Chapter 44: Jupiter, the Star of Hope
"Dolores reports the battle damage." In a void of the universe, Pangaoko, who had escaped from Mars and ascended to heaven, returned to the homecoming ship and asked Dolores.
"Sir, no one on our side has died except for Superman, who has received some injuries. A total of 3,876 cultivators were damaged in battle, of which 1,203 were seriously injured and could not be repaired. No mecha wear and tear! The Homecoming was 53 percent damaged, and 9 percent of its energy reserves remained. We can only do one space jump, what is the destination? Dolores said to the crowd.
At this time, in addition to Pan Gaoke and a few people in the conference room, there were also representatives of various countries.
"Back to Earth, of course!" One delegate said, and others chimed in. Everyone is fed up with the tension on Mars, and they can't wait to get back to Earth.
"I'm against it, we need to go to Jupiter! My ship is out of fuel, and I need to go to Jupiter for a resupply. Pan Gaoke replied.
"But Jupiter is too far away from Earth, and if this trip to Jupiter doesn't go well, we will never be able to return to Earth. So my suggestion is to go back to Earth first and then go to Jupiter after the supplies are finished. One delegate spoke.
His family knows about his own affairs, and Pan Gaoke's spacecraft uses kryptonite as an energy source, which is a secret. The Earth representatives only knew that Pan Gaoke was going to Jupiter to refuel, but they did not know that the fuel was kryptonite. So they will think that it is foolish to gamble on Jupiter with a precious space jump. The proper way is to go back to Earth first. But Pan Gaoke knew that he would never have a chance to collect kryptonite elements again after returning to Earth, so he had no other choice but to go to Jupiter to gamble.
Just when Pan Gaoke was in a dilemma, Kara came over and whispered into Pan Gaoke's ear: "There are still 10 tons of kryptonite in Rozburg. It should be able to give you some. ”
Hearing this, Pan Gaoke was moved, the power system of Rozburg is also kryptonite, they need a huge amount of kryptonite due to the huge hull, plus the huge volume requires a large number of life-sustaining equipment to operate, and the resources consumed every day are astronomical. And lose the resource collection point of the red giant. The Kryptonite reserves of the Kryptonians are used a little less, and in this situation of lack of soldiers and food, Kara did not forget to help herself under the pressure of everyone, Pan Gaoke was very happy in his heart. This girl is really empathetic!
But he couldn't use Kryptonite from Rozburg, because Kara had only been leader for a short time, and what she needed was to help her maintain her rule rather than ask for it. And the representative of the earth also needs to give a reasonable explanation. Although Pan Gaoke can use his power to directly take the spacecraft to Jupiter, this will make these representatives suspicious, and it is not conducive to Pan Gaoke's strategy when he returns to Earth in the future.
At the critical moment, Bruce said: "Gentlemen, we must go to Jupiter, not only to replenish fuel there, but also to go there to establish an outpost to defend against the Martians, after the previous battles, I believe you must understand what a powerful race the Martians are." We must have another outpost to serve as a second base in the event of a future war with the Martians! ”
Although Bruce's point of view is not subject to scrutiny, the deputies only need an official statement, and with this statement, they can go back and report to the leadership. You see, we're doing this for the sake of the planet. And the spaceship is not ours, it belongs to the Pan Group. If people want to travel to Jupiter, we can't stop it! In this way, the last jump was left to Jupiter. Pan Gaoke's collection of kryptonite elements went smoothly, but if he failed, he could only lick his face and kneel to Kara to beg for a ticket, oh, kryptonite!
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Jupiter is the largest and fastest-rotating planet among the eight planets in the solar system. Jupiter is a gas giant. Composed mainly of hydrogen, followed by helium, which accounts for 25% of the total mass, gaseous planets have no physical surface, and their density of gaseous matter increases with depth.
If going to Jupiter to extract the kryptonite element is simply flying into Jupiter and extracting it with equipment, then you are very wrong. The difficulty of extracting elements from Jupiter is very great. Why?
Because Jupiter's violent natural environment can make all those who dare to land on it pay the price. Jupiter has strong hurricanes, high temperatures, strong pressures, and a chaotic magnetic field. Ordinary metal artifacts are instantly destroyed when they approach Jupiter. Only very strong materials have a way to approach Jupiter. It's not enough to just get close, what else do you need to detect kryptonite?
This work must be done by Pan Gaoke himself. Because there are no samples of kryptonite, the artificial intelligence Dolores can't analyze which ones are kryptonite out of thin air? Which ones are not? Therefore, this exploration work can only be completed by Pan Gaoke, who has a golden finger.
The hotter Jupiter moves inward, the denser the atmosphere becomes. If you advance too fast, because of Jupiter's dense atmosphere, Pangaoko's temperature will instantly rise to tens of thousands of K!
It's very dangerous at this point, not to mention that the more you get into Jupiter's interior, the darker it becomes. It was like a thick brown fog, with very low visibility and a huge wind that could completely tear ordinary people apart. At the same time, huge lightning is generated from time to time, and Thor's fury is nothing more than that...
Jupiter's atmosphere is about 3,000 km thick, and the temperature has risen to about 2,000 K when it reaches the bottom of the atmosphere. At this point, the tremendous pressure is enough to compress the surrounding hydrogen into a liquid state.
At this point, you will feel the humidity of your surroundings getting higher and higher, and finally it will become completely liquid, and you will come to the bottom of the liquid hydrogen ocean, where the temperature has risen to about 5000 K. The pressure is further strengthened to the point that liquid hydrogen already has metallic properties here, called metallic hydrogen, and the metallic hydrogen layer is the thickest layer. If you continue to fall, you will stop at the surface of the metallic hydrogen layer, because the density here is as dense as the human body.
That's when you'll need a lot of thrust to keep going deeper into Jupiter. With your unremitting efforts, you will come to the bottom of the metallic hydrogen layer. At this time, the temperature reaches 20,000 K, and the pressure reaches 100 million bars, which is 100 million standard atmospheres. At this point, a solid core will appear in front of you, made mostly of rock and metal.
If you haven't found the kryptonite element at this time, then congratulations, you can only go to the center of Jupiter to gamble your luck. The temperature there is 30,000 K, which is five times higher than the surface of the sun. At this temperature, it should be quite bright here, and there should be no problem with bright and blind titanium alloy dog eyes...
Well, that's the end of Jupiter's journey, and you won't make it back alive when you reach the center of Jupiter!
That's the difficulty of going to Jupiter to gather resources.
So it's not so easy to collect kryptonite elements in Jupiter, that's another war. A battle of wits between man and nature.
Fortunately, Pan Gaoke is surrounded by Clark and Kara, who look like Super Saiyans. With their help, the success rate of the collection can be improved.
But no one can say anything about this kind of thing! At this time, Pan Gaoke was particularly envious of the home planet of the Kryptonians, who had a huge amount of kryptonite resources. What can be done with just one mining rig becomes even more difficult in the solar system!
Pan Gaoke was in charge of the whole collection. On this kind of scientific issue, Pan Gaoke, as a scientist, has absolute authority.
"Listen, our first step is to log in to Europa and set up an outpost there. Bruce was in charge of the work. You can use artificial intelligence and nurturing people to assist you in this. When Bruce set up an outpost, I would use my Cultivator body to do a preliminary exploration of the outer layers of Jupiter's atmosphere with Clark and Kara. I'll lead the team, and you two should have no problem with your physique in the outer layer. If my cultivator dies, the two of you will take the storage device and take some samples back to the homecoming. If it is not necessary, the homecoming number will go into standby mode, and only the minimum life support system will be kept to reduce consumption. If we can't find the kryptonite element after three months, then we'll have to go back. Do you get it? ”
"Understood!" The crowd in the small conference room replied.
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Europa is a solid planet made of ice and snow, which is slightly smaller than the Moon. At this time, Pan Gaoke and others were standing on the ice of Europa, accompanied by some scientific researchers from various countries. Of course, everyone uses it to cultivate people's bodies, but they have a ventilator on their heads.
"It's so beautiful here!" Kara said through the intercom, to the Asian beauty next to her. That woman was Pan Gaoke. In order to save fuel, Pan Gaoke was reluctant to even open the crimson wanderer, and directly used it to cultivate people's bodies.
Europa has oxygen, but it's scarce. At this time, Kara stood on an iceberg and looked at the huge Jupiter in front of him side by side, and there were lightning bolts and huge red spots on Jupiter from time to time. It was a Jupiter storm.
"This is much better than the colorful auspicious clouds, right?" Pan Gaoke asked. When Kara heard this, Pan Gaoke rolled his eyes and said, "Why are your bodies all female?" Feeling weird? ”
"Can you convince your brother to give me the blood? With his blood, I can be transgender! Pan Gaoke complained.
"My soldiers have male blood for you, so why do you have to use Clark's blood?" Kara asked, inexplicably.
"Please, do you think you're of the same species as your brother and the other Kryptonians? I'm going to make some weak chickens out of the blood of your soldiers? Then I'd rather have a woman's body. Pan Gaoke said dissatisfied.
"When are we going to set off to Jupiter to extract the elements?" Carla asked.
"In about three days, I'm going to arrange the affairs of Europa first, and then find out if there is any life in Europa?" Pan Gaoke said.
"You're saying there's life alive under this ice? Will it be as threatening to us as the Martians? Carla was shocked.
"Eldest sister, usually read more popular science magazines. Europa has water beneath the ice, but the heat and atmosphere are not enough to warrant the birth of intelligent life. If there is life, it is some unicellular or multicellular organisms. It is basically impossible for intelligent beings like Mars to appear here! If the sun ages into a red giant in tens of thousands of years, the temperature here can reach above zero degrees when the volume of the sun engulfs the earth, and life may be born at that time! Pan Gaoke explained.
"You're a top student!" Kara pouted angrily.
"By the way, did you say that our Kryptonian past was also this kind of ice? When our stars turn into red giants, what about the rising temperatures that allow our planet to thrive with life? Carla asked curiously.
Faced with this question, Pan Gaoke was silent. According to the laws of evolution in nature, the generation of Kryptonians should indeed be like this. But there are too many doubts. For example, why do Kryptonians and earthlings look so similar? Why are there no reproductive isolation between Kryptonians and Earthlings? How can species that naturally evolved from two different star systems be so similar?
Is it really because the actors who shoot the TV series are all earthlings, and the production team is too lazy to spend money on special effects? I didn't think about this at all when I watched TV dramas before. But after traveling to this near-reality DC world, this problem is really a problem. Pan Gaoke felt as if there was a pair of big hands controlling the whole world.
The more he learns science, the more questions Pan Gaoke has! The more awe you are of the world!
"Sorry, I don't know how Kryptonians came to be? If I had the chance, I'd really like to go back in time and see Krypton, it would be great! Pan Gaoke said regretfully.
"If there is a day, I will definitely be your tour guide." Kara smiled sweetly.