Section 03 Zero crystal
"Hey......"
Chen Zheng dragged a heavy sleigh with large chunks of fish on it, and walked between the wooden shelves of the "refrigerator", as if walking in the library to browse through the books. Every time his eyes swept over the shelves full of meat bricks, his heart would feel steady.
After putting the meat bricks, dragging the empty sleigh out, stepping on the broken scales and broken bones all over the ground, Chen Zheng returned to the corpse with only the head of the fish left, carefully looked at the head of the big fish, reached out and took out the pendant to summon the lightsaber, and slashed at the last piece of flesh at the back of the big fish's neck.
"Hum—"
"Huh?"
As a piece of fish meat fell, a beam of reflection flashed in front of Chen Zheng's eyes. Chen Zheng picked it up and found that the fish was inlaid with a small colorless and transparent crystal in the center, which shimmered like a diamond in the sun.
What is it!?
Chen Zheng curiously took it out and took it in his hand to observe it carefully.
Pure and transparent, these are the adjectives that come to Chen Zheng's mind for the first time. Generally speaking, adjectives like "brilliant" are used to describe diamonds, but after seeing this small crystal fragment, Chen Zheng felt that it was more appropriate to put the word on this crystal.
Under the light of the sun, the crystal reflects a colorful light, which is extremely beautiful. If it were to be taken to Earth, I believe that this crystal would eclipsate all diamonds.
However, at this moment, standing on the alien earth, this small stone was no different from the broken scales and fish bones on the ground except for making Chen Zheng's mood better.
After all, beauty can't be eaten.
An unexpected harvest can also be regarded as an adjustment after work. After admiring it for a while, Chen Zheng casually put it in his pocket and pulled the sled to continue to divide the fish.
However......
"Huh?? How can there still be ......!? ”
Chen Zheng was stunned and looked at a large piece of fish meat more than ten centimeters thick in his hand, and that crystal clear crystal appeared again in the center of it.
Moreover, this crystal is at least one lap larger than the previous one!
"Do you mean!?"
Chen Zheng suddenly thought of a possibility, and hurriedly pulled the sled, and the whole person stood on the sled as far as possible to observe the part that had not yet been cut off from the back of the big fish's neck.
Really!
Without looking carefully, Chen Zheng's line of sight was just level with the midline of the back of the big fish's neck, and he found a large crystal attached to the back of the big fish's cervical vertebrae.
The first crystal is about the size of a little finger, the second is already the size of a ping pong ball, and the one in front of me is the size of a tennis ball.
With a flick of the lightsaber, Chen Zheng carefully cut deeper, and as the carpace-like scales on the back of the big fish's neck were glassed, pieces of dazzling light suddenly appeared in the sun, shaking Chen Zheng couldn't open his eyes.
"This ...... What exactly!? ”
Whether it is a human or an animal, it is not uncommon to have stones in the body, but it is too scary to have diamonds in the body and have a large piece of it.
As the skin and flesh were peeled off, Chen Zheng took out these crystals that he didn't know what they were with a puzzled mood, and only then did he bow his head and count them until there were no more crystals missing.
There are about 40 pieces of all the crystals plus a piece, the largest is the size of a fitness ball, and the smallest is the size of the first little finger, and its volume starts from the center of the back of the big fish's neck and decreases in turn.
Directly above the largest of them is the arthropod-like antennae of the strange fish that impressed Chen Zheng.
Chen Zheng found a piece of bark, piled these crystals on it, turned his head and continued to divide the fish.
Again, these crystals can't be eaten as food, and the most important thing is to rescue hard-won food at present.
The morning passed unconsciously, and it was not until the whole big fish was divided that Chen Zheng wiped off his sweat, held the thick broth, and rested on the sled.
It took two days for the huge monster fish corpse to finally disappear, leaving only a hideous skull and shattered scales all over the ground.
The good parts of the fish have become meat of about the same size and thickness, and are neatly stacked in a "refrigerator" like a bookshelf.
Chen Zheng dug a pit in the snow directly, covered it with crushed ice, and threw this part of the fish into it, and some inedible offal was also disposed of.
In the end, the edible and usable offal were placed in several rows of "refrigerators" by Chen Zheng. Especially the swim bladder, which was carefully punctured and put away by Chen Zheng.
The swim bladder, also known as fish white, is filled with gas, which is an organ used by bony fish to control its own rise and fall, and can also assist breathing. It can not only be eaten, but also used in medicine, and the most important thing is that fish maw can be boiled out of fish maw.
Chen Zheng vaguely remembers that the ancient fishing boats used a mixture of fish gelatin, shell powder and other things, and fish glue was also quite good for sticking wood.
"Shhh...... Whew......"
The hot fish soup was tumbling on the tip of his tongue, maybe it was very sweet in itself, maybe Chen Zheng was very hungry, but anyway, his face was full of happiness when he was holding the fish soup at this moment, as if he was holding not some fish soup, but some kind of delicacy.
After eating and drinking, biting a thin wooden thorn and picking his teeth, Chen Zheng simply lay on the sleigh and basked in the sun.
Unknowingly, it has been almost a week since Chen Zheng came to this planet. From almost being killed by aliens and alien fish at the beginning, to being so hungry that the front cavity is close to the back cavity, and now to the time when you are full of food and drink and squint in the sun......
…… Yesterday in a trance seems to be a world away.
I don't know what happened to my father-in-law.
Chen Zheng sighed, fiddling with the loot from before: a white instrument the size of a mobile phone, a flat metal that resembled a button, something that looked like a watch but had no strap.
These things have always been stored close to him, on the one hand, they don't take up much space, and on the other hand, he knows very well that these things are absolutely important.
There are only three things on that slug-like alien except for the suit he is wearing on Chen Zheng now. Among them, Chen Zheng, the white phone-sized instrument, had already experienced its magic, and he still hadn't figured out what the other two were used for.
After fiddling with it for a while, the button-sized metal was completely solid, and there was no clue at all. And the thing that resembles a watch but has no strap, Chen Zheng has some guesses.
This thing...... It should be an alien's personal computer, cell phone, or something like that.
This is not speculation.
When he was on Earth, Chen Zheng once saw that the alien who had turned into a giant had used it, as if he was looking for something.
"That's right! How did I forget. ”
Chen Zheng sat up suddenly.
He suddenly remembered that although the alien who turned into a giant was swallowed, there should be something left, at least the "strip of cloth" that he burst should still be able to be used.