After dinner at the Mars Graphene R&D Base, Chen Mengchuan received a message from Toni.

Europa's ice shell is almost open.

After neatly cleaning up the dinner plates, Chen Mengchuan quickly rushed to the No. 1 remote control center on the edge of Suixing.

As soon as I entered the control center, I noticed that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the entire control center.

Everyone looked excited.

"Have you eaten yet?" Chen Mengchuan walked up to Zhang Dongyu and asked him.

"Brother Chuan." Zhang Dongyu was shocked and shuddered.

"What are you doing?" Chen Mengchuan asked.

Zhang Dongyu took two deep breaths before he slowly spoke: "Brother Chuan, you look like the same thing." ”

As he spoke, he waved his hand and beckoned a gravitational plate.

Above is an image of an ice formation geomorphosis analysis.

At the first glance of Chen Mengchuan's appearance, his heart jumped violently, and the whole person couldn't help but tremble.

"These freezing points, are they hollow ice?" Chen Mengchuan immediately asked him.

In the picture, many irregular white lines like ant nests were found along the pipe, and the conclusion drawn from the data is simulated, which are irregular ice holes, and the diameter of these ice holes is very uniform, the small ones are about 15 cm, and the large ones are about 25 cm.

"The conference room has been torn out, and many biologists believe it's some kind of clawed creature that lives in an ice shell...... Resembles a pangolin or a large-clawed mole rat. ”

Chen Mengchuan could almost clearly feel his heart pounding.

"The area where these white lines were found was already 10,000 meters below the ice shell. The surrounding temperature was minus 165 degrees Celsius, and at a depth of about 9,000 meters, there was a fault about 120 meters vertical, and the fault data is here. Zhang Dongyu pulled the gravitational plate and pointed it to Chen Mengchuan.

"There is no image data yet, and we can't put down a separate imaging gravitational device yet, the temperature is too low, and if there is no continuous warmth, it will be quickly frozen, but we have already begun to arrange for manpower to prepare."

Chen Mengchuan carefully looked at the wave penetration analysis and imaging, this picture is like a relatively sparse ant cave, the ice road caves seem to have few rules, but there is a vague pattern.

Many ice caves have some irregular areas of ice and air, like nests3.

"How long will it take to break through the ice shell? What about Toni? ”

"They're all in the conference room inside, you know when you walk in, it's going crazy inside, Toni gave a gag order, temporarily prohibiting the transmission of news outside, and Ah Chen has already cooperated with the emergency information blockade." Zhang Dongyu said.

Chen Mengchuan nodded, and after exchanging a few more words with him, he asked him to continue to watch the drilling progress, walked to the door of the conference room, and pushed the door in.

In the noisy conference room, a large group of people gathered in a handful, all of them were discussing something in a fierce exchange, and Chen Mengchuan's entry basically did not attract much attention.

Chen Mengchuan saw Toni not far away and walked straight over.

Walking to the front and back, several people noticed Chen Mengchuan's approach, and Toni stepped forward with a smile and gave Chen Mengchuan a strong hug.

"Congratulations. This would be the best news in a while. There was a rare excitement and excitement on Toni's face.

"I didn't expect you to be so happy and excited." Chen Mengchuan smiled.

"Isn't this something to be happy and excited about?" Toni asked rhetorically.

Chen Mengchuan shrugged his shoulders and gave an affirmation: "Of course." ”

That being said, in his heart, this matter is not a big deal, Europa found life, he has some numbers in his heart, so when facing this news now, except for a shock at the beginning, he calmed down later.

Now Toni's words don't take him too seriously.

After all, it was just the discovery of an extraterrestrial life, which was not a big discovery, as long as Tianzhi Technology continued to explore outside, it would be discovered sooner or later.

He was more interested in what kind of ice-resistant life would be excavated from this ice tunnel cave.

Being able to dig such a complex tunnel in the ice in an environment of minus 165 degrees Celsius is at least unfound on Earth.

Taking a step back, it's hard to find an environment of minus 165 degrees Celsius on Earth.

Could it really be a pangolin or mole-like creature?

Chen Mengchuan didn't know that if it was such a creature, then at least it would definitely not be at the level of microorganisms, but a small creature category of a mature body.

"We really didn't expect to find the possibility of life outside the earth." Toni shook his head slightly, and his whole mood seemed a little abnormal.

The last time Chen Mengchuan saw such Toni, he saw it when he was about to complete his first space crossing.

"Toni, this will only be the beginning for us." Chen Mengchuan smiled and comforted him.

Obviously, Chen Mengchuan's words had an effect, and Toni seemed to calm down a lot sooner.

At this time, Chen Mengchuan noticed that they had more data and information in their hands, and the structural diagram of ice geological wave analysis and imaging was also more three-dimensional, and the picture sense and content were obviously more substantial.

When these white lines are magnified on a larger gravitational screen, the slightly distorted irregular tube shape looks strangely beautiful.

"What do you think of these things?" Chen Mengchuan opened his mouth and asked.

There were a few others with whom Toni was not familiar but who were undoubtedly cutting-edge scientists or scholars.

"It's all being discussed, and there was a fight just now." Toni said with a smile.

Chen Mengchuan was stunned, he didn't expect to fight, this gang of people engaged in scientific research, I didn't expect it to be so direct.

Toni nodded: "It's not very fierce, but it's really a big dispute, everyone doesn't agree on these ice tunnels, but most of the people are inclined to these ice tunnels excavated by creatures, and the reasons are very reasonable." There are also many people who believe that these are irregular sodium solitic channels, and some very credible claims have been made. Similar images have been found in the ice of Antarctica, but only with a few relatively poor images. ”

"The comparison can serve as a certain reference, but it is not easy to draw conclusions."

Chen Mengchuan smiled. The irregular sodium solitates in the ice of Antarctica have not been found below 10,000 meters of ice.

Humans have never been to the 10,000-metre depth of the Antarctic ice.

Obviously, there is not much to be supported by this claim.

"It doesn't matter, after all, we haven't achieved the goal we want, these data are still less, and when we put the ice geological wave permeability analysis imaging equipment further into the space below 10,000 meters, we will be able to obtain more intuitive and accurate data."

"You mean to use space shuttle to get the device down? This is certainly a good idea, but there is only one set of space shuttles on the Edge One, and the temperature below is even lower, so it may not be easy to operate. Toni's eyes lit up and he began to think about it seriously.

"Doesn't it mean that the spatial drop of the fault is more than 100 meters? Isn't that enough? Chen Mengchuan nodded at him and stopped talking.

Toni's eyes flickered a few times, and a lot of smiles appeared on his face, obviously having a solution in mind.