Living body

20 years ago, the Salyut space station.

"Docking is successful, open the aisle door card."

"The aisle door card is open, welcome to enter."

With the noise of "rustling", the cross-shaped door lock opened, and three astronauts in heavy clothes slowly drifted in. After re-locking the passage, they took off their heavy helmets. Behind the man was a beautiful woman with middle-length hair.

"It's finally here." The woman couldn't help but smile as she looked at the flickering control switches around her.

"Wait a week to be baptized by flowers and the eyes of the people of the country."

"She will have to accept more than that when she goes back." The second male astronaut laughed, "Is it worth delaying the wedding for a month just to go around in space?"

The woman smiled and raised her chin: "It's worth it!"

"Be careful when you go back, your man will run away with someone else." The second male astronaut obviously had a good relationship with the female astronaut, and once again joked with her, but he didn't expect to hit the nail on the head this time.

"You just ran away with someone!"

The female astronaut glared at each other with a smirk, then turned her head and walked to the console to open the connection with the ground.

"what happened……"

"what happened?"

The female astronaut turned her head to look at the other two: "There is no sound in the communication."

"How is it possible?" The No.2 male astronaut thought she was joking and went to the console to try again, his face suddenly became serious.

Seeing this, the No.1 male astronaut walked up immediately: "Let me see..."

Before the words fell, the electronic equipment on the console made a buzzing sound, suddenly flashed, and completely fell into darkness...

A white light flashed across the space station.

A week later, the pod returned to the day.

"The capsule has entered the atmosphere."

The flame-wrapped capsule fell from the sky like a comet.

“打开降落伞倒计时，10、9、8、7、……3、2、1，打开。”

The cabin that fell from the clouds exploded a huge flame on the ground like a cannonball. As the peripheral flames subsided, the safety chamber in the middle of the pit was revealed intact, and the ground personnel who had been waiting for a long time rushed over.

With the opening of the air pressure valve, the astronauts in the safety cabin slowly got out of it, or they seemed a little dazed and weak because of the gravity.

"Welcome back to Earth!"

The two male and one female astronauts returned to Earth after a week of space missions. In order to recover as soon as possible and adapt to gravity, they still have a series of physical homework to do.

"Don't worry." The white-robed staff walking in front took back the blood samples of the three and said with a smile, "This is just a routine physical examination, and the general test results are nothing more than..."

However, his smile froze for a moment on the first blood sample test of a female astronaut.

Inside the secret office on the upper level of the aviation base.

"Did you know you were pregnant?"

The female astronaut was taken aback by the question, and looked at each other blankly: "You mean I... am pregnant?"

The person on the opposite side of the table put down the test sheet in his hand: "Three months, fully developed, and has a clear image."

"Is there something wrong?" She picked up the test sheet on the table and looked at the data on it with an expression of disbelief.

"3 months, the error is about two weeks."

"No... Impossible!" The female astronaut tried to explain the situation in front of her, "You know my situation... Besides, there is nothing wrong with my medical report before departure!"

"Yes, you have no problem, what is problematic is this week on the space station, and..." The person on the other side of the table looked at the female astronaut's unobvious stomach, "Your fetus."

20 years later

The land of extreme night is not pure dead silence.The ice and snow on the ground are as bright as day, and the Milky Way and the sea of ​​stars in the sky are boundless.

A wounded seabird was separated from the group, lying alone on the edge of the broken ice, making a "chichi" sound to the dark and turbulent sea, looking small and fragile.

A huge wave rushes up to the floe and drowns the screaming seabirds——when the seawater on the floe recedes, you can only see a slick seal lying on the floe, grinning and chewing, fresh Blood and shattered feathers fell on the white ice.

Food is scarce in winter, and this seabird is enough to be called a delicacy. However, before the seal tastes the taste of blood and flesh, a huge undercurrent rushes up and submerges it completely——

An erected back broke through the huge waves, revealing a black and white profile. The seal, intoxicated with delicious food, was dragged to the bottom of the sea by the killer whale before it had time to react.

The starlit sea quickly returned to calm, leaving only a dark scarlet.

Natural selection of the weak and the strong prey on the strong, this is an eternal rule.

However, the seal that hunts seabirds is not the winner, and the killer whale that devours the seal is not the top of the food chain. Who is the real winner of the survival of the fittest, land animals?Birds of Heaven?Humans or other powerhouses that have not yet appeared?

Everything is inconclusive until it is over.

After pressing the shutter, Shen Li looked at the photo he had taken. On the cold and clean picture, there was only the beautiful back of the killer whale, and the bloody and cruel part was covered up.

"What are you taking pictures of?" A man wearing a fleece hat and holding a carrot moved closer to Shen Li.

"It's nothing, it's just the scenery." Shen Li said and closed the lens cover, "Where are the others?"

"Song Liao and Huang Ji are in the cabin, the other two are not seen."

Shen Li's job is prospecting, and he has rich experience in glacier exploration. Long-term outdoor work makes him always spend less time with his family. However, this trip means so much to him that he didn't even think about it before leaving. I wanted to sign a non-disclosure agreement for this trip, and then I was thrown on this isolated ice sheet.

There were five other people with him, a mechanic named Huang Ji, a material scientist named Song Liao, a young military officer with the code name "27", and a biologist who wore gold-rimmed glasses and almost never spoke. , there is also a cryptography researcher named Lu Mi, who claims to be able to crack a key in 10 minutes, that is, the man gnawing a carrot in front of him.

"If my brother knows that I've come to this kind of place, I don't know what expression it will be." Lu Mi bit off the frozen carrot in one bite, making a crisp chewing sound, which made people's teeth ache.

"Do you have a brother?" Shen Li looked at Lu Mi in surprise, most people of their age have no brothers or sisters.

"It's not my own...but it's stricter than my uncle." There was another "cracking" sound, "If you have a brother in your family, you can understand the urgency I want to come up with."

Shen Li smiled, neither "understood" nor "don't understand".

"How long will it take to get there?"

"After passing this ice floe area, you can go down to the ground." Shen Li looked at the blank snow-white surroundings. If there is no positioning device, this place is a desert that cannibalize people.

However, despite this, the low temperature of tens of degrees below zero often makes those sensitive electronic instruments invalid.

"I really hope I can arrive sooner, the cabin is almost moldy." Lu Mi said, throwing the last piece of carrot that had been frozen into ice cubes into his mouth, and chewed heavily.

Shards of carrots fell from open mouths, and the sun shone like diamonds on the chewed icicles, which were imperceptible on the vast deck, yet they were in this red and black ship. I don't know the direction I'm going on the icebreaker, and it looks so small in the vast whiteness.