Wang Zhifan glanced calmly at the gray square box the young Asian scientist picked up, not stopping him from further contact research on this object.

Because he actually discovered this object earlier than the young man did, his intuition told him it was just a cold, dead object, fundamentally no different from other things around.

Captain Jessica then used the micro-thrusters on her spacesuit to quickly approach the young scientist, took the small cubic creation from his hands, and started scanning it with her portable detector.

Complex three-dimensional graphics formed from lines of virtual and real soon appeared and continuously refreshed on the detector's screen, seemingly drawing its internal structure, and Jessica, staring at the screen for just a second, called the young Black woman over the local comms network.

"Suzy! Come and take a look! This might be some kind of electronic device! We need your professional judgment!"

Her words suggested that the reason this team of scientist explorers consisted of multiple people was to ensure that the team had a wide range of expertise to accurately assess the value of objects on-site.

The punk-style Black sister then maneuvered her slightly bulky spacesuit over, tilted her head to check the screen of the detector in Captain Jessica's hand, and reached her conclusion in just a few seconds.

"This arrangement must be an artifact of intelligent civilization, but whether it's a microchip or some kind of special precision equipment, I'm not sure yet. It doesn't match any chip architecture I know of. We need to take it back to the mothership for further research."

"Add this item to the samples. You guys look for other things. I'll continue collecting data."

As soon as the Black sister confirmed the research value of the square box, Captain Jessica immediately decided, then carefully placed the box into her backpack and continued with other tasks.

Wang Zhifan was arguably the most leisurely at the entire ruins site; he specifically stepped outside the area where the four scientists were working to avoid disturbing them, his gaze constantly roaming over the scientists searching intently, the clone soldiers paving the way on the outskirts, and the pitch-dark, quiet depths of the ruins. But until the end of this investigation, he didn't find any danger, making it an utterly uneventful exploration, at least for him as a security officer.

And since the exploration of the ruins was carried out in phases, after the team had spent four hours inspecting the entire alien spaceship, they smoothly returned to the nearby waiting ship, taking selected samples back to the Brave mothership.

Therefore, when Wang Zhifan set foot back on the firm deck of the Brave, he couldn't help but feel that this mission was perhaps too simple, more like a joke, without even a minor hiccup.

"Mr. Wang, thank you! I hope our next collaboration will also be with your team!"

Jessica seemed very polite and didn't have any complaints over Wang Zhifan's security team not being put to use. Perhaps they knew that the ideal situation for the security team was not to be needed, because that meant everyone could return safely and in one piece.

"No need to thank me! I also look forward to our next collaboration!"

Wang Zhifan naturally responded in kind to the friendly gesture, exchanging a few more pleasantries before returning to his office on the mothership.

He then began writing a detailed report on the mission in the office, a necessary procedure he learned when investigating personal data before, even if his task was just leisurely wandering for a few hours, he needed to report it truthfully.

"It was indeed a somewhat dull mission... but being able to see such extraordinary alien artifacts made it worthwhile, the only pity is that we could just take a look, no one might ever know what this really is..."

After the first mission, Wang Zhifan harbored a sense of regret, even feeling tempted to use fortune-telling techniques to deduce the origin of the alien artifact, but rationality restrained him, as he didn't want any unintended consequences.

"I should take the opportunity to stroll around while I'm free, such a vast spaceship, I need to understand its structure, otherwise next time something happens, I'll have to rely on clone soldiers to guide me."

After finishing the mission report and submitting it, Wang Zhifan soon left his office, beginning to freely explore the enormous and multi-leveled interior of the Brave, intentionally not bringing any clone subordinates.

He discovered that his office neighbored two empty, unoccupied rooms, which originally belonged to other security team leaders, but due to a previous parasite incident, those individuals had all perished, so he didn't see any colleagues now.

But don't assume there are so few people in the entire security department. On the Brave, the security team members are evenly distributed throughout the ship's populated areas, so the actual situation is that only he and those deceased security section official members, along with clone soldiers, are in this area, while his other colleagues are responsible for the safety and stability of other ship areas or have been dispatched elsewhere for exploration missions.

At this moment, he left the sparsely populated office area, moving to the largest area on the Brave: the laboratory area. This region is also referred to as the research area or science area, because everywhere are people in white researcher uniforms busily engaged; these scientists are almost entirely selected from Earth's top ranks, following the Brave into deep space to fulfill personal aspirations, with none merely wanting to muddle through the days, occupying such a high-end place.

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