Chapter 220: There Were No Aliens
"It's amazing!"
"It's incredible!"
"We made it!"
"We've found alien creatures!"
"We made history!"
Ever since the astronauts on the landing craft spotted the "glowing octopus", they've been repeating these words.
They are here for extraterrestrial life, and now they are in the soul, how can they not be excited.
And after observation, they found that Europa's biosphere was unusually lively, and the species were unusually rich.
These creatures are unusually sensitive to light sources, and as long as the brightness is strong enough, even if they don't look for them, these creatures will automatically come to the door.
However, they are not here to fish, they are here to study the overall ecology of Europa, so they still have to take the initiative to explore the ecological environment here.
Of course, after discovering Europa's "light-loving" properties, they still left a headlight at the borehole, which was used with surveillance equipment to photograph all the magical creatures that might come over.
Sidney called this "waiting for the rabbit", but Liu Yi shook his head when he learned about it, saying that it should be called "luring the snake out of the hole".
On this issue, Sidney is really not convinced by Liu Yi, don't look at Liu Yi's ancestors as members of the Alliance, but Sidney feels that he has been in the Federation since he was born, and he has not had much contact with the traditional culture of the Alliance, so he is not necessarily better than himself.
Captain Gordon doesn't care about them either, it's their own way of relaxing.
After they observed a Europa creature, they couldn't wait to finish the record, and then sent the news back to the command center, and even if it had been carried out according to plan, their name would have spread throughout the planet by now.
It's exciting to think about!
Even Mario, who was a little talker, acted as a reporter during the break when he came back from repairing external equipment, holding up a headset and asking Beth, "Hey, Beth, our goddess of the ocean, how do you feel as the first scientist on your home planet to come into contact with extraterrestrial sea creatures?" ”
Beth "pulled" her eyes out of the screen and exhaled before she said, "Of course, there are a lot of feelings, but to be honest, I'm a little nervous right now, because I feel that I don't have enough knowledge about those sea creatures, and they ......"
"They, you know, oh my God, they're just amazing, I really want to ask my teacher now, if he's there, he's going to do better than me......"
However, in fact, the situation on Homestar is not as rosy as they imagined.
It was already late at night in the Federation, and after the command center received this information and confirmed it, the entire command center was boiling.
This mission was still a little unsmooth, and it had already begun to make some people in the project team pessimistic, but they didn't expect to send back such good news as soon as they arrived.
Beth's teacher, Professor Evans, had already been resting in the break room, but a phone call came, and he hurried to the lab without even changing his pajamas.
After seeing this information, his wrinkled old face blossomed, "That's right, that's it, that's it, although it is a little different from the model we built before, but it is not the essential difference!" ”
"Well, Beth is my best student."
Soon, several experts came to the laboratory one after another, expressed their shock at the news, and then threw themselves into intense work.
For such a long time, the pressure on the Europa project team is not small, although many scientific research projects without harvest are considered huge gains, but who doesn't want their own gains to be a little bigger, so that they can not only cope with the pressure of all parties, but even break through the pressure, fame and fortune.
"12 centimeters long, what a cute little guy, look at this glowing brachiopod, how beautiful, its tip can glow, it must be used to attract prey, this is very similar to the behavior of some creatures in the deep sea of the home star!"
"That's right, one, two, three, four, five, a total of five brachiopods, one glows to attract prey, four catch prey, perfect coordination, I can even see them crawling on the bottom of the sea like an octopus, what do you think?"
"Look at this creature, it has 12 brachiopods, and the strips can glow, and they are very beautiful, but this beauty also means danger, so I think they should have enough means of self-defense, such as toxins!"
"I don't think, it may also be for mating, many creatures will only decorate themselves so obviously when they fight for the right to mate, swear their sense of existence, and at the same time it is also a process of survival of the fittest, there are many such ecological models on our home planet......"
These experts are arguing and arguing, but they also have a common conclusion: the matter should be announced to the world, and the sooner the better.
It's just that just as they were about to make a move, a group of black suits suddenly pushed the door in, wearing smart sunglasses, scanning the crowd back and forth, obviously looking for and confirming something.
"Are you in the wrong place, this laboratory is for our experiments, and the level of secrecy is very high, do you have permission?" Professor Evans asked.
Hearing him ask this, the leading middle-aged man in black captain said, "Professor Evans, I'm sorry, we're just checking to see if the professors are all there. ”
As he spoke, the man in black standing next to him slid his right hand slightly, and the news compiled by the men in black was passed to him, and after a quick reading, he continued: "It's all here, that's great." ”
"Professors, I know what you want to do, in fact, we just came from the command center, and I regret to tell you that according to the president's order, this news cannot be released to the public for the time being, and other than that, any of your research cannot be disclosed to the public."
"As for the reason, the professors don't need to know, because I regret knowing it now."
As he spoke, the captain in black passed the electronic version of the presidential order to these experts, and his subordinates also took out the paper version of the presidential order from the black lockbox, and then showed them one by one, and the stamps and anti-counterfeiting on it were complete.
This kind of battle makes these old professors feel a little uneasy, they are so old, the average is 65 years old, and some of them have experienced a lot of critical periods.
Naturally, they didn't dare to disobey such an order, but Evans still said before they left: "But the people of the alliance are on Mars, even if they can't find this large alien creature, they can find alien bacteria, which is very bad for us." ”
"Don't worry, Professor Evans," the Captain in Black said, turning his head as he was about to leave the door, "the Alliance is now an ally with us. ”
"Remember, we've never seen any aliens."