Chapter 3: The Frozen Planet
Zhou Xin, they all focused their attention on the ice volcano eruption on the screen. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The ice volcano appears to have started erupting only after the probe landed. On the screen, the crater first spewed out a large amount of broken ice, which was the size of a ping-pong ball or even larger than a car, and it flew out at a very high speed under the tremendous pressure of the ground. The broken ice stopped after a few minutes of eruption, and then it was liquid water, although it was liquid water, but it was liquid when it was first sprayed, and not long after it was ejected, it turned into a fog at the extremely low temperature on the surface of the planet, and then turned into Xiaoice crystals, and these Xiaoice crystals refracted a rainbow under the light of the probe, which looked very beautiful.
Seeing the scenery in front of them, Zhou Xin and the others were stunned for a while, and after a while they came back to their senses, and Ralph said: "Oh my God, it's really beautiful, I didn't expect there to be such a beautiful scenery here." ”
Zhou Xin nodded and said with emotion: "Dangerous places always hide extraordinary beauty, and this is also the case in our home planet, where you can always find unusual scenery. ”
Ten minutes later, the eruption of this ice volcano slowly weakened, and finally stopped, because there was no air on the surface of the planet, so all this happened in silence, Zhou Xin and they felt as if they had watched a silent movie.
Before Zhou Xin could recover from the scene of the spectacular ice volcano eruption, another probe sent back a new scene, this time the scene sent back was equally spectacular, it was an ice waterfall several hundred meters high, this waterfall seemed to be frozen directly when it flowed, and ice in the shape of a splash could be seen on the waterfall. The probe explored along the ice waterfall from top to bottom, Zhou Xin and they saw that there were not only static water splashes on the picture, but also all kinds of strange shapes of ice cubes, under the influence of gravity for many years, the ice waterfall was distorted into a variety of indescribable shapes, these strangely shaped ice, under the light of the detector refracted a strange scene, on the quiet screen looked very weird.
After looking at the footage sent back by the probe, Spred couldn't help but sigh: "Such a high ice waterfall is as spectacular as the previous ice volcano." ”
"That's right." Zhou Xin nodded, "The ice volcano embodies the dynamic beauty of this planet, and this waterfall shows the static beauty of this planet. It's amazing. ”
However, in addition to their amazement, they also began to worry that after exploring this planet for so long, they had only found some spectacular scenery on the planet, but they had not found any signs of high-tech products, not even simple tools.
Taking advantage of the fact that the probe had not yet sent back a new scene, Spred said to Zhou Xin worriedly: "Why haven't we found the traces left by the Atlanteans for so long, are we really looking for the wrong one?" ”
After listening to Spred's words, Zhou Xin also began to worry, but he still comforted: "It's not that we haven't explored this planet yet, maybe we haven't found the clues they left behind." ”
"Let's hope so." Spred whispered.
At this time, the detector sent back a new picture, when the picture was just released, Zhou Xin They thought it was a new ice waterfall, but after the picture moved for a while, Zhou Xin They found that this was actually a canyon, a canyon completely composed of ice Zhou Xin They also saw it for the first time, they curiously followed the lens of the detector all the way to explore, and now, the detector is walking along the cliff on one side of the canyon to the bottom of the canyon, on the way, Zhou Xin saw a small platform protruding from the cliff, In the cave, I even saw a large ice rock hanging crumblingly from the cliff. These views can be seen from the ordinary rocky cliffs, but since the scenery here is made of ice, Zhou Xin still feels a little fresh.
After descending along the cliff for a long time, the probe finally reached the bottom of the cliff. When the camera of the probe moved to the ground at the bottom of the cliff, Zhou Xin noticed something strange - there was no ice on the ground, but ordinary rocks. For the first time, the probe has actually set foot on the surface of the planet.
The first time they set foot on the rocky surface of this planet, Zhou Xin and the others were a little curious, so they let the probe slowly move along the bottom of the canyon. As the probe moved, Zhou Xin and they saw that the bottom of this canyon was covered with gravel, Zhou Xin tried to let the probe remove the gravel to see the complete ground underneath, but the probe dug down for a long time, until the surrounding gravel slipped into the pit because it was too deep and did not see a relatively complete ground, so Zhou Xin had to give up this idea and let the probe move on. Under the light of the detector, the ice walls on both sides glowed with a slight blue light, giving people a sense of tranquility, even the command module was immersed in this quiet atmosphere, only the detector moved forward silently, about half an hour later, Zhou Xin They felt that the two sides of the canyon seemed to begin to narrow, as the detector continued to advance, this trend became more and more obvious, the canyon that could have driven two cars is now only the width of one car, and after a while, the width of the canyon has shrunk to the point that even the detector can not pass. Seeing this situation, Zhou Xin had no choice but to let the detector turn around.
For the rest of the day, the probe explored the other side of the canyon in the opposite direction, however, apart from the occasional ice rock falling from the cliff in one piece of rubble, Zhou Xin and the others found nothing else in the canyon, and Ralph even began to yawn incessantly for the second half of the canyon.
Seeing that this canyon has been explored, Zhou Xin asked the Voyager to switch to the next probe, but after switching several probes one after another, Zhou Xin and they didn't see any scenery worth paying attention to, what they saw was nothing more than snowfields, small hills, and occasionally saw a few ice cracks, these cracks were not wide, even the probes couldn't go down, after seeing more than a dozen probes, Zhou Xin reluctantly handed over the work to the Voyager, and he lay on the seat and wandered.
In the next few days, the probe continued to explore the planet, but Zhou Xin and the others saw snow in addition to the snow, and the rest were some ice cracks. It's not that he doesn't want to watch it, but looking at a snow-white screen for a long time has caused a lot of burden on Zhou Xin's eyes, basically watching for half an hour, Zhou Xin can only see white snowflakes in front of his eyes.
Now, Zhou Xin is resting in his seat, and Spred is taking over his work and staring at the screen in front of him. At this moment, the screen turned, and a new detector sent back a new picture.
"Ice caves?" Spred muttered to himself, and then he said to Zhou Xin, "An ice cave, do you want to take a look at it?" ”
Zhou Xin lay on his seat in distress and replied, "Spare me, let me rest for a while, and if I look at it again, I'm afraid that I will even dream of a snow-white dream when I sleep at night, so I'll look at it when I make any special discoveries." ”
Spred turned his head and continued to stare at the screen in front of him, on which the robot had already begun to enter the ice cave.
Spred couldn't help but be a little disappointed when he saw the scene in the ice cave, the ice wall on the screen was almost attached to the camera, Spred could even see the tiny cracks in the ice wall, he made the detector rotate in a circle, and it turned out that the ice cave was indeed only that small, just enough to accommodate a probe with a diameter of one meter. However, Spred still held out hope and ordered the probe to move on, but the probe did not see any signs of widening the passage after a long time, and the passage seemed to be narrowing. The probe was almost hard to squeeze through, squeezing through and scraping off a few pieces of crushed ice. Seeing this, Spred hesitated in his heart whether to order the probe to stop, but just as Spred hesitated, the surrounding passage seemed to start widening again, at least the probe would no longer rub against the ice wall. As a result, Spred stopped and was about to blurt out the order, allowing the probe to continue exploring. As the probes moved forward, the passage became a little more wide, and the passage that could barely accommodate one detector could now accommodate two detectors side by side. Then the passage became wider and wider, but it didn't take long for an ice rock to block the probe.
The ice rock seemed to have collapsed a while ago, and Spred could still see where it had broken off, and on the screen, the ice rock seemed to be tightly blocking the passage. Spred was a little disappointed to see this scene, but he didn't seem to give up, and he asked the probe to search carefully along the gap between the ice rock and the ice cave. Luckily, on one side of the cave wall, the probe found a gap that could barely squeeze in. So, the probe barely squeezed in along the narrow slit.
After struggling to advance about ten meters or so in this gap, the probe suddenly opened up, and the probe seemed to have walked into a large cavern, Spred secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then ordered the probe to scan the cave, just as the light of the probe swept the cave wall for the first time, Spred was completely shocked by the scene in front of him.
The walls of the cave are covered with a variety of cone-shaped icicles of different shapes, like stalactite caves, and what is even more peculiar is that under the light of the detector, these icicles show a variety of colorful colors, and the light of different colors is intertwined and sprinkled on the ground, forming an indescribably beautiful pattern. As the probe moves, the colors on the icicles are still changing, and the patterns on the ground are also changing with the movement of light, as if the probe has come to a mysterious fairy tale world.
Spred was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses, and he stammered and shouted to Zhou Xin, "Hurry-hurry-look at the screen." ”
Zhou Xin yawned and said slowly, "What is it this time?" As he spoke, he straightened up, and the first time he saw the screen, he was instantly frozen. Even the researchers, who were attracted by Spred's cry and glanced at them in passing, fell silent, and the command cabin fell silent for a moment.
The silence lasted for a while, and finally it was Ralph who came to his senses first: "Oh! Is this really the scenery from the big ice hockey puck?! So beautiful! I love it! Uncle Captain, Uncle Captain, I'm going to play in that hole! She said noisily beside her.
Zhou Xin came back to his senses at this time, he glanced at Ralph, and said: "I won't say how bad the environment of this planet is, just the passage that the probe passed through, are you sure you can squeeze in with protective clothing?" Don't think about it, stay on the ship honestly. ”
"Oh—" Ralph whispered, flattening his lips.
Then Zhou Xin sighed to Spred: "I thought the scenery we saw before was shocking enough, but I didn't expect that there was such a magical scenery hidden here, it was really unbelievable." Even I wanted to go down and see for myself. ”
Staring at the unpredictable patterns on the screen, Spred subconsciously said, "Actually, I want to see it too." ”
"Let's go down and have a look!" Ralph instantly became energetic, and then Zhou Xin gave her a blank look, and she was quiet again.
Zhou Xin turned his head to the Voyager and said, "Traveler, record the picture, the virtual equipment on the ship can simulate this kind of scenery, and put these pictures into the virtual system." ”
"Understood."
Ralph jumped to his feet in an instant, and then hurriedly dropped a sentence, "I'm going to the recreation room." Then she was nowhere to be seen in the command module.
Looking at Ralph, who ran out happily, Zhou Xin shook his head helplessly, and then continued to turn his gaze back to the screen. The picture on the screen was still changing, and the curious Zhou Xin carefully observed the ice picks that refracted light on the cave wall. Then, he seemed to find that the ice picks that refracted the light were a little strange, when the detector's light illuminated some ice picks, the light refracted by these ice picks seemed to be a little strange, the original detector light should be evenly distributed after being refracted by the ice picks, but after the refraction of these ice picks, the colorful light seemed to be biased towards a certain color. The inquisitive Zhou Xin brought the probe closer to these strange ice picks. After getting closer to these ice picks, Zhou Xin found that these ice picks themselves have a color, and the ice picks in front of him glowed with a slight green light under the light, which made Zhou Xin a little surprised, and he ordered the detector to turn to the surrounding ice picks to the camera, and the surrounding ice picks were also green. Then, Zhou Xin asked the probe to investigate farther away from these ice picks, and as a result, in addition to the green ice picks, Zhou Xin also found red, blue, yellow, and other colored ice picks, Zhou Xin was completely curious, he ordered the detector to carefully explore these colored ice picks, and the detector found that the water that made up the ice picks contained a small amount of metal salts, and it was they that caused the ice picks to change color, thus creating such a fantastic scenery.
"Nature is really magical." Just when Zhou Xin was sighing, a detector sent an urgent message......