Chapter 17 Chapter Sixteen

Brian.A news summary popped up on Gately's computer just as the door to his office opened.The visitor was the dumpy Genetic Safety officer Will.The content of the press release is related to the recent fallout. Will didn't come with his sullen friend Simon.He grinned.Under the circumstances, his joy made Brian feel a little dirty. Is it you who forwarded this?Brian asked, pointing to the press release. You look first.I'm waiting for you. Brian tried to focus on the papers, but his mind kept wandering to Peter.In the photo sent by Ke Zhibo.Thomas.Jin En's body was placed on the rocky bank, covered with cuts and bruises.He wondered if Will had seen the photo.Was it the one he ordered to kill?

He really wanted to ask, but he didn't dare.He blinked, then looked at the news agency's press release. □□□ Port Magellan / Reuters Extraterrestrial Network: Scientists at the Mount Madis Observatory made a startling announcement today that the dust fallout that has recently affected Equatoria's east coast and desert interior has not been completely static. The fallout and the tiny structures contained within the fallout are believed to be degenerate remnants of the structures of hypothetical intelligent life in the outskirts of the local solar system, with evidence of life evident.

At a joint press conference today at the Observatory, representatives of the American University, the United Nations Geophysical Observatory, and the Interim Government presented photographs and samples of incomplete self-replicating and self-assembling organic-like objects that were recovered from the Coastal Range Obtained from the western end of the dry inland basin extending to the western seashore. These objects are made from a combination of tubes and wires and range from hollow spheres the size of a pea to the size of a human head.It is said to be unstable in a planetary environment and therefore poses no threat to human life.

Senior astronomer Scott.Kleinland said: There is no possibility of a space plague situation.The falling objects are very old, and they may have been worn and decayed before entering the atmosphere. Most of them have also become sterile bodies due to the violent combustion when they passed through. Only a few nanometer-sized components are left intact.Very few of these contained enough molecular integrity to restart the growth process.But they are designed to thrive in the extreme cold and deep vacuum.In the high-temperature, oxygen-filled desert, it cannot survive for too long. Asked if the constructed objects were still alive, Dr Cleland said: "We don't have any samples in our hands.The largest active populations are apparently deep in Rub al-Khali (the oil-rich western desert), and residents of coastal cities are unlikely to find alien plants in their gardens.

However, since harmful effects cannot be completely ruled out, a general level of quarantine measures has been implemented between the Petroleum Zone and the west coast of Equatoria.Although the area is rugged, uninhabitable, and has few settlers, tourists do occasionally visit Canyonlands, and the Oil North is there.Paul of the Interim Government Territory Management Unit."Travel is currently regulated and alerts have been issued," Nissen said.We wish to keep the curious away, and to assist researchers who need further research to understand this important phenomenon. ☆ There were several paragraphs of details and phone numbers to follow, but Brian thought he got the gist.He poses one at Will, what do you say?expression.

This turned out to be just right for us.Weir said. What does it mean? This provisional government is nothing more than an incompetent nanny, but after the fall of the dust, especially after this strange thing in the west, they finally started to pay attention to who was going where.Especially regulating air traffic. The number of private jets (mostly small planes) owned by each person in Equatorial Africa is higher than anywhere on the earth, and there are many small and simple airports.The traffic that carries passengers to and from jungle settlements or sends petroleum geologists to the desert has not been regulated for years.

The bad news, Will continued, is that Turk.Finlay took his plane away last night.With Liz.Adams and an unidentified third person. Brian felt a growing void in his chest, part jealousy, part worry for Liz, as she drove herself deeper and deeper into trouble. And the good news, said Weir, his smile growing.It is we who know where they are going.We're going too, and you're going with us.