The submarine was slowly moored in the basin.

The synchronous robots in the submarine are carrying out various tasks step by step.

"Fujita, start drilling." Foucault said as he operated the detection system to conduct a comprehensive survey of the surroundings.

"Received" Aung Fujita to control the drilling system at the bottom of the submarine and drill the rock formations below.

The drill bit made of cemented carbide is drilled down as if it had been pierced into tofu.

The rock debris cut by the drill bit is divided into pieces and temporarily stored in a special compartment of the submarine.

This is the first time that the Yungong base has obtained samples from the Venus formation, and in the previous hundreds of explorations, although many probes have been launched, and many samples have been collected, but those samples are all collected on the surface.

For the samples in the formation, the Yungong base is still very curious, which is also data that cannot be obtained by the magnetic field detector.

Although the magnetic field detector is very powerful, in long-distance detection, the accuracy is often above the centimeter level, this kind of data is helpful for the study of stratigraphic structure, but for the study of geological composition and geological history, it is still not enough.

Drilling for the first 100 meters went very well, and the formations appear to be loose magmatic rocks with generally low hardness.

But as the drilling depth increased, the bit began to run into resistance.

"This hardness feedback? Already in the granite formations? Aung Fujita pondered as he recorded the data.

Then he looked at the heat of the drill bit, which continued to work at high intensity, and the temperature had risen to 773 degrees Celsius.

Aung Fujita had to stop the drill bit from working and then activate the drill bit cooling system.

Fifteen minutes later, when the drill bit had cooled down, he started the motor again, and the drill bit continued to cut the rock formation downward.

Huang Wei, together with two other colleagues, conducted a preliminary study of the debris of the rock formations drilled.

"From the surface to 12 meters below the surface, there is a layer of weathered sediment, which has been deposited down over many years through the intense atmospheric circulation of Venus and the topography of this basin.

The depth zone of 13 meters ~ 28 meters is typical of magmatic rock composition, and the iron content is very rich, and the elemental iron grade reaches 25~28%. ”

Another colleague flipped through the rest of the stratigraphic debris mass spectrometry data: "It's all elemental metals and sulfides, and it seems that there has been no oxygen here for a long time!" ”

As the minutes passed, the drill bit drilled deeper and deeper, penetrating the rock layer at a depth of 1,000 meters.

At this moment, the drill bit suddenly idled.

"What's going on? Got a hole? Aung Fujita was a little surprised.

And Foucault's robots see this problem too.

For the formation data, some of the magnetic field detection has been used before, but the magnetic field detection is not a panacea, especially as the depth goes deeper and deeper into the formation, the accuracy of the magnetic field detector is gradually decreasing.

"Fujita, shut down the rig for the time being."

"Roger."

Foucault put the magnetic field detector into the borehole and began to decipher the past bit by bit into the ground.

And Aung Fujita also activated the miniature camera and searchlight hidden in the middle of the drill, and as the searchlight came on, the camera also saw part of the hollow area.

He looked at the data captured by the camera and thought to himself, "Strange, how does this hole look weird?" ”

The reason why this hole is strange to Aung Fujita is that it is too smooth.

However, he put this doubt aside for a moment, adjusted the camera and searchlight little by little, and continued to observe the rest of the cavity.

However, Foucault, who was downgrading the magnetic field detector, saw a hollow area of the mold lake, and as the probe got closer and closer to a depth of 1083 meters, the outline of this hollow area became more and more obvious.

"It's ......" Foucault was very surprised.

"What's wrong?" Aung Fujita turned his head to look at the holographic projection formation.

Then Aung Fujita was also attracted by the projection formation in front of him.

Because there are a large number of "pipelines" in the stratum in front of you, these pipelines are distributed in an area of about 1000 meters ~ 1500 meters underground, and the diameter of the track is about 0.3~0.5 meters.

Suddenly, Aung Fujita exclaimed, "Something is moving!?" ”

The others were also attracted by Aang Fujita's voice, and everyone gathered around the holographic projection formation, looking at the constantly refreshing accuracy, they could already see that something was indeed moving rapidly in the underground pipes.

Huang Wei zoomed in on the screen, and then set the movement lock: "Creature? ”

"They're getting closer to where the drill bit is." Foucault reminded Aung Fujita.

Aung Fujita, who had just woken up from a dream, quickly changed the camera to infrared mode and turned off the searchlight at the same time to avoid the light from making the underground creatures dare not approach.

At this time, the magnetic field detector also stopped at a position 20 meters above the drill bit, and at this position, the accuracy of the magnetic field detection is very high, basically reaching the centimeter level.

In the high-precision data of the magnetic field detector, the underground pipes in the entire formation are very clear.

After about 17 minutes or so, the infrared camera finally captured the image of a strange creature.

Sneaky underground creatures, using the hair on their heads, seem to sense the situation of the drill.

The creature wasn't too big, almost as big as a football, and it resembled a pangolin, but this Venus pangolin was a bit more rounded, with a body like a sphere.

The Venus pangolin spun around the drill bit, as if it didn't notice anything unusual, and it moved away from the vicinity of the drill bit.

In the cockpit of the submarine, Foucault and others stopped drilling and quickly reported the discovery.

After all, this discovery is too special.

Aung Fujita said with emotion: "Sure enough, anthropocentrism and geocentrism are extremely arrogant theories. ”

"This is indeed a big discovery, and many people have always thought that the earth is the cradle of life, the only planet in the solar system that gave birth to life and intelligent life, and now it seems that this argument is debatable." Huang Wei was also thoughtful.

The relatively primitive forms of Venusian atmospheric creatures, lunar underground creatures, and Martian underground creatures are definitely two levels of life compared with the Venusian pangolins in front of them.

After all, the surface of Venus is too harsh, and the shallow surface is also a harsh environment.

But it was in such a harsh environment that advanced forms of multicellular organisms were born, which was definitely a great discovery that shocked the biology of the universe.

The reason why we say great discoveries is because Venus has such a harsh environment and can give birth to such advanced creatures, so the probability of giving birth to creatures in other planetary systems in the universe is very high.

In this way, it is very likely that human civilization is not an isolated intelligent race in the galaxy.

As for why there are intelligent beings and civilizations in other galaxies, but we don't find out, the reason is very simple.

Velocity of light!

That's right, it's the speed of light.

Even Homo sapiens, with billions of talents and unity, is still helpless in the face of the bottleneck of the speed of light.

As long as human beings can't travel faster than the speed of light, it will be almost impossible to reach the civilizations of other galaxies.

The light-speed bottleneck locks in the coverage of a civilization, at best, within its own planetary system.

In other words, many civilizations, like human civilizations, have been trying to find other civilizations, but because of the bottleneck of the speed of light, they can only be locked in their home planet system.