Very good, the radiation monitoring hasn't alarmed; the semi-finished products roughly processed at Yang Bingzhong's factory no longer have lethal radiation.

Only then did the two take off their protective suits and move in closer for a careful inspection.

The minerals in the box were emerald green powder, with a faint fluorescence pulsing like a heartbeat.

To force a comparison, this stuff looked like countless detached firefly tails.

Ren Zhong scooped out a spoonful and placed it on the nearby assembly line. The quantifying equipment began to push the powder bit by bit forward into an entire assembly line.

Ren Zhong explained to Ju Qingmeng, "This is the physical deactivation processing flow, but it can't completely kill the alien mineral life. We are just the initial stage here, and the next step in the process is at Sun Miao's biological laboratory."

"He needs to use different Ruined Beast microorganisms, in sequence, to absorb the alien mineral. Then, the alien mineral life will take over and parasitize the Ruined Beast microorganisms, metallizing them and ultimately becoming the evolutionary metal. Our process is crucial, but Sun Miao's work isn't easy either. He not only has to cultivate the Ruined Beast microorganisms but also configure various different nutrient bases."

Ju Qingmeng paused, "The physical deactivation process seems simple enough, but how do you know the subsequent steps?"

Ren Zhong grinned, "Sun Miao used to be responsible for developing the new Star Origin Injection Liquid production process at Mengdu Group, and he reviewed the post-handling process of the alien mineral. This was for Mengdu Group to give him as a reference, and it ended up benefiting me."

It was Sun Miao who filled in the process Ren Zhong had only roughly planned out.

Without Sun Miao, Ren Zhong might have eventually figured it out with the "dumb" method of constant trial and error and improvement used in the continent-level laboratory at Chenhui Mine.

But this would require him to repeatedly die hundreds or thousands of times within a month, turning that month into decades, using exhaustive methods to derive sufficiently accurate parameters.

But now, a lot of effort was saved.

Ju Qingmeng nodded, "Sun Miao is indeed impressive."

"You're not bad either."

"How can I compare to him?"

"You're just lacking an opportunity. Haven't you noticed? No matter how stringent the equipment demands I pose, no matter how complex and varied my designs are, you've never failed even once. You're truly outstanding."

Ju Qingmeng blushed, "You're too kind!"

The processing on that side had already begun, and Ren Zhong closely monitored the entire process, fine-tuning instrument parameters and perfecting the assembly line to ensure success rates.

After about five or six hours, the entire process was completed.

The emerald green powder turned into a dark green non-Newtonian gelatinous liquid.

Ren Zhong took a deep breath and started deploying the analytical instruments.

After half an hour, all 122 parameters were analyzed. Ren Zhong compared them with the initial parameters Sun Miao provided for the subsequent process and clapped his hand fiercely, exclaiming with joy, "It's done! Hahahahaha! Success on the first try!"

Even as Ren Zhong had become less expressive over time, he couldn't contain his excitement.

This feeling exactly matched when he was an undergraduate, first meeting his advisor's experimental requirements in the school laboratory, producing a beautiful assay result data curve that could cure obsessive-compulsive disorder.

It was indeed a surprise.

He only intuitively believed this method could work without much issue.

But he was also prepared to accept failure and summarize and improve again.

Yet he did not expect success on the first attempt.

Ju Qingmeng was equally overjoyed, "The alien mineral succeeded, and the Demon Infant Metal side can be completed five days before the general survey. If I push hard here, maybe you can actually wear the bionic equipment to face the Cold-blooded Butcher! You can win! Starfire Town is saved!"

She also thought to herself, her own life was saved!

A ray of hopeful dawn shattered the gloom, descending from the sky and illuminating her heart.

Overcome with emotion, she leaped up and hugged Ren Zhong tightly from the side.

Ren Zhong was caught off guard and received a fierce kiss on the cheek.

Ren Zhong: "Uh..."

Ju Qingmeng, realizing something was off, blushed again and retreated to the side, changing the subject, "So shall we send the sample to Sun Miao through the tunnel now?"

Ren Zhong shook his head: "The quantity is still too small. We need to accumulate more, and Sun Miao is still making preparations, so there's no rush. Starting today, Wen Lei will need to be stationed here."

Generally, both Ren Zhong and Ju Qingmeng had other matters to attend to.

Ren Zhong had already completed all the automated processing flows, and the tasks of adding samples, monitoring parameters, and maintaining the assembly line were not complicated, so Wen Lei could handle them.

Ju Qingmeng nodded again, "Alright, that's good too."

As she spoke, she kept sneaking glances at Ren Zhong, noticing no signs of displeasure on his face, finally feeling a bit relieved.

Her heart was still beating away secretly.

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