Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 783 - 233: Zuo Jing’s Malice

Chen Ming, apart from letting the Insect Queen conduct prosthesis research earlier, also tasked her with studying a capability based on the Insect Race’s abilities.

Because he discovered that the Insect Race had a very strong resistance to toxins and the like.

To be precise, it’s not resistance, but a capability.

The Insect Race can secrete special substances at an incredible speed after ingesting toxins which can eliminate or neutralize the poisonous materials.

For the Insect Race, these special substances are antidotes, but not necessarily for humans.

Hence, Chen Ming asked the Insect Queen to find a way, when secreting these special substances, to remove the harmful parts to humans while retaining the original function.

Chen Ming himself doesn’t have toxin resistance; if someone were to poison him, he might rely on the Insect Queen’s abilities to be saved one day.

And indeed, the Insect Queen managed to make this technology successful.

However, this technology was just developed at the same time the prosthesis technology was fully matured by the Insect Queen.

With the prosthesis, the chances of Chen Ming being poisoned greatly diminished.

Thus, Chen Ming initially thought it unlikely that he would need to use this technology.

Yet he didn’t expect he might use it now.

Applying it to this pilot, who overdosed on stimulants.

However, if he wants to use this technology now, there’s a problem: the existence of the Insect Race might be exposed.

At most, he can only let the Insect Queen attempt to decompose these special substances after detoxifying the pilot, but he can’t guarantee a hundred percent success in eliminating all residues.

These unique substances, if someone wants to analyze their components, are all too easy.

And the biotechnological research related to the Thorn Insect Race and the Insect Race is Chen Ming’s trump card; exposing his trump card is not ideal.

But if Chen Ming doesn’t use this technology now, he doesn’t have any other medication at his disposal, and the pilot will surely die.

Many clues will directly break off here.

Seeing the pilot’s breathing getting weaker, Chen Ming had no time for more contemplation.

The shell bracelet on his wrist suddenly came alive, a tiny insect egg instantly hatched on the shell, forming a small part of the Insect Queen’s body.

The body of the Insect Queen continued to differentiate, and a few flexible tentacles seemed to grow from Chen Ming’s wrist, waving around.

A portion of the Insect Queen’s consciousness quickly transmitted to these tentacles, understanding Chen Ming’s thoughts.

One of the tentacle ends immediately grabbed a syringe on the ground, decomposed the pink liquid entirely, and refilled the syringe with a light green liquid.

The tentacle acted swiftly, plunging the syringe into the pilot’s neck artery, causing Chen Ming’s neck to shiver.

The light green liquid was injected into the pilot’s body.

Within just a dozen seconds, the pilot suddenly began coughing violently, spitting out a large amount of slightly pink blood.

At the instant Chen Ming worried the pilot might cough to death and wondered if the syringe would get broken.

The Insect Queen’s tentacle on his wrist suddenly pulled out the syringe.

Fortunately, there was no blood spraying from the pilot’s neck, and the coughing gradually ceased, even the pilot’s breathing steadied.

Then the syringe was suddenly controlled by a tentacle, stabbed into another tentacle.

The Insect Queen extracted a part of its tissue, inserted it into the syringe, mixed with some even paler light green liquid, and stabbed it back into the pilot’s neck.

The Insect Queen was helping the pilot expel the stimulants earlier; this time, she was cleansing the remaining special substances inside the pilot’s body as per Chen Ming’s request.

Seeing this scene, Chen Ming instinctively relaxed a bit.

Though the Insect Queen hasn’t quite learned language expression skills, she is indeed technically proficient with these Insect Race-related abilities.

Probably can clean up the traces she left behind.

Plus, during the period the Insect Queen studied prosthetics, she gained a thorough understanding of the human body.

The pilot’s life should be considered saved.

Chen Ming casually bound the unconscious pilot with chains and handcuffs made from metallic liquid.

Then retracted all the tentacles on his wrist back into the shell bracelet.

Chen Ming slightly flexed his wrist.

He stood up, looking towards the door outside the cockpit.

Next, it’s about checking what the other people on the spaceship are doing.

On a spaceship for ten people, there’s only one in the cockpit; the others surely wouldn’t have done nothing, right?

Moreover, this pilot couldn’t always stay in the cockpit; there must be traces elsewhere on the spaceship.

But Chen Ming first reopened the spaceship’s panel, letting the three-dimensional imaging appear before him.

Just as Chen Ming was about to start investigating the spaceship from the panel, he suddenly heard the sound of a door being forced open from outside.

Someone was attempting to open the cockpit’s door.

Chen Ming immediately went to the cockpit door, unlocked it, and opened it.

At this time outside the cockpit, four or five people were each holding different tools, looking as if they were ready to force their way in.

As they saw the cockpit door suddenly open, and a figure in power armor appeared, they all took a few steps back in shock.

"What’s happening? You... you are..."

The person at the forefront instinctively raised the electric saw-like tool in their hand, nervously pointing at Chen Ming, stammering out half a sentence.