I Kidnapped An Alien Civilization

2021-07-07

Chapter 360 fire star cavity

fire star surface

an excavator in the endless horizon The fire star ran wildly on the ground, and the smoke billowed everywhere.

“Captain, where are we going?” Qashqai woke up and found that Captain Li Mo, still in great spirits, was running the space excavator on the barren surface of the fire star.

“I don’t know either!” Li Mo’s eyes swept across the highly sensitive radar on the dashboard, but there was still no suspicious signal.

“Don’t know?” Qashqai frowned, this is the tenth Earth day after they landed on fire star, except for the first day when they accidentally rescued the buried Valiant. , and no new discoveries were ever made.

The task of punching holes and collecting rock specimens has been completed. According to the scheduled plan, they should now embark on the journey back to Earth on the Navigator spaceship.

But Captain Li Mo doesn’t seem to have any intention of returning. Instead, he drives the excavator all day long. It seems that he is relying on the “furious” space excavator to travel to every corner of the fire star.

Although the size of the fire star is only one-seventh of Earth’s, it is not a small excavator that can be vertical and horizontal.

When will this end?

Fortunately, this voyage, the Navigator carried sufficient energy and food reserves.

Thinking of the food, the Qashqai screamed in his stomach. He opened the communicator and called: “Operator, I want to eat fried pork at noon today, remember to put more salt and no pepper.”

“Captain, what do you want for lunch?”

“As usual!” Li Mo looked forward without turning his head.

“Oh, give the captain a scrambled egg with tomatoes.”

“.Received!” The voice of spaceship manipulating Guan Weiqun came from the opposite side of the communicator.

Today is the twentieth day after landing on the fire star. The energy material carried by the Navigator has been consumed by 2/3. Maybe it is time to go back.

Li Mo decided to start the return flight plan after detecting the canyon area ahead.

In these 20 days, he drove a space excavator to explore thousands of kilometers of area, but unfortunately nothing new was discovered.

Perhaps only after returning to Earth and studying the tons of fire star rock samples collected will we know what the results of this space exploration will be.

“Isn’t there life on the fire star?” Li Mo carefully maneuvered the space excavator and passed through a ravine.

“Beep. Beep.” The high-sensitivity radar sounded an alarm.

“Captain, the radar shows that there is a block under the surface of the fire star 500 meters ahead.”

Dozens of targets suddenly appeared on the radar screen at the same time.

“It’s not one piece. It’s a lot of metal radars with multiple sensing points.” The Qashqai stammered and reported.

500 meters?

Li Mo looked up and saw that there was a fire star rift 500 meters away.

He slowed down and slowly drove towards the rift.

This is a rift formed by red fire star rock. The width of the rift is not large, and the incision is smooth and smooth, like a piece of tofu cut in half by a knife, which should be moved by the fire star plate. resulting cracks.

“How deep is this?” The Qashqai picked up a stone and threw it into the rift. The sound of a stone falling to the ground came from the “Pa” rift.

Li Mo looked at the time, it took a full 10 seconds from the time the stone was thrown to the sound of the landing. Considering that the gravity and air resistance on the fire star are relatively small, it means that the fire star is cracked. The depth of the valley is more than 1800 meters.

“It’s too narrow for the Navigator to go down.” Qashqai visually inspected the width of the rift and looked the head.

Do you want to enter Baoshan and return empty-handed?

This is definitely not Li Mo’s usual style. He turned back to the space excavator and adjusted the radar mode. The radar showed that the distance between the metal signal and the surface of the fire star was only more than 500 meters.

If the metal is man-made, there is likely a void 500 meters into the rift.

There is a way!

He picked up the communicator.

“Call Navigator!”

“Navigator received!”

“Please move forward to the area of coordinates A1278:F8982, we have New discovery.”

Half an hour later, the two astronauts hung Li Mo, which was bundled like a rice dumpling, on the bucket of the space excavator, and the other end of the rope was connected to a motor On the plane, a simple human flesh hoist was completed.

“Captain, are you sure you want to do this?”

“This is too dangerous!”

The Qashqai shouted loudly to Li Mo hanging in the air.

“Let’s start!” Li Mo closed his eyes, the spaceship couldn’t go down, this was the only way.

Guan Weiqun controlled the space excavator to move slowly, approaching the rift carefully, and the bucket stretched out over the rift.

“Perfect!” Li Mo looked at the bottomless abyss under his feet and gave Guan Weiqun a thumbs up.

“Start releasing the rope!”

With the rotation of the motor, the Li Mo suspended above the bucket began to descend slowly.

“Captain, if you feel unwell, please sound the alarm immediately, and Wei Qun and I will immediately pull you up.” The Qashqai lay on the edge of the rift and shouted with the walkie-talkie.

“Yes, please continue to release the rope.”

The motor continues to turn.

100m

200m

500m

As the breeze blew, the rope began to sway from side to side, and the Qashqai stared nervously. Focusing on the black spot in the rift, Guan Weiqun’s hand kept resting on the motor switch.

“Stop!”

“Pa!” Guan Weiqun pressed the stop button.

“I found a hole in the rock wall of the rift, and the excavator retracted its boom!” Li Mo’s voice came from the intercom.

The space excavator moves its boom slowly.

“Okay!”

“Stop!”

At a distance of 512 meters from the surface of the fire star, the suspended Li Mo, with the help of the swing of the excavator’s boom, With a slight leap, he stepped onto an empty place.

He untied the rope on his body and picked up the walkie-talkie: “I have reached the target area, you guys are waiting for the signal.”

“Received!” Guan Weiqun

“Received! Captain pay attention to safety.” Qashqai.

This hollow is as tall as two people, and the rock wall is extremely smooth. It is an obvious product of wisdom.

Li Mo suppressed his excitement and took out the tactical searchlight from his backpack.

In an instant, the light dispelled the darkness, and the rock wall in the depths of the cavity seemed to be engraved with complex lines.

The searchlight moved closer.

It’s rock art!

On the rock wall, the simple lines that are deeply depicted vividly form beautiful pictures.

Plants, plants, plants of all kinds!

Li Mo found that most of the petroglyphs were engraved with a variety of plants, and the branches and leaves of these plants were clearly visible and lifelike.

With the gradual deepening, the volume of the plants on the petroglyphs also became larger and larger.

Are there only plants on fire star?

So what species were these petroglyphs engraved on? He does not believe that plants have the ability to carve on rocks.

No! Seems to be missing something.

Li Mo turned around suspiciously and returned to the 1st rock art.

This petroglyph depicts a prokaryotic organism floating in an ocean-like liquid, and several lines on the mural express the presence of water.

In the next second petroglyph, prokaryotic cells in liquid evolved into multicellular clusters.

In the fifth petroglyph, the engraved content becomes a plant with a rhizome.

“This is the evolution map of fire star creatures!” Li Mo understood that what the petroglyphs described was the entire process of the evolution of creatures from single-celled organisms to plants.

“A plant with wisdom?”

With such doubts, Li Mo continued to read with the tactical searchlight. In the twelve rock paintings that follow, the protagonist is still Plants, it’s just that they have more variety and are bigger.

Until the thirteenth petroglyph, the plants disappeared and were replaced by a circle with several lines drawn around it.

This is the sun!

Li Mo instantly remembered the stick figures he once drew.

But why engrave the sun alone with a petroglyph?

Isn’t there a sun over the previous fire star?

This is impossible!

Li Mo immediately dismissed the absurd idea.

(End of this chapter)