126、Illusion or future
The emergence of space worms has caused Duda to postpone his plan to go to the planet, and Song Yun and Feihu can only stay in the hangar and wait for the data collected by Fu Yiguo.
Everyone at the Moon Base can see these two bugs through the live news broadcast on "Moon Today". The forum quickly mobilized the public's attention and posted a prize-winning guess: Is it a creature or a spacecraft?
Everyone's attention quickly shifted to the insects, but occasionally there were disharmonious foodies saying a few words: "Is this thing delicious?" "Will it be fried or burned?"
Duda was wearing a triangular civilization space suit created by Zhang Tianwen, holding the key in his hand, and sat on the sofa at the base watching the live news with Ulika and Cui Xinwei. On the screen, the fighter plane that Fu Yiguo was driving was getting closer and closer to the insects. The various subtitles popped up almost filled the entire picture.
"I said, can I remove the barrage?" Du Da glanced at Cui Xinwei with dissatisfaction.
"What you see is the barrage," Cui Xinwei said, "What's so good about the picture? How boring are the two fighter jets sailing towards a bug under the black background? Look at these barrages of magical complaints, this is the essence of human wisdom!"
However, the essence of human wisdom really made some people unable to bear it. Duda finally stood up and hooked off the "show comments", and the whole world returned to normal. Cui Xinwei murmured, took out his tablet computer, and enjoyed this essence alone.
The length of the triangular fighter from the top angle to the bottom is fifteen meters, and its wingspan - although it does not have a real wing - ten meters. Generally speaking, it is very close to the fighter aircraft that the Earth Air Force can accept, but it has no tail wing. This not-small fighter has become a model toy when approaching bugs.
Comparing the fighter data, this flesh-white insect is 800 meters long, fifty-three times that of the fighter.
"It's looking at me!" The calm Fu Yiguo couldn't help but scream, "This guy is definitely alive!"
His words also confirmed the answer for the prize-winning bet. People quickly believed that this was a new creature, a creature that could survive in the universe. The new popular video gradually surpassed the flight exploration video, and two biologists sat in the studio for interviews and expressed their reasoning.
"It is hard to understand creatures who live completely in space," one of them smiled awkwardly, "especially such advanced animals."
In the eyes of ordinary people, insects are very inferior creatures, but in the mouths of scientists, they are already considered higher animals. Because of the different references, compared with living organisms such as bacteria, viruses, and whipworms, insects or arthropods with multiple organs are definitely higher animals.
"We suspect that they still have to rely on the gas escaping from the planets to survive, and they cannot live completely in space," said another biologist.
"But it is not ruled out that there are organs and tissues in their bodies that store air." The two scientists have somewhat different opinions.
Another said: "Even if there is such an organ, what does it rely on to balance internal pressure?"
There is a certain internal pressure in the living organism, which is suitable for a certain pressure environment. For example, humans must wear anti-pressure suits in the deep sea, and supercharged suits at high altitudes. Moreover, because the external pressure decreases, the boiling point of water will also decrease. If humans are in space without any protective measures, under high-energy cosmic rays and extremely low external pressure, the blood will instantly boil and crack the human body.
"Deep-sea fish and high-altitude birds will answer your questions." Any species has its own living environment. Since there are lively and active lionfishes in the 7,700 meters deep sea, who can say that no animal can move in space? Even if it is short-lived.
The host didn't want the two scientists to argue in the studio, so he quickly asked the director to cut out the scene of the triangular fighter and the bugs in close contact.
Because Fu Yiguo and his wingman were very bold to get close to the flesh-white bug, the video ratings hit a new high, reaching 72%!
"Because the insect is more than fifty-three times that of a fighter, the fighter is like a human being seeing a cockroach." The host explained, "Well, just now, I have no intention of offending the two brave pilots. Oh, the director just now gave me a list of pilots for this mission, not two. Each fighter has three pilots, including a captain, a co-pilot, and a flight consultant. This mission is led by Captain Fu Yiguo, the commander of the space fleet flight company."
"Two doctors, this big bug won't attack our pilots, right?"
"There is no sign of attack yet." The biologist thought the host was silly asking. Who knows what the bug thought?
"At least before we take the initiative to attack them..." the host exclaimed, "What are they doing! Our fighter planes fired missiles! We are attacking them!"
Of course, Fu Yiguo was not bored to beat the bugs. He received the order of a tentative attack from the base. First, it was to test the damage of weapons and ammunition to the bugs, and second, it was to check the bugs' reaction after being attacked and determine their reaction range. Otherwise, even if you want to bypass it, you might not be able to determine a safe route.
Moreover, animals will respond stress after being attacked, and are most likely to escape back to the living environment they think is safe. In this way, scientists can know whether they prefer space environments or in the atmosphere.
Retreat to the position three times the length of the bug, Fu Yiguo and his wingman fired two missiles. This missile has a dual attack effect of mass and energy. If the kinetic energy cannot break through the target armor, the warheads carried will explode and cause energy damage. This missile is the only remaining ammunition on Rust Star and cannot be supplemented by the current industrial level.
The missile accurately hit the target and bloomed four small yellow flowers in space. The strong energy teared open the skin of the off-white insect. Without this layer of protection similar to a space suit, the internal tissue of the insect was completely unable to withstand the sudden loss of pressure. The moment it touched the cosmic rays, the body fluids boiled and the body was burst out by water vapor.
"Specimen collection!" Zhang Bolin shouted excitedly in the command room.
"Escape!"
Duda sat on the sofa and was frightened by the sudden terrifying scene. What he saw was not the beige bug that was burst into minced meat, but the triangular fighter jet that was blown up in the air.
"Are you okay?" Ulika skillfully held Duda's hand and pressed it on his thigh, allowing him to quickly find a sense of security. She opened Duda's eyelids, checked his pupils, and found that everything was normal, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Du Da felt a chill all over. When he looked at the screen again, he saw Fu Yiguo and his wingman intact and the off-white bugs were gone.
"Illusion..." Duda rubbed his eyes and wiped away the cold sweat from his forehead, "What's wrong with me just now?"
"You suddenly have a strong stress response in your body," Ulika entered the professional psychologist role, softly saying, "Showing fear and anger, what did you see?"
"See... Fu Yiguo was destroyed." Du Da felt his heartbeat was very fierce, "I have never been so afraid of my first battle..."
"From your reaction, this is not an illusion, but an illusion." Ulika said in a difficult situation, "but... you are the least likely person to have hallucinations."
"Why?"
"Alchemy is often caused by hints, and your will can resist brain wave hypnosis. I really don't know what else can hint you."
"Then... there may be only one explanation." Duda's face turned pale, "That's not an illusion, it's the future!"
A white light flashed, and Duda appeared in the cabin. He threw the key into the dark compartment, stepped into the column of light, and floated up. Princess Pingyang slowly left the seat.
Chapter completed!