Homo sapiens.

The submarine moored slowly in this basin.

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

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

"Received" Fujita Atsushi manipulated the drilling system at the bottom of the submarine to drill the rock formation below.

The drill bit made of super-tungsten carbide drilled down quickly as if stuck into tofu.

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

This is the first time that the Yungong base has obtained samples from the strata of Venus. In the hundreds of previous detections, although many detectors have been deployed and a lot of samples have been collected, those samples were all collected on the surface. of.

The Yungong base is still very curious about the samples in the stratum, which is also data that cannot be obtained by magnetic field detectors.

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

The first 100 meters of drilling have been very smooth, and these rock formations appear to be loose magmatic rocks, generally not very hard.

But as the drilling depth increased, the drill bit began to encounter resistance.

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

Then he looked at the heating of the drill bit. The temperature of the drill bit that has been working continuously at high intensity has risen to 773 degrees Celsius.

Fujita had to stop the drill and start the drill cooling system.

After 15 minutes, the drill bit had cooled down, and he started the motor again, and the drill bit continued to cut down the rock formation.

And Huang Wei, together with two other colleagues, conducted preliminary research on the rock formation debris drilled out.

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

In the depth zone of 13m to 28m, the typical magmatic rock composition is very rich in iron, and the grade of elemental iron reaches 25% to 28%. "

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

Time passed by every minute and every second, and the drill bit drilled deeper and deeper, and had penetrated the rock formation at a depth of 1000 meters underground.

At this moment, the drill suddenly idling.

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

And Foucault's robot saw the problem too.

For stratigraphic data, some of them have been detected by magnetic field before, but magnetic field detection is not a panacea, especially as the depth goes deeper into the stratum, the accuracy of magnetic field detectors is gradually decreasing.

"Fujita, temporarily shut down the drilling rig."

"receive."

Foucault put the magnetic field detector into the borehole and began to analyze the past a little bit underground.

Fujita also activated the miniature camera and searchlight hidden in the middle of the drill. As the searchlight turned on, the camera also saw part of the hollow area.

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

The reason why this hollow makes Fujita feel strange is that it is too smooth.

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

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

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

"What's wrong?" Atsushi Fujita turned his head to look at the holographic projection strata.

Then Atsushi Fujita was attracted by the projected 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 the area of ​​about 1000 meters to 1500 meters underground, and the diameter of the track is about 0.3 to 0.5 meters.

Suddenly Fujita exclaimed: "Something is moving!?"

Others were also attracted by Atsushi Fujita's voice. Everyone surrounded the holographic projection stratum, looking at the stratum with constantly refreshing accuracy. They had already seen that there was indeed something moving rapidly in the underground pipeline.

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

"They're approaching where the drill was," Foucault reminded Fujita.

Fujita, who woke up like a dream, quickly changed the camera to infrared mode, and turned off the searchlight at the same time, so as to avoid the light from making underground creatures dare not 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.

Among 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 be sensing the situation of the drill by using the hair on its head.

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 Venus pangolin turned around at the drill bit, and it didn't seem to notice anything unusual, so it 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 too special.

Fujita said with emotion: "Sure enough, anthropocentrism and earth-centrism 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 needs to be discussed." Huang Wei also thought about it.

Compared with the Venus pangolin in front of us, the relatively primitive forms of Venus' atmospheric organisms, lunar underground organisms, and Martian underground organisms are definitely two levels of life.

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

But in such a harsh environment, advanced multicellular organisms were born. This is definitely a great discovery that shocked the biology of the universe.

The reason why it is called a great discovery is because the environment of Venus is so harsh that such advanced creatures can be born, so 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 Milky Way.

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

Speed ​​of light!
That's right, the speed of light.

Even a Homo sapiens company that has billions of talents and is united as one, is still helpless in the face of the speed of light bottleneck.

As long as the speed of human navigation cannot exceed the speed of light, it is almost impossible to contact civilizations in other galaxies.

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

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

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