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Combining the newly discovered information, Xu You continued to simulate the situation.

Unknowingly, in Xu You's mind, the world with infinite space appeared again.

After continuous development, simple single-celled organisms were born on the planet, and the number of species of the first single-celled organisms with the ability to divide continued to grow, occupying a large area of ​​land nearby.

However, due to drastic changes in the environment, in the end these creatures were completely extinct and disappeared on this planet.

"There was nothing wrong with the whole process... um... no!"

At this time, Xu You suddenly noticed a piece of information that was not easy to find.

In countless simulated evolutions, although every species that appears looks very similar, in fact, there are more or less differences between them.

For example, the cell division speed of some species is particularly fast, the ability of some species to withstand high temperature is stronger, the cell volume of some species is larger, and so on.

The diversity of these species is so strong that by the time the simulation has been run tens of thousands of times, each new species that emerges is also different from all previous species.

"If enough species are born, is there a possibility that a species that can adapt to an extremely harsh environment will be born? Or, in other words, is there any way for this species to temporarily exist in another form to hide from the environment? the impact of harsh environments.”

This is a bit like the Trisolarans in the novel, who can choose to dehydrate in the harsh environment in the chaotic era, and then re-soak in water to restore their vitality in the constant era.

Of course, this special dehydration ability is very difficult to exist in a real environment, but some creatures may still obtain similar abilities in other ways.

Thinking of this, Xu You decided to intervene in the simulated world of his brain.

Through his own consciousness, Xu You allowed these creatures to evolve at a faster rate to adapt to the harsh environment on the planet.

Although this kind of intervention is difficult to occur in the real world, it can be judged from this that organisms may evolve in those directions to adapt to changes in the surrounding environment.

After repeated simulations, Xu You found that after his own intervention, these creatures showed many differences compared to before.

Some organisms have become able to withstand huge temperature differences, whether it is high temperature or low temperature, they cannot directly kill these organisms.

Some organisms speed up their own reproduction speed and expand their land scale so that their populations have enough habitats and choose a more suitable environment to survive.

Some species have accelerated their migration ability and will not stay in a certain place forever. If the environment is not suitable for survival, they will move to a more comfortable environment.

But among the many species, Xu You still found a species that he was most interested in.

When the surrounding environment changes, this species can put itself in a state almost "dormant". During this period, it will not move, will not absorb nutrients from the outside world, and does not even need oxygen, but will always maintained a state of near-death.

This state can be maintained for a very long time, and even after tens or hundreds of years, they can still maintain this state.

Until the surrounding environment becomes suitable again, they will regain their vitality, recover bit by bit, and continue the various life activities before.

Of course, this "dormant" state is not foolproof. In the dormant state, many individual species completely lose their vitality due to various reasons, and slowly evolve into some organic matter, which is no longer the previous life form. up.

But because in this state, their ability to resist the harsh environment has been greatly enhanced, there will always be some creatures that can survive for a long time, and "resurrection" under suitable conditions to continue the growth and reproduction of life process.

Coming out of the brain simulation state, Xu You's thoughts changed again.

"If a similar creature really appeared on Mars during the long evolution process... then some new traces may really be found underneath."

Thinking of this, Xu You even had an urge to continue digging down.

However, Xu You also knew that even if his hypothesis had a certain possibility, then these species could not exist several meters deep underground, but would be at a deeper location.

With the ability of the current project team, it is impossible to complete deeper excavation work.

Xu You finally resisted this urge and calmed himself down.

"Old Xu, what, what were you thinking about just now?"

Seeing that Xu You's emotions gradually recovered, Hu Shucheng couldn't help leaning over to ask Xu You.

"Old Hu, I suddenly thought of a possibility. It is that there may be a species on Mars that can use a state similar to 'dormant' to resist the harsh external environment and revive when the environment is suitable. Vitality. However, if this possibility exists, they should also exist deep underground..."

Xu You roughly explained his thoughts to Hu Shucheng, and Hu Shucheng's expression was constantly changing.

"Old Xu, your brain is really big, but this possibility cannot be ruled out. It's just that it's not so easy for us to dig tens or hundreds of meters underground on Mars."

This time, the goal of Bluestar manned landing on Mars is only to explore part of the surface of Mars, and has not yet involved too deep exploration work.

And it is not an easy task to transport such a large excavation equipment to Mars.

This is not to say that Blue Star's aerospace industry does not have such strength at present, but the cost of such an action is too high. If there is no very important task, it is not worth paying too much cost.

Since he didn't think of a good method, Xu You didn't tell others about his ideas, but continued to think about it.

At this time, other astronauts came over.

They had already finished the work at hand, and they only waited for Xu You to end his so-called thinking, and continued to move on to the next stop.

"Academician Xu, is there any latest discovery?"

"Well, there are indeed some ideas, but they haven't been confirmed yet, and they can't be confirmed yet. Let's go to the next stop first."

After Xu You thought about it, he still didn't explain this matter to others first, and decided to wait until he thought of a better way to talk about it.