Chapter 36: The Sick Green Planet
"Your eyes, what's wrong?" Chu Yuesheng didn't think it was normal for his eyeballs to be burning, he couldn't help but care about how Xingxi Baixue felt now.
Because of the burning silver flame, Chu Yuesheng couldn't even see the pupils of Xingxi Baixue, and naturally there was no way to track her gaze. He could only vaguely feel that Xingxi Baixue was looking at his face now, but he couldn't meet Xingxi Baixue's gaze.
"Nothing, just a little bit of an additional effect when using the ability. As she spoke, Xingxi Baixue raised her hand and blocked her eyes, holding all the flames in her eyes under her palms. A moment later, when she lowered her palm again, the silver-white flame had shifted to her palm, and her eyes were back to normal.
No, it didn't fully recover, because Chu Yuesheng noticed that the star mark in Xingxi Baixue's eyes seemed to be a little too bright. It's even a bit noisy, trying to grab the pupil position.
However, Xingxi Baixue blinked her eyes then, and the two star signs dimmed and returned to their daily appearance.
As for the silver flame in the palm of her hand, because there was no fuel from her eyes to burn, it was soon unsustainable, and it was extinguished by itself.
Shaking off the last remaining little flame, Xingxi Baixue finally returned to normal. She walked towards Chu Yuesheng, who was looking at her in a daze, grabbed his hand, and pulled him towards the center of this star map room without saying a word.
"It doesn't matter what I'm doing right now, the real trouble is here. Juniors, you see, this is the green planet we are aiming for. ”
As Chu Yuesheng was pulled closer to the center of the room by the starry white snow, the starry sky that was originally tiled on the floor, walls, and ceiling also broke away from the plane and became three-dimensional. At this moment, Chu Yuesheng's feeling of shuttling among the stars was even stronger.
In front of them, a healthy planet that looked thriving, completely covered in green, rose.
"Is the soon-to-be-revived Star Curtain Holy Maiden on this planet?" Chu Yuesheng looked at this planet as beautiful as emeralds, and thought about the scenery on this planet.
It is said that Mars was once a crimson barren planet, and it took a lot of effort for humans to change the main colors of Mars from red to blue and green. In the universe, the vast majority of solid-state planets are either white or gray, and even red is rare. The surface temperature of the gray and white planet is often very low, and it is quite difficult to find a temperature zone suitable for human survival and habitation, and it is extremely difficult to transform such a planet, unless the planet is really of great value, it is impossible for human beings to transform the ecological environment of the gray and white planet, at most, it is to establish some unmanned resource collection stations on it, and squeeze the mineral resources on those uninhabitable planets. The Red Planet and the Yellow Planet tend to be hot or toxic environments, and although humans cannot survive in such environments, heat and acid are a kind of energy in themselves, and the Red or Yellow Planets can be exploited as energy planets. And as long as there is enough energy, with human technology, it is not difficult to want the overall environment of a planet. Therefore, most of the colonized planets developed by humans were once red or yellow barren planets, and Mars is one of them.
But the planet that is really the most suitable for human habitation is actually the blue or green planet. Because these two colors mean that there is vegetation or water on the planet, and these two things are the real source of life. As long as there are water resources or plants, it is easier to modify such an environment, and it may even be just a matter of adjusting the composition of the atmosphere, and humans can settle directly on it. Unfortunately, among all the planets that humans have explored so far, only the former home planet, Earth, is a blue planet. Humans have never found an ideal livable blue-green planet other than Earth.
This precious planet, which absolutely exists in the universe but has not yet been discovered by humans, has been given a rather wonderful and apt name by scientists - Planet Gaia.
Well, it's the planet Gaia in the "Stars" series of games, maybe the scientist who came up with this name in the first place is a hardcore fan of the old birthday game that has been out for dozens of generations.
Planet Gaia other than Earth is absolute, and all humans believe in this. Because there are so many civilizations in the entire galaxy, each civilization has its initial weak stage, and if their home planet does not have a habitable environment, then it is impossible for civilization to develop. But unfortunately, so far, mankind has not discovered any other Gaia planet in the universe except Earth.
It's just that today, this history seems to be about to be broken by Chu Yuesheng. As long as Chu Yuesheng takes a photo of the green planet in front of him, and then records the spatial coordinates of this planet, and when he returns to human society and hands over these two things, he will immediately be a great hero of human civilization, and no one can erase his credit if he can be recorded in history.
You know, in order to encourage people to be more active in exploring outer space and find new homes and more resources for mankind, the coalition government has extremely generous rewards for the first open-minded person on the unexplored planet. Whether it is material or famous, there will be no less. To put it bluntly, the explorer will become the original shareholder of the planet that proves to be worth exploiting, and any benefits produced on that planet will be shared by the explorer, and the time limit of dividends is as long as 100 years. Even if the proportion is a little lower, the base number is the resource of a planet, and even if it is small, how much can it be less. After such a long period of time, this reward is enough to make a family prosperous from now on. It is precisely because of the abundant rewards that mankind has always been full of enthusiasm for interstellar exploration. As long as you find an uninhabited planet with development value, not only will you not have to worry about food and drink in this life, but even your family and descendants will benefit from it, and who can not be tempted by such a heavy reward.
Just when Chu Yuesheng was obsessed with the green planet in front of him that was as beautiful as an emerald, the sound of starry snow pulled him back to reality from the fantasy of getting ahead.
"Theoretically, the initial coordinates of the signal I received were on this planet. But junior, have you noticed any discord?" Xingxi Baixue didn't sell off, she directly enlarged the projection of the planet, so that Chu Yuesheng could see more clearly the large number of dark patches mixed in the green on the surface of the planet.
Although it is also green, there is a clear difference between the verdant tender green and the dull dark green. Even if Chu Yuesheng didn't understand what this meant, at least he knew that these gray colors that made the planet look like it was infected with skin diseases were definitely not a good thing.
"What are these dark places?" Chu Yuesheng asked suspiciously, looking at this large area of discord.
Don't look at the projection, they look small. You know, it's a model of a planet. On a real planet, each of these patches would have to be the size of a city. This is no small matter, and it definitely needs to be treated with care.
"It's corruption. This is a symbol that the planet's immune system has been paralyzed. If there is no external force to intervene, these corrupted areas will become more and more numerous, and the area will become larger and larger, gradually corroding the entire planet, making the planet completely 'dead'. ”
Starry Snow aimed at one of the dark spots and continued to magnify it. As the image expands, the angle of view of the picture also decreases, from space to high altitude, and then from high altitude to low altitude, and finally reaches the level of immersion and proximity.
A dead swamp full of withered branches and wizened vines appeared in front of Chu Yuesheng.
"There are many situations of corruption, but in the end, they are all fast lanes to the death of the planet. As long as it is contaminated with 'corruption', the planet cannot escape the fate of death without the intervention of external forces. ”
Xingxi Baixue said as she flipped through the situation in these corrupted areas one by one. It can be seen that these corrupted areas have invariably turned into lifeless bogs of death, and although traces of a large number of plants can be seen, unfortunately, all of them are now dead.
It is not known whether the death time of these plants was before or after the swamp generated. Whether it was the death of the plants that gave rise to the swamp or the creation of the swamp that caused the death of the plant is not known for the time being.
But no matter what, such a lifeless picture still made Chu Yuesheng feel very uncomfortable. This is a planet of Gaia, which may not be found in a few hundred light years, and it is a treasure in the universe. If the surface of such a beautiful planet were to be completely transformed into such a disgusting swamp of death, it would be like throwing a cut and polished diamond into a furnace and burning it as charcoal.
"This situation is not good, what can we do for this planet?" Chu Yuesheng had just finished speaking, and suddenly felt as if he was a little floating. If he had stayed a few days ago, even if he knew that there was a planet suffering from a serious skin disease, at most, he would have put his hands together in his heart and silently offered his prayers and blessings for this planet. And now, he is already thinking about how to save it, this is not floating.
Why did he suddenly become so arrogant, it is necessary to reflect on it.
Xingxi Baixue seemed to be waiting for him to ask, and directly answered with a dynamic image.
That is, to do an accurate "surgery" on the planet, to remove all the corrupted places on it.
Looking at the green planet that became potholed in the stereoscopic projection, directly exposing the underground bedrock, Chu Yuesheng was speechless for a while. How does he feel that the planet that has been treated by Xingxi Baixue like this doesn't look as good as it does now?
Xingxi Baixue knew what Chu Yuesheng was thinking, but she shrugged her shoulders and said bluntly: "It's not that there are other methods, but with the conditions in our hands now, we can only do a hard cut." The planet's corruption has reached its second stage, and there is no time for me to restore more advanced technology. If this corruption penetrates deep into the core of the planet, the planet will be completely hopeless. ”
"My method is the fastest, although it will indeed cause some damage to the planet itself, but it will not hurt the foundation of the planet. With the vitality of this planet, it should not be too difficult to repair such a wound. ”
"The question now is whether we can get the consent of the will of this planet by doing this. If it thinks that our actions are an infringement on the planet, then it is very likely to stumble us when we are looking for our compatriots, and it will not be worth the loss. ”
"So, before we do it, let's first find the planetary will of this planet and ask its opinion. ”