Alien Remains

The cockpit was where the spaceship's precision instruments were concentrated, and also the core node of the entire spaceship's pipelines and circuits. Almost all of the spaceship's actions were realized through the cockpit.

Such an important place was finally cleaned up.

But the results of the cleanup were less than satisfactory.

When Yue Yuan entered the cockpit, what he saw was not precision instruments full of technology, nor a cabin gleaming with metallic luster, but a rusty pile of garbage.

Rust, dilapidated, fragments, deformation – one word after another jumped out of his mind.

The cockpit was very empty, but there was almost nothing good left. Yue Yuan looked around and saw two or three staff members still touching various incomplete fragments, and a few others were squatting next to something resembling a console, scraping dust with brushes, like archaeologists.

Yue Yuan asked about the situation of the alien remains and was told that they had been transported to the nearby Research Institute.

Passing through the corridor and over the cubicles, Yue Yuan soon arrived at the Research Institute indicated by the staff.

Although called a Research Institute, it looked more like a showroom, displaying all kinds of things, all types of Alien Spaceship components.

Yue Yuan passed various exhibits all the way to the middle of the Research Institute. What came into view was an old acquaintance, Yi Kai, and several unfamiliar staff members, who should be members of Yi Kai's research team.

"Doctor Yi, where are the alien remains?" Yue Yuan shouted to Yi Kai from afar.

Perhaps wanting to analyze something from the alien remains, Yi Kai, a Doctor of Biology with relatively few tasks, took the initiative to undertake this research and brought his research team with him.

Alien creatures are also creatures, so it was quite appropriate for Yi Kai to handle it.

"It's Commander-in-Chief, just call me Lao Yi." Yi Kai looked back at Yue Yuan, who was approaching, and said with a smile.

After Yue Yuan approached, he raised his neck and gestured with an extension: "This lump is it."

Yue Yuan followed his gaze and found a square wooden frame placed on the ground two steps away. A plastic film was laid in the middle of the wooden frame, and a dark lump was spread on the film.

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

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

"This lump of stuff is an alien? How does it look like a blackened clod of earth?" After looking at it twice, Yue Yuan said his first impression.

"It's not like it, it is earth." Yi Kai's voice followed.

The alien is earth? Yue Yuan was a little confused. He looked back at Yi Kai, who was stepping 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 earth, but I didn't say the alien is earth. No, that's not right, the alien has indeed turned into earth now."

As he spoke, Yi Kai came to Yue Yuan's side, also squatted down, and pointed to the blackened clod of earth and continued: "Commander-in-Chief, look, this is the alien. Look at this texture here, here, the outer lump is the soil layer."

Yue Yuan carefully looked for a long time along Yi Kai's fingers, and finally saw that on the dark soil layer, there were some inconspicuous lines, and some parts that were somewhat different from the color of the soil layer.

Following Yi Kai's gesturing fingers, the outline of the alien gradually appeared in Yue Yuan's mind.

"A multi-legged beast?" Yue Yuan asked uncertainly.

To be honest, it really took a lot of imagination to imagine what this kind of thing embedded in the soil layer originally looked like, especially when you saw it for the first time.

Yue Yuan thought that the whole lump was an alien, but he didn't expect that the real alien remains were just the lines in it. The graphic formed by these lines looked about the size of a sheep.

"Maybe it's a hand." Yi Kai spread his hands and explained: "This broken thing... cough, this broken thing is the alien. According to observation and component analysis, we initially speculate that this alien should belong to some kind of soft-bodied animal, and those lines are its tentacles or antennae. The conclusion of multi-tentacled creature species is consistent with the structural distribution of the operating equipment in the cockpit, so this should be correct."

As a serious post-00s, although he was already in his seventies, Yi Kai always inadvertently blurted out some catchphrases from the last century when he spoke.

Yue Yuan was already used to this, and sometimes even learned a few ancient words such as 'Wo Cao' and 'Ri Ta Ge Xian Ren Ban Ban'.

Yi Kai slowly stood up, and continued to explain: "From the analysis results of the remains, this alien creature belongs to Carbon-based life, which is in line with our traditional understanding, but its genetic information and other biological information can no longer be read, so we only know its approximate shape and subordinate species. Well, according to the definition of Earth biological classification, we know nothing about other more in-depth information."

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

He came to see alien creatures with enthusiasm, but the result was not as good as seeing fossils.

If he had known it was like this, he might as well have gone to see the strange symbols occasionally found on the spaceship wreckage. Although humans still don't understand what those strange symbols specifically mean.

"Information is limited, but at least we know that this is a spaceship belonging to some kind of soft-bodied intelligent life civilization, isn't it?"

Yi Kai shrugged and continued: "Aliens exist, and alien civilizations also exist, and they are Carbon-based life. This is in line with our previous guesses about cosmic life. That is to say, perhaps Carbon-based life is the universal form of cosmic life, which has a certain reference value for our understanding of the universe and other aliens, so we can't say that this alien remains is useless."

Okay.

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

"Just one."

Yi Kai nodded, with a look of reminiscence on his face, "According to relevant personnel, this spaceship may have crashed due to some kind of malfunction, and then was captured by the Solar System's gravity in the long years, and finally fell on Callisto for some unknown reason."

"Although this kind of speculation is mostly fantasy, according to our dating results of the alien remains, its age is indeed very different from the soil layer. It does fit the theory that it crashed onto Callisto and was buried by the soil layer long after it died."

It has to be said that these scientists are quite capable; they can deduce so many things from just a little bit of information.

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

Indeed, tens of thousands of years is really not worth mentioning to the advanced cosmic civilizations imagined by humans.