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The Mars locomotive continued to move forward, arrived at a slope turn and stopped, placed strobe instruments on the side walls before continuing.

"Madam, please help me watch first, I'll go eat something." Ren Hong said, and had been sitting here for most of the day.

Just as he had just walked to the door, Eslin suddenly subconsciously exclaimed: "God..."

Ren Hong stopped instinctively, turned around and looked at the console. Aislin looked at the screen with shock on his face and didn't notice that "Wang Jiang" was looking at her.

"What's wrong?" Ren Hong asked in confusion.

"I suggest you wait a little before eating. It's better to come and have a look. It's incredible..." Aislin still stared at the screen, saying as if he was talking to himself.

Seeing her expression like this, Ren Hong came back without thinking. He glanced at the information displayed on the screen, and he was also stunned.

The Mars locomotive came to an open area, or a larger and wider tunnel for the first time. The grid-shaped three-dimensional topography shows bulging spherical objects, at least there are many, all with a diameter of 2.7 meters.

"Fermented?" Ren Hong said subconsciously. At this moment, he had forgotten that his stomach was gingering, and all the raised hemispheres were fermented.

He immediately tweaked the keyboard a few times, and soon the three-dimensional image was replaced with a thermal image, and then replaced with another graphic mode.

Deep underground, a new camera immediately floated on the top of the Mars locomotive. The two thin fan-shaped green laser barriers were lined up and upright respectively, which were extremely dazzling in the dark and dull underground. One side of the laser barrier was top-down, and the other side scanned back and forth towards the terrain in front from left to right.

Yang Licheng, who was standing aside and watching silently, was moved when he saw the next scene. He lowered his hands in front of his chest and looked at the screen with his eyes wide open.

The screen information data shows multiple strong life signals, and the signal source is the many motionless giant spherical objects. After data feedback from the biological scanner, the internal structural graphics of the giant spherical fermented objects are displayed.

The inside of each ball is curled up with a huge body, curling like a snake, and it is the Martian snake lizard!

"Is this...snake lizard egg?" Aislin looked at the screen and turned to look at Ren Hong.

"No, look at its size. Although it is curled up, it has been loosened for at least three and a half meters. It is obviously an adult individual. The spheres that wrap them are unknown yeast organisms..." Ren Hong looked at the data displayed on another screen: "Moisture content %?"

"Familiar anaerobic?" Ren Hong was suddenly shocked and said, "I understand. No wonder they have not shown any signs of activity in the past six months. It turns out that they are in the dormant period or hibernation period. Have you seen it? They are dormant and sleeping!"

"The environment on Mars is harsh and food is extremely scarce. If you keep active throughout the year, you need to eat continuously to maintain the calories consumed by life activities, but dormancy is different. The purpose of eating a big meal and letting you sleep for a long time is to reduce physical energy consumption. The dormancy period becomes a facultative anaerobic substance..." Ren Hong looked at the screen in amazement: "This is the most precious creature I have ever seen, and it almost saves energy consumption to the extreme... Facultative anaerobic, no wonder it is wrapped in fermentation into a sphere. The snake lizard actually fermentes produce fermentation. The dormancy period plus the characteristics of facultative anaerobicity. This process not only consumes almost no energy, but also fermentation in the facultative anaerobic state during the long dormancy period. This huge fermentation that has been completed for a long time is simply a good meal for Mars, which is food-deficient."

"But even so, it is impossible to complete a cycle of life activities. Don't forget that they have come to the surface of Mars." Acelin questioned.

"Don't you understand?" Ren Hong pointed to the data display screen. "The changes in humidity, anaerobic microorganisms in the soil that do not rely much on oxygen to live in. Simple and low-level life has appeared here. Do you see the temperature change? The deeper you go underground, the temperature is rising. Now it is sub-zero, and the lowest temperature in the upper layer reaches more than minus 47 degrees. So what to do... "

"Where is this? Under our feet." Ren Hong asked again.

"Volcano! And it's an extinct volcano that has been dead for hundreds of millions of years." Aislin replied.

"What is under the volcano?" Ren Hong asked again.

"You mean..." Acelin's eyes lit up, Ren Hong snapped his fingers with a snap, and then said: "The source of life, water! Liquid water! The core temperature of Mars has exceeded 15 oo degrees Celsius."

Ren Hong suddenly stretched out his fist and said in an image: "Mars is a star system. The core furnace of more than 1ooo degrees Celsius inside is the scorching sun. Different stratigraphic structures represent the orbits of planets and planets..." Ren Hong gestured and looked at his fist with a smile and said: "There is a golden position in it, and the temperature there just can make the water appear liquid, a habitable zone! Just like the sun and the earth, the earth is in the golden position, a habitable zone! Water can liquidize on the earth, liquid water... The source of life, the habitable zone underground of Mars also exists!"

"This can explain why the soil on the Martian surface contains water." Ren Hong said with great affirmation: "Because there is liquid water underground, which exists in the form of groundwater, and the water is stored in an empty extinct volcano. The water usurped the 'home' of the scorching lava and became a new flowing 'blood' of the volcano. The extinct volcano is therefore 'reborn'. The underground of Mars is a new world of life, and the snake lizard may be the master of that world..."

Aislin still felt that his assumption was untenable and questioned: "Water is indeed the source of life, but what about oxygen? Is there a plant underground on Mars? There is no complete food chain, a complete biological ecology, and no balance..."

"It is an untrue fact that the existence of a snake lizard is." Ren Hong interrupted her, and Eslin was speechless.

"Let's make an assumption together..." Ren Hong said to himself: "Mars billions of years ago were a planet with prosperous life. Extinction of creatures exploded. Snake lizards are one of the survivors. Many species have become extinct due to the great changes in the environment. Snake lizards have escaped. The great changes in the environment and the collapse of the food chain forced them to evolve and avoid extinction. The dead volcanoes have become their new settlement place. The extinction of Martian plants has led to the disappearance of oxygen. What should we do if there is no plant to provide oxygen? They create their own oxygen..."

"Animals? Oxygen is made?" Acelyn looked at him suspiciously.

"Any organ or behavior evolved by organisms is to adapt to survival, otherwise it will be a waste of energy consumption. Why can snake lizards secrete acidic corrosion? Why can snake lizards generate currents?" Ren Hong asked back.

Seeing that Jin Liangniu was still unaware of it, Ren Hong said concisely: "They use these two skills to create oxygen in the form of electrolyzed water!"

With a word, Eslin suddenly realized at this moment that there were too many ways of survival of oxygen, and the photosynthesis of plants was just the most common, among which electrolytic water was also the most common way to produce oxygen.

This can explain why snake lizards generate currents and secrete acidic corrosive substances. Mars is harsh and food is scarce. The evolution of any organs and parts will inevitably degenerate if it has no effect. These two unique skills happen to be energy-consuming users. What's the use of evolving without effect?

"Incredible..." Aislin muttered to himself in amazement.

"Explorer! Take biological samples immediately and return to the surface. Hopefully, it will not wake these hibernators..."

When Yang Licheng heard this, he immediately said to the communicator: "All units should be careful, keep alert, and prepare for battle!" (To be continued.)8
Chapter completed!