Origin of Mars

Chapter 28 Cavity
Seeing the green light above Xiaohua's head flickering back and forth, Fang Liang already roughly guessed what it was doing.

Perhaps it is investigating rock composition and topography.

At the same time, Fang Liang also restarted the spraying device, and slowly lifted into the air, reaching about 50 meters. Fang Liang glanced around, and a 3D topographic map of this area appeared in the mask, as well as a series of Intuitive data.

"Is this a... lake?"

Seeing the familiar elliptical concave model in front of him, Fang Liang realized it all at once.

The information he sees in the first-person view is much more detailed than the AIM photos.

There are riverbank relics, dense cobblestones, and uneven canals everywhere.

This is clearly a place where a lake once existed.

"Zero? Can you scan this area for me remotely?"

These details aroused Fang Liang's strong interest. He sent a message to Zero who was far away in the base and asked.

The mecha on his body is not equipped with advanced scanning devices. If he wants to see more details, he still has to rely on the professional equipment in the origin base.

"Yes, remote assistance is being built, the request has been sent~"

After Zero's words were finished, a reminder suddenly appeared in front of Fang Liang's mask, and without hesitation, he immediately clicked the option to agree.

Afterwards, Ling briefly took over Fang Liang's mask selection function, and the survey instruments in the origin base immediately scanned the riverbed ruins below with remote assistance.

The scanning process lasted for about 3 minutes. Xiaohua below seemed to have completed the task. His round body became blurred in the sandstorm and left the area.

Finally, after the scan was over, pieces of extremely detailed information popped up in front of Fang Liang's eyes. With the advanced level of the surveying equipment, the view he saw even reached the position 500 meters below the river bed.

And Fang Liang looked over one by one, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Is it really a lake? !The results of the survey listed almost every rock composition, and even simulated the original appearance of the lake.

It was a very strange scene. The surrounding dark red mountains turned into a dull color. The surface layer seemed to be covered with ice-like material. There was no plant. The vast lake was full of waves, but it was vast and lonely. scene.

Is this what Mars once looked like? ?

Seeing this picture, Fang Liang's body trembled subconsciously.

"36 billion years ago, there was a real lake here."

Fang Liang continued to move the data in front of him, and he saw many incredible details.

In the area nearly 500 meters below the river bed, although no fossils of living organisms were found, Fang Liang vaguely saw small, strange vertical cavities.

They exist in the lowermost area of ​​the view, that is, 500 meters below the river bed, and they are closely arranged and slender in shape.

Fang Liang couldn't see their specific size, and the connected cavities in the middle reminded him of the structure of a honeycomb.

what is this?
Isn't that a terrain collapse caused by some environmental factor?
This weird discovery made him focus his eyes, zoom in, and focus, but because of the remote assistance, these cross-sectional sensing views through the surface could not be very clear.

"Zero? Can you ensure the authenticity of this simulated picture?"

Fang Liang suddenly asked.

"About 60.00% similarity, there was indeed a lake here, a very old lake."

"Then have you seen these things?"

Some inexplicable emotions suddenly sprouted in Fang Liang's heart, and he sent these views to Ling.

"Sorry sir, I can't see what it is, and its existence cannot be explained in my information base."

A few seconds later, Zero's voice sounded a little apologetic.

"It's okay, nothing."

Fang Liang smiled, not intending to blame.

This is the remains of a lake that existed 36 billion years ago. It is normal to not know the information in it.

"Send the data back and analyze it carefully."

Fang Liang thought for a while and said slowly, "Also, I need about ten industrial robots to dig up this riverbed."

"Received~"

"And a gray abyss."

Seeing that the communication hadn't been hung up, Fang Liang added another sentence.

"Ok."

After the communication with Zero ended, the wind and sand around him suddenly increased again, and the gravel from the air hit Fang Liang's armor from time to time, blowing into powder.

there's something wrong with this place
Perhaps disturbed by the rising dust, Fang Liang frowned slightly, scanned the riverbed below, and chose to stay where he was and wait.

He was even more curious, what did Xiaohua detect here?
There is nothing noteworthy on the surface of the river bed, except that an ancient lake once existed here.

What caught Fang Liang's attention even more were the strange cavities that existed in the extremely deep underground.

Wait for the excavation team to arrive and everything will become clear.

Half an hour later, I saw a burly black figure slowly walking out from the side of the mountain, two sharp dark blue streamers floating in the sand and dust, and the slender body looming.

Then, it smashed a large stone mound in front of it with a punch, several industrial robots emerged from under it, their casters crushed the gravel, and drove towards the river bed.

"Graypit Squad, Report No. III-03, sir."

Even though it was hundreds of meters away, the ordnance robot's courtesy greeting popped up from Fang Liang's mask.

"Stay alert and defend this area."

Fang Liang nodded and gave the order.

"receive."

Gray Abyss Robot No. 03 responded without hesitation, the outer armor suddenly cracked, and the bright blue light was particularly dazzling in the gray sand.

This is their fighting form. The outer armor covering the body is fully unfolded, exposing the high-density copper tubes used for heat dissipation. Due to the overflow of energy core energy in the body, it appears such a dreamy azure blue.

Immediately afterwards, faint excavations sounded one after another on the river bed.

"gentlemen."

Zero's communication panel popped up on the mask, "Further discoveries have been made in the test results."

"What is it?"

"This riverbed has obvious signs of filling. Most of the structures in the layered rock layers do not belong to the same time period, and even some weak radioactivity was found deep underground."

Zero replied.

"Is it that it was once dug and filled back? Is that what it means?"

Fang Liang summed it up in a simple way.

"Yes, it is about 476 meters underground in the northwest direction, which is the dividing point of the two rock formations."

"understood."

Fang Liang nodded, feeling a little excited already in his heart.

Hanging up the communication, Fang Liang looked at the riverbed. The excavation work was progressing very smoothly. With Huiyuan in charge, Fang Liang was not afraid of any accidents.

Just see what you can dig up!

(End of this chapter)