The ground was covered in frost, and under the impact of freezing rays, the surface temperature instantly dropped to -273.15c, which is the standard of absolute zero.
At this temperature, atoms and molecules will be frozen, which is the low temperature limit allowed by the universe.
Wang Xu wore protective clothing and jumped off the flower-planting boat.
The moment his feet stepped on the ground, the ground was impacted, like glass being hit. The cracks were centered on Wang Xu's foothold and spread to the surroundings.
"Didi, affected by the surface temperature, the absolute zero zone of the freezing ray will be lifted in 360 seconds."
On the headphones Wang Xu was wearing, the prompts from the main control computer of the Zhanhuahao came.
The freezing rays shot down from the spacecraft pulled an area of hundreds of meters around the cargo spacecraft into the realm of absolute zero in an instant.
However, this kind of field cannot last for long. As the hot air flow in the air erodes and the surface temperature rises, the temperature in the absolute field will gradually heat up.
If you ignore it, it will take about twelve hours for the temperature to return from -273.15c to the previous 36.8c.
"360 seconds is enough time." Wang Xu carried a suitcase and walked into the cold spacecraft.
At extremely low temperatures, not only the surface of the earth becomes brittle, but also the spacecraft.
Wang Xu walked on the spaceship as if he were walking on ice. He listened carefully and could even hear a clicking sound coming from under his feet, as if he had stepped on something.
Walking along the ice, we soon arrived at the door of the spaceship's warehouse.
Looking at the cold door, Wang Xu stepped hard with his right foot.
Click!!
The cracks extended from his feet, all the way to the door, and soon the door was also covered with cracks.
After two breaths, the metal door shattered and metal fragments scattered on the ground.
Wang Xu raised his eyes and looked inside. There were still faint traces of the original virus on the ground, but even this tenacious virus had been sealed in low temperatures.
Stepping on the frozen virus liquid, Wang Xu slowly squatted down, took out the laser cutter from the box in his hand, and cut out a 10-centimeter-long virus sample in a square shape.
Putting the virus sample in the box, Wang Xu took out a bomb from the ring and installed it on the warehouse shelf.
After doing all this, he turned around and left without looking back, boarded the Zhonghua spacecraft directly, and piloted the spacecraft soared into the sky.
Didi didi
boom!!
The spacecraft stayed at an altitude of 10,000 meters. Wang Xu glanced at the white light rising below through the computer screen.
After a few seconds, the white light dissipated, and where the light appeared, there was a large crater with a diameter of one kilometer.
The cargo spacecraft that originally existed here had been blown into dust by the shock wave. According to his understanding of the alien virus, there was no chance that the original virus solution would survive such an explosion.
"Open the medical room and inject nutrient solution into the culture tank." Wang Xu walked towards the medical room with his suitcase. The Zhanhua is a small spacecraft because it is too small. It is similar to the laboratories that large spacecraft will be equipped with. There is no such thing as a laboratory on the Zhanhua.
existing.
Wang Xu could only reluctantly use the medical room as a laboratory to study the virus specimens on hand.
Zzizizi!!
The 1.5-meter-high, transparent culture tank was quickly injected with nutrient solution.
Wang Xu waited until the nutrient solution was more than half full, then took out the virus solution from the box, put it into the culture tank, and observed it carefully.
The original virus solution solidified at low temperatures and turned into something similar to asphalt condensation.
Under Wang Xu's observation, as soon as it entered the warm culture medium, the condensed virus stock solution began to melt, and the black virus spread rapidly.
Just like a piece of ink dropped into the water, in just a few breaths, the milky white nutrient solution completely turned into deep black, as thick as ink.
"Nanny, did you take the picture just now?"
“Caught it”
A virtual screen appeared in front of Wang Xu, and it was the process in which he put in the virus stock solution and infected the nutrient solution.
"Zoom in!" Following Wang Xu's command, the screen was quickly enlarged.
When it enters the eyes, the original virus solution blended into the nutrient solution is magnified into something like countless black cells.
In the picture, these cells-like virus stock solution is devouring the milky-white cells formed by the nutrient solution and growing in size.
When their size doubles, one virus cell will divide itself into two. In just a few breaths, the virus cell has completed thousands of self-divisions and occupied all the space in the culture tank.
At this point, all the nutrient solution in the culture tank has been swallowed up.
The palm-sized condensation of virus stock solution also turned into a large jar of active virus stock solution, and entered the second stage of evolution again.
"Slow down the picture, slow it down, stop!"
Wang Xu raised his right hand, looked at the frozen scene, and whispered: "It's amazing!"
In the picture, a virus cell is growing from a round shape, elongating its body, and turning into something like a tadpole.
This evolution is very wonderful, a bit like the human and nature program that records the growth process of frogs.
It starts out as a round egg. A section of the egg that begins to extend becomes the tail, and the unextended part becomes the head.
Wang Xu looked at the frozen picture. The black creature with a tail on the picture was not the larval stage of the facehugging snake.
"Little guy, what's your name?" Wang Xu left the virtual screen and came to the cultivation tank.
In the culture tank, a face-hugging snake the size of a human hair was pressed against the glass and looking at Wang Xu.
"Uh!" Under Wang Xu's shocked gaze, the facehugger larva he was observing was eaten by another facehugger larvae.
The facehugger larvae that had eaten their companions hit the glass with great force, as if they were demonstrating against Wang Xu.
But it was not the final winner. Soon the surrounding facehugger larvae swarmed up and ate the facehugger as well.
The feast of killing begins, and every cell formed from the virus liquid can give birth to a face-hugging snake.
In the entire culture tank, there are tens of thousands of hair-like facehugging snake larvae. They are chasing each other crazily, and whenever they have the opportunity, they will eat each other and strengthen themselves.
Soon, some strong facehugger snakes became as thick as a thumb through devouring, and could eat their companions as thick as a hair with just one bite, just like the terminators of the food chain.
"How could they kill each other?"
Wang Xu looked at the face-hugging snakes fighting and whispered: "Is it because the nutrition can't keep up?"
Growth and evolution require nutrition. If the nutrition cannot keep up with humans, it will be useless. Aliens are also a kind of living things. Of course, it is impossible to transcend this law.
The nutrient solution in the culture tank is limited. The more Facehuggers are born, the faster the nutrient solution is consumed. Once they cannot keep up with the consumption rate, the Facehuggers can only devour each other and turn their companions into themselves if they want to grow up.
Nutrients for growth.
"Inject nutrient solution!" Wang Xu ordered, and the pipes on the culture tank poured in nutrient solution again.
With the supplement of nutrient solution, the facehugging snake larvae no longer kill each other, but turn their guns to devour the nutrient solution.
But it didn't take long for the nutrient solution to be swallowed up. The whole process lasted less than three seconds, and the facehugger larvae started killing each other again.
Ten thousand, one thousand, one hundred, ten, five, three
In the fight against each other, the fittest will survive, and only the strongest and most ferocious facehugger larvae can defeat the layers of opponents and survive.
In the end, only three facehugger larvae survived, and all the other larvae were devoured.
After absorbing the nutrients of so many companions, the three surviving facehugger snakes can no longer be called larvae. Each of them is as thick as a wrist, even bigger than what Wang Xu saw on the spacecraft, like three heads.