In the dark void.

The alien spaceship and the Cicada-class 004 continued to speed towards the edge of the distant Cooper Belt in the same direction as before.

After months of exploring the interior of the alien spacecraft, the exploration team has naturally figured out the situation inside, including the location of the alien creatures.

Inside this alien spaceship, there are a lot of alien creatures found so far.

But in the previous exploration process, the exploration team avoided these alien creatures, and at the same time, they were secretly trying to see if these alien creatures were really dead, or if they were doing something in secret.

After months of probing, the exploration team and the Homo sapiens company behind it have preliminarily determined that these alien creatures have lost their lives.

Even if these creatures are frozen, but Homo sapiens is too clear about cryonics technology, Li Qingye has studied cryonics storage technology in depth in order to prolong his life a little.

There are three elements, or three limitations, to this technology.

First, the cells of the frozen organisms must be resistant to ice crystallization and ice and water changes, otherwise the cells will die in minutes during the freezing and thawing period.

Second, the cryonics system must remain stable during the freezing of the organism, otherwise it is easy to cause failure to wake up, or even direct death.

Third, freezing should not be too long, the current technology of Homo sapiens can only freeze for a maximum of 37 months, beyond which the brain will have severe memory loss.

And don't think that freezing beyond the expiration date will only cause memory problems, and if you freeze for more than a few decades, you may sleep forever.

According to the information analyzed from the alien spacecraft, the alien spacecraft departed from the home planet about 45,270 years ago, and the last nuclear reactor was shut down 13,760 years ago.

In other words, the creatures inside the alien spacecraft have been frozen for at least 13,760 years.

Even if the biological cryonics of the alien civilization is superior to that of Homo sapiens, there is no way to guarantee that the body can be re-thawed and revived after 13,760 years of freezing.

Of course, Li Qingye knew that there was a plan that could indeed be frozen for a long time, and guaranteed that after thawing, it could be safely resuscitated and the memory would not be lost.

That is "absolute zero cryonics".

This is also a new technology that Homo sapiens is currently working on, and it is considered essential for interstellar travel.

Why can absolute zero cryonics be sustained for a long time?

The reason lies in the movement of atoms.

You know, the closer the temperature is to absolute zero, the less atomic activity there is.

The fundamental reason why ordinary freezing technology cannot be maintained for a long time is that there are obvious traces of atom activity in ordinary freezing.

Fortunately for a short period of time, once the time exceeds three years, the atomic activity accumulates over time, and gradually damages the structure of cells and neurons.

After freezing for more than a few decades, the atomic activity of the body has not been corrected by the physiological activity of the body in time, and the cell and gene sequence has long been damaged by the atomic activity, and the organism will definitely die.

In the past, there was a wave of cryonics projects on the earth, and many people even participated in it.

Obviously, those involved in freezing have basically no chance of survival.

Obviously, the cryonics system on the alien spacecraft has no way to achieve absolute zero, even if it can once be close to absolute zero, after the spacecraft's energy is completely exhausted, the cryogenic system naturally has no way to maintain it.

After more than 10,000 years of disorderly freezing, those aliens are most likely frozen to death.

That's why the exploration team got permission from the Space Division and began to prepare for the extraction of the frozen alien creatures.

Zheng Lin, who had just been on vacation for half a month, was on duty again, and he once again led the team into the alien spacecraft, this time the Cicada-class 004 spacecraft enabled three exploration boats and six synchronous robots.

Zheng Lin skillfully manipulated the exoskeleton and entered the passage of the alien spaceship.

It took about half an hour.

The group finally entered a large cabin.

There are 500 freezer chambers on display here.

The cryogenic cabin, which has long lost its power supply, has long been lifeless at this time.

After all, in the magnetic field scanning, these aliens are also carbon-based creatures, and there is definitely no way to escape the ravages of time in such a long period of freezing.

If these aliens were silicon-based creatures, perhaps Homo sapiens would not be so sure.

Through the built-in communicator inside the exoskeleton armor, Zheng Lin instructed: "Start cutting the cryopod, be careful." ”

“OK。”

"Don't worry! I'm a professional. ”

In order to avoid dissolving the ice inside the freezer, the dismantling work can only be carried out coldly, and laser and chemical solutions cannot be used.

Fortunately, Zheng Lin and the others were prepared.

The special cemented carbide knife, with the blessing of exoskeleton armor, instantly cut the four corners of the freezer, and then cut off the freezer chamber little by little as if it was peeling.

The freezer cabin, which has aged very badly, cannot stop the cemented carbide tool at all.

As the freezer compartment was cut out, the inside was soon revealed.

Zheng Lin scraped the debris on the surface with an alloy knife, and through the frozen ice, he could see that under the translucent ice, there was a thin body.

This is also the first time Zheng Lin has seen the appearance of alien creatures.

It's just that they looked at it for a while and felt a little strange, after all, this body under the ice didn't look like an alien in everyone's impression at all, but a bit like an octopus.

One of the team members speculated: "Deputy Team Zheng, could this thing be a pet or livestock of an alien civilization?" ”

"Pets? Livestock? Not quite like that! ”

"Dismantle a few more freezer cabins, and you'll know."

Zheng Lin couldn't make up his mind, after all, the appearance of this alien octopus really didn't look like an alien in the traditional impression.

He thought for a moment and commanded again, "Continue to dismantle the freezer." ”

"Roger."

More than three hours passed, during which Zheng Lin and his party dismantled 7 freezer cabins, and the results were all alien octopus creatures without exception.

This situation makes everyone have to believe that this is an alien.

And through the synchronous communication system, the earth headquarters that shares data.

Many researchers are also talking about this alien.

Judging from the data on the screen, this six-clawed person is about 1.2 meters tall, has 6 tentacles, and has a head the size of a football.

However, on its head, there are no obvious facial features, especially the eyes, and there is no trace of it.

Some biologists believe that this is caused by the environment of the home planet of the Hexapus, because the home planet of the Hexapus is a gas planet that has no sunlight itself.

In this way, the living environment of the six-clawed people must be in a dark state, in this environment, the eyes are not important at all, but the sense of smell and pheromones have an irreplaceable role in communication and exploration.

This explains why the life form of the Serapus has no eyes.

And the work of exploring the Serapus is not over, or even just beginning.

On the other side, three supporting Cicada-class spacecraft are also rapidly approaching this side, and when the time comes, one of the Cicada-class spacecraft will bring some samples of alien life back to the Martian space station.

As for why not bring it back to Earth, of course, it is for the sake of safety.

In case the alien civilization has special means hidden in the corpses, studying these alien creatures on Mars is also conducive to controlling the spread of alien creatures in the solar system.

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