Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 670 “She” is human?
However, being selected into the 776th Special Forces Team, Collins certainly wouldn't be the kind of rookie who would vomit everything in his stomach when he saw a dead person on the battlefield. He took a few deep breaths, squatted down beside Liao Xing, and carefully observed the monster's corpse with the help of the tactical flashlight.
While he was looking at the corpse, Ke Lan had already begun to analyze the information he had collected through his eyes——
Ke Lan noticed that if this monster was regarded as a creature similar to humans, then her gender should be female, which could be seen from the mammary organs on her chest that were shriveled like two leather bags and the promotion organs below.
However, the mammary organs of this monster have obviously lost their original functions, and the promotion organs have also seriously degenerated... From Ke Lan's point of view, "she" cannot reproduce through promotion behavior like humans.
"Generally speaking, only mammals have breasts..." Ke Lan muttered to herself in her head, "Although it's hard to associate this thing with the 'breasts' in the minds of ordinary people, from the external structure, this is undoubtedly a breast."
Ke Lan had watched some war documentaries from the old era. The bodies of the women in the documentaries who suffered excessively from war, famine, and severe malnutrition looked pretty much like this.
As for the monster's head, the skull-like face looked scary under the pale light... However, what Ke Lan felt more was surprise.
Eyes, nose, mouth, ears... all the facial features that a human should have are present on this "monster". Although the eyebrows have fallen off, the protruding arched brow bones are still located above the eye sockets - not only that, judging from the shape of the skull under the skin, this head is also highly similar to that of a human.
It is no exaggeration to say that this face is far more human-like than a chimpanzee. If Ke Lan could get this head, he could even use computer software to restore the monster's "normal" face.
Filling in missing muscles under the cheeks, adjusting skin tone and luster, adding hair... these can all be done in less than a second through AI algorithms, and the final result is likely to be a face that is no different from that of a human woman...
In a trance, Ke Lan suddenly thought of the black skeleton he encountered in the cargo hold of the Pioneer icebreaker .
At first, he had mistakenly thought that the black skeleton was a monster summoned by the black cardinal with the "Holy Word", but now that he looked closely, the two seemed to be not the same thing.
The black skeleton summoned by the Holy Word, after being "killed", will quickly rot and die like the corpse of the Seed of Erosion. This will be reflected in the black skeleton weathering and turning into extremely fine powder within just a few hours - but the remains of the black skeleton obtained in the cargo hold of the icebreaker have been preserved for at least one day without any special treatment.
Moreover, according to the report from the Soma Foundation Research Institute, the genes of that thing are highly similar to those of humans. If one has not seen the black skeleton's "pre-life" appearance with one's own eyes, anyone with medical knowledge would firmly believe based on the results report alone that this sample must have been taken from a human.
That black skeleton... and the pale humanoid creature in front of me... Is there any connection between them? What kind of relationship do they have with humans?
Ke Lan examined the corpse from head to toe again. Apart from the fact that it was thin, the skin became pale due to lack of light, some parts of the body were swollen and ulcerated, and the hair had completely fallen off, it was clearly the corpse of a human female!
There weren't even any extra mutated organs or growths on the surface of "her" body.
Although the body had not been dissected yet, Liao Xing's expression had become very gloomy. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes kept twitching and his breathing gradually became heavy.
"Doctor Liao...could this thing be the...Alpha man who created the Alpha civilization?" Collins couldn't help but ask.
"No, 'she' can't be an Alpha. Based on the information we have collected now, 'she' and the assumed form of the Alpha don't match in many ways." Liao Xing shook his head slowly, and then said word by word, "'She' is a human... a woman."
"How could there be humans here?!" Collins' eyes widened.
"Although I also think this is ridiculous, this is what I have learned." Liao Xing said, "This is the corpse of a human female."
"It's not impossible." Sergeant Ken, who had been watching silently, suddenly spoke up, "Perhaps this is an exiled criminal who, by chance, ran into this ruin and used it as a shelter."
"No... 'She' can't be a human on the Ark." Liao Xing's thin lips trembled. "Let's not talk about how an exile could run to a place so far away from the Ark without any vehicles, and how she survived without water, food, and medicine... Just looking at the current state of her skin, she must have lived in a completely dark environment for at least five to ten years to become like this."
As Liao Xing spoke, he propped up the corpse's eyelid with his right hand wearing a rubber glove, revealing the cloudy eyeball. "Her vision has almost completely disappeared. She can only sense changes in the light outside, and her retina has become extremely sensitive to light... All clues indicate that she has lived in this ruins for a long time."
The Noah's Ark carrying mankind landed on this planet just two years ago.
"Could she be a member of the advance team? The earliest advance team landed on Alpha in 876 of the New Era...it has been twenty-six years since then. If she is a member of the advance team, then everything makes sense." Kino said.
"I don't rule out this possibility, but in my impression, the early advance team was composed of all men. It was not until 899 of the New Era, one year before the Ark landed on Alpha, that the first female member, Dr. Selina, joined the Alpha Exploration Advance Team as a geological researcher. Because the equal rights organization promoted this matter very strongly at that time, I remember it very clearly." Liao Xing said, "But Dr. Selina just appeared on a TV show last month. This body can't be her."
"Besides, it's impossible to turn a person into this state in three years." Liao Xing added.
