After the discovery of two dark matter chimeras on Arbor, "thermal crystals" and "dragon carapace".

The exploration has not stopped, and it is the oceans that occupy most of the area of Arborus that are the areas where life gathers.

There has been no in-depth investigation of these oceans.

The five researchers, Da Hai and Jiang Naoto, ran back and forth between the Ice Mars Scrap Ship Observatory and the Arbor Vinenet Island Observatory, fortunately they could work through stand-in robots, otherwise they wouldn't be able to stand this kind of toss.

The Science and Technology Commission has approved the application for the establishment of the "Dark Matter Chimera Research Institute" by the Institute of Life Sciences, and the chief of this institute is Dang Hai, and researchers such as Huang Fan and Jiang Zhiren will also participate in research from time to time.

The headquarters of the Dark Matter Chimera Institute is located in Arbor's satellite city, while Ice Mars maintains the status quo.

Set on Arbor, because the Tianya system is the civilization seed base, it will soon close the wormhole channel and enter a silent dormant state, and there is no need for the new humans of the Tianya system not to take the initiative to contact Blue Star.

While taking the Kunpeng-class transport ship to Arborus through the wormhole, Da Dahai and the others worked in the two places through the stand-in robot.

At the observatory near Fujiwang Island, news of the discovery of a sixth dark matter chimera returned.

A submarine has entered the underwater dock of the observatory from the bottom of the sea, transporting a batch of plants inside the dark matter chimera-6.

The submarine works fully automatically, and the robot transports boxes of one meter long, wide and high storage boxes from the submarine cabin and then transports them to the laboratory.

……

Jiang Naoto saw the contents of the storage box through the transparent viewing window of the storage box.

In fact, the form of these "plants" is still very peculiar, they can fly, and their appearance is very similar to that of octopuses.

During the day, they produce hydrogen gas, which inflates like a balloon and floats near the stratosphere, absorbing solar energy.

At night or in the dark of winter, they deflated and returned to the ocean, where they took root in the depths of the ocean floor, and they no longer activated their "balloon" state unless they were in danger.

The expedition team named the plant the "Octopus Balloon Tree", and despite the small size stored in the box, once they are activated in the "balloon" state, the volume will expand by 30 times.

In order not to stimulate the octopus balloon tree to turn into a balloon, the storage box reduces the amount of light from the outside world.

Jiang Naoto skillfully manipulated the nanobots to extract some liquid from the "lungs" of the octopus balloon tree, which is the secret of the octopus balloon tree's transformation into a balloon.

The dark matter chimera—6 can split water to produce oxygen and hydrogen, where the oxygen is emitted directly and the hydrogen is stored in an air sac.

"Naoto, I've found something."

Well? Jiang Zhiren put the extracted tissue fluid aside and asked, "What did you find?"

"I compare the positive matter molecular structure of dark matter chimera 1~6, and you see if there is any law in it." Huge Hai said as he projected six molecular formulas into the air.

On the virtual light curtain, from left to right, they are "Life Essence", "Soul Poison", "Radiant Matter", "Thermal Energy Crystal", "Dragon Armor", and "Hydrogenase Substance".

Law? Jiang Naoto observed carefully, but he racked his brains and still didn't find any patterns.

"I remind you that chemical bonds and complementarity."

Chemical bonds? Complementation? Well? Jiang Zhiren carefully observed the molecular formulas one by one, and marked some things to the molecular formula while looking at him.

These formulas may seem irregular, ranging from a few hundred atoms to tens of thousands of molecules, but they all have one thing in common: missing chemical bonds.

"I get it, these formulas are missing some chemical bonds, and ......"

Dang Hai went on to explain: "And these missing chemical bond positions are actually occupied by dark matter. ”

He listed the dark matter mass and the number of missing chemical bonds of the six dark matter chimeras, and the two immediately showed a positive correlation.

"In addition, I also discovered that dark matter only binds to the chemical bonds of three atoms: sodium, phosphorus, and zinc."

After reading the data, Jiang Zhiren raised his head and said with a smile: "It seems that you have made a big discovery." ”

"It's still early! Unless we can gain insight into the principle of the combination of dark matter and positive matter, that is the real big discovery. "The sea wasn't too happy.

"Since there are so many kinds of dark matter chimeras, sooner or later we can study the laws in them."

"By the way, there was good news from the Space Exploration Center just now."

Jiang Zhiren's eyes lit up: "Found the living planet again?"

Huge Hai nodded: "A star system about 113.7 light-years away from the solar system has discovered a planet with life. ”

"Then maybe we can find new dark matter chimeras."

It's just that Da Dahai shook his head: "I guess there is little hope." ”

"Why do you say that?"

"Just look at it." After speaking, he shared the briefing of the Space Communication Center with Naoto E.

On the virtual display screen, the situation about the living planet appeared in front of him, and soon Jiang Zhiren frowned.

After reading it, he sighed: "How similar is it to the former Blue Star, if you don't do it, you won't die." ”

"Now you know why I'm not hopeful."

"How fortunate it is that the new human can get out of the blue star." Jiang Zhiren sighed.

For civilizations that have not yet stepped out of their home planet, the biggest enemy is often not aliens, but themselves.

This is the truth that the new human beings only understood after they walked out of the blue star.

If we can't enter the interstellar age before 2050, even if there are no lizardmen as demons, human society will disintegrate and regress by itself, and barbarism and ignorance will eventually eliminate civilization and wisdom.

This is the social "entropy increase" effect, that is, the entropy increase in the stage of civilization, in a civilization, no matter in which stage, whether it is the original civilization, the primary civilization, or the advanced civilization.

When a civilization reaches the peak of this stage, there are only two paths to take, either go backwards or break through the limits.

Take the example of a feudal dynasty and why it is difficult for a dynasty to last 300 years, because the resources of the "pond" are no longer enough for the survival of the fish, and they either kill each other or dig the sluice gates to the river.

If the capital industrial civilization is the feudal civilization from the pond into the river, then the progress from the capital industrial civilization to the interstellar civilization is from the river into the sea.

Once the river cannot enter the sea, and the fish in the river multiply rapidly, the consequence is a self-inflicted regression of civilization.

This law applies to all stages of civilization.

Even if it is a Reaper civilization, if they can't transcend this universe, they will eventually be destroyed in the great tearing of the universe and the great compression of the universe.

……

Jiang Zhiren and Dang Hai, who were in a good mood, continued to study the dark matter chimera, and with the continuous support of the Science and Technology Commission, their research on the dark matter chimera became more and more in-depth.

Although the formation mechanism of dark matter chimeras has not yet been understood, some laws and characteristics have been discovered one after another.

Meanwhile.

Luo Feng led the expeditionary fleet and jumped towards the star system where life was discovered.

They will go and investigate the civilization of this living planet.