He lives on another planet and is majoring in Earth Science.

Chapter 179 The Earthquake Machine Reappears

The person who came was less a person and more a mobile brain.

A brain the size of a basketball was encased in a layer of transparent flesh.

A fleshy sac hung below the brain, wrapped in a silver bodysuit.

Only an eye and a starfish-like round tear were visible on the bodysuit.

I don't know if they have hands or feet.

The person was placed on a two-meter-tall mecha.

The mecha had a fleshy sac that could barely be called a face resting on its neck.

The mecha is entirely blue and silver.

It has four mechanical arms on its upper body.

Its lower body consists of four mechanical legs resembling those of a praying mantis.

The man hurriedly ran towards Li Ji.

Li Ji gently nudged Li De'er: "It seems you're not unpopular; some people even come here specifically for you."

“But I know him, he doesn’t know me.”

"Huh? He could be coming for me? Who is he?"

Lidel patiently explained, "The bureau's technical advisor is Ariro. He comes from the Voka race, one of the top three intelligent races in the Interstellar Alliance."

"After their race entered interstellar civilization, in order to evolve higher intelligence, they genetically modified the new generation, abandoning most of the superfluous organs to maximize brain efficiency."

"No wonder that besides the brain, the only other part is the mecha. It turns out that the limbs have been phased out."

"He is a top expert in the field of engineering, and he participated in the research and development of many of the bureau's high-precision equipment."

"I don't know what he's doing at our department-level commendation meeting."

"He's watching us."

"You're overthinking it. How could he possibly know the two of us? There must be something nearby that attracts him. Maybe he just really likes corners."

"That makes sense. Geniuses are always a little eccentric."

Ariro walked through the crowd, and everyone greeted him, but he ignored them.

"Professor Ariro, looking for a new house? We offer housekeeping services from the Rat Girl!"

"no need."

Ariro did not flinch, and his huge iron feet nearly crushed Rat Sanwan to death.

He had a clear goal and charged straight at Li Ji.

A tall shadow fell on Li Ji.

Li Ji looked up and could see the grooves and connecting blood vessels on the brain.

Like a dense forest.

The abundance of ravines is astonishing.

Li Ji realized for the first time that wisdom could also be seen with the naked eye.

"You must be Li Ji?"

"Let's not talk about it, let's be civilized."

"Tell me, how did you unlock eleven locks in two hours?"

Li Ji pointed to himself with his tentacle: "Professor, are you talking to me?"

Professor Ariro frowned at Li Ji with his only eye.

"Nonsense, do you think I was talking to the corner of the wall?"

"We analyzed the mushroom-shaped earthquake generator you recovered."

There are eleven locks inside, and each lock uses a different coding method.

"Any mistake in cracking a lock could lead to a catastrophic explosion."

"how did you do it?"

Li Ji frankly replied, "It's just the normal difficulty level of a doctoral dissertation, nothing too complicated, right?"

The other party is a renowned expert in the field of engineering; how could they possibly be unable to solve a doctoral-level problem?

Could it be that Lidel is inexperienced and mistook someone else for someone else?

Li Ji gently moved his eyes, and the entire venue fell silent as everyone turned their attention to him.

It seemed that everyone was focused on Professor Ariros's conversation with him.

"The difficulty is not the cracking itself, but completing the cracking within a limited time."

"The reason why the other party set up eleven locks is not only because of technical bottlenecks that do not allow them to add more locks."

"At the same time, it takes about 4 hours for the seismic machine to complete the deployment of the explosive energy source."

"The conventional time to crack eleven locks is more than four hours." "I tried 24 different methods, and the fastest it took was four hours and 25 minutes to crack them."

"In other words, the enemy is very confident in his time lock, and he is certain that we cannot break it before the seismic machine is activated."

"How did you manage to crack it in just two hours?"

Li Ji was stunned.

I just solved it casually that day; there was no special method or technique involved.

It feels like teaching the Seafood Brothers to play Dou Dizhu (a popular Chinese card game) is harder than this.

"I didn't think much about it at the time. I just followed my subconscious thinking to solve it."

"The journey went smoothly, and it was over in just two hours."

Ariro then asked, "What tools did you use at the time? As far as I know, the organization didn't provide you with the corresponding hacking tools."

Li Ji pulled a high-powered screwdriver out of his pocket.

"this one."

Ariro's eyes widened in disbelief: "That's it?"

"This is quite expensive. It allows for precise control down to the atomic level."

Ariro took it, examined it carefully, and then shook his head.

"The accuracy and stability of this civilian equipment are far inferior to those of military equipment."

"I can't imagine that you used this kind of equipment to crack the seismograph in two hours."

Ariro's tone was firm: "Reproduce it once."

"Is it here? I don't remember the parameters."

"I brought it."

As he spoke, the mecha on Ariro's chest suddenly emitted a hissing sound.

The circular energy ring suddenly lit up with a white light.

Before they knew it, the onlookers gathered around, all curious to see what was going on.

The armor beneath the energy ring slowly opened.

A mushroom grew out of it.

The bright red mushroom caps are covered with tiny white dots.

It exudes a deadly aura.

Li Ji immediately recognized that this thing was exactly the same as the earthquake machine in Fukushima.

"Professor Ariro is so meticulous; he even made an exact replica. Did he replicate all eleven locks?"

“That’s right, not only are there eleven locks, but this device is also connected to the mech’s energy bay. I’m activating the seismic generator now. If it’s not cracked successfully in four hours, the seismic generator will detonate.”

"what?"

Li Ji was momentarily stunned.

"Are you making the assumption correct? This is a situational question."

Professor Arirot said firmly, "No, it is indeed connected to my energy storage unit, and it has already been activated. You have three hours and 58 minutes left."

Li Ji roared, "Are you fucking crazy?!"

"If you want to solve the problem, then solve it. Why are you actually strapping a bomb to it?"

Ariro firmly stated, "This is the spirit of science. I need to keep your level of psychological tension within the same range."

"Fuck your banana peel! You're a complete lunatic!"

"I'm warning you, your time is running out. If you can't crack it on time, half the planet's population will disappear."

Professor Arirot's words immediately silenced the entire hall.

I could clearly hear the rapid heartbeat.

The atmosphere was extremely depressing.

The silence was broken by the voice of Rat Sanwan.

He approached with a forced smile: "Professor Ariro, are you joking with everyone? Your behavior is suspected of being criminal."

Ariro didn't turn to look at him, but coldly said, "I accidentally activated the machine while I was doing an experiment, and I had no choice but to come to Agent Li Ji for help."

"Accidentally my foot! You clearly did it on purpose!"

Li Ji fell into deep suspicion.

How could such a technical expert be so insane?

There must be something fishy going on behind this.

(End of this chapter)