After finishing the communication, Zhou Xin stood up from his seat, hesitated for a moment, he opened the door of the office, and the heat rushed in from outside. Zhou Xin took two steps back www.biquge.info and then walked out of the door with a bitter face.

Just as he was about to step out of the door, the communicator on the table rang again. He walked back to the table and turned on the communicator, revealing Ralph's voice.

"Uncle Captain, come and take a look, we found something very strange." There was a hint of surprise in her tone.

"What's that?" Zhou Xin asked curiously.

"This thing...... I can't tell, so you might as well come and see for yourself. There was a hint of hesitation in Ralph's voice.

Zhou Xin also began to be curious, "Okay, wait for me in place for a while, and I'll go over immediately." ”

After asking Voyager about the location of Ralph's probe, Zhou Xin left the base with a few robots and rushed to that place.

After a few minutes, Zhou Xin arrived at Ralph's location. This is a clearing in the forest, the clearing is surrounded by pine and cypress trees, they enclose the clearing into an approximate circle, there are no plants growing on the ground in this place, but there are messy footprints all over the ground, and there are occasional scattered blood stains in the middle of the footprints, looking towards the middle of the clearing, there are several detectors around a strange thing on the ground, but because it is too far away, Zhou Xin can't see what is on the ground.

With a puzzled mood, Zhou Xin approached the thing with the robot, and halfway through, Zhou Xin finally saw clearly, it was a dinosaur corpse, but due to the mutilation of the corpse, Zhou Xin could not identify what type of dinosaur this corpse belonged to, looking at the dinosaur's corpse, Zhou Xin asked suspiciously.

"Isn't this just an ordinary dinosaur corpse, what's so strange?"

The probes finally found Zhou Xin behind them, they stopped their movements, and then flew in front of Zhou Xin, and one of the probes heard Ralph's voice, "Uncle Captain, come and see, there are strange things on this corpse." ”

Zhou Xin walked up to the corpse and asked as he walked, "Where is the strange place?" Before Ralph could answer, Zhou Xin continued to ask, "Voyager, let's judge the type of creature first." ”

"The creature is medium in size, about 10 meters long and about 3 meters tall. The skull is long and thin, with a narrow mouth and a towering crown of ridges on the top of the head. The body is very thin, with long and stubby forelimbs and stout hind limbs. The slender tail is basically the same length as the upper body, and plays a balancing role. "Based on its appearance, the creature is more than 95% similar to a monolophosaurus." Then, it added, "But this one is about twice as big as its dinosaur on Earth." ”

"Oh?" Zhou Xin was slightly stunned, "Is the size different?" This is the first time that I have found it, is it a special species? Or is it an isolated case? Zhou Xin muttered to himself, and then, remembering that Ralph was still beside him, Zhou Xin asked her, "Ralph, what strange have you found?" Could it be that this dinosaur is particularly large? ”

"How is it possible, I don't know the original size of this guy." Ralph, who controls the probe, pouted, then continued, "You go and look at its teeth and claws. ”

Zhou Xin squatted down and lifted the forelimbs of the corpse, he looked left and right, then broke the corpse's mouth again, carefully observed its teeth, looked at it for a while, he stood up and asked Ralph, "Its claws and teeth are very complete, what, is there anything strange?" ”

"Don't you see that?" Ralph was surprised, "Don't you think their materials are strange?" ”

"Huh?" After listening to Ralph's reminder, Zhou Xin squatted down again and raised the claws of the corpse, and then he finally found something strange. Its claws are slender and sharp, looking towards the sun, and the claws are still shining, Zhou Xin brought the claws in front of him, the claws themselves are not unusual, but the sharp parts of the claws are very smooth, and they are shining with ivory light, this abnormal color attracted Zhou Xin's attention.

"What the hell is this claw, this creature's claw can't be like this." Zhou Xin muttered to himself in confusion, and then he called over a detection robot and said to it, "Check the claws of this creature and see if there is anything unusual." ”

The probe robot cut off the tip of the claw, and then put the cut part on its chest, and the robot ticked for a while, and then reported the conclusion of the analysis to Zhou Xin.

"The substance is not a biologically owned stratum corneum, but a special organic polymer, the specific composition of which cannot be analyzed by this machine. However, compared to the normal stratum corneum, this polymer is stronger and less difficult to wear. "The conclusion that the robot came up with was surprising.

"Organic polymers?" Zhou Xin's tone was a little surprised, "Could this be this kind of dinosaur growing on its own?" He said with doubts in his heart, "Check the composition of its teeth as well." ”

After a while, the test report of the tooth also came out, which belonged to the same substance as the nail.

"Voyager, look for the composition of the teeth of the monolophosaurus on Earth." Zhou Xin asked the Voyager.

"Ordinary calcium apatite."

"So the teeth and claws didn't grow on the dinosaur itself?" Zhou Xin muttered to himself.

The probe robot replied, "Based on the morphological analysis of the teeth and nails, these things should have grown from this dinosaur, but the ship is not sure, and further anatomical analysis of the creature is needed." ”

Zhou Xin nodded, "Okay, let's pull this corpse back for autopsy first, and give me a detailed investigation report when the time comes." ”

Several robots came out from behind Zhou Xin, and they began to move the dinosaur's corpse back to the base for study.

At this time, Ralph's smug voice came from the detector beside Zhou Xin, "Uncle Captain, you see, I said that I didn't come down to play but to explore, this time I can be regarded as helping." ”

Zhou Xin nodded, "It's really helpful, this is a new discovery, I have a hunch, this clue may be a key to unlock the secrets of this planet, thank you so much, I'll reward you when I go back." ”

Ralph said a little embarrassed, "Then you also want to reward Sister Leia, it was her careful who discovered the anomaly on the corpse, and they just happened to find this clearing." Haha-ha-ha-" She smiled awkwardly.

"Leia?" Zhou Xin suddenly realized, "I just think how could you find such a small clue, it turns out that this is the case." Leia, you've done a great job. ”

At this time, Rhea's confused voice came from the other detector, "It's not that exaggerated, it's just that I just found something strange." And-and-besides, I haven't thanked you for saving your life last time, but this time it's just a small favor. ”

"Well, don't be so modest." Zhou Xin waved his hand at the detector, "I just did what I was supposed to do." Then he said to them, "Alright, this is the end of the matter for now, I will first transport the body back for investigation, and I will explain a little to Spred by the way." You can just go ahead and play, and let me know if there is anything special you find. ”

"We're exploring, not playing." Ralph retorted loudly.

Zhou Xin ignored her words and returned to the base directly with the dinosaur's corpse. Once back at the base, the group of robots took the dinosaur corpse to a spacious room for a detailed autopsy, while Zhou Xin returned to the office and began to contact Spred.

The figure of Spred appeared on the screen, and his expression now seemed strange, "Didn't you just contact me?" Why are you contacting me again? Did something happen? ”

"Not your 'good' daughter yet." Zhou Xin teased Spred.

"Ralph? Did she get into any trouble? I'm going to teach her this. Spred tenseded.

"Haha." Looking at Spred's nervous expression, Zhou Xin laughed, "Do you like her to cause trouble so much?" Not this time, but she helped a lot. ”

Seeing Spred's puzzled face, Zhou Xin told Spred about Ralph's discovery. He then presented Spred with the results of the preliminary analysis of the robot.

"That's right—I really thought Ralph was in some kind of trouble." After listening to Zhou Xin's introduction, Spred breathed a sigh of relief, and then he asked suspiciously: "I know the composition of teeth and nails, but what is organic polymer." ”

"No, your materials are so skilled that you don't know what organic polymers are?" Zhou Xin was surprised.

At this time, the Voyager added in the back, "They have some research on materials science, but they only surpass us in the research of alloy materials, and as for organic materials, they are in the initial stage of exploration." ”

"Okay." Zhou Xin reluctantly said to the Voyager, "You can teach him about this substance." ”

After listening to the traveler's introduction, Spred fell into deep thought. After a while, he finally digested the information introduced by the Voyager, and he looked up and said, "So, the composition of the teeth and nails of this corpse you found is not naturally grown?" Is it a creation of civilization? ”

"Not sure yet." Zhou Xin said, "At least from the outside, these parts still seem to have grown naturally, and now the robot is dissecting the corpse, and there should be a detailed analysis after a while." After a pause, Zhou Xin continued, "You are now in charge of the investigation of the creatures on this planet. So I'm going to tell you about this, and by the way, you have to keep an eye out for any similar reports found by the probe. At the same time, this incident also tells us that in the next step, our biological investigation of the planet should not only focus on living animals and plants, but also on the remains of dead animals and plants. ”

Spred grimaced, "I have found out now, Ralph didn't cause you trouble, but caused me a big problem, and now my workload will increase." ”

Zhou Xin said embarrassedly, "This-you can hand over the work to others a little, don't you have a few research team leaders below you?" ”

Spred said angrily: "Do you remember a few of them, do you think they are not busy, the technology of our two civilizations is still being interpreted, each of them is now responsible for a part, every day is as tired as a dead dog, if I give them a new task, they will have to kill me." ”

"Haha-ha-ha-" Zhou Xin smiled awkwardly, "This, it's not that there is a shortage of manpower on the ship, these things can only trouble you to work harder." Hehe-hehe-hehe-"

"Forget it." Spred said helplessly, "Who told me that I like to do this, leave this matter to me, and use it as interest for us to go on the ship." Okay, I'll go ahead and get busy if I have nothing else to do. He unceremoniously hung up the comms.

Shortly after the end of communication with Spred, a detailed autopsy report on the corpse came from outside:

After autopsy of the corpse of the monolophosaurus, it was found that the parts of the creature's teeth and claws connected to the body were not abnormal, and it can be concluded that these parts did indeed grow naturally from the body of the monolophosaurus, but the exact growth method is unknown.

In addition, during the dissection, it was found that not only the teeth and claws were made of organic polymers, but even the bones of the monolophosaurus were made of organic polymers, that is, the hard parts of the dinosaur's whole body were organic polymers.

Moreover, although this dinosaur is still cold-blooded, the activity of its various organs is at least twice as powerful as that of cold-blooded animals on Earth, and the oxygen content of the blood in the whole body is also very high. All in all, except that it is still cold-blooded, its whole body physiological activities are more like that of an endothermic animal.

After listening to this report, Zhou Xin was full of doubts, and he thought to himself, "So the organic polymer part of this monolophosaurus is naturally grown?" Can the body of an average creature grow something that needs to be synthesized? And the physiological state of this dragon, the physiological activity of a homeothermic animal, but it is still a cold-blooded animal, could it be said that this dinosaur is just in the process of evolution from a cold-blooded animal to a homeothermic animal? I still think there's something strange about this dinosaur, but what's next? ”

After thinking for a while, Zhou Xin ordered the Voyager, "Let the probe increase the scope of the search, including the remains of animals and plants and other items must be analyzed in detail." At the same time, trying to find a way to catch another monolophosaur for research, I always thought the dinosaur carcass we got back was a bit weird. ”

"Understand ......"