Chapter 2: Survivors
The Golden Emperor walked over to the mucus traces dissolved by the antibiotics, and gently stroked it with his hand.
The strong acid dissolved the skin tissue of the Golden Emperor, but did not further corrode the plexiglass under the skin of the Golden Emperor's fingertips.
The Golden Emperor placed the small piece of soil stained with the worm's bodily fluids into the glass bottle.
"Take away the test ingredients and compare them with the organisms of the Earth and the superstars."
There is a separate database in the escape pod, which is prepared for the forced landing, and contains the genetic sequences of all known terrestrial organisms and super-star organisms, which can be compared at any time.
As for the escape pod, they opened the bottom wheels and took only one of them.
"It takes three hours for the test results, and even though it's a few years ago, the number of organisms that need to be compared inside is still staggering."
"Then let's take a break."
Listening to the Golden Emperor's opinion, Seth distributed the positioning device to the people, and the main signal sending point was the escape pod, during which time their task was to find water and food, although the Golden Emperor expressed little hope for these.
Compound eyes, exoskeletons, suction cup mouthparts, multiple segments, dozens of legs, and transparent wings......
These are all characteristics that arthropods possess, but there is something wrong with them.
Emperor Jin couldn't figure it out, as if he understood something in his mind, but he couldn't grasp it.
"Brother Jindi, what are you thinking?"
Rhea walked up to the Golden Emperor with the immature child's voice and handed him a glass of water.
The Golden Emperor clenched his left hand, which had been corroded to his fingertips by the acid before, trying not to let Rhea see the plexiglass layer inside, and at the same time called up a few pictures from the Shujรน library.
They are earthworms, beetles, flies and spiders.
"I'm thinking about the laws of evolution, earthworms have a soft outer skin and can move better in the soil. The beetle's hard shell can cope with predators. The spider's leg hair makes it easy for him to climb or hang on a tree branch. Flies, on the other hand, have siphon mouthparts that can spit out acid to digest externally before eating. โ
"Uh-huh, these are all creatures of Earth, right, and some Mars also have them."
"But these characteristics of theirs are beneficial to their living environment, but the big worm just now has many places on its body that are not conducive to its body. For example, siphon mouthparts, such as transparent wings, such as those bristled legs, look like ......"
"Looks like a lot of insects together?"
"Together...... Synthetic, right! It looks like it's synthetic! Thank you Rhea! โ
The Golden Emperor suddenly caught the answer and kissed Rhea on the little face.
Most of the creatures have a stable habitat, most of the creatures that live underground will rely on the body surface to sense temperature, and spiders need better dynamic vision to catch the movements of their prey, and the wings are changed according to the volume, and the huge worm wings cannot drive their own volume to fly.
Why would anyone think of synthesizing such a superfluous creature?
Maybe it's just a coincidence.
Emperor Jin can only hope like this in his heart.
Because if this is not the case, the whole calamity star is likely to become a ...... between the forces of the Earth and the superstar
Real yร n field.
So how can they survive with only a small part of the outdated rifles they have?
"Any antibiotics left?"
"About four or five bottles, all taken out of the wreckage."
"Alright, it's all dripping into the ammo slot."
From the escape pod, the crew found about a small box of antibiotics, which were originally used as a backup to fight off the virus, but at the call of the Golden Emperor, they were dropped into live ammunition and used as an insecticide.
I have to say that this is a complicated job, when the target is fired, everyone's weapons plus one second can shoot nearly 100 bullets, but it takes more than ten seconds to drop antibiotics into a live ammunition slot, which is relatively fast.
However, being able to use foreign objects is also one of the benefits of live weapons, if the laser gun can't do the slightest damage to the huge worm before, then the Golden Emperor and his gang can only cry.
The loading work lasted for nearly four hours, and several crew members worked quietly with Jin Di, which made Jin Di feel a little happy.
Occasionally, there is a slightly quieter side to the condolence group.
This state lasted until Seth appeared, and the noise made the Golden Emperor want to chop off his right hand this time.
"Fuck, I've finally found water! Hahahaha! โ
Seth took a sip of the water bottle in his hand and wiped his mouth.
"The water quality monitoring said that it could be drunk, so Lao Tzu tasted it first, and it was not poisonous, but it was a little sticky, hahahaha!"
"You'll also excrete poison, you're just afraid of corrosive liquids." The Golden Emperor took the water cup from Seth's hand and didn't drink it, but just sniffed it.
"Where did you find the water, Seth?"
"There's a clearing behind the jungle, and there's a lot of holes in the clearing, and it's full of water!"
The Golden Emperor put the water into the laboratory chamber in the escape pod.
Similarity: 87%
The test result is the same substance.
"What does that mean?"
"Those are worm holes, I'm afraid you're drinking the bodily fluids of that kind of worms, and it's more likely excrement." Emperor Jin shrugged his shoulders and took a sip of the water in the cup, which was indeed not much different from the taste of pure water.
"I swear I won't take a second sip." Seth was stunned and immediately threw away the water bottle in his hand.
"You have to drink, and neither do you, unless you find something that can replace worm excrement." The Golden Emperor gave the bottles to everyone and stared at them until they drank into their stomachs.
In fact, mucus does act as water, since water quality monitors show it to be drinkable. Of course, Alice and Rhea were still drinking the water stored in the escape pod.
The crew led by Seth collected two boxes of worm excrement, enough for them to live for a week.
In just one breath, the ground began to shake again.
"Damn, it can't be that thing again, right?"
"Shhhh
The Golden Emperor dipped his fingers with saliva and plunged into the dirt beneath his feet.
This time, unlike last time, the hypocenter has three directions.
And it's getting faster and faster.
"Hidden! There are three of them! โ
As soon as he finished speaking, the dirt under Seth's feet cracked open.
"Captain!"
"Set fire to the other two! I'll just figure it out on my own! โ
Seth, who was stuck in the mouth of the worm, did not forget to give an order, even if the captain was in danger, the crew must carry out the order, which has long become an iron law of the Heavenly Condolence Group.
But this time Seth was really in danger.
His left hand is stuck in the worm's mouthparts, and his legs are in a horse-step position trying to support his body, pulling his left hand out of the worm's mouthparts.
"You damn wretch......"
Seth tried his best, but he couldn't pull out his arm in the slightest.
When the worm sucks, a vacuum will form in the mouth, and the soft inner membrane will wrap around the object, and I am afraid that a crane will not be able to pull Seth's arm out of the worm's suction cup.
Unless sabotaged from within.
The worms at Seth's feet chirped and spewed acid from the pipes on either side of his mouthparts, trying to dissolve Seth.
The acid spilled on Seth's body like the smell of burning garbage, the smell of corroded skin tissue.
Having lost half of his skin, Seth revealed the mechanical bones, organs, and scarlet eyes within.
The acid only corroded his skin.
Seth's right hand thumped to the robotic arm on the left that had been sucked into the mouth of the worm, and the whole arm began to vibrate after a shattering sound, first popping out a small piece of serration from the shoulder, gradually extending to the joint, the palm of the hand.
"My body is made of nano-sized carbon steel, miscellaneous! How about a taste of my saw!? โ
Under the vibration of the sawtooth, it took only three seconds to cut the entire mouth of the worm, and Seth licked his lips with great enjoyment, and did not stop the movement of his hand.
Seth laughed, and the worm under his feet began to explode under the mechanical arm, and the juice splattered all over the ground, leaving only half of the worm's body buried under the ground to twitch, which was just a spasm under the guidance of the last bodily function.
But the other two sides are not doing so well.
Dropping antibiotics into the worm's body does not kill the worm quickly, but corrodes the worm's cells, and in the process the worm becomes uncontrollable and the attack is even more terrifying.
Two crew members have already died under the mouth of the worm.
They can't drag it out.
"Ceasefire!"
Under the influence of the subconscious, the fire output stopped, but it was not the voice of the Golden Emperor or Seth.
However, within a second of the fire, the two worms in front of them exploded one after another.
I don't know when a person came in at the back of the team, his arm half-raised in the air, and he was looking at Emperor Jin with a puzzled expression.
"Are you survivors of the crash?"
That's hyperbody language.