Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 28
Chen Ming wiped off the rainwater on his helmet and took another look at the fallen cattle herd under the hill.

After confirming that there were no living beasts, he turned around and prepared to leave.

But at this moment, Chen Ming suddenly saw a huge figure limping over in the rain curtain not far away.

This is also a crazed bull beast, but its right front leg seems to have been broken on the road.

So much so that all its predecessors were already dead, and it had just arrived here.

Chen Ming raised his pistol and aimed at the bull beast's eyes, preparing to end its life.

But after thinking about it, Chen Ming moved the muzzle of the gun away, aimed at its other good leg, and fired.

The bullet failed to completely penetrate its knee, but was stuck between the bones.

But the cow beast didn't feel any pain at all, and instead dragged its injured leg and continued to move forward.

Before it even took two steps, it fell to its knees on the ground, squirming desperately.

Chen Ming went around behind it and shot off its two hind legs.

The bull beast with all its limbs could only struggle in vain on the ground. A large pool of blood under its body instead of rotten blood gradually accumulated into a small pool and was washed away by the rain.

Chen Ming immediately sped up his movements, returned to the spacecraft, and found the herbs to stop the bleeding in the cold storage.

And a piece of extra iron chain that Chen Ming made two days ago to strengthen the fence.

After a lot of effort, Chen Ming tied up the paralyzed cow beast with an iron chain, and connected one end of the iron chain to the spacecraft.

During this period, it was still struggling, and the strenuous activities made its blood loss worse.

Fortunately, Chen Ming applied medicine to its wound before it completely bled to death.

The injured legs, which had lost consciousness and could not move at all, were also wrapped in bandages to stop the bleeding.

Do it all.

The beast's madness still hasn't eased in the slightest.

Chen Ming shook his head slightly, and after confirming again that the chains would not be broken, returned to the spacecraft.

The spacecraft slowly took off, and the sound of the iron chains also made noise.

Hanging the rickety beast, the spacecraft flew towards the temporary survival camp built by Chen Mingjian.

After setting the flight route, Chen Ming searched around the spacecraft and finally found the small stone in the ore in the storage cabin.

At this time, it was shrinking into a ball, and its body was shaking slightly unconsciously.

Chen Ming poked it with the buds he usually kept in his pocket.

Xiao Shi's body shook violently and turned around slowly.

A pair of small eyes lost their previous agility, as if they were suffering from uncontrollable pain.

It even lost interest in its favorite young leaves placed in front of it.

Seeing that Chen Ming made no further movements, Xiao Shi continued to curl up into a ball, his body still shaking unconsciously.

It wasn't fear, it was more like some kind of physical discomfort.

Xiao Shi seemed to be affected by unknown things that would make animals go crazy and cause their bodies to rot, just like those animals.

But Xiaoshi seems to be under control and actively suppressing the madness.

What is the source of this madness in animals?
Chen Ming had to figure it out.

If one day this madness affects people and affects me, maybe I can start to think of a way now and save my life or Xiaoshi's life in the future.

That's why Chen Ming saved the life of the bull beast hanging by the spacecraft, hoping to find some answers from it.

But Chen Ming didn’t just do it and it was over.

Just catching a crazy animal doesn't mean everything is figured out.So even though it was almost dusk now, Chen Ming still planned to do something else.

After leaving the cow beast at the edge of the temporary camp, it was confirmed that its wound had not burst again and that it would definitely not die of excessive blood loss in a short period of time.

Chen Ming controlled the spacecraft to take off again and flew to the east of the camp.

There may be answers there.

Because just now, Chen Ming Chen Ming noticed that there was a very slight time difference in the transition from calm to crazy among those cattle beasts.

The water splashing closer to the east side splashes faster, which means that the cow beasts closer to the east side fall into madness earlier.

Chen Ming didn't believe in coincidences, and he didn't think that going crazy would happen very regularly in this herd of nearly thirty cattle.

There must be something to the east.

Moreover, the same was true for the group of empty jellyfish that Chen Ming encountered when the spacecraft tried to land for the first time.

The initial landing point was actually not too far from where Chen Ming was building the camp.

Although I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, now I can clearly see it when I reopen the video of the spacecraft camera.

Crazy empty jellyfish were present in all directions of the spacecraft. However, the first batch of empty jellyfish to attack the spacecraft also came from a direction close to the east side.

This situation further confirmed Chen Ming's guess.

As the speed of the spacecraft increased, today's sudden heavy rain gradually stopped.

The stars behind the clouds emerged again, and the light shone on the ground, making everything in Chen Ming's field of vision look brand new.

There are also many new shoots growing at the junction of purple vegetation and green vegetation, creating a vibrant scene.

But before he figured out what was going on with the crazy animals on this planet, Chen Ming had no intention of enjoying this beautiful scenery.

The spacecraft quickly crossed the area where purple vegetation and green vegetation meet, and completely entered a place covered by green vegetation.

Several cameras on the outside of the spacecraft kept scanning the ground below, hoping to find something.

But after some time passed, Chen Ming still found nothing unusual.

However, Xiaoshi suddenly ran out of the storage cabin, climbed up along the chair in the captain's cabin and onto Chen Ming's shoulders, holding the sprouts that Chen Ming had just placed next to the ore and nibbling on them bit by bit.

It looks like it's back to normal.

Chen Ming reached out and touched Xiao Shi's head and said, "Are you okay?"

Xiaoshi couldn't say anything in response, he just rubbed Chen Ming's face.

The urgent feeling in Chen Ming's heart relaxed slightly.

However, although the abnormality on Xiaoshi's body disappeared, he could not give up casually.

If there is a next time, if Xiaoshi can't bear it anymore, where can I find a being who can accompany me to spend the lonely days in space?
And not only Xiaoshi, other animals will be affected even more.

If all the animals around you are going crazy, where can you find your prey?

Find a priority landing location again?
Let’s not talk about whether there will still be these crazy animals even if we change places.

Even if not, how long will it take to earn back the cost of time it takes to re-familiarize yourself with the landing site, and the cost of losing crops that you have already planted but still have some time to harvest?
Therefore, Chen Ming could not just leave so casually before the possibility of solving this situation was completely lost.

Time passed as the spacecraft searched all over the place.

The star has already half disappeared over the horizon.

Chen Ming originally had no hope, but just before the star's light disappeared.

Chen Ming suddenly saw a special place on the surveillance camera that was incompatible with the surrounding environment.

An abandoned stone building complex.

(End of this chapter)