Chapter 191: Contrary to common sense
Wei and his party continued to dive, and after passing through the clouds formed by mercury, they suddenly saw a scorching red dot below, and at the same time, the temperature around them also began to rise.
Looking at the red dot, everyone seemed to understand why there was a mercury cloud here, and the red dot was clearly a huge active volcano!
Xiao Liang said: "It is rumored that the reason for the sinking of Atlantis is water and fire, one is because of the rising sea level, and the other is because of the eruption of a volcano. ”
As they continued to dive, they finally saw the bottom of the sea, the bottom of this sea is a volcanic group, not only one crater below, but hundreds of craters, and with the crater as the center, there are some red thin lines flowing out, these should be magma flows.
From this height, all you can see is one huge red dot after another, as well as one after another winding red lines, the red lines are dense near the red dots, but the farther away from the red dots, the red lines become sparse.
Xiao Liang said: "A long time ago, when every house on the earth was brightly lit, if you look down from space, then the surface of the earth is also like this. ”
This is a scene that only Wei Shu and Xiao Liang have seen, before the time stops, every household will turn on the electric lights at night, and the street lights on the road will also be lit up, at this time, looking down from space, you will see countless lights densely spread on the earth, urban areas are densely lit, and rural areas are scarcely lit.
Jin Jia understood, and he said, "I see, is this the kingdom of Atlantis?" They lived at the bottom of the sea, got their energy from the magma, and built cities near each crater, near the crater were towns, far from the crater were villages, and these lava flows were also carved out by them. ”
At this moment, Wei Wei and his party are still ten thousand meters away from the sea, they still need to continue diving, under their feet is an active volcanic group, each crater has a large city around it, they don't know where the main city of Atlantis is, so they can only find a random city to fall into.
Wei Shu said: "According to what Xiao Liang said, there is no difference between the Atlanteans and us, we can first settle in a certain village, understand the situation first, and then talk about it, at least understand how they communicate." ”
Everyone nodded, in this deep sea crust is no better than land, people cannot speak underwater, and at the same time, because there is magma everywhere, the bottom of the sea must be filled with all kinds of water vapor and bubbles, in such an environment, the human eye should not be able to see anything clearly.
But when the group fell into a village dozens of kilometers away from the active crater at their feet, they suddenly found that the real situation was somewhat different from their own views.
Wei Shu and his party looked for the most edge of the red line and fell, as the height decreased, the temperature continued to rise, and at the same time, the mercury vapor also increased, the temperature exceeded 100 degrees, and the water was full of water vapor and bubbles, and it was impossible to see anything clearly with the naked eye.
The group closed their eyes and looked at things with their minds, but when they fell below a thousand meters, the situation suddenly changed, the water vapor disappeared, and air appeared here, as if a huge bubble covered the world around the magma.
Everyone opened their eyes, and then they saw that there was actually a plant growing around the lava flow, and the group all fell down next to a thin lava flow.
The stream is red, shimmering red, and tumbling viscously downstream, flanked by hard magmatic rocks that withstand the heat and are formed by the cooling of magma, but around the river, there are countless strange plants that take root and seem to survive by sucking the heat of the magma.
Wei Shu and his party carefully observed these trees, these trees were black all over, there were no leaves, although they looked like a tree, but they were more like stone trees made of stones, but everyone's divine sense was very sensitive, they had already felt the breath of these trees, and breathed the oxygen that the trees spit out.
"That's right," Jin Jia said, "any ecosystem is inseparable from producers and consumers, and unless the organisms of this population can be produced and sold by themselves, otherwise this population will not be able to survive for a long time in a place where there are no plants." ”
Xiao Liang took out a set of scientific instruments, found a stout stone tree and began to test, he is an explorer, but also a scientist, he travels around all his life just to satisfy his thirst for knowledge, so at this moment to discover unknown new species, of course he has to study.
Jin Jia is also very interested in this, he also understands the charm of science, science is a means to explore the unknown, and every time he discovers something unknown through scientific means, he will have a great sense of achievement.
Of course, Wei Shu's curiosity was no less than theirs, and they all seemed to figure out what was going on with this stone tree, what was going on in this Atlantean country?
The group scanned with divine thoughts, tested with scientific instruments, and did experiments, and after tinkering for a long time, they finally figured out what was going on with this stone tree.
"There are no leaves, no photosynthesis, and the roots directly absorb the heat of the magma, and after obtaining the heat, they convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen," Xiao Liang said. ”
Jin Jia raised his head and looked at the sky: "The density of air is less than that of water and water vapor, so it stands to reason that it should continue to rise and envelop all the space within the protective shield, but how did this bubble that envelop us form?" ”
They measured for a long time, but they didn't find out how this situation that defied common sense was formed, but they didn't say that they found nothing, they all cut down this stone tree, after research, they found that this stone tree can be absorbed by the root system, and then transported through the inner duct, because the magma contains various minerals, so the surface of the tree will also produce all kinds of stone crystals.
This tree is very valuable, if it is planted in a mineral-dense area, it can absorb various minerals into the body, and then produce crystals, so that it is not uncommon to produce some metal fruits such as golden apples and silver bananas, provided that it is provided with sufficient energy.
Jin Jia said, "This is the Mining Tree!" The beauty of science is to make seemingly useless things useful, and this tree can later be used to modify the planet to produce oxygen, which is too valuable in interstellar travel! ”
Xiao Liang also collected a lot of seeds of this tree because of this intention, and he is also a person who longs for interstellar travel.