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Little Clip and Solara nervously leaned against Chen Yu.

The AI was controlling the detection equipment, magnifying individual samples of the virus.

At 30 million times magnification, densely packed, wriggling microorganisms were visible.

The AI continued to zoom in, and Chen Yu narrowed his eyes, mentally preparing himself.

Little Clip looked curious, while Solara’s face showed a hint of disgust.

Finally, the image was magnified enough to clearly see the appearance of a single one of these microscopic organisms.

Chen Yu’s pupils dilated, and even Little Clip, with her unconventional thinking, was startled by this thing.

Solara covered her mouth, feeling nauseous.

What kind of thing was this?

Well, it was a strip-shaped microscopic organism, and on such a tiny body,

it was covered in barbs, and its whole body had nauseating patterns.

This thing even had something like mouthparts, filled with villi.

Actually, it looked okay like this, similar to many viruses on Earth, but the only thing that made it look so strange was that

on one end of this strip-shaped creature, which was obviously the head, there was a ghostly face resembling a skull!

Combined with the wriggling body, it looked exceptionally creepy and disgusting.

“Damn! What the hell is this thing? It’s really disgusting and creepy enough!” Chen Yu cursed.

“Ah Yu, how can a creature smaller than a virus by a thousand times have a human skull symbol on its head?”

Chen Yu frowned in thought.

“AI, what do you think?”

[Captain, I haven't reached any useful conclusions yet!]

Chen Yu continued to think, then asked:

“AI, what is the energy source of this microorganism? This planet has no animals; is it related to this virus-like microorganism?”

“AI, are you saying that these viruses can create a kind of creature? But if this planet is full of this virus, then complex creatures should have formed long ago. Why can we only see plants?”

[Captain, perhaps we haven't discovered the complex life forms they formed, or perhaps these plants also have strange secrets!]

“Sigh, let's not talk about this for now. Continue to send out more small exploration ships and search the entire planet. If we can find the complex life formed by the proliferation of the virus, it may help us research a way to deal with this virus!”

[Okay, Captain!]

After Chen Yu comforted Solara and Little Clip and sent them back to their rooms to rest,

he worked with the AI to study this virus.

Looking at Su Rou and Xia Yue Shu in the transparent liquid.

At this moment, the two women were lying in the glass cover, their eyes closed, seemingly asleep, peaceful and quiet.

But Chen Yu knew that those ghostly things inside them, whatever they were, were slowly multiplying.

When they reached a critical point, a mutation might occur inside, and who knows what kind of thing would be parasitized.

“AI, send robots to the surface to collect different kinds of plant samples. Since the plants on this planet can resist this virus, their cells may hold the answers we need.”

[Okay, Captain, I will send robots to collect samples now!]

. . . . . .

About three days passed.

Chen Yu was in the laboratory, looking at the things displayed on the analysis instrument’s large screen.

“How is this possible!”

After studying the plant samples brought back by the robots,

Chen Yu discovered that these plant cells contained a large number of these microscopic virus organisms.

It was as if these plants were the matrix that produced this virus.

Moreover, these virus cells would rapidly gather inside the plant, forming a new complex cell life.

Chen Yu and the AI's research confirmed that this complex life definitely had self-awareness and should be considered in the category of animals.

But in these three days, the exploration ships Chen Yu sent out hadn't found a single moving animal.

This was a bit weird.

Fortunately, Chen Yu and the AI weren't completely without discoveries.

Under the joint research of the two, the weakness of this microorganism was discovered.

It was still an experiment Chen Yu did with his own blood.

The blood of an Interstellar Stage 4 late-stage lifeform had an amazing killing effect on this microorganism.

When these microscopic virus organisms encountered Chen Yu's blood,

they would instinctively avoid it, and even dispel their behavior of gathering to form higher-level cells.

In addition, the dark energy in Chen Yu's blood could also effectively kill these microorganisms.

This provided Chen Yu and the AI with a direction to find out how to completely eliminate the virus in Su Rou and Xia Yue Shu.

Another three days passed, and Chen Yu had been soaking in the medical laboratory.

He was doing an experiment when the AI’s prompt sounded.

[Captain, according to my calculation of the orbital system of this planet, this planet belongs to a binary star system, revolving around the relatively larger star, but tonight, the planet we are currently on will enter a special gravitational pull of the other star, realizing a polar night phenomenon.]

Chen Yu looked at the two stars on the holographic screen, one larger and one smaller.

There was also the orbital position of the planet he was currently on.

Indeed, tonight, the planet would enter a gravitational balance point between the two stars. Originally, this planet had no rotation.

The alternation of day and night was entirely achieved by the special operation mode of this star system.

“Then how long will this polar night last?”

[Captain, this polar night phenomenon will last 23.548 days, and it will occur once every 3 times this period.]

“Without sunlight, how do these plants absorb energy?”

[Captain, according to my research on these plant cells, they can stop absorbing and enter a dormant state when there is no sunlight. At this time, the microscopic virus in these plants will rapidly condense, and perhaps we can find a way to deal with these viruses during this polar night!]

Chen Yu nodded, he also had this guess!

“I always feel that this planet is very strange. Perhaps, during this polar night, we will see what we want to see!”

Chen Yu looked out at the sky through the glass protective cover.

“I’m really looking forward to it!”