Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 682 Canned Food from the Old Age
"It's impossible...it's absolutely impossible..." Collins murmured, if he could accept that the Alpha civilization has food and canning technology similar to humans, the appearance of this string of Arabic numerals is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue .

This almost directly proves that the food eaten by the humanoid monster comes from the human world... This also shows from the side that "she" is likely to be human.

Or rather, once human.

A human who lived more than 400 years.

Under the impact of such a huge amount of information, members of the 776 special team couldn't help but fell into a brief silence.

Ke Lan kept thinking about various possibilities in his mind...but the probability of any possibility was so low that it was almost impossible to happen, and he couldn't find it for this can with Arabic numerals A reasonable reason for it to appear in this strange ruin.

Liao Xing took a step forward and took a can from Martin. He took out a jackknife and scraped along the inner wall of the can. I pinched a handful with my index finger and thumb, and rubbed it gently a few times.

"That's right...the artificial luncheon meat found in the monster's stomach came from this can." Liao Xing said, "Or, it came from the same can."

"Have any of you seen a can like this?" Sergeant Ken asked, looking at the other soldiers.

This is a right cylindrical can with a capacity of about 350 grams to 20 grams... Judging from Sergeant Ken’s more than [-] years of service experience, no matter in that army, the logistics department will not provide this specification The cans are used as military supplies.

As for the canned food in the civilian market, it is rarely packaged in this shape.

Whether in the era of interstellar drifting or in the era of Alpha Star pioneering, the biggest requirement for canned food is easy storage-and the three words easy to store include not only extending the shelf life, but also Factors such as convenience in storage and portability are included.

To put it bluntly, it is a question of space utilization——

As we all know, if the cans are made into a round shape, there will be a lot of gaps at the corners when stacking these cans, which is a great waste of tight storage space—compared to the original storage space , These perfectly round cans will cause at least 21.5% of the space to be effectively utilized.For the same cargo box, the load of round cans is nearly [-]% less than that of square cans. This is a gap that cannot be ignored for the military's logistics supply work.

Because of this, ninety-nine percent of the military cans on the Ark are made into an elliptical cylindrical shape similar to a cuboid. However, due to the influence of military products, civilian cans are rarely made into right cylinders—although the transportation pressure of products in the civilian market is not as great as the military supply line, as long as the product is changed The shape of the outer packaging can save [-]% of storage and logistics costs, why not do it?

"I've seen a round can." Connelly said, "It's a canned eel produced by an aquaculture company called 'Pacific Ocean King'. They put the whole processed eel in a circle and stuffed it into a Inside the oblate can... But you also know that the price of eels is not cheap, so this kind of canned food is only for the rich, and the output will not be large, so there is no need to consider storage and transportation space issues."

"But this is not canned eel." Liao Xing shook his head, "Also, the contents of the can seem to be different from the artificial meat we often eat."

As he spoke, he actually put the finger that was stained with the grease and minced meat scraped from the can into his mouth.

"Doctor Liao!" Connelly froze for a moment. He wanted to stop it, but it was too late.

"This... aren't you afraid of being poisonous?" Collins stared at Liao Xing in astonishment.

"That monster's digestive system is almost exactly the same as ours. It can eat it, and of course we can too." Liao Xing even smacked his lips.

"Have you tasted anything?" Sergeant Ken asked in a deep voice.

"It's hard to say... I don't know how to describe it..." Liao Xing frowned, "The food is not fresh... Of course, this is a common characteristic of canned food... But it is not spoiled, and the time since it was opened should It won't be long...and then...the salt content is too high, very salty."

The canned food on the Ark, whether it is for civilian or military use, does not contain too much salt, because if the salt content is too high, it will easily lead to thirst, and on the battlefield, clean drinking water is much more precious than food ——People in this era are more inclined to use supplements such as tablets to supplement the trace elements and minerals that are lacking in synthetic foods.

But the salt content of this canned meat made Liao Xing feel that he only needed a small spoonful to eat a large bowl of rice.

He thought for a while, and then said: "This can...is produced according to the standards of the old era."

"What?" Sergeant Ken couldn't help frowning.

"It was probably produced on the earth." Liao Xing said again.

"Impossible!" Cornell patted his thigh vigorously, "It's the 900nd year of the new era, no matter how strong the preservation of the canned food is, after [-] years, the contents inside are not rotten, and the outer layer is still intact. The iron sheet should be corroded too! Maybe this thing was produced by a canning factory for a retro gimmick?"

"My second uncle makes a living in the food canning industry. I can assure you that there is no such canning factory on the Ark. As for those illegal small workshops, it is impossible to produce them without large-scale processing equipment. Metal cans of such good quality." Liao Xing retorted, "As for this series of digital inscriptions, I thought it was the date of production at first, but now it seems that it should be just the serial number of a certain production line, which is completely meaningless to decipher."

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