His eyes first turned to the cold storage room where all his food was stored.

The door of the refrigerator room is now closed, and there is no cold air leakage.

And the refrigerator must be opened and closed manually by pressing a button on the wall.

A hamster is unlikely to be able to turn on a button, go in, steal food, run out, and then close the door.

So Chen Ming's eyes turned to the dark corners in the storage cabin.

But Chen Ming searched for nearly half an hour and couldn't find the hamster in a small room of only 25 square meters.

It's like you find a cockroach in the room, but when you turn around it disappears and you can't find it anymore.

Just when Chen Ming was about to give up, a slight grinding sound suddenly came from the quiet storage cabin.

Chen Ming immediately became alert and followed the source of the sound, looking towards an asteroid about the size of a human head that he had collected before landing on the planet.

Because the asteroid has a very angular appearance and almost forms a natural icosahedron, Chen Ming brought it back and stored it in the storage cabin.

And the little hamster is inside the asteroid right now.

It dug through the rocky outer layer of the asteroid, creating a hole leading to the interior.

When Chen Ming looked into the hole, he saw the little hamster curled up in a ball, soundly sleeping.

The grinding sound just now was made when it was sleeping soundly.

The corner of Chen Ming's mouth twitched, and taking advantage of the opportunity that he hadn't taken off his protective suit yet, he reached out and took it out.

Holding it by the scruff of the neck, I stuffed it into another basket as the hamster struggled desperately but in vain.

Then he took out the terminal and took a picture of it.

Soon the search results appeared on the terminal.

"FC-103 hamster, also known as stone hamster, big-toothed hamster, and Fanchao's pet rat."

"A product of Fanchao Laboratory, a specially bred pet hamster breed, with a gentle personality, active, strong physical fitness and survival ability, and the hardness of its teeth and front paws exceeds that of most common metals..."

"The cerebral cortex is complex, the IQ is high, and it is very easy to tame..."

"Eat little, survive for long periods of time with only a small amount of food and water..."

"It is necessary to regularly replenish trace iron elements, otherwise it may damage stone or metal products..."

Posted here are a few photos of the damage the little hamsters have done.

Chen Ming couldn't help but take a look at the basket and the ore dug up by it, and immediately had a clear understanding of the hardness of its teeth and claws.

However, these photos seem to have been taken in a laboratory-like setting.

Come to think of it, as a pet, it must live in the city.

What is most lacking in cities is iron, and it is very easy to supplement trace amounts of iron.

This strange behavior can only be discovered when it is specifically studied in the laboratory.

Chen Ming continued reading.

"…likes to eat plant sprouts, but the laboratory staff said when the pet study was published that it only eats plant sprouts because it thinks they are delicious, and it doesn't matter if it is not given."

"...Currently, due to the bad behavior of a certain association, this species is distributed on many planets, and there are different mutant varieties..."

All the information after that was unimportant. Chen Ming glanced at it casually and then turned off the terminal.

Then he shifted his gaze to the front.

"An artificially bred pet? Hmm... what should I do?"

Chen Ming fell into deep thought as he looked at the little hamster in the new cage, which was eager to move out of the iron cage.

Although it is only a bite, even just one bite can save lives at a critical moment.

Chen Ming went outside to pull out a young sprout of a crop in the field. When he turned around and came back, he saw the little hamster squatting there obediently.

But there were already several holes in the iron cage caused by it biting.

Chen Ming's mouth twitched again. He opened the lid and stuffed the tender sprout into its arms.

The little hamster's eyes seemed to be shining. It ate the tender sprouts clean in a few bites and continued to stare at Chen Ming.

"I'll give it to you tomorrow."

Chen Ming didn't know whether the little hamster understood what he said.

But it really didn't move, just squatted obediently in the cage.

Chen Ming nodded slightly.

If it can really stay in the cage obediently, then it's actually good for you to have a pet.

Then the next day.

Chen Ming discovered that the basket had been bitten again.

Chen Ming searched in the storage cabin for a long time, and finally found the sleeping hamster in the asteroid where it had dug a hole before.

Chen Ming didn't know whether to be angry or amused.

In short, Chen Ming immediately went outside the spacecraft to pull out a seedling, returned to the storage cabin, took out the hamster, and brought it to the broken cage.

He shook the fresh sprouts he had just pulled up in front of it, then pointed to the place where it had bitten the basket.

Finally, he stuffed the young sprout into his mouth.

Looking at the little hamster's eyes widened with disbelief, Chen Ming was very satisfied.

Then I spent some time welding a new cage for the hamster and stuffed it in.

Finally, he pulled out another young sprout and handed it to it.

Looking at the little hamster nibbling on the young sprouts contentedly, Chen Ming sighed slightly.

Let's wait and see, it would be best if it can be tamed this way.

But if it cannot be tamed, it is better to treat it as food to prevent it from destroying the spaceship one day.

However, when Chen Ming came back from outside that day, the little hamster was still staying quietly in the cage and did not continue to bite the cage.

Her wide, watery eyes stared at Chen Ming, as if she was waiting for something.

Chen Ming smiled, turned around, went outside the spaceship, pulled out a young sprout and handed it to it.

Looking at the little hamster's satisfied expression, Chen Ming is now certain that this little hamster can be kept as a pet.

Having a little animal around really adds some spice to Chen Ming's boring daily life.

I might have to fly in unmanned space for a long time in the near future, so it would be nice to have a living animal to accompany me.

And if the records on the terminal are correct, the little hamster needs very little food to survive every day, which is almost equivalent to a fraction of Chen Ming's daily needs multiplied by 0.1.

The material cost of raising a pet for Chen Ming is completely different from the spiritual satisfaction he gets.

And as I said before, this little guy has really reached the last moment and can serve as Chen Ming's backup food.

The little hamster seemed to sense something and suddenly shook its body. After looking around and finding nothing, it continued to concentrate on the food in its hand.

(End of this chapter)