"Ah?" The Spirit Exorcist clearly hadn't processed it yet.
"Forget it..." Sun Hang couldn't be bothered to explain. He walked straight over to the collection equipment—the collection process had finished, and every indicator light on the control panel had gone dark, leaving only a green light marked "Complete" blinking steadily.
The drill bit that had bored into the giant cocoon had snapped off. The entire machine was making unsettling noises from top to bottom, while a heavy burnt smell wafted from inside its mechanical structure.
Both coolant tanks had ruptured, and thick coolant had spilled all over the floor... Sun Hang couldn't help silently thanking his luck—if the collection process had taken another third longer, the whole machine probably would have exploded.
Although these collection devices were disposable and had been rushed into production, there had been no cutting corners in either materials or workmanship. Yang Qi had told Sun Hang that even at the Federal Government's lowest procurement price, each sample collection device still cost twelve million.
That didn't even include the drill bit or the battery—strictly speaking, those two components were artificial anomalies, and their actual cost couldn't be measured in money at all.
According to the technicians, this collection device should have been able to operate continuously for at least forty-eight hours... but reality had differed drastically from that estimate.
Still, as long as it completed the mission, it was a qualified piece of equipment.
Sun Hang used a Liquid Metal blade to cut open the twelve-million-worth pile of scrap metal, then removed the Anomaly Battery.
Besides serving as the collection device's power source, this Anomaly Battery was also the storage container for the collected sample.
At this point, the remains of the eel anomaly inside the battery had vanished completely. Even the cotton-like scraps of flesh