"The yogurt is delicious, it has a lot of good lactic acid bacteria. The other drinks are also very interesting. Thank you, Master!"
Jiang Ye, who had just woken up, stared at a line of text on his office desk screen and fell into deep thought.
Intelligent bacteria eating lactic acid bacteria...
This must be the microbial world's big fish eating small fish, right?
"What do you want to drink today?" Jiang Ye asked.
In less than two seconds, the intelligent bacteria had reassembled. The speed at which they displayed subtitles was increasing.
"We want juice, twenty jin of all kinds of juice. We also want Banlangen, thirty jin. And another hundred jin of yogurt!"
Jiang Ye immediately ordered his subordinates to get busy, go to the supermarket to pick up the goods, and serve the great lords of intelligent bacteria.
Over the next half month, the intelligent bacteria's requests became more and more varied.
They tried almost all the drinks available in the supermarket.
It was unclear whether it was the drinks or the self-evolution of the intelligent bacteria, but it was evident that they were becoming more active. When they had nothing else to do, the large and small white bacterial colonies would swim back and forth in the water, like fish.
Besides serving the intelligent bacteria, Jiang Ye's most pressing concern was the escape incident from the Prisoner Continent.
The entire Prisoner Continent was searched five times, and 216 fugitives were found. Half of them died on the way, a quarter were identified by surveillance cameras in major cities and arrested. The remaining quarter disappeared without a trace, possibly having dug burrows in the wilderness to live in seclusion, or perhaps dying at sea and being eaten by fish.
As the fugitives were tracked down, many irregularities were uncovered in the major cities.
In Binhai City, as many as 20 undocumented individuals were apprehended. They had illegally entered from neighboring planets by hiding in interstellar spacecraft and slipping away when they reached the space station.
The reasons for these undocumented immigrants were varied: escaped robbers, eloping couples, rich second-generation individuals seeking thrills, young couples seeking fortune through black labor, and so on.
Jiang Ye was deeply surprised that his planet had also produced stowaways. This indicated that in the eyes of extraterrestrial humans, this planet was still habitable. With economic development, the number of stowaways might increase.
In Petroleum City, an oil theft ring was busted. The thieves had colluded with the captain of an oil rig to secretly build underground oil depots in the wilderness, hiding over 60 tons of oil, not to mention the more than 400 tons that had been secretly resold.
A dairy farming company in Red Hills City declared that it raised 500 dairy cows, but in reality, it only kept 30 emaciated cows for show. Within the company's premises, the actual creatures being raised were an alien snake called the "Hua She" (化蛇), of which there were over twenty thousand. They were entangled like noodles in a dark pool, a scene that was both shocking and disgusting.
The venom of the Hua She could induce intense hallucinations. After being bitten, a person would feel weak all over and collapse in a semi-dazed state. Subsequently, their brain would seem to melt, erupting with countless magnificent and fantastical illusions. Furthermore, victims of the snakebite would experience a phenomenon of "time dilation," where they would perceive over a month passing in their hallucinatory state, while in reality, only an hour had elapsed. This phenomenon was attributed to the overactivity of the brain. After the venom's effects wore off, severe brain damage would follow.
Therefore, the cultivation of the Hua She was strictly prohibited by the Galactic Empire. However, on the black markets of various planets, Hua She venom commanded astronomical prices, with one liang of venom being exchangeable for five jin of gold.
Jiang Ye ordered the destruction of all Hua She and the arrest of all employees of the "dairy farming company," from the boss to the janitor. After interrogation, their prison sentences were determined.
In Blue Earth City, two underground unlicensed clinics were discovered. They primarily dealt with cosmetic surgery and abortions, and occasionally treated injuries sustained by thugs in fights.
Both clinics had extremely poor sanitary conditions. When the police raided them, there were layers of uncleaned bloodstains on the floor, surgical instruments were blackened, and the smell of disinfectant could not overpower the stench. The black doctor performing surgery was eating pig intestines while scratching his backside inside his pants, and a patient who had just been anesthetized lay on the operating table.
Some of the escaped convicts from the Prisoner Continent had undergone cosmetic surgery at these two unlicensed clinics.
They had hoped to deceive the street-level surveillance cameras with completely altered appearances, but the cameras tracked them by analyzing their movements backward, tracing every action taken by each individual after arriving on Jiang Ye's planet. The convicts had appeared out of nowhere, and they were quickly traced, rendering the cosmetic surgery useless.
The identity of the Spider Man remained undiscovered.
Key individuals who had contact with the Spider Man had all bitten their poison fangs and committed suicide!
A total of 16 people had taken their own lives.
Jiang Ye felt a chill at this number.
The Spider Man was undoubtedly a person of immense power, otherwise, he wouldn't have had his subordinates willing to die for him.
A great threat!
Shao Wan had inquired whether the space station should be temporarily closed to prevent the Spider Man from escaping.
But Jiang Ye refused. The space station would remain open as usual. Deep down, he hoped the Spider Man would leave the planet. Like a spider in his own home, it was disgusting to swat, but unnerving to leave in the house; it was better to open a door or window and let the spider leave on its own.
Fortunately, there were no further assassin incidents.
The individuals apprehended in the prison had been interrogated several times, and final decisions were made.
Those with little suspicion were released and compensated.
Those with greater suspicion were placed under close surveillance and released.
Those whose criminal activities were proven were imprisoned and fined.
The escaped convicts from the Prisoner Continent were executed collectively.
The executions were carried out secretly by Shao Wan and his men. On a stormy night, Shao Wan led a dozen confidantes and secretly piloted a medium-sized fishing boat to the deep sea. The boat's hold was filled with cement mixers and an abundance of iron barrels. The condemned prisoners had their legs bound and placed inside the iron barrels. After the cement was poured, they were kicked overboard one by one.
The iron barrels were sunk into a sea trench. It was expected that they would not be discovered for decades. And after decades, all the iron barrels, cement, and bones would likely have vanished, reduced to dust in the deep water.
Jiang Ye sighed heavily when he made the decision. He had originally wanted to give these death row inmates, who had committed serious crimes, a chance to start their lives anew. However, they had not repented and had escaped again to become assassins, so they had to be killed.
After having children, he no longer wished to engage in killing and was quite disgusted by bloodshed. However, as the commander of an entire planet, he had to issue certain orders.
The assassin incident had temporarily come to a close.
The intelligent bacteria that had been put to work were gradually beginning to yield results!
The first to show results were the intelligent bacteria functioning as computers.
A single intelligent bacteria computing pool had a processing power comparable to the supercomputers in the Macroeconomic Building.
The most crucial aspect was the low cost!
A supercomputer consumed a staggering 9,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity daily. With the current electricity cost of 3 yuan per kilowatt-hour on Jiang Ye's planet, the daily cost was 27,000 yuan. Including the expenses for maintenance staff and the replacement of critical components, the daily expenditure reached a staggering 28,000 yuan!
In contrast, the intelligent bacteria computing pool consumed only 5,000 yuan worth of alcohol daily.
The cost had been compressed by more than fivefold!