Chapter 54: The Whale
After six hours of traveling, Liang Jing and Jiang Zi returned safely to Cassini Station, and Wan Kai was relieved to see that the two had returned intact.
"How's the situation going?" Jiang Zi took off his helmet, and the first thing he asked was the situation of Muyu.
"I slept soundly and recovered quickly." Chef took the helmet, "I gave her another 500 milliliters of nutrients ten minutes ago, and she will be transferred out of the ICU tonight." ”
"Okay." Jiang Zi took off the iron float and grinned, "My hands and feet are frozen, and the insulation system is not very sensitive, so I have to turn up the temperature a little more next time." ”
The two of them took off the Iron Float and stuffed it into the tool room, they were both exhausted.
"What's going on on your side?" Chef asked, "Did you find anything?" What is the state of the volcano? ”
"There's nothing wrong with the volcano, half of the work is done today, and tomorrow we have to continue to drill holes out of the cabin, and then let Dabai predict and calculate, but we have a bigger problem than the volcano."
"The bigger problem?" Chef didn't know what that meant.
Jiang Zi and Liang Jing glanced at each other, "I can't tell you clearly, it's more convenient for you to see it yourself, come with us." ”
The three of them went upstairs and entered the hall, Liang Jing waved his hand to turn on the monitor, and in an instant all the data was arranged from top to bottom, the most eye-catching of which was a huge heart, the heart was flooded with watery ripples when beating, Liang Jing tapped on the image, and the three of them were quickly surrounded by a huge amount of data, Wan Kai raised his head and widened his eyes.
"What is this?"
"This is our biggest discovery of the day, an incredibly large heart, which Dabai speculates is as powerful as a fusion power station." Liang Jing pointed to the heart on the monitor and said, "Its current specific location is 2,700 meters northeast of Cassini Station, and the depth is at least 12,000 meters below. ”
"Heart?" Chef was stunned, "You mean there's creatures underground?" ”
Jiang Zi and Liang Jing nodded in unison, "This kind of sign has never been found before, we all think that there are no living beings on Titan, at least no higher living beings, but today's discovery may overturn our previous theory." ”
Chef took a step closer and exclaimed, "I'm ...... You guys are super discoveries, do you know what kind of creatures they are? ”
"The size of this creature is beyond our imagination, far from being comparable to the animals of the earth, Dabai made a dozen hypotheses, it said that this thing will be as huge as Mount Everest, the vibration generated when the heart beats is like seismic waves spread far away, it usually lives in the ocean 200 kilometers below the ground, and occasionally moves up to the shallow sea, we can find it this time because it is rising, no amount of information can be obtained, we think we can't apply the known biological and ecological theories, Because such creatures cannot exist in any one complete food chain. "We now tend to think that it may be powered directly by Titan itself, so we call it the 'Star Eater.'" ”
"That's the real middle two." Wan Kai muttered.
"The stationmaster, in fact, I'd rather call it the Abyss Whale."
Jiang Zi pouted on the side, "I think it's good, it's cool and cool." ”
"This girl lives off Titan's heat?" Chef asked, "It's unthinkable." ”
"It could be geothermal, it could be magnetic, it could be other energy that we didn't think of." Liang Jing said, "In fact, the most incredible thing is that this heart beats in a very similar way to humans, and according to the data collected so far, it has two atria and two ventricles, and it beats about 12 times a minute...... We can't imagine how this thing came about, Darwin's theory of evolution doesn't seem to work, but biology is not our area of expertise, and when she wakes up, you can ask her. ”
Obviously, Darwin's theory of evolution may not be applicable to Titan, and this life as huge as a mountain may be extremely long, it may live for tens or even hundreds of thousands of years, and the life form is very different from that of life on Earth.
The chef stood in front of the virtual display screen and pinched his eyebrows hard, the news that Liang Jing and Jiang Zi brought back was too amazing, these two people originally went out just to observe the activity of the volcano, but they didn't expect to catch such a super big fish. If they are the last members of the Cassini expedition, they will contribute more than the last ten years combined.
"Does it have anything to do with the black ball?" Wan Kai suddenly remembered this stubble.
"It's not clear for the time being, but one thing is clear, we only found this heartbeat after we found the black ball, and we didn't find anything abnormal when we drilled before the black ball appeared, I don't know if it's a coincidence." Liang Jing replied, "We can't be sure of the connection between it and the eruption for the time being, and the stationmaster insists that the volcanic activity is intrinsically related to it, but we can't be sure of this." ”
"Is there only one of these?"
Liang Jing and Jiang Zi were stunned.
They hadn't thought about it, and both of them subconsciously thought that this heartbeat was unique, because it would be terrifying if such a super beast could still be in a pack.
But there is a precedent for giant creatures, and on Earth, whether in the ocean or on land, the largest creatures live in colonies, because being large often means being slow, and slow creatures must form their own communities in order to protect their young, after all, cetaceans are not mice, and it is impossible to have three litters a year, a litter of thirty.
"You said it was floating." Chef said, "Will it rise to the surface?" ”
"God knows." Liang Jing shrugged, "We can't be sure if it's really moving, the energy that such a behemoth needs to move is amazing, if it can still swim at will, then one heart is definitely not enough, it also needs several other hearts to assist in energy supply." ”
At most, Wan Kai can only imagine what it is like for Russia's strategic nuclear submarine to break the ice and float in the Arctic Circle, listening to Liang Jing's description, this thing is much more than a nuclear submarine.
"But there's one thing I'm happy about, and I'm glad about it." Chef turned his head and clasped his hands, "Whatever it is, we can at least be sure that this thing isn't here to eat us." ”
Liang Jing and Jiang Zi were stunned.
"For it, eating the energy we get is certainly not enough for one-ten-thousandth of what it consumes to float." "For the first time, I'm so happy that I'm so worthless. ”