Chapter 596: Dig deeper

Venus.

In the basin near the South Pole, the scientific research submarine is still moored in it, but at this time, the scientific research submarine has actually returned to the Yungong base once and sent the collected underground biological samples back to the Yungong base.

Once again, the rotation deadline has arrived.

Foucault, Huang Wei, Fujita Ang and others continued to return to their posts through synchronous robots.

This time, they immediately activated three spider-like robots that used a variety of advanced materials, nuclear batteries, magnetic monopolar crystal communicators, and magnetic field detectors.

Send the spider bot directly into the ground.

Now the Cloud Palace base is very interested in the underground world of Venus.

And the task of Foucault and others is to fully explore the boundaries of the underground world.

Three spider robots enter the area where the underground creatures are active.

The three Huang Wei, who are responsible for controlling the spider robot, are collecting data on the surrounding strata and the characteristics of life forms through the magnetic field detector.

After all, the Venus pangolins, crystal ants, and sulfur-based fungi collected before can already study part of Venus's underground ecosystem.

But the Cloud Palace Base and the Science Division behind it are very sure that there are more species under Venus.

The reason for this judgment lies in the existence of two multicellular organisms, Venus pangolins and crystal ants, because there will definitely not be only a few multicellular organisms.

If there are only a few multicellular organisms, it will be difficult for this ecosystem to develop animals as advanced as the Venus pangolin.

What's more, there is only one location for scientific research submarines to drill, and the detection radius is less than 100 kilometers.

This range is only the tip of the iceberg for the entire Venusian strata.

The spider bots explored the past in three directions, and the tunnels dug out by these Venus pangolins spread all over the layer, like a huge underground labyrinth.

Fortunately, there is a magnetic unipolar crystal communicator, which can directly ignore the barrier of the formation, otherwise ordinary radio communication will not be able to be used in this underground labyrinth.

The spider robot controlled by Huang Wei is to the north, and the spider machines of the other two are to the west and south respectively.

The east side is basically not to be explored, because there are several active volcanoes on the east side, and there is also highly active magmatic activity underground, which is certainly not the habitat of underground life.

The spider bots move easily and quickly in these underground tunnels.

Soon, the spider robot controlled by Huang Wei encountered three Venus pangolins, and Huang Wei, who didn't want to hurt them, directly activated the sonic sonic scarre.

Bursts of sound rippled around.

Suddenly, as if stimulated by something, the three Venus pangolins instantly rolled up their bodies into a sphere, and then began to roll in the direction of the ramp of the tunnel, and they quickly escaped from the range covered by the infrasound.

This infrasonic frequency was tested by them from several Venus pangolins they had captured before, which could make Venus pangolins feel uncomfortable without killing them all at once.

Although 342 Venus pangolins have been found in strata within a radius of 100 kilometers, the total number of this group is still not fully determined, and if the total number of Venus pangolins is very small, casual hunting could lead to the extinction of this group.

Along the way, Huang Wei controlled the spider robot as much as possible, driving away the Venus pangolins that had been identified along the way.

More than 100 kilometers of border, the terrain is too complicated, and it took the spider robot three days and three nights to reach the border.

Huang Wei, who had taken several shifts, went online again, and he first glanced at the data and the holographic stratigraphic map, on which there were already dozens of kilometers of unfamiliar areas.

In these unfamiliar areas, the number of underground tunnels is still very dense.

Even though some of the areas that these tunnels occasionally avoid, Huang Wei can see that these new areas are still not the limit of the Venusian pangolins.

Two hours later.

"Huh? New discoveries ......"

Hearing Huang Weidu's voice, Foucault also walked over: "What did you find?" ”

"There is a part of the body of water in the newly formed simulated formation of the detector, and I just noticed that there are some active outlines in the water body."

"Then adjust the direction."

"No problem."

Huang Wei immediately adjusted the direction of the spider robot and crawled towards a nearby underground water domain.

At this time, Huang Wei also began to discover other species.

Pale serpentine creatures, for example, and various wriggling underground worms that inhabit smaller caverns and tunnels.

When Huang Weidu spider robot arrived at the nearest underground water pool, through various detection equipment, he clearly saw that there were many animals and special algae hidden in this waterhole with an area of hundreds of square meters.

The temperature in this pool is about 28 degrees Celsius, and the water inside is not water, but acid water.

That's right, the water in this pool contains a lot of carbonic acid and sulfuric acid, and the pH is about 3.4.

But in the midst of this acidity, there are still a few organisms that live in it, and it is clear that these organisms have adapted to the high acidity of the liquid environment.

Huang Wei saw this strange creature, and he sighed in his words: "It's really a big world, there are no wonders." ”

"These are crustacean aquatic creatures...... Foucault thought.

Compared with fish with thin skin and thick flesh, crustacean aquatic life is more adapted to the environment below Venus.

Different environments have created different species.

Although the ecospheres are different and there is no genetic similarity, there is a special phenomenon in nature - convergent evolution.

Although the Earth's biosphere and Venus' biosphere are very different, they are still in the same universe and some basic physical rules are the same.

This is also the root cause of convergent evolution.

At this time, in the underground waters of Venus, the crustaceans found looked similar to those of crabs and crowfish.

There are also some creatures that resemble jellyfish.

In addition to Huang Wei's side, spider robots in the other two directions have also discovered many new species one after another.

In particular, there is a large underground cavern area on the south side, which is connected to a large underground tunnel, like an underground canyon.

Inside, there are a large number of mushrooms that emit fluorescence, and those fluorescences turn the place into a bright blue world.

There are flying insects that were discovered for the first time, as well as a variety of fungi, some of which can grow up to tens of centimeters tall, turning this place into a "mushroom forest".

Here, too, spider robots have spotted a number of predators, a flying insect similar to a wasp that usually attacks other animals in swarms.

In the footage of the camera, the white-striped bee was seen biting a Venus pangolin alive and then dividing its flesh and blood.

Over time, more and more subterranean life on Venus has been discovered and studied.

Homo sapiens has become more and more comprehensive in its understanding of the Venus underground ecosystem, and has expanded the scale of the Venus Biological Research Institute.

Anyway, there are countless talents in the company now, and it is not difficult to transfer a group of people to study the creatures of Venus.

After all, Venus's underground ecosphere is very large, and the current exploration radius has expanded to 1,000 kilometers, and there is still no edge to be seen.

Many researchers have been sure that Venusian animals are very likely to exist in other areas of Venus's underground rock formations, except for the areas where magma is currently active.