Armor Frenzy

When it comes to extraterrestrial plants, most people will instinctively think of worm trees, that is, the kind that aliens sent to the earth. Only a very few people know that the kind on earth is actually just one of the insect tree family.

Ye Han is one of them. As early as when the First Fleet expedition to Jupiter, he observed the photos of Io at close range. At that time, Io was still in the global freeze and could not see the situation on its surface.

But by the time the Second Fleet arrived at Jupiter, Io had become a lush, habitable planet with vast forests visible on the surface.

Combining the prisoner's log, it is not difficult to find that after the first expedition ended in failure, Io quickly recovered, and the plants grew rapidly, covering the surface of the planet in a short time.

However, at that time, the plants on Io were still mainly white and brown, and green was almost invisible. Continuing to analyze the diary of the captives, it was likely that aliens were preparing for Io's separation, and they were seeding the surface of the planet. A large number of insect trees, thus harvesting a large amount of food in a very short period of time, laid a solid material foundation for Io Zero to fly to the earth.

Many biologists believe that although alien plants are not green, there must be something in their cells that has a similar function to chlorophyll.

But there was no market for this idea, because Io was still near Jupiter, where it received only four percent of the light of Earth, and the worm tree grew fast and well.

It can grow smoothly in the absence of light. No matter how you look at it, the insect tree does not grow by photosynthesis.

According to human understanding of the biological world, the insect tree should be a special plant that uses chemical energy synthesis to grow, but human understanding of living things is limited to the earth. God knows if there are other growth methods for alien creatures.

There are also scholars who study what happens to worm trees with chlorophyll, but before the results of this research come out, countries take the lead in banning this aspect of research to prevent those scientific lunatics from creating new types of worm trees with unknown capabilities.

Since then, no research institution has been allowed to conduct research on the modification of worm trees, and it is still the case today.

But no one expected that after Io recovered again, the first plants growing on the surface were actually green!

Now, after a month, the plants of Io-0 have long not sprouted at the beginning, but have formed a lush green ocean, including swathes of grasslands and large tracts of shrubs, and large tracts of forests must only be a matter of time. .

Li Shili looked at the vegetation all over Io, and couldn't help but sigh for a while. There are snow mountains and deserts on the earth, but there are green plants everywhere on Io. If the time is not too short and not high enough, I'm afraid there are more than tropical rain forests. Rainforest.

It's not surprising to think about it. What are aliens best at tinkering with creatures and modifying several plants that are adapted to deserts or other extreme environments?

He even came up with an idea that should never have appeared: it would be great if he could get special plants cultivated by aliens, so that the Gobi Desert on Earth could be turned into an oasis...

Of course, he just thought about it. Plants transformed by aliens must not have problems adapting to the environment. Instead, he should worry about the consequences of alien plants invading the earth.

Another, the Gobi and the desert are now one of the important means for human beings to resist insect swarms. Just imagine, if the Sahara Desert becomes the Sahara Oasis, how many giant insects can be raised? How many giant ants would have to rush into the oasis-like desert, all the way to North Africa?

Once upon a time, the Gobi Desert was an insurmountable moat between human civilizations, and so far, they are still unconquerable territory for insect swarms.

This reminds Li Shili of a sentence: Feng Shui turns around!

At this moment, an unusually conspicuous light suddenly flashed on the screen. This light came from the middle of Io's northern hemisphere. From the perspective of the battleship, it was a lush grassland, and there could be no reflective material.

Speaking of reflective materials, we must talk about Io Zero. Three-quarters of its surface is covered by water. If the viewing angle is right, the sunlight reflected by the water surface will be extremely dazzling, making it the brightest in the sky. star!

This is not a joke, nor is it the literati's style of writing in the Spring and Autumn Period, but a real fact - Io is located 60 million kilometers in front of the earth, and the orbit around the sun is very similar to the orbit of the earth, and the positions of the two planets are almost unchanged.

Every clear dawn, early risers can see an unusually bright star in the eastern sky, and those with good eyesight can even find that the star is just a small crescent at the beginning, and as the dawn progresses The footsteps gradually turned into a semicircle, and the brightness became higher and higher. Until dawn, its light would be covered by the rising sun.

And the brightness of this star is not always the same~www.readwn.com~ It is sometimes brighter and sometimes darker, but no matter what time it is, it is much brighter than the morning star!

This star is Io. It was observed that its brightness is caused by its rotation. When the land faces the earth, the brightness is lower, and the brightness is significantly increased when the ocean faces the earth. The brightest part is always only a line of the moon, that is Sunlight reflected from the curved sea surface!

Venus is closer to Earth during its transit, but no matter what time of day, Venus is not as bright as Io Zero. This is because Venus is wrapped in a thick atmosphere, which is not as reflective as the water surface; secondly, when Venus is in transit, it is between the earth and the sun, and no matter how bright it is, it cannot be brighter than the sun.

So now Io is definitely the brightest star in the sky.

Of course, the brightest or the darkest is of no use at all, and no one appreciates Io's unique reflection. Everyone's first reaction when they see it is that they immediately think of aliens and giant insects.

The reflection Li Shili saw was not on the water, so it immediately caught his attention. At the same time, the eyes of others were also attracted by the flash.

Just a few seconds later, the flash appeared again, Ye Han frowned: "This is not a natural phenomenon, magnify this point for me!"

The bridge officer in charge of the observation immediately manipulated the equipment to zoom in on the screen. The screen flashed several times in succession, and a piece of grassland appeared on the screen. A few aliens could be seen standing on the grassland looking up at the sky.

"Continue!" Ye Han suddenly shouted.

The picture was zoomed in a few times, and the group of aliens took up half of the screen, and everyone finally saw the situation there: among the aliens, was an unusually short alien, and in front of him was lying on his back. A giant insect that is only larger than a grinding disc, the shell on the back of the giant insect is crystal clear, like a dazzling gem, and it is still extra large.