Chapter 25 Taming

Chen Ming immediately frowned and closed the door of the storage compartment.

He first looked at the refrigerator where all his food was stored.

The door of the refrigerator was now closed, and there was no air leakage.

And the refrigerator must be opened and closed manually by pressing the button on the wall.

A hamster should not be able to open the button, steal food, run out and close the door.

So Chen Ming's eyes were cast on the dark corners of the storage compartment.

But Chen Ming searched for nearly half an hour and didn't find the hamster in a small room of only 25 square meters.

It was like finding a cockroach in the room, but it disappeared as soon as you turned around and couldn't be found at all.

Just when Chen Ming was about to give up, a slight grinding sound suddenly sounded in the quiet storage compartment.

Chen Ming immediately became alert and followed the source of the sound to look at an asteroid about the size of a human head that he had collected before landing on the planet.

Because the asteroid has a very angular appearance and almost forms a natural icosahedron, Chen Ming brought it back and put it in the storage compartment.

The little hamster was inside the asteroid at this time.

It dug through the rock layer outside the asteroid and dug a hole leading to the inside.

When Chen Ming looked into the hole, the little hamster was curled up and sleeping soundly.

The grinding sound just now was made when it was sleeping soundly.

Chen Ming's mouth twitched, and he took the opportunity to reach out and take it out while he hadn't taken off his protective suit yet.

He grabbed it by the back of the neck and stuffed it into another basket while the little hamster struggled desperately but uselessly.

Then he took out the terminal and took a photo of it.

Soon the search results appeared on the terminal.

"FC-103 hamster, also known as stone hamster, big-toothed hamster, and Fanchao pet hamster."

"A product of Fanchao Laboratory, a specially bred pet hamster breed, with a gentle personality, good activity, strong physical fitness and survival ability, and the hardness of its teeth and front paws exceeds that of most common metals..."

"It has a complex cerebral cortex, high IQ, and is very easy to tame..."

"It eats little, and only needs a small amount of food and water to survive for a long time..."

"It needs to regularly supplement trace iron elements, otherwise it may damage stone or metal products..."

Here are a few photos of the damage caused by the little hamster.

Chen Ming couldn't help but take a look at the basket and the ore dug up by it, and immediately had a clear understanding of the hardness of its teeth and claws.

However, these photos seem to have been taken in a scene similar to a laboratory.

Come to think of it, after all, as a pet, it must live in the city.

And the thing that is least lacking in the city is iron, and it is easy to supplement trace iron elements.

This strange behavior can only be discovered when the laboratory specifically studies it.

Chen Ming continued to read on.

"... likes to eat plant sprouts, but the laboratory staff said when the pet research was published that it only eats plant sprouts because it tastes good, and it doesn't matter if it is not fed."

"... Currently, due to the bad behavior of a certain association, this species is distributed on many planets, and there are different mutant varieties..."

The rest is some unimportant information. Chen Ming glanced at it casually and turned off the terminal.

Then he moved his eyes to the front.

"Artificially bred pets... um... what should I do..."

Chen Ming looked at the little hamster in the new cage, which was eager to move towards the iron cage itself, and fell into deep thought.

After thinking for a while, Chen Ming decided to keep it as a backup food.

Although it is only a bite, even if it is only one bite, it can save lives at a critical moment.

Chen Ming went outside to pull out a sprout of a crop in the field. When he turned back, he saw the little hamster squatting obediently.

But there were already several places on the iron cage that were bitten by it.

Chen Ming's mouth twitched again, he opened the lid, and stuffed the sprout into its arms.

The little hamster's eyes seemed to be shining, and it ate the sprout clean in a few bites, and continued to stare at Chen Ming.

"I'll give it to you tomorrow."

Chen Ming didn't know if the little hamster understood what he said.

But it really didn't move, just squatted in the cage obediently.

Chen Ming nodded slightly,

If it can really stay in the cage honestly, it's actually good for me to have a pet.

Then the next day.

Chen Ming found that the basket was bitten again.

Chen Ming searched in the storage cabin for a long time, and finally found the sleeping little hamster in the asteroid where it had dug a hole before.

Chen Ming didn't know whether to be angry or funny.

Anyway, Chen Ming immediately pulled out a seedling outside the spacecraft, returned to the storage cabin, took the little hamster out, and brought it to the broken cage.

He shook the fresh sprouts he had just pulled up in front of it, and then pointed to the place where it had bitten the basket.

Finally, he stuffed the sprouts into his mouth.

Seeing the hamster's eyes wide open and full of disbelief, Chen Ming was very satisfied.

Then he spent some time welding a cage for the hamster again and stuffed it in.

Finally, he pulled out another sprout and handed it to it.

Seeing the hamster nibbling the sprouts with satisfaction, Chen Ming sighed slightly.

Let's wait and see. If it can be tamed, it would be the best.

But if it can't be tamed, it's better to treat it as food to prevent it from destroying the spaceship one day.

But when Chen Ming came back from outside that day, the hamster was still quietly staying in the cage and didn't continue to bite the cage.

The wide-open watery eyes stared at Chen Ming, as if waiting for something.

Chen Ming smiled, turned around and pulled out a sprout outside the spaceship and handed it to it.

Looking at the satisfied expression of the little hamster, Chen Ming is now sure that this little hamster can be kept as a pet.

Having a little animal around does add some spice to Chen Ming's boring life every day.

He may have to fly in the unmanned space for a long time in the near future, and it would be nice to have a living animal to accompany him.

And if the records on the terminal are correct, the little hamster needs very little food to survive every day, which is almost equivalent to the fraction of Chen Ming's daily needs multiplied by 0.1.

The actual material that Chen Ming needs to pay for raising a pet is completely not on the same level as the spiritual satisfaction he gains.

And as I said before, this little guy is really at the last moment, and can be used as Chen Ming's spare rations.

The little hamster seemed to feel something, and his body suddenly shook. After looking around and finding nothing, he continued to concentrate on the food in his hand.