Li Qingye, who has been inspecting Southeast Asia for more than a month through synchronous robots, came to Latin America at this time.

However, his body is still in the Pangea Realm.

Bagyalla appeared in his little biosphere.

"Mr. Chairman, the Space Division has issued a Class A document, which contains an investigation report on the life of Venus."

Li Qingye's eyes rolled, and while taking the tablet, he said, "Is it the matter of those nitrogen algae?" ”

"No, it's new." Bagyinla shook her head.

At this time, Li Qingye had already seen the investigation report on the tablet, and he raised his eyebrows: "Underground creatures? Or is it this advanced form of creature? Interesting......"

He continued to look at it carefully.

The creature tentatively named "Venus Pangolin", as well as a series of subsequent explorations and sample captures carried out by the Yungong base, they discovered a total of 387 new species in the formation.

The vast majority of them are microorganisms, similar to the Venus pangolin, a relatively large multicellular organism, with only 14 species.

Their ecosystems depend on Venus's abundant geothermal energy, and without such abundant geothermal energy, as well as the ability of the atmosphere to keep warm, they would not have been able to obtain enough energy.

The explosion of life on Earth originated from the geothermal heat of the black chimneys under the sea and the irradiation of the sun.

And the birth of underground life on Venus, according to the research of the Cloud Palace Base and related ecological and biological researchers, is very likely to be created by underground hot springs.

Although there is no sunlight, the heat energy on the surface of Venus is very abundant, although the underground temperature is not high due to the blockage of the strata, but it is precisely this relatively low temperature that can lead to the emergence of life.

After all, the high temperature of 400~500 degrees Celsius on the surface of Venus, not to mention living things, ordinary metals can't bear it.

In the area of 1000~1500 meters underground, the temperature is maintained between 33~46 degrees Celsius, which is a temperature that many organisms can bear.

In the investigation report, the investigators also found that the Venus pangolin has the behavior of raising crystal ants, which feed on sulfur-based fungi, which rely on geothermal heat and animal carcasses and excrement to reproduce, which forms a relatively complete food chain.

Venus pangolins dig burrows in locations where humidity and temperature are suitable, and then stocked a portion of crystal ants and sulfur-based fungi in these burrows.

Of course, these caves are not casual, but are mineral-rich rock formations.

Venus pangolins are semi-social creatures, usually in families, while crystal ants are social creatures, with a litter of at least tens of thousands.

Due to the high pressure of Venus, these creatures have evolved bodies that can adapt to ultra-high pressure.

Li Qingye was more curious about how these creatures breathed.

Investigators were equally curious.

From the samples obtained, bacteria and fungi are all developed from anaerobic bacteria, oxygen is a poisonous gas for them, and they use thermal energy to produce thermal synthesis by absorbing sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide and water, so as to achieve energy conversion.

Sulfur-based fungi, on the other hand, release oxygen, but the oxygen they release is quickly absorbed by elemental iron, elemental copper, and other elemental reactive metals in the tunnels of the formation.

Obviously, the carbon dioxide and oxygen conversion efficiency of sulfur-based fungi is average, and it is not as terrifying as that of the cyanobacteria family, which greatly slows down the oxidation rate of the Venus formation.

Similarly, crystal ants and Venus pangolins do not breathe oxygen, but methane gas.

In the entire underground world, there are a large number of anaerobic bacteria, many of which are methanogenic bacteria, which leads to the concentration of methane in the formation reaching about 17%.

The subterranean atmosphere of this ecosystem contains about 72% carbon dioxide, about 17% methane, 5% sulfur dioxide, 3% nitrogen dioxide, and the remaining 3% is hydrogen sulfide, oxygen, radon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and ammonia.

Li Qingye discovered that the methanogenic bacteria of Venus have a much higher methane conversion efficiency of organic matter than that of the earth, and even more powerful than the methane bacteria he used to modify using genetic recombination technology.

Of course, he also saw some of the problems, that is, the environment of the two sides was different.

The biosphere beneath Venus has always been home to anaerobic bacteria, and with high temperatures and pressures all year round, this environment makes it easier for methane bacteria to break down organic matter and convert it into methane.

The earth's environment is definitely not able to give anaerobic bacteria too much living space, and the earth is the territory of aerobic organisms.

Li Qingye sighed: "Nature is really magical, and between a drink and a peck, completely different species are produced. ”

Although the research on the underground ecosystem of Venus at this stage of the Cloud Palace Base has only just begun, he seems to have anticipated the future.

Homo sapiens is sure to find similar ecosystems on other planets.

This subterranean ecosystem is likely to be more prevalent than the Earth's surface ecosystem.

After all, if the environmental conditions of the earth are taken as the standard, the so-called habitable zone of the planetary system will be very narrow, and even for the main sequence stars of the planetary system, there are relatively strict restrictions.

But if we take Venus's subterranean biosphere as a standard, then almost all terrestrial planets and large rocky moons have the potential to give birth to life.

From the perspective of the birth of life, the core elements of life are temperature and energy, as well as suitable chemical media.

Earth, a planet with just the right temperature, a lot of water resources, and a strong geomagnetic field, is actually relatively harsh.

However, the stratigraphic structure of terrestrial planets raises another possibility, that is, groundwater, geothermal, and stratum protection, which can be met in many terrestrial planets.

Therefore, Li Qingye can probably predict that in the Milky Way, in each planetary system, the probability of the birth of underground civilization is higher than that of surface civilization.

After all, just look at the current solar system, Venus, Mars, and the Moon all have underground creatures, and there are atmospheric creatures on Venus.

The ratio of life on the surface, underground, and atmosphere is 1:3:1.

There are other large rocky moons in the solar system that have not been explored, such as Titan.

In this way, the planet where there is underground life may be several times or even dozens of times more than the planet where there is surface life.

Of course, it is more difficult for underground creatures to develop to the height of human civilization than human civilization.

Because it can be understood that the subterranean life is protected by a thick layer of rock, which is like the Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field.

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Underground civilizations need to break through the limitations of rock layers and become surface civilizations before they can enter the universe.

They have to cross one more realm than human civilization before they can become a first-level civilization that controls the planetary system.

Breaking through the limits of rock layers is a very dangerous thing in itself, just like when we go into outer space, the surface environment is certainly not suitable for the long-term life of underground creatures.

Therefore, underground creatures, surface creatures, and atmospheric creatures should have their own advantages and disadvantages, depending on how to develop and luck.

Human civilization can develop to this stage, and luck accounts for a large part.

After all, in the history of the evolution of life on earth, mass extinctions of life abound, and human beings just happened to rise rapidly in this relatively safe vacuum period.

If humans and dinosaurs are in the same era, then there is a high probability that they will also receive a boxed lunch with dinosaurs.

Every civilization in the universe is a miracle.