[Time: 23:47]

[Environment: Low lighting, quiet]

[Stimuli: High concentration of male pheromones at close range (suspected?), highly aggressive visual contact, and verbally leading questions]

[Physiological Response Record:]

Heart rate: 142 bpm (resting baseline: 68±3) ↑↑↑ Abnormal!

[Respiratory rate: 28 breaths/min (resting baseline: 14±2) ↑↑↑ Abnormal!]

[Body surface temperature: An abnormal increase of 1.8℃ (↑) in the infrared sensor reading of the cheekbone area!]

[Skin conductance response: Significantly enhanced (abnormal)!]

[Subjective feelings: chest tightness, burning sensation in the forehead and behind the ears, brief blockage in logical thinking...]

The pen tip paused heavily after the phrase "a brief blockage occurred in the logic module of thinking," leaving a deep ink dot.

Mingzhao stared at the line of text, his brows furrowing even more deeply.

This makes absolutely no sense!

This intense and chaotic state of physiological arousal was something she had never experienced in her more than twenty years of interstellar career.

Even during the Alliance's most rigorous extreme environment simulation training, and even in the life-or-death moment of facing space pirate fire, her heart rate never got out of control to this extent!

Is it an unknown physiological disorder caused by a genetic defect in this 1970s Earthling body? Or...?

A neurovirus targeting the high-functioning brain, not recorded in her database? Or perhaps Howard…

Does he carry some unknown special substance that can affect the bioelectric field of others?

Countless cold, data- and logic-based possibilities flashed through her mind, attempting to provide a reasonable and scientific explanation for this out-of-control "malfunction".

Every explanation points to danger and the unknown.