Captain, Wang Xianfeng, male, 29 years old, "Flying Dragon" space special forces, the first team captain.

Young scientist, Li Zhen, 28 years old, Ph.D. in physics and materials, senior talent in Ark Lab.

When Dr. Li Zhen was selected, Professor Fan from the Ark Lab complained for a long time, saying that his right-hand man was selected away.

He was really scared, what happened to Li Zhen... It's not easy to cultivate a qualified disciple.

Like Professor Huo Dong, who died as a disciple, his temper has become more and more irritable in recent months, and no one wants to anger him.

In addition, there are two outstanding space engineers.

This time, the number of people in this exploration is more important than the number of people. If the Void Amoeba is really alive, even sending 1,000 or 10,000 soldiers is meaningless. It is impossible for a mortal body to compete with a monster stronger than steel, so it is better to send a small and fine army.

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Zhang Ran attaches great importance to this human exploration work.

He didn't want to have a few more martyrs at the juncture where victory had already been declared.

Therefore, before setting off, he solemnly said: "Everyone, this time the task is to explore the inner area of ​​the Void Amoeba, understand its internal situation, and collect more material samples."

"Don't talk nonsense, I have opened the space door to the warp in your spaceship, and if there is any danger, escape back to the warp in time."

"What we have is time, and there are so many nuclear bombs. Life is the most important thing!"

Zhang Ran also behaved well this time.

The expedition team members sent are all the top elites of human beings, and they will feel distressed for a long time if they die.

Regardless of the number of citizens in the Kunlun Mountains, there are 45 million people. How many are 28-year-old dual-course doctors?

not much!

So, he simply put the space door into this exploration spacecraft to act as a security guarantee.

Anyway, this time the exploration will not be too long. As long as Zhang Ran is in the real universe, he can reopen a space door at any time. Even if the door that was taken away is destroyed, it does not constitute a safety hazard, and a new door will be done.

After saying these things, he shouted: "Do you understand?"

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!" The four expedition members gave a military salute.

"lets go!"

The 4-person team put on special space suits and carried large and small instruments on their backs, and jumped on a small 20-meter-long shuttle one by one.

The ion engine ejected bright sparks, heading for the direction of the Void Amoeba.

Soon, the searchlight behind turned into a small star.

"Dr. Li, are you nervous?" In the cabin of the shuttle, the captain Wang Xianfeng said with emotion, "My sir, Major Lu lost his life. When I think of the video of more than 30 seconds, it still brought me this video. Heart palpitations."

"It's impossible not to be nervous...but it's more of curiosity. This chance is very rare, Captain Wang, you have no idea how many scientists have signed up. I'm the lucky one out of ten thousand. "

Dr. Li looked at the direction of the Void Amoeba and said excitedly, "Who doesn't want to be the first to touch alien life?"

"Actually, when I was a child, I often heard legends about aliens, such as the American alien in Area 51, the Roswell UFO crash, true and false, elusive."

"But this void amoeba is a real, absolute alien! Even if there are some risks, I think this adventure is worth it!"

As he spoke, Dr. Li was already excited, as if he had discovered some novel toy, his eyes lit up: "If we can crack some of the secrets, it will be enough for us to make a big step forward! A big step, Not one small step!"

"Even, according to the structural analysis of the flagella, it is likely to be a silicon-based life. We have not found any cells in its body, all of which are very strange structural substances. It is really incredible..."

"I really can't empathize with your thoughts, but I can barely understand." Wang Xianfeng shook his head, "It might be good to satisfy curiosity. Our society always needs all kinds of people and all kinds of ideas."

"What about you, Captain Wang, aren't you nervous?"

Wang Xianfeng shook his head and said with a smile, "Nervous? I am a soldier brought out by Major Lu... Our team will always be passed down. Our team is the one that shouted long live mankind."

"You said, didn't you?"

The other two soldiers also laughed loudly and said loudly: "Nervous, but we are not afraid!"

This shuttle was very fast, and it took about 6 hours to reach the wreckage of the Void Amoeba.

After the scorching white light was extinguished, a large hole with a diameter of 2.3 kilometers was exposed at the part attacked by the meteorite.

The black hole inside is unfathomable.

After the strong light searches in, you will find a large, strange structure like a karst cave.

A soldier is guarding the spaceship outside, and the other three are ejected from the spaceship to the vicinity of the hole through the ejection device.

"Everyone, in the first stage of exploration, it is not advisable to go too deep. Just take a look at the exit. Evacuate immediately if there is any movement!" Wang Xianfeng said in his headphones.

"clear!"

The space suits on them are all specially made, with recoil jet devices, and they can also exercise their bodies in a zero-gravity environment.

"It does have a faint gravity on its surface, I don't know what's going on inside."

These people first set up a signal base station at the entrance.

Through this base station, the picture can be sent back to the Ark base camp more clearly.

Then, control the small drone and enter the interior of the void amoeba.

But the moment it entered the entrance of the cave, the drone seemed to be attracted by something and fell straight in a certain direction!

The picture on the screen flickered suddenly!

Not only the four team members on the front line, but everyone in the Ark also became nervous.

Zhang Ran swallowed and asked, "What happened? What happened to the drone?"

"Report... the body of the Void Amoeba has a higher gravity!" Dr. Li analyzed the data and said in a low voice, "The further you go inside, the greater the gravity!"

"Our drone can only move in a zero-gravity environment, so it fell directly to the deepest point."

"However, it wasn't seriously damaged, and it was able to jump a little twice."

After listening to Dr. Li's analysis, the expert group around Zhang Ran had already started to discuss feverishly: "Gravity? Is there a higher gravity inside the Void Amoeba? Could it be caused by... the curvature engine?"

A scientist seemed to have thought of something, and said hurriedly: "Ballistics... We have an additional habitable environment? Dr. Li, investigate, is there a gravitational environment suitable for human habitation?"

Gravity is indeed very important to human life.

Without gravity, the calcium in the human bones will flow away, and the muscles will be wretched. Even if the new human laboratory invents the corresponding drugs, it will only be delayed.

Now, artificial gravity has suddenly appeared in its remains, and all scientists are very excited to discuss it. But obviously, facing the mysterious unknown phenomenon, they couldn't find a reason.

The drone that fell into the hole, the engine spewed gas, and jumped randomly on the ground, and the camera looked in all directions.

Inside is a big hole with a diameter of 6.8 kilometers!

The meteorite that smashed in shattered into pieces.

And the internal structure of the Void Amoeba is also a mess, there is no way to identify what the original structure is.

Everywhere you look, there are meteorite wreckage.

On the surrounding walls, after a large piece of liquid vaporized, it re-solidified as a powdery crystal. These strange things are crystal clear and flawless, like the Milky Way in the night sky sloping down, shining like silver and diamonds under the illumination of the lights.

In the distance, there are a lot of black, coke-like things, hanging like stalactites, a large black area, I don't know what they are.

"It's a bit like the eruption of magma, burning the surrounding material, and then cooling it back again." A scientist vividly described these pictures.

Gu "It should be the Void Amoeba's self-destruction, and the high temperature it produces burns its body like this."

The explorers pulled out a high-power light from the shuttle and lit it into the hole.

Seeing the scene on the screen, the people inside the Ark all speculated.

"Originally there was only a 90% certainty that it was dead, but now, it's almost 90% certain."

"It's a pity that most of the structures inside have been burned to the ground..."

"It's no wonder that this behemoth has such a light mass, so a large part of the middle is already empty... Your Highness, you can see that there are minerals, space, and artificial gravity in it. Think about it." Professor Fan of the Ark Lab was secretly asking for funds.

"We have a subspace inside to maintain social development, and there is this spaceship outside, which is responsible for collecting supplies, and conducting foreign wars... If there is another enemy, there should be a certain margin of error tolerance."

Zhang Ran's mood was also not calm, and his clenched fists loosened a little.

I have to admit that what Professor Fan said is very reasonable... The days of human poverty seem to be getting better!

Sure enough, in a war, if you lose, you lose everything, and if you win, you gain everything.

However, he didn't have any emotional fluctuations on the surface: "Besides, besides, don't be in a hurry for that moment, safety is the most important."

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After a series of arguments, the expedition team decided to enter the cave in person and investigate.

Dr. Li Zhen connected the rope, and the moment he walked into the cave, he felt a faint gravity, which was also expected.

With the rope attached to his body, he carefully scraped the dark substance on the wall with a knife.

They are like coke, very soft and shattered when touched.

After scraping off the coke, a layer of dark blue substance was revealed, which should be the "normal flesh and blood" of the Void Amoeba.

Dr. Li gave a detailed report on the corresponding investigation: "It feels a bit like a mixture of steel and cement, very hard, and when I swiped it with a knife, there are almost no traces. I am now using an electric drill to drill out a small amount of dark blue material. , no danger has been found for the time being."

It took another few hours to mine some ice cubes in all directions.

Then the other people pulled him back to the spacecraft and put the collected specimens into the instrument for inspection.

"The gravity just now is about 0.2-0.8 times the gravity of the earth."

"These specimens have no cellular structure in any sense, which is consistent with the structure of flagella. They are composed of silicon, scale, boron, oxygen, carbon and other elements. On the contrary, metal elements are relatively rare."

After observing through a microscope for a long time, Dr. Li sent a report again, "At present, 27 different samples have been tested, and none of them have any cellular structure."

"As for these ice cubes... it may be the ice cubes on the surface of the meteorite, which were dissolved by heat and then re-condensed, but the pH value is acidic. It means that the original body of the Void Amoeba was strongly acidic, and now these acids are all evaporated."

After checking here, every Ark expert looked at each other in dismay and was very excited.

The four big characters "silicon-based organisms" appeared in everyone's mind!

"Dr. Li, I suggest you use a substance analyzer to detect the elemental structure of these samples."

"The content of silicon, boron, and phosphorus is relatively high, and the proportion of carbon elements is relatively low. Large-molecular-weight borane and phosphine were detected, as well as a small amount of phosphoric acid. There is a high probability that it is indeed a silicon-based life... To be precise, it is not based on life, but on silicon phosphorus boron based life!"

"So the previous chemical theories may not be correct. The composition of life does not necessarily use carbon as the core."

The reason why chemistry has a low status in the discipline contempt chain is that many of its theories are "inaccurate".

However, the "inaccurate" things can explain a series of chemical reactions, so they are reluctantly used.

In fact, even current physics is "inaccurate"...

But this time, many of the discoveries were inexplicable, and the original theory could not explain it.

Zhang Ran listened to the discussions of the scientists about "parallel world life" and so on. He couldn't help but feel a little funny, and his mood began to relax a little bit.

After a great victory, the self-confidence of mankind has indeed been erected. It seems that human civilization will be able to become the overlord of the galaxy tomorrow... that's not right, the galaxy is long gone, and it is meaningless to be the overlord of the galaxy.

All in all, the current environment, whether it is an ordinary worker, a soldier, or a group of experts, has produced a strong sense of self-confidence. If in the past, silicon-based life was discovered, it would definitely be scary and cloudy.

"Wait a minute, what is that?!" At this moment, an exclamation suddenly came out in the video. This exclamation almost splashed Zhang Ran with cold water, and goose bumps appeared all over his body.

The strong light searchlight illuminated a flying thing inside the abdominal cavity of the Void Amoeba!

The moment it was irradiated, it was too late.

Its moving speed is extremely fast, possibly reaching more than 200 meters per second, which is comparable to a bullet.

Before everyone could react, it was like a black lightning strike that hit the thick plexiglass of the shuttle!

"Crack!" Everyone in the Ark headquarters heard the sound of glass shattering in the video.

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Zhang Ran's hair stood on end. Could the tragedy happen again?

He couldn't help shouting loudly: "Evacuate! Evacuate quickly!"

But he knew that this command was not very useful. The speed of information transmission in the universe was limited, and the delay might be several seconds.

These few seconds are the difference between life and death!

Captain Wang Xianfeng in the shuttle, at the moment when the glass shattered, he could barely see what was flying over, a fist-sized, colorful, strange transparent substance like a big dragon ball!

Because a hole in the plexiglass was smashed, the air leaked greatly, and the bodies of the four team members also fluttered in the wind.

The little ball flew over!

"You all go back to the subspace! Hurry up!"

Wang Xianfeng roared in the earphone, his adrenaline surged and his muscles violently exerted force. In such a small space, it was too late to aim, and he smashed the **** of the gun viciously!

But it was avoided by this strange transparent ball with extraordinary sensitivity.

Immediately afterwards, the small ball moved rapidly, passing several people in a row.

It was lying on the ship's nuclear engine position ~lightnovelpub.net~ motionless.

Another soldier named Zhang Yupu whispered, "Wait...wait! Captain, it doesn't seem to attack us...what is it doing?"

On the colored ball, there are four small tentacles. When it touches the nuclear engine, it stretches to the maximum, enjoying the warm heat brought by the engine, and it seems to be a little more comfortable.

Dr. Li, who was standing on the side analyzing the substance, gradually recovered from that state of shock, and glanced at this small ball.

He suddenly had a very strange delusion, like a dog at home, where he basks in the sun to his heart's content? !

Seeing Wang Xianfeng making a rifle aiming action, he hurriedly stopped him and said, "Captain Wang, wait a minute, don't provoke it. Let's not talk about whether the firearms are effective or not. If you really want to kill it, you have to use an electromagnetic gun, or even A hydrogen bomb."

"And... this guy is probably the offspring of the Void Amoeba, it should have no intelligence..."

"A living specimen of unimaginable great value!"

Dr. Li spoke faster and faster, his heart beating violently and his face flushed: "You can't kill it, it just needs energy... It just found a suitable heat source, our spaceship engine."

"But after it replenishes the energy, we may be killed!" Wang Xianfeng shouted, "We cannot rule out this risk."

"It's okay, you all go back first, and then let His Highness close the door of the warp."

"I'll try and study it in this shuttle. I'm not afraid of death."

Dr. Li blushed and swallowed: "If something really happened, I would just sacrifice myself. I also have a younger brother, and I'm not an only child."

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