Chapter 162: Exploring the Ground Again
The vehicle they were riding in was very fast, there were no windows inside, and even if they had, they could only see a layer of fast-moving color blocks, like an improved version of the lunar shuttle, faster, more stable, and able to operate in a high-gravity area like Earth.
"Well, you tap! My old arms and legs can't withstand the strength of a young man. Sun Tan shook off his hand, rubbed his chest and complained: "But I must come and see it today, this is the moment to decide mankind, our geocentric exploration machine has hooked that civilization egg, the future road, it depends on tonight!" ”
"Then I really can't be absent, but...... After salvage, do we have the technology to parse it? Mark worried.
"We're very well prepared, so there shouldn't be too many problems."
......Mark looked at his old friend's face and asked, "Why don't you change to a younger body, modern technology shouldn't be the problem, right?" ”
"I like the way I look now, I can rely on the old and sell the old, and I look very erudite, if I retract back to a little fart child in his twenties, I won't be able to suppress the guys in the Academy of Sciences, but in my twenties, I may go to change my body, now the average age of human beings has reached one hundred and twenty years old, and I can retire at the age of one hundred, and I am only seventy-two now, which is the age of shine, but Xiao Yu has regained her youth, and women are troublesome......" Sun Tan babbled endlessly, it seems that people are the same when they get old, None of the people behind Mark could hear it, only the part of his sister.
"So, I can still see what my sister looked like when she was younger?" Mark said excitedly, he hasn't been to see her for so long, his sister is his only relative in the world, and Mark was worried that the scene would be strange when he saw her, but now it seems that he can rest assured.
"You'll see her in a while, she already set off from the center of the earth yesterday, and the first step of the analysis of the civilized egg was carried out by her, and I can't trust the others."
"It's too dangerous!" Mark exclaimed, "How can you let your wife do such a dangerous job!" Even now, Mark recalls what happened to the underground well.
"Che, do you think it's your time? Now the center of the earth is safer, safer than the apartment we live in, thieves and bikers won't go there, and you don't have to worry about a railgun bombardment from the remnants of the Lunar Conservatives. ”
In Sun Tan's chatter, they came to the entrance to the center of the earth, and there were three people who came with Sun Tan, they were all elites of the Academy of Sciences that Sun Tan trusted very much, and they had a deep study of the civilization egg, the civilization egg had not yet been unearthed, but human beings had used various ways to study the cosmic membrane that wrapped it, and had a preliminary understanding of it.
There are now three geocentric entrances like this, what Mark didn't expect is that the super drilling in the sixth area that was given high hopes at the beginning was not successful, and the plate movement in Antarctica's underground is too complicated, and it is not a suitable place to dig the geocentric channel, so the super drilling plan has died, but after connecting the volcano, the drilling in the sixth area still provides a huge amount of energy to the city, and the efforts of so many years have not been in vain, and it is precisely because of the unique geothermal energy, After the two wars, Region 6 became one of the most prosperous regions, accounting for half of the world's capital flows, and the Antarctic capital built at the foot of the volcano became the center of the planet's economy.
And Mark they are now entering the entrance to the center of the earth is located in the middle of Asia, here was once an oil well of a large oil country, after the oil resources are exhausted, the lifeblood of this country has also been cut off, they can only use the power of the whole country to dig deeper oil wells, hoping to find new oil veins, but the oil did not find, but dug a huge underground fissure, this is the world's largest and deepest underground fissure, no one knows its cause, it is deep and lightless, straight to 50,000 meters deep underground, like a hell abyss.
Using this natural fissure, human beings dug the first geocentric passage with half the effort, of course, it is very simple to say, but in the past fifty years, there have been countless people who have worked hard for this tunnel, putting all their youth and energy into it, it has condensed the efforts of countless scientific research and technicians, and in the past fifty years, there have been tens of thousands of people who have died below because of the excavation of the tunnel.
Even so, human beings have not given up the exploration of the center of the earth, this civilization egg is the only hope for human beings now, the only possibility that can be touched, the only shining light, without shedding the last drop of blood, no matter how painful it is, human beings will not let go of the clenched hand.
No loading vehicle has yet reached the terrain, and everyone is waiting at a solid workstation at the bottom of the mantle, where a year ago humans dropped hundreds of unmanned probes into the center of the earth, made of special high-temperature resistant materials that can withstand the extreme temperatures of the center of the earth.
However, this is also theoretical, only thirty of the more than one hundred probes can work normally after a month, and the others are either damaged by the thermal insulation coating and melted, or they are crashed by the semi-solid iron-nickel floating mountain in the center of the earth, and there are various other reasons, in short, only a few can be saved, and among the thirty machines, even fewer can continue the exploration mission, and in the end, only five probes are close to the civilization egg in the center of the earth.
The most intact one was kept to capture the civilization egg, and the remaining four were all detonated in the opposite direction, releasing the last bit of thrust at their own expense.
The whole operation took three months, and when the civilization egg was successfully captured by the probe, everyone was ignited, and the cheers of celebration resounded around the world, and people had never been so excited since the beginning of the new era. However, as the days go by, people's hearts are becoming more and more tense, especially the geocentric explorers working in the front line, they have to use overclocking detectors to check the status of the probe every day, it is getting farther and farther away from the center of the earth, closer and closer to the ground, the more people are nervous at this time, at a critical juncture, any small mistake may make all the previous efforts go to waste, if it falls into the center of the earth again, it is not so easy to find it again.
"It's like grabbing a doll, I hate that, it keeps dangling at the end and then it falls." Mark complained, apparently not a good joke to liven up the atmosphere.
"Yes, but this doll, we definitely have to catch it, and we can't let it shake a little bit!"