253 A Mutation? (1/2)

[Yuan Jing knelt down again and carefully took Nangong Min's arm, turning it so they could both see his identificator. He clicked for it to display the screen again and the database Nangong Min had looked at before was shown.

”Let's see if there is some information on the plant. Do you remember how it looks like?”

Nangong Min hurriedly nodded. This was his chance to impress his idol! He couldn't waste it!

He had the identificator display a keyboard and his fingers flew across the keys, adding a few parameters for the database to check. The results turned up and he looked at them together with Yuan Jing. Unfortunately … the plant they had seen wasn't among them and the percentage of the match the other plants had with the keywords he had chosen varied greatly.

Nangong Min frowned. ”I don't understand this. I definitely didn't add the wrong parameters. Why couldn't it be found?” He opened the search mask again and checked if he had accidentally typed in something wrong but no. He had used exactly the keywords he had thought of.

Nangong Min turned to Yuan Jing with a confused expression. Ah, this was so sad! Not only did he fail to show any results, but he didn't even understand why. His chance to make the Major appreciate him was definitely gone now.

Yuan Jing didn't mind though. He gently brushed Nangong Min's hair back and smiled. ”It's not a problem. Who knows? Maybe you've even encountered a plant that isn't in the database yet. We did some cursory checking on the planet before setting up the mission but not every one of the soldiers is knowledgeable about plants so they could have missed something like that.”

”Is that likely?”

”Well, at least, it's not impossible. Let's see if we can find out anything from the plants that match your description the best. It could be a subspecies that wasn't discovered yet or maybe a mutation of one of them.”

”Mn.” Nangong Min nodded and had the identificator display all the plants that matched well on different small screens. Then he looked at Yuan Jing again. He didn't know how to look for something like this so he could only rely on him.

Yuan Jing skimmed the information on the plants and frowned. The outer appearance of the plant that Nangong Min had described was very similar to two or three of the plants and they also shared some basic properties like the sap on the leaves so it could be assumed that they were from the same family.

So was this indeed a mutation? That wasn't good. Especially if he looked at what had happened to Nangong Min. Not only had he slept with someone he didn't feel attracted to out of his own initiative, but he couldn't even remember afterward. That wasn't just a trifle. This was a serious problem. Just imagine what this might mean if a military unit stumbled upon such a plant!

Yuan Jing furrowed his brows. They definitely had to find out more about this. He didn't like to but he still turned around to Kang Lei. ”Cadet Kang, what about you? Do you feel any different now compared to before you happened upon that plant?”

Kang Lei harrumphed but still shook his head. ”I'm an Alpha. How could some little plant be a problem for me?”