After removing the chip lodged in the bone, Xu Huo ran another test. Once he confirmed that the instrument's needle was pointing to the chip, he also collected some blood and tissue from the Alien.
He bought an analysis terminal through the game platform and tried to decipher the chip's contents. At the same time, he sent the blood and other samples he had packed up back to Rose Castle through Dimension Below, asking Dr. Deng to examine them.
Of course, he had to take the Alien back too. He had already cleared out World in the Painting, which could hold two living people. He had also used it to store human Aliens before.
He grabbed the paw of the sleeping Alien and pressed it against the paper. To his surprise, it really was absorbed into the painting.
Xu Huo paused, then couldn't help turning to look at the other Aliens.
He fired anesthetic darts and knocked out several more. When he brought them over to try, they could all be put inside the Picture Frame!
Frowning, he looked again at the Aliens, all about the same size. Their similar physiques were why he hadn't thought, when he first saw them, that the one with the implanted chip might be an experimental subject—either a human or a devolved human. But... could they all be experimental subjects?
If they were test subjects, their appearance and the fact that they'd been abandoned were enough to show the experiments had failed. Why, then, had Dr. Joyce left a tracker on an Alien?
Dr. Deng wouldn't have results so quickly, but the chip left by Dr. Joyce didn't have that high a security clearance. The smart analysis terminal had already made some headway. Judging by the files it had deciphered, they seemed to contain