Chapter 150 : Chapter 150
150. Alien Lives Are Lives Too
As an evil scientist, Yi Ning was someone with a great deal of initiative.
On the very first day after turning into a girl, she had gone out to buy dresses and underwear she could wear. Even if she wasn’t used to skirts or bras, she practiced wearing them persistently.
Now, she could comfortably wear lingerie and a skirt at home and admire herself in the mirror.
Of course, she also secretly enjoyed the peculiar thrill that came from the initial embarrassment of wearing women’s clothes.
So, now that a real, official organization had told her to clean up her own mess, there was no way she would do nothing.
After all, unlike that Cosmic Environmental Protection Association, the Cosmic Civilization Protection Committee could actually punish her.
For example, they could shut down “Dr. Alien’s Little Evil Shop” on the interstellar trading platform—the shop she had worked so hard to earn a Gold Seller badge for. All it would take was a single “snap,” and it would be gone.
So when she received the Committee’s notice, Yi Ning hadn’t dared to rest for a second.
It was just… what she had actually done was far too morally questionable, so she didn’t dare tell Lu Zheng.
But under his pressing gaze, she found she couldn’t withstand the pressure and decided to selectively confess.
“Uh… well… it’s not like I did nothing...”
She lowered her head, her hands lightly clasped, thumbs fidgeting against each other.
“When I got the message, I immediately emailed the Cosmic Civilization Protection Committee to ask if they had any clues. But they replied that they didn’t know for sure. Right now, they’re busy handling several other civilizations that are on the verge of destruction—ninety percent of their Civilization Survival Monitoring Unit’s computational power is focused there. They said my case isn’t that urgent yet, and I should try to handle it myself first. If I really can’t solve it, or once they free up some resources, they’ll step in.”
“And in these past few days, what have you done?”
Hearing Lu Zheng’s question, Yi Ning froze.
She hesitated for a few seconds, then tried to fudge an answer.
“These past few days, I… went to observe the environment around that planet…”
“Oh? Worried there might be external factors causing your dumped garbage to mutate?”
Lu Zheng nodded, seemingly not suspicious of her words.
“Yes, yes, exactly.”
Yi Ning nodded quickly, afraid he’d think too long and uncover her real intentions, and hurried to report her “findings.”
“Unfortunately—oh, I mean fortunately, yes, fortunately—the planet’s surroundings are very stable. The sun is in its prime, so no risk of suddenly burning out. The surrounding space is abnormally stable, so no chance of a spatial rift tearing the planet apart. And the nearby asteroid belt doesn’t have any large-diameter asteroids going off course—so no tragic, Earth-shattering meteor impacts…”
Out of Lu Zheng’s sight, Yi Ning wiped a bead of cold sweat from her brow.
She had almost exposed her true, wolfish ambitions.
In reality, the first thing she’d done upon hearing the news was check whether there were any natural disasters nearby she could lure over to directly destroy the civilization.
What did the fate of that planet’s people matter to her?
As long as it didn’t get destroyed by her trash, the Cosmic Civilization Protection Committee couldn’t hold her accountable.
The rest? She didn’t care.
If Lu Zheng knew about this heartless plan, she wouldn’t just get a punch to the left or right cheek—she’d be getting a full barrage of ora ora ora.
Luckily, he didn’t dwell on her tone.
After hearing her report, he only nodded slightly.
“So, nothing in the planet’s surroundings could have caused the mutation in your garbage, right?”
She nodded again. “Yes, yes, yes, exactly.”
“That makes things trickier… We can’t pinpoint what caused the mutation.”
Lu Zheng sighed, looking a little dejected.
Still… what could possibly make garbage mutate to the point of threatening an entire civilization?
Wait.
A thought flashed in Lu Zheng’s mind—he remembered the extradimensional trash bin he’d seen in Yi Ning’s lab.
If there was anything that could send garbage to another planet, it was that thing.
But it was mounted right in her lab wall—was she really only dumping ordinary trash into it?
He quickly looked at her. “What exactly did you throw onto that planet?”
Yi Ning tilted her head in puzzlement.
She knew Lu Zheng had seen the bin before, so she wasn’t sure why he’d ask—wasn’t it obvious?
Still, seeing the seriousness in his eyes, she raised a hand to count on her fingers as she explained.
“Just some daily trash, waste from experiments, discarded parts, or inventions with obvious defects. But ever since I graduated and started running my own lab, I haven’t been wasteful enough to throw away whole items anymore. Unlike at the school lab, my remaining funds now are my own.”
Inventions with obvious defects…
Hearing that, and remembering the outrageous things Yi Ning usually made, Lu Zheng instantly understood why that civilization might be in danger.
Had she accidentally created something like a galaxy-destroying bomb, which the locals had now triggered and was merrily counting down?
He felt his blood pressure spike again.
Couldn’t she just behave herself?
Why did she have to toss everything onto alien worlds?
He barely managed to suppress his anger and the urge to jab a finger in her face, forcing a thin smile.
“Would you mind telling me, dear Yi Ning, why you decided to throw those defective inventions onto someone else’s planet?”
“Uh…”
Seeing the fake smile plastered on Lu Zheng’s face, Yi Ning shrank down and lowered her head.
“Because back then the funding was the school’s. Since I couldn’t use it all up anyway, I couldn’t be bothered to take things apart—tossing them was easier. And I went there early, so I didn’t know there’d be a civilization. Honestly.”
She ventured a small defense for herself.
That wasn’t entirely a lie.
When she first scouted the planet, life hadn’t appeared yet, though she’d noticed it had the conditions for it. But since life’s emergence was full of uncertainties, she hadn’t cared. She went once and never thought about it again.
Life or no life—what was that to Yi Ning?
It didn’t stop her from dumping trash.
Lu Zheng no longer even wanted to lecture her.
If she weren’t his friend, he would’ve grabbed her by the collar, slammed her to the floor, and stomped her face a few times—just to vent on behalf of those poor, unlucky aliens.
After calming his breathing, he looked at her again.
“What exactly were those defective inventions you threw out? Think carefully. Which of them could destroy an entire civilization?”