A huge canyon appeared in front of Jiang Yiming's eyes, with a depth of more than eight kilometers, stretching to the edge of the sky. Most of the mountains on earth, if you move here, you will not be able to make a head.

Descending to the edge of the canyon and looking down, all I saw was shadowy and dimly lit, as if there were countless monsters lurking in the canyon below. Because the canyon is so deep, the sun doesn't illuminate all the interior.

"Look at the gloomy appearance here, maybe there are really Martian creatures hiding inside." Jiang Yiming wanted to say in his heart that he was not afraid at all, that was a lie. It does take a lot of courage to explore the unknown alone.

However, the strength of the level 12 druid gave him the greatest confidence, and the strong body of the green Jiao could adapt to even the extremely harsh space, let alone the better Martian environment.

Jiang Yiming flicked his tail, and his body more than 20 meters long fell. Mars' gravitational pull is only two-fifths that of Earth, and he felt much more relaxed during his descent and slower his descent.

Eight kilometers of freefall would take a while, and his gaze skimmed over the cliffs of Mariner's Canyon to see the crimson stone walls, like a biscuit that was about to be erected, in the shape of long strips.

With a bang, a boulder the size of a water tank fell from the top of the canyon, shattering a number of protruding stones along the way, and the speed became faster and faster.

The stone also surpassed Jiang Yiming, who was being wrapped in white clouds and was slowing down, and fell to the bottom of the canyon, making a dull sound, as if it had hit something not too hard.

He was only a little more than a hundred meters from the bottom of the valley at this time, stopped, and looked down with blazing eyes. With the help of the impact of the stone just now, he saw something flying up from the bottom of the valley, some white-gray fragments.

Three thumb-sized fragments splashed down on the white clouds, and Jiang Yiming observed them closely and found that they had natural textures and delicate structures like fossilized wood. There has been no life for a long time, and it is thanks to the protection of Mariner's Canyon that it was not destroyed under the Martian sandstorm.

"Hey, there really was life on Mars in ancient times, and if you bring these fragments to Earth, it will definitely shock the world." After he saw the three fragments, he was very excited, which can prove that there were plants on Mars.

Jiang Yiming slowly descended, until he was more than thirty meters above the ground, and finally saw the things at the bottom of the valley clearly in the dim light: they were all gray-white pillars more than twenty meters high, and a small number of forks were left on the columns.

He imagined that if these forks were extended and leaves grew, wouldn't they be very similar to the trees on Earth!

These pillars are not a few alone, but a large area, hundreds of trees, standing at the bottom of a dark valley, receiving the sparse sunlight from above.

Millions of years ago, there was plenty of water and countless plants were lush and flourishing. But as the water dwindled, the plants died of lack of water and were covered in sand and dust falling from the canyon, eventually forming fossil trees.

"Yes, yes, there were creatures on Mars, and they were quite tall." Jiang Yiming stopped next to a fossil pillar and saw the fossil-like bark, and the irregular cracks were very conspicuous.

It's just that he turned to think about it, the internal volume of the original No. 1 spaceship is not large, and it is impossible to bring such a fossil tree to the earth, and something like shocking the earth can only be imagined.

Now that the fossil has been found in the Mariner Canyon, Jiang Yiming is a little more sure of finding the living Martian creature, so he continues to move forward slowly, his two eyes constantly searching for any movement.

The canyon runs east-west, and the further east you go, the more traces of water you can see along the way, and the more fossil trees you will see. But there is no living thing, and dead silence is the main theme here, and there is no anger in the slightest.

Just when Jiang Yiming was discouraged and disappointed, Lu Jiao's developed sense of smell caught a trace of moisture, and he couldn't help but be shocked: "Absolutely, that's the taste of water vapor." ”

He flew forward excitedly, almost a hundred kilometers, and the humidity in the air was the heaviest. If you keep going, the humidity starts to fade again, and it's clear that this is the center.

It's just that the fossil trees here are still dead, and the water here should have been there later, otherwise it would have been absorbed by the fossil trees a long time ago and would not have survived to the present.

The white clouds under Jiang Yiming stretched out more than a dozen tentacles like living creatures, and when they fell to the ground, they kept spinning, working like drills. Although they are not as stiff as special drill bits, they do have the great advantage of being able to recover after wear.

Ten meters, twenty meters, until fifty meters deep, the soil with the fossilized roots of the tree changed, and there was a thin layer of fine ice in the middle. Tiny water molecules escaped from the surface of the ice and entered the extremely dry air of Mars, where Jiang Yiming smelled it.

"It's strange, the water here must have a source, otherwise it would have been as dry as it was a few hundred meters away."

With the discovery, Jiang Yiming's motivation to dig the hole increased again, and when he dug to a depth of 100 meters, a pit appeared under his feet. Thick moisture rushed out, and a thin layer of ice was quickly formed on the edge of the crater with the naked eye.

There's definitely a lot of water down there, go in and have a look! When he got inside, he carefully re-plugged it with stony soil to prevent water from draining from it.

It's a huge cavern, with a temperature of about one or two degrees Celsius, and heavy water vapor, but it's much better than the cold, dry Martian ground.

There were some stones on the top of the cave that emitted a faint light, and Jiang Yiming could see things within two hundred meters with the help of the faint light, and the water surface more than twenty meters ago strongly aroused his interest.

Flying to the edge of the water, he felt the temperature rise by a few degrees, and the heat escaped from the water, keeping the entire cave a few degrees above zero.

"Geothermal heat, it turned out to be geothermal heat, didn't scientists say that the core of Mars is very cold and not very active, and now an active geothermal hotspot has been discovered."

Jiang Yiming speculated that long after the trees at the bottom of the valley were fossilized, there was a hot spot deep underground, melting the water that had turned into ice, forming such a lake.

Under his psychic scan, there were many bacteria-sized creatures swimming around in the water, but they were still far from complex creatures.

Flying around the surface of the water, Jiang Yiming estimated that the surface of the water was about one or two thousand acres, without any plants and animals. It's boundless for a creature that's big for bacteria, but it's too small for an ecosystem.

"Mars is dead, there can be no complex organisms, these bacteria should be left to the scientists on Earth."

Jiang Yiming finally gave up, and the illusions of the Martians were completely shattered. After he went out, he deliberately re-plugged the big hole he had dug so that no water would drain from it. (To be continued.) )