Earth Era

Because of the extremely low temperature, even after several years, the body in front of him was still extremely well preserved, with no signs of decay. This will allow subsequent dissection and analysis work to be carried out under more favorable conditions.

Wang Hao observed for a moment and gently pressed a button. As a result, several projectors appeared on the console in front of Wang Hao, and instantly projected a "corpse" that was exactly the same as the one on the other side of the isolation glass. Putting on a special sensor glove, Wang Hao gently pressed on the "corpse" projected through virtual projection technology.

With Wang Hao's pressing, the robotic arm on the other side of the isolation glass simultaneously made the same movements as Wang Hao, and passed the relevant parameters to the sensing gloves, allowing Wang Hao to feel the coldness and stiffness as if they were real.

Remove the clothes on the corpse and take the induction knife - inside the isolation glass, the same knife immediately appeared on the dexterous robotic arm - starting from the chin of the corpse and cutting along the midline to expose its abdominal organs. device...

Wang Hao, who has a background as a medical expert, is extremely familiar with the internal structure of the human body. In school and in clinics, Wang Hao had cut open the abdomens of many living and dead people, but never once had he been as solemn as this time, and never before had Wang Hao been as surprised as this time.

What was displayed in front of Wang Hao was a bloody scene, but what caught Wang Hao's attention was not the flesh and blood, but the strange shape of the dead astronaut's organs. Wang Hao clearly saw that some of the organs were smaller than those of ordinary people, while others were abnormally large and had some strange distortions in shape. Although it is currently unclear what causes these organs are affected, Wang Hao still confirmed one thing, that is, that strange disease can affect human organs throughout the body.

Wang Hao first carefully took out the heart of the corpse, then controlled the mechanical arm and placed it in a special instrument. The instrument started running, and rows of data began to appear on a display screen next to Wang Hao.

After a brief observation, Wang Hao came to the conclusion: "His heart function is much lower than that of normal people."

This was obviously caused by that strange illness. Generally speaking, people who can become interstellar astronauts have stronger bodies than ordinary people, and their heart function should be higher than ordinary people.

After recording this point, Wang Hao continued to conduct a more in-depth analysis, and more conclusions were gradually presented to Wang Hao.

"His heart seems to have undergone some kind of genetic mutation. This mutation caused functional disorders in his heart, which led to a series of consequences."

"The same is true for the stomach. The abnormality in the stomach caused him to be unable to digest food normally, and the excess gastric acid almost burned through the wall of his stomach."

"Large intestine, small intestine, lungs, liver, spleen, kidneys...what? There are even mutations in the muscles and skin tissues? This, this..."

Further analysis led to an even more shocking conclusion for Wang Hao. No organ or tissue in this astronaut's body was normal. A large number of mutations, necrosis, proliferation, cancer, etc. were almost all over the body, leading to multiple organ failure throughout the body.

Wang Hao vaguely understood why the astronaut chose to commit suicide.

It is clearly recorded in the medical literature that many years ago, when cancer had not yet been conquered, some patients with advanced cancer did not actually die from organ lesions, but were painfully alive. But no matter how painful cancer is, it is only painful for a specific organ and the organs where cancer cells have metastasized and eroded. But now the astronaut's mutations are all over his body.

And with Wang Hao's medical knowledge, he could easily determine that the pain caused by the lesions that occurred on the astronaut's body would definitely exceed the unit intensity of cancer.

This means dozens or hundreds of times the pain of late-stage cancer. Moreover, this mutation will not deprive all organ functions, which means that patients will not die in the short term due to this mutation. They will suffer this indescribable pain while still conscious.

"If this kind of pain befalls me, I'm afraid I will not wait and try every means to end my life."

The preliminary examination of the body has been completed, and further analysis and conclusions will need to wait for some time. So Wang Hao still doesn't know what caused this change. But based on Wang Hao's past experience and the knowledge gained from the literature, Wang Hao already had a vague judgment in his mind.

"This seems to be a kind of radiation sickness. In some literature I have read, it was recorded that many years ago there was a patient who was accidentally exposed to extremely high doses of radiation, and his symptoms were somewhat similar to this. It's just that. This is different from the patient whose condition deteriorated rapidly, lost all organ function in a short period of time and eventually died."

If it was radiation sickness, the severity of this incident would be much lower. At least people no longer have to worry about the possibility of a severe infectious disease spreading on a large scale among human civilization.

"But... what kind of radiation can cause such changes in the human body?"

First, long-range starships have thick armor that can withstand any known radiation, so the source of this radiation is unlikely to be outside the ship. Then the only possibility is from inside the spacecraft.

There are indeed many parts inside the spacecraft made of radioactive materials, but those parts are all strictly isolated and are unlikely to affect the human body. Even if a certain isolation device is damaged and causes leakage, it will only affect a few people at most, and it is far from killing everyone on the entire spacecraft.

What's more, the treatment of radiation sickness is not too difficult. The doctors on board the ship have enough medicine and equipment to deal with it. How could it kill everyone?

After thinking for a moment, Wang Hao stood up and sent the analysis conclusion at this stage. The external garrison will receive this information and then forward it to the expert team inside the galaxy for analysis by the experts.

At this time, a message was sent to Wang Hao.

"The information collected from the Nimbus heavy transport ship has been compiled. This is the part that can be viewed within your authority."

Wang Hao opened the information and first checked the spacecraft operation records. But to Wang Hao's expectation, in the more than two thousand days of voyage records, except for some minor faults, such as a broken connector somewhere or a broken seal somewhere, not even a single rating reached C. There are no level-1 faults, let alone the kind of radiation leakage fault that Wang Hao predicted would be enough to affect all astronauts.

After closing the spacecraft operation record, Wang Hao thought about it and opened the work log of the ship's doctor.

During interstellar voyages, unless hibernating, every astronaut's work and life must be recorded every day. The records of the ship's doctor are even more important, as they relate to the astronauts' health ratings, which are related to their future careers.

Among the records of more than 2,000 days, the first three-fifths were directly skipped by Wang Hao. Because most of them are just some body data automatically generated by the system, such as heartbeat, blood pressure, blood sugar, etc., occasionally mixed with some processing such as colds, minor trauma, etc., except that the astronauts are extremely healthy, there is no valuable information. .

Changes began on day one thousand two hundred and five.

Wang Hao looked through the voyage records and found that at that time, they had loaded enough resources and embarked on the return journey. They had sailed a distance of nearly one light-year, and the distance from the Phoenix Galaxy was about 29 light-years. .

On this day, Zhou Lu, the ship's doctor, made the following record in her work log.

"Mechanic Zheng Yang complained of abdominal pain. After examination, he found intestinal motility disorder and electrolyte imbalance. It was judged to be an intestinal infection and relevant treatment has been carried out."

After this record, there is also a video record of the time. Wang Hao opened it and saw a young woman with refreshing short hair and wearing a doctor's uniform conducting relevant examinations on a strong man. The two seemed to be very familiar with each other. During the inspection, they kept joking and the atmosphere was very relaxed.

Wang Hao observed from the perspective of a professional doctor and found that although the ship's doctor named Zhou Lu looked careless, his technique and judgment were not wrong. If I were present at the time, I am afraid I would have made the same judgment and treatment as Zhou Lu.

After the diagnosis was completed, Zhou Lu gave Zheng Yang an injection, and Zheng Yang left. This video recording ended.

For the Nimbus spacecraft and the astronauts at the time, that day was just an ordinary day. People work, live and rest as usual, without any idea of ​​what fate they will face. Wang Hao, who was looking through the records, knew that that day was the beginning of everything. From that day on, destiny will inevitably lead to another path leading to pain and death.

Looking at the young female doctor with bright eyes and white teeth in the video, and the young man with a strong physique and full of strength and motivation, Wang Hao felt a little sad.

They originally had their own lives, family members and friends. But now they have nothing.

With a sigh, Wang Hao continued to read.

There was nothing valuable to record the next day. On the third day, another crew member found Zhou Lu. So Zhou Lu made this record: "Operator Feng Song complained of muscle weakness in the legs, accompanied by labor pains. After examination, it was found that the muscles were congested and slightly dysfunctional. No structural lesions were found. It was judged that the muscles were overused, and the treatment plan was as follows Ensure adequate rest and pay attention to nutritional supplements.”