Seeing Qu Jianlei's surprised expression, Wu Zhen couldn't care less.
"Um, I'm asking you about the patent, not because I want to buy it. Under the current conditions, thinking about these things is completely redundant!"
"I just want to ask you if you can help me get some non-toxic meat. There is really no shortage of locust corpses in the shelter..."
At this point, his voice deepened, "There are more than three to five hundred people here who want to eat their meat..."
"Many of the survivors here have witnessed their families being devoured by them, so I'd like to trouble you..."
Wu Zhen stood up and bowed deeply, "The price is easy to talk about, and it can also boost morale."
Qu Jianlei spread his hands, "This kind of alien race... even if it is not poisonous, it may cause problems if eaten, but it cannot be detected yet."
"I know this very well," Wu Zhen nodded slightly, "If I hadn't killed my mentor, I should have graduated in gene editing."
"This..." Qu Jianlei touched his forehead and didn't know what to say.
Finally he sighed, "That's just right. I don't have to find someone to do the experiment."
But then, his brows raised, "But if I process the locust meat at a high price, what can I get?"
"Let's go back to the same code, and there will be no debts!"
"Your Majesty, just mention it," Wu Zhen said without hesitation, "As long as you dare to mention it, I dare to agree!"
After a pause, he smiled helplessly, "I know you will doubt it, but that's what I really think."
"Well, to show my sincerity, let me first briefly introduce the characteristics of the alien races we encountered."
Qu Jianlei already knew a lot of what Wu Zhen told him, but he didn't know much more.
For example, those mysterious spores are essentially the seeds of trees, but these seeds can only grow on the mother body.
After reaching a suitable place for breeding, the spores quickly take root and germinate on the mother body, and small gray seedlings appear.
In the seedling stage, migratory locusts will not eat the seedlings - this is the rule of the symbiotic system.
As for other information, the Alliance has only observed it for a short period of time and has not drawn any further conclusions.
For example, how these seedlings leave the mother body - this requires long-term observation.
But no matter what, it is no exaggeration to say that Xiaomiao is a male tadpole.
These spores are not harmful to the human body, but if they are inhaled too much, they will have negative reactions, such as being attacked by dark elements.
Essentially, the alliance believes that the alien race that appears this time is biased towards dark attributes.
Just like the black lines spitting out from trees, the Alliance has done research and believes that they are spatial fluctuations of dark side attributes.
This is not a hasty judgment. The alliance has been focusing on this issue for a long time and has carefully argued it.
As for space fluctuations... they actually have dark side attributes? This is really normal. Everything has yin and yang.
Since there can be matter and antimatter, why can't there be space fluctuations with different properties?
Moreover, these experts speculated that the power of these black lines would have been greater, but it was a pity that they came to this world.
The dark attribute of our world is not active, resulting in a great reduction in power, but the black line itself is actually very scary.
Qu Jianlei felt that he had already made a lot of money by harvesting so much information from this rush.
The only secret about spores and black threads is that you can’t buy them with any money.
He didn't know how much the alliance had paid to analyze these things.
But he can be sure that if he wants to figure this out, it will definitely cost more than just manpower and material resources.
However, the surprises don't stop there. Wu Zhen said that he also heard a rumor.
Whenever aliens completely occupy a planet, a mother tree with a diameter of thousands of meters will appear on the planet.
And this mother tree will become the tree king, unified management of other trees, no tree can resist, similar to rank suppression.
So far, the thickest tree Qu Jianlei has ever seen is only about 700 meters in diameter.
The main gun of a battalion-level ship requires at least dozens of shots to explode.
And these trees with a diameter of more than a kilometer are likely to have undergone changes in their life forms.
At least Qu Jianlei felt a little shuddered when he heard it. The vast sea of trees was already terrifying. Once there was an organization...
But at the critical moment, the soul-nurturing wooden bracelet on his hand snorted, "It's just a Nascent Soul tree demon, who are you trying to scare?"
Yuan Ying is not bad, right? Qu Jianlei secretly murmured in his heart.
Moreover, Yuanying may not be scary, but Yuanying leading an army with a similar level of cultivation is very scary.
Qu Jianlei is not sure how terrifying the rank suppression is, but at least it is stronger than "strict military discipline", right?
However, he did not answer Yi He, but frowned and asked, "How many mother trees like this exist in the alliance?"
"Haha," Wu Zhen smiled mysteriously, "How many trees? The alliance is really going to be in chaos."
Then his face straightened, "I don't know exactly how many there are, but... that's just what I heard."
"Okay, I understand," Qu Jianlei nodded calmly, "Last question, where is Higgins?"
You invited me in, and now you want to show off? I'm sorry, I won't talk about it anymore!
He must admit that he has received a lot of information tonight, far exceeding his initial expectations.
But the other party's attitude really made him very dissatisfied.
Do you understand that your military is already committing a crime by holding back so much information and not releasing it to the public?
Now you still rely on the source of information to block me? Sorry, I really don’t accept this method.
What's on the pole is never a transaction. If you get stuck, I'll go find Higgins to find out if it's okay?
"Take out the locust carcasses. After taking care of them, we are leaving!"
Wu Zhen was a little stunned when he heard this, are you really going to leave like this?
In good conscience, he is not a pure soldier, at least his thoughts are not that simple. The local army... is normal.
But he is not essentially a bad person. He is acting like this now just because he has more demands.
But when he wanted to explain at this moment, seeing the strong team of eight people on the other side, he swallowed the words silently.
It's best not to do things that add fuel to the fire.
Next, someone brought in the bodies of five locusts, which were in tatters and very incomplete.
This person probably felt a little embarrassed, so he could only explain, "Sir, this...all the big ones are here."
Qu Jianlei nodded expressionlessly, but he was quite speechless in his heart. I was just doing an experiment. Do you want to have a full meal?
You may not feel comfortable eating this food!
However, he also knew that there were too many things worth studying in the locust, and every experimental subject was worth cherishing.
All I have to do is test the food, and I think I made the right choice!
Seriously, they have provided him with people who can take risks to eat. This... in the empire, only death row prisoners can be used for experiments.
Therefore, people must know how to be content.
The initial solution given by Xiaohu was sky-high in cost, but one good thing was that the solution was confirmed.
To put it bluntly, he carries all those expensive materials with him!
So he set up a small experimental room with shielding function and processed it himself.
Although Wu Zhen has left, this is his territory, and it is still very easy to know something.
In fact, without fear of saying something ugly, if he goes all out and deploys all his troops, it will not be difficult to defeat these eight people.
With 40,000 people working for eight people, is there anything that can't be done? It's just how high the cost will be.
However, those who do this are basically just brainless villains in novels. In real life, no one would do this.
Seeing the professional-grade small experimental room, Wu Zhen, as a semi-expert, really felt the professionalism of the other party.
Ordinarily, how would you think of buying this thing?
So he sauntered over with his hands behind his back and waited outside the room.
There were seven other people from the other team outside the room, all looking at him intentionally or unintentionally.
Wu Zhen believed that if he wanted to force his way in at this moment, he might not even have enough three lives.
Just look at those seven pairs of cold eyes, and you will definitely take action without mercy at any time.
In particular, the metallic female is supreme and has the ability to argue, and should be the second person in this team.
The woman looked at him as if she were looking at a ball of air, as if he didn't exist at all.
The more this happened, the more he had to calm down, smiled at the other party and nodded, "Are you going to save Higgins?"
Jing Yuexin didn't bother to pay attention to him at all, as if she didn't hear him, and her eyes didn't change at all.
The other six people didn't react at all, and the air was filled with an aura of embarrassment.
However, Wu Zhen didn't feel embarrassed. He didn't know how long he could live, so why did he care?
After pondering for a while, he spoke to himself again, "Maybe you don't believe it, but in fact I was also deceived."
He raised his hand and pointed outward, "I didn't even know that the migratory locusts were so difficult to deal with...otherwise they wouldn't have been able to contain the aliens for so long."
"I highly suspect that the Alliance has also figured out a way to make locust meat non-toxic...after all, you have all researched it."
He did not think that a research team composed of awakened people could surpass the research level of the alliance, nor did he think it was presumptuous.
"But they didn't tell me that locust meat can be processed to be non-toxic. I don't even know what to call this alien race."
Hearing this, Jing Yuexin finally spoke up, "Do you have a grudge against Higgins?"
"The relationship is indeed not very harmonious," Wu Zhen nodded calmly, "I don't want you to rescue him."
"Hmph," Bentley couldn't help but snort when he heard this, "With internal fighting like this, you still have to fight with aliens?"
A trace of resentment flashed across Wu Zhen's eyes, "Without his insistence, the people of Baozhi would have been able to evacuate at least ten days in advance."
"What's the reason for his persistence? It's just to make his resume look better, but he's also a member of the local army!"
“My mind was only focused on getting promoted and getting rich, and I ignored my parents and fellow villagers. I even misjudged the seriousness of the situation.”