"Academician Mao..."
Lu Yongchang stared blankly at the screen inside the transparent aluminum curtain wall, muttering to himself, "You've already tamed this giant tree?"
"Cough cough cough..."
Upon hearing this, Mao Zhengzhi couldn't catch his breath and coughed violently: "Professor, how could you have thought of this?"
"Huh?" Lü Yongchang turned his head, looking puzzled. "Otherwise what?"
"Have you forgotten what happened when the exploration team landed on the Lost Star?"
Mao Zhengzhi waved his hand, both amused and exasperated: "Professor, times have changed."
"Although it has only been five years, we have sent many probes to the lost planet to carry out various scientific research missions during these five years."
"The Lost Star as it is now may be slightly different from what you imagine..."
Lü Yongchang: "???"
Before he could speak, Mao Zhengzhi had already opened a holographic image.
The projection shows the perspective of a detector.
With the video sped up, it quickly entered the atmosphere of the Lost Star and hovered high in the sky, seemingly waiting for something.
As time went on, the forest directly below the detector gradually adjusted the orientation of its leaves and canopies.
Eventually, an opening appeared in the lush forest that led directly to the ground.
The opening isn't large, but it's big enough for the detector to pass through.
"This..." Lu Yongchang's pupils dilated slightly as he stared at the projected image in shock. "What has happened in the past five years?!"
"Professor, calm down and keep watching," Mao Zhengzhi chuckled and whispered a reminder.
It is easy to see from the changes in the projected image that the probe is slowly descending.
It passed smoothly through the small opening formed by leaves and canopy, and fell towards the ground.
A circular area of not-so-large size appeared on the ground.
It's like a helipad in the Earth era.
Around this circular "helipad," thick tree roots intertwine to form a "fence" several meters high.
To Lü Yongchang's surprise, the tree roots did not attack the landing probe; in fact, they retreated slightly to avoid the high-temperature particle streams emitted from the engine.
Under Lü Yongchang's watchful eye, the probe successfully landed on the "landing pad".
The hatch slowly opened, and a series of scientific research robots, each holding a small gamma ray gun, filed out in neat formation.
They all raised their hands in unison, aiming their small gamma ray guns at the surrounding tree root fence.
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Under the irradiation of gamma rays, these tree roots "pleasantly" twisted their bodies.
Looking at the scene before him, Lü Yongchang had a look of utter disbelief.
Who knows how he could derive pleasure from those thick tree roots!
He glanced at Mao Zhengzhi, and seeing that he had no intention of explaining, he had no choice but to patiently continue watching.
Time passed second by second.
As the research robot shut down its gamma ray gun, the tree roots that made up the fence slowly dispersed and retreated back underground.
Before retreating underground, they even proactively cut off a small section of tree root and threw it in front of the research robot!
This scene completely shocked Lü Yongchang.
He looked at Mao Zhengzhi beside him with a look of horror, his lips moving slightly as if he wanted to ask how he did it.
Mao Zhengzhi shrugged and remained silent.
The holographic projection continued playing.
The moment the tree roots began to spread, the radiation imaging detector emitted a piercing alarm.
Like sharks that have smelled blood, the giant worms that were left behind rushed toward the gamma-ray source from all directions.
Lu Yongchang's expression changed slightly.
These lost giant insects, lacking advanced intelligence, are not as easy to talk to as the giant trees!
Just as he was secretly worried, the image projected on the screen shocked him once again!
Several tree roots emerged from the ground and swung roughly in the air a few times.
The screams of the lost giant insect echoed through the air.
Through the radiation imaging detector, Lü Yongchang could clearly see that the giant insects that had been left behind and were approaching the scientific research robot were easily knocked away by the swinging of the tree roots.
The remaining giant insects retreated under the threat of the giant tree, making room for the research robot.
...
The video has ended.
Lu Yongchang took a deep breath, trying his best to remain calm: "What exactly happened?"
"You've completed your first communication with the giant tree on the Lost Star?"
“No.” Mao Zhengzhi shrugged. “All the actions were done spontaneously by the giant tree.”
"All we've done is send out probes and scientific robots."
"What's the deal with that small gamma ray gun?" Lü Yongchang asked in a deep voice.
“We discovered that both the giant trees and the giant insects showed great interest in the gamma rays released by the antimatter engine, so…” Mao Zhengzhi pointed in the direction of the biological laboratory, “you can think of the gamma ray gun as a feeding machine.”
"Like feeding kittens and puppies?"
Lu Yongchang said with an incredulous look, "You managed to communicate with the giant tree on the Lost Star using only these?"
Upon hearing this, Mao Zhengzhi blushed.
He coughed awkwardly twice, then chuckled sheepishly and said, "Of course, it's not just that..."
"what else?"
"Um... two thousand high-yield hydrogen bombs, carried by two thousand shipborne drones," Mao Zhengzhi said weakly, "waiting atop that giant tree that's ten thousand meters tall."
Lü Yongchang: "..."
He took a deep breath and gently rubbed his temples.
There's a lot of information here; he needs to process it properly.
"So, you tamed this giant tree by using both sweet words and a heavy hand?"
"It's not exactly domestication..." Mao Zhengzhi's voice was clearly lacking in confidence. "I think it's more of a cooperative relationship."
Lü Yongchang: "..."
Is this how your business relationship works?!
"Okay, okay, let's treat it as a partnership."
Lu Yongchang felt a throbbing pain in his head. He never expected that after he and a group of academicians had been "in seclusion" for five years to study black hole data, the biological laboratory would bring him such a big "surprise"!
"What were we just talking about..."
"Yes, that's right!"
Lu Yongchang suddenly turned around and looked in the direction of the transparent aluminum curtain wall: "Then what's the deal with this giant tree?"
"Why did it also master these... cough, these skills?"
"You tamed it like this too?"
"No!" Meng Lu denied first.
Mao Zhengzhi nodded repeatedly and added, "Professor, rest assured, we absolutely did not perform any domestication-like actions on this giant tree."
"That……"
Looking at the peacefully coexisting tree roots and scientific research robots, Lü Yongchang's eyes widened suddenly, and a startling guess slowly emerged from the bottom of his heart.
"There's some kind of connection between it and the giant tree of the Lost Star?!"
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