sister chaos nodded, and they started working, it was easy to see who had the experience, even if she was using an unfamiliar method, sister chaos was proceeding much faster than Daniel
while he analyzed one sample, she did three of them, and in less time than daniel anticipated, they had already collected all the data of the specimen he captured, but it wasn't enough and with a gesture from sister chaos, some strange creature appeared, and after she ordered them in a language Daniel didn't know, they exited the lab, and sister chaos said "I sent some of my pets to get more specimen"
Daniel nodded and said "thanks I just realized this was nowhere near enough"
while they kept working the strange creatures summoned by sister chaos, with tentacles instead of arms and furry bodies, looking like something out of a mad person's nightmare, started to go through the entire retakian sea, capturing various mollusks, crustaceans, plants, and fishes, that they still hadn't cataloged, this data was necessary to develop a jellyfish who wouldn't disturb the already critically endangered local ecology
as the samples arrived, they were processed by daniel or sister chaos, then the data was saved in Tickles database, who then used the maru's to free the creatures that daniel wasn't interested in, while some were kept for further studies in big tanks, who simulated the right environment
sister chaos noticed and said "why do you keep those?"
Daniel said "they look delicious, and I want to study them afterward, maybe bring some of them back as souvenirs for my grandpa, now that I think about it, I also need to seek souvenirs for the rest of the family, but it's quite easy, some books for grandma, saplings for mom and some local music for dad"
sister chaos laughed and said "it seems that your family it's pretty close, I wish I knew what that was like" with a sad frown at the end
daniel smiled and said "you will know soon, when your experiment it's successful, you will share your genes with someone so he or she will be your family, right?" to cheer her up
sister chaos smiled brightly, and said "you are right, I will have a real family member in the future" nodding to daniel before going back to work
they worked happily and while sharing information, Daniel learned even more, even sister chaos learned some things from the new prospective
after a while, the specimen started to arrive at a slower rate, as the number of cataloged species increased, it was becoming increasingly difficult for the creatures to find more specimens, and since they were bored while waiting, Daniel asked sister chaos something else, he wanted to be sure about, that he got it right and this knowledge couldn't be used to make him older, so after explaining her his condition he asked "can this be used to make me older? I don't care about cultivation, I just want to look like an adult"
sister chaos didn't care anymore how he got here, or if he was faking weakness, she could feel he wasn't lying and was just happy to have a friend, someone she could talk to, so she thought about it seriously, and said "from what you said, you are not from a normal family, and are in the end something akin to royalty since both your parents are close to the eight stage, you not only have a superior gene pool but also a harsher mutation, from your ability to open wormhole your element it's probably related to space-time, but it's impossible to understand in what way or how it works, the only way to understand it would be trial and error, that in your condition it's impossible"
sister chaos sighed and continued "from a genetic point of view, you should be in a similar situation to mine, your mutated genes are too powerful and stable to be mixed or destabilized, so it's impossible to intervene with genetic manipulation on yourself, sorry"
Daniel thought about it, then said "it's ok, I should just get used to this since I won't grow much more, but what did you mean with space-time? will I be able to travel through time as well?"
sister chaos smiled and said "not exactly, after 100000 lightyears a second, going faster is considered time travel, so technically when you traveled here through the wormhole you already traveled through time, but instead of going in the past or the future, you went in the present of another galaxy"
Daniel thought about it and said "it makes sense, not even grandpa that can teleport can go this far so fast, so I skipped the time of the travel and reached the destination, I see how it can be described as time travel, but how does it work? it's like bending the space between the two galaxies?"
sister chaos laughed and said "not at all, when I was weak and young I escaped through my fair share of wormholes and learned a few things, a wormhole can take a person anywhere and nowhere, you just happened to go down at this stop, so if what you said was correct, all space would be smashed in the same point, a wormhole it's more like a shortcut, in theory, if 10 people enter it without touching, each would end up in a different point in the universe, that's why, it's impossible to predict were one ends up, but to end up in the same place, you have to keep contact with whatever or whoever you are traveling with, while going exactly where you want, its the same as one retakian winning the lottery every day for a decade"
Daniel thought about it, then said "I don't know why, but I feel like I can go where I want, I had this sensation when it opened, and I did end up in front of a sea as I was imagining at the time"
sister chaos nodded and said "it's your innate ability, so if someone can control it it's you, but don't take it as a certainty, no one ever controlled a wormhole before, there was barely one person in the past that could predict where they would open, and he was torn apart by the people who wanted to use him, so you should pay attention on how you use your ability, and whom you show it to"
Daniel stayed silent for a moment then said "I understand"
sister chaos thought she exaggerated a little, so she said "cheer up, it's not that bleak, and you have another thing that most cultivators want"
Daniel thought about it then pointed his finger to Tickles
sister chaos laughed and said "most cultivators would not be able to do anything with it, scratch that, almost no one, cultivator or not would be able to use him, I meant that there are many cultivators who try to take a more youthful appearance and fail, they will be probably jealous of your predicament"
Daniel made a small smile and said "maybe" before going back to work on the new specimen that arrived, sister chaos was about to add something but was also stopped by the arrival of a new specimen
Daniel started to think about what sister chaos said, about the person torn apart for his ability, but he wasn't scared, he was angry, if those people didn't mind their own business, Daniel would give them a piece of his mind
now he didn't want to make more powerful robots just to go fishing, he wanted to be armed to the teeth so that no one would dare bother him, he decided that the next time he used Tickles ability, he would make it count, with either something worthwhile or the cloaking badge, not only for the technology behind them, but also because, from the two times he used it, it's obvious that Tickles would grow more with those more advanced technologies
soon later it was starting to get dark outside, and thanks to the powerful creatures summoned by sister chaos, they had catalogued almost every species still living in the seas of retak, Daniel was lucky to end up on such a low level planet, here there were no dangers, and he could do everything he wanted, the retakians were still occupied with civil unrest, and research on ways to survive, and no one realized the noise Daniel was making in this large industrial park
sister chaos once again offered to prepare dinner, so daniel went to select more accurately the fishes and crustaceans to keep, among them he choose 4 he was really interested in, they were a fridge size blue lobster with colorful patterns, a tiny white squid that could fit in a ping pong ball, a 5 mt long electric eel, and a 20 kg saltwater carp, that was a very loud shade of pink, this carp was found in the sea depths over 300mt from the surface, there was an entire school of them down there, according to the gurgles that sister chaos translated from the creature that brought it back
Daniel was happy with this 4, keeping more would be a burden, but he also needed more of the same species, so he asked sister chaos, that answered that it wasn't a problem and ordered her creatures to catch more
soon later Daniel and sister chaos had dinner, this time with some kind of grain, boiled in a mushroom and vegetable broth, Daniel was starting to get really sick of eating mushrooms, but sister chaos skills didn't disappoint and today Daniel had nothing to complain about
while eating, sister chaos was curious about the interaction between family, so she asked him "since now you have a method of communication, did you contact your parents?"
Daniel looked down and said "I sent them a message using Tickles, the last time he used his ability, but I haven't contacted them since then"
sister chaos was confused, after all, he was talking about souvenirs for them just a few hours ago, and said "why didn't you, they must be worried, after all, they must have fought you were dead before"
Daniel got a confused frown on his face and asked "dead?"
sister chaos nodded and said "of course, it's obvious now that your evolved body protected you, but if a normal human or a cultivator below the sixth stage enters a wormhole without some sort of energy shield only soup comes out of the end"
Daniel continued to have a confused frown and asked "soup?"
sister chaos once again nodded and said "yes, without protection the body would be swept by time-space turbulence, the only two results are soup or soup dust, I thought you knew it"
Daniel thought about it for a moment then said "I had my doubts, but the travel was so fast I barely had any thought about it, the only thing that happened to me is that I felt really cold for a moment and then I was here"
sister chaos smiled and said "well that is obvious, after all even if just for a millisecond you were in space, the distance may seem short but you traveled millions of lightyears in a heartbeat"
Daniel wore a confused look again and said "how do you know the distance?"
sister chaos smiled at him and said, "you are royalty, your parents are both a step from the eighth stage, your grandma wants books, your mother saplings, and your father music, I'm pretty sure you're talking about the specters in the sun federation"
Daniel laughed and said "so we are famous even here?"
sister chaos was confused and asked "don't you know it? I bet there are dozens of websites about you already"
Daniel shook his head and said "almost no one knows about me, my family said that they wanted to keep me a secret since before I was born, to shield me from the reporters, but I still think it has to do with the fact that I can't cultivate, apparently everyone in the specter family, was, at a certain point, a powerful cultivator, but I can't even be a lousy one, I don't have any proof but it's the way they look at me that makes me have these thoughts, I know they love me and all that, but . . . it just makes me feel strange"
sister chaos had the urge to pat his head and while doing it said "you seem pretty amazing to me, no cultivator can do what you did here at you age, even if you triple that age, they still can't, so you don't have to worry, I'm sure they already realized how powerful you really are"
Daniel nodded and said "you are right, usually children my age are first or second stage if they are geniuses, I have third stage robots at my command, so I am more powerful"
his eyes were on fire at this moment, sister chaos was happy thinking she cheered him up, but in reality, no one could tell what Daniel was really thinking about now