Two liquid metal flying blades sliced through the yellow and black seal on the portable freezer's surface. Six tentacle-like fungal hyphae instantly entered a fourteen-digit password on the keypad of the combination lock. Accompanied by a soft "click," the lid of the freezer bounced open to form a thin crack, and a white icy mist surged out from the gap.
Contained within the freezer was the "power source" of the collection equipment.
This was a type of anomalous entity, appearing much like a common eel, except its body membrane exhibited a unique metallic texture, as if wrapped in a layer of mercury.
The strange entity was housed in a cylindrical container 15 centimeters in diameter and 45 centimeters in length. The middle of the container was transparent glass, clearly revealing the curled-up creature within and the pale yellow liquid filling the entire container.
