After observing for a long time, distinguishing the body structure of this thing little by little, and examining its subtle composition, Chen Yue finally confirmed that this thing was life.

Although it is a very rudimentary, low-level life, it is also a real life.

It has a cellular structure similar to that of life on Earth and is a multicellular life. According to the evolutionary path of life, it is unlikely that primitive life could directly evolve into multicellular life. Before it, there should have been single-celled life.

This means that there should be more than one kind of life there. The coexistence of many different types of life means the existence of the biosphere.

Chen Yue carefully examined the seawater, and sure enough, he found microorganisms in the seawater.

After some research, Chen Yue roughly figured out the model of this biosphere.

Microorganisms feed on certain floating organic and inorganic particles, and this dandelion-like thing feeds on this microorganism. After it dies, its body turns into organic particles that are swallowed by microorganisms.

Those organic and inorganic particles may come from submarine volcanic eruptions.

And so it forms a cycle.

"Since you look like a dandelion and this is a moon of Jupiter, then call you a daggerine."

Chen Yue casually gave it a name.

Wood Gongying can shine. According to Chen Yue's speculation, this should be its means of attracting phototaxis microorganisms to prey.

"The natural creation of the universe is truly amazing. In this environment far from the sun and completely devoid of light, life can be born......"

The discovery of this kind of life on Europa can certainly improve Chen Yue's understanding of the evolutionary path of life and increase Chen Yue's scientific accumulation, but these are all long-term effects, and they are of little use to Chen Yue in the short term.

It is impossible for this kind of gadget to affect or threaten Chen Yue.

But Chen Yue's heart was still solemnized by the discovery of Europa's life.

Because that means a very important question.

The question is, is the birth of life a small probability event or a high probability event in the universe?

Human civilization did not discover the existence of extraterrestrial life until its demise. As a result, it is believed that the birth of life in the universe is extremely probable. In other words, it is possible that life exists only on Earth, and that there is no life at all in the rest of the world.

But......

If even a tiny Europa can give birth to life, and if there can be two planets with life in even a small solar system, then can the birth of life in the universe be extremely probable?

I'm afraid it can't be.

The birth of life may be a high-probability event.

Moreover, the number of bases is more, and the probability of the emergence of advanced intelligent life, or even intelligent civilization more advanced than human beings, will also be greatly increased.

Chen Yue manipulated a telescope to aim at the universe.

It's starry, vast and deep.

Under the cover of this long distance, Chen Yue seemed to see that there were countless civilizations in the universe, they were either advanced or backward, the advanced civilization drove the space warship rampantly, and the backward civilization curled up on the home planet and continued to develop......

The universe may not be dead.

This is the inference that Chen Yue made after discovering life on Europa.

By extension, I think of the inexplicable explosion of the earth, and I think of my inexplicable combination with the computer......

The stars in the sky are like eyes, quietly gazing at the small solar system, the small Jupiter system, the small Europa, and Chen Yue himself.

Chen Yue sighed secretly.

Now I don't even have the strength to enter the universe, and I haven't even mastered controlled nuclear fusion, let alone explore the truth of the universe.

"Take your time."

Chen Yue thought so.

Exploration of Europa's seabed continues. This time, Chen Yue finally dived to the bottom of the sea at a depth of more than 40,000 meters.

The water pressure here is roughly equivalent to the pressure of the 6,000-meter deep sea on Earth. It's okay, Chen Yue's submarine can barely withstand it.

This area of water seems to be the habitat of Mugongying. Chen Yue saw countless Mu Gongying here, glowing and not glowing, suspected to have just split and were about to die......

Endless.

After exploring the circle, Chen Yue found the reason.

There are several submarine micro-volcanoes that are constantly spewing nutrients from deep underground, thus supporting huge amounts of microscopic plankton. With plenty of food, of course, there are more wood companies here.

What especially surprised Chen Yue was that those things that were ejected from the depths of Europa's underground were actually rich in a large amount of lithium!

At this moment, Chen Yue is not calm.

Lithium is extremely useful, and it and its compounds have a variety of industrial uses, including heat-resistant glass, ceramics, lithium grease lubricants, flux additives for the production of iron, steel and aluminum, lithium batteries and lithium-ion batteries, etc., and Chen Yue has always believed that lithium has small reserves in the Jupiter system.

In fact, strictly speaking, it is not small, but most of this lithium is found in the very deep underground of the planet, or in the depths of Jupiter, which is not easy to mine.

As a result, Chen Yue has always been sparing about lithium and trying to find alternatives. For example, for the battery used in robots, Chen Yue adopted the technology of sodium-ion batteries, instead of using lithium-ion battery technology with better performance.

But here......

These submarine miniature volcanoes do not know how many millions of years or tens of millions of years have erupted, and this piece of seabed does not know how much lithium is enriched. If you can collect them all, then ......

In particular, there are not only lithium, but also several other rare elements or compounds that are equally important to Chen Yue, such as gold, silver, thulium, and so on.

This is a treasure land!

Chen Yue immediately made up his mind. No matter how many engineering and technical problems there are, it is necessary to build a base here to exploit the rich mineral resources here.

Just when Chen Yue was in the excitement, the submarine suddenly lost power.

"Huh? Faulty? ”

The cause of the failure is not clear at the bottom of the sea. Chen Yue could only float the submarine and pull it to the dock for maintenance.

With this inspection, Chen Yue was a little speechless.

It's Mu Gongying.

After thinking about it, he understood what was going on.

Mu Gongying seems to have some kind of instinct to converge towards the "ocean current". This instinct allows them to quickly sense where a micro-volcano has undergone a new eruption at Europa's bottom - the eruption of a micro-volcano means that many organic and inorganic particles are ejected, which means that there will be extremely rich in microorganisms, and Mugong Ying feeds on those microorganisms.

Whereas...... The movement of your own submarine will cause a change in ocean currents similar to that of a miniature volcanic eruption.