Chapter 575

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Ren Hong nodded silently. His brain was running fast and thinking. After a moment, his heart moved slightly and said, "the Martian natives don't work in the daytime. They only work at night. Obviously, their habitat is very likely to be underground, pezos yes! Mount pezos, a large volcano that has been dead for hundreds of millions of years. Mars cools down. After the volcano dies, the flowing lava channels will become a crisscross underground labyrinth, in other words It's the best place to live. "

"Is that possible?" Ren Hong looked around the crowd, and his eyes fell on Evelyn. "Do you have any data about pezos volcano? How many? "

"Collecting data on Mount pezos is one of Noah's missions. Before it can be carried out, all the people are dead." Blake replied helplessly.

"All right." Ren Hong shook his head with a wry smile, and immediately said, "first, we have to find out what's going on under our feet. Second, we need to understand the situation of the indigenous creatures on Mars. If the first problem is not solved, I suggest that you choose a new site or drop a large nuclear bomb into the crater. However, if the second problem is not solved, there will always be unknown hidden dangers in the future bases on Mars, unless the indigenous creatures are dead. "

Looking at the crowd, Ren honghuan said, "my suggestion is that we should investigate mount pezos as soon as possible, and the most important thing is to obtain DNA biological samples of Martian indigenous organisms. The data in the black box is so limited that we still know almost nothing about the indigenous life of Mars. It is very dangerous that neither of us can afford such a huge loss, especially the loss of personnel! "

Blake suddenly said, "explore the ground? In case it's their nest below... "

If their nests are really down there, just thinking about them makes people's scalp numb. Human beings have a natural fear of dark cellars.

"You don't need to go in yourself!" Ren Hong added.

Yang Licheng is currently the highest operational commander on Mars. Ren Hong's proposal was not immediately adopted and implemented. Instead, it was reported to the space station for commander Li Xingfeng to make a decision. This made him feel helpless. After all, Wang Jiang's identity was not comparable to Ren Hong's.

It took a lot of time before and after. Today, basically nothing can be done. It's getting late and dusk is approaching. There is no Martian Aboriginal creature in the daytime, but it's not necessarily at night. Since the incident at the sentry base, the "observer 5" has been monitoring the pezos area all the time. For several months, it has not seen any Martian creatures, whether in the daytime or at night.

It's just that humans don't know the habits of these creatures, they don't know they're dormant at the moment.

Just because they did not know, they did not dare to spend the night in the sentry base. Before dusk approached, they returned to the "Red Eagle" again.

The issue of indigenous life on Mars is of great significance. The "Gemini project" is absolutely impossible to terminate, not to mention the high cost of investment. It is only the purple crystal in the old Olympus mountain. Even if the risk factor is high, it can not be abandoned. The purple crystal has been written into the highest level of national strategic reserve resources, which can be said to be a must.

The space station soon received the latest instructions. After repeated discussions, there was nothing better than Ren Hong's proposal, and finally agreed to investigate the pezos area.

The next day, people came to their destination again, and with the help of satellites in space, it became much easier to survey the pezos area..

At this moment, Ren Hong and others are driving a Mars rover to highland 231, which is eight kilometers away from the sentinel base. According to the data sent back by the satellite, there are several open lava tunnels in Highland 231.

When we arrived at the destination, it was about 9:30 a.m. local time.

A large number of equipment has been unloaded from the rover. Highland 231 is a small high mouth, with an altitude drop of 231 meters relative to the pezos area, hence the name.

At the ridge of highland 231, the satellite data are correct. The survey team has found two cave openings, the largest diameter of which is 2.6 meters, which is quite large.

But no one is willing to go in, and no one will go in and survey directly. This is too dangerous. This task should be given to the robot.

At about ten o'clock, a temporary signal tower was built about ten meters away from the cave. This signal tower has the function of signal transfer and amplification.

After 11 o'clock, the team set up a temporary site using the portable inflatable capsule produced by Bigelow Aerospace.

Several soldiers lifted a small Mars locomotive from the rover.

In the temporary venue, Ren Hong, Yang Licheng and islin were in the column. Ren Hong sat in front of the console composed of multiple display panels. His hands knocked on the virtual keyboard under the projection for a moment, and the screen immediately showed that the connection was completed.

The six wheeled small Mars locomotive was put on the ground and moved alone. The members of the armed tactical team who were in charge of guarding outside watched the rover, which was the size of a mini car for children's play, slowly and slowly heading towards the cave entrance.

"Is it reliable?" The temporary venue in the doubt said."I call it" Mars snake lizard Explorer "!" Ren Hong watched a video showing the first view image of the Mars locomotive: "fully automatic unmanned control, intelligent system from my subsidiary xlous alpha, xlous ia intelligent machinery company provides basic hardware, xlous ASI company provides battery, which can make it run for 78 hours. All miscellaneous miscellaneous products are produced by matrix technology, which is trustworthy!"

At the moment, the Mars locomotive has driven into the lava cave, and the image on the screen immediately becomes a realistic picture of three-dimensional terrain in the form of a grid. With the deepening of the Mars locomotive, it soon comes to the first bend. At this time, it stops, and the trunk of the Mars locomotive slowly opens. Then it extends a mechanical arm from the side wing and takes out a thumb from the trunk Something big or small is flashing red.

"What is that?" Asleen asked curiously.

"Make sure the signal is stable." Ren Hong said, staring at the screen.

In the lava cave, the Mars locomotive, which is more than 80 meters deep, can only see another small robot arm drill a small hole in the side wall, then put the thumb sized stroboscope in, and then continue to move forward.

After listening to Ren Hong's brief explanation, Irene understood the function of the device. As the Mars locomotive went deep into the ground, the signal would become weaker and weaker as it went deeper and deeper, and eventually lost contact. The thumb sized instrument was placed on the side wall to ensure the signal stability.

A Mars locomotive will be installed every other distance. At present, it has reached 800 meters underground. During this period, it encountered several dead roads and had to turn back. However, the underground lava tunnels are in all directions. Although we don't know the topography of the crisscross lava tunnels inside the volcano, according to the volcanic data on the earth, we can also take a lot of detours.

Mars locomotive carries a large number of scientific analysis instruments, detectors and other micro equipment, and the real information inside the tunnel is constantly fed back to the ground.

"The temperature dropped to minus 42 degrees Celsius and the humidity increased."

At this time, Ren Hong stared at the screen and suddenly leaned forward. He was surprised and said, "trace oxygen has been detected! Maybe they are worth 200 million in the bottom of the nest

With the continuous deepening of the Mars locomotive, the latest live data are constantly transmitted back to the surface. The data currently displayed show that the Mars locomotive has been more than 6000 meters underground, and it is now afternoon.

"Seeker! Stop. " Ren Hong suddenly said that the Mars locomotive really stopped moving forward. Ren Hong continued to voice control the command: "Explorer! Camera 2 rotates 28 degrees clockwise. "

The screen immediately began to move. A hemispherical notch appeared in the screen. Ren Hong covered his mouth and gazed at the hemispherical notch for a long time without saying, "explorer, analyze the surrounding soil layer."

"What is that?" Asleen asked, curious about the concave slot in the screen, but she said it was a mechanical notch.

"It's a lava tunnel. A spherical notch doesn't seem to have formed naturally." Ren Hong murmured to himself, waiting for the data analysis results to return.

The analysis came back 10 minutes later, and the soil contained yeast residues, as did other microbes, which didn't matter, and the information that followed was exciting.

The presence of acidic corrosive substances in the soil layer is suggestive of snake lizards, but the data are not enough.

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