Chapter 9: More Anomalous Creatures

The day after the dinosaur's corpse was discovered, another probe spotted the monolophosaurus in the same forest, and with a little effort, the battle robot managed to kill the dinosaur and bring its body back to base. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Just as he was passing through the corridor of the base, he happened to meet Zhou Xin who came out to wander out after finishing his business, and saw that the robot was carrying the corpse of the monospinal dragon, and Zhou Xin came over curiously. When the robot told him that it was a newly captured monolophosaurus, Zhou Xin observed curiously.

Zhou Xin found that the size of this monolophosaurus was only about half of the size of the one found yesterday, and its whole body was complete, only two bullet holes in its head, which was obviously the cause of death of this dinosaur. Zhou Xin didn't care about this, he walked to the corpse, picked up the dinosaur's claws and observed.

Zhou Xin found that although the claws of this dinosaur were sharp, the claws were not completely smooth, with some uneven places, and at the same time, there was no ivory-like luster on the claws, which looked slightly gray. This paw is similar to the claws of animals on Earth. Zhou Xin turned over the dinosaur's teeth again, and found that its teeth were not as neat and smooth as the teeth of the dinosaur yesterday, but were defective like normal animals.

Zhou Xin began to be puzzled, he walked around the corpse, wanting to find more differences, but except for the two places just now, Zhou Xin had not found any other anomalies, he gave up looking for it, and said to the robot: "Take it for autopsy as soon as possible, I want to get an autopsy result as soon as possible." ”

The group of robots quickly moved the corpse away, and watching the corpse being removed, Zhou Xin thought about it, and he went back to the office to contact Ralph.

Ralph's laughter came from the communicator, apparently they were playing, and the laughter continued for a while, and Ralph's voice came from inside, "Ah, it's Uncle Captain, is there anything to do with me?" ”

Hearing Ralph's name, Zhou Xin made a bitter face, "Can you stop calling me Uncle Captain, I'm not much older than you." ”

"That's not older than me, what's wrong with calling me uncle." She retorted with all the confidence.

"Forget it." Zhou Xin said helplessly, "Did you have fun today?" Are there any strange discoveries? ”

"You think I'm really a probe, how can I find something new every time?" Ralph complained.

"Okay." Zhou Xin continued to say helplessly, "I'm just asking by the way." ”

At this moment, a faint voice came from the communicator, "I don't know if this is a new discovery, I think the shape of this tree next to it is much larger than the other trees around." Because this voice was very weak, Zhou Xin didn't hear who said it at first, but he didn't hear it until he listened carefully later, this was Leia's voice.

Before Zhou Xin could react to this sentence, Ralph exclaimed first, "Eh! Is that the case? Let me see. The voice paused for a moment and then started again, "Eh, it really looks like it's a lot bigger than the other trees." ”

After listening to Ralph's words, Zhou Xin was slightly surprised, "Oh? It looks like there's really something new, or Reia, you should be careful to observe. Zhou Xin praised.

"Hmph, if it weren't for the fact that Uncle Captain had just arrived at this place and you were looking for me, I would have discovered the abnormal place a long time ago." Ralph said unconvinced.

"Okay, okay, our Ralph is also very good, okay, thanks to you for finding this place, you can let Rea find the anomaly." Zhou Xin said perfunctorily.

"Hmph, that's pretty much it." Ralph said proudly, and then she continued, "Uncle Captain, are you coming here?" I'll be waiting for you here. ”

After thinking about the hot weather outside, Zhou Xin wanted to be lazy, "Forget it, it's the same if you move back anyway, I'll call a few robots to move back and check it." Your location system has also been remembered, so you don't have to wait there if it's okay. ”

"Okay Captain, then let's go ahead and playβ€”oh no, let's explore." Ralph said happily.

Closing the communication with Ralph, Zhou Xin contacted Spred again.

Spred, who appeared on the screen, with a hint of exhaustion and dark circles around his eyes, opened his mouth and said, "The captain is contacting me now, is there anything you want me to do?" ”

Looking at Spred, who looked tired, Zhou Xin persuaded: "Don't be in a hurry to study in advance, you still have to pay attention to your body." ”

"I do." "But every now and then, the Voyager sends in a report, and if I don't deal with it, it won't be long before they pile up." ”

Zhou Xin wondered, "Are there so many reports?" ”

"Tens of thousands of probes, although the information they send back is handled by the Voyager, but there are always reports of unmanageable transactions. Don't talk about that, if there's something to say, the Voyager has sent another report. Spred urged.

"Did the probe find any anomalous creatures today?" Zhou Xin asked about business.

"Not yet."

"No, is it really Ralph's luck?" Zhou Xin muttered to himself suspiciously.

"Huh? What happened to Ralph? Hearing Zhou Xin mention Ralph, Sprede instantly became energetic.

"Huh? It's nothing, she seems to have found another special plant. Zhou Xin then told Spred about Ralph's new discovery.

After listening to Zhou Xin's description, Spred thought about it for a moment and said, "Abnormal growth of plants? There seem to be a few reports that say about this, but I was so focused on finding anomalous animals that I thought the plants were just overgrowing, which was my mistake. Spred said apologetically.

"It's not yet certain." Zhou Xin said, "I also asked the robot to bring that special plant back for analysis, maybe I'm too careful, I'll contact you when the analysis report comes out." ”

"Whether it's useful or not, I'll call the Voyager to pick out this kind of anomalous plant report first, maybe it will come in handy." Spred said, "Okay, it's time for me to deal with the reports, and three more reports will come here at this point, and I won't be able to read them if I don't go." Without waiting for Zhou Xin's answer, he hung up the communication.

Just after Spred hung up the communication, the robot's autopsy report on the new corpse also came out, Zhou Xin looked at the report, the report showed that everything in this monolophosaurus was in line with the physiological structure of a normal creature, its claws were normal cuticles, its teeth and bones were calcium apatite, and there was no organic polymer composition.

Seeing this analysis report, Zhou Xin's face was suddenly full of doubts, and he turned on the communicator to contact the robot that did the inspection.

"The inspection of Monolith-2 determined that there were no errors? Everything about this dinosaur is like a normal creature? Zhou Xin asked.

"The machine has been examined in detail, and no abnormalities have been found in the physiological structure of Monolosaurus-2."

"Okay." Zhou Xin ended the correspondence, he picked up two different reports of the monolophosaurus, and fell into deep thought.

"The physiology of two monolophosaurs, which should theoretically belong to the same species, is completely different. Which one is a normal species on the planet, or are these two dinosaurs not the same species at all? How is this possible, how can there be a dinosaur whose whole body skeleton is an organic polymer, this is obviously the result of civilization transformation. But where is this civilization, except for this modified dinosaur, there is no civilization creation found on the planet at all? It stands to reason that the entire planet should have been explored, how could there be no obvious signs of civilization found, what is hidden on this planet? ”

After thinking for a while, Zhou Xin found that the evidence in his hand was not enough to speculate on any results, so he shook his head and threw these thoughts out of his mind. After that, he didn't have anything to do on his own, so out of boredom, he had to go out of the office and hang out......

Over the next few days, the probe explored the planet's various creatures in detail. However, one after another, anomalies in the creatures on this planet were discovered. Investigations have shown that there are very few organisms on this planet that do not look like species that can evolve naturally, and there are a large number of organic polymers in these very few organisms, and even one or two individuals whose bone composition is actually alloy, which makes Zhou Xin feel incredible.

In the process of capturing these creatures, the robot also encountered a lot of trouble, these special creatures are generally stronger than the normal species, and the aggression is much higher than the normal species, often the robot has not approached, those special kinds of creatures began to attack the robot. However, the good news is that the robots are not afraid of the attacks of these special species, and are only occasionally overturned by the powerful forces of the large species. It took a little effort, but in the end, we succeeded in capturing these special species.

However, just yesterday, the probe discovered a very large Tyrannosaurus rex, which was three times the size of the normal species. At first, Zhou Xin thought that this Tyrannosaurus rex was just an ordinary special species of Tyrannosaurus rex, but in the process of capturing it, the combat robot reported to Zhou Xin that ordinary ammunition was actually ineffective against this Tyrannosaurus rex, and that the claws and teeth of this Tyrannosaurus rex could actually cause damage to the combat robot, which surprised Zhou Xin very much. In desperation, Zhou Xin had no choice but to approve the robot to use special ammunition, and then used wheel warfare to capture the Tyrannosaurus rex. After transporting the body of the Tyrannosaurus rex back for autopsy, the robot reported an unexpected conclusion to Zhou Xin, the skin of the Tyrannosaurus rex was actually an organic polymer, and its claws, teeth, and bones were actually made of alloys. This really surprised Zhou Xin.

In addition, in addition to the existence of special species of animals on this planet, there are also a small number of special species of plants, which are taller than their normal species, and the rate of photosynthesis is also faster, although there are no artificial components in the plants, but the wood structure of these special plants is denser and harder, and the hardness of some special species even reaches the strength of steel.

On this day, Zhou Xin sat in his office seat, and in front of him, Spred, Ralph, and some researchers were sitting quietly on the screen. In the past few days, many special species of organisms have been discovered, and Zhou Xin decided to hold a meeting to analyze the findings so far.

Spred first concluded: "After a few days of investigation, we have found a total of 53 special species of animals, including 47 dinosaurs, 5 mammals, and a special species of insect, in addition to a special species of Tyrannosaurus rex. In addition to animals, we found 49 special plant species, including 39 gymnosperms, 8 angiosperms, and 2 ferns. ”

After a pause, Spred continued: "The study of these particular species has shown that there are no obvious signs of artificial modification on their bodies, and everything that we thought could not exist on a biological basis is naturally grown in these organisms. Based on the analysis of these evidences, we initially believe that these creatures are just special species that evolved from this planet, and are not the creation of civilization. ”

"Wellβ€”" Zhou Xin was lost in thought, and after a moment he said, "but I still think these creatures are hiding some secrets. At least I don't think it makes sense, since you say that these special species evolved naturally from this planet, then why only these few have completed their evolution, and the other creatures of the same species remain in their original state. And what we have found so far are all species that have evolved completely, so why have we not found intermediate organisms? It's impossible for them to wake up overnight and become a completely different species. ”

"We've discussed this a little bit, but we can't draw a reliable conclusion because of the lack of evidence." Spred replied.

At this time, Leia next to her whispered, "I have an idea, could it be that these creatures were not formed through normal natural evolution?" ”

"What do you mean? Let's go into details. Hearing Ralph's statement, Zhou Xin was a little interested.

"It's just a conjecture on my part, don't blame me for being wrong." Leia said weakly, "Natural evolution is a very slow process, but what if these creatures did not evolve naturally? ”

"If it's not natural evolution, then it can only be a civilized creation, isn't it?" Ralph interjected.

"There's another possibility." Leia paused for a moment and said, "Could it be that these creatures are mutated?" ”

"Mutation?" Zhou Xin frowned.

"Maybe there are some special natural environments on this planet, and once creatures enter, their bodies will mutate and become special." Leia spoke her mind.

Spred thought for a moment, "This is a new idea, and this idea can explain the problem of no evolutionary intermediate state, this kind of mutation, either succeed or fail, it is difficult to appear in the middle state." ”

"Then why didn't we find such a special environment......