For the exploration of Ceres, Dong Chen can't do it alone, although Ceres is just a small dwarf planet, but for Dong Chen, it is a big guy with a diameter of nearly a thousand kilometers.

Even the sixty-meter Andromeda constellation is a small point in front of it, let alone Dong Chen, who is less than two meters tall.

Fortunately, Dong Chen has the power of science and technology, which can eliminate this difference in body size in a sense.

One sheep is also driven, and two sheep are also herded, and when manufacturing drilling equipment in the Citizen World of Selling Ships, Dong Chen simply built a large number of exploration satellites to assist in exploration.

These dozens and hundreds of detection satellites have been released, they are all in size, and they are not one-time, they will be recycled after Dong Chen leaves or the detection is completed, they will be piled up in the warehouse of the ship-selling citizen and waiting for the next use, or directly for material recycling, and then used in other equipment.

When these dozens or hundreds of exploration satellites kept circling around Ceres at the same time, Dong Chen's research was much more convenient. They basically maintain a speed of 400 meters per second, and can orbit Ceres in about two hours, which is very efficient.

Among these advanced exploration satellites, there are those responsible for perspective geographical structure, to see where there are cavities or rock cracks, etc., which are the key scanning areas, and there are also responsible for exploring a series of data such as temperature display, element structure, radiation, magnetic field, illumination, etc., which can allow No. 1 and Dong Chen to understand Ceres in an all-round way.

Videos and a large amount of data were continuously transmitted to Andromeda by satellite, and then transmitted back to Earth by Andromeda for One to use her deity computer to classify, sort and calculate various data, and finally send the sorted data back to the Andromeda spacecraft for Dong Chen to further study.

"It's beautiful! When I first came to the asteroid belt, I didn't find it, and after landing, I didn't have any beauty, but I still feel like this as a whole. ”

"Look at these cracks that are throwing steam outward, there must be a lot of liquid underneath them."

"And these places, all of them are ice, and there is really no shortage of water on Ceres, so it's no wonder that it is inevitably regarded as a big reservoir in many planetary transformation projects."

Dong Chen crossed his arms and looked at the hologram of Ceres made by No. 1 using the latest detection data, which was different from a simple ball in the original star map, and now with sufficient data support, the hologram of Ceres in front of him was displayed in real time, and the time difference was no more than one second.

Although Ceres is three times as far away from the Sun, there will be occasional water vapor coming out of some cracks when the sun is shining on the sun, and even when the solar activity erupts, a large amount of steam will emerge to form a brief weak atmosphere.

Of course, there has been a lot of research on this on Earth, but after all, it is too far away, and all the data has to be calculated according to the data transmitted back by the probe, and many detections have shown that these water vapors should belong to the case of comets, which are formed by the direct heating and sublimation of ice, without going through a liquid process.

But after Dong Chen's close observation and analysis of the data transmitted by all the exploration satellites, he felt that this kind of conclusion could be overturned, because these water vapor obviously existed in the state of fog beads, so the fact that there was liquid water in this planet was basically determined.

And the later exploration also proved his guess, after the satellite found a good drilling site, the drilling equipment that had been prepared for a long time immediately drove over, and even Dong Chen himself drove the spacecraft over to watch.

As a result, less than two kilometers of downward drilling revealed a small underground liquid lake with a large number of biota found in it.

And this underground liquid lake is still small, relatively close to the surface, and many detection satellites have also detected a lot of underground cavities, large and small, which are likely to be underground liquid lakes or oceans with water, and the situation there is even better than here.

However, Dong Chen didn't plan to waste that time, it was enough to have this little proof.

Most of these creatures are fungi, with a small number of bacteria, and even a very small number of multicellular life, this is a microbial world that is slowly evolving, and it is clear to No. 1 and Dong Chen under the microscope.

"Number one, do you see, there's a whole microbial tribe here, and it's pretty much the same as we expected."

"Look here, there are a lot of big guys here, the largest one is more than 0.1 millimeters, these are multicellular complex organisms."

"And here, these two groups of microbes are still fighting, which reminds me of an evolution game I played a long time ago, "Spore", which is very similar to those scenes that devour evolution."

If this is discovered by the scientists of the earth, it will have to be screaming, and it may be on the same level as discovering the ruins of an alien civilization on the original island.

Although these are only microorganisms, they can be regarded as life no matter how they are said, so there is a certain factual basis for the rules that prevail in extraterrestrial life.

These beings don't need to be humanoids, they don't need to be animals, they don't even need to be plants, as long as there is even the slightest sign of life activity, even if it is a virus or bacteria, it is also extraterrestrial life.

After the scope of extraterrestrial life is expanded to this range, life may exist on many planets that are not suitable for human habitation and have more extreme environments.

After Dong Chen carefully observed these microorganisms, he found that the root of these things should be from the other side of the wormhole behind Jupiter, which is homologous to life on Earth, and all come from the arc galaxy.

It is said that extraterrestrial life is actually just life on other planets, just because of the different living environment, and the different directions chosen by the day after tomorrow when they evolve, in the final analysis, they are the same as us 500 years ago...... No, five billion years ago it was one.

After proving these, it can be regarded as a matter of Dong Chen's mind, from this aspect, then there should be more or less life on other planets in the solar system, and even the famous Enceladus and Europa may also have relatively large life, similar to the jellyfish octopus in the movie "Europa Report" It is not impossible, but this is not something that Dong Chen should care about.

As long as there are no obvious signs of civilization on these planets, if there is just life, it is not a big deal, maybe the scientists on the earth will be interested, but Dong Chen is here to forget it.

Maybe when the time is a little freer, he may go on an expedition because he has nothing to do, looking for extraterrestrial life, and now, that is, in the short term, in the next few days, he has to solve Xie Fei's matter first.

Finally, after looking at the busy base construction scene on Ceres, Dong Chen turned around and sat down on the captain's seat and said, "Okay, No. 1, let's plan the route and return home, let's go back and meet that Xie Fei for a while, and see how he became what he is now." ”

"It's his good luck to hide it for so long, but for people like this, good luck should come to an end."

"Okay, sir, the return route is being planned, and the Andromeda spacecraft is starting to return."

PS: There are two watches, at nine o'clock