Beta, a mining colony of the Earth Federation.

The land is shrouded in yellow sand, and the desolate Gobi is as far as the eye can see.

In winter, winds of force 12 and sandstorms that obscure the sky sweep across the earth's surface.

This is not a planet suitable for human habitation.

But in order to extract the valuable polycrystalline ore, the settlers built a dome on the foundation of a huge earthy yellow rock.

The dome is made of transparent tempered fiber, with a diameter of 150 kilometers, and the highest point of the dome is a staggering 30,000 meters above the ground.

This city, built under the dome, is called Scarborough Shoal.

If you look down in the night sky, the lights of Huangyan City are like a dazzling pearl embedded in the beta star, brilliant and magnificent.

Scarborough Shoal is a miracle of mankind, with two million immigrants and their descendants living under this dome for more than 10 centuries.

The huge pit located in the northwest of Huangyan City is like a bottomless black abyss.

In order to extract polycrystalline ores, miners must take high-speed lift cable cars to reach veins at depths of 850 kilometers below the surface.

The veins expand in all directions, stretching and long, like a huge spider web, and the miners used to call these veins the underground labyrinth.

Yellowstone City once had its own glory, and it was once one of the eight hedron mines of the Earth Federation.

But unfortunately, as the veins are gradually dried up, the city gradually withers, losing its former brilliance and vitality.

It won't be long before the settlers are heading out for new colonies and building new cities and mines.

It's just that as the immigrants move again and again, they are getting farther and farther away from their home earth...

......

Huangyancheng, under the Bureau of Justice, Death Identification Center.

It was late at night.

There was the sound of soft footsteps in the silent and dim corridor, and Jiang Xia, the sixteen-year-old assistant of forensic doctor Qiao An, was walking through the corridor towards the biological dissection room.

Beta is not a war zone, the local people are simple, the foreign population is small, the law and order is relatively stable, and there are not many deaths that need to be dealt with.

The only employees working in this appraisal center are Lao Qiao An and Jiang Xia.

Syllable~

When Jiang Xia pushed open the dissection room, the automatic control system lit up the lights.

The light was pale, and on the metal dissecting table, a cold corpse was lying.

The corpse was already blue and covered with a white medical non-woven fabric, revealing only the feet, and the two-dimensional code metal plate hanging from the big female toe was the number of the corpse.

Jiang Xia put on a blue disposable sterile surgical gown as usual, put on a hood, a mask, and thin silicone gloves, took a deep breath, and said lightly: "The system is activated, now start recording." ”

"Activation is complete, Anatomical File No. 3791 has been established." Immediately, a cold female voice replied, it was the voice of the intelligent medical assistant.

Jiang Xia stretched out his hand to uncover the white non-woven fabric on the corpse, and quickly scanned it with his eyes, his face a little indifferent.

After seeing too much death, Jiang Xia had long forgotten what it was like to be afraid, and for him, disposing of corpses was just a job.

Half an hour earlier, the body had been delivered by a refrigerated truck from the Department of Justice.

According to the information, the deceased was found by a mining transport ship traveling to and from Beta, who received a galactic universal distress signal and followed the signal to find the wreckage of a corvette.

Although the wrecked frigate was not a model produced by the Earth Federation, the crew of the transport ship still examined the wreckage in accordance with navigation laws.

They found the body in the cockpit and then took it to Beta to hand it over to the local judiciary.

As an employee of the Death Identification Center, Jiang Xia's current task is to find out the cause of death of the body so that the bureau can close the case for the accident.

DNA records show that the deceased is not in the Earth Federation's personal information database.

In other words, the deceased was not a citizen of the Federation, but an alien.

Retracting his gaze, Jiang Xia said with an indifferent face: "It is preliminarily inferred that the age of the deceased is between forty-one and forty-three years old. ”

"Muscular level A, body fat percentage less than 7%, occupation as a soldier or martial artist."

"There are no fatal injuries from external forces, the bones are intact, but the pupils show signs of scattering, the eyeballs are congested, and the liver is abnormally protruding, which is suspected to be death from internal organ failure."

"Now start scanning with alpha rays."

After receiving Jiang Xia's order, the medical assistant shot out a blue ray.

Swish~

The blue light quickly swept over the corpse, and immediately, the bones, muscle tissue, internal organs, and brain structures appeared completely and clearly on the light curtain projected by the medical assistant.

In the brain of this corpse, there is a square implanted chip, which is the deceased's optical brain.

Jiang Xia was slightly stunned, he found that this optical brain chip was not a common model of the Earth Federation, there were millions of tiny optical fibers that could not be detected by the naked eye, densely connected to brain neurons.

Obviously, this is a high-tech product, and in Jiang Xia's career, he has never seen such a complex design of the light brain.

"Identify the photobrain model." Jiang Xia licked his lips and said.

"Unknown model of light brain, the system can't recognize it." The medical assistant said in a cold female voice.

Can't recognize?

Jiang Xia shook his head slightly.

He couldn't recognize it with a light brain in his own head, but it wasn't high-tech, but because his parents couldn't afford to buy the original, so they had to buy cheap miscellaneous goods from the black market.

Otherwise, how could Jiang Xia not have most of his memories before he was eight years old?

You must know that the light brain chip itself has a memory assistance function, Jiang Xia can't even remember the appearance and sound of his parents now, it must be the ghost of the inferior light brain in his head.

Jiang Xia stared at the light curtain for a while, no matter how advanced the light brain was, it would be discarded with the death of the master and become useless garbage.

Although it is a bit of a pity, the optical brain, as a purely private item with an absolute level of secrecy, is designed in such a way that no one can read the data inside the optical brain except for the owner of the optical brain, so as not to leak personal information.

So he moved his hands a few times and said in a deep voice: "The preliminary test is complete, and now the autopsy is carried out, the No. 4 scalpel." ”

At the top of the dissection table is a circular automated medical equipment platform, and a mechanical arm is stretched out from the platform, handing Jiang Xia a bright silver lancet,

Jiang Xia took the scalpel and glanced at the corpse's chest with his eyes.

Cha~

With a wave of his arm, the blade flashed, and with a swift and perfect movement, without any mud and water, in one go, the knife cut open the chest of the deceased, leaving a straight line of blood at the edge of the knife, and the technique was precise, like a machine.

Jiang Xia didn't look up, his wrist shook skillfully and slightly, and the bloodstained No. 4 scalpel drew a parabola in the air and was thrown into the tool collector under the dissecting table.

In this machine, the scalpel is re-washed, sterilized, and then returned to the medical platform by a conveyor belt for Jiang Xia to pick up again.

"Circular saw No. three, support No. seven." Jiang Xia ordered in a deep voice.

In a short time, there was the sound of a chainsaw whistling in the dissection room, and the click of broken bones.

Don't look at Jiang Xia's sharp hands and quick movements, like a trained professional surgeon, but his actual age is only sixteen years old.

When he was eight years old, Jiang Xia wandered in the city, and it was the old man Qiao An, who managed the appraisal center, who took him in.

For the next two years, Jiang Xia has been Qiao An's assistant, accompanying him to deal with all kinds of corpses, and in the process, Jiang Xia has never shown any fear, which makes Qiao An feel very incredible.

Joan also discovered that Jiang Xia Sheng had a pair of hands suitable for a surgeon, fast, steady, and precise, and the kitchen knife was perfectly controlled in his hands when Jiang Xia was cleaning up a chicken or a fish in the kitchen.

At a young age, he can peel off the whole chicken skin in one go, and he can cut the potato slices into thin and even thickness, just like the work of a kitchen cutting machine, it seems that Jiang Xia was born with an extraordinary keen perception of knives.

When Jiang Xia was ten years old, one night, the old man Qiao An was drunk, and there happened to be a female corpse to deal with in the autopsy room.

Jiang Xia looked at the drunken old Qiao An spread out on the desk, thought for a few minutes, and then he quietly walked into the dissection room, putting on silicone gloves.

Two hours later, when Joan woke up thirsty, she found the death analysis report on her desk.

From that day on, Old Qiao An never entered the dissection room again, and all the work was done by Jiang Xia, and the remuneration was 800 federal yuan per month.

The money was paid by Qiao An's private account, and there was no such person as Jiang Xia in the personnel file of the Justice Bureau, and he was never an official employee of the Justice Bureau.

Although Director Zhou of the Bureau of Justice knew that it was unruly for Lao Qiao An to hire minors as assistants in private, few of his subordinates wanted to go to the ghost place where they dealt with corpses.

Not to mention the eerie and terrifying death identification center, Old Joan's temper was still extremely withdrawn and extremely difficult to get along with, so he had to pretend not to see it, and turned a blind eye and fooled it.

It's been six years in the blink of an eye.

People only know that Lao Qiao An of the death identification center has a young assistant, but no one knows that the young Jiang Xia is actually the writer of thousands of death reports in the past six years, as well as the executor of all the dissecting operations.

There was not much time, and Jiang Xia finished his work.

The incision of the corpse was re-stitched, and the dense stitches were spaced 0.3 centimeters apart, never one millimeter more, never one millimeter less.

It can be seen that although Jiang Xia is young, he already has a very high standard for this job.

Disposable surgical gowns and silicone gloves were thrown into the incinerator, and bodies were pushed back into the freezer to be refrigerated.

If unclaimed within three months, the corpse will be disposed of as fertilizer to nourish Beta's barren vegetable fields.

Jiang Xia cleaned out the deceased's light brain in the sink and took a closer look at it through the light.

This light brain?...

PS: In the past two years, Jiu'er has a hunch that our world may have reached an important juncture of imminent change, whether it is Alpha Dog sweeping the Go world, or the crazy layout of artificial intelligence by capital predators, or countless articles on the technology channel about worrying that robots will eventually take away human jobs.

All of this seems to tell us that an era of artificial intelligence is getting closer and closer.

So, Jiu'er wrote this book, looking at the future world, trying to imagine what the future earth and human beings will be like.

The new book will be serialized today, twice a day, at 8 o'clock in the morning and evening, and I hope that all readers will join me in embarking on this journey to the future.

The new book period needs to be cared for, and the parents of the food and clothing will not give up, so let's get a recommendation ticket first.

Thanks a lot!