Voyage of the Stars

The cab is where precision instruments of the spacecraft are gathered, and it is also the core node of the entire spacecraft's pipelines and circuits. Almost all actions of the spacecraft are realized through the cab.

Such an important place has finally been cleaned up.

But the results of the cleanup are unintentionally satisfying.

When Yue Yuan entered the cab, what he saw was not a sophisticated instrument full of technology or a cabin with shining metallic luster, but a rusty garbage dump.

Rust, shabby, fragmented, deformed, words pop out of my mind one by one.

The cabin is pretty bare, but there are few goodies left. Yue Yuan looked around and saw twos and threes of staff still touching various broken pieces, and a few were squatting next to something similar to a console, scraping dust with a brush, like an archaeologist.

Yue Yuan asked about the alien remains and was told that they had been transported to a nearby research institute.

After walking through the corridor and crossing the cubicles, Yue Yuan soon arrived at the research institute that the staff pointed to.

It's said to be a research institute, but it looks more like a showroom. There are all kinds of things in it, including various types of alien spacecraft parts.

Yue Yuan walked past various displays and arrived at the middle of the research institute. What he saw was his old acquaintance Yi Kai, and several unfamiliar staff members, who should be members of Yi Kai's research group.

"Dr. Yi, where are the alien remains?" Yue Yuan shouted to Yi Kai from a distance.

Perhaps because he wanted to analyze something from the alien remains, Yi Kai, a Ph.D. in biology with relatively little work, took the initiative to undertake this research and brought his research team with him.

Alien creatures are also living things, so Yi Kai can be considered a professional counterpart when he comes to deal with them.

"The chief is here, just call me Lao Yi." Yi Kai looked back at Yue Yuan, who was approaching, and said with a smile.

After Yue Yuan got closer, he raised his neck and gestured with extension: "This is it."

Yue Yuan followed his gaze and found a square wooden frame on the ground two steps away. A piece of plastic film was spread in the middle of the wooden frame, and a bunch of black stuff was spread out on the film.

He took a step forward and knelt down to take a look.

The wooden frame was used temporarily by the staff to display items. It was only the size of a table, and the black things placed inside could just fill it.

"Is this thing an alien? Why does it look like a black cake?" After taking a few glances, Yue Yuan expressed his first impression.

"It's not an image, it's just dirt." Yi Kai's voice followed.

Aliens are earth?

Yue Yuan was a little confused. He looked back at Yi Kai who was walking forward, with a puzzled look on his face, as if to say, are you kidding me?

Yi Kai seemed to understand the expression and explained: "I said this lump is soil, but I didn't say that the aliens are soil. That's not right. The aliens have indeed turned into soil now."

With that said, Yi Kai came to Yue Yuan's side, squatted down and pointed at the black earth cake and continued: "Commander, look, this is an alien. Look at the lines here, here, and this lump outside. Soil layer.”

Yue Yuan followed Yi Kai's fingers carefully for a long time and finally saw that there were inconspicuous lines on the dark soil layer, as well as some parts that were slightly different in color from the soil layer.

As Yi Kai gestured with his fingers, the outline of the alien gradually appeared in Yue Yuan's mind.

"Multi-legged beast?" Yue Yuan asked with some uncertainty.

To be honest, without a rich imagination, I really can't imagine what this kind of thing embedded in the soil looks like, especially when I see it for the first time.

Yue Yuan originally thought that the whole pile was full of aliens, but he didn't expect that the real alien remains were just lines in it. The pattern formed by these lines looked only as big as a sheep.

"Maybe it's a hand." Yi Kai spread his hands and explained: "This piece of shit. Well, this piece of shit is an alien. Based on observations and composition analysis, we initially guess that this alien should belong to some kind of software. It is an animal, and those lines are its tentacles or tentacles. The conclusion that the multi-tentacled creature is special is consistent with the structural distribution of the operating equipment in the cab, so this should not be wrong. "

As a serious post-00s generation, even though he is over seventy years old, Yi Kai always accidentally pops up some catchphrases from the last century when he speaks.

Yue Yuan was no longer surprised by this, and sometimes he even learned a few ancient sayings such as "Damn it," and "I'm an idiot."

Yi Kai stood up slowly and continued to explain: "From the analysis results of the wreckage, this alien creature belongs to carbon-based life, which is in line with our traditional understanding, but its biological information such as genetic genes cannot be read. , so we only know its general shape and species, well, based on the delimitation of biological classification on Earth, we don’t know any other more in-depth information.”

"That's it?" Yue Yuan also stood up. To be honest, he was a little disappointed.

I was excited to see alien creatures, but the result was worse than looking at fossils.

If I had known this was the case, I might as well have looked at the strange symbols occasionally found on the wreckage of the spacecraft, although humans still don't understand what those strange symbols mean.

"The information is limited, but at least we know that this is a spacecraft belonging to some kind of soft intelligent life civilization, right?"

Yi Kai shrugged and continued: "Aliens exist, alien civilizations also exist, and they are carbon-based life. This is in line with our previous speculations about life in the universe. In other words, perhaps carbon-based life is the origin of life in the universe. It is a universal form, which has certain reference value for our understanding of the universe and other aliens, so it cannot be said that this alien wreckage is useless."

All right.

Yue Yuan, who turned from curiosity to disappointment, sighed in his heart and looked away from the alien remains: "By the way, Lao Yi, is this the only remains?"

"Just one."

Yi Kai nodded, with a look of reminiscence on his face, "According to relevant personnel's speculation, this spacecraft probably crashed due to some kind of malfunction, and then was captured by the gravity of the solar system for a long time, and finally crashed on Jupiter for unknown reasons. "Four on"

"Although this speculation is mostly fantasy, based on our firm results on the age of the alien wreckage, we found that its age is indeed very different from the soil layer. It is consistent with the fact that it fell to Callisto and was buried by the soil layer after it died for a long time. argument."

It has to be said that these scientists all have a lot of skills. They can infer many things with just a little bit of information.

Yi Kai looked at the thoughtful Yue Yuan and continued: "We have reason to believe that the civilization to which this alien belongs may still exist, even though it is an ancient thing tens of thousands of years ago to us."

Indeed, it is only tens of thousands of years, which is really not worth mentioning to the advanced civilization of the universe in human imagination.