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Chapter 378 Cosmic Mendel

The Oceanus Maria simulates Earth's atmosphere, with an oxygen content of approximately 21% and a nitrogen content of approximately 78%.

In the early days of manned spaceflight, the United States used pure oxygen in the depressurized chamber. However, the major tragedy of Apollo 1 in 1967 changed the history of human spaceflight, and the pure oxygen environment in spaceflight was modified to simulate the Earth's surface atmosphere.

“There are no tau star worms in the lab air,” Ryan told Ding Yi after completing the inspection.

"Do you feel anything is strange?" Ding Yi asked Ryan.

“It is a bit strange,” Ryan said.

"Let me take another sample and check..."

Star-devouring bodies don't operate on planetary surfaces; they typically reside in the upper atmosphere of planets, where they receive significant stellar radiation. The Tau starworms that prey on star-devourers also operate in the same region. Ryan's hypothesis is that the leaked Tau starworms inside the spaceship also operate in the uppermost layer of the spaceship's atmosphere. Since the spaceship is currently in centrifuge mode, the gas inside is not uniformly distributed.

However, Ryan still couldn't find the tau star worms during another check, which puzzled him greatly.

"What's the problem?" Ryan pondered.

"Perhaps the escaped τ-star worms have died," Ding Yi said.

“Ryan, why don’t you try having some of the Tau Starbugs try it out using Earth’s atmosphere?” Ding Yi suggested.

"it is good."

Ryan first set up the gas ratio in the new environment, based on the air that humans breathe on Earth's surface, and then placed the tau star worms cultivated in the laboratory into the new environment, where Ryan observed them under a microscope.

"...The τ-star worms died in Earth's atmosphere." Ryan told Ding Yi his findings while observing.

"What atmospheric gas killed the τ-Sipuncula? Oxygen?"

Ryan began a new round of experiments.

Initially, oxygen and nitrogen, which make up the two largest proportions of Earth's atmosphere, were used to test which gas the tau star worms could not adapt to.

Surprisingly, the gas that killed the tau star worm was nitrogen, not oxygen.

Ryan realized he was in trouble.

If the problem of tau star worms' inability to adapt to nitrogen cannot be solved, the problem of astrophagosome infection will remain a long way off.

"No way? It can't even withstand 3% nitrogen?"

Ryan tested them little by little, and a great many tau star worms died. The experiment was suspended for a period of time, and it only resumed after more tau star worms were bred.

Ryan's final test showed that the nitrogen content that the tau star worm could withstand was 0.01%.

Ryan was scratching his head so hard he almost broke it. He had just gained hope, but that hope was quickly extinguished into a tiny spark.

"Dr. Ding Yi, which direction should I choose? Should I choose to unravel the secret of the tau star worm's predation on the star-phage, or should I cultivate tau star worms adapted to a nitrogen-rich environment?"

“Both aspects are very difficult, but in my opinion, it is simpler to cultivate tau siphonophores that are adapted to a certain nitrogen environment,” Ding Yi replied.

Ryan thought about it and decided to follow Ding Yi's choice as his own.

It's always better to listen to the advice of a genius than to listen to the advice of someone as mediocre as yourself. In a 0.01 nitrogen environment, Ryan put in enough τ-star worms. When he increased the nitrogen content to 0.02, most of the τ-star worms died. The first step of the screening was completed. The remaining small number of τ-star worms were the chosen τ-star worms that were resistant to nitrogen.

Ryan has conducted nitrogen screening on all the tau star worms he has bred so far, and now he only needs tau star worms that are nitrogen resistant.

After screening for tau siphonophores resistant to 0.02% nitrogen, they underwent large-scale breeding to expand the population of these chosen tau siphonophores. Once the population expansion was complete, Ryan began screening again...

Time and again, Ryan spent a long time conducting hundreds of experiments, finally enabling the tau star worm to withstand 9% nitrogen.

Ryan originally wanted to end the fight when he was at 8% nitrogen resistance. This 8% was what Ryan had prepared for Loki, the Eridanus. However, Ding Yi once again suggested that he add another 1% as a redundancy.

The Eridanus are an intelligent species whose primary sense is hearing. They perceive the world by sensing sound waves. This time, their creation of a spaceship to fly out of the Eridanus 40 system marks the first time their entire civilization has ventured beyond their planet. Their racial abilities limit their understanding of the cosmos.

The Eridanians might have some errors in their exploration of the atmosphere of the third planet in their own star system, and giving them an extra 1% margin of error would give them more opportunities.

In response, Ryan simply shed tears, smiled, and pointed a finger at Ding Yi.

Back on Earth, Ryan spent a year or two researching and living on the Sweet Silence aircraft carrier in Yan Country. Yan Country soldiers were responsible for too many Earth rescue plans, and through their time together, Ryan also picked up some of the unique habits of the Yan people.

The idea of ​​"1% more" is a unique way of thinking among the Chinese.

"We can go and inform Shi Tianwu now."

With three people on the spaceship, it was a bit crowded, and Ryan's entire experiment was taking too long, so Shi Tianwu left the Wanfu Maria and went to Loki's spaceship.

Shi Tianwu was more interested in Loki, the Eridanus, and found great pleasure in living with and observing Loki's life.

When Shi Tianwu arrived on the Loki spaceship, he felt 29 times the atmospheric pressure and a warm temperature of 210 degrees Celsius, but he didn't breathe in any of the high concentration of ammonia on the Eridanus spaceship.

Ammonia is a gas with a strong, pungent odor that is highly irritating to humans. You can experience the intense irritation of ammonia by entering a rural dry toilet under the scorching summer sun.

Loki sang a song to welcome Shi Tianwu, and Shi Tianwu responded with a song in return.

The language system of the Eridanus people sounds like singing to human ears, producing a sound like whale songs. This was not difficult for Shi Tianwu. He skipped the process of learning the language of the Eridanus people and directly copied the language from Ding Yi's brain.

Loki is only the size of a Labrador Retriever on Earth, but weighs 180kg.

Shi Tianwu saw through Loki's identity and discovered that Loki's body was filled with mercury, his bones were made of organic synthetic metals, and his rock-like exoskeleton was also a shell mixed with heavy metals.

Loki invited Shi Tianwu to eat his food, which was synthetic meat rich in heavy metal toxins.

Shi Tianwu ate the synthesized meat and tasted it.

It tastes terrible; most people shouldn't try it.

Faced with Loki's innocence, kindness, and selfless dedication, Shi Tianwu quietly presented him with a small gift in recognition of his spirit.

With a single thought, Shi Tianwu added a radiation shield to Loki's spaceship.

The rock-like outer shell of the spaceship was reconstructed by Shi Tianwu into a layer of radiation-resistant material, capable of withstanding any cosmic radiation.

Loki had already added a layer of planet-devouring material inside his ship as a radiation shield, but when Ryan sends the Tau Star Worms over, there's a chance the Tau Star Worms might escape and devour the planet-devouring material Loki used to protect against cosmic radiation.

(End of this chapter)