"Mad cow disease?"
"that is, human prion disease, in which the brain of a patient becomes like a sponge full of holes, was very common in some primitive cannibal tribes in the old times."
"Do you suspect that it eats people … ah, not by eating the same kind of life?" Collins asked.
"But now this speculation can be ruled out."
Listening to the dialogue between the two people, Kelan is almost anxious-I want to know what this monster eats to give birth to you, why not dissect its digestive organs? Why bother to go to the skull!
It’s a waste of time …
Chapter six hundred and seventy-three Oatmeal
When Kelan was "furious", some people finally had this problem-Keno pointed to the abdominal cavity of the body that was taken out, but it was still connected with the intestine and said, "Maybe we can cut its stomach and have a look …"
"That’s great! Doctoral students save the world … "Kelan suddenly had an impulse to burst into tears.
"ah!" Liao woke up and was surprised. "I was the first to enter the office. I always thought about the possibility of prion and forgot this … it was a fatal mistake."
He shook his head in some chagrin and then picked up the monster’s stomach sac and cut it.
But soon they found that things seemed more troublesome …
The food in the monster’s stomach … seems to be some kind of finely processed cooked food, rather than "eating like a bird’s feed" as everyone imagined.
From the food residues that have not been melted by stomach acid, you can vaguely distinguish things like "starch artificial meat" and paste into a ball of cereal
These things are almost the same as the ark people eating canned or bagged food.
Where did all this food come from?
Ke Lan is also puzzled-he has explored so many Alpha ruins and never found anything that can be defined as "food" by human eyes, let alone such "grounded" things as lunch meat and cereal.
Ark researchers once thought that alphas need to eat like humans to get energy, and the way they get energy may be more direct, with less loss and higher interest rate-this is completely in line with an advanced conjecture.
Ke Lan remembers that in the Dirac Sea created by Park Sang-woo of Aguna Kotor’s department, he once saw pictures of suspected alphas eating-those creatures have a human bust, but they are made up of tentacles like octopus, and their bodies are connected with a hose, and light gray viscous substances are slowly injected into them along the pipe.
Regardless of whether these creatures are said to be alpha, they don’t know whether they can eat or not, but whether there are food residues in the digestive organs of this kind of human monster corpse?
"This is our human food …" Liao woke up and picked up a handful of food residue and gently rubbed it. "You see … there is even complete cereal here … I can even recognize it as oatmeal …"
He paused and looked at others. "Have you seen oats … or something like that on Alpha?"
Keno thought for a few seconds before he shook his head. "Things that can grow live on the surface of Alpha and can barely meet the food conditions … I know a kind of gray potato. In addition, I heard that some fungi can also be eaten, but it will have a strong stimulus to the digestive system. Only people who have strengthened or modified digestive organs can eat it."
"Yes, there are gray potatoes to plant Alpha Star in the unmodified surface environment, but it is impossible to live on this damn planet … Otherwise, the vast wasteland around the ark has already been cultivated into farmland, and the price gap between natural flour and synthetic flour in the market will not be more than ten times." Liao Xing nods.
"Maybe this monster eats from the Ark …" Sergeant Ken left his pie mouth. "Even in the exile camp, it’s not strange to find out that there are several bags of cereal scattered in the wilderness in recent years and picked up by these monsters, is it?"
"If this is wheat, it’s not surprising, but it’s oats," Liao Xing continued. "Because of the flour yield and taste, even the planting area of oats in the old era is far less than that of three major grains, one wheat, and now there are only a few agricultural bases to grow oats in scale."
"Less … but not without …" Collins wondered.
"The common people in the Ark won’t eliminate oats, and there will be no oatmeal system in the list of various military supplies … This old era was mainly used as animal feed. This era has become an expensive luxury, and it will appear at the rich table without being taken to the wilderness."
"Doctor, what are you trying to say?" Sergeant Ken frowned.
"These oats are probably not from the ark."
"But you also said that Alpha Oats can’t grow," Sergeant Ken said. "Did the Alpha also build agricultural facilities to simulate the earth’s environment? Even if there are, where do they come from? "
"We know too little about Alpha Star and Alpha Wen." Liao woke up and shook his head. "If we want to find more information about this corpse, it is not enough to rely on the tools and equipment at hand. We have to find a way to keep it and bring it back to the ark."
"There is a body bag, but where are we going to get so much formalin?" Collins: "If we just put the body into the body bag, I’m afraid it will have rotted by the time we get back."
"This" Liao Xing tore a bag to prepare normal saline and sodium chloride powder, and spread these white powders evenly on the surface and body of the corpse.
"Is this ok?" Collins was a little stunned.
"People sent salt thousands of years ago to preserve food and prolong its shelf life. The high-concentration salt solution has good antiseptic and bactericidal effect, and the body can be preserved if necessary," Liao Xing replied.
"Food protection method to protect the body …" Collins felt a twinge of discomfort in his throat, and it seemed that there was sour water coming out at any time … even Kelan had an impulse to vomit.
Salt to protect the body … To say the most famous is the second emperor of Liao Dynasty in the old era, Liao Taizong Yelvdeguang, who died suddenly on his way back from the south expedition. At that time, it was summer, and the queen mother asked that Yelvdeguang’s body must be returned to the emperor in good condition. Nai, a civil and military minister, also listened to an army chef’s suggestion to protect Yelvdeguang’s body with salt.
Although Ye Ludeguang’s body didn’t rot, when it was sent to the queen mother, it was no different from a kind of bacon called "Lao" … The chef who came up with this idea didn’t remember it in the official history, but it wouldn’t be much better if he wanted to come to the scene …
Chapter six hundred and seventy-four Canned Inscription
Apply sodium chloride, then bandage the corpse, cut it into the chest and abdomen, and stuff it into the body bag. The whole anatomical process is complete.
The person responsible for carrying the body bag is Collins. As soon as he threw the body bag on his back, Koran found that the body of this humanoid monster was really light-although a lot of blood was lost during the autopsy, the weight of the body bag was even less than 20 kilograms … You know, the height of this humanoid monster was close to 160 centimeters.
One hundred and sixty centimeters tall and twenty or thirty kilograms in weight … Kelan couldn’t help thinking about the photos of anorexia patients she had seen online.
But the problem is … this humanoid monster digests a lot of undigested food residues. In a way, "it" is not short of food. What will become like this?
But if you want to get the answer, you must conduct a detailed examination of this body … Only Ark research or medical institutions can have such conditions, but Ke Lan also knows that the 776 special team bought a one-way ticket.
They can’t come back, and this corpse sample will never be brought back to the ark.
Special unit 776, keep moving.
The rotunda is connected with three narrow aisles, and the other end of the aisles is similar to the rotunda. Many rotundas are connected together to form a honeycomb network … This structure reminds people of the graphene structure diagram.
(Graphene injection means that there is only one layer of carbon "extremely thin" graphite sheet, and the horizontal plane of carbon structure is arranged in a honeycomb shape)
Martin holds a tablet in his hand, and every time he finds a new rotunda, he will be drawn by drawing software, and soon a map like a beehive will appear on the screen.
"It’s a little strange …" Kino looked at the "map" that Martin shared in the team channel and said, "These halls arranged in a honeycomb structure are very open, not to mention the living things except the humanoid monster that I met before. Don’t you think it’s strange that the walls, floors and ceilings are smooth and smooth without additional devices, equipment and machines?"
"Yes, it’s too big to even have garbage," Connelly answered. "So we can’t even judge these halls …"
"I have a rough guess about these halls," Keno added. "If this relic is really an engine, then the crater at the top of the cone should be the engine nozzle, and these honeycomb halls where we are now are located are just outside the nozzle profile … Plus, the metal walls of these halls are seamless and there are no gaps or holes. I suspect that these halls are used to cool the coolant … just like the copper tubes exposed by the off-road vehicle engine."
"According to you … are we always spinning in the cooling tank?" Connelly some nai said.
"Even the cooling tank must have a diversion port and an access port," Gino said. "The crack we just came in should be an access port."
"If your guess is correct," Sergeant Ken debuted, "the manhole will set the outer edge of the cooling tank, and we just need to move along the edge."
"hmm"
……
776 special squad all around the outer edge of the whole site for less than half a circle and finally found the second exit.
This exit was blocked by a heavy airtight door. After hitting the airtight door, a step appeared in front of the 776 special team.
Walking in front of a few people looked at each other and couldn’t help showing a trace of excitement in each other’s eyes-although there is a high probability of unknown danger, it is better than walking through the network of cooling tanks.
"Be careful of the steep stairs, one by one," Sergeant Ken said, patting Martin on the shoulder. "You are the first."
"Oh …" Martin nodded reluctantly, picked up his gun and walked slowly step by step against the leather rail tactician and the searchlight behind Samuel’s armored shoulder.