I have no pheromones, you smelled wrong

The return aircraft carrying Heinrich and Lin Xu flew directly to the scientific research spacecraft Cologne under the supervision of Zhou Pingbo.

When Arnold left to command the battlefield, he worried that Cassandra and Ryan, who did not have heavy weapons at hand, would encounter unknown dangers, and asked them to drive the lander back to the Victoria first.

Cologne is docked within the Antarctic Circle. Global warming has intensified in the past 3000 years, and the melting of Antarctic glaciers has intensified. The scientific research spacecraft is docked at the edge of the ice sheet, which is very close to the pole.

This behemoth from the interstellar era didn't float directly in the sea—its designers obviously didn't think that one day, the Cologne would land on the surface of the earth.In order to save energy, the Cologne will not always be in the floating mode. There are four pillars protruding from the bottom of the spacecraft and smashing into the seabed to firmly support the Cologne.

Its exterior is painted blue, which glistens in the Antarctic sun.

I don't know who is in charge of the mission's publicity work, but they actually came up with the idea of ​​painting all the scientific research spacecraft in blue and green to express their nostalgia for the blue-green parent star.

Zhou Pingbo said that the purpose of parking the scientific research spacecraft in the waters near the Antarctic is to minimize the impact on the earth's ecological circle.

The biomass of the Antarctic circle with a cold climate is almost zero. The researchers made icicles hundreds of meters deep on the Antarctic ice sheet. After testing, they believe that the earth experienced an extremely cold era 3000 years ago, and a large number of Antarctic creatures died. After the temperature recovers, it is difficult to regain vitality like the temperate and tropical regions.

Coupled with the large amount of nuclear radiation traces left on the earth at present, it can be inferred that there was a massive nuclear explosion and a long nuclear winter 3000 years ago.

These materials are internal materials of Zhou Pingbo's team, and will not be handed over to the imperial officials, nor will they be made public, and they are not intended to be handed over to scholars who study social history.

Zhou Pingbo can only guess based on his own experience that the nuclear explosion originated from the last destructive nuclear war of mankind.

It is not difficult to obtain these data and make relevant speculations. When the earth is found, the truth will be revealed.Therefore, the empire must control the fields and research directions of researchers to ensure that secrets are kept silent.

This restraint is a very gentle, but also very strong, and it is difficult to be suspicious of the device.

Except for those few assassinations.

After the aircraft landed, Lin Xu immediately said that he wanted to see the mermaid bones that Zhou Pingbo picked up. Zhou Pingbo saw that although they had just been rescued, their spirits were not too bad, so he agreed to push them into the rest room first, and let Lin Xu Pack up and change clothes with Heinrich, and then go for a medical examination. If everything is fine, let's talk about seeing the mermaid's bones.

The penetrating lung injury caused by the ice pick to Heinrich has been healed under the action of the crystal nucleus energy, and the dragon tail and dragon wings that emerged from the ice cave before are also masterpieces of the crystal nucleus.

There were no serious injuries on the two of them, and Zhou Pingbo couldn't help but marvel at their physical fitness.

A normal person encounters an avalanche with bare hands, and basically cannot be rescued. He was shocked when he received the news from Arnold, and he was almost ready to write an obituary for Heinrich until he received the signal sent by Heinrich. Finally put down the snacks and launched a search and rescue operation.

However, when the intelligent medical robot detected the scratches and bite marks on Heinrich's shoulder and back, it issued a warning of a wild animal attack and was ready to give him a mandatory rabies shot.

The needle tube raised by the robotic arm was snatched away by Lin Xu. Zhou Pingbo raised his eyebrows, and was thinking of going up to suggest earnestly that he should get an injection. Who knows if the viruses on the earth have evolved.

But he was suddenly blessed, remembering that Heinrich and Lin Xu had changed their clothes when they came back, and understood something.

He smiled kindly, and handed them nutritional supplements to supplement their strength, and then led them to the laboratory.

Zhou Pingbo cleared out the assistants again. The assistants who had been immersed in experiments and calculations faced the boss's unreasonable troubles, dared not speak out, and ran out desperately holding the data records.

There were only three of them left in the lab.

The mermaid bones were placed in a separate room at the back of the laboratory. Before entering, Zhou Pingbo handed the two color-developing night vision goggles to wear, and explained: "There are three bones in total, and I have two here. , and one on another spacecraft. We found them at a depth of 3000 meters on the seabed. In order not to destroy the original state of the bones after the transfer, the room was treated with temperature control and light control, and the water tank was pressurized to a deep-sea state. I'll come in."

Stepping into the dark room, Zhou Pingbo quickly closed the door to avoid external interference.

The temperature in the room was much lower than the normal comfortable average temperature of 23°C inside the spaceship. He rubbed his arms, "I forgot to add some clothes, let's go out sooner after reading."

The chromogenic night vision goggles can show the original color of the object. Lin Xu placed two water tanks side by side near the center of the room. In the slightly greenish sea water, there were two mermaid bones lying there, and no muscle or skin tissue was left , and even a few bones fell from their ribcage and fish tail and sank in the water.

Lin Xu had never seen a mermaid corpse, he had only seen his own whole body X-ray skeleton picture, the structure was very similar to the two mermaids.

"In the earth's seawater environment, corpses decompose very quickly. Fortunately, these two corpses fell into the deep sea, so the bones were not decomposed." Zhou Pingbo said, "We have measured carbon 14, and the bones came from 3000 years ago. But We have found no more corpses nearby, nor any signs of civilization artifacts. It is not certain whether these merfolk are intelligent beings.

"I have compared the bone specimens of the mermaid bones from the interstellar Thales, and the structural overlap is very high. Those historians and mythologists believe that the appearance of the mermaid bones will greatly change the perception of the earth myth by the imperial people. In the universe There are dragons, mermaids, maybe the phoenix that appeared in earth myths also exists, and all kinds of gods with supernatural powers may not be fictional."

"Mermaid specimen?" Lin Xu asked, he had never searched for detailed information on the interstellar mermaid on the star network.

"Humans can't break through the god-falling barrier on Thales, but mermaids can come out by themselves." Heinrich told him, "This kind of situation rarely happens, because mermaids don't have the ability to travel between stars. The mermaid didn't know why it came from Thales ran out and was rescued by a human merchant ship before he was suffocated in a vacuum. The mermaid and the human language could not understand each other. The merchant ship followed the law on the protection of intelligent creatures in the universe and wanted to take him to the hospital for treatment of radiation injuries.

"But on the border planet where they landed, the rebels, star thieves, and the Sixth Army were in a melee. The merchant ship was accidentally shot down, and the star thieves captured the mermaid and the captain. The mermaid was made into a specimen by the star thieves, and the captain was killed. It was only after the captain's powerful parents found their bodies."

Zhou Pingbo added: "The No. [-] specimen of the interstellar mermaid is now stored in the Imperial Research Institute. After all, this is a disaster. Out of respect for the personality of intelligent creatures, the research institute refuses to visit, and does not allow corpse pictures to be circulated on the Star Network. .

"But the two mermaids in front of me just look similar to specimen zero. I can't arbitrarily say that they are biologically related. I have already sent a message to the Einstein galaxy, asking them to pass on the genetic map of zero to me. The messages come and go. It will take a while. Dr. Lin, can I have some of your samples for genetic comparison during this period?"

"no problem."

Lin Xu's voice sounded calm, until Heinrich asked what he really thought, "Could it be them?"

"What they?" Zhou Pingbo was puzzled by this sudden pronoun.

"...It's a long story." Lin Xu replied, "Professor Zhou, let's go out first. If you stand here for too long, the low temperature will frostbite you."

Zhou Pingbo agreed, opened the door and returned to the bright and warm laboratory, feeling much relieved for a while.

The intelligent robot brought the steaming hot drink to the three of them. Lin Xu felt that the bitterness was too bitter, so he only took a sip.

"Professor Zhou, I have never said my true origin."

Zhou Pingbo nodded, glanced at the calm Heinrich, and replied after confirmation: "We know that your identity certificate from the border area is forged. But which planet are you from? It's really not Thales. ?"

Zhou Pingbo recalled that when Heinrich told the history of specimen No. [-], Lin Xu listened calmly, without any sadness or anger.

He probably guessed wrong, but where else would there be a mermaid?

Earth?

Zhou Pingbo was almost amused by his association ability.

Then, he heard Lin Xu say word by word, "I am from Earth."

If the power of this sentence is not enough, then Lin Xu's supplementary sentence is enough to make Zhou Pingbo choke himself to death with water.

"Earth 3000 years ago."

"Cough, cough, cough!" Zhou Pingbo's trachea was stuck by a sip of drink. Seeing that the situation was not good, the intelligent robot immediately stepped forward, stretched out its mechanical arm and punched Zhou Pingbo's abdomen, and performed the Heimlich first aid method, asking him to put the water Spit it out.

"Cough cough...cough..." He tried to calm his breath, grabbed a few paper towels handed by the robotic arm to wipe off the water stains, "Let me confirm again, you just spoke in Imperial, right? The content is, You are from Earth 3000 years ago. Did I hear you wrong?"

Heinrich glanced at him: "No."

"You are, how did you... you lived for 3000 years?"

"I fell into the border area through the black hole of time and space." Lin Xu said, "These are not important. What I want to say is that I was originally a pure-bred human being. After receiving genetic modification from deep-sea mutant creatures, I got a fish tail. After I left , humans are still continuing this experiment.”

"You mean, these mermaids may be artificial?"

"Yes. According to the documents we found, the transformation experiment was suspended because it was leaked. This may mean that some transformation products escaped."

"What is the document?" Zhou Pingbo looked at the two people in front of him with a headache again.

Heinrich said: "We found a human base in the snow-capped mountains. There are some written materials there, which can confirm that the construction time of the base was also 3000 years ago."

"Base..." Zhou Pingbo murmured, "Actually, I have always wondered why the tasks assigned by the empire to those sociologists and historians did not include finding the origin of the Ark project. Nice bragging stunt.

"The investigation team did not find any possible signs at the beginning. Until the four large meteorites fell into the earth, we found the remains of a giant military fortress in the ruins. Unfortunately, it was too thoroughly destroyed, leaving few clues."

Heinrich stared: "Meteorite?"

"Oh, when you were investigating in the snow mountain, the timing of the fall of the four meteorites was basically the same as the timing of the avalanche."

"What we encountered was not an ordinary avalanche." Lin Xu frowned deeply, "It was the base's explosion self-destruct program that was activated."

How could there be such a coincidence in the world?

Four meteorites at the front foot smashed the military fortress left on the earth, and the base in the mountain at the back foot self-destructed and exploded.

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