Alien Relic Hunter

"You mean, 'she'... was already living in this ruins nine hundred years ago in the New Era?" Sergeant Ken asked.

Liao Xing nodded.

"'She' is a human being... at least from the external body structure, she is very close to a human being?" Sergeant Ken asked again.

"It's extremely close. If it weren't for the pursuit of scientific rigor, it wouldn't be a problem to just say it's exactly the same." Liao Xing corrected.

"Nine hundred years before the New Era, only the advance team came to this planet, and those people in the advance team, whether they were dead, missing or successfully returned to the Ark... they were all men, no women, right? ?" This was Sergeant Ken's third question.

"It is not ruled out that early advance teams will secretly carry women to Alpha Star. After all, there are some unethical experiments that cannot be made public... For example, whether humans can successfully conceive in the natural environment of Alpha Star, and whether embryos can survive in this environment. Growth and development...but the 'participants' of this type of experiment will be strictly protected, and generally will not go to dangerous areas, and the possibility of disappearance is extremely low."

Sergeant Ken pondered for a few seconds before speaking: "Continue to dissect... The force that this monster erupted when it just lifted me off was very strong. A malnourished human woman would not have had this kind of power."

"Yeah." Liao Xing didn't say much and took out the largest scalpel.

The anatomy of the human body generally starts from the chest and abdomen. There are two commonly used knife methods: one is to cut straight from the lower edge of the mandible along the midline of the neck and chest and abdomen, except for bypassing the navel, all the way to The "straight cut method" of the pubic symphysis. The other is to start from the mastoid processes of the temporal bones on both sides and go down along the shoulders, meet at the sternum and then cut down to the pubic symphysis, and then peel off the mandibular and chest skin and turn it up to expose the "Y" shape of the neck organs. Cutting method.”

The advantage of the "straight-line incision" is that it is fast and convenient, while the "Y-shaped incision" will preserve the intact neck skin of the deceased as much as possible, making it difficult to see from the front after the incision is sutured and the clothes are put on. trace.

Now that time was running out, and the 776 Special Forces Team did not need to bury the body of this "monster," Liao Xing naturally chose the "one-line cut method."

The sharp blade cut through the pale skin without any hindrance, and bright red blood suddenly seeped out from the wound.

Generally speaking, no matter how thin a person is, there will be some light yellow subcutaneous fat, but there is no trace of fat under the skin of this corpse - if this level of "malnutrition" occurs, In a normal human being, this person would have already died from various complications such as hypoglycemia, severe anemia, and electrolyte imbalance... In other words, only dead people can be so thin.

"The blood pressure of the corpse is very high. You should all wear protective clothing and be careful of splashing." Liao Xing reminded, "I am going to pull out Sergeant Ken's dagger, and the blood may spurt out."

Collins and Gino immediately put on protective clothing and full-face masks, and even wore rubber gloves on their hands that were wrapped up to their elbows.

After the two of them were fully dressed, Liao Xing used tweezers to hold the hemostatic cotton, pressed the wound on the body, and slowly but steadily pulled out the dagger that penetrated the heart.

Although they were mentally prepared, the blood that shot out several meters away in an instant made Collins and Geno let out a low cry.

After the blood stopped spurting, Liao Xing grasped the edges of the skin and muscle incisions with both hands and peeled them open to both sides.

"The heart is in good condition, but other organs are showing obvious signs of failure... Huh?!"

"What's wrong?" Sergeant Ken frowned and asked.

"The ribs of the corpse are very severely calcified. This condition usually only occurs in the elderly." Liao Xing answered truthfully.

"Just from the appearance, you can't tell the age of this monster..." Collins muttered, "I even think this is a mummy that has been dried for hundreds of years."

Liao Xing did not answer, but continued the work at hand in silence.

He took out a pair of pliers, cut off the calcified ribs one by one, removed them from the corpse's chest, and then skillfully separated the fascia and muscles in the chest and abdomen layer by layer.

"Heart, lungs, stomach...and kidneys...this is the pancreas and liver...the large intestine and small intestine..." Liao Xing clicked through the organs one by one like a treasure trove. At this time, even though he knew a lot about anatomy, Collins and Geno's expressions became more and more solemn.

If the appearance of this corpse only makes people suspect that it is a creature that is highly similar to humans, then its internal structure and even the skeleton tell everyone in the 776 Special Forces Team that this is a human corpse. .

But when Liao Xing's eyes stopped at the pubic bone of the corpse, his hand that had been holding the knife suddenly trembled.

"Bring over the non-woven cloth and the hemostatic cotton balls." He ordered Collins.

The latter immediately found what he needed in the medical bag and handed it over.

Liao Xing used these things to remove the blood and residual tissue on the pubic bone surface, then replaced it with an extremely thin blade and carefully scraped the bone surface.

"Dr. Liao...what is he doing?" Collins looked at Jino with some confusion.

"I'm not sure, but I think he seems to be planning to use the bones to determine the age of this monster..." Gino whispered.

"Bingo!" Ke Lan, who was in Collins' perspective, couldn't help but give Gino a thumbs up in his heart. A doctor is a doctor after all. Even in a field that he was not good at, he still guessed the correct answer in one go.

What Liao Xing is doing now is testing the bone age of this "monster" corpse.

Generally speaking, it is relatively simple to measure the bone age of teenagers. You only need to take an X-ray of the wrist to detect the bone age through bone scale (that is, the cartilage at the end of the bone that has not yet developed into hard bone). But if you are an adult, the bone scale line at the wrist is usually completely closed, and it can only be detected through the hip joint or knee.

However, when a forensic doctor performs an autopsy and wants to determine the age of the deceased, the preferred location is the pubic symphysis.

The bone quality of the pubic symphysis, including the pelvis, will continue to change with age. This is currently one of the most reliable methods for determining the age of cadaver bones. Although there will be some errors, the error can basically be controlled within five years. Within...and some experienced forensic doctors can even reduce the error to plus or minus one year.

[P.S. In order to write this chapter, I consulted a lot of medical information, including a lot of heavy-mouthed pictures and videos... Fortunately, I didn't eat anything after six o'clock in the evening while working out... Those information directly made me hungry The feeling is completely eliminated...]