Chapter 604 Six Claws
In the dark void.
The alien spacecraft and Cicada-class No. 004 continued to move rapidly toward the edge of the distant Kuiper Belt in their previous direction.
After exploring the interior of the alien spacecraft for several months, the exploration team has naturally figured out the situation inside, including the location of the alien creatures.
There are currently many alien creatures discovered inside this alien spaceship.
However, during the previous exploration process, the exploration team avoided these alien creatures and was also secretly testing to see if these alien creatures were really dead or were doing something in secret.
After several months of exploration, the exploration team and the Sapiens company behind it have preliminarily determined that these alien creatures have lost their lives.
Even though these creatures are frozen, the Sapiens Company is very familiar with human cryonics technology. In order to extend his lifespan, Li Qingye had conducted in-depth research on human cryonics storage technology.
This technology has three elements, or three limitations.
First, the cells of frozen organisms must be able to resist ice crystallization and ice-water transformation, otherwise the cells will die in minutes during the freezing and thawing period.
Second, the freezing system must remain stable during the freezing of the organism, otherwise it will easily cause the organism .
Third, the freezing period cannot be too long. With the current technology of Sapiens, the longest period is only 37 months. If this period is exceeded, the brain will suffer from serious memory loss.
And don’t think that freezing beyond the time limit will only cause memory problems. If you freeze for more than a few decades, you may end up in eternal sleep.
According to the information currently analyzed from the alien spacecraft, the alien spacecraft departed from its home planet approximately 45,270 years ago, and the last nuclear reactor was shut down 13,760 years ago.
In other words, the creatures inside the alien spacecraft have been frozen for at least 13,760 years.
Even if an alien civilization has more advanced biological freezing technology than Homo sapiens, there is no way to guarantee that a body can be thawed and revived after being frozen for 13,760 years.
Of course, Li Qingye knew that there was a method that could indeed freeze the body for a long time and ensure that it could be safely revived after thawing, and that the memory would not be lost.
That is the "absolute zero degree human body freezing technology".
This is also the new technology , and it is considered an essential technology for interstellar travel.
Why can absolute zero human cryonics technology be maintained for a long time?
The reason lies in the movement of atoms.
You know, the closer the temperature is to absolute zero, the smaller the atomic activity.
The fundamental reason why ordinary freezing technology cannot be maintained for a long time is that in ordinary freezing, atoms still have obvious signs of activity.
It's okay in the short term, but once the time exceeds three years, the atomic activity accumulates over time and will gradually damage the cell and neuron structures.
After being frozen for more than several decades, the body's atomic activities have not been corrected in time through the body's physiological activities, and the cells and gene sequences have long been riddled with holes due to the atomic activities, making the organism doomed to die.
In the past, there was a period of time when human body freezing was popular on Earth, and many people even participated in it.
Obviously, those who participate in freezing have basically no chance of survival.
The refrigeration system on the alien spacecraft obviously cannot reach absolute zero. Even if it could once reach close to absolute zero, after the spacecraft's energy is completely exhausted, the refrigeration system naturally cannot be maintained.
After more than 10,000 years of disordered freezing, those aliens were most likely frozen to death.
Therefore, the exploration team obtained permission from the Space Division and began to prepare to extract the frozen alien creatures.
Zheng Lin, who had just had a half-month vacation, was on duty again. He led his team into the alien spacecraft again. This time, the Cicada-class 004 spacecraft deployed three exploration boats and six synchronous robots.
Zheng Lin controlled the exoskeleton with ease and entered the passage of the alien spacecraft.
It took about half an hour to get there in twists and turns.
The group finally entered a huge cabin.
There are 500 cryopods on display here.
The freezer compartment, which had long lost power, was now lifeless.
After all, according to the magnetic field scans, these aliens are also carbon-based creatures. After such a long period of freezing, there is definitely no way they can escape the ravages of time.
If these aliens are silicon-based creatures, perhaps Sapiens wouldn't be so sure.
Through the built-in communicator inside the exoskeleton armor, Zheng Lin ordered: "Start cutting the cryochamber, be careful."
"OK."
"Don't worry! I'm a professional."
In order to avoid melting the ice in the cryochamber, disassembly work can only be done by cold disassembly, and laser and chemical methods cannot be used.
Fortunately, Zheng Lin and his team were well prepared.
The specially made super-hard alloy cutting tool, with the support of the exoskeleton armor, instantly cut open the four corners of the cryochamber, and then removed the cryochamber bit by bit as if peeling skin.
The severely aged freezing chamber could not withstand the ultra-hard alloy cutting tools.
As the freezer compartment was cut away, the situation inside was soon revealed.
Zheng Lin used an alloy knife to scrape off the debris on the surface. Through the frozen ice layer, he could see a thin body under the translucent ice layer.
This was also the first time Zheng Lin saw the appearance of alien creatures.
But after looking at it for a while, they felt a little strange. After all, this body covered in ice did not look like the aliens that everyone imagined. Instead, it looked a bit like an octopus.
One team member speculated: "Deputy Captain Zheng, could this thing be a pet or livestock of an alien civilization?"
"Pet? Livestock? That doesn't seem like it!"
"Take down a few more freezer compartments and you'll find out."
Zheng Lin couldn't make up his mind either. After all, the appearance of this alien octopus did not look like the traditional impression of aliens.
He thought for a while and ordered again: "Continue to dismantle the cryochamber."
"receive."
More than three hours passed, during which Zheng Lin and his team dismantled seven freezer compartments, and found that without exception, they were all alien octopus creatures.
This situation forced everyone to believe that these were aliens.
And at the Earth headquarters, data is shared through a synchronous communication system.
Many relevant researchers are also discussing this kind of alien.
Judging from the data in the picture, this six-clawed man is about 1.2 meters tall, has 6 tentacles, and a head as big as a football.
However, there are no obvious facial features on its head, especially eyes, and there is no trace of them at all.
Some biologists believe that this is caused by the environment of the six-clawed people's home planet, because the six-clawed people's home planet is a gas planet and has no sunlight.
In this case, the living environment of the six-clawed people must be dark and gloomy. In such an environment, eyes are not important at all. Instead, the sense of smell and pheromones play an irreplaceable role in communication and exploration.
This explains why the six-clawed people have no eyes.
The work of exploring the six-clawed people has not yet ended, it has just begun.
On the other side, three supporting Cicada-class spacecraft are also approaching this side rapidly. At that time, one of the Cicada-class spacecraft will bring some samples of alien creatures back to the Mars space station.
As for why they didn’t bring it back to Earth, it was of course due to safety considerations.
In case alien civilizations have special means hidden in the corpses, studying these alien creatures on Mars will also help control the spread of alien creatures in the solar system.
