Chapter 10: Worms

"How do you answer Mars?" It was also when Zhang Tianhe and Shu Ermi were observing the excavated iron and nickel ore on the surface of the moon that Shi Kening sent a signal.

It is impossible for Mars to directly target a walking car to launch telecommunications, its telecommunications are sent to the Star, and when Zhang Tianhe was away, it was Shi Kening who took over the spacecraft, he has a problem that he never makes up his own mind, and he always has to ask Zhang Tianhe about big and small things, Zhang Tianhe has already settled him on this matter, and he still has to ask.

The Supreme Speaker of Mars is calling!

The Speaker of Mars is called Merikassandra, and she is a rather difficult character, and people of Chinese descent call her Kadanxian in private, except for the homonym, because of her gratuitous likeness...... Anyway, it's annoying like a dwarf, it doesn't seem to be aggressive, it's small and sometimes weird and funny, but if you want to step over her and do something, you'll be dumbfounded and find that you're stuck in the egg, and the egg will ache faintly for a long time afterward. That is to say, she is neither high nor low, just enough to be able to reach your vital point and hit every shot, you can't retaliate against her if you suffer her loss, otherwise you will be suspected of bullying the small. Those who are familiar with the history of mankind know that there was an era of sexual ambiguity, when a kind of neutral person prevailed in human beings, such as a woman with a man's body or a man with a woman's body, when people were keen to switch genders through technological means, and this kind of mixed man and woman was the most difficult kind of human beings.

Nowadays, it is easy for Mars biology to do a gender transition operation, but the people do not have this right, and they have to report, and you only have one chance in your life, that is, when you are thirteen years old, you can choose, but you can't change the choice, it is a man who has to go to space to serve, and a woman who has to serve in public affairs, you can't serve in the service and become a woman, and because you are afraid of serving in the public sector, you will run to be a man, and you will take advantage of both ends.

In Zhang Tianhe's heart, Ka Danxian should be a man, because no woman can be as annoying as her, but she is really a woman, and she has a husband and children, living a typical Martian life like Nick Ma.

"I don't really want to take it, you can't...... Alas......" Zhang Tianhe sighed and listened to the text message.

In fact, in essence, Ka Danxian didn't say anything particularly annoying, it was nothing more than two things, one was to send back the woman who was captured in orbit around the moon, the other was to try not to delay time on the moon, and finally to pay attention to the safety of himself and the stars, and to ensure absolute safety at this stage...... But the amazing thing is that some people can say things that are obviously very serious, in addition to the sense of persecution that asks you to be grateful, it is that kind of self-respecting look, this kind of look...... Will get stuck in the egg!

"Master Zhang, human civilization is tied to the first line, we should not do some unnecessary adventures, from your personal point of view, from the perspective of the stars, from the perspective of the entire Martian human race, this expedition is one of the few opportunities for all of us human beings to promote the process of civilization, I hope you can use a more rigorous, reasonable, optimistic and responsible attitude to deal with the events about yourself, the stars, the Martian government and even the entire human race......"

When Zhang Tianhe scolded the next sentence, it was necessary to explain the language education system of the Martians a little. In Mars, you can choose your own language like choosing a gender, after the Martian War, the language of the Martians is mainly divided into two categories after scientific editing, that is, Chinese and English, in fact, language is just a tool for human communication, it doesn't matter what language is used, when civilization is oppressed to a certain extent, language will automatically metabolize its other functions, return to the use of a tool. Because there are many people who speak Chinese, and English because of its wide range, modern Martians can choose a language to practice (Chinese needs to be refined, it is super complicated, English does not need it, in linguistics this is a rather simple and boring language), but often everyone knows these two languages, at least there is no problem with daily oral communication. A strange phenomenon comes out here, if a person majoring in Chinese, he is prone to swearing in English and vice versa, with few exceptions. Zhang Tianhe is a person of Chinese descent, and his blood is Chinese, and he has been cultivating Chinese since he was a child, but because he has been flying in space for a long time, there are people of all descents who have served, and everyone communicates in English, so Shuermi heard him scold:

"Dog can't spit ivory out of his mouth, fuck this old cunt!"

Note that if he swears in Chinese or English alone, everyone can understand it, but if he scolds in such a combination, others may not be able to understand what he means if he speaks quickly, just like when you first learn a language, you can only hear a few words, and you know that what is not said is good, but the brain's thinking system will not string these words together - this is his last self-love as a captain.

"You don't have to answer, just knock me." Zhang Tianhe said to Shi Kening.

"Yes! There is one more thing, what to do with the woman when she wakes up......"

"Hmph...... Shut it up, and then talk about it. Okay, I'm going to be busy. Zhang Tianhe hung up the telegram with Shi Kening, turned to face Shu Ermi, "When you go out and meet a ghost, this day is ...... Yes, someone drilled a hole, opened a cannon to plug the hole, poured fire, let's see who is playing this joke on us! ”

The so-called particle cannon is still a crude physical force, which is a new invention of Martian technology, in essence, the modern Martian civilization is still a civilization based on fusion forces, or in other words, the Martian civilization is a continuation of the Earth civilization that has been effectively controlled. In fact, this kind of use of natural forces is still not far from the original earth technology, but in the earth era, people just threw fusion forces roughly, and now, people make fusion forces can be quantified and used. Starting from the star, to the drive of the "pig nose", to the neutron cannon and particle cannon, theoretically it was still the use of atomic energy 200 years ago, but the difference is that now the Martians have managed this power, and in essence, there has not been much progress in basic physics in scientific research.

In short, their plan is to plug the holes of the few tunnels that have been discovered, and then let the "pig nose" spray at one of the holes, smoke the inside, and if there are really people in it, they will come out, as long as the flames you spray in are scary enough. In this respect, the "Pig Nose" is absolutely competent, and it can heat these tunnels to a temperature that all ships dare not stay in for in ten minutes - it is not difficult to bake an iron ball with absolute heat.

Judging from the holographic image sent back by the "pig's nose", the holes of these four tunnels are not regularly distributed, roughly connected into a rectangle, one of which is a little further away from the other three, and they are going to pour fire into this hole. These holes are circular tunnels about two meters in diameter, and not far from these tunnels are the waste piles that were previously rich in iron ore that the Star found while scanning the surface of the moon.

"It's just unscrupulous...... Zhang Tianhe watched the "pig nose" bombard the other three holes, and one of them landed on the mouth of the pit a little farther away and twisted his chin and said, Shuermi looked at him and didn't speak.

For a spacecraft, a problem that must be faced in space is temperature, take the star as an example, its engine core temperature is dozens of times the core temperature of the sun, in human science and technology there is no solid material can withstand this temperature, the temperature of nuclear fusion is constrained by electromagnetic field, solid material is actually to form a stable electromagnetic field. In other words, the Star can withstand extreme high temperatures from the inside, but its shell cannot reach such strength, and all the aircraft made by humans cannot withstand much temperature from the outside, which is why Zhang Tianhe is confident that they can smoke out the people in the pit: the two-meter-wide tunnel, no matter how deep you dig, the moon is a metal ball, as long as the "pig's nose" sprays for a while, no spacecraft can carry it.

But they heated the hole to more than 300 degrees Celsius, and no one came out, and they poured fire into the hole, and they did not see any heating in the other holes, which means that the holes were not connected, and there was no movement at all.

"It's almost catching up with the surface temperature of Venus, and these people are really good ......," Zhang Tianhe said with a grin. No one pays attention to us in telecommunications, and our unmanned detector can't drill such a small hole, so we can't know what's going on inside, so it won't be roasted......"

"At this temperature, I believe that with the current technology, it will not last long, and it will be ...... bake for a while," Schulmi replied with a blank face.

"Or maybe they did dig too deep, or maybe they were ...... in every way."

"That's not going to happen, the radar shows that this hole is basically vertically downward, artificial, although we don't know what they're going to dig, and we can't detect any changes in the hole, because the further you go to the core of the moon, the worse the signal returns, but in general, it shouldn't be ......wrong."

While the two of them were talking, a telegram came from the team member on the other side: Something is coming out from underneath!

"Don't relax if you continue to roast here, let's go over there and have a look!" Zhang Tianhe immediately rushed to the other side, their planet walking car was similar to a hovercraft, powered by a charged engine, and the maximum speed could reach eighty miles per hour, and they arrived at one of the potholes on the other side within a few minutes, and they saw a strange situation.

The hole they had sealed with the particle cannon was slowly bubbling up from the bottom up, and out of that hole came a worm-like creature with a huge drill at the top of it and three "bodies" connected to it. When it came out, the walking car immediately pulled into the air, and several "pig nose" barrels were aimed at this guy, who knew that it was completely ignorant, and used the track under its belly to drive at a fairly fast speed to the place where the iron and nickel waste had been piled up before, and from the last part of the body like ovulation, some molten and compressed waste was discharged, ignoring the "pig nose" and the walking car above its head, and after doing this, it ran back quite quickly and got into the original hole.

"Shall we shoot?" When the worm came out of the surface, Shulmi asked Zhang Tianhe.

"Wait for it to do it first!" Zhang Tianhe said so, but people didn't answer you at all.

"And now?" Shulmi couldn't help but laugh.

"I want to chase ...... But there is really nothing on our ship that can drill such a small hole, and our Star is not ready to drill a hole at all......"

"There's another way, we can wait for it to come out next time and stop it." Shulmi said with a smile.