Chapter 52 The Second Floor of the Space Station
Seeing that Li Xiu was so sure, Xie Shen didn't talk nonsense. He just calmed down and silently felt the changes in spiritual power in his body.
Shao Qian.
He nodded and said: "It is true that there has been an increase, but not much. It should be less than one percent of the total."
"Yes." Li Xiu responded: "This It’s normal. After all, I just made a small cut on my arm and it caused very little pain.”
Xie was deeply inspired and said: "You mean: the more pain a person suffers, the more black fog will be produced?"
"That's right."
Maybe it's because of wearing glasses , I feel a little uncomfortable.
Li Xiu subconsciously adjusted the glasses on the bridge of his nose with his hand again.
He suggested: "Why don't you follow me to the second floor, and I will show you some experiments related to the black mist."
"Can I go to the second floor?" Xie Shen was stunned when he heard this.
"Yes, I have this authority now." After saying that, Li Xiu suddenly looked at the man in suit beside him and said to him: "Why don't you come too."
Yan After that, he took the lead and walked towards the second floor of the space station.
The rest of the scientific researchers followed closely behind.
On the corridor aisle.
Xie Shen and the man in the suit looked at each other. Without saying anything, they quickly followed behind the large army.
…
Compared with the first floor, the second floor of Tiangong Space Station is obviously much smaller.
As Xie Shen walked, he could see numerous prisons with bunker doors on both sides of the corridor.
Out of curiosity, he looked inside one of the prisons.
There is a young male in the prison.
He was neither noisy nor fussy, he just sat there in a daze, so quiet that it made people feel a little weird.
“This is a fake.”
Seeing Xie Shen looking into the prison, Li Xiu introduced from the side: “He has been locked up here for more than 120 years.”
“So long?” Xie Shen asked in surprise: “Won’t he die of old age?”
"No." Li Xiu explained: "There are many cancer cells in the body of the dummy that can divide indefinitely."
"And these cancer cells are all controllable."
"They can differentiate into various tissue cells in the human body just like stem cells."
"Then, because they are essentially cancer cells, they can also ignore the 'Hayflick limit'."
“So the pseudo-people will not age.”
Li Xiu pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose out of habit.
He continued: "And it is precisely because of this that the senior management of the space station spent a lot of money to send a modified person to catch one on the surface."
"It's a pity"
“It has been 120 years, and the space station has not been able to learn anything from this dummy.”
In the aisle on the second floor of the space station.
While listening to Li Xiu's story, Xie Shen looked towards other nearby prisons.
But in the prison next to the dummy, there was a creature that was on all fours and covered with black carapace.
Xie Shen knows this thing.
This is a thalamic sentinel.
Their individual combat power is not strong, but their numbers are almost endless, which is quite a headache.
Just keep going.
Xie Shen was in a prison again and saw a strange thing that was blood red and looked like a giant sarcoma.
At first glance, it looks like.
It is like an indescribable thing in the Cthulhu mythology.
“Don’t think too much.”
Li Xiu on the side seemed to have seen Xie Shen's psychological activities. He explained from the side: "That giant sarcoma is a product we cultivated using cells from domestic pigs and thalamic sentinels. This monster looks scary, but in fact it doesn't even have basic mobility."
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Xie Shen heard this and asked curiously: "This sarcoma, as well as the previous dummy and thalamic sentinel, what do you usually feed them?"
"Nothing." Li Xiu said expressionlessly: "These unknown life forms can survive even if they don't eat anything."
"This" Xie Shen said in confusion: "Isn't it a perpetual motion machine?"
"Strictly speaking, it doesn't count." Li Xiu replied: "Just like you practitioners can absorb the spiritual power between heaven and earth. These unknown life forms also have the means to obtain energy. It's just that we humans have The level of science and technology cannot be researched yet.”
During the conversation, Xie Shen followed Li Xiu to a laboratory equipped with various instruments and equipment.
This laboratory is somewhat similar to the ‘Spiny Jellyfish Laboratory’ on the Europa Space Station: in its center, there is also a huge glass cube.
The cube is also engraved with weird geometric patterns specifically designed to resurrect humans.
Li Xiu walked directly to the glass cube.
Without looking back, he rushed behind Xie Shen and said: "Look carefully. I will show you the impact of those black mist on people."
As he said that, he fiddled with the things outside the glass cube. terminal.
Under the control of Li Xiu, an electronic synthesized sound was heard inside the cube.
The voice said.
[The resurrected person, name: Uruma, was born at 1:03 on February 21, 31982 BC. 】
The next second.
A naked ancient man with thicker body hair than normal humans appeared out of thin air in the glass cube.
"Is this an ape-man?" Xie Shen asked after observing for a few seconds.
“No.”
Li Xiu corrected: “Ape-men are also called Homo habilis and Homo erectus. They are still somewhat different from modern humans.”
"Modern humans are also called Homo sapiens."
"Then what you see now is Homo sapiens who lived about 30,000 years ago."
"From biology From a scientific point of view, there is almost no difference between Homo sapiens who lived more than 30,000 years ago and us modern humans.”
In the laboratory.
Li Xiu put his right index finger on his glasses and said with an indifferent expression: "Originally, I planned to use modern humans for experiments."
"I don't care."
"But doing this will bring psychological pressure to other researchers."
"They can't live with it morally."
"So, I switched to Homo sapiens who lived in ancient times."
The intelligence of ancient people is not much different from that of modern humans.
Inside a glass cube.
The resurrected ancient man first looked around, showing an expression of curiosity and surprise.
A few seconds later.
The ancient people found themselves imprisoned in a glass petri dish, and they began to become irritable and restless.
He beat the tempered glass around him crazily and roared from time to time.
Li Xiu didn't care about this and just continued to operate the terminal outside the glass cube.
Accompanied by its movements.
A transparent glass tube filled with black mist slowly extended from the ceiling of the laboratory.
Xie Shen saw it and immediately said thoughtfully: "Those...are they the black mist produced after people are tortured?"
"Yes."
Li Xiu pointed at the glasses on his face.
He explained: "The transparent glass tube and the 'black fog glasses' we wear are doped with a certain amount of metallic zirconium, which allows us to see those things directly with our naked eyes. Black mist.”
(End of this chapter)