"professor."

Zero's electronic synthesized voice sounded: "The radiation intensity of all samples has been tested."

"The data has been sorted."

After the words fell, a holographic chart slowly appeared in front of Lu Yongchang and Mao Zhengzhi.

Looking at the data in the chart, the doubts on the faces of Lu Yongchang and Mao Zhengzhi gradually became more intense.

According to detection by scientific research robots, the radiation contained in those wide leaves is the weakest.

Bark comes next.

The trunk concentration is slightly higher.

This was all expected by Lu Yongchang and others, and they could even foresee that the radiation intensity at the roots of these giant trees might far exceed that of other areas.

But what they didn't expect was that the fungus growing at the bottom of the giant tree was extremely radioactive!

Its strength is hundreds of times that of the leaf area and dozens of times that of the trunk area!

"This is strange..."

Mao Zhengzhi frowned and murmured to himself: "With the obstruction of the tree canopy, these fungi should not be exposed to radiation."

"Even if they can absorb the radiation in the trunk, their radiation intensity cannot exceed the trunk area..."

Lu Yongchang didn't speak, he just stretched out his hand to hold his chin and stared at the fungus with a huge cap and extremely bright colors in the holographic image.

After thinking for a long time, he spoke.

"Zero, take samples and compare giant trees and fungi at the cellular level."

Mao Zhengzhi turned around and looked at Lu Yongchang in surprise.

"professor?"

"What are you..."

Lu Yongchang chuckled: "I just have a guess."

"In the pictures returned by the detector at that time, these fungi were growing in the root area of ​​the tree trunk."

"There is no trace of fungal growth in the surface soil."

"What did you think of?"

Mao Zhengzhi's eyes widened a bit, and he said with an incredulous look: "Are you doubting that these fungi... no, these things that are similar to fungi are part of the giant tree?"

He looked at the radiation detection data and murmured to himself: "So... these things may be the organs of the giant tree that store nutrients?"

"It's strange, how can any plant put its nutrient storage organs in such a place..."

As he spoke, Mao Zhengzhi smiled and shook his head: "Isn't it easy to be eaten by other creatures?"

There was no smile on Lu Yongchang's face.

He nodded solemnly: "It is most likely an organ of a giant tree."

"But I'm afraid...it won't be the organ where the giant tree stores nutrients."

"Huh?" Mao Zhengzhi looked at Lu Yongchang with some confusion, "What do you mean?"

"When you look at its bright appearance, what do you think of?"

Lu Yongchang stared directly at every move of the scientific research robot in the picture, and murmured in a low voice: "These giant trees... are probably a little different from what we imagined!"

Mao Zhengzhi's eyes were filled with deep doubts at first, but after a few seconds, the doubts in his eyes dissipated instantly, leaving only the spontaneous fear!

"Professor, what do you mean..."

Mao Zhengzhi felt a chill coming from behind. He swallowed hard and said with a hint of trembling in his voice: "Are these things that look like fungi the predatory organs of giant trees?"

Plant predation, although rare, does exist.

Even on Earth, pitcher plants, Venus flytraps... these plants will prey on insects to provide themselves with nutrients.

They have even evolved unique predatory organs for this purpose.

Just like the giant tree on the Forsaken Star.

But the sizes of the two are not the same.

Mao Zhengzhi subconsciously took a step back, his face full of horror: "So... this planet is just a cage filled with countless baits?"

Lu Yongchang pursed his lips towards the holographic projection: "The results haven't come out yet."

"Maybe my guesses are all wrong, maybe..."

"Professor, the comparison work has been completed, and the similarity between the two is close to 99.9%."

The laboratory once again returned to deathly silence.

…

"Ta...ta...ta..."

In the [Earth] office, Lu Yongchang was sitting behind his desk, subconsciously flexing his knuckles and tapping the desk in front of him.

Above the desk is a holographic image of a planet.

"Forgotten Star..."

He frowned and murmured softly.

The rewards are high, but the risks are also high.

Not to mention those arthropods, just those giant trees that may have predatory tendencies may cause great losses to the landing operation.

Under normal circumstances, he should focus on the black hole now.

After completing a series of studies, use the curvature engine to go to the habitable star system.

This is the ideal path for human civilization.

But thinking about that extremely grand war and the powerful radiation resistance of these giant trees, Lu Yongchang felt as if he had been scratched by a cat.

"Professor, Academician Zhu Ziwen is visiting."

The electronic synthesized sound pulled Lu Yongchang out of the endless tangle.

"Zhu Ziwen?"

Lu Yongchang's eyes lit up, as if he thought of something, he said excitedly: "Let him in!"

…

"Professor, I'm sorry to bother you."

The door opened, and Zhu Ziwen's voice came in from the door.

Lu Yongchang raised his head and stared at Zhu Ziwen who strode into the office.

Compared with before, Zhu Ziwen seems to have become much more mature, and his eyes are shining with wisdom.

Looking at this academician from the Proxima era, Lu Yongchang couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Unconsciously, the Proxima generation can no longer be considered a new generation.

"do not bother."

Lu Yongchang showed a gentle smile, raised his finger and pointed to the seat in front of him: "Sit down."

"I guess you brought me good news?"

In front of Lu Yongchang, the serious expression on Zhu Ziwen's face gradually dissipated, and a slightly shy smile appeared on both sides of his cheeks.

"Professor, I heard that you are planning to organize planetary explorers to land on the Forgotten Star?"

Lu Yongchang burst into laughter, straightened up slightly, and said half-jokingly: "Yes, why, you don't want to go to the Forgotten Star, do you?"

The shy smile on Zhu Ziwen's face gradually disappeared, and his expression became serious.

"Yes, Professor."

Lu Yongchang: "???"

This incident is really something that he can't deal with.

He took a deep breath, calmed down the turbulent emotions in his heart, and after considering his words, he said:

"Ziwen, although you are not an academician in biology."

"But you should have heard some news."

"The Forsaken Star is dangerous."

Zhu Ziwen smiled and nodded: "Professor, of course I understand."

"This is also the reason why I applied to go to the Forsaken Star."

Seemingly noticing Lu Yongchang's somewhat surprised look, Zhu Ziwen opened his mouth to explain again.
Chapter completed!