Chapter 158: Farm of Feelings
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Back home, he sterilized a cooking ladle with his flame, poured warm gel into Sphere 1, and injected spores. He sealed the access rune.
The microbes looked like flickers of green dust swirling inside the gel. Kent set the sphere on a cradle and attached a heat rune with adjustable dial.
He started Prototype Cycle 0: Room temp 4 h.
System pinged within minutes:
[New Emotional Source detected]
Feeling: Mild Curiosity +2, +2 +2…. SP.
Kent whooped. "They're alive. And they feel."
He cooled the sphere for six hours, no fresh nutrients. At hour three, microbes darkened, movement sluggish.
System pinged:
Distress +1, +2, 1+, 2… SP
Distress +1, +2, 1+, 2… SP
Kent flipped the feed valve, letting a thread of fresh gel flow. Within seconds, microbes glowed soft turquoise and swam vigorously.
Joy +2 SP
Relief +2 SP
