Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 25 Taming
Chen Ming immediately frowned and closed the door of the storage cabin.

His eyes first looked at the refrigerator room where all his food was stored.

The door of the refrigerator compartment is now tightly closed, and there is no leakage of cold air.

And the refrigerator must be opened and closed by manually pressing a button on the wall.

A hamster shouldn't be able to do things like open a button, go in, steal food, run out, and then close the door.

So Chen Ming cast his eyes on all the dark corners in the storage cabin.

But Chen Ming searched for nearly half an hour, but he failed to find the hamster in a small room of only 25 square meters.

It's like finding a cockroach in the room, but when you turn around, it disappears, and you can't find it at all.

Just when Chen Ming was about to give up, a slight grinding of teeth suddenly sounded in the quiet storage cabin.

Chen Ming immediately became alert, followed the source of the sound, and looked at an asteroid about the size of a human head that he had collected before landing on the planet.

Because this asteroid was very angular in appearance and almost formed a natural icosahedron, Chen Ming specially brought it back and put it into the storage compartment.

And the little hamster is inside the asteroid at this time.

It dug through the outer rock layer of the asteroid, creating a hole leading to the interior.

When Chen Ming looked through the dug hole, he saw the little hamster curled up into a ball and sleeping soundly.

The sound of teeth grinding just now was made when it was sleeping.

Chen Ming's mouth twitched, and taking advantage of the opportunity before he could take off his protective clothing, he reached out and took it out.

Lifting the back of its neck, the little hamster struggled desperately but to no avail, and stuffed it into another basket.

Then I took out the terminal and took a picture of it.

Soon the search results appeared on the terminal.

"FC-103 hamster, also known as stone hamster, big-toothed hamster, and Fanchao's pet rat."

"A product of Fan Chao's laboratory, a specially bred pet hamster breed with a docile and active personality, strong physical fitness and survivability, and the hardness of its teeth and front claws exceeds that of most common metals..."

"The cerebral cortex is complex, the IQ is high, and it is extremely easy to tame..."

"Eat little and survive for a long time with just a little food and water..."

"Trace iron needs to be supplemented regularly, otherwise stone or metal products may be damaged..."

Posted here are a few photos of the damage caused by the little hamsters.

Chen Ming couldn't help but glance at the basket and the ore dug up by it, and immediately had a clear understanding of the hardness of its teeth and claws.

However, these photos seem to have been taken in a laboratory-like setting.

Think about it, after all, as a pet, it must live in the city.

The most indispensable thing in the city is iron, and it couldn’t be easier to supplement trace amounts of iron.

This strange behavior can only be discovered through special research in the laboratory.

Chen Ming continued to read.

"... likes to eat plant buds, but relevant laboratory employees said when this pet study was published that they only eat plant buds because they find them delicious, and it doesn't matter if they don't feed them."

"...Currently, under the bad behavior of a certain association, this species is distributed on many planets, and there are different mutant varieties..."

What followed was all unimportant information. Chen Ming glanced at it casually and closed the terminal.

Then he moved his gaze to the front.

"A artificially bred pet...um...what should I do..."

Chen Ming looked at the little hamster in the new cage that was eager to move against the iron cage itself, and fell into deep thought.After thinking for a while, Chen Ming decided to keep it as backup food.

Although it only takes one mouthful, even one mouthful can be life-saving at critical moments.

Chen Ming went outside to pull out a bud of a crop in the field. When he turned around and came back, he saw the little hamster squatting on the spot obediently.

But it had already chewed holes in the iron cage in several places.

Chen Ming twitched the corners of his mouth again, opened the lid, and stuffed the sprouts into its arms.

The little hamster's eyes seemed to be shining. He gnawed the sprouts cleanly in a few mouthfuls and continued to stare at Chen Ming.

"give you tomorrow."

Chen Ming didn't know if the little hamster understood what he said.

But it did not move, just squatting obediently in the cage.

Chen Ming nodded slightly,

If it can really stay in the cage honestly, then it would actually be good for me to have a pet.

Then the next day.

Chen Ming found that the basket was bitten again.

Chen Ming searched for a long time in the storage cabin, and finally found the sleeping little hamster in the asteroid he had dug a hole in before.

Chen Ming didn't know whether he was angry or funny.

In short, Chen Ming immediately went outside the spacecraft to pull out a seedling, returned to the storage compartment, picked up the little hamster, and carried it to the damaged cage.

He waved the fresh buds he had just pulled out in front of it, and then pointed to the place where the basket was bitten by it.

Finally, he stuffed the sprout into his mouth.

Seeing the little hamster's eyes widening with disbelief, Chen Ming was very satisfied.

Then I spent some time welding a new cage for the little hamster and stuffed it inside.

Finally, he pulled out another sprout and handed it to it.

Seeing the little hamster nibbling on the sprouts with satisfaction, Chen Ming sighed slightly.

Let's take another look, it would be best if it could be tamed like this.

But if you can't tame it, you'd better treat it as food to prevent it from destroying the spacecraft one day.

But when Chen Ming came back from outside that day, the little hamster still stayed in the cage quietly and did not continue to bite the cage.

The wide, watery eyes stared at Chen Ming, as if waiting for something.

Chen Ming smiled, turned around and pulled out a young sprout outside the spacecraft and handed it to it.

Looking at the little hamster's satisfied expression, Chen Ming was now sure that this little hamster could be kept as a pet.

Having a small animal by his side really spices up Chen Ming's boring daily life.

I may have to fly in uninhabited space for a long time in the future, so it would be nice to have a living animal to accompany me.

And if the recorded content on the terminal is correct, this little hamster needs very little food to survive every day, which is almost equivalent to a fraction of Chen Ming's daily needs multiplied by 0.1.

For Chen Ming, the material cost of raising a pet is not on the same level as the spiritual satisfaction he gets.

And as I said before, this little guy is really at his last moment and can be used as Chen Ming's backup ration.

The little hamster seemed to feel something, and his body suddenly trembled. After looking around and finding nothing, he continued to focus on the food in his hands.

(End of this chapter)