In the basement of the Biological Laboratory, Ren Zhong and Sun Miao stood side by side right in front of the bionic incubator, their faces filled with worry and extreme anxiety.

The latter stage of the Alien Ore processing production line was still under construction.

A series of preparations were also gradually unfolding.

A large number of Scavengers under the town-level resource recovery companies of Starfire Town and Chromium Carbon Town were out and about, collecting more Ruined Beasts.

Some of the designated Ruined Beast carcasses would be quietly sent here, from which Sun Miao would extract microorganisms with Ruined Beast properties.

These microorganisms were not true Ruined Beasts.

Their size was too small, and they lacked any Crystal Chip or Crystal Core structures within.

However, intriguingly, the cellular matrix and genetic transcription methods of these microorganisms were completely different from carbon-based life, as if their bodies were inherently complete micro-sized Crystal Chips, exhibiting distinct Ruined Beast characteristics, thus eventually classified by Biologists as Ruined Beast microorganisms.

Ruined Beast microorganisms were commonly found on the bodies of Ruined Beasts.

Sun Miao did not require all kinds of microorganisms but needed several subdivided types under a few major categories to be selectively cultivated to obtain the desired strains.

Sun Miao had just completed the collection of all the original strains and only then began the cultivation.

According to the iteration speed of microorganisms, it would take about a week to obtain all the target strains, to officially start the subsequent processes.

What caused the two people distress now was something else.

The cancerous embryo had an issue.

This was something unexpected for Ren Zhong.

On the previous timeline, on the 89th day, when he saw those three charred marks beside the Airship wreckage, the embryo was roughly fist-sized, which converted to a human pregnancy cycle, would be about 16 weeks.

Today is the 78th day, 11 days away from the 89th day.

Converting the time, in the previous timeline, no matter how fast Sun Miao acted, the size of the cancer embryo today would be almost the same as now, yet it grew to fist-size in just 11 days.

Clearly, the cancer embryo cannot be judged by human common sense.

Moreover, Ren Zhong had not been worried about Sun Miao's cultivation failing; after all, last time it had grown so large.

But now there was a problem instead.

"Yesterday, the embryo's division was doing very well, very active. But now its nutrient absorption efficiency, and division speed have suddenly dropped by nearly ten times, and it's getting slower and slower."

Ren Zhong: "Does this show signs of failing?"

Sun Miao nodded heavily, "Yes, it's very possible."

"Is it that my equipment isn't as good as the Mengdu Group's?"

Sun Miao shook his head, "Not really, you provided me with the best equipment available among civilian levels. Even at Mengdu Group, I could only use some idle or outdated equipment secretly, which isn't much better than yours."

Ren Zhong frowned, "Have you found the reason? There has to be a reason, right?"

Although Ren Zhong held a Ph.D. in biology, even Sun Miao was at a loss now; he wouldn't dare claim to be stronger than Sun Miao.

After all, Source Star had the additional Ruined Beast ecosystem, and the atoms composing the human body had underlying changes.

Sun Miao shook his head, "If I knew the reason, I would know the solution and wouldn't be so troubled now."

Ren Zhong hummed in acknowledgment, but his mind had already begun synthesizing information, analyzing carefully.

After a long time, Ren Zhong asked again, "Could the capsule bionic incubator have harmed the embryo?"

Sun Miao continued to shake his head, "Impossible, I made comprehensive preparations; no anomalies were observed at initial extraction."

Ren Zhong rubbed his chin, "That's strange. Last time…"

"What?"

"Nothing."

Ren Zhong knew that the embryo grew successfully last time.

Back then, Sun Miao hadn't left Mengdu Group, so it was impossible to have placed it in the capsule bionic incubator for no reason.

Thus, Ren Zhong had suspected the capsule incubator issue earlier, but Sun Miao spoke with such certainty that he could only continue reasoning in other directions.

Ren Zhong needed to extract information from the old timeline to find Sun Miao's previous success reason.

Unfortunately, they didn't meet last time, leaving Ren Zhong unaware of Sun Miao's specific process in cultivating the cancerous embryo; now he could only backtrack.

This was very difficult, but Ren Zhong did not intend to give up. After all, there was previous true success, which gave him immense confidence.

After pondering deeply for a long time, Ren Zhong suddenly had a brainwave and suddenly asked, "Brother Sun, let me ask you a question."

"What?"

"If, just if, you were still at Mengdu Group's research headquarters, and you encountered this situation. After trying everything, from switching bionic incubators to other ideas, and nothing worked, how would you plan to treat a dead horse as if it were alive and take one more shot?"

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