For Yang Meng, if he can come into contact with a living living body,

is a very meaningful thing,

That would give him a lot of useful information.

Judging from the internal structure of the metal sphere and the stone placed in the center,

The "people" in this have established a certain system of civilization.

But helplessly, he found nothing useful except for corpses in one place.

"So what's next for you?"

The little light on the side asked with a flickering light when he saw the detector leave the metal ball.

"The plan, maybe to start a ball?"

"Start the metal ball?"

Yang Meng's answer made Xiaoguang suddenly think of something:

"You're going to use the metal orb to get into that place!"

"Yes, there is a plan!"

At this time, Xiaoguang saw that Yang Meng was not busy probing, so he continued to ask:

"The contents of that metal ball look a little like yours,

But there are some differences in the surface structure, are these your people? ”

Xiaoguang's question made Yang Meng couldn't help but turn his head to look at this flickering point of light, and then shook his head and said:

"I don't know!"

"They may have looked like me before,

But because of the decay of the dead body, the body has changed! ”

"It turned out to be rotten, when I was studying your body tissues,

After your structure leaves the energy supply of the main part, it is indeed prone to irreversible changes in nature.

This is also the disadvantage of being a living being! ”

Seeing that Xiaoguang calmly mentioned the dismantling of his body at the beginning, without any sense of self-fault,

He sighed helplessly,

For this point of light that has existed for countless years and has long been out of the living body,

It's a strange thing to have empathy for the fragility of living organisms.

At this time, Yang Meng did not mean to blame Xiaoguang in his heart,

It was this point of light that made him think of something:

"Kindred?"

"Are they normal humans?"

Yang Meng didn't know.

……

The probe that collected biological samples has detached from the planet Ross 128b,

is coming in the direction of the ship,

Yang Meng did not sit in the spacecraft at this time and wait for the return of the probe.

He needs to prepare the environment for receiving biological samples.

After all, this is a biological sample from an alien planet,

It needs to be handled with extreme care.

Although the environment on Ross 128b is extremely harsh, these humanoids may have recently emerged.

But judging from the data of previous detections, there are a large number of microorganisms on this planet.

For human beings who have gone out of the solar system, on various planets where liquid water exists,

The most dangerous thing is not the civilization with an unknown danger level above, nor the harsh planetary environment.

Rather, it is the microbes that are widespread on that planet that are invisible to the naked eye.

In particular, those microorganisms that depend on the liquid environment are more threatening to humans.

After all, the human body is a special liquid environment.

If alien microorganisms enter the human body,

It is difficult to predict whether the human immune system will be able to resist these unknown microorganisms.

Regarding the biochemical environment of Ross 128b, Yang Meng did not dare to be careless,

No one knows how far the microbes on Ross 128b, which is more than 9 billion years old, will evolve.

Especially since the planet is still in a period of heavy bombardment,

Meteorite material from space is constantly replenishing the water lost by ionization of nearby stars.

And these ice meteorites,

It is also possible that he wandered from an extragalactic galaxy and was attracted to Planet B.

This makes the planet's microbial environment potentially more complex.

How the first life on Earth came into being is still debatable.

But what is certain is that

The oldest microbial fossils found by mankind today,

is under the permafrost of Greenland,

That fossil is 3.7 billion years old.

At that time, the Earth happened to be at the end of the heavy bombardment of many meteorites.

"This planet may be a treasure for extraterrestrial planet biologists.

But this environment is a hassle for my exploratory work! ”

"If only the environment here was as dry as the surface environment of Rutan B!"

Such a thought flashed through Yang Meng's mind,

However, he also understands that even the surface of Planet Rutan B, which has lost water for various reasons, still has a terrible red haze,

Some of the ideas are just wishful thinking.

……

Fortunately, mankind has long anticipated that pioneer astronauts may face a complex alien microbial environment.

Therefore, there are a variety of solutions,

Among them, there is an external analysis device that can handle the collection of biological samples.

And this kind of device, as early as when the probe left the spacecraft, Yang Meng was ready.

At this time, the equipment exit hatch on the spacecraft slowly opened,

A ball larger than an ordinary probe was slowly lifted in space by a robotic arm.

And underneath the ship,

A point of light emerges from the shadows of the night hemisphere,

The point of light slowly moved in the direction of the spaceship, and soon changed into the appearance of a probe.

A few minutes later,

Xiao Yin's prompt sound sounded in Yang Meng's ears:

"The rendezvous has been completed and the biological samples are being transferred!"

Yang Meng, who had already been prepared, came to an operating table. ，

I saw that the content displayed on the screen in the middle of the console was the scene of the biological experiment cabin.

As the ampoules of metal structures were transferred to the biological experiment chamber,

Under Xiao Yin's operation, he began to analyze the samples inside.

"How's it going, did you find anything?"

Seeing that Yang Meng had been staring at the screen, the small light on the side was flickering, and he seemed to be more anxious than Yang Meng about the condition of those humanoid creatures.

It's a pity that Yang Meng didn't have time to respond to Xiaoguang,

He was exchanging analysis data with Xiao Yin in his body,

After Xiaoguang waited for a few minutes, Yang Meng let out a sigh of relief and said in his heart:

"Sure enough, there are traces of rapid cloning!"

Xiaoguang on the side, seeing that Yang Meng's expression had changed, hurriedly asked:

"How?"

"In a sense, these people are my people!"

"And what was the cause of their death?"

"Judging from the biological samples sent back, there are no traces of microbial infestation, probably simply because of the short lifespan!"

"Short lifespan?"

For Yang Meng's words, Xiaoguang has a lot of things he doesn't understand,

But at this time, Yang Meng didn't explain more than Xiaoguang,

He gave some kind of instruction to Xiao Yin in his body,

The chamber and the detector that docked with it were released by the robotic arm and discarded as if a disposable needle had been used.

And looking at the device that disappeared in the night hemisphere,

Yang Meng didn't feel wasted at all.

……

After identifying the people on this planet, it was produced with rapid cloning technology full of drawbacks,

Yang Meng's heart became more complicated,

This technology is extremely disadvantageous and is strictly forbidden to be used by humans.

Because I haven't gone through a complete stem cell culture,

This clone has a very short lifespan, and the cells on its body also bear obvious traces, which can be found after a little genetic sequencing.

Yang Meng didn't know,

Why did that pioneer astronaut use such a technique?

Is it passive out of control, or active choice,

He didn't know, which meant that he had to be extra cautious when invading the structure of the large compound polypore.

……

"What needs to be prepared now is the restoration of the energy system?"

"From the point of view of the detection structure, its dynamic structure is quite complete.

If you can recover energy, you can control it to a certain extent! ”

"What is uncertain is, how do metal spheres affect polypores? And make the move ......"

Yang Meng and Xiao Yin were in front of a supercomputer, simulating the next intrusion process.

Although it has been confirmed that the metal sphere will be used to enter the place where her ship is located.

But to turn ideas into practical action plans,

There are many issues that need to be implemented.

The first problem was how to approach the large polypore that was parked in the spacecraft.

"The twelve o'clock time zone is too far from the ten o'clock time zone,"

"The distance between the two time zones is more than 3,700 kilometers,

In the face of the complex ocean current environment in the sea, it is obviously unrealistic to manipulate metal spheres or polypore bacteria to reach such a long distance! ”

"Xiao Yin, are there any polypores in the ten o'clock time zone?"

"Yes!"

"According to the pneumatic detector, the distribution analysis of floating polypore bacteria in the windless zone found that the number of polypore bacteria of different sizes in the ten o'clock time zone exceeded 2,400!"

"So much!"

Hearing such an answer, Yang Meng was not too surprised,

After all, the range of a time zone is more than 1800 kilometers,

In such an area, this density of polypore bacteria can only be described as sparse,

Of course, this is also because,

Pneumatic detectors have a limited field of view, and if they can detect more areas, they may be able to find more polypores.

"Since there are so many polypores in this area, it is not difficult to find a suitable target near the target point!"

"The only thing to worry about is that there is a good chance that there is a living clone in the metal sphere near the target point."

Although Yang Meng is eager to get in touch with the living clones,

Look at what kind of culture they have produced in the past 100 years,

Why do you bow down to a stone?

What is their origin and what was the purpose of their existence in the first place.

But he only wants to come far away from the target point to find the living clones.

"The ten-o'clock area is too close to the target point!"

"Xiao Yin, didn't you find a communication device on the previous probe?"

"The probe has found a shortwave signaling device with internal communication in the device channel!"

"I know, but what about the device for external communication?"

"Didn't find it!"

"But according to the data transmitted back by the structural detector, there are traces of long-wave signaling devices with external communication in the metal sphere, but our detector,

Only areas where signal receiving transmitters could be placed were found

No communication devices found! ”

Hearing such an answer, Yang Meng frowned slightly, thinking of the fact that the life span of the fast clone was very short, he seemed to understand something:

"Communication was cut off ......"

"Could it be that these clones were abandoned because their lifespans were approaching?"

"But if it is discarded, how can a metal ball be wasted, and it is more convenient to throw it directly into the sea?"

"And there is so much metal for these clones that they can withstand such waste?"

Yang Meng couldn't figure it out,

And just when he and Xiao Yin were about to continue to discuss how to make a metal ball near the target point without being discovered, an idea suddenly flashed in his mind:

"This metal ball can't be some kind of coffin!"

Recalling that the locking device of the baropressure cabin door fell off abnormally and could not be opened from the inside and outside,

and the metal sphere, the extremely harsh living environment,

Even when the equipment in the metal sphere is very scarce,

The metal orb that was detected earlier didn't look like an environment where a large number of clones had lived for a long time.

By all indications, the effect of the metal ball may have been different from what he had initially suspected.

……

After discussing with Xiao Yin for a while,

Yang Meng prepared a detector again,

With the experience of the last detection,

This time, the preparation process was much quicker.

Just three days later, a larger probe device headed for Planet B.

……

At this point,

Ross 128b in the clouds in the 10 o'clock time zone of the daytime hemisphere,

The pneumatic detector is steadily suspended in the air,

Neither strong winds nor torrential rain can affect it.

Then a ray of light came from afar,

The first break of the shower,

The windless zone in the 10 o'clock time zone has arrived again,

As the sun shines on the sea,

The optical camouflage simulation device at the bottom of the pneumatic detector has also changed into the scene of the sky at this time.

And with the advent of windless belts,

A large number of polypore fungi floated on the surface of the sea,

Under the light of the stars, these polypore fungi appear exceptionally green.

On the pneumatic detector, the lens of the detection camera is slightly adjusted, as if to determine something.

In such a harsh climate environment,

Because the windless zone produced by strong convective weather is extremely short-lived,

This windless zone seems to just give the planetary creatures a brief respite.

The black clouds in the distance rolled in again,

The next moment it was another storm, and the waves were raging.

And the polypore fungi that used to soak up the sun on the surface of the sea have all taken refuge in the deep sea at this time.

It's just in the storm, which can pierce human eyes,

A fusiform substance with a dark black glow,

Breaking through the clouds and smashing towards the position that the pneumatics had just determined,

It was like a fish, and it was extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, it was very close to the surface of the sea

"The third thrust reverser deceleration is on!"

"Slowdown successful!"

"The angle of entry into the water is normal!"

"Inspecting the internal device!"

"The device is normal!"

……

On the spacecraft, I heard Xiao Yin constantly reporting the progress of the probe,

Yang Meng didn't say much, just looked at the dark sea water on the screen, and said secretly in his heart:

"It's very close to the large compound polypore here, maybe the inside of the metal sphere detected this time may be different!"

Many times of exploration experience,

So that the detector quickly found the target point,

However, when entering the polypore fungus, which is about to approach this metal sphere,

The probe encountered a different situation than the previous three metal spheres.

The space where this metal ball is located is very bright,

The ring structure on the top of the sphere shines brightly,

It seems to be telling someone that there is a light on in there.