Chapter 377: Pristine Ecology

Kevin. The insistence of Adams and others made Su Yichen hesitate a little, and at the same time a little moved. He said yes, with the ability of the Homeland spaceship, they could get out of danger at such a long distance, even if this living planet was really in danger, they could leave safely. Although the civilization described by Galen is powerful, it is impossible to bring them a devastating blow in this situation, after all, the Homeland spacecraft represents the technology of the highest cosmic civilization in the galaxy, otherwise Galen would not have been injured when he clashed with the other party.

Confirm with Su Li again, and after receiving the confirmed answer, Su Yichen and Luo Yan accepted everyone's views and decided to explore this living planet at close range.

After another distance of curvature, the Homeland spacecraft emerged from the curvature and approached the living planet in a regular flight. As the spacecraft approached the 0.6 light-year distance predicted by Su Li, the Homeland spacecraft temporarily stopped moving in space for safety, and the spacecraft's detection equipment began to operate to scan the planet throughout the entire process.

"Strange, come and see!" A few hours later, the preliminary scan results came out, and when the results were delivered to Su Yichen's hands, he was stunned after a few glances, and then greeted the people who were busy on the side.

"What's weird, huh...... How so? Luo Yan was in Su Yichen's closest position, and she was the first to look at the data results, and she was immediately stunned.

Immediately followed by Kevin. Adams and Tang Le, and finally Gao Jian, except for Gao Jian's professional knowledge that is slightly weaker, and Tang Le, who is a Blue Star civilization that is higher than the Earth civilization, Su Yichen and the other three are all outstanding scientists, and they found the strangeness of this data result at a glance.

"The data can't be wrong?" Kevin. Adams asked, frowning.

Su Li nodded, and at the same time took a composite report and handed it to him. The results of the two data are almost identical, and combined with the powerful equipment of the Homeland spacecraft, there is little chance of error.

"It's so strange, how can this planet's atmosphere contain such a level of ionosphere?" Luo Yan's eyes were full of incredulity, and Su Yichen also had this expression.

The ionosphere is the upper atmosphere that is ionized by the sun's high-energy radiation and cosmic rays, and the entire atmosphere above 60 kilometers on Earth is in a state of partial or complete ionization. In fact, many terrestrial planets in the universe have such an ionosphere, and even an important part of their atmosphere.

In the solar system, in addition to the Earth, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter have an ionosphere, but it is much thinner than the Earth's ionosphere. Moreover, in the relationship between the ionosphere and the atmosphere, it can be seen that the closer it is to the atmosphere, that is, the area with a relatively dense atmosphere, because the diffusion and flow factors of gases will cause frequent electron collisions and free electrons disappear quickly. The outer atmosphere is thin, and the ionosphere forms a magnetosphere due to the magnetic field of the planet.

If you want to study the ionosphere from a scientific point of view, it is enough to write a very thick book, and it requires a lot of specialized knowledge to study it thoroughly. However, these are very familiar to Su Yichen and them, and even Tang Le has a lot of research on them.

What makes them wonder is that this planet has an ionosphere, when it is discovered that this planet is most likely a planet of life. Even when there was a cosmic civilization, it was inevitable that the planet's atmosphere would have an ionosphere. The key is that the basic parameters of the planet's ionosphere, such as electron density, electron temperature, collision frequency, ion density, ion temperature, and ion composition, are far beyond their imagination. It can be said that no planet has ever had such a degree of ionosphere.

For example, the atmosphere of the planet, including the outer ionosphere, is equal to the shell of an egg, some eggs have thinner shells, while others have harder shells, but in any case, there is always a range of thicknesses.

Even some terrestrial planets that have no life. It is normal for their ionosphere to be like an eggshell that has not developed well, or even just a very thin and soft film. However, the ionosphere of the living planet they are now detecting is unimaginably thick, almost more than five times the ionosphere of the earth, and the density of various electrons and ions is extremely high. The frequency of collision is extremely small, as if the outside of an egg contains several layers of eggshells.

It's inconceivable, and in astrophysics, it's theoretically impossible for this to happen naturally. Thinking of the anomalies of this planet that were not discovered by long-distance exploration before, everyone couldn't help but exchange glances, perhaps it was because of such a strange ionosphere that it had caused long-distance scanning and detection to be unfounded.

"Do you think it's artificial?" Tang Le thought for a long time, but couldn't think of how this planet could have such a strange ionosphere under the condition of natural evolution, and then put forward a hypothesis.

"What's the point of doing that, even if it's artificial?" Kevin. Adams asked rhetorically.

Oh, yes! What's the point? The ionosphere plays a significant role in the atmosphere, and having the ionosphere can also better protect the atmosphere inside the periphery, thus giving the entire planet better protection capabilities. But the problem is not so simple, when a thing is just right, it can play its role, such as the ionosphere that the earth has, not only can protect the earth from the damage of "extraterrestrial visitors", but the existence of the ionosphere has a great effect since human beings use radio waves. Later, when the earth's civilization entered the period of cosmic civilization, the earth's ionosphere also became another reliable source of ordinary human energy -- electrical energy, which brought great convenience to human life.

But when the ionosphere reaches such a level, it is not a good thing, just like wearing a warm cotton coat in winter will make people feel comfortable, but once you put on several cotton clothes and wrap yourself tightly, then the person will either be suffocated or breathless by the heat. The same is true of the ionosphere, where even if someone creates this level of ionosphere to enclose the entire planet, then intelligent life on the planet would be imprisoned in it.

Shaking his head, Su Yichen couldn't tell how this situation came about.

"What about the artificial objects that are in the planet's near-Earth orbit? What are the results of the probe? Luo Yan couldn't explain this question either, but she thought of answering the question from another angle, and immediately asked Su Li.

"It's strange that it looks like an artificial celestial body. It can be found after specific detection, but it is not. ”

"Not? What is that? The crowd asked in surprise.

As soon as Su Li raised her hand, a clear scene appeared in front of everyone, this was a scanning scene of the planet, and everyone could see the appearance of the planet on it.

The yellow-green interior of the planet is not very clearly visible under the thick ionosphere and the atmosphere inside, but the so-called artificial objects that surround the planet above them, that is, in low Earth orbit, are very prominently displayed. To everyone's surprise, these things, which on the surface appear to be artificial satellites or other artificial celestial bodies (spacecraft), when zoomed in to a certain extent, turned out to be not like that at all. These are ordinary asteroids, or meteorites and meteor fragments orbiting the planet, some of them are larger, some are smaller, they are of different sizes, and they look like artificial satellites in space.

A look of disappointment flashed in everyone's eyes, could it be that there was a mistake in the previous judgment, this is not a living planet, but an ordinary terrestrial planet? And the cosmic civilization of the Andromeda galaxy, which everyone mistakenly guessed, is not here. Did they waste this precious time for a useless stay?

Just as the mood of disappointment was permeating the bridge, and everyone had already prepared in their hearts to return in vain, Su Li suddenly sighed softly.

"This is supposed to be a living planet, but it's weird, this living planet ...... It....... ”

"What's wrong with it?" Everyone was stunned and asked at the same time.

Su Li shook her head, pointed to the image of the planet and said, "I need to get closer to the detection, the ionosphere of this planet is a bit of an obstacle to the detection, so I have to get closer." ”

"How close do you need to go?" Su Yichen asked.

"Let's go another 0.2 light years. I guess there shouldn't be anything wrong with this distance. ”

Su Yichen calculated in his heart, even if the Homeland spacecraft approached this planet by 0.2 light years, then they would still keep a safe distance. What's more, it has been preliminarily proven that there should be no cosmic civilization on this planet. Even if there is a civilization, it is estimated that it is just a primitive civilization like the Galen civilization. In this case, they were safe, and immediately Su Yichen nodded and agreed to Su Li's request.

The ship starts from a standstill and continues towards the planet. It didn't take long for the spacecraft to reach a position about 0.4 light-years away from the planet. After conducting the initial detection, Su Li told everyone that this time it should be fine, and then everyone didn't go anywhere, and they all waited on the bridge for the detection results.

When the final detection results came out, Su Li's guess was correct, this was indeed a living planet, under its thick ionosphere. It still has a normal atmosphere, but 50% of the planet's surface is desert-like areas, and only 20% of the remaining 50% are oceans and lakes and rivers, and the other 30% are mountains, forests and oases. No wonder the planet looks yellow-green in space.

As for the life on the planet, or the creatures on the planet, Su Li also found some, and when these creatures were displayed in the way of a scene in the bridge, everyone gasped.

"It's Jurassic!" Gao Jian stared at the beads of his eyes, and said for a long time, a very famous science fiction movie "Jurassic Park" on the earth back then, the story is about a scientist who found the genes of a dinosaur in a dinosaur egg, and then resurrected the dinosaurs living in the Jurassic era through gene cultivation technology, and also established a park on a large isolated island.

Later, due to an accident, the dinosaurs in the park escaped, and the ferocious carnivorous dinosaurs attacked the humans...... The film swept a global hot topic about Jurassic and dinosaurs with realistic special effects and rich imagination, and also set a record for the highest box office of a movie.

The reason why Gao Jian sighed is because there are also huge beasts like in the movie on this planet, but compared with the extinct dinosaurs on the earth, some of these beasts are larger and more ferocious, one of them has a triangular head and thick limbs, its body is almost nearly 100 meters long, such a size is incredible. The largest creature on Earth is the blue whale, which is about 33 meters long and weighs 190 tons.

Among the extinct dinosaurs, the Seismosaurus, the Fragile Dicorum and the Megalosaurus may have been longer than the blue whale, but they were only about 60 meters at most and weighed around 150 tons. However, the huge beast shown in front of them was nearly 100 meters long and weighed at least 200 tons, which was unimaginable.

In addition to this beast, they also saw some other strange animals, these animals are large and small, the big ones are tens of meters to nearly 100 meters, and the small ones are only a few meters or even tens of centimeters, or even smaller. Of course, this is only the result of a preliminary scan, and some of these animals are found in the ocean, some in the forest, some in the grasslands or oases, and even in the desert. There are even animals that have unique wings that allow them to fly through the sky. This is simply a primitive planet of no longer primitive life, that is, a primitive planet that has not yet produced intelligent life.

When everyone moved their eyes to the first beast with a triangular head shown, this beast was just ready to hunt, and its target was a larger animal than it, this animal was nearly 150 meters long, and its weight was estimated at 300 tons, although the size was larger than this beast, but compared with the body structure and characteristics of the two, the triangular eye beast was obviously carnivorous, while the larger one was vegetarian, and the result could be imagined in the case of a carnivorous beast facing vegetarian animals.

A bloody predation began, and although the larger vegetarian animal desperately resisted, even using its huge body and thick back armor as weapons to try to escape its fate, it was unlucky to encounter an enemy who could be called the overlord among the carnivorous beasts. After only ten minutes, the vegetarian animal's body was covered with huge wounds, blood flowed down the wounds like a stream, and as the injuries grew, its resistance became weaker and weaker, and finally it collapsed to the ground with a desperate roar, becoming the winner's meal. (To be continued......)