Unpacking is a very exciting process. Whether it is a man or a woman, people seem to have an innate sense of expectation for unboxing.
The little boy hopes that there are new toys in the box, the little girl hopes that the box contains dolls, the man thinks that there should be a big black and shiny thing in the box, and the woman thinks that it should be filled with gems or flowers.
"One, two, three! Open!"
With a "bang" sound, the box opened.
The sealed cover bounced up so high that it almost hit the ceiling.
Fortunately, the two tough men in charge of unpacking didn't move over to check, otherwise their jaws would have been swollen by now.
Everyone outside the isolation room was full of expectations, especially Xian Qianhua, who hurriedly asked, "Have you seen what it is?"
Chu Xiaoming was startled and still confused, while Su Wanxia had already stepped forward to find out.
"It seems... it's a person..."
"People? Men and women?" Xian Qianhua asked again.
At this time, Chu Xiaoming also came over, and behind him was an omnibus butler, who was carrying a camera and responsible for video recording.
The three people outside the isolation room now saw clearly that there was a sealed black bag inside the black box, and the object in the bag did indeed look like a person in outline.
"It can't be a corpse, right?" Chu Xiaoming was a little worried.
"Corpse?" Su Wanxia also felt a bit like it, but there are usually two ways to deal with the dead in space. One is to bring them back to their hometown for burial, and the other is to put their corpses in a special coffin and bury them in space.
inside, but no one should put the body into a sealed bag.
"Oh, don't be so impatient and hurry up and open it," Xian Qianhua said anxiously.
When Chu Xiaoming heard this, he quickly picked up the scissors, but before doing so, he glanced at Su Wanxia and said, "Open?"
Su Wanxia was still looking at the internal structure of the box. This box didn't look like a coffin in any way, because it had a lot of insulation devices inside, and the temperature inside the box was always maintained below zero after it was opened.
But other than that, Su Wanxia didn't find any other special place.
"open!"
"Okay." Chu Xiaoming couldn't wait any longer. The special surgical scissors in his hand easily cut open the black bag.
However, as soon as a small opening was opened, a large amount of yellowish-brown liquid poured out of the bag, which looked very disgusting.
Chu Xiaoming was startled and immediately retracted his hand.
Fortunately, these liquids just looked disgusting and were not corrosive, so Su Wanxia said again, "It's okay, continue."
"Well..." Chu Xiaoming was a little frightened, and his movements slowed down.
But the bag is only so big, so it opened after a few clicks.
Then……
When everyone saw what was in the bag...
"Hiss... what the hell is this!" Everyone gasped.
What was contained in the bag was a human-shaped rotten flesh. It had limbs, a torso and a head, but the head had no facial features, and there were no hands or feet at the end of the limbs. As for the torso, it was not distinguishable from front to back and could not be seen.
Is it male or female.
Xian Qianhua was stunned for a second, then covered her mouth and vomited away.
Shen Yinuo also frowned deeply, and she reminded, "You two, be careful, this thing may be dangerous."
Of course Chu Xiaoming knew that it was unusual, but... he wasn't quite sure whether it was dangerous or not.
Su Wanxia on the side had already put on special gloves. He picked up the sampling equipment and started collecting body samples from the unknown humanoid object.
At the same time, Samantha also completed preliminary data comparison.
"Judging from the elemental composition, it is undoubtedly human. However, this big piece of meat that is two meters tall and weighs 105 kilograms not only has no basic gender characteristics and human appearance, but even the brain is empty, has no bones, and no internal organs. , just a piece of meat.”
"Holy crap, is this just a canned meat? Such a strong taste?" Chu Xiaoming couldn't help feeling sick when he heard this.
Yan Sichen outside the isolation room frowned and said, "Samantha, is it alive?"
"Well...it's not easy to be sure. It's best to take the sample to the laboratory. I need some time to analyze it."
Su Wanxia also completed the collection. He stood up and said, "Stop analyzing, this thing is alive."
Chu Xiaoming, who was carefully trying to touch the piece of meat, was startled and hurriedly stopped, "Is it alive?"
"Yes, look at it." Su Wanxia showed the samples she just collected to several people.
I saw that little piece of meat slowly squirming in the glass container, looking very much like a bug.
"Ugh..." Xian Qianhua, who had just finished vomiting, covered her mouth and ran away.
Now Shen Yinuo couldn't stand it anymore, so she followed Xian Qianhua and vomited.
Yan Sichen frowned, "Wanxia, Xiaoming, you two should come out quickly, leave this matter to Samantha."
Chu Xiaoming had already had this intention, so he immediately dropped the scissors and walked out.
Su Wanxia still wanted to take a closer look at this thing.
But just when Samantha mobilized the robotic arm to lift the "piece of meat" out of the box, the "piece of meat" quickly turned black and turned into a puddle of red and black meat in the blink of an eye.
Seeing this scene, the alarm in the isolation room sounded, and Samantha said, "Oh, I'm sorry, please leave quickly and leave this place to me."
Without waiting for Su Wanxia's reaction, the omnic housekeeper in charge of the video suddenly grabbed Su Wanxia and Chu Xiaoming and walked out.
Then the isolation room was enclosed by three floors inside and three floors outside.
The samples collected by Su Wanxia were also left inside the isolation room.
…
Xian Qianhua, who had been vomiting all afternoon, looked pale.
Shen Yinuo, who was beside him, asked with concern, "Are you okay, Sister Hua? Do you want to take a rest first?"
Xian Qianhua shook her head. She seemed to be able to see that thing whenever she closed her eyes, so she might as well stay awake.
"No, I'm fine."
"Um...Okay...if you feel uncomfortable, don't hold on."
"Well, thanks."
After saying that, the two put on their helmets and started external work.
Chu Xiaoming and Yan Sichen had been working inside the wreckage for more than five hours. They found a lot of technological equipment that they had never seen from the wreckage, which was the size of a truck. These things were much more advanced than theirs. era, but unfortunately, most of them have been damaged, and after losing the original energy supply of the aircraft, these equipment have become decorations.
Shen Yinuo and Xian Qianhua took over their duties and continued the internal dismantling work.
After returning to Starport, an exhausted Chu Xiaoming lay on the ground gasping for air.
Fortunately for Yan Sichen, he has much more space walking experience than Chu Xiaoming, and he knows better how to conserve his physical strength.
After returning, he went straight to the control room and contacted Su Wanxia in the ground camp.
Su Wanxia, who was left alone at the ground base and was responsible for observing the movements of "Meat Loaf" in real time, was currently reviewing the analysis report that Samantha had just generated.
There is nothing new in the report. It is just that the elemental composition of the meat turned into meat paste is very "human", and even if it is turned into meat paste, it is still alive. Although its cell activity is far lower than the normal human level, this
The inert performance of this dormant state is still very different from that of dead matter.
"The dismantling work here is almost over, but no useful recording equipment has been found so far. I guess it will be difficult to find useful clues." Yan Sichen was a little discouraged.
The same goes for Su Wanxia at the ground base. He originally thought that this discovery would bring some breakthroughs and changes in their trapped lives, but he seemed to be overthinking it.
"It's almost the same here...at least there's nothing to gain now."
"Well...but that thing is really weird. I think when we all return to the camp, we have to find a way to put it in a separate place and try to keep it as far away from us as possible." Yan Sichen expressed his worries.
Su Wanxia thought so too. While observing the "lump of meat", he had already found a feasible plan from the camp's structural diagram.
"Well, when you come back, we will sit down together and discuss it."
"good."
…
In the evening, the dismantling work was completed.
A lot of strange and weird parts were disassembled, but none of them were familiar to them.
Seeing these future technological creations, Chu Xiaoming felt like a primitive tribesman entering the space station, looking at everything with one sentence: "What is this?"
As for the "piece of meat", the good news is that it is not corrosive and temporarily not aggressive, but the bad news is that it is "nothing" and no one can determine what it is.
Not a single bit of writing was found in the entire wreckage, let alone a recorder or anything like that.
Everyone is very discouraged.
Although there was another explosion in the southeast of the camp after dinner, everyone was calm this time and did not intend to see the spear flying into the sky.
After discussion, the original place where Su Wanxia grew potatoes will be vacated and transformed into an isolation room. At the same time, they plan to use another week to separate the new isolation room from the camp and place it separately in an open space away from the camp, so that even if it is
Whatever happened to "Meatloaf" wouldn't cause any harm to them in the camp.
After the plan is determined, the next step is to implement it. Wenbi Zhai Novel
The construction of the isolation room was much more difficult than imagined. It took five people working together for half a month to complete it.
During this period, Samantha would detect "explosions" almost every day. Those mysterious spears seemed to be tireless, always arriving at an unexpected time, exploding with a "boom" followed by a "buzz".
fly away.
The five people who had learned to get used to it were no longer in the mood to care about it.
After the isolation room was completed, the separation work fell into trouble again.
Although there are many resources in the camp, the five of them are not professional engineers, so accidents occurred in the early stages of construction.
A crack appeared during the separation process of the pressure balance channel, and the explosion knocked Su Wanxia and Yan Sichen out. One of them had a broken rib, and the other was almost decapitated by the debris.
In short, two laborers became injured, and the work became more difficult.
In order to solve this problem, Shen Yinuo and Chu Xiaoming decided to modify the basic code of the omnic housekeepers and turn them into the most basic porters, so that they can leave the camp and join the construction work.
Facts have proved that this idea is feasible.
With the help of more than a dozen tireless, spacesuit-free robots, construction is progressing at breakneck speed.
Starting from the construction of the isolation room to reaching the final goal.
It took a month, but when Su Wanxia was able to get out of bed and walk around on her own, the isolation room was finally completed.
But there is still a problem below, which is how to move the "piece of meat" to a new isolation room without causing distortion.
We discussed multiple plans for this purpose.
Chu Xiaoming's simplest method is to cover the box again. Since the box can stabilize it in the past, I believe it can do so now.
However, this method was quickly rejected by Samantha.
The reason is that now this "piece of meat" has changed from a stable state to a dormant state, and the dormant state is a very uncertain state.
Because no one knows what this thing is, if it suddenly turns into a deformed monster, who can be its opponent?
So after summarizing, everyone unanimously decided to adopt Xian Qianhua's plan.
That is "cheating".
The specific plan is to first create a fake isolation environment, then move it in, and then move it to a new isolation room as quickly as possible.
This method sounds ridiculous, but in reality there are cases that prove it is effective.
The stability of the environment is the most easily overlooked, but it is also the most important.
After confirming the plan, everyone immediately devoted themselves to new work.
A week later, the transfer work began.
The ones in charge of the transfer were Su Wanxia and Chu Xiaoming. The other three were fully armed, as if they were ready to fight a bloody battle with the monster-shaped monster at any time.
The reality is that the transfer was much smoother than imagined.
From the time the piece of meat was moved to the time it was relocated, it was very quiet.
Looking at the "pieces of meat" in the new isolation room, several people felt that they were making a fuss.
But during this period, the explosions never stopped, and everyone felt that this might be necessary...
…
Another month has passed.
The explosion finally stopped.
According to Samantha's statistics, a total of 195 explosions occurred, an average of 28 times a day, and most of them were concentrated in a few fixed areas.
Looking at the analysis diagram, these spears seem to regard the camp as the central intersection, and the impact area formed by the explosion is like the three vertices of a triangle.
But no one knows exactly how these explosions occurred, what their significance was, and what the spears were?
It was the same day as usual. After Su Wanxia woke up, she immediately went to observe the condition of the "meat". The result was the same as yesterday, it was very quiet.
Seeing this result, Su Wanxia's inner feelings were very complicated.
On the one hand, he really didn't want to see any disaster brought to them by "Meat Loaf", and hoped that it would remain honest forever.
On the other hand, he was looking forward to the changes in this "piece of meat", so that maybe he could find more clues.
The conflicting mood made Su Wanxia lose weight day by day. He had lived in the camp for more than ten years, but he had never been as anxious and helpless as he had been recently.
With a deep sigh, Su Wanxia tidied up and went to the library.
At the door of the library, Su Wanxia found that the lights in the room were on.
He was surprised that someone came here earlier than him.
When I entered the room, I saw Shen Yinuo. She was looking through a book of music scores. She had not learned anything else in the past few years, but she had mastered a lot of musical instruments.
"So early." Su Wanxia greeted with a smile.
Shen Yinuo looked up at him and just nodded, immersed in the music score again.
Su Wanxia didn't bother her. He smiled and walked to the library.
In the central area of the library, there is a private reading desk built by Su Wanxia over the years. There are a large number of books and classics that Su Wanxia needs for studying ancient theology over the years.
But when Su Wanxia came to a place she was familiar with, she saw a strange version of herself.
Or……
another me?!
The moment she looked at each other, Su Wanxia's mind was blank.
The other Su Wanxia seemed to have the same reaction. He looked at the man in front of him in shock.
After the two faced each other in silence for three seconds, Su Wanxia, who was standing, moved. His first reaction was to run away instead of catching the impostor in front of him.
The same thing happened to Su Wanxia who was sitting down, but after he found out that his other self had escaped, he immediately chased after him and shouted at the same time, "Sister Yinuo! Help me catch him!!! Catch him!"
Shen Yinuo in front of the door frowned when he heard this, and then saw Su Wanxia running out in front of her in a panic.
She asked "Who to arrest?"
Then another Su Wanxia shouted, "Catch him!"
Shen Yinuo was shocked when he heard this. When he looked back, another Su Wanxia ran over, shouting something like "Catch him!" as he ran.
"What? What's going on?"
No one gave her an answer.
Both Su Wanxia had the same confusion.
One is running in front and the other is chasing behind.
At a corner, Su Wanxia, who was running away, knocked down Yan Sichen.
Su Wanxia, who was chasing after her, saw Yan Sichen helping herself up, and her expression changed: "Brother Chen! Get away! He is a fake!"
Yan Sichen was stunned for a moment, confused by the two Su Wanxia in front of him.
"What are you...what are you doing? Real or fake Monkey King?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Su Wanxia, who was standing next to Yan Sichen, picked up the vase at hand and threw it at the other Su Wanxia.
Although Su Wanxia doesn't exercise much, she still has basic qualities, not to mention that he is always vigilant.
When the vase attacked, he immediately dodged, but then his other self strangled him tightly by the neck, and the two of them struggled with each other in the blink of an eye.
Yan Sichen was dumbfounded and quickly went up to pull the two of them away.
But the two men on the ground were clearly determined to fight to the death, and there was no way Yan Sichen could stop them on his own.
Fortunately, Shen Yinuo also caught up at this time.
The two of them worked together to pull the two Su Wanxia apart from each other.
But at this time, it was no longer clear who was the one who escaped first and who was the one who caught up later.
The two of them were dressed exactly the same. During the fight just now, one had a bruised neck and the other had a swollen eye.
"Who on earth are you! Why are you pretending to be me!" the one with swollen eyes roared.
Shen Yinuo could hardly hold him back.
"I'm pretending to be you! What a joke! Who are you! Did you appear too early and forget to get rid of me?!" The one with the bruise on his neck was calmer, but his gritted teeth were clearly suppressing his words.
Yan Sichen was really confused after listening to the two speeches. He asked, "You... which one of you is true and which one is false?"
As a result, the two Su Wanxias said in unison, "Of course it's him!"
Yan Sichen, Shen Yinuo "Go and invite Tathagata Buddha..."