Alien Relic Hunter

"This is impossible... this is absolutely impossible..." Collins murmured. If he could still accept the fact that the Alpha civilization had food and canning technology similar to humans, the appearance of this string of Arabic numerals would undoubtedly be a bolt from the blue. .

This almost directly proves that the food that the humanoid monster eats comes from the human world... It also shows that "she" is most likely human.

In other words, they were once human beings.

A human being who lived for more than four hundred years.

Under the impact of such a huge amount of information, the members of the 776 Special Forces Team could not help but fall into a brief silence.

Ke Lan kept thinking about various possibilities in his mind... But the probability of any possibility was so low that it was almost impossible to happen. He simply couldn't find the can for this can with Arabic numerals on it. A reasonable reason for it to appear in this strange ruins.

Liao Xing stepped forward and took a can from Martin. He took out a folding knife, scraped a circle along the inner wall of the can, brought the scraped flesh to his nose, smelled it, and then Use your index finger and thumb to pinch a small amount and rub it gently a few times.

"That's right... the artificial lunch meat found in the monster's stomach came from this can." Liao Xing said, "In other words, it came from an identical can."

"Have any of you seen cans like this?" Sergeant Ken looked at the other soldiers and asked.

This is a cylindrical can with a capacity of about 300 to 350 grams... Judging from Sergeant Ken's more than 20 years of service experience, no matter which army he is in, the logistics department will not provide it. Cans of this size are used as military supplies.

As for canned food on the civilian market, packaging in this shape is rarely used.

Whether it is in the era of interstellar drifting or in this era of Alpha Star pioneering, the biggest requirement for canned food is easy storage - and the three words "easy storage" include not only extending the shelf life, but also Including factors such as convenience in storage and portability.

To put it bluntly, it’s a matter of space utilization——

As we all know, if the cans are made round, there will be a lot of gaps at the corners when stacking the cans, which is a huge waste of tight storage space - compared to the original storage space , these perfectly round cans will result in at least 21.5% of the space not being effectively utilized. For the same cargo compartment, when carrying round cans, the load capacity is nearly 20% less than that of square cans. This is a gap that cannot be ignored for the military's logistics supply work.

Because of this, 99% of the military cans on the Ark are made into elliptical cylinders that are similar to rectangular parallelepipeds. When stacked, they are as neat as bricks building a wall, and the gaps between the corners are also eliminated. Maximize utilization, and due to the influence of military products, civilian cans are rarely made into right cylindrical shapes - although the product transportation pressure in the civilian market is not as great as that of the military supply line, as long as the product's shape is changed The outer packaging shape can save 20% of warehousing and logistics costs, why not?

"I've seen one kind of round can," Connelly said. "It's a canned eel produced by an aquaculture company called 'Pacific Neptune'. They put the whole processed eel in a circle and stuff it into a can." Inside the flat round can... But you also know that eels are not cheap, so this kind of can is only for the rich, and the output will not be large, so there is no need to consider the issue of storage and transportation space."

"But this is not a canned eel." Liao Xing shook his head, "Moreover, the contents of the can seem to be different from the artificial meat we often eat."

As he spoke, he actually put the finger that was stained with grease and minced meat scraped from the can into his mouth.

"Dr. Liao!" Connelly was stunned for a moment. He wanted to stop him, but he was too late.

"Aren't you afraid that this is poisonous?" Collins also stared at Liao Xing in shock.

"The digestive system of that monster is almost exactly the same as that of humans. If it can eat it, of course we can eat it too." Liao Xing said, even smacking his lips.

"Did you taste anything?" Sergeant Ken asked in a deep voice.

"It's hard to say... I don't know how to describe it..." Liao Xing frowned, "The things are not fresh... Of course, this is a common characteristic of canned food... But it has not spoiled or deteriorated. It should be about the time it has been opened. It won’t be long...and the other thing is...the salt content is too high, very salty.”

The canned food on the Ark, whether for civilian or military use, will not contain too much salt, because if the salt content is too high, it will easily lead to thirst. On the battlefield, clean drinking water is much more precious than food. ——People in this era are more inclined to use supplements such as pills to supplement the trace elements and minerals missing in synthetic foods.

But the salt content of this canned meat made Liao Xing feel that he only needed a small spoonful to eat with a large bowl of rice.

He thought for a while and then said: "This can... is produced according to the standards of the old era."

"What?" Sergeant Ken couldn't help but frowned.

"It was probably produced on earth." Liao Xing added.

"Absolutely impossible!" Kangnelly patted his thigh forcefully, "It's now the 902nd year of the new era. No matter how good the preservation of the can is, the contents inside will not rot after 900 years. The layer of iron should be eroded! Maybe this thing was produced by a canning manufacturer for a retro gimmick?"

"My second uncle makes a living in the food canning industry. I can guarantee you that there is no such canning factory on Ark. As for those illegal small workshops, it is impossible to produce food without large-scale processing equipment. They produce metal cans of such good quality." Liao Xing retorted, "As for this string of digital inscriptions, I thought it was the production date at first, but now it seems that it is just the serial code of a certain production line, and there is no meaning in deciphering it at all."

[P.S. I want to ask you something...that is, my manuscript fee has not been paid this month. I thought it was a delay from Qidian. However, I asked other authors in the author group and they all arrived on time, and then I called I went to the bank to check, and they said it was because I transferred money every time I had money in the card. They suspected that my account was used for fraud, so they froze my bank card... Then I had to do a 48-hour nucleic acid test first, and then go to the bank every day. We have to make a series of certificates, and we might even have to go to the police station... The person from the bank told us to prepare relevant materials, but he didn't explain the specific materials... By the way, has any of my almighty readers had a similar experience? Yes, does anyone know what materials need to be prepared? Waiting online, urgent——]