"No feces, they can live on charging, truly excellent pets. Can I buy one for my son? He might like it." Cen Yemeng's maternal instincts immediately kicked in.
"It's no fun to keep just one. Two males and two females are best. When you leave, I'll have them packed and handed over to you. Consider it a small gift for your esteemed son." Fu Qiuyan said, "Besides no feces, these things also function as alarm clocks, and they recognize their owners."
"Alarm clocks?" Jiang Ye asked, surprised.
"For example, if your son raises one, and he usually wakes up at six-thirty, the chameleon will remember after seeing him for a few days. If one day your son is still sleeping past eight, the chameleon will become restless, jump around, and make noise to wake him up. In other words, this creature has obsessive-compulsive disorder and likes an orderly life."
"What is the intelligence level of these chameleons?" Jiang Ye asked.
"They can do simple math problems, addition and subtraction within fifty. There are special math building blocks. If you arrange 'five plus ten,' the chameleon will stare for a while, then pick up a 'fifteen' block from the box and place it after the equals sign." Fu Qiuyan explained, "But what the chameleons love to play most is this."
A nearby researcher immediately stepped forward and took out a set of… colored puzzles from their pocket. Dozens of puzzle pieces were removed, and the chameleon's glass enclosure was opened, scattering the pieces inside.
The chameleons, which had been curled into balls, returned to normal. Their eyes darted around, looking at the puzzles, and then they began to try and assemble them. They weren't assembling them individually; they were cooperating.
In less than a minute, the six-by-six puzzle was completed. The image on the puzzle was a beautiful woman's face. Da Feng Novel Network.
After admiring the puzzle for a while, the chameleons looked up, saw many people watching, and were frightened, curling back into balls.
"They're really smart!" Cen Yemeng exclaimed in amazement.
"They're smart with colors, but not much else," Fu Qiuyan explained. "After all, they're chameleons, very sensitive to color. I heard your son is a painter. These chameleons should really enjoy watching him paint."
Cen Yemeng was deeply touched, perhaps imagining the heartwarming scene of a few chameleons accompanying her son as he painted. "That's wonderful."
Leaving the laboratory, they continued their tour.
Throughout the entire morning, Jiang Ye and Cen Yemeng visited over twenty laboratories and saw all sorts of strange and peculiar things:
Fungi called "ship clothes," which could live on a spaceship when thrown onto it, much like barnacles clinging to a whale. During long voyages, these "ship clothes" could effectively shield against cosmic radiation, clean debris and impurities from the ship's surface, and even act as a buffer against impacts from small particles of space debris. When landing on a planet, these fungi would gradually shed due to the intense atmospheric friction, temperature, and pressure changes, dissipating in the air.
Electronic bugs. Although their name contained "bug," they were actually still fungi. They would gather together to form insect-like creatures the size of soybeans. These fungi lived on air and electricity, and their reproduction rate was very slow. Throwing a few electronic bugs into electronic equipment, they would actively clean the dust inside the devices, ejecting dust clumps from the ventilation ports. For some high-end, precision equipment, cleaning dust each time it was activated incurred enormous costs, but with electronic bugs, such unnecessary expenses could be avoided.
Artificial parasitic worms called "scavengers." Once injected into the human body, these scavengers would automatically clear out other parasites within the body, such as roundworms, tapeworms, amoebas, trichomonads, liver flukes… all human parasites were no match for the scavengers.
In addition to human-use scavengers, there were also scavengers for pigs, cattle, sheep, and various other animals.
Jiang Ye finally understood the meaning of "Six Leaf Clover" company. By using genetic technology, they created various organisms that did not originally exist in nature. This was a biotechnology company. Judging by its scale and massive capital flow, it was likely a star enterprise on Daughter Star.
All the experimental products they visited already had mature models ready for market. Their annual net profits were in the hundreds of billions, even trillions, with signs of continuous expansion.
Science and technology were indeed the primary productive forces. The products developed by this single company were wealthier than the finances of ten Jiang Ye Stars!
After a simple lunch, they continued their whirlwind tour of Robot City in the afternoon.
Robot City, whose actual name should be Robot City, was a city entirely dedicated to the research, development, production, and sales of various models of robots.
Jiang Ye visited all the processes, from the initial processing plants to the deep processing assembly lines, then quality inspection, stores, transportation, and online transactions… The itinerary was fast, but he essentially gained a comprehensive understanding of the entire city's structure.
This was likely not a secret, but allowing Jiang Ye to tour in such a manner was indeed a sign of trust.
The most crucial point was that even if they understood how Robot City operated, Jiang Ye Star could not simply copy it. They lacked sufficient senior engineers, adequate funding, sales channels, and reputation. The truly difficult aspects were all hidden beneath the surface.
Throughout the entire day, Fu Qiuyan acted like a competent tour guide, introducing various things but never mentioning any specific purpose. She neither discussed Bi Rong Star nor the intelligent fungi. Jiang Ye felt a growing unease. He suspected that the real battlefield might be at the banquet table, and everything during the day was merely the calm before the storm.
The daytime visiting hours were quite long. Daughter Star had a slower rotation, with 36 hours per day, meaning daylight lasted for a full 18 hours. The people living here had their biological clocks synchronized to 36 hours. However, Jiang Ye and Cen Yemeng's biological clocks were set to 24 to 25 hours, making them quite fatigued.
Finally, night fell.
The celebration banquet was held at the Capital Assembly Hall.
The building featured two-hundred-year-old blue brick walls, gilded ceilings, and crystal dragon chandeliers. The tables were made of giant redwood cut longitudinally, creating an atmosphere of luxurious grandeur.
Representatives from Jiang Ye Star were present, along with many representatives and officials from various sectors of Daughter Star. There were a total of six long tables, with eighty people at each table. Everyone was dressed in their finest attire.
After Jiang Ye was seated, Cen Yemeng leaned close to his ear and whispered, "Be careful they don't force you to drink. Refuse if you can. If you can't, I'll drink for you."
"Why do you say that?" Jiang Ye asked.
"Look at the twelve o'clock position. All the wine in the catering cart starts at 38% alcohol; there's no low-alcohol wine. Look at the people around us; their faces suggest they can hold their liquor, especially those few plump women. They could probably walk in a straight line after drinking a pound or two," Cen Yemeng whispered. "The most crucial thing is the atmosphere. When I was little and went drinking with my dad, whenever my dad was preparing to get a client drunk, it was this kind of atmosphere."
Jiang Ye didn't sense any particular atmosphere. Perhaps it was because he was the prey; prey wouldn't sense the signs of being caught. However, he trusted his wife's words.
As expected, as soon as the banquet began, the first round of forced drinking commenced.
More than a dozen representatives from Daughter Star's military academy approached together, holding wine glasses, and said loudly:
"Greetings, Principal!"
Jiang Ye picked up his wine glass and stood up, feeling somewhat at a loss.
The leading military academy representative, a short-haired girl, immediately explained, "Principal Jiang, we are all students from Daughter Star's First Military Academy. We have signed exchange student contracts and are preparing to attend Jiang Ye Star Military Academy as exchange students for two years. Therefore, we must respectfully address you as Principal."
"Then, on behalf of Jiang Ye Star Military Academy, I welcome all of you to come for further studies. I dare not accept the title of Principal; I am merely an honorary Principal without any real talent, purely holding a position. You can simply call me Mr. Jiang." Jiang Ye replied.
"Principal, you are too modest. You possess genuine talent. Although we haven't started classes yet, we have already heard about your famous theory on the Interstellar Warring States period, which has made significant contributions to the academic field of the Galactic Empire. We greatly admire your talent, so we would like to toast you!"
The pretense is revealed, Jiang Ye thought to himself.