Just when Ke Lan was "incompetent and furious", some people present finally asked this question - Keno pointed to the stomach sac that was removed from the abdominal cavity of the body, but was still connected to the intestines and said: "Maybe,

We can cut its stomach and look at it..."

"That's great! Doctoral students save the world..." Ke Lan suddenly had an urge to burst into tears.

"Ah!" Liao Xing was shocked, "I had my preconceived ideas and had been thinking about the possibility of prions, and forgot about this...a fatal mistake."

He shook his head with some annoyance, then picked up the monster's stomach sac and cut it open.

But soon, they found that things seemed to be more troublesome...

The food in the monster's stomach sac... seems to be some kind of finely processed cooked food, rather than the "eating raw meat and drinking blood" that everyone imagines.

From the food residues that have not yet been melted by stomach acid, you can vaguely distinguish the blocky "starch artificial meat" and things like cereal that are formed into a ball.

These things are almost no different from the canned or bagged food that people on the Ark eat.

Where did the food it eats from?

Ke Lan was also confused - he had explored so many relics of the Alpha civilization, and had never found anything in the remains that could be defined as "food" from the perspective of humans, let alone lunch meat and cereals.

Such a "down-to-earth" thing.

Researchers on the Ark once believed that Alpha people did not need to eat energy like humans, and that their way of obtaining energy might be more direct, with less loss and higher utilization rates - this is perfectly in line with an advanced civilization.

The guess is.

Ke Lan remembers that in the "Sea of ​​Dirac" created by "Park Sang-woo", he once saw a picture of suspected Alpha people eating - those creatures have upper body similar to humans, but lower body

It is made up of tentacles like octopuses. They are connected to a transparent hose, and light gray viscous substances are slowly injected into their bodies along the tube.

Not to mention whether these creatures are the legendary Alpha people, nor whether their behavior is eating, but in short, there is nothing with the corpse of the humanoid monster in front of you and the food residue found in the digestive organs of the corpse.

relation.

"This is our human food..." Liao Xing pinched a small pinch of food residue with his fingers and gently rubbed it open, "Look... there is even a complete cereal here... I can even recognize it

This is oatmeal…”

He paused and looked at the others: "Have you ever seen oats on Alpha Star... or similar crops?"

Keno thought for a few seconds before shook his head: "Crops that can live on the surface of Alpha Star and can barely meet the conditions for food... I only know one type of gray potato, and I also heard that there are some fungi.

It can be eaten, but it will have a strong stimulation to the digestive system. Only those who strengthen or transform their digestive organs can eat it."

"Yes, only gray potatoes can live in the unmodified surface environment of Alpha. As for the crops from Earth, they cannot survive on this damn planet... Otherwise, the large area around the ark

The wasteland has long been reclaimed into farmland, and the price gap between natural flour and synthetic flour in the market will not be more than ten times larger." Liao Xing nodded.

"Maybe the things this monster eats from the ark..." Sergeant Ken curled his lips, "Even the Exile camp can find fresh cans produced in recent years. Several bags of cereals are scattered in the wilderness and are picked up by these monsters.

Not a strange thing, is it?"

"If this is wheat, it's not surprising, but this is oats." Liao Xing continued, "because of the powder production rate and taste, the planting area of ​​oats is far inferior to one of the three major grains in the old era.

Wheat, and now on the Ark, there are only a few agricultural bases that grow oats in large scale."

"Shao...but not without it..." Collins wondered.

"Ordinary people on the ark will not consume oats at all, and oat products will not appear on the list of various military supplies... This kind of grain, which was mainly used as livestock feed, has become expensive in this era.

The luxury of the rich will only appear on the dining table of the rich and will not be taken to the wilderness."

"Military Doctor, what do you want to explain?" Sergeant Ken couldn't help but frowned.

"These oats are probably not from the Ark."

"But you also said that oats cannot be planted on Alpha Star," said Sergeant Ken. "Can it be that Alpha also built agricultural facilities that simulate the earth's environment? Even if there is, where did their seeds come from?

?”

"We know too little about Alpha Star and Alpha civilization." Liao Xing stood up and shook his head, "If you want to excavate more information on this corpse, the tools and equipment at hand alone are not enough.

, We have to find a way to save it and bring it back to the ark."

"There are body bags, but where are we going to make so many formalins?" Collins said in a difficult situation. "If the body was stuffed into the body bag like this, when we completed the task, it would have been rotten long ago when we returned.

Bar."

"Use this." Liao Xing tore a pack of salt water sodium chloride powder used to prepare it, and evenly applied the white powder to the surface and inside of the body.

"This is OK?" Collins was a little shocked.

"Mankind invented thousands of years ago the method of using salt to pickle food and prolong the storage time of food. High-concentration salt solutions have good anti-corrosion and sterilization effects and can also be used to preserve corpses if they have no choice." Liao Xingang

Answered.

"Save the body by preserving food..." Collins felt a feeling of discomfort in his throat, as if sour water was about to gush out at any time... and Ke Lan even wanted to vomit.

The impulse.

Use salt to preserve the corpse... To be the most famous one, it must be considered the second emperor of the Liao Dynasty in the old era, Emperor Taizong of Liao Yelu Deguang. This emperor suddenly died of illness on his way back to the southern expedition. It was summer.

The Empress Dowager asked that Yelu Deguang's body must be sent back intact. The civil and military ministers around the emperor had no choice but to follow the advice of a military chef and preserve Yelu Deguang's body with salt.

Although Yelu Deguang's body was not rotten, it was no different from a kind of bacon called "王" when it was sent to the Queen Mother... As for the chef who proposed this idea, although there is no subsequent record in the official history,
Chapter completed!