Oasis No. 8.
Li Ke, who had just gone to sleep in the palace, suddenly received a communication request from the rear.
"What? They found the mother body sample?!"
The moment he heard those words, all traces of drowsiness vanished.
Limited by distance and battery life, the communications drone could only remain above Oasis No. 8 for ten to twenty minutes.
He had to keep this as brief as possible.
"Who has the sample?"
The person on the other end continued.
"The Beacon Team. They used emergency measures to send a message to the nearest signal tower in Wandering Swamp, but they lost their mobile communications base station during the operation. The Investigation Department can't reach them for now."
Researchers placed exceptional importance on ownership of intellectual property. It was not only an honor, but also tied directly to promotion.
When teams from the Investigation Department's Containment Program Division were assigned specific operations, they had to report information to their immediate superiors. They were forbidden from reporting over their heads, much less leaking intelligence to unrelated personnel outside the project team on their own initiative.
That was both the rule and the taboo.
However, there was one exception.
If an exploration team unexpectedly lost its direct channel of communication with its superiors, then according to the "priority preservation principle," it could report important information to the next higher department capable of receiving it, which would then relay the message onward.
Everything the Beacon Team had done was fully compliant with the Academy's rules and regulations.
The problem was that this information should originally have passed through him, layer by layer, before reaching the Chief Technical Officer. Now, any researcher with even a little influence probably knew about that mutant mother body.
That would be troublesome for him, the first person