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There is abundant air here, which maintains a strong atmospheric pressure, not nitrogen and hydrogen, but methane. There is plenty of methane gas here, with a concentration of more than 95% of the air, and the rest of it is ammonia.

"Hydrogen-based?"

Shen Cong thought in his heart.

The chemical formula of methane is CH4 and the chemical formula of ammonia is NH3, both of which contain hydrogen H, and if there is life here, CH4 or NH3 should be involved in the life cycle. Of course, it is also possible that it is just Shen Cong's wishful thinking, and the air here has nothing to do with life.

"The smell of ammonia is really bad and pungent." Shen Cong discarded the perception of ammonia.

Exploration of the ice continent began.

From the color feedback, the color of the ice island is bluish, which is the color of the air here. Occasionally, yellow, green and other gases are mixed in it, and the walls of the ice cave are mixed with blue, yellow and white.

Shen Cong began to fly along the ice cave wall, heading towards the possible bottom of the cave, and as he went deeper and deeper, he descended for more than thirty kilometers before touching the bottom of the cave.

The bottom of the cave was not an ice block, but a rock structure.

The gray-yellow rocks, with a pressure of 400 million pascals, were as hard as diamonds at low temperatures, and even Shen Cong could hardly break through these unusual rocks.

"There's a geyser there?" Shen Cong's perception caught an anomaly on the rocky surface.

When we arrived, the geyser was spewing blue gas, which contained a large amount of methane, and the temperature was also very high, about minus thirty or forty degrees.

Around the geyser, several long strip-like creatures crawled lazily on the ground.

Shen Cong hid his radiation fluctuations and quickly approached these long strip-like creatures, which were the first Heavenly Yuan four-b life forms he had discovered.

Without alarming the long strip-shaped creatures, Shen Cong observed carefully.

These lifeforms are very large, the small ones are two or three hundred meters long and fifty or sixty meters thick, and the large ones are five or six hundred meters long and more than a hundred meters thick. The active waves emitted from the body, after perception, are probably the second- and third-level standards of particles, that is, super eight and super nine talents. On earth, it is not like a strong man.

"Capture a strip and study it carefully."

As soon as he thought of it, Shen Cong immediately approached one of them, and before the other party could react, he instantly cut off the part where the head and body were combined.

Its head looks hard at first glance, but its body is not.

The big sword was swung and the cutting movement was successfully done, and a good lifeform became two pieces. The head "spasms" constantly, and the body jumps around.

This movement attracted the attention of the others, and they all rushed towards Shen Cong, with their round heads as arrows.

"Fuck off! Bugger! ”

Shen Cong's big sword slapped in a circle without hesitation, just like the move in "Transformers 5: The Last Knight", in which Optimus Prime slashed a bunch of minions with one sword.

Bang bang!

The strip-like creature flew upside down and smashed into the rocky surface, cracking the surface. But the surface was terrifyingly hard, and the cracks closed again in the blink of an eye, with no cracks visible. With such strong pressure and pressure, rocks already have the ability to heal on their own.

The strength of the ice cave is unimaginable.

Seeing that they couldn't attack Shen Cong, these long strip-like creatures left four corpses behind after several impacts, and turned around and fled. Shen Cong was not in a hurry to hunt them, but picked up the corpses on the ground and carefully studied and analyzed.

There is no gold nucleus formation, but it is indeed polluted by metal life, and the body part is metallized, becoming a species that inherits the relics.

"Hey, you have brains?"

The head of the creature is not whole, but is divided into two petals with a thin slit in the middle.

It is easy to cut along the slits.

The head ball was cut, and Shen Cong found that there was a suspected neurosphere-like structure inside, which stretched out a line and connected the entire body.

As you can guess, this is its nervous system.

This is another path of life that has the same principle as life on earth, but is only different from the basic constituent matter, and compared with the evolution of life on the spirit ball, Tianyuan 4b is obviously more in line with the "aesthetics" of life on earth.

"I've already figured out how to name Tianyuan IVB...... Life originates from the ice here, and surviving in a frozen environment is simply called ice hockey! ”

Tianyuan 4b has been renamed ice hockey since then.

Shen Cong looked down at the corpse in his hand: "As for this long strip-like creature, let's call it the Ice Continent Hammerhead Snake, it really looks like a hammer." ”

The lifeless Ice Continent hammerhead snake has a hard erect body.

Shen Cong picked up a whole corpse, and as if he were holding a hammer, he hammered it into the ground, which could crack the surface of the rock. But then Shen Cong seemed to think of something, and threw away this kind of Ice Continent hammerhead snake with a cylindrical body, a huge head that was round, and divided into two petals.

"Disgusting."

……

The Ice Continent Hammerhead Snake was eliminated, and Shen Cong began to deal with the geyser.

The geyser that spewed methane, along with the eruption of fire energy, Shen Cong laboriously dug through the surface rocks, racing against time to find a shard of fire before the surface began to heal.

Tinder fragments are about the size of a washbasin.

Judging from the traces, not much material has escaped, because the crack surface is still very clear, as if it has just been cracked.

The shards of the earth's tinder, the edges and corners have begun to be smoothed out because they are constantly escaping.

"The low temperature limits the radiation from the fire fragments, so it is well preserved. Although the Ice Continent Hammerhead Snake is very talented, this has something to do with the strength of its life body, in fact, it does not obtain much fire energy. In other words, as long as I collect the Tinder Fragments, I will basically empty the remnants here. ”

The premise is that all the ice continents can be found and all the fire fragments can be dug up.

It's a tricky job.

However, Shen Cong was not afraid of such difficulties at all, and he immediately began to make signal markers on the rocky surface and advance in different areas. Carefully inspect one area after another.

When you see a hammerhead snake on an ice island, you hunt it, and when you see a geyser, you dig it.

With the radiation guidance of the fire energy, it is relatively easy to find, but the interference here is very strong, and he can't perceive the farther range.

Time passes.

After the Ice Continent Hammerhead Snake, Shen Cong discovered a second ice hockey creature.

A small mushroom-shaped insect that was far smaller than the Ice Continent hammerhead snake, only about ten meters tall, and Shen Cong thought it was a mushroom at first. As a result, an ice-island hammerhead snake quietly approached the mushroom, and the mushroom immediately shrank and turned into a small pointed worm, twisted its body, and burrowed into the hard surface rock without any effort.

However, the Ice Continent Hammerhead Snake is very smart and knows to wait for the rabbit, lying motionless nearby.

Half an hour later, the mushroom-shaped worm came out again, was smashed into a biscuit by a hammerhead snake, and then rolled over the biscuit, and countless mouthparts opened to absorb the biscuit.

Shen Cong then hunted a small mushroom-shaped bug.

It was found that the structure of the small insect is very simple, there is no brain, only a simple nervous system, and the action is all instinctive.

"Let's call it a mushroom bug."

"The Ice Continent Hammerhead Snake Eats Mushroom Worms, What Do Mushroom Worms Eat?" Shen Cong observed a mushroom worm for about three days, and finally figured out what the mushroom worm ate.

It eats methane rain.

Methane rain is a phenomenon that rains on ice islands, and about every week or so, too much methane gas erupts from geysers, triggering the liquefaction of methane.

As if it were raining, countless amounts of liquid methane fell on the surface and eventually converged in the low-lying areas where mushroom insects grow. The mushroom insect opens the pores of its body and frantically absorbs the methane rain, which can grow from 10 meters to 30 meters tall in an hour, with an astonishing speed.

"It's a very simple ecological cycle, snakes eat insects, insects eat rain, and the rain comes from geysers formed by underground methane eruptions...... Although it is not closed, the food chain is not much more complicated. Is it because the food chain here is monotonous? Or is it tainted and destroyed by the legacy of the Raging Star Breaker? ”

It is impossible to judge.

Shen Cong could only continue his scientific research while collecting Tinder Grain resources, and soon unearthed about 100 Tinder fragments of different sizes. This amount is equivalent to one-fiftieth of the total amount of the spirit orb remains. At this time, the huge ice continent has been thoroughly explored by Shen Cong.

"In that case, I'll need to keep finding fifty ice islands like this one before I can scavenge for the remnants of the puck." Shen Cong calculated.