"Found a clone colony!"

Hearing Xiao Yin's prompt voice, Yang Meng groaned,

In terms of fusion fuel, maybe you can find clues from the clones,

After all, clones are the same as humans,

Need to live in a place where there is oxygen.

And there are not many means to obtain oxygen in such a marine environment.

In addition to self-circulation to reduce oxygen consumption, there are only a few ways to obtain oxygen.

One is when the isopore fungus floats,

Collect the oxygen produced by the photosynthesis of air and polypores,

The other is to decompose the ubiquitous water molecules in the sea.

If it is a decomposition of water, there is a high probability that hydrogen will be generated,

It's just that Yang Meng can't be sure that if the clone uses the method of splitting water, it will store the hydrogen element.

For the sake of economic value, human beings will develop hydrogen energy.

He wasn't sure if the clones had mastered the technology,

And more importantly,

"If they can decompose water molecules, these clones may have mastered additional energy technology!"

Yang Meng guessed what to do, and turned the picture to the detector,

The detectors scattered during this time found more than one gathering place of metal balls.

He first looked at the closest clone colony to the Wide Area Silence.

I saw that in the picture of the probe,

There is a large space that is no less than the parking of the wide-area silence,

Here you can see a large number of metal balls gathered in it,

And the most obvious of these is that there is a large blue hemispherical structure in the center.

Seeing such a structure,

Yang Meng put aside the matter of fusion fuel for the time being,

Follow the detector's surveillance camera and browse the gathering place of the metal balls.

"What are you doing here?"

Yang Meng saw a large number of metal balls, such as bird eggs in a bird's nest gathered here, and naturally had such a question.

"Is it where the cloning equipment is located, or is it the production of metal balls......"

"Wait! Here it is......"

At this time, Yang Meng suddenly noticed something,

I saw a black tube sticking out of the blue hemisphere device in the middle of this space.

This tube, which looks very hard, is directly pressed against a metal ball.

The next moment, a red light rose from the pipe,

It seems that something liquid has flowed from the black tube into the metal ball,

Seeing this scene, Yang Meng immediately reacted to something, asked the detector to turn on the infrared detection device, and detected the temperature near the red pipe.

As the detector data was transmitted back, it was found that there were thousands of degrees of high temperature in the black pipe.

"Looks like this is a metalworking plant!"

"It's supposed to be the material used to build the metal ball!"

"So, where do the ingredients come from?"

"Also, a fusion device at low frequencies alone can't drive a large material smelter!"

"Could it be that these metal spheres also have a fusion device?"

Thinking of this, Yang Meng couldn't help but be surprised,

It would be a very dangerous thing to let these clones master fusion technology.

Clones with fusion technology,

to some extent already possessed the ability to confront humans,

But Yang Meng carefully recalled the activities of these metal balls, as well as the information he learned from Clone 617,

From this information, it can be seen that the probability of fusion technology mastered by the clones is not high.

"Maybe it's some kind of energy technology before the fusion era!"

Thinking of pre-fusion technology, it's a little hard to tell what the energy source of these clones is.

After all, before human beings broke through controlled nuclear fusion,

Various ways to obtain energy and electricity can be said to be a hundred flowers.

However, combined with the violent natural environment of Ross 128b, as well as the extremely fast currents in the sea,

He remembered how the guard balls had dealt with them when they were spotted by them.

"They used to control the very fast currents that washed over the space where the ship was located."

"Maybe they used ocean currents to generate electricity"

Yang Meng can probably still judge that the energy used by these clones may be the kinetic energy generated by the ocean current when it washes away the polypores to provide electricity for its own civilization system.

And soon, the new discovery of the detector also confirmed a point.

Because there are too many metal balls near the metal smelter,

Yang Meng didn't dare to let the detector get too close and attract unnecessary attention.

Just let the probe who enters here observe from a distance.

At this time, he also moved the screen to another metal sphere gathering area.

The next moment,

A peculiar scene appeared in the picture,

I saw that in a huge space,

There are several large fan blade structures that look like fans.

These fan blade structures are being pushed by the ocean currents flowing through the polypores and are turning rapidly.

At either end of the space, there are several metal balls that are constantly swinging, as if they are doing some kind of work.

"Sure enough, this is how the clones get their electricity!"

"But strangely, I don't see the lines extending out of this space, how do these clones transport electricity?"

"Hmm!" Yang Meng, who noticed something, magnified those swinging metal balls,

He found that there was a thick cable attached to each of these metal spheres.

Because the water flow in this space is very large, these metal balls cannot be stabilized and can only swing with the current.

At this point, a metal ball detached from the cable and rolled into a hole.

Immediately a metal ball appeared in the other hole, inserting the wiggling cable into his body, and then the entire metal ball swung with the cable.

Seeing this scene, Yang Meng couldn't help but have an absurd thought:

"Are these clones using metal balls to transport electricity?"

Thinking of before, when I operated the No. 617 metal ball to approach the spaceship,

It was discovered as soon as the cable was plugged in, and perhaps, in the clone world, there is a metal ball that specializes in transporting electricity.

"But why not use cables?"

Yang Meng thought about it for a while, and let the probe look for it,

Seeing that there was no cable extending out of this space, Yang Meng's doubts in his heart became even more.

"That's right! What is the battery energy storage method used in Xiaoyin 617 metal balls? ”

"Testing......

"It's a power battery method similar to a hydrogen fuel cell!"

"Hydrogen fuel cells!"

"What kind of technology is this?"

Yang Meng doesn't understand this technology,

For human beings who have mastered the technology of controlled nuclear fusion and micro nuclear fission power batteries,

This backward technology of a hundred years ago,

Except for a corner of the history textbook, it has not been applied anywhere else.

Fortunately, as an artificial intelligence Xiao Yin, a large amount of technical data is stored in the database.

Under Xiao Yin's explanation,

Yang Meng quickly understood what the battery technology used on the No. 617 metal ball was:

"Therefore, this is not a simple energy storage battery technology, but hydrogen fuel can be added to it to use!"

"Yes!"

Hearing Xiao Yin's affirmative answer, Yang Meng breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time, he was also secretly talking about the negligence in his heart,

He didn't even pay attention to the No. 617 metal ball battery, which made him miss such important information.

But he can't be blamed for that,

At the time of his birth, humanity had entered the age of nuclear fusion,

Because of the breakthrough in material technology caused by fusion technology, human beings have used more advanced battery technology.

It's as if at some point in the past of mankind,

A few young people who were born with smartphone tablets know that a few decades before they were born, humans used a communication device called a pager.

Battery technology is common to Yang Meng, and it's not worth shutting down.

But no matter what,

After learning about hydrogen fuel cell technology,

Yang Meng found that fusion fuel may have landed,

The next thing he's looking for is where hydrogen fuel cells are produced.

Although the hydrogen element used in hydrogen fuel cells cannot be used directly as a fusion fuel,

But this hydrogen element has gone through a lot of purification processes.

He only needs to perform a few compression steps to be used directly in the fusion device.

……

The search for a place for the production of hydrogen fuel cells did not take much time,

After all, the structure of an industrial system is regular.

Where batteries and hydrogen fuel are produced, power generation equipment is not far from the space distance,

therefore

Just two hours later,

Following the detector of the metal sphere, they found a brown hemispherical building.

Through the constant entry and exit of metal spheres, as well as the abnormal electromagnetic strength around them,

Xiao Yin judged that this place may be related to the production of batteries.

Faced with this bowl-packed structure that seemed to be upside down on the ground, Yang Meng asked Xiao Yin to send a miniature robot to cautiously approach the building.

Because of the frequent entry and exit of metal balls,

The microrobot followed a metal ball into it,

When you enter this hemispherical building,

Yang Meng found out that this building is a complete spherical structure.

It's just that the lower part of this sphere is embedded in the interior of the polypore, making it look like a hemispherical building.

And in addition to this discovery, he also found that

This spherical space is not a sealed structure, but a state of permeability and seawater.

Seeing this situation, Yang Meng can also understand why the clones don't close this space.

After all, the larger the structure, the greater the pressure, and the polypore bacteria often move up and down, and the pressure in the sea varies greatly, so this design prevents the large structure from being crushed by the returning sea.

However, it is precisely this structure that allows the probe to enter smoothly, otherwise it is separated from the outside through the barometric chamber like an ordinary metal sphere.

The process of probe entry is easy to detect.

"It's a very automated factory!"

In the field of view of the detector,

Yang Meng saw that all kinds of equipment were running in an orderly manner in the spherical structure.

There is a hoisting structure dragging something across the top of the detector's field of view,

There are also transports that follow a track towards the bottom of the spherical structure.

Yang Meng was dazzled by the various running equipment,

At this time, he noticed that the metal ball that he had followed before rolled in the other direction.

Yang Meng asked Xiao Yin to drive the probe to follow.

Soon, he saw that the metal ball had stopped in one place.

A hoisting device, dragging a very thick pipe to the top of the metal ball,

After docking the pipe with the metal ball, it appears to be injecting something into it.

It didn't take long for the pipes to begin to evacuate after the injection was completed, and the metal balls moved outward.

The probe, who had been observing something, came to the vicinity of the pipe and began to explore along the pipe, towards the roots.

The miniature detector, without traveling much distance, found that the pipe extended from the dome position of the spherical building.

There's a huge curved building there.

When Yang Meng operated the arc-shaped device of the detector along the pipe close to the dome of the dome,

Unexpectedly, a round window was found, and after zooming in on the picture, there was a figure in the round window:

"Someone!"

"That's not right! There are clones, to be exact! ”

Under Xiao Yin's operation, the microrobot found a backlight, and the direction that was not easy to find detected detected the situation inside.

I saw that the back of a girl appeared in the lens of the detector,

This clone seems to be controlling something,

And beyond the figure of this girl, in front of "her" is a running production line,

What is produced on this production line is the hydrogen fuel cell that Yang Meng is looking for.

"And what about hydrogen?"

Seeing that the hydrogen fuel cell had been found, Yang Meng adjusted his vision to find the location of the hydrogen.

Soon in the other direction, he saw huge filling structures arranged in a row,

And the words marked on these filling structures also indicate that the contents are exactly the hydrogen element he is looking for.

"Now that the hydrogen has been found, the next step is to transport it back to the ship!"

For this question,

When he decided to get fuel from the clones, he was prepared.

The use of violent means is inevitably not possible, so only some dishonorable means can be used, that is, stealing.

If you want to steal something, you must first determine a good way out.

The path inside the polypore is extremely complex,

According to the probe's long-term observations

Those metal balls are all moving according to a fixed route, and they will not run around at will, otherwise it is easy to get lost.

The previous guard balls, which did not chase the No. 617 metal ball, may also be due to such considerations.

In this case,

He could find several passages that did not have metal balls to run, linking the fuel area to the ship's location.

And after determining the path,

There are only two remaining problems.

One question is how to steal hydrogen fuel out of here,

Another question is how not to alarm the guard balls around the ship, sending fuel into the ship.

At present, what Yang Meng needs to solve is the first problem, I saw him groaning for a while, and asked Xiao Yin:

"Is it possible to try to hack into the control system of the fuel area!"

Hearing Yang Meng's inquiry, Xiao Yin analyzed it for a few milliseconds and then gave an answer:

"Because we don't know the structure of the system, we can't determine the success rate of the intrusion!"

"But if the system in the battery fuel production area is similar to the control system on the 617, then the success rate of intrusion control is 99%"

"In that case, let's try it with intrusion first!"

Yang Meng looked at the figure of the girl in the round window,

Let Xiao Yin control the micro robot to find the data line.