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It has been 40 minutes since Pioneer left the secondary hull behind at the shelter area to collect more data about those being known as Lifeform5, so far, nothing has gone wrong aside from Erika slapping herself to the point of losing consciousness. Why did she do it?. The core does not know the answer, and neither does Nexus nor the Data Processing complex.

While Pioneer was busy gathering more data in the shelter, the colony had been improved once again and renamed as well. Satellite Colony 1 is now a part of Main Colony and becomes a Super Colony known as 'Googleplex'.

Under Nexus's command, the Googleplex drives all of its available resources into expanding the base and continuously doing various researches to develop new technologies and apply them to the facilities and the drone army as upgrade and add-on module packages.

So far, Googleplex has finished 3 projects, two of which are facilities currently under construction in the colony, they are Multipower Super Reactor, which is a power production facility 10 times the size of a normal reactor with power production capability increased by fourteen-fold comparing to a normal magical energy reactor, and Experimental Nanite Swarm Factory Complex. Nexus will need both of these facilities to quickly build up more drones to keep up with the expansion in the future.

Currently in prototype testing stage, the Modularized Multipurpose Drone Platform, otherwise known as Beta as they are called by Nexus, is a promising multi-config and multi-purpose drone designed to replace the first drone generation. For an increase of 15% in production cost and 60% in complexity, Alpha's hull offers up to 18 module slots and a wide variety of modules to increase its versatility in many scenarios. If the testing goes well, then Alpha will be put into mass production immediately as the older drones get recalled for recycling, maybe Nexus will upgrade itself to Nexus X2 based on the next gen-drone platform as well.

For Pioneer...Since the core has already given most of its original works to Nexus and everyone else, and even if there have something bad happening to the colony, it can still contact with Nexus through the network and deal with it indirectly. Pioneer is going to stop worrying about the colony too much and start focusing on doing researches about this odd world now.

But first, Pioneer will have to find out what the meaning Lifeform5s' actions and words are...The core does not understand why the heck are those adventurers holding their crotches and shouting randomly at its temporary hull?.

"Toilet!. Don't you understand?. TOILET!. OUTHOUSE!, WHATEVER!."

"DAMN IT, WAKE UP ERIKA, WAKE U-!...Oooooh....It's comiiinggg..."

"HOLD IT CARIUS!. HOLD IT BACK!"

Pioneer observes a muscular looking warrior movements carefully as it takes note of his actions in full detail. This has been going on for about 7 minutes now, what is wrong with them actually?...Pioneer can feel their blood pressure increased quite a bit, but the core sees nothing wrong in it since those Lifeform5s seem a bit...active.

"I CAN'T HOLD IT!!!"

Pioneer watches the man quickly tiptoes toward the farthest corner of the shelter and...

[Nexus reporting: Data confirmed, it seems like those organic beings can not convert all matter into energy effectively, unusable material will be grouped with waste material and released out of their body after the power conversion process is finished.]

[Nexus reporting: General Purpose Drones are on their way to the shelter to collect waste material and perform shelter modification. Please wait]

Pioneer looks up at the ceiling slightly as it wonders if its makers do have that kind of need or not...If they do, Pioneer will need to tell Nexus to build waste collecting and processing facilities as well.

"...Carius...Waste...Leave them there."

Pioneer tries to say something while looking at the group before it notices everyone starts doing the same as Carius, at that moment Pioneer suddenly feels the urge to place the palm of its hand onto his face and wiggles its head slightly.

[Nexus reporting: Acknowledged, will scan unknown data]

"What in the hell is that SMELL?!"

Pioneer slowly looks over to Erika as the young knight wakes up from the bad odor which is starting to fill up the room. Once again the place is filled with loud shouting and foot stomping noise, Pioneer isn't sure if the bad odor is the real reason behind this, it does not even know if the air is bad as Pioneer does not breathe, it can only analyze the content of air around it.

"EH?!. WHAT THE FFFFF-"

[Warning: Violence level rising]

Pioneer decides to step in as it quickly orders its temporary body to get up and suppress chaotic event peacefully.

"LET US OUT!!!! IT STINK!!!!"

"EH?. DON'T YOU DARE COME NEAR ME MUSCLEBRAIN!"

"...Quiet."

[Energetic Heart is in effect]

The core decides to give everyone a little shock to get their attention before it motions everyone to sit down and stay quiet while waiting for the drones to come in and take care of the mess.

"Is she some kind of Archon descendant?"

"Angel maybe?"

"Erika, you one said your fat-"

"Say one more word, and I will stand up."

""""...""""

Erika and the adventurers whisper back and forth while sitting near the entrance in a line as they look up at Pioneer's humanoid hull which is emitting a pair of electron wings due to the lack of insulation in the back area of the hull

"Drones have arrived. Sit tight, do not move."

Pioneer speaks quietly with a flat tone before it switches back to its primary hull outside to step back a bit and make room for the drones to move in and do the cleaning and renovations, the waste material will be collected for research and recycle purpose and the shelter will get a few separate rooms for taking care of hygiene matters and waste collection/storing facilities.

"Pioneer...Ah...The dried meat...Not good for us...How do I say this...Ah...Can't eat, poison?"

Pioneer orders its secondary hull inside the shelter to observe Erika's gestures to guess what the girl meant, it understands that she is saying something about the dried meat, but it can't fully understand what she meant, maybe they don't like it?.

[Nexus reporting: Analyzing data.]

Pioneer quickly suppresses its Energetic Heart power before approaching Erika and taking the dried meat strip from her hand. Maybe the dried meat although suited their taste, it is not healthy for them...Maybe?.

"..."

Pioneer tries taking a bite to test its internal chemical analyzer, but the result is nothing impressive as it is only a bunch of chemical contents, at Pioneer and the colony current state, they have no data in regards to what is safe to eat and what is not as they don't eat, they just either plug into the system directly recharge or extend their power relay antennas to get some extra power indirectly. Maybe they should try capturing some live bugs to do testing on them to get more data about this matter.

"...Erika, this thing, how does it taste?. Taste?."

Pioneer points at the dried meat and the humanoid body's mouth as the adventurers jumped a bit after seeing Pioneer's sharp, inhuman teeth which resembled the giant ferocious bugs they fought earlier. Nexus made a small mistake in the design due to the lack of data it seemed.

"The taste of this thing, when you chew it, it gives off taste, how is the taste?"

[Nexus reporting: New landmark discovered, updating map]

Pioneer asks Erika again as it hops back to its primary body and leaves the area quickly to see the thing Nexus's drones just found, Pioneer will leave its secondary body behind to deal with Erika and others for the entire trip to things done as much as possible.

As the secondary body looks over to other adventurers behind Erika to check them and try speaking with them, some of the drones have finished dealing with the waste material and purged the place with its high-temperature electrical arc tool and others started working on the new waste containing and processing facilities as well.

Meanwhile, a new magical energy sensor phalanx facility has been constructed in the colony near the nuclear-glassed and Hirudocrystallus infested chamber, Satellite Colony 1, and it has detected a large magical signature slowly moving toward the area. Something big is coming toward them, and the Nexus drone stationed in the area will make sure the colony is prepared for it, the wall shall not fall.

[Nexus reporting: Requesting support in Satellite Colony 1]