Technology Bigshot Chapter 527: : The last “survivor” of Mars]

In a small canyon around the highland, there is a karst cave with a diameter of about 45 meters on the cliff wall. It used to be one of the corridors for the flow of volcanic magma, but no magma has flowed from here for more than 2 billion years. .

This planet is not a forbidden zone for life, as humans recognize it. The extremely harsh environment and atmospheric structure of the planet's surface is indeed a no-go zone for life, but only on the surface.

As the volcanoes that fill Mars gradually die, the magma recedes, and the tunnels inside the volcanoes become the last haven for life on this planet.

A creature with a history of more than 2 billion years has survived on this planet, and it is also the only remaining large creature on this planet.

In the channel of the cave where the small canyon is located, it is advancing at a speed that is neither fast nor slow. This is in the eyes of human beings. In fact, it is moving very slowly. It is also a failed competitor. The males lost the competition for mating rights and were lucky to escape the blood of their opponents. Now it has become an ascetic, he has escaped from his lair deep in the ground, and his body is covered with scars that have not healed, and his body is getting weaker and weaker.

After leaving the water, for the oxygen the body needs, it begins to consume its own water to produce the oxygen it needs. This is undoubtedly a chronic suicide, but it is also the best way at present.

It's a miracle to be here alive, because the creatures in this population, it often means that it will become the winner's feast, especially in the environment of the bad example, Mars can't grow any grass, This is the most delicious meal ever.

For the last species on Mars, it's not just a race for mating rights, it's a life-and-death contest, where the winner will mate with the female and get everything the loser has, including its body, while The loser has nothing, and even has to become the food of the winner. This is the most cruel competition.

It's been a miracle that it can escape.

At this moment, it is crawling up a steep slope, and the other end after the top is a steep **** that slopes down up to 60 degrees, such a steep **** is not a big problem for this kind of creature, but it is an exception, it hurts too much Heavier, the breath is getting weaker and weaker, waiting for it more is the coming of the **** of death, it can't safely pass through this steep cave **** passage.

But it has to move forward. When it crosses the apex of the karst cave, it finally accidentally slides down the steep karst cave like a rolling stone. Its body can curl into a sphere to protect itself. Roll down.

Pezos Heights, outside the canyon, the mouth of the cave, it rolled out from the inside, fell outside the canyon, and was exposed on the surface of Mars.

Exposed to the sun, it will die without life

It suddenly made a heart-piercing scream. However, due to the thin atmosphere on the surface of Mars, the propagation length of sound is only 15% of that of Earth.

The thin atmosphere on the surface of Mars has almost no oxygen. This species can adapt and survive. It has lasted for hundreds of millions of years in this world known as the forbidden zone of life. This species has lived in the depths of the earth for hundreds of millions of years. One thing for it is cosmic rays that are deadly.

The Pezos area is about to enter the dark night, but at dusk, the sun still shines on this land. Ultraviolet rays and various cosmic rays from outer space can still make it die without a place to die, and its survival instinct drives it crazy. Struggling to escape from this place quickly, which is the opposite of dying before, but it doesn't know that the empty surface has nowhere to escape.

It's epidermis began to burn, and at a speed visible to the naked eye, it began to fester, fester, and the muscle tissue began to turn into pus, which stayed on the path it crawls. The pus touched the soil layer on the ground and suddenly white smoke came out. The trace moisture contained in the soil began to be seriously dehydrated, and the thin air was filled with a strong acid corrosion smell

Finally, it was exhausted. It escaped from the competition of similar opponents, but it failed to escape the final death of the **** of death. It rolled from the cave on the cliff to the surface of Mars, and it tried its best to climb. The length of 80 meters, finally stopped, the pus soaked into the topsoil layer, and finally only a complete pile of skeletons remained on the ground, around which white smoke diffused and quickly dissipated.

Follow the cave entrance on the cliff and go deep into the bottom of this extinct volcano. When entering the cave from the exit, you must first climb a steep slope. The creature died because of this steep slope, and then it went all the way down to the ground. Continuing to deepen, a network of criss-crossing caves began to appear.

With the continuous deepening, every inch of depth is close to the core of Mars, and a new cradle of life appears in the ground. The core of Mars is about 1700 degrees Celsius, and the temperature here has always been stable. In the ancient times of Mars, the most intense and frequent volcanic activity, there was magma, but now it is composed of water. Maintaining the right distance from the Martian core with a high temperature of 1700 degrees Celsius, just like the habitable zone distance between the earth and the sun in the solar system, promotes the liquefaction of the water on the earth.

There is a similar "habitable zone" in the Martian subsurface, where water is liquid. In addition to this golden geographical location, the soil on the surface of Mars also has water components. If humans know all this, they may be able to explain the mystery of the source of water contained in the soil layer.

The golden location allows water to liquefy here, and the underground space originally formed by volcanic magma or the intertwined corridors also makes it possible for water to converge.

This is the last habitat of life.

Deep underground in the Pezos area, there is a huge reservoir, but it is definitely not the only one on this planet. This reservoir is no less than the size of Dongting Lake. Groups of reptiles converge on a port. These creatures are more than three times the size of adult Komodo dragons on Earth. They are reptiles, with a single individual having more than 3,500 pieces of muscle tissue, while humans are only 600. Multiple blocks.

These creatures do not have moving limbs, but crawl like snakes. They have a pair of forelimbs that are basically not used for movement and more used for fighting. They are composed of three ligament joints and can be straightened but usually Both are half-shrinked into a "" shape, like the forelimbs of mantises on Earth.

What makes people unbelievable is that the air here actually contains a higher oxygen content than the atmosphere on the surface of Mars. Although this tiny oxygen content is impossible for humans to breathe, if it is discovered by humans, it will definitely be a sensation in the world. of.

At this moment, these creatures on the port are intertwined with each other, and the surface of these creatures flashes from time to time with dazzling electric currents. The huge electric current generated here can kill an adult instantly, but for these creatures The words didn't hurt in the slightest.

Because these currents are generated from these organisms.

The water here is also the deadliest venom for humans, because the water is full of strong acid corrosion, and the strong acidic substances in the water are also derived from these remaining Martian creatures.

Mars has no plants, but these creatures also have to respire, and oxygen is essential, but there is not enough oxygen on this planet for them to use.

But they can produce the oxygen they need for life activities, and the trace oxygen in the air also comes from them.

The reason why these organisms can autonomously generate powerful currents and acidic solutions is that they have evolved a unique type of organ. This organ in the body produces oxygen to supply life activities through the process of "electrolysis of water". The acidic solutions secreted by the creatures also serve this purpose. They can increase the concentration of ions in the water, thereby increasing the conductivity, and thus speeding up the reaction rate to support the oxygen that the body needs.

Hundreds of millions of years of evolution have allowed this species to survive in harsh environments, but the energy consumption required for such a huge volume is absolutely irrelevant. They are now "lingering" in groups. If there is a chance, they They will eat the same kind without hesitation, and swallowing a similar kind completely can satisfy long-term activities. The harsh living environment makes them must be cruel to survive, but this alone cannot make them continue to this day. There is not one left to eat in a day.

The last remaining Martian creatures, which means that they have no source of food, the scarce oxygen on Mars is almost negligible, and it is even more impossible to supply such huge creatures for respiration, and their huge bodies need They consume a lot of oxygen to maintain life activities. They produce oxygen by secreting strong acid corrosion and electrolyzing water, but secreting acid corrosion and providing electricity means consuming more body functions. Without food as a supplementary source of body energy, it is simply impossible survive.

But even in such a harsh environment, they still have their own unique set of survival skills, unheard of by humans

To be continued, to be continued.

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