Chapter 40: The Red Haze

But after careful observation,

Yang Meng was a little disappointed to find that

The composition of these garbage mountains is very simple.

Most of the above are discarded parts generated by the robotic arm of the maintenance center.

In addition to some building materials,

If he wants to find some abandoned items about the Rutan civilization, he will probably have to dig a lot deeper.

And what he lacks now is time,

With Xiaoguang here, he can't dig through the garbage,

At this moment, Xiao Yi's voice sounded in his ears:

"Attention, Probe 06 has been destroyed!"

"Probe 06!"

Yang Meng was slightly stunned,

Suddenly remembered which detector this was,

Previously, when entering the data compartment of the maintenance center,

Yang Meng once placed a detector outside to detect those ellipsoids that no longer had any reaction.

In a hurry to find the wreckage of the spaceship, he didn't have time to retrieve the probe.

"But why is it a corrupted message, not a warning of a loss of signal?"

And when Yang Meng wanted to ask Xiao Yi about the damaged data of the detector,

Xiao Yi, who was leading the way in front, suddenly stopped:

"After such a long time, how can such a thing stay!"

Xiaoguang seemed to sense something, and there was a slight surprise in his words.

Seeing this, Yang Meng couldn't help but ask:

"What's wrong?"

"How can such a troublesome thing still exist!"

"We're going to get out of here now,

Just now you said that you have convenient transportation, and now you can use it! ”

Although I don't know, what happened,

But thinking that their own detector issued a corrupt code,

Yang Meng also knew that something offensive might appear.

After all, the detector he released is usually a loss of signal.

And this kind of broken code can be hung out very rarely.

Yang Meng glanced back,

The strange city behind him seemed to be shrouded in a faint red mist,

The red mist became thick at a speed visible to the naked eye,

And it's spreading in his direction,

Seeing this situation, Yang Meng no longer hid,

He took out two tennis-sized devices from his spacesuit,

Then, under Xiao Yi's control, these two devices became two skateboard-sized piece structures.

I saw that these two sheet structures were connected to each other to form a shingled skateboard.

When Yang slammed on the skateboard,

Xiao Yi's prompt sound sounded in his head:

"Easy Air Skateboard Linked!"

"The pneumatic module has been successfully chained!"

"The current wind speed is 2.3 meters per second!"

"Eligible!"

With Xiao Yi's hint

Yang Meng actually floated slowly.

"Posture assist is on, you're ready to go!"

The next moment,

Yang Meng flew forward,

And the point of light followed.

Although this is not Xiaoguang, the first time he has seen Yang Meng fly close to the ground like this,

But he still couldn't help but sigh:

"I didn't expect your civilization to have developed to such a point in terms of aerodynamics!"

"Aerodynamics!"

Yang Meng glanced at Xiaoguang,

If you only rely on aerodynamics, it is difficult to send people to the sky with a simple pneumatic skateboard.

And the reason why this can be done,

Or is it because the breakthrough in nuclear fusion has promoted the development of ion thrusters,

This is what makes it possible for humans to master such technology.

Seeing that Xiaoguang misestimated human technology,

Yang Meng didn't explain,

He glanced back at the thickening red mist behind him, and said with some curiosity:

"What's next, why do we have to leave urgently!"

"That thing......"

Xiaoguang didn't answer immediately, as if he was caught in some kind of memory.

"That's the red haze, a false consequence of our efforts to perpetuate civilization!"

"I thought after all these years,

Because of our demise, the red haze should also dissipate,

But what I didn't expect was that the red haze still existed! ”

"Red Haze! What is that? Yang Meng continued to ask.

"Red haze was originally a common natural phenomenon on our planet,

That's a miniature creature at a given time,

Due to environmental conditions such as temperature and nutrients, a phenomenon of rapid reproduction of microscopic organisms erupts.

And through the study of this phenomenon,

We found that they can produce energy by inhaling a certain amount of gas.

This gives us hope for the use of this micro-biomass to produce energy.

……”

Under Xiaoguang's explanation,

Yang Meng quickly understood the situation behind him,

"I didn't expect this civilization to develop a technology similar to microbial power generation!"

"Xiao Yi, I remember that we humans seem to have studied this aspect as well?"

"Yes, as early as 1910, the British botanist Mark Pitt first discovered that the culture of several bacteria was capable of generating electric current.

So he used platinum as an electrode and put it into the culture medium of E. coli or common yeast, and succeeded in creating the world's first bacterial battery!

Since then,

Microbial power generation has attracted great attention from scientific researchers.

After entering the age of atomic energy,

Biologists have even found a species of Shewanella in the rock flora,

By clipping the genes of this bacterium, it is theoretically possible to dispose of heavy metal nuclear waste with radioactive material!

……”

Xiaoyi's explanation gave Yang Meng a rough understanding of the development process of bacterial power generation.

Although humans have long discovered the phenomenon of bacterial power generation,

However, due to various factors, there has never been a method of gene editing to use bacteria to generate electricity.

It's just that in the direction of biogas power generation, microorganisms are indirectly used.

And after entering the era of controlled nuclear fusion,

The uncontrollable power generation method of microbial power generation has gradually been forgotten by scientific researchers.

"If mankind has never achieved a breakthrough in controlled nuclear fusion!"

"So in the face of global energy shortage, will the technology tree of microbial power generation be pointed out?"

Yang Meng has no answer in his heart for the choice of human beings.

But the Rutan people had already told Yang Meng their answer,

In the billions of years of development of the Rutans,

They also found a lot of various microorganisms that can produce energy.

And a lot of genetic modification was carried out.

But genetic mutations are extremely difficult to control. ,

A virus can have several variants in just two or three years, not to mention external forces intervening in the direction of its mutation.

In the end, the Rutans still lost control of some microorganisms.

Even though the Rutans have done some treatment with these microorganisms,

But with the demise of the Rutans,

The microbes that were originally controlled broke out again,

And the red mist behind them at the moment is one of them.

Xiao Guang on the side saw that Yang Meng had been silent, so he continued:

"Although the red mist will cause a lot of damage to the energy body, there is no need to worry about it at our current speed!"

"Since the speed is not fast, then we must go to the spaceship crash site as soon as possible, where there are still many supplies ......"