[Tempest Row - Shunt's Neighborhood]

As the weird canister is manhandled, anyone with any degree of biology knowledge will probably be able to tell that the 'glowing' green goop is just algae suspended in a nutrient solution. It only APPEARS to be glowing due to lamps on the inside of the canister supplying the algae with light.

What would the point of such a thing be?

And why on earth would Doctor Diabolical be interest in it?

More questions are added when the metal worker gives a yell as he peels away the outer armor plating from one of the robots Shunt had smashed the torso of.

"Ugh! It smells like something rotten got cooked in there."

Sure enough, there's a strong scent of broiled fat to go along with the whiff of ozone from cut metal and quenched hyper-capacitors.

Why would there be something organic inside-

Oh right!

Doctor Diabolical's 'robots' tend to have brains in them. Though it sounds like the one being observed at the moment isn't very intact. They would need to have an un-exploded torso to get any real information on them considering that sufficient heat to sublimate steel is going to cook neural tissue in a hurry.