Mars – Equatorial City.

A city located in the Ichidi Plain near the Martian equator, which was supposed to have been a crater a long time ago, but after a long time, part of the edge of the crater was eroded and turned into a small plain connected to the Utopian Plains.

Although it is said to be Equatorial City, in fact, there is only a small base with an area of less than 10,000 square meters, which is nothing compared to Utopia City (the former Mars exploration base) not far from the northeast side of Equatorial City.

Utopia City covers an area of 27 square kilometers, has a mass projector, and a large spaceport for spacecraft, and is now home to around 2,600 people.

The administrative structure of Equatorial City appeared mainly for the use of the Sos people, and Equatorial City and the Ishidi Plain were the resettlement areas of the Sos-Halik Republic.

A vacuum railway from Utopia City to Equatorial City has been completed at this time, and the land acquisition supplement and natural environment on Mars are not considered, plus the gravity is only 2/5 of that of Blue Star, and the alliance's vacuum railway technology is very mature and perfect, so the construction of the vacuum railway is proceeding very quickly.

In Utopia City, on the platform of the main train station, Liao Qingsong, who has been genetically strengthened, is taking Sara and Sasardine, an archon of the Council of Sos.

"Grand Archon Sara, let's go to Equatorial City first!"

"Okay." Sara nodded, he had replaced the previous Supreme Consul Helik, the reason why he changed his name to Grand Consul was to respect Helik, and to avoid confusion with Huang Haojie's Supreme Führer's name.

The group took the vacuum train to Equatorial City, the speed of the train was speeding through the pipes, Sara looked at the yellow sand that quickly passed on both sides, although Mars was very desolate to the Blue Star people, but for the Soth people, there was no big problem.

The Soths have been modified by silicon-based symbiotes, and can survive for a long time without protection, even in outer space.

As for the protoviruses of Mars and the like, they are not much of a threat to the Soth people, they have colonized two star systems in the past, and if they can't even do this kind of small thing, it will be finished long ago.

The genetically strengthened Blue Star people have no more adaptability than the Soth people, and the enhanced people need some auxiliary equipment to survive in outer space or terrestrial planets.

However, the silicon-based symbiont is not without a price, this silicon-based symbiont has caused the reproduction rate of the Sos to drop a lot, and the Sos have a long reproductive period (equivalent to about 24 months of humans), this problem has led to a sharp decline in the number of the Sos during the exile.

Soon Liao Qingsong took Sara and Sasatin and others to Equatorial City, and after getting off the train station, there was a sparse building cabin outside, and there were many robots leveling the ground and cleaning up rocks.

"This is Equatorial City, how does Grand Consul Sara feel?" Liao Qingsong asked, pointing to the equatorial city under construction.

"Thank you very much for the arrangement of the alliance, we are very satisfied." Sara nodded hurriedly, and after saying that, he walked to the nearby ground, squatted down and grabbed a handful of sand, feeling this natural grit, which he hadn't felt in years.

"Grand Archon Sarah, make a list of the living supplies and facilities you need, and I will let the alliance prepare them as soon as possible." Liao Qingsong interrupted Sarah's recollection.

"Yes, I'll sort it out as soon as possible."

Half a month later, Equatorial City had not only tripled in size, but more than 300 Sothians had emigrated here.

Of course, in order to ensure that the Sothians are not secretly doing things, the Alliance has stationed a 50-member Space Marine here, and more than 200 reinforcements also work and live here.

In Utopia City, there are still a large number of Sosians living and working in it, especially the scientific researchers among the Sos, a large part of which are arranged in Utopia City and the Mars Synchronous Orbit Space Station.

July 26th.

A silicon-based biological research team from the alliance came to Equatorial City, and Sasatine, the mayor of Equatorial City, received them.

Sasatine drove a surging nuclear-powered electric pickup truck and led the researchers of the research team to the southwest of Equatorial City, along an improvised dirt road, and the convoy traveled about 19 kilometers.

The researchers of the research team were discussing the mechanical beasts, and the leader of the team, Wu Lingren, asked Sassadine, "Is this your mechanical beast farm?" Don't automatons need environmental modification or anything like that?"

"No, after we found them domesticated, they can adapt to the environment of many terrestrial planets." Sasatine explained.

The Wuling people wore auxiliary spacesuits, walked out of the pickup truck, and walked towards the farm, where there were already many mechanical beasts in the farm, and there were also many Sosi people here.

The mechanical beast can be said to be a strange culture and symbol of the Soth civilization, in fact, the mechanical beast is only a part of the silicon-based biology representative of the ZI star, and the silicon-based creatures of the ZI star are divided into three categories: silicon-based animals, silicon-based plants, and silicon-based microorganisms.

The mechanical beast is part of the silicon-based animal, and the silicon-based symbiont of the Soth man is part of the silicon-based microbe; As for silicon-based plants, the people of Wuling have now seen it, and a large area of silicon-based plants of several square kilometers is right in front of them.

With silver-gray branches and silver-gray veined leaves on a black background, there are three silicon-based plants as far as the eye can see.

"Captain Wu, the tallest ones are the light crystal trees, the big leaves are the silicon vegetables, and the vines on the ground are the iron and nickel vine grass." Sasatin explained to the Wuling people.

The Wuling people looked through the holographic database and quickly found the detailed information of these three silicon-based plants.

[The light crystal tree is a tall silicon-based plant that can grow up to about 3400 meters (gravity affects its growth height), the huge leaves are like solar panels, which can continuously absorb the light energy of the stars, and condense a light energy liquid containing rich energy in the trunk, the light energy liquid can be deposited for a long time, and other elements in the soil will be fused to form light crystals, hence the name light crystal tree. …… ］

[Silicon vegetable, a necessity for the growth of the mechanical beast, the leaves are silver-gray, shaped like an enlarged blue star potato leaf, the underground part will bear fruit, the shape of the fruit is like a bunch of old coconuts, the leaves can supplement the trace elements of the mechanical beast, the fruit is the raw material of the biological self-repair alloy, and the mechanical beast can be quickly repaired by eating the fruit and leaves after being injured.] …… ］

[Iron nickel vine grass...... ］

These silicon-based plants have been cultivated by the Soth civilization for hundreds of thousands of years, and the Wuling people looked at the list of silicon-based organisms in the database that showed extinction, and couldn't help but secretly sigh pity.

After the Soth civilization blew up its star, the silicon-based species carried on the planet Helic were only about 36% of the parent star, and after so many years of interstellar wandering, less than 6% of these 36% of silicon-based species are now left.

For example, there were 14 subspecies of the light crystal tree, and now there are only 2 left; There are also mechanical beasts, in the Zi Star Era, the types of mechanical beasts alone exceeded 53 categories, and there were more than 37,600 subspecies, and now there are 439 species left, and many mechanical beasts have even become extinct in an entire category.