Technological practice: leading the human race to the stars

Chapter 167 Corpse
"Yuan Ze, be careful. Look at this."

The image in front of the nanorobot was transmitted back, showing that there was a dead body of a creature in front.

This form is very different from that of humans, but judging from the distribution of nerves, it should have been intelligent when it was alive.

Its body is oval in shape, covered with a smooth dark green skin that emits a faint fluorescence.

The creature's head is flat, with a pair of huge compound eyes in the center, and several pairs of smaller sensory antennae arranged around the eyes, which can capture tiny environmental changes.

It has no obvious nose and ears, but instead has some tiny openings with fine mesh membranes inside, which seem to be used to sense the surrounding airflow.

Its two arms are extremely slender, and at the end of each arm there are several tissues similar to human palms, with many tentacle-like fingers growing on the tissues.

A translucent spherical cavity extended from below his waist, filled with a viscous, glowing liquid. Some irregular viscera and organs could be vaguely seen floating in the liquid.

These internal organs are suspended in liquid, constantly wriggling and changing shape, as if they were alive and undergoing some kind of self-repair or adaptation process.

"How disgusting."

Astra showed a look of disdain. Even though it was an AI, it didn't dare to approach this strange creature.

Yuanze approached the strange creature and looked closely at its organs.

Then, he took out a small stick and pushed aside one of the tightly rolled tentacles. The tentacle reflexively shrank back, revealing something inside, a corroded tool.

There are many damaged metal parts scattered around the tentacles, as if it was doing some important work before dying.
Yuanze poked the dark green skin with the stick again. It was very elastic, like some kind of high-density gel.

"thorn~"

White smoke came out from the end of the stick that touched his skin and was corroded by his special skin.

"Yuan Ze, be careful with its skin," Astra's voice sounded in his ear, "Skin secretions are highly corrosive and toxic."

"I remember these little things can be used for qualitative analysis, right? Help me take a sample of his skin for chemical analysis."

Astra frowned and operated the nanorobot to collect samples with disgust.

"The sample has been collected and is being analyzed," the nanobot reported, "The results will be available in three minutes."

"Do you think he's still alive?"

"It's impossible. It's just that there are still some bioelectric signals left, just like fresh beef that has just been slaughtered. It's still beating."

“This has lasted too long.”

"Who knows, he still has some source power left in him, perhaps combined with his biological characteristics?"

Suddenly, the creature's compound eyes flashed slightly, emitting a faint light.

Genze took a sudden step back, dropping the stick in his hand to the ground, and assumed a fighting stance.

"See? It's moving again!"

"He is indeed dead. You can use your mental power to try to communicate with him through basic bioelectric signals. Perhaps he has some important clues."

"You also have another set of nervous systems like mine, why don't you try it?"

"That's disgusting. I don't want to." Astra waved his hands repeatedly. He was so disgusted by him even though he didn't even have a physical body. "You have been through the training in the Tower of Power. You can do it, but I can't."

There's no way I can connect my nerves to him.

Yuanze took out a few small electrodes, wrapped them with source power, and gently attached them to the creature's skin.

The electrodes began to emit tiny pulses, attempting to establish a connection with the creature's nervous system.

As the pulse was transmitted, the creature's body began to move slightly again, and its compound eyes became shiny again, as if scanning the surrounding environment again.

After confirming it was safe, Yuanze connected to the creature's badly damaged nervous system.

A few seconds later, a signal mixed with a lot of white noise sounded in Yuanze's mind.

"...You...who...are you..." Although Yuanze was mentally prepared, he was still shocked to actually communicate with a dead creature.

He quickly calmed his mind and focused his thoughts to respond: "We found your body. Who are you? Where are you from?"

The dead creature was very slow to react and did not respond for a long time.

Yuanze could only increase the stimulation of the pulse signal and repeat the signal of the question just now.

The voice sounded again: "My name is Nolan, from a galaxy far away..."

His answer was very vague. Apart from his name, all other important information was obscured by noise.

"Rano, what is the name of your tribe? And what happened to you?"

"Stop... the danger..., dragged out..."

"What about the rest?"

"Sleeping...in...the...living...cabin"

Afterwards, no matter what questions I asked him or how much I stimulated him, he had no response.

"They seemed to have biochemically altered themselves, and then he seemed to be a loser while the others were still asleep."

"Yuan Ze, don't think too much. We are unfamiliar with this place. It would be safest to find a way out first."

"Well, let me take a look at the results of the analysis first."

The nanorobot gave the analysis report to Yuanze. It did not analyze the specific components, but it found unknown bases that did not exist on the Blue Star except the four bases ATGC.

This confirmed that he was not a creature from the Blue Planet.

While Yuanze was still reading the report, one of the creature's organs suddenly swelled, and a strong chemical reaction seemed to occur inside, emitting a dazzling green light.

Yuanze's body reacted before he thought, flipping backwards and twisting his body several times in the air to avoid the explosion.

"I am not at peace even after death."

Yuanze shook, and the corrosive flesh was shaken off with the outer layer of source force shock waves.

"Go forward. There is a destroyed security door ahead. Go through it and you will reach the control room on the outermost layer."

Astra gave the part of the map that he had just drawn to Yuanze, and the map is constantly being updated.

There is a moving red dot on the map. This is the tracker that Yuanze installed on Winster, which can help him determine his location and status.

According to the signal sent back, they separated not long after they came in and acted separately with another group.

This confused Yuanze. Generally speaking, dividing the troops was a taboo when exploring such dangerous and unknown ruins.

It is very likely that they had a disagreement, one group wanted to complete the mission first, and the other group wanted to find the treasure first.

And looking at the grouping just now, Winster's group should be led by a top-level source warrior.

As a whole, they are composed of a group of relatively young source warriors with relatively little experience.

So on the one hand they are more willing to accept Yuanze's money and sell out the information; on the other hand they will give up the treasure and carry out the mission well.

Of course, it is more likely that they cannot compete with that group, and reason tells them to give up the fight.

But in either case, it is a good opportunity for Yuanze to explore the underwater ruins.

"Astra, I think we should change our plan. Instead of making escaping from here our first goal, let's do this..."

I have been on a business trip these days, and I will go back to intensively repair

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(End of this chapter)