The plastic shaving begins to dissolve into a mush that the spores is able to slurp up.
Interesting. You egg it on to spit out some more liquid before promptly moving to collect the liquid coated plastic.

You examine the liquid with your limited chemical testing supplies. Whatever it just spat out is filled to the brim with digestive enzymes. There's one that dissolves plastic, yes, but there's also enzymes that allow for the digestion of meat, fruits and leaves.

Odd. It can digest meat but it refuses to be in direct contact with it.

You carefully put some of the enzyme heavy fluid onto a small slice of spam you placed on another microscope slide. The fluid rapidly dissolves at the spam until there's nothing left but a heavily dissolved meat slurry.

Huh! You don't really have a good way of producing, harvesting or even modifying this fluid to dissolve other things BUT this is honestly remarkable. An enzyme slurry that's able to digest microplastic alongside food waste?

This could be something you could sell. The issue is finding out how to actually get enough of it to experiment with. You only managed to get a very small amount of it from your quick test - Not remotely enough to dissolve anything of value.

You'll certainly keep that in mind whenever you come back here to do more science stuff.
>END OF SHIFT has arrived!
https://youtu.be/0aLYcW6qM-k - SHIFT COMPLETE!

Two sharp digital notes crackle out from the speakers outside. The same tired woman from yesterday speaks up, "Attention, uh, all researchers." You can still hear her shuffling through some papers. "The work day is over. Please head to the cafeteria. Oh, quick announcement for our, uh, new Level 0 and Level 1 recruits."

"Tomorrow, you will be getting your first sponsorships. For that sick cash money. Not all recruits will get one so, uh, lucky you if you find one. I guess. I dunno." The intercom crackles off.

You re-equip your now dried labcoat. You quickly shut off your computer so it doesn't burn itself out from staying on too long and you spend a few minutes putting everything up. You make sure the CIGARETTE MOLD samples are nice and secure before you exit the lab.

You do some basic stretches now that your shift is done and over with. God, you really do need to exercise. Your body feels like it belongs to an old man. Guess sitting around on your ass like a lazy sack of shit does not do a body good, does it?

You mull over what you'll do now that you're off the clock. You could go directly to the cafeteria, sure, but there's a few locations of interest you could check out instead. You might also wanna use this free time to do personal projects or to, well, unwind.

What do you do, Vincent? Pick the first thing you wanna do - You'll have time to do two, MAYBE three, things before being sent to your barracks to do catalog shopping.