of the planet were strong, blowing the sand into a whirling cloud.

Fortunately, they were fully equipped, all wearing astronaut helmets.

"Professor Wang, collect some materials on the edge of the forest, but do not go deep."

"Captain Eric, we know what we're doing."

An Asian man, probably in his forties, nodded at Eric, then he and his colleagues started moving their collecting equipment out of the spacecraft.

"Hmm," Eric nodded.

Seeing the scientists busy with their work, Eric wasn't idle either; he instructed his soldiers to stand guard.

After giving orders, he walked to one side and pressed his communication device by his ear, first glancing back at the lander, then looked up at the sky in the direction of the Elysium Space.

"Eric calling Elysium Space, Eric calling Elysium Space, please respond if you hear me."

"This is Elysium Space, Walker speaking, go ahead."

Not long after Eric finished calling, Walker's voice came through the communication device.

"Minister, we have reached the planet's surface and are collecting experimental materials."

"Be careful, and return as soon as the task is complete."

"Received."

After ending the report, Eric turned and went back to the side of the spacecraft and then slowly made his way to the edge of the Blue Forest, watching the scientists collecting experimental samples.

......

Forty thousand kilometers away, aboard the Elysium Spacecraft.

Walker turned off the communication device and started his work.

He moved to the storage room.

"Click~"

The hatch door opened, and a musty scent of dust hit him.

Holding his breath, Walker fanned the air in front of him before slowly walking inside.

This was a huge storage room, covering more than a thousand square meters, filled with many cabinets, each cabinet storing different things.

Looking at the storage room with an aura of antiquity.

The metals inside the room had mostly corroded due to long periods of disuse.

The lights on the ceiling of the storage room were likewise intermittent, some working, some not.

The situation of the storage room was indicative of the condition of most cabins aboard the Elysium Spacecraft.

Initially, Walker had awakened just over a hundred people to clear out the creatures but had not conducted a thorough cleaning of the spacecraft.

A giant spacecraft capable of housing sixty thousand people was not easy to clean.

Many parts were already beyond cleaning, with human bones, bloodstains, and collapsed cabins everywhere.

That Walker and his people were still alive was a favor from heaven, for none of the life-supporting systems had failed.

Other than the vital systems buried deep enough to avoid damage, amenities such as entertainment venues and dining areas were no longer functional.

Clearing up the ship would be nearly impossible for just a few of them, as some of the collapsed equipment was simply immovable.

So the Elysium Space, except for the absence of those terrifying creatures, remained largely the same as before.

Walker wasn't surprised by the state of the storage room.

He walked down the storage room corridor, looking at the storage cabinets on both sides.

"Murphy, locate the hard drive."

"Locating for you..."

Soon after Cao Ge's words fell, Murphy had already found the location of the hard drive.

In the not particularly bright storage room, a strong light suddenly flared up.

Following this light, Cao Ge came to a storage cabinet.

He wiped the dust off the cabinet with his hand, then leaned closer to look inside through the transparent glass, and sure enough, there was a row of large hard drives.

Cao Ge pulled open the cabinet door, then pulled out the rack holding the hard drives. He took out all ten drives and placed them on the ground. Then, he opened another cabinet and took out all the hard drives from there as well.

In total, Cao Ge took out thirty hard drives before he stopped.

Looking at the stack of heavy hard drives, Cao Ge was not at all worried, instead, he had Murphy call over a robotic cart.

To carry the items to the spacecraft's main computer room.

Meanwhile, Cao Ge continued to search the spacecraft.

Eventually, he took two portable quantum computers before he left the storage room, satisfied.

The main computer room of the spacecraft.

Cao Ge sat at the control console of the computer, fine-tuning the hard drives.

Out of the thirty drives, after testing, eight were found to be unusable.

After finishing the tests, Cao Ge began to retrieve the spacecraft's technical data through the computer at the console.

Because Cao Ge was now the highest-ranking person on the spacecraft, his permissions had been set to the highest level by default.

Cao Ge connected the computer interface to a hard drive with a data cable and then began data transfer.

The first technology Cao Ge chose was artificial intelligence.

Though he could not quickly create artificial intelligence, he could directly duplicate the entirety of Murphy.

The main computer of the spacecraft was very powerful, so after completing the data transfer of Murphy, Cao Ge picked up another data cable, found an interface on the computer, connected it to another hard drive, and began transferring the second technology.

Twenty-two hard drives simultaneously cached the technology from the spacecraft.

There were artificial intelligence, hibernation pod technology, 3D projection technology, computer technology, medical technology, and so on.

In short, Cao Ge crammed every advanced technology from the spacecraft into the hard drives.

While Cao Ge was copying technologies on the spacecraft, something happened on the surface of Tannis Planet, near the landing craft.

"Captain, there's a situation in the woods."

Eric, who was waiting near the spacecraft, heard his subordinate's report and immediately ran towards the edge of the forest.

"What happened?" Eric raised his gun cautiously and aimed at the woods, ready for any potential danger.

"Captain, I thought I saw something run past there." The young soldier at the edge of the woods pointed at a spot in the forest with his gun raised.

"Did you see what it was?"

"No, it was too fast, I only saw a blur of a shadow then it disappeared in the blink of an eye," said the soldier, still frightened by the experience.

Eric scanned the Blue Forest with his gun raised.

"Don't let your guard down, with vegetation like this, there could also be large alien creatures."

"Professor Wang, you'd better get back onto the spacecraft," Eric told the scientists who were nearby collecting samples with various instruments.

"Alright, Captain Eric."

"Let's retreat back to the spacecraft for now."

Seeing that Professor Wang and his group had boarded the spacecraft, Eric then said to his comrades beside him.

And so, everyone slowly retreated, their guns still steadily aimed at the forest, until they reached the entrance of the spacecraft. It was then that they quickly put their guns away and ran inside.