Rybalko did indeed perform his duties. When he walked out of the ship's restaurant, he began to patrol the surroundings and found almost no suspicious places.

However, his patrol method was a bit special. It seemed more like he was admiring some seals or other marine animals around him. Watching them basking in the sun and playing in the water, those who didn't know it thought they were traveling.

In fact, this is Rybalko's experience, because the presence of these marine animals often means that there are no large predators around, so there is relatively no danger.

Rybalko walked to the ship's medical bay, which was located below the deck.Because he heard strange noises coming from there.

After walking in, he saw one of the burly crew members operating on the operating table. Although the man did not wear a white coat, Rybalko still recognized him as the doctor on the ship.

However, many of the crew members on this ship were once Rybalko's comrades-in-arms, and they all had licked blood from the knife edge, so these people cannot simply be regarded as crew members or doctors.

For example, this burly guy was previously a field doctor in the army. He could hold a machine gun in one hand and a scalpel in the other, shooting while dressing the wounds of the wounded.

For such people, it is commonplace, especially for those mutilated corpses. The other party is not surprised when they see it, and can even eat with relish next to the corpse.

However, at this time, his expression was extremely solemn. While dissecting the corpse on the operating table, he would pick up the whiskey on the side and take a few sips from time to time. This was his long-standing habit, as long as he encountered extremely stressful and exciting situations. He would drink to calm himself down when things happened, but he rarely felt this way anymore, especially after going through the trials of life and death in the past, but today he had to drink.

When Rybalko walked into the medical cabin, the doctor was carefully cutting the frozen corpses with a red laser beam, almost from head to toe piece by piece. Those who didn't know thought he was carving something. Plant rocks.

Rybalko felt a little nauseous even if he took a look at it from a distance, because the cut body was more like sliced ​​beef, and even the various organs, nerves and capillaries could be seen very clearly.

The temperature in the entire medical cabin is very low, so even if these corpses are sectioned, they will not be thawed immediately. After careful scanning with the instruments on the side, the computer will soon generate a model of the corpse.

As for the cause of death of the other party, some judgments can also be made through modeling.

When he saw Rybalko walking in, the doctor took off his goggles, moved his wrist, and said to Rybalko: "Captain, you'd better go drink with the distinguished guests on the ship. This kind of I can do the dirty and tiring work of dissection, and it’s also very disgusting. If you don’t have some whiskey, you may not be able to handle it.”

Rybalko subconsciously glanced at the corpse on the operating table and asked, "How did these people die?"

"Captain, you have also seen that according to my first judgment, he should have frozen to death. But if you want to truly understand the cause of death, you still need to wait until the modeling is completed. During this process, you will have to wait at least three or four hours. .”

The doctor pondered for a moment and said.

In fact, the statement about freezing to death is completely reasonable. After all, when they discovered this expedition team, these people were already very stiff from the cold. However, the real cause of death still requires a detailed autopsy report.

And judging from my experience as a doctor, there are still some differences, or ambiguities, because people will curl up before freezing to death.This is used to preserve the last bit of body heat, as this requires several hours of hypothermia.

Death usually occurs when the body temperature drops below 25 degrees, but many of these people died standing, and their bodies stood very upright, as if the God of Death blew a mouthful of cold air in front of them, and then died. These people were frozen to death in an instant. "If I thought they froze to death, I wouldn't ask you here. What I want to say is, do you have any other opinions on this?"

Rybalko frowned.

The doctor said in a deep voice: "Maybe there are some different opinions. Captain, you can come and take a look at this slice."

As he spoke, the doctor used tweezers to pick up a section of the corpse, and then placed it under the light so that Rybalko could watch it carefully.

When Rybalko stepped forward, he found that the slice was cut near the chest of the corpse, and the outline of the heart could even be vaguely seen, including a little blood frozen into ice in the heart muscle.

Although Rybalko was not a doctor, as a soldier, he also knew some of the structural conditions of the human body. However, he did not speak directly, but waited for the doctor's words.

The doctor couldn't help but said: "Captain, look, this guy's heart even maintained a certain state of contraction, which shows that his heart was still pacing powerfully before death, because the blood and ice crystals in the cell fluid were not gradually completed. On the other hand, if there is a gradual cooling process, then these ice crystals will destroy the cell membrane, but its cells will be intact. The other party will be frozen to death, so it can be judged that it was in a In an extremely low temperature environment, and the temperature drops very quickly, it can achieve this step almost in the blink of an eye."

Rybalko said: "It seems that his heart was frozen at the moment of pacing, but there shouldn't be such an extreme cold environment on the entire earth, right?"

The doctor shook his head, "It doesn't exist on Earth, but it does exist on other alien planets. For example, Pluto can be as cold as hell. Once a human falls into it, it will immediately freeze into a popsicle without even thinking. None."

"But this is Earth, not Pluto."

Rybalko's face was solemn.

He also realized now that he seemed to be wrapped up by something in the dark, because he thought of the words of Schneider and others. Those people came to hunt the so-called Leviathan, and Leviathan was described in their mouths as A huge sperm whale.

Of course, Rybalko vaguely felt that it was a sperm whale, but he had previously seen some diary fragments left by these expedition teams. These people also came to find Leviathan, but they were all dead.

At first, Rybalko thought that they were trapped in the ice and snow because they lost supplies and encountered extreme cold weather, until they froze to death. But after this autopsy, he found that things were not what he imagined. It's so simple, these people were frozen to death instantly.

The doctor on the side also expected something, and his expression became solemn, "Captain, do you think we can get the reward alive in the end?"

Rybalko narrowed his eyes slightly. He suddenly felt that these words were more like the call of the God of Death, and the cold God of Death seemed to have breathed out its deadly breath towards him.

He shivered all over.


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