Extraterrestrial parasite

After resting in the lounge for five or six hours, when he woke up, someone took Cheng Pan to the restaurant for dinner.

"By the way, I still don't know your name?"

After choosing a seat and sitting down, Cheng Pan asked aloud.

"Colonel Cheng, no, Director Cheng, my name is Kong Long, you can just call me Xiao Kong."

"Dinosaur? Well, it's Kongosaurus?"

Cheng Pan was stunned for a moment and then came to his senses.

"Yes, it's Confucius' hole."

Kong Long smiled bitterly. Just because of this name, he was laughed at for a long time when he was in school. Every time he said his name, everyone would be stunned. He was almost used to it.

Seeing that Kong Long was a few years younger than him, Cheng Pan called him Xiao Kong: "Xiao Kong, the food in the restaurant here is pretty good."

Compared to the places where Cheng Pan stayed before, the food here is extremely delicious, no less than the food cooked in big hotels.

Kong Long chuckled: "Director Cheng, the chefs at our base 17 are all master chefs who are proficient in cooking. They can cook a Manchu-Han banquet for you, not to mention these side dishes."

The dishes on the table, such as shredded pork with green peppers, twice-cooked pork, and scrambled eggs with tomatoes, are indeed side dishes and home-cooked dishes. However, as the saying goes, a chef who can make home-cooked dishes so delicious can cook the rest. The food is obviously no slouch either.

After eating, there is no need to clear the dishes on the table. Someone will naturally come to clear them. What the two need to do now is to go to the floor below.

"From the first floor to the tenth floor, they are all ordinary laboratories. Director, do you need to go and take a look?"

"Forget about the ordinary laboratory, let's go straight down to the eleventh floor."

The two came to an elevator door, and the 360-degree surveillance camera flashed red. The faces of the two people were automatically recognized, and the door slowly opened.

Entering the elevator, Kong Long pressed the option for the eleventh floor, and the elevator slowly descended.

Unlike ordinary elevators, if you select the eleventh floor, the elevator will not go up. Instead, it landed downwards. After about ten seconds, the elevator door opened, revealing a passage illuminated by cold light.

This passage is about fifteen meters long. At the end of the passage, two people must pass the iris verification before they are allowed to enter.

After entering, Kong Long took Cheng Pan to the locker room to change his clothes and started the disinfection process.

The first disinfection room. High-temperature steam bathing was used for disinfection. The two of them stayed naked for fifteen minutes before entering the second room for acid and alkaline disinfection, ultraviolet irradiation, and blood testing.

By the time I finally entered the fifth disinfection room, a full hour had passed.

After cleaning the whole body with special liquid, the two people changed into white uniforms and put on masks. We finally entered the eleventh floor.

"Does it need to be disinfected like this every time you enter here?"

Cheng Pan was not impatient. But it would be too troublesome if it had to be disinfected for such a long time every time you entered.

"Yes, so Director Cheng, people below the eleventh floor often don't go up there for a month to avoid trouble."

"Is it."

Cheng Pan understands this. It's so troublesome to go in and out every time, no wonder many people don't go out... Of course, this also proves what Lieutenant General Liu said, this is an extremely boring job, and you must be mentally prepared in advance.

People who work here. Not only are they burdened with national interests and security, they even have to hand over their own lives, just because no one knows whether the base will lose control at the next moment. What is being studied here is really too much for current humans. It's dangerous.

"Well, this is..."

The door opened and two people in white uniforms walked into the hall. Cheng Pan was immediately surprised.

Along both sides of the hall, there are dozens of cylindrical nutrition cabins. Looking through the transparent glass, you can see many deformed and weird objects floating in the slightly yellow liquid.

Yes, it must be described as grotesque, because those objects are definitely not any living organisms that Cheng Pan has seen.

For example, in the glass cabin closest to him, there was a shape similar to a human arm, but the black shell and the lines of silk on the broken arm told Cheng Pan that this was definitely not a human arm.

As for the objects in the glass cabin at the back, there were more weird things whose shapes couldn't even be guaranteed. With Cheng Pan's imagination, it was really impossible to confirm what they were.

The researchers, who were wearing full isolation suits, were holding notebooks in their hands and recording the conditions in the glass cabin. Cheng Pan and Kong Long walked past without much reaction.

"The things here..."

"They are all the remains of unknown creatures discovered from all over the country..."

Kong Long stopped, pointed to one of the glass cabins and said: "This unknown creature named No. 187 was captured and discovered at a depth of 4,300 meters in the South China Sea last year."

"oh."

Following Kong Long's direction, Cheng Pan looked up and saw a fist-sized spherical object in the glass cabin, which was emitting a faint blue light. It was a bit like a jellyfish. The blue light in the core passed through the transparent tissue, faintly It spreads out and is extremely beautiful.

"What kind of creature is this thing?"

Cheng Pan was very interested: "It looks like a jellyfish that can glow. Well, a jellyfish with a strange appearance."

"This is not a jellyfish. In fact, we can't really confirm whether this creature is actually alive."

"What does it mean?"

"We have never seen it eat from the time it was captured last year. Previous feedings were ineffective. Later, after the food supply was cut off, No. 187 has been without any food source for eight months."

Kong Long said in bewilderment: "The most inexplicable thing is that No. 187 shines brightly 24 hours a day. We haven't figured out where this energy comes from."

Kong Long's words reminded Cheng Pan of a creature he discovered on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau before.

It was 1995, and Hong Kong had not yet returned to China. He was still working as a soldier in Tibet. He accidentally discovered a "person" frozen in a cave after an avalanche.

The reason why this "human" is in quotation marks is that it is very different from modern human race.

This "man" was naked, 2.7 meters tall, with hair all over his body, hands hanging down to his knees, huge feet, and an ape-like face.

When he and the squad leader saw this "person" frozen in ice, they broke out in a cold sweat. Anyone who saw a "person" about 2.7 meters tall would be frightened.

Later, the two hurriedly returned to the camp and reported the whole thing to their superiors, who immediately ordered a company to lead the way.

Unexpectedly, when we went there again, there seemed to be an avalanche, and the cave could not be found anywhere.

Cheng Pan and his squad leader thought they would be severely criticized and given a demerit, but they were only given a scolding and nothing else, which made them puzzled.

Later, Cheng Pan experienced many things, and every time he recalled it, he suddenly realized that it should be "Migui" in Tibetan, which means humanoid monster, which is also the big snow monster in the Himalayas in Tibetan legends.

People who have not experienced it personally will definitely not be able to believe it all, and only those who have truly experienced these things will understand that this world is far from as simple as it seems.

99.99999% of people in this world are happy. They are happy because they don’t know.

Just like during the Cold War, if people at that time knew that there was a certain chance of a full-scale nuclear war breaking out this morning, they would not be able to eat it even if they put bread to their mouths.

After looking at the research objects on the eleventh floor, the two continued to move down and arrived at the twelfth floor.

"The creatures on the eleventh floor are all the remains of creatures whose harmfulness has not been discovered yet. However, starting from the twelfth floor, the creatures found here are more harmful and must have certain effects on humans. Harm.”

"This was discovered by a joint expedition between Antarctica and the United States on Markham Peak."

In Cheng Pan's opinion, what Kong Long was referring to was not a living thing at all.

In a glass safe room, the soft white object was as fluffy as a snow-white bear skin.

"Don't be deceived by the appearance of this thing. If this thing is attached to a person, it will make a big hole in your body in just one second. It will kill you in just ten seconds." All the blood is absorbed."

Cheng Pan didn't care about the danger of this thing. He was a little concerned about another problem.

"What is this American joint expedition you are talking about?"

"Markham Peak is very close to the McMurdo Scientific Research Station in the United States. Our scientific expedition team was jointly conducting scientific research on Markham Peak with the United States. Unexpectedly, several members disappeared."

"Later, two such things were caught...one in the United States, one in China, and no other country knew about it."

Although Kong Long spoke in an understatement, Cheng Pan could feel the danger.

What happened here must have been a thrilling process. For people at the time, seeing the strange creatures suck the blood of the team members to death one by one. Even if they survived, it would be a nightmare for the rest of their lives.

Antarctica contains more than 220 kinds of minerals. The rich resources have attracted many major countries to investigate. This is the result of human greed and desire, and it is also the result of the urgent need for various mineral resources for social development, so it is understandable.

But the Antarctic continent took about 55 million years to form. During such a terrifying period of time, what kind of creatures will be born and what kind of creatures will be stranded in the ice is beyond anyone's imagination. .

The recent plan of China and the United States is to dig out ancient bacterial microorganisms from the ice layers hundreds to thousands of meters deep underground in Antarctica, and conduct comparative tests with modern bacterial microorganisms to verify What transformations have taken place in bacteria, microorganisms and even viruses over tens of millions of years? (To be continued...)