Containment Control Starts With the Umbrella

"Then I'll leave it to you-, Boss-."

Seeing that William agreed, Green put away his sad face, thanked him, and turned away from William's sight.

"Hehe, it's still so glamorous..."

William also chuckled to himself, then turned and continued walking towards the elevator.

Rushed to the site of the research facility, took the rail train to the hangar close to the surface, boarded the Pelican, left Pluto, and returned to the Phantom hovering in the air.

After William returned to the Phantom, he went to the dormitory where he had previously lived. He did not let the Phantom jump back to Earth, but took a long-term conventional voyage.

Because there are still several hours before the meeting with senior UNSC officials and generals, and Serena will help him choose the address and plan, he wants to take a rest in the sleeping cabin.

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"Shua-." The automatic door of the sleeping cabin opened.

walk in.

William unbuttoned his shirt collar, stretched out his tie, took off his suit jacket, and hung them together on the hanger next to the automatic door.

After walking to the fixed desk, sitting on the office chair, opened the transparent screen that is only a little thicker than paper, and pressed the button of the host.

The screen quickly showed the desktop icon.

William manipulated the mouse, clicked on the company's internal mailbox, and found the files that Serena had prepared for him.

"Tap ~ tap ~!"

He double-clicked to open the file in the mailbox and began to read it.

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Project name: 'Kevin'.

Class: Exafanistei.

Narrative:

The exact time when the item was first discovered was January 24, 2020.

The location was found on the surface soil of the only terrestrial planet in Barnard's star system, 5.9 light-years away from the solar system.

The star in Barnard's Galaxy, a red dwarf, is dimmer.

The only terrestrial planet in Barnard's Galaxy is called Barnard b.

Although Barnard's star is dimmer and provides less heat and radiation, Barnard b is in the habitable zone of the star system.

However, due to the weak geological activity of Barnard b, it cannot maintain an atmosphere and moisture, and has a surface atmosphere similar to Mars.

The planet was brought to the attention of Umbrella and the UNSC during the first wave of colonization more than a decade ago, but the planet was not developed or colonized.

The first point is that the resources of Barnard's star system are extremely scarce, except for an earth-like planet, there is no value for development and utilization.

The second point is that after detection and inference, Barnard's star only needs to be seven billion years older than the sun.

Although red dwarfs live longer than ordinary stars, Barnard's star has entered a critical period and will become a black dwarf in the near future.

Based on the above two points, Umbrella and the UNSC stopped vigorously developing Barnard's star system.

However, after learning about the existence of Barnard b, a non-governmental scientific research organization called "Exploring the Origin" raised funds to build a scientific research station on Barnard b.

According to the organization, Barnard b still has an atmosphere similar to Mars after more than 10 billion years, so there may be life on Barnard b five billion years ago or earlier Existence, which is of vital significance for human beings to explore the origin of life.

Finally, in the fourth quarter of 2019, the organization raised enough start-up funds to prepare for Barnard B by chartering a small immigrant boat.

Since the organization was looking for life on Barnard b, it was paid attention to by Umbrella's hidden agents, and a senior agent successfully infiltrated the organization and followed them to Barnard b.

December 26, 2019.

A total of 140 members of the scientific expedition team of "Searching for the Origin", including the hidden secret agents, made a leap in the Earth's low-Earth orbit on a rented small immigrant ship, heading for Barnard's Star 5.9 light-years away. Tie.

Due to the regulations of UNSC and Umbrella, as well as the cost and size of quantum communication devices, small civilian immigration ships cannot and must not be equipped with quantum communication.

Therefore, after the "Searching for the Origin" scientific expedition team made the leap, the company's senior agent Reynolds ■■ lost contact.

It wasn't until February 10, 2020, after Agent Reynolds returned to the solar system in a small colony ship, that the company learned all the characteristics of the project through his dictation and miniature cameras.

The following is the dictation and videotape of Senior Agent Reynolds ■■.

The identity chosen by Agent Reynolds is a very experienced mercenary who often takes over various defense missions for civilian exploration of the universe.

With the help of artificial intelligence Tina, Reynolds was successfully hired by the "Searching for the Origin" expedition team and boarded the colony spacecraft together.

At 12:00 on December 26, 2019, Haffa time, the colony ship began to jump and transmit in the low-earth orbit of the earth.

At 14:50 that day, the colony ship arrived in low Earth orbit at Barnard b.

Afterwards, the colony ship first flew around the planet, scanned and drew the surface information of Barnard b, and sent several drones into the atmosphere to continuously collect data.

December 30.

After several days of research and discussion, the scientific expedition team decided to build a ground scientific research station on a plain in the northern hemisphere.

January 20, 2020.

According to the plan, the scientific expedition team successfully established a scientific research station at the target location that can accommodate a hundred people. Only a few people stayed in the colony ship to ensure the normal operation of the colony ship.

January 22, 2020.

After two days of repairing, Agent Reynolds, who was elected as the security captain, led a team of protection scientific expedition personnel to carry out several hours of exploration activities on the surface.

Many soil samples were excavated near the scientific research station that day.

After testing, no microorganisms have been found for the time being, and no traces of biological existence have been found.

January 24, 2020.

Due to the increased range of activities on the surface, Agent Reynolds protected the scientific expedition team and took the latest soil samples in the gully area 12 kilometers south of the scientific research station.

After taking it back to the scientific research station for testing, the existence of 'microorganisms' was finally discovered.

However, this 'microbe' is the anomalous phenomenon in this file.

January 26, 2020.

Through the efforts of many professional scientists including biology, geology and atmosphere of the scientific expedition team, the atmospheric environment in the incubator where the project is located is similar to the environment of the early earth, and successfully "awakened" the project.

January 28, 2020.

Subject begins to divide and cluster by 'feeding' by injecting glucose liquid, as if an individual 'creature' came together.

They shared electrical activity, like a growing neural network, and at this point the items were about the size of experimental mice.

And according to various observations and tests, it is concluded that the project is not a multi-cellular organism, but that each of its cells can perform its own functions.

In other words, every cell is a muscle cell, and a nerve cell is also a photoreceptor cell.

Think of the creature as muscles, brains, and eyes all at once.