Chapter 15: Sterilization
Zheng Rui ate the remaining half of the roasted alien meat, and then began to think about how to make the most of the alien corpse.
Thousands of years ago, humans typically coped with food spoilage by pickling (e.g., pickles), drying (e.g., jerky), or isolating oxygen (e.g., rice cakes), but none of these methods were suitable for dealing with alien corpses.
First of all, if it is pickled, it will require a lot of salt or sugar. Sugar itself is a source of energy, and it certainly can't be wasted; If you add a lot of salt, it will be too painful to eat. As for drying, although it is summer, it will take a few days to completely dry up when it is directly exposed to the sun, and it is not certain whether the intensity of the earth's high-energy rays can kill alien microorganisms. The operability of isolating oxygen is even worse, now where can I find the equipment to add vacuum packaging to this thing?
However, these are all ways to isolate microorganisms from the outside world, and it is not known whether the microorganisms of the earth can digest the tissues of alien species.
Zheng Rui believes that the first problem to be solved is the alien microorganisms that are originally carried in the alien body - from the perspective of evolutionary theory, the generation and development of life is generally from simple to complex, and large organisms also provide more ecological niches for small organisms, so it is a very reasonable assumption to speculate that other alien microorganisms are parasitic in this alien body. And if you only need to solve the problem of these foreign microorganisms, it may be relatively simpler. Since the alien tissue has undergone changes similar to degeneration after heating, it means that these macromolecules that make up the alien are still not resistant to high temperatures, and the remaining alien corpses can be dismantled and roasted together by Bian Na and preserved, so as to kill those foreign microorganisms that may cause deterioration from the inside.
And it's also a great opportunity to practice your abilities, killing two birds with one stone.
After Zheng Rui told Bian Na, the young lady had no choice but to agree. Although eating aliens is still a bit of a diaphragm, Zheng Rui does have a point. Even if she can't eat the alien, as long as Zheng Rui can eat it, it makes sense to deal with it properly.
It's just that the teppanyaki has to be roasted a little troublesome, Zheng Rui decided to keep the boiling state with water, and put the slices of special-shaped meat into it one by one to "shabu". And take advantage of this opportunity, because the water boils at an atmospheric pressure of about 100Β°C, and the heat required for the degeneration of the alien tissue can also be recorded.
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γAugust 16th 12:00γ
High temperature resistance test of special-shaped tissues
Instruments and Materials: Iron pot (found in the commissary), knife, shaped tissue (chest, abdomen, and third and fourth pairs of large appendages), tap water, solar calculator
Experimental process: cut the alien appendage and body segment shell with a knife, remove the part similar to the internal organs, remove the surrounding fascicular tissue, and cut it into pieces of uniform size, each slice is about 100g; The experimenter heated the tap water in the iron pot until it boiled steadily, completely immersed the tissue sections in each part of the water until the tissue turned from blue to transparent, and recorded the required time. The tissues of each part were repeated five times, the mean value was taken, and statistical tests were performed.
[Table: Time required for high-temperature denaturation of each part of the special-shaped in one atmospheric pressure boiling water]
Statistical test: Chi-square test
[Calculation Process]
Conclusion: The degeneration time of thoracic tissue, abdominal tissue degeneration was 26.6s, and appendage tissue degeneration time was 28.5s.
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After shabu-shabu, the slices were kept in one of the few crisper boxes in the commissary, and Zheng Rui and Bian Na moved the crisper boxes to the shelves, at which time Bian Na suddenly said: "By the way, Xiao Rui, I plan to tidy up the things in the commissary." β
Zheng Rui thought that her living habits were not good, and the things were too messy, so she asked a little embarrassedly: "Okay, how to tidy it up?" β
"Actually, it's not sorting, I'm going to classify and record all kinds of materials." "For example, if you look at this biscuit, it says that there are 490 kcal in 100g, and this kind has 372 kcal...... How many kcal does a person need per day? I'm going to write down the caloric value of everything, a total calorie, so I can see how many days we're going to survive on it. There is also the matter of planning your daily calorie intake, so that you can do it. β
yes, so smart - why didn't she think of that? But is the calorific value of the product accurate? But it's okay not to be allowed, it's at least better to have a rough quantification than not to have it at all.
"Wait, I'll find you an account book...... Zheng Rui rummaged through the drawer at the counter of the commissary, and really turned out a account book that had not been used before, "This should be enough, right?" Also Casio calculator ......"
"Is the ledger used in the commissary still there? If the above data is still usable, there is no need to recount it. Benna asked again.
"Uh...... It's here, but I've eaten a lot of things these days......" Zheng Rui grabbed a handful of her hair embarrassedly, and said, "The things in the warehouse haven't moved, and those shouldn't need to be recounted." Wait, the ledger should be in the garbage heap above, I'll get it right away. β
The two of them tossed for a while, and almost sorted out Bian Na's method of doing statistics.
Watching the young lady quickly enter the work state, Zheng Rui couldn't help but feel that there was still hope for the future.
Then she's going to have to work hard!
Zheng Rui planned to go to the opposite community to take a look, and if the other alien corpse was still there, he would drag it over and save it. She felt that ordinary people really wouldn't necessarily find that aliens could eat this thing, so most of the people on the other side wouldn't eat alien corpses.
However, they might make something out of the alien exoskeleton, and if someone finds out about it, it won't necessarily happen. Zheng Rui didn't want to have a dispute with others at this time, especially since she didn't have any physical strength as a scumbag, and her abilities were immortal types that couldn't be exposed casually.
After thinking about it, Zheng Rui felt that he could discuss it with the person opposite. Although the alien itself is quite weak, the alien was killed by her after all, and she has no problem taking her prey away, and she can accept half of the toll fee. And even if the other party insists on monopolizing the entire alien corpse, Zheng Rui intends to condemn them only from the perspective of mouth cannons, she has always run away if she can't fight, and she can't fight with others for a little resource.
But before Bian Na said that her ex-boyfriend would notice Zheng Rui, according to this logic, they should have come to grab resources a long time ago. The only guess Zheng Rui can think of is that he is afraid that there are aliens wandering outside, after all, although aliens are actually weak chickens, they still look a little bluffing, if the other party has not fought with them, it is estimated that they will not know that these things are strong outside.
So she should have hurried to drag the alien corpse over before the person on the other side reacted that the alien was actually very weak.
Well, just go for it.