Homo sapiens

The submarine slowly anchored in this basin.

The synchronous robots inside the submarine carried out various tasks step by step.

"Fujita, start drilling." Foucault said while controlling the detection system to conduct a comprehensive detection of the surroundings.

"Received" Fujita Ao controls the drilling system at the bottom of the submarine to drill the rock formations below.

The drill bit made of super-carbide drills down quickly as if it were pierced into tofu.

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

This is the first time that the Yunggong Base has obtained samples from the strata of Venus. Among the hundreds of previous detections, although many detectors were launched and a large number of samples were collected, those samples were all collected on the surface. of.

The Yungong Base is still very curious about the samples in the stratum. This is also data that the magnetic field detector cannot obtain.

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

The drilling of the first 100 meters went very smoothly. These rock formations seem to be loose magmatic rocks with generally low hardness.

But as the drilling depth increases, the drill bit begins to encounter resistance.

"This hardness feedback? Has it reached the granite rock formation?" Fujita thought while recording the data.

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

Fujita had to stop the drill bit and start 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 downward into the rock formation.

Huang Wei and two other colleagues conducted preliminary research on the drilled rock debris.

“From the surface to 12 meters underground, there are weathered sediment layers, which have been accumulated over the years through the intense atmospheric circulation of Venus and the topography of this basin.

The depth area of ​​13 meters to 28 meters has typical magmatic rock composition and is very rich in iron, with the grade of elemental iron reaching 25 to 28%. "

Another colleague looked through the remaining formation debris mass spectrometry data: "They are all elemental metals and sulfides. It seems that there has been no oxygen here for a long time!"

As time passed, the drill bit drilled deeper and deeper, penetrating the rock formation at a depth of 1,000 meters underground.

At this moment, the drill bit suddenly started spinning.

"What's going on? Did you encounter a hole?" Fujita Ang was a little surprised.

Foucault's robot also saw this problem.

For stratigraphic data, part of the data has been detected through magnetic fields before, but magnetic field detection is not omnipotent. Especially as the depth goes deeper into the stratum, the accuracy of the magnetic field detector gradually decreases.

"Fujita, shut down the rig temporarily."

"receive."

Foucault put the magnetic field detector into the borehole and began to analyze it bit by bit underground.

Fujita Ang also activated the miniature camera and searchlight hidden in the middle of the drill bit. As the searchlight light came on, the camera also saw part of the cavity area.

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

The reason why Fujita felt strange about this hole was that it was too smooth.

However, he put this doubt aside first, adjusted the camera and searchlight little by little, and continued to observe other areas in the hollow area.

However, Foucault, who was lowering the magnetic field detector, saw a vague cavity area. As the detector got closer and closer to the depth of 1083 meters, the outline of this cavity area became more and more obvious.

"This is..." Foucault was very surprised.

"What's wrong?" Fujita Ang turned his head and looked at the holographic projection layer.

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

Because there are a large number of "pipes" densely covered in the stratum in front of us. These pipes are distributed in an area of ​​about 1000 to 1500 meters underground, and the track diameter is about 0.3 to 0.5 meters.

Suddenly Fujita Ang exclaimed: "Something is moving!?"

Others were also attracted by Fujita Ang's voice. They surrounded the holographic projection layer and looked at the layer with constantly refreshing accuracy. They had already seen that there was indeed something moving quickly in the underground pipes.

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

“They are getting closer to where the drill is,” Foucault warned Fujita.

Fujita, who had just woken up from a dream, quickly changed the camera to infrared mode and turned off the searchlight to prevent the light from making underground creatures afraid to approach.

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

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

About 17 minutes later, the infrared camera finally captured a picture of a strange creature.

The sneaky underground creature seems to use the hair on its head to sense the condition of the drill.

This creature is not too big, almost as big as a football, and its shape is a bit like a pangolin, but this Venus pangolin is more rounded, and its body is like a sphere.

The Venusian pangolin circled around the drill bit, seemingly not noticing anything unusual, and then left 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 so special.

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

"This is indeed a great discovery. Many people have always believed that the earth is the cradle of life, the only planet in the solar system that gave birth to life and intelligent creatures. Now it seems that this argument is open to question." Huang Wei also thought thoughtfully.

Compared with the relatively primitive forms of Venusian atmosphere organisms, lunar underground organisms, and Mars underground organisms, compared with the Venusian pangolin in front of us, they are definitely two levels of life.

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

But in such a harsh environment, advanced multi-cellular organisms were born. This is definitely a great discovery that shocked astrobiology.

The reason why we call it a great discovery is because the environment of Venus is so harsh that such advanced creatures can be born. Then the probability of birth of creatures in other planetary systems in the universe is very high.

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

As for why there are intelligent creatures and civilizations in other galaxies but we have not discovered them, the reason is very simple.

Speed ​​of light!

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

Even the Homo sapiens company, which has billions of talents and is united, is still helpless when faced with the bottleneck of light speed.

As long as humans cannot travel faster than the speed of light, it will be almost impossible to contact civilizations in other galaxies.

The speed of light bottleneck locks the coverage of a civilization, which can only be within its own planetary system at most.

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

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