Chapter 154 Minimally Invasive Surgery

Soon, he found a plasma engine nozzle and quickly hid behind it. At the same time, the alien emerged.

Zhang Desen seized the opportunity to steal a glance at the alien. To his surprise, the alien's spacesuit helmet was actually transparent.

Furthermore, his spacesuit looked much more futuristic. Fortunately, the alien was currently facing away from Zhang Desen, so Zhang Desen was not discovered while observing him. However, the color of the alien's spacesuit differed from Zhang Desen's, leaning towards a shade of blue.

Zhang Desen could not be bothered to figure out the purpose of this color. What surprised him, though, was that the alien astronaut's body was quite similar to a human's. Yet, looking through the transparent helmet, he noticed the alien's head shape was very similar to a praying mantis on Earth. Zhang Desen could not help but mentally nickname them "Mantis Heads."

At that moment, however, Zhang Desen felt extremely uneasy. Knowing that the oxygen reserve in his spacesuit could only last for six hours, what would he do if the alien astronaut stayed longer?

As Zhang Desen was pondering this reality, he suddenly noticed the alien turning his head around. Frightened, Zhang Desen quickly hid again to avoid being discovered by the enemy.

To Zhang Desen's great fortune, the other party seemed to be merely inspecting the surrounding environment, and soon re-entered the spacecraft, closing the entrance hatch behind him.

At that moment, Zhang Desen could not help silently thanking the heavens. If the alien had stubbornly lingered, he would have been in serious trouble. Right then, Li Longfang's voice came through the communicator, asking:

"Captain, Captain, is the guy I just saw on the screen an alien?"

Zhang Desen could not help but reply:

"Didn't you see it on the screen yourself? The opponent has a mantis head. Do you think people on our planet look like that?"

Li Longfang said:

"Sorry, Captain, I just wanted to confirm again. To be honest, seeing what the other guy looked like just now, I almost wanted to shout, 'Monsters are coming! Monsters are coming!'"

Zhang Desen retorted:

"The reason they look like this is mainly to adapt to the environment of their planet. After all, to adapt to their planetary environment and survive, they need to look like this to be most suited for it."

Li Longfang answered:

"Sigh, I really need our current appearance. I must say, after seeing what they look like, I appreciate my own appearance more and more."

At this, Zhang Desen said:

"Alright, alright, stop chattering. I am going to the main control room on the upper part of their mothership right now. If we can steal some intelligence from there, it will be very beneficial for us."

However, Li Longfang said:

"But Captain, how are you going to get in once you go up there? Besides, since it's their main control room, it must be heavily guarded. You are all by yourself out there in space..."

Before he could finish, Zhang Desen immediately interrupted him:

"Don't worry, the interior of their spaceship is filled with breathable air. Once I get outside their main control room, I have my own ways to eavesdrop on them. Just wait to receive the intelligence."

Then, Zhang Desen changed his tone and continued:

"Besides, as we kept approaching this spacecraft just now, apart from seeing that it is an approximately cigar-shaped spaceship, didn't we also see a main control cockpit on its upper section? Now I just need to crawl closer step by step. Perhaps because of the report, the people from that small spacecraft went there first. Who knows, I might even arrive there ahead of them, making the intelligence even richer. Alright, I'm setting off."

***

Having said that, regardless of Li Longfang's reply, Zhang Desen began to crawl upward along the exterior of this gigantic cigar-shaped spacecraft step by step. Fortunately, this massive alien mothership was designed with many climbable structures, presumably for the convenience of their own astronauts during spacewalks, as spaceships always require maintenance. This fortuitously facilitated Zhang Desen's operation.

Therefore, Zhang Desen began to move step by step along these spacewalk climbing zones toward his target destination.

***

Meanwhile, within Prairie City, the capital of the Sauroid Orme Empire, Kabba Dull, the Director of Intelligence for the Orme Empire, walked into the Chancellor's office once again. This time, his expression was exceptionally heavy.

The moment Yuri Gotne saw Kabba Dull's expression, he was somewhat startled. He immediately asked Kabba Dull:

"My friend, what is wrong? Why do you wear such an expression now?"

Kabba Dull immediately replied:

"It is bad, My Chancellor. Karl Wade and Dar Kind have gone missing."

Yuri Gotne was stunned for a moment, thinking hard as he felt he had heard those two names somewhere before. Then, upon careful recollection, he suddenly remembered and hurriedly asked:

"What is going on? Didn't you say they had reached Triton to hide and used the Heavenly Thunder Array surrounding Neptune to attack the Gomalian ship 'Fierce Snake'? Why are they missing now? What is happening?"

Kabba Dull said with vexation:

"According to the observations from the remote detectors, it seems the Gomalian ship 'Fierce Snake' withstood the impact of the Heavenly Thunder Array's explosion. Just when Karl Wade and Dar Kind thought it was all over, that everything was safe, and flew out of Triton, the ship suddenly appeared before them and captured them."

Hearing this, Yuri Gotne asked again:

"This is impossible! Could our Heavenly Thunder Array be so fragile that it failed to destroy the 'Fierce Snake'? Those procurement and supply departments are simply incompetent. Have you found out the reason?"

Kabba Dull replied immediately:

"I am sorry, we currently do not know the reason. We have directly ordered the reinforcement troops to advance toward Triton and transmit the live photographs back for our actual research."

Yuri Gotne commanded:

"Then hurry up and investigate. Report back to me the moment you find out."

However, Kabba Dull did not act immediately; instead, he continued:

"My Chancellor, we currently have another extremely major trouble that must be resolved immediately!"

Yuri Gotne demanded:

"What problem is it this time? Speak quickly!"

Kabba Dull answered immediately:

"It is like this. Karl Wade and Dar Kind were previously assigned to execute some special tasks in cooperation with our intelligence department. Therefore, they hold some of our intelligence department's core confidential communication ciphers. They even possess some of our top-secret defense deployment plans. There is a high probability that this intelligence has fallen into the hands of the Gomalian star people."

Hearing this, Yuri Gotne slammed the table and stood up, flying into a rage as he said:

"You people are simply a group of good-for-nothings! Once these materials completely fall into enemy hands, all our deployments will become completely useless facades. Our intelligence department might even become a tool serving the enemy! Have you taken any measures?"

Seeing Yuri Gotne's fury, Kabba Dull answered with a trembling heart:

"I suggest replacing all our intelligence communication ciphers with the secondary encrypted code. All deployments will be restarted, and at the same time, we must monitor all activities in the Kuiper Belt, striving to intercept the Gomalian 'Fierce Snake' before it leaves our solar system region, and trying our best to retrieve all potentially compromised intelligence."

Yuri Gotne did not want to waste any more breath. He roared directly:

"Go and execute it immediately!!!"

Kabba Dull replied instantly:

"Yes!!!"

With that, Kabba Dull rushed out of the Chancellor's office to carry out the orders.

***

Meanwhile, out in space, Zhang Desen had arrived outside a porthole of this gigantic cigar-shaped spacecraft. Seeing the porthole, Zhang Desen began to secretly peer inside.

To Zhang Desen's surprise, however, what he saw was an operating room. The subjects of the surgeries were human beings from Earth, representing all human races from the planet.

Zhang Desen immediately realized that perhaps the scale of the spacecraft they had sent previously was even larger than what had been seen, and he might have overlooked it simply because they had not photographed Heizhou City of the Human Great Xing Empire.

Zhang Desen looked closer at the surgeries being performed inside. They appeared to be some kind of minimally invasive surgery, which was, of course, far more advanced than Earth's minimally invasive surgery.

By the way, minimally invasive surgery, as the name implies, is surgery with minimal trauma. It refers to procedures performed using modern medical instruments and related equipment such as laparoscopes and thoracoscopes.

The advantages of minimally invasive surgery are small trauma, mild pain, and fast recovery—the dream of every patient requiring surgery. Minimally invasive surgery has turned this dream into reality.

Early minimally invasive surgery referred to a new technology of performing operations inside the human body through endoscopes such as laparoscopes and thoracoscopes.

Its main advantages are:
1. Small incision: Tiny abdominal incisions, basically leaving no scars, known as "keyhole" surgery.
2. Mild pain: Patients experience minimal pain. The surgery adopts intravenous anesthesia, allowing the patient to complete the operation while asleep.
3. Fast recovery: Damage to organs and interference with organ functions are greatly reduced, shortening postoperative recovery time.
4. Short hospital stay: Generally, patients can get out of bed 6-8 hours after surgery, pass gas within 12-24 hours to resume eating, be discharged in 3-5 days, basically recover after a week, and enjoy relatively lower costs.

At this moment, however, Zhang Desen also saw through it. These aliens were not so kind-hearted. These minimally invasive surgeries, which were even more advanced than those Zhang Desen had previously seen, were not meant to save people, but rather to implant certain objects inside the bodies of Earth humans.

The entire process was recorded by Zhang Desen through the camera on his spacesuit. Just as Zhang Desen wanted to observe further, an alien suddenly turned its head to look toward the porthole, frightening Zhang Desen into hastily hiding away.