The dissections of more than a dozen Proxima Centauri people were complete.
Lü Yongchang wiped the blue-black blood off his gloves, then gently pounded his aching lower back through his protective suit.
"Finally done..."
As he spoke, he yawned.
Dissecting more than a dozen bodies in a row was an enormous workload.
Especially when those bodies belonged to an entirely unfamiliar species.
Compared with dissecting organisms from Earth, the difficulty was on a completely different level.
Still, there were certainly benefits.
One of them was the enormous Holographic Image in front of the three men.
In the projection, the anatomical models of the Proxima Centauri people and Marus had been fully constructed.
Besides the digestive system, circulatory system, and other systems humans also possessed, Lü Yongchang had discovered a strangely shaped organ independent of all the major systems.
This organ sat at the very center of a Proxima Centauri person's body, encased in a hard, shell-like substance and surrounded by blood vessels connecting it to every part of the body.
Through those vessels, it connected to every corner of the body.
At first, Lü Yongchang had instinctively assumed it was similar to a human heart, primarily responsible for transporting blood as part of the circulatory system.
But soon, Lü Yongchang discovered another "core" inside the body.
Judging by both its muscular composition and its structure, the second "core" looked more like the Proxima Centauri people's heart.
The reason was simple: the second "core" could beat like a human heart!
The first "core," on the other hand, had a surface as hard as stone!
Now they had a serious problem.
Could the Proxima Centauri people have two hearts with completely different structures?
That simply did not make sense, however they looked at it.
To unravel the function of this unusual organ,