The Way to Make Money

The little monster sneaked into the disposal room and stole a bunch of abnormal creature bones from the plaster. The entire base was under surveillance, and the disposal room was also equipped with cameras.

Therefore, Zite was very worried that this guy would be exposed.

Although the little monster escaped through the water pipe and emerged from the mountain wall, following this route, it shouldn't be possible for it to suspect me staying in the guest room. However, given the oasis's obsession with anomalous creatures, it would never overlook any clue.

There had never been a case of stolen items before. Such a strange incident had occurred as soon as he and Ding Xiang entered the base. By process of elimination alone, the two of them were highly suspicious.

Just because you evaded detection in the city defense hall doesn't mean there aren't more advanced high-tech instruments in the base.

The next day, as soon as Qi Te got up, he turned up his hearing to the maximum to make sure there were no large numbers of Oasis members outside the door before he started washing up.

Gather in the lobby, board the hovercar, and head to Laboratory 9.

By noon, the worst-case scenario that Zite had imagined had not occurred.

"Didn't the Oasis monitoring center detect it?"

Or perhaps, they didn't even manage to capture it on camera?

Zite's superhuman vision allows him to capture objects moving at high speeds, but since it's based on memorized images, this ability is not effective.

The memories the little monster showed him were from a first-person perspective, showing only the route and the process of "stealing bones," without showing the little monster's appearance at the time.

Blue Shield Corporation placed its first base in the old city. Over the years, field teams, collection teams, and bounty hunters have come and gone countless times, but they have never discovered Sequence 0. This is because this peculiar creature has the ability to become invisible and isolate itself from all detection equipment.

Could it be that the little monster inherited this trait from its mother?

From the perspective of genetics, it makes sense.

But this was just Qi Te's speculation. He wouldn't dare conduct tests at the Oasis base; that would be tantamount to courting death.

After lunch, Qi Te took a one-hour nap, then went back to his room, went into the bathroom, and set up his phone.

After five attempts, I finally succeeded in summoning the little monster.

Qi Te was absolutely certain that this guy could sense his brainwaves, but whether he showed them or not depended entirely on his mood.

He removed the bones from the packaged pork chops and placed them on the sink. He turned on the camera, stepped out of the frame, and as he raised his hand, a black, tentacle-like substance sprang from his palm, then quickly retracted.

However, the bones on the sink remained untouched.

"Why aren't you eating?"

As if in response to his question, the back of the collar twitched slightly, and the little monster's head slowly emerged, opening its mouth and sticking out its tongue.

Even without the ability to perceive with his mind, Zite could clearly detect the word 'disdain' in those dark, shiny vertical pupils.

What's going on? Don't you love eating bones?

wrong.

Suddenly, a possibility occurred to Qi Te: the bones the little monster stole from the destruction room all came from abnormal creatures.

"So, you only eat the bones of those aberrant creatures from the borderlands?!"

The little monster turned its face away and ignored him, but Qi Te was basically certain that his guess was true.

"Fine, if you don't want to eat, then don't. Let's continue the test."

The tentacles popped out 11 times, but the recorded footage all appeared to be still.

Qi Te then transferred the video to his tablet and opened it with editing software. He watched it at 0.5x and 0.25x speeds, but did not find any dark shadow passing by.

Even after checking frame by frame, that lightning-fast scene was not seen.

The little monster is indeed very fast, but it's so close, surely it can't be missed by a high-definition camera.

Qi Te was puzzled and immediately sent a message to Qiao Yi to ask for advice.

Not long after, the "Hacker Queen" provided a rather professional answer.

What the human eye can see, photographic equipment may not be able to capture. This is because cameras record the intensity of light at different wavelengths using image sensors, and then process this information through algorithms to generate images and videos.

Even though there was a moving object, it wasn't captured on camera. Speed ​​was one factor, but more importantly, the uniformity of the object's color and the ambient lighting conditions exceeded the physical limitations of the sensor.

Simply put, the object's color is extremely similar to the environment, resulting in very low contrast, or it has extremely smooth, highly refractive properties.

Qi Te suddenly remembered that Liu Baichuan had mentioned in class that the Longjun Aerospace Department had discovered a substance on a planet—the Huiju Star Strong Fluid.

The substance, when stationary, can be clearly photographed. However, after being touched, it moves, which the astronauts can see with the naked eye, but the high-definition camera captures nothing.

Qi Te immediately started searching on his phone. The latest news showed that Long County officials had confirmed that the strong fluid on Hui Jupiter was suspected to have life.

Specific details have not yet been revealed, only that extraterrestrial life forms are completely different from Earth's organisms, enough to overturn human understanding.

Qi Te opened his left hand, revealing a ball of pitch-black, tar-like substance in his palm that rolled back and forth like a mischievous sprite, sometimes bursting into a splash, sometimes gathering into tiny tentacles.

A chilling thought surfaced in my mind.

Could Sequence 0 not be a surface-dwelling organism?

It incorporates the entire hospital building into its body, yet remains completely untouchable until it reveals its true form. It's not an invisibility or mimicry disguise; it's as if it doesn't exist at all.

Unlike the ferocious beasts of the borderlands, the little monster doesn't feed on flesh and blood. Eating bones is understandable; Earth has bone-eating monsters like the bearded vulture. But metal is just too much. This thing doesn't look like food for carbon-based life forms at all.

The little monster's physical characteristics are also beyond the norm; it can be as soft and silky as liquid, yet hard and sharp enough to split open the thick-skinned and fleshy kuniu.

And, it eats bones, and... no, it spits out diamonds.

Is this reasonable? Obviously not.

"You're not really an alien life form, are you?!"

After muttering a chilling thought to himself, Qi Te quickly suppressed this terrifying speculation.

Now that we've confirmed the little monster can eat bones and spit out drills, we absolutely cannot let this lucrative opportunity slip by.

Most importantly, once you leave the oasis base, it won't be so easy to get the bones of anomalous creatures.

We must seize this opportunity and make as much as possible.

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The entire oasis biological base, located between two mountain ranges, is divided into five zones. Each zone has nine laboratories and an additional disposal room.

Researchers in each district conduct routine checks on biological and bioactive samples in their respective laboratories after completing their daily work. Samples with activity levels below the survival threshold are screened out, sterilized, and then packaged.

Finally, the waste is transported by staff to the destruction room, where destruction begins at 7:30 p.m. every evening.

Each district is responsible for different projects. According to Lao Liu, District One is currently focused on gene cloning and optimization.

Cloning technology is already quite advanced in this era.

In times of disaster, even humans struggle to survive, let alone animals living in the wild.

Today, the wild is home to many unusual creatures, and most of the organisms in zoos, botanical gardens, and natural scenic areas have been preserved thanks to this technology. Of course, after years of development, most species no longer require artificial cloning.

Those eliminated in Zone 1 were mostly abnormal organisms that had undergone repeated experiments, from which large amounts of blood, cells, and tissues had been extracted, and even whose organs had been harvested. Also included were failed clones.

Chit's room was located at the farthest part of the guest rooms, far from Zone 3. The closest area was Zone 1, where the little monster stole the destruction room.

Although it wouldn't be captured on surveillance cameras, just to be on the safe side, Qi Te scheduled the operation for midnight. If the staff in the disposal room noticed anything amiss, it would be a huge problem.

After a barrage of threats and intimidation, the restless little monster was finally brought under control by Qi Te, and it wasn't until the dead of night that it began to hunt for food.

It still seeped out through the sewer pipes, but this time, under Qi Te's control, it didn't travel on the surface, but went directly underground.

The little monster lacked a sense of direction underground, while Zite had already figured out the route.

The destruction room was located in the most remote corner of Zone 1, with no distractions such as laboratories or training rooms along the way, so the infiltration was completed without any effort.

At midnight, all staff had left and all equipment had been shut down.

The destruction chamber was also a spherical building. The honeycomb solar panels were opaque, creating a pitch-black environment. Yet, the little monster, like a hunter that had smelled blood, accurately found its prey.

The paste had already partially solidified, but fortunately it wasn't completely dry yet. After the little monster's tentacles stirred around in the gel-like stuff, they rolled out a few pieces of bone.

All seventeen molds were looted.

Carrying its spoils, the tentacles nimbly made their way back to the bathtub.

The little monster happily tossed bone after bone into its mouth. There were no chewing sounds; it simply swallowed.

Although there were no cameras or listening devices in the guest room, Qi Te still cautiously kept the lights off. After all, he had night vision, so even in complete darkness, he could still see Er Yang clearly.

He stared wide-eyed, holding his breath, intently watching the little monster as it finished eating.

One second, two seconds... one minute, two minutes, three minutes...

After waiting patiently for nearly ten minutes, the little monster still did not react.

"What happened? Is the bone quality poor this time?"

"Still not eating enough?"

"Come on, come on, have two more pieces."

The little monster turned its face away and opened its mouth to vomit.

"Poof"

The red crystal fell into the toilet.

Holy crap!

Qi Te exclaimed in surprise and rushed forward.

The toilet senses an object falling and triggers the automatic flushing function, allowing the red diamond to be retrieved in time.