冬眠者
Chapter 581:冬眠者
The Mars locomotive continued to move forward, came to a ramp and stopped, and moved on after placing the stroboscopic instruments on the side wall.
"Let me help you, and I'll have something to eat."He said he’s been sitting here for most of the day.
Just as he had just reached the door, Aslin suddenly exclaimed unconsciously, “God...”
Ren Hong instinctively stopped, turned back to the console, Aslin looked at the screen full of shock and did not notice that "Wang Jiang" was looking at her.
“What happened?”Ren Hong asked doubtfully.
“I suggest you wait a minute and eat it again, it’s better to come over and see, it’s incredible...” As琳 still stared at the screen, as if to herself.
Seeing her expression like this, Ren Hong did not want to come back directly, glancing at the information displayed on the eye screen, and he froze.
For the first time, the Mars locomotive came to an empty area, or a larger and wider tunnel, and the grid-like three-dimensional topographic map showed a drummed ball, which was at least more than 30, all with a diameter of more than 2.7 meters.
“The fermentation?”Ren Hong subconsciously said that at this moment he had forgotten the stomach cooing, and the bulging hemispherical clumps were all fermented.
He tapped a few times on the keyboard, and in a moment, the three-dimensional image was replaced with a thermal image, and then replaced with another graphical mode.
Deep underground, the top of the Mars locomotive immediately floated a new camera, two thin fan-shaped green laser barriers were horizontal and erect, unusually dazzling in the dark underground depths, one laser barrier from top to bottom, and the other side scanned back and forth from the top of the terrain in front of the left to right.
Standing on the side, Yang Licheng, who was always watching the next scene, was also moved, and the hand around his chest was also placed, and his eyes were wide open to look at the screen.
Screen information data shows that there are more than 30 strong life signals, living life signals, the source of the signal is the more than 30 moving giant balls, after the biological scanner data feedback, a giant globular fermentation inside the structural figure display.
The interior of each sphere curls up with a huge body, curled like a snake, it is the Martian snake lizard!
“Is this... a snake lizard egg?”Eslyn looked at the screen and looked at Ren Hong.
"No, you look at its size, though curled up, but open at least three and a half meters, apparently adult individuals.The spheres that encased them are unknown fermented organisms...” Ren Hong looked at the data displayed on another screen: “The moisture content is 30%?”
“The anaerobic?”Ren Hong suddenly shook, "I know, no wonder they have not seen any signs of activity in the past six months, it turns out that they are in a dormant period or hibernation period, you see?"They sleep, they sleep!”
"Mars environment is harsh, food is extremely scarce, if the year to maintain the state of activity means the need to constantly eat in order to maintain the life activities of the consumption of the calories, but the dormant is not the same, eat a meal to let sleep after a long sleep is to reduce the physical consumption, the dormant period becomes both anaerobic..." Ren Hong marveled at the screen: "This is the most precious energy I have ever seen, almost save energy consumption to the extreme ...The energy, which is also fermenting during a long period of sleep, is also fermented on the body surface of the anaerobic state, and this huge fermentation that has been completed in a long time is a super good meal for the food-poor Mars.”
“But even that can’t complete a life cycle, don’t forget they’re on the surface of Mars.”Asrin questioned.
“Don’t you understand yet?”Ren Hong pointed to the data display, "the change of humidity, the soil does not rely on oxygen to live anaerobic, and anaerobic microorganisms, simple and low-level life has appeared here, see the temperature change?"The deeper the underground, the temperature is rising, and now it is minus 30 degrees, and the minimum temperature period of the upper layer has reached minus 47 degrees.So go further down there...”
"Where is this?"under our feet.”Ren Hong asked again.
“Volcanoes!And it's an extinct volcano that's been dead for hundreds of millions of years."Eslyn answered.
“What’s under the volcano?”Ren Hong asked again.
“You mean...” Aslin brightly, Ren Hong snapped a finger, and then said, “The source of life, water!”Liquid water!The temperature of the core of Mars is more than 1500 degrees Celsius.”
Ren Hong suddenly stretched out the fist image metaphor: "Mars is a star system, the core furnace of more than 1,000 degrees Celsius inside is the hot sun, different stratospheric structures represent the planets and planetary orbits..." Ren Hongbi gestured, smiled at the fist and said: "There is a golden position, where the temperature happens to make the water appear liquid, habitable zone!"Just like the sun and the earth, the earth is in a prime position, the habitable zone!Water can be liquidized on Earth, liquid water... the source of life, the habitable zone under Mars also exists!”
“This explains why the soil on the surface of Mars contains water.”Ren Hong said with incomparable certainty: "Because of the existence of liquid water in the ground of Mars, in the form of groundwater, water stored in the dead volcano in the void, water usurped the 'homeland' of hot lava, became the new flow of 'blood' of the volcano, the dead volcano was 'reborn', the ground of Mars is a new world of life, and the snake lizard may be the master of that world..."
Asrin still felt that his hypothesis was untenable, and questioned: "Water is indeed the source of life, but what about oxygen?"Will there be plants in the ground on Mars?There is no complete food chain, no complete bioecology, no balance.
“The existence of snake lizards is not true.”Ren Hong interrupted her, and Aslinton stopped.
"Let's make an assumption together..." Ren Hong said to himself: "Hundry million years ago, Mars is a thriving planet, the extinction of life has erupted, snake lizards are one of the survivors, many species have become extinct because of the great changes in the environment, snake lizards have escaped a disaster, the great changes in the environment, the collapse of the food chain forced them to continue to evolve and be free from extinction, the dead volcanoes have become their new settlement, the extinction of Mars plants has caused oxygen to disappear, what should be done without plants to provide oxygen?They make their own oxygen.”
“The animals?“Making oxygen?”Asrin looked at him suspiciously.
"Any organ or behavior evolved by organisms is to adapt to survival, otherwise it is a burden of energy consumption in vain, why can snake lizards secrete acid corrosion?"Why do snake lizards generate electricity?”Ren Hong asked.
Looking at the blond girl still unknown, Ren Hongyi said simply: "They use these two skills to produce oxygen in the form of electrolytic water!"
The key to breaking the word, this moment of Asrin moment suddenly bright, oxygen survival is too much, the photosynthesis of plants is only the most common, of which electrolytic water is also the most conventional way to produce oxygen.
In this way, it can explain why the snake lizard generates electricity and also secretes acid corrosion.Mars environment is bad, food is scarce, the evolution of any organ parts, if there is no role will inevitably degenerate, and these two unique skills happen to be energy-consuming, if there is no effect evolved out of what?
“Incredible...” Aslin said to herself in amazement.
“The Explorer!Take the biological sample immediately and then return to the surface.I hope you don’t wake up the hibernations.”
Yang Licheng listened, and immediately said in the communicator: "Each unit pays attention, stay alert, and prepare for battle!"
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