Two Liquid Metal flying blades sliced through the yellow-and-black seal on the portable freezer's surface. Six tentacle-like hyphae instantly entered a fourteen-digit password on the keypad. With a soft click, the freezer lid sprang open a crack, and white frost mist immediately poured out through the gap.
Inside the freezer was the "power source" for the collection equipment.
It was a Type C Anomaly. It looked like an ordinary eel, except the mucus coating its body had a peculiar metallic texture, as if it had been wrapped in a layer of mercury.
The Anomaly was contained in a cylindrical vessel fifteen centimeters in diameter and forty-five centimeters long. The middle section was transparent glass, allowing him to clearly see the curled-up Anomaly inside and the pale yellow liquid filling the container.
Sun Hang did not know what this Anomaly was called, nor did he understand the principle behind how it supplied energy to the Pile Driver... but he did not need to know any of that. He only needed to know how to use it.
Sun Hang tore off the protective films at both ends of the container, revealing metal terminals like the positive and negative ends of a battery—this thing really was a battery, though not a conventional fuel cell or lithium battery. It was a concept commonly found in science fiction: a biological battery.
To be precise, perhaps it should be called—
"Anomaly Battery."
Sun Hang slotted the "Anomaly Battery" into the device's battery compartment, then pulled down the switch beside it.
With a faint hiss, an electric arc flashed through the pale yellow liquid. Then, the liquid gradually turned cyan-green.
The eel Anomaly, which had been dormant, was instantly jolted awake and began violently slamming against the container walls.
Yet after only two or three impacts, the