Chapter 576

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The Mars locomotive went on, came to a ramp, stopped, put a stroboscope on the sidewall, and then moved on.

"Ma'am, you help to watch. I'll go and have something to eat." Ren Hong said that he had been sitting here for most of the day.

Just as he was just walking to the door, Evelyn suddenly exclaimed, "God..."

Ren Hong instinctively stopped, turned around and looked back at the console. Irene looked at the screen with shock on her face and didn't notice that "Wang Jiang" was looking at her.

"What's the matter?" Ren Hong asked suspiciously.

"I suggest you eat later. You'd better come and have a look. It's incredible..." 'said Evelyn, still staring at the screen, as if to herself.

Seeing her expression like this, Ren Hong didn't want to come back directly. He glanced at the information on the screen, and he was stunned.

For the first time, the Mars locomotive came to an open area, or a larger and wider tunnel. The grid like three-dimensional topographic map shows a bulging ball. There are at least 30 balls here, all over 2.7 meters in diameter.

"Ferment?" Ren Hong subconsciously said that at the moment, he had forgotten his stomach cooing, and those bulged hemispheres were all fermented materials.

After a few quick taps on the keyboard, the three-dimensional image was replaced by a thermal image, and then by another graphic mode.

Deep underground, a new camera immediately appeared on the top of the Mars locomotive. Two thin fan-shaped green laser barriers were arranged horizontally and vertically on both sides, which were extremely dazzling in the dark and dark underground. One side of the laser barrier was from top to bottom, and the other side was scanning back and forth to the terrain in front from left to right.

Standing aside, Yang Licheng, who was always watching, was moved to see the next scene. His hands around his chest were also put down, and his eyes were wide open at the screen.

The screen information data shows more than 30 strong life signals. The signal source of the live life signals is the more than 30 giant motionless globules. After the data feedback of the biological scanner, the internal structural graphics of the giant spherical fermentation products are displayed.

Inside each sphere there is a huge body curled up like a snake. It's the Martian lizard!

"This is Snake lizard eggs? " Irene looks at the screen and turns to Ren Hong.

"No, look at its size. Although it is curled up, it is at least three and a half meters wide. It is obviously an adult. The spheres that surround them are unknown yeast organisms... " Ren Hong looked at the data displayed on another screen: "moisture content 30%

"Facultative anaerobes?" Ren Hong was suddenly shocked and said, "I know. No wonder they have not shown any signs of activity in the last six months. They are in dormancy or hibernation. See? They're sleeping, they're sleeping! "

"Mars has a harsh environment, and food is extremely scarce. If you keep active all year round, it means that you need to eat constantly to maintain the heat consumed by life activities. However, sleep is different. Eating a big meal to let you sleep for a long time is to reduce physical consumption and turn into facultative anaerobes during the dormancy period..." Ren Hong looked at the screen in amazement: "this is the most precious energy creature I've ever seen. It almost saves energy consumption to the extreme Facultative anaerobic, no wonder it will be wrapped into a ball by yeast. The snake lizard can also ferment to produce yeast. The dormancy period and facultative anaerobic characteristics not only consume little energy, but also ferment on the surface of facultative anaerobic state during the long dormancy period. This huge fermentation product completed in a long time is just like the food shortage Mars A great meal. "

"But even so, they can't complete a cycle of life activities. Don't forget that they came to the surface of Mars." Asleen questioned.

"Don't you understand?" Ren Hong pointed to the data display screen, "changes in humidity, anaerobic and facultative anaerobic microorganisms in the soil that do not rely on oxygen to live. Simple and low-level life has appeared here. Do you see the temperature change? The deeper we go underground, the temperature is rising. Now it's 30 degrees below zero, and the lowest temperature in the upper layer is above - 47 degrees. Then go down again... "

"Where is this? Under our feet. " Ren Hong asked again.

"Volcano! And it's an extinct volcano that has been dead for hundreds of millions of years. " Ashlin replied.

"What's under the volcano?" Ren Hong asked again.

"You mean..." With a bright eye, Ren Hong snapped his finger and said, "the source of life, water! Liquid water! The core temperature of Mars is over 1500 degrees Celsius. "

Ren Hong suddenly put out his fist and used the metaphor: "Mars is a star system, the core furnace with more than 1000 degrees Celsius inside is the hot sun, and different stratum structures represent planets and planetary orbits..." Ren Hongbi gestured, looked at his fist with a smile and said, "there is a golden position where the temperature is just enough to make the water liquid. It's a livable zone! Just like the sun and the earth, the earth is in the golden position, livable zone! Water can be liquid on earth, liquid water The source of life, the habitable zone on the ground of Mars also exists! ""That would explain why the soil on Mars has water in it." Ren Hong said with great certainty: "because there is liquid water in the bottom of Mars in the form of groundwater. Water is stored in the empty dead volcano. Water usurps the" home "of hot lava and becomes the new flowing" blood "of volcano. Therefore, the dead volcano is" reborn ". The underground of Mars is a new life world, and the snake lizard may be the master of that world ”

Ashling still felt that his hypothesis was untenable and questioned: "water is indeed the source of life, but what about oxygen? Will there be plants on the bottom of Mars? There is no complete food chain, complete biological ecology, no balance... "

"It's not true that snake lizards exist." Ren Hong interrupts her, and elslington's words stop.

"Let's make a hypothesis together..." Ren Hong said to himself: "Mars was a prosperous life planet hundreds of millions of years ago. The extinction of life broke out. The snake lizard is one of the survivors. Many species died out because of the great changes in the environment. The snake lizards escaped a disaster. The great changes in the environment and the collapse of the food chain forced them to continue to evolve and avoid extermination. The dead volcanoes became their new settlement sites and Mars plants The extinction of things leads to the disappearance of oxygen. What can we do without plants to provide oxygen? They make their own oxygen... "

"Animals? Self made oxygen? " Evelyn looked at him suspiciously.

"Any organ or behavior that organisms have evolved is to adapt to survival, otherwise it is a white-cost burden. Why can lizards secrete acid corrosion? Why can lizards generate electricity? " Ren Hong asked.

Looking at the blonde, Ren Hongyan simply said: "they use these two skills to produce oxygen in the form of electrolytic water!"

In a word, the key point, this moment, Elsie suddenly brightened up, there are too many ways of oxygen survival, plant photosynthesis is only the most common, and electrolytic water is also the most conventional way to produce oxygen.

This could explain why lizards generate electricity and secrete acidic corrosives. Mars has a harsh environment and food shortage. If the evolution of any organ is not effective, it will inevitably degenerate. However, these two unique skills are energy consuming. What is the use of evolution if there is no effect?

"Incredible..." Evelyn said to herself in amazement.

"Seeker! Take biological samples immediately and return to the surface. I hope it won't wake up these hibernators... "

As soon as Yang Licheng heard this, he immediately said in the messenger, "all units, keep alert, and prepare for battle!"

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