Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 680 Oatmeal

Just when Ke Lan was "incompetent and furious", among the few people present, someone finally raised this question—Jinuo pointed to the stomach sac that was taken out of the abdomen of the corpse but was still connected to the intestines and said: "Perhaps, We can cut open its stomach and see..."

"Great! Doctoral students save the world..." Ke Lan suddenly had the urge to burst into tears.

"Ah!" Liao Xing was startled, "I was preconceived, I kept thinking about the possibility of prions, and I forgot this...it was a fatal mistake."

He shook his head in frustration, then picked up the monster's stomach sac and cut it open.

But soon, they discovered that things seemed to be more troublesome...

The food in the monster's stomach... seems to be some kind of cooked food that has been carefully processed, not the "drinking blood" as everyone imagined.

From the food residues that have not been melted by stomach acid, you can vaguely distinguish lumps of "starch artificial meat" and mushy cereal.

These things are almost no different from the canned or bagged food eaten by the people on the ark.

Where did the food it eats come from?
Ke Lan also fell into doubts - he has explored so many ruins of the Alpha civilization, and he has never found anything that can be defined as "food" from the human perspective, let alone luncheon meat and cereals. Such a "down-to-earth" thing.

The researchers on the Ark once believed that the Alpha people did not need to absorb energy through eating like humans. The way they obtain energy may be more direct, with less loss and higher utilization rate-this is completely in line with the requirements for an advanced civilization. conjecture.

Ke Lan remembers that in the "Sea of ​​Dirac" created by "Park Shangyou" inside Yaguna Ketor, he once saw a picture of a suspected alpha person eating - those creatures have an upper body similar to a human, but a lower body. Like an octopus, it is completely composed of tentacles, and a transparent hose is connected to their bodies, and a light gray viscous substance is slowly injected into their bodies along the tube.

Let’s not talk about whether these creatures are the legendary Alphas, or whether their behavior is eating, but in short, there is nothing to do with the corpse of the humanoid monster in front of you and the food residue found in the digestive organs of the corpse. relation.

"This is our human food..." Liao Xing picked up a handful of food scraps with his fingers and gently rubbed them away, "Look... there are even whole oatmeal here... I can even recognize it This is oatmeal..."

He paused, then looked at the others: "Have you ever seen oats... or similar crops on Planet Alpha?"

Gino thought for a few seconds before shaking his head: "Crops that can grow on the surface of Alpha Planet and can barely meet the conditions for food... I only know gray potatoes, and I heard that some fungi are also It can be eaten, but it will be very irritating to the digestive system, and only people who have strengthened or transformed their digestive organs can eat it.”

"That's right, only gray potatoes can survive in the unmodified surface environment of Star Alpha. As for those crops from the earth, they can't survive on this damn planet at all... Otherwise, the large area around the ark The wasteland has already been reclaimed into farmland, and the price gap between natural flour and synthetic flour in the market will not be more than ten times larger." Liao Xing nodded.

"Maybe the food this monster eats comes from the Ark..." Sergeant Ken curled his lips, "Even in the exile camp, fresh cans produced in recent years can be found, and a few bags of cereal scattered on the wilderness were picked up by these monsters. It's not a very strange thing, is it?"

"If it's wheat, it's not surprising, but it's oats." Liao Xing continued, "Because of the relationship between flour yield and taste, the planting area of ​​oats is far inferior to one of the three major grains even in the old era. Wheat, and now on the Ark, there are only a few agricultural bases that grow oats on a large scale."

"Less...but not none..." Collins wondered.

"Ordinary people on the Ark will not consume oats at all, and oat products will not appear in the list of various military supplies... This kind of grain that was mainly used as livestock feed in the old era has become expensive in this era. luxuries that are found only on the tables of the rich, and not carried out into the wilderness."

"Military doctor, what exactly are you trying to explain?" Sergeant Ken couldn't help frowning.

"These oats probably didn't come from the Ark."

"But you also said that oats cannot grow on Planet Alpha." Sergeant Ken said, "Could it be that the Alpha people have built agricultural facilities that simulate the earth's environment? Even if there are, where do their seeds come from?" ?”

"We know too little about Alpha Planet and Alpha Civilization." Liao Xing stood up and shook his head, "If we want to unearth more information from this corpse, the tools and equipment at hand are not enough , we have to find a way to preserve it and bring it back to the ark."

"There are body bags, but where are we going to get so much formalin?" Collins wondered, "If we just stuffed the body into the body bag like this, by the time we finish the mission and go back, I'm afraid it would have already rotted." Bar."

"Use this." Liao Xing tore open a pack of saline and sodium chloride powder, and spread the white powder evenly on the surface and inside of the corpse.

"That's okay?" Collins was a little surprised.

"Humans invented the method of using salt to pickle food thousands of years ago to prolong the preservation time of food. High-concentration salt solution has a good antiseptic and bactericidal effect, and it can also be used to preserve corpses in unavoidable situations." Liao Xing replied.

"Preserve the corpse with the method of preserving food..." Collins only felt a painful feeling in his throat, as if acid water was about to gush out at any moment... Even Ke Lan felt like vomiting impulse.

Use salt to preserve the corpse... If you want to say the most famous one, it must be the second emperor of the Liao Dynasty in China in the old era, Liao Taizong Yelu Deguang.The emperor died of illness suddenly on the way back from the Southern Expedition. It was summer, and the queen mother demanded that Yelu Deguang's body must be sent back intact. According to the chef's suggestion, use salt to preserve Yelu Deguang's body.

Although Yelu Deguang's body was not decomposed, when it was sent to the Queen Mother, it was no different from a kind of bacon called "羓"... As for the cook who proposed this idea, although there is no follow-up record in the official history, but It won't be any better if you think about it...

(End of this chapter)