Chapter 552: Space Octopus

Under the control of Doctor Octopus, a large number of exploration creatures enter the lunar battle star every day, plunging into a huge three-dimensional labyrinth to continuously explore this giant artificial star.

Meng Yang is trying to create a new type of life, a life that targets the space environment. After moving to Mars, Meng Yang had this idea.

He felt that the Fire Moon Empire needed a life that did not need to carry special provisions, could survive freely in the space environment, could withstand gravityless environments, could withstand low and high temperatures, could withstand cosmic radiation, did not have to rely on air, did not need to replenish water, and could even not eat for a long time.

Mars and the Moon are just the starting point, and in the near future, the Fire Moon Empire will definitely set foot on other planets, whether it is exploration or exploration, there is a creature that can adapt to the space environment will definitely play an important role.

Meng Yang thought about his current learning progress, and the existing carbon-based, sulfur-based, and amino lifeforms were probably not easy to meet this requirement. He felt he needed to design a new life form that could get rid of water, or get rid of the carbon chain.

Meng Yang thought for a long time, and finally set his sights on the silicon base, the thermal stability of the silicon compound is very good, the hardness and durability are also very good, the only problem is that its chemical activity is not enough.

Silicon-based life is a huge topic, and Meng Yang knew that he couldn't solve such a big problem now, so he decided to put together a hodgepodge because of his ugliness.

This life is based on metal as the skeleton, electrosensitive elastic fibers as muscles, silicon-based nervous system, plus a nuclear energy battery, everything that can be simplified is simplified as much as possible, and what can be replaced by ready-made inorganic materials is not used as much as possible without complex life tissues.

This peculiar space life was quickly designed under the purpose of all practical things in Mengyang, and the first space life was a space octopus.

Compared to the home on Earth, this octopus looks very abstract, full of Cruso's style, and at first glance, it looks like a tentacle monster, with a fleshy body surrounded by numerous tentacles, and a few tentacles dangling around with their eyeballs.

No matter which angle you look at, it is difficult to distinguish the front and back of this space octopus, you can't figure out its up and down, front and back, you can't see not only the feeding organs on its body, but also the excretory organs, the only organs that can be observed from the outside are the eyes, ears, nose and the like at all.

If it is said that people have seven knots, then this space octopus may not be counted at all, even the eyeballs are on the tentacles, and they do not leak when soaked in water.

Shortly after the birth of the first space octopus, it was thrown to the surface of the moon by Meng Yang for testing, and the space octopus appeared very adaptable on the surface of the moon.

The space octopus was very curious when it first landed on the moon, holding up a few eyes to scan around, sending out a series of chaotic signals of unknown meaning in the contact channel.

The space octopus is like a child who has just entered the playground, and after the initial strangeness, it quickly spreads joy, it tries to move itself, it uses a few tentacles to support itself, crawls like a spider quickly, or simply turns itself into a ball, rolling quickly on the surface of the moon, or it learns to move forward with a kangaroo jumping forward......

The space octopus is playing happily on the surface of the moon, and Meng Yang is constantly collecting all kinds of data about it.

“...... The temperature in the shadow is -257°C, the temperature in the sunlight is 281°C, the flexible tissue is normal at present, there is no abnormality due to the rapid change of temperature difference, the body has good thermal insulation performance, good thermal stability, and good conductivity......"

"Doctor Octopus, has its energy consumption increased?"

"No, the power consumption is normal, it seems that it can adapt to the ultra-low temperature environment, and there are no heating measures."

"Test it for intelligence."

"Okay." Doctor Octopus agreed, and an order was given to the space octopus.

The space octopus was stunned for a moment, and then moved quickly, only to see it running quickly on the surface of the moon, looking for targets everywhere like a busy hamster, its eyes stretched high, scanning around like a searchlight.

Soon it found a target, which was a relatively regular piece of moon rock, and it quickly ran over, a tentacle reaching out and rolling up the moon rock.

It took the moon rock to look for the next target again, it ran tirelessly on the surface of the moon, busily searched around, and it didn't take long for its tentacles to roll up a dozen moon rocks.

At this time, the space octopus was covered with large and small moon rocks, and its appearance was extremely strange, like a moving rock pile.

When the space octopus's tentacles were insufficient, it quickly chose a level ground, placed the rocks in front of its eyes and carefully compared them, and then its tentacles moved quickly to build the rocks together.

When all the rocks were used up, the space octopus flew out again, and it didn't take long for it to run back with a full body of rocks, and with the efforts of the space octopus, a rock house made of moon rocks slowly took shape.

The space octopus left a door and a window for the stone house, and finally covered the roof with a few slatted stones, and a stone house with a strong primitive style appeared on the surface of the moon.

"It's a good job, it's good to think, analyze, and plan, and it's built at one time without any experience, which shows that it's still quite intelligent."

The results of the test were satisfactory, but Meng Yang felt that there were still some shortcomings, he thought about it carefully, and found that the application range of the space octopus was still a bit narrow, and it needed to be improved.

Meng Yang first processed the tentacles of the space octopus, so that its tentacles were equipped with suction cups, and the ends were equipped with fingers and sharp claws, so that it could move freely in any terrain.

But this is not enough, since it is called a space octopus, it needs to have the ability to move in space, but this matter is too troublesome, Meng Yang chose an external module, and designed a nuclear-powered jet engine for the octopus, take one when needed, and the octopus can ride around on a rocket.

The octopus also needs professional detection equipment, and Meng Yang integrates small detection equipment into the body of the space octopus, and makes a large plug-in module.

The main mission of the space octopus is to explore, so it needs to face a lot of extremely harsh environments, and simple resistance to low temperature and high temperature is not enough.

Meng Yang added acid and alkali resistance, as well as anti-high pressure and anti-radiation capabilities to the space octopus, so that the function of the space octopus was basically completed.

The improved space octopus has a very wide range of adaptation, and can work continuously for hundreds of years with the help of nuclear batteries, and most exploration missions can be handed over to space octopuses.

"Boss, is this space octopus scheduled for production?"

"Produce a batch first, send it to Venus, and let them explore Venus thoroughly first."