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A few days later, the South Pole of Mars.

Two landing vehicles dragged a device similar to a drill and moved slowly on the snow.

Behind the landing vehicle, there are five scientists in protective suits. These people follow behind the landing vehicle, chatting with each other, and behind them, a hemispherical building has been built.

The diameter and height of this building even exceed the size of the Ares spacecraft. It is built from countless steel plates. These building modules are almost identical, and even if a piece is broken, it can be quickly replaced and repaired.

More than thousands of steel plate modules together form a hemispherical building, and the small half of the top of the building is even replaced by glass to form a transparent dome.

This building built by XTN engineering robots will be the scientific research station for everyone in the future.

There is a small inertial fusion reactor in the scientific research station, which can provide power for the scientific research station for more than ten years. The inside is divided into three floors, and there is a large garden in the center from the bottom to the top dome. The plants inside are from The life-resistant plants brought from the earth, every morning, the light of Mars will shine in from the dome, forming a greenhouse effect and providing sufficient photosynthesis for the plants.

It is not so much a scientific research station as it is a small ecological park.

The scientific research station is surrounded by a ring-shaped area, in which there are living rooms, dining rooms, meeting rooms, various laboratories, and warehouses for storing materials, etc. The total indoor area exceeds 5,000 square meters. Enough for the scientists here to carry out their daily work and life.

At this time, about one kilometer away from the scientific research station, a drilling well has been raised high. This is the weak part of the ice sheet found in the previous geological exploration. Under the control of the robot, it began to drill the ice sheet under its feet.

The five scientists before were standing aside, silently watching the drill bit go deeper under the ice sheet.

ten meters.

Twenty meters.

fifty meters.

100 meters...

As the drill bit continued to go deeper into the ground, a few hours later, suddenly with a soft sound, the green indicator light on the control interface of the drilling head suddenly lit up, and everyone was immediately refreshed.

Because this represents that the drill bit has successfully drilled into the previously expected position.

A scientist walked up and looked at the screen next to the XTN engineering robot, but saw a light shining downward on the screen, and the illuminated part was shimmering.

"I found it, it's an underground lake!"

The scientist shouted excitedly, then he turned on the communicator and shouted towards the communicator, "This is the drilling crew, report to the headquarters, we have found the underground lake, repeat, we have found the underground lake!"

While everyone beside the drilling was cheering, Hannibal was wearing protective clothing in a certain laboratory of the scientific research station. He took out pieces of ice and snow samples and kept observing them under the microscope.

Time passed little by little, but except for some crystals and iron filings, he did not find any traces of microorganisms from beginning to end.

"Is it true that there are no living things on Mars?"

Hannibal looked up,

He frowned and muttered in a low voice, but at this moment, the door of the laboratory suddenly opened with a beep.

A man also wearing a lab coat excitedly walked in. He brought in a test tube rack with three test tubes inserted in it, and the test tubes contained a transparent liquid, who knew what it was.

At this time, as soon as the man rushed in, he immediately excitedly said, "Hannibal, come and see this!"

"What's this?"

Hannibal wondered.

"This is the water from the underground lake extracted from the 100-meter ice layer just now by the drilling team."

The other party answered, and at the same time put the test tube rack on the side shelf.

"Have you drilled into the underground lake?"

Hannibal frowned,

"do not you know."

The other party laughed and said, "That's right, you stay in the laboratory all day and don't go out to enjoy the scenery of Mars, no wonder you don't know, just half an hour ago, the drilling team just drilled it, and they found that there is something under the ice sheet." There are quite a few underground spaces, these spaces are filled with carbon dioxide, and underneath is an underground lake with a temperature around zero degrees, do you know what this means?"

"Underground water, a temperature around zero degrees... This means that life is likely to exist in the underground lake..."

Hannibal suddenly came to his senses. He looked at the three test tubes, walked forward without saying a word, took one of the test tubes into the biological cabinet, and then began to extract the liquid in the test tube and drop it into a petri dish through gloves. .

Then, he quickly placed the petri dish under the microscope and looked down.

"Well, did you find anything?"

Seeing Hannibal's flowing movements, the voice of the man on the side trembled a little. If new life is really found in the lake, it is equivalent to a milestone in human history, whether it is him or Hannibal, or this Everyone in the scientific expedition team will be recorded in the history books of mankind...

At this time, Hannibal didn't have the time to pay attention to the other party. He just stared at the drop of liquid in the microscope. In his line of sight, he seemed to have entered a vast unknown world...

"Hannibal?"

The man next to him yelled again.

It wasn't until this moment that Hannibal raised his head. He nodded and said solemnly, "Call the captain, and let everyone know by the way that we have made a major discovery..."

half an hour later.

Sixteen scientists gathered, and all of them have come to the meeting room of the scientific research station.

The reason for not returning to the Ares is that almost all the scientific instruments and living facilities on the Ares have been emptied, and all materials have been transferred to the scientific research station. In the near future, Ares The rover will return to Earth with a large amount of soil, water, air, minerals and other substances that are only found on Mars.

"I believe everyone already understands why everyone is called to concentrate this time."

Without any delay, Zhou Xiong, the captain of the Ares, stood up and said, then looked at Hannibal, "Hannibal, tell everyone what you found, I think everyone can't wait."

"good."

Hannibal nodded, and then walked to the front of the podium. Immediately, a large screen automatically appeared behind Hannibal, showing a pattern filled with a group of black dots.

"This is the microbe found in the water after the underground lake was drilled out of the well before."

Hannibal said softly, "Now it is a picture seen under a ten-fold microscope. Most of the black spots are some impurities, including minerals, soil, ice particles, etc., but after being magnified thirty times, there will be New discoveries..."

As he said that, the picture behind Hannibal continued to enlarge, and a gray spot appeared. Only then did everyone realize that what was on the screen was not a still picture, but a recorded video.

At this time, inside the gray spot, there were several strange-looking worms with six or seven short legs swimming freely in the water.

These small worms are transparent, and only an outline can be seen under the microscope, but they are still clearly identifiable. They have two long tentacles, which are even longer than the body itself. At the same time, the abdomen has an obvious truncated body. Apparently a very common worm creature.

"Chaegnatha."

Hannibal said, "How about it, is this tiny worm very similar to a chaetognath? Except that it has no eyes and longer tentacles, it is almost exactly the same as the chaetognath in the ocean, with a size of about 0.1" -0.2 mm or so..."

As he said that, Hannibal turned around and swiped with one hand, the video on the screen moved down automatically, and a new scene appeared, and he saw that the worm creature from before was devouring a creature smaller than itself, as if Lice-like pear-shaped worms.

"And after my observation, I also found that they are an extremely ferocious carnivore,"

Hannibal said cautiously, "What it devoured was another type of marine worm. This worm is about 0.04 mm in size, Gram-negative, and belongs to a type of algae."

"In addition, we also found three algae organisms, these algae organisms are large single-celled prokaryotes, do not contain chlorophyll and chloroplasts, they should belong to anaerobic organisms, do not need photosynthesis, what they need should be water temperature , relying on the temperature of the water to produce chemical reactions to live."

Following several strange-looking microorganisms that seemed inexplicably normal in the microbial world, Hannibal's expression became more serious, "Next, I discovered a special thing..."

As he said that, the video camera behind him once again showed one of the round transparent bubbles. The size of this bubble was obviously several times larger than the previous worms. Not only that, but there was also a mass of red things in the bubble. , and with the passage of time, the red thing was still beating slowly.

Like a heart.

"this is……"

Everyone started talking in low voices.

"That's right, everyone read it right, this is the egg of a living creature."

Hannibal showed a look of emotion, "The closest thing on earth is fish eggs. Some small fish can indeed lay eggs smaller than one millimeter, but this also shows one thing, that is, what you see In the subterranean lake, there are still life similar to fish on Earth, but so far I have not seen the original owner of this egg, so I am not sure whether it is a vertebrate."

Following Hannibal's words, everyone was even more shocked, and one of the men immediately asked, "So, doesn't it mean that we can fish by the underground lake?"

Everyone laughed when they heard the words.

"I don't know if you can fish, but I found that some algal organisms in the water need methane and sulfide."

Hannibal added, "This is similar to the deep-sea archaeal community on the earth. You must know that the deep sea on the earth has no sunlight and oxygen, so the early earth's archaea lived in symbiosis with seabed worms. Energy, feeding the worms, which secrete a hard shell to protect the archaea, this metamorphosis forms the basis of the chain of life in the chimneys of the sea, and apparently, these organisms do."

Submarine chimneys, also known as submarine hot springs, refer to the fountain effect deep in the seabed, and the principle is similar to volcanic fountains.

The reason for this name is that the hot water from the submarine fountain looks like a smoking chimney from a distance, and these "smoke" also contain substances such as sulfide and methane. Once in 1979, A doctor named Bischoff saw this strange scene for the first time in the seabed of 2,500 meters in the Pacific Ocean.

Generally speaking, the vicinity of such chimneys on the seabed should be extremely poisonous, and no living things can survive, but the miracle of life is amazing. Those diving scientists discovered that around the chimneys that should have been barren, there were unexpectedly These organisms use the heat, methane, and sulfide emitted from hot springs as energy to survive. Just like fish need oxygen and algae need sunlight, they also have their own unique survival system.

At this time, after hearing Hannibal's explanation, everyone suddenly realized that, indeed, if there is life on Mars, it will indeed be like this. Since the ice cover blocks the sunlight and there is no oxygen, so the life here Life then evolves a set of new survival forms using local materials.

However, whether they survive on oxygen or methane, these organisms still belong to the category of carbon-based.

"Everyone, next, we have one more task to do."

At this moment, Zhou Xiong stood up again and said, "The discovery of living things on Mars is a great discovery of the century, because the existence of these living things proves for the first time that human beings are not the only ones in the universe. Next, Everyone in the biological group may need to work harder, I hope to get all the data about this group of creatures, including their past and their possible future."

"Don't worry, Captain Zhou Xiong."

One of the scientists who is also engaged in biology suddenly laughed, "Although it is shocking that there is life on Mars, I have to throw cold water on it, because these lives are quite primitive, and we are not even sure whether there are mammals, but According to the current environment, the living environment of this underground lake is not optimistic. According to the previous geological scan, its diameter is only about 20 kilometers. Saying that this size is not enough..."

"To put it simply, the environment here is too harsh, which fundamentally prevents the emergence of intelligent enough life, such as dolphins and whales."

Another scientist echoed, "Even if intelligent species do appear in this environment, they can only reach the level of killer whales living in groups similar to primitive human tribes. Civilization can only be passed down from generation to generation by an old grandmother." , it’s not a climate at all.”

"maybe."

Zhou Xiong glanced at Hannibal when he heard the words, but saw that Hannibal nodded in agreement, so he smiled and said, "Although this is said, these alien life is indeed very valuable for research, and the life on the earth People are also eagerly looking forward to our news, we must screen out a batch of biological samples and all the statistical data before the return of the Ares, and bring them back to Earth."

"This is of course no problem."

Everyone nodded.

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