meta plan

Chapter 5 Preliminary Exploration
Thanks to the improvement of the mechanical armor covering the whole body, offsetting the gravity difference in the south and filtering the toxic air, the doctor and his group can walk normally on the southern land.

The size of the moon gate is limited, and large transport aircraft and fighter jets in the north cannot pass through it temporarily.Therefore, more than 100 scientific research legion teams exploring the southern world, the main mode of transportation for exploring the southern world is a small supersonic shuttle ship.

A newest small supersonic shuttle ship of the Federation, capable of carrying 5-10 people;
The Seth crystal energy group, which is a special product of Gast, is supplemented by a solar energy supply system, and has an independent ecological cycle system, which can basically meet the daily needs of the scientific research army.

The speed of the federal small supersonic shuttle boat exceeds 1224km/h, and the radius of the original star is 1325168km. In theory, they need 1083 solar hours to cross the southern hemisphere, which is almost 45 solar hours.

But the distance across the surface is far longer than this time. In addition, according to the federal database, there is a mysterious area in the southern South Pole area.

When the high-altitude shuttle ship sent by the Federation flew over the red magnetic field in that area at low altitude, all the instruments lost control and the shuttle ship crashed.

It is estimated that the construction of No. [-] base will take about a week, and it will have the same specifications and functions as No. [-] base.

With the No. [-] base as the relay point of the base station, even if they enter the southern territory, the doctors can still contact the federal headquarters through the No. [-] base.

It's just that after going deep into the vast south, it is necessary to establish 6 more bases as additional relay points, so that the doctors can connect to the federal headquarters across regions and form a unified transmission network.

The red magnetic field blocked the signals of all the outer space spacecraft and detectors of the Federation, and now the channel is open.

When the construction of the seven base relay points is completed, the entire south can also be covered by the northern satellite communication system.

When Colonel Phyllis proposed that the First Squad establish Base II at the same time, the Doctor rejected the proposal.

Dr. Phyllis and Colonel Knott emphasized that:
When the north meets the intelligent life in the south, the first impression of both parties is very important!They do not understand the culture, beliefs, habits, etc. of the south, and their blind actions are likely to cause diplomatic conflicts.

The actions of the army are easily regarded as hostility, so whenever you encounter intelligent creatures, first let the metaclasses in their scientific expedition team who are good at diplomacy contact them.

What's more, without the consent of the other party, thinking about building a military base site on the other party's territory is undoubtedly an act of declaring war.

The doctor's consideration and opinions were approved by Admiral Nott, and the construction of the No. [-] base was temporarily put on hold.

Colonel Phyllis scoffed at Dr. Gein's forward-looking and backward-looking approach. Colonel Phyllis, who originally advocated the removal of all obstacles, said that in the event of a threat to the safety of the scientific research corps, the army's orders and actions have priority.

His attitude towards the scientists of the scientific expedition team became more and more unfriendly; the scientists also ignored the emotions of Colonel Phyllis.

After all, the topography and geomorphology information sent back by the A-type reconnaissance plane dispatched a few days ago indicated that the area originally connected to the entrance of the north-south passage was all loess, a vast terrain with flying sand and stones without seeing green.

But now in the images sent back by the reconnaissance plane, some grasslands, shrubs, low-level plants, and even traces of small low-level animals have also been found.

Although no signs of intelligent organisms have been found yet, for the ecologists in the scientific expedition team, this is also one of the propositions they are eager to study.

What's more, the location where the grassland ecosystem appears is consistent with the direction pointed by the ether detector, and they must conduct field investigations!

So the second action team, under the leadership of the doctor and Colonel Phyllis, set off from the No. 13 base, 24 shuttle ships took off, and headed south to the double-star grassland area inside the East Ten District with a day and night duration of 30-[-] hours.

Due to the different distances between the Taihao and Lieyang star systems in the triple star system and the original star; and the difference in the revolution speed of the surrounding planetary groups, the different continents in the north and south of the original star have different day and night durations.

The Northern Federal Geographical Society divides Yuanxing into 36 time zones, that is, 10 longitudes is a time zone;
36H/day and night on Yuanxing is the longest day; 18:[-] on the midline of the long day is the middle time zone, the east side is the East [-]th time zone, and the west side is the West [-]th zone.

The farther to the east of the 18H long day midline, the longer the day-night cycle of the continent, and the shorter the day-night cycle of the mainland.

Take Obrie, a country on the sea in the north, as an example; from west to east, the shortest period of Obrie is 20 hours a day and night, that is, 20 hours a day, 10 hours in day and night; the longest is 28 hours in a day and night, 14 hours in day and night.

Coupled with the angle difference between Yuanxing, Taihao Star and Lieyang stars, different continents and countries in the northern and southern hemispheres of Yuanxing belong to different stars during the day, and there are even two suns in the sky in some areas.

Just like the main city of Guangliu in the federation of the three northern countries, it is located under the brilliance of the sun and stars, and 24H is a day and night time zone;
In the south, the grassland ecological area from East Seventh District to East Twelfth District is also a place where the twin stars of Taihao and Lieyang shine.

The south is divided according to the unified division of the Northern Federation, and the area near the 33° south latitude of the East Tenth District is speculated by ecologists that it is likely to be a settlement for large organisms.

This is not without reason. The northern habitable zone is concentrated around 33° north latitude. The northern civilization also develops at this latitude of life, and then spreads to other regions.

It is reasonable to infer that the intelligent life in the south is concentrated in the area of ​​the southern life latitude line, and the images of the reconnaissance plane prove this point.

After 2 days of flying in a shuttle boat, they arrived at the grassland ecological area. The ecologists couldn't wait to apply for field research to the Ph.D.

After consulting the images of the reconnaissance plane to ensure that there were no potential safety hazards, the doctor agreed to the request of the three ecologists and gave them one day to collect the information they wanted.

The three most outstanding ecologists in the Federation, Researcher Woolley Meeker, Professor Walton Thomas, Researcher Clemens Elsa, and their assistants brought various collections that had already been prepared. The device and sample container quickly landed on the ground after dressing neatly.

Although Colonel Phyllis sent more than a dozen soldiers to follow and guard the scientists, his tone was not kind at all: "Come back immediately after collecting! Don't waste time!"

"I really don't know what you have in your head. What is there to study about grass? Have you ever seen grass?"

The excited ecologists didn't pay attention to Colonel Felice's dissatisfaction and complaints, and they didn't expect Colonel Felice, a rough man, to understand their enthusiasm!

In their eyes, the mediocre southern grasslands are no different from creatures on a different planet. Under the action of a hundred times the gravity and poisonous gas, what is the difference between the internal organization of these grasses and the northern ones?
Why survive?All fascinating topics!
Hoddle saw that the teacher was checking the signal of the ether detector. The signal showed that they were far away from the source of the ether signal, and they would have to fly for at least ten days to arrive.

"Teacher, why don't you go down and do some research?" In Hoddle's impression, the teacher has always been a person who enjoys the research process himself, and he is very similar to the teacher in this regard.

The doctor looked at Hodl, who was eager to try, and ordered: "Hodl, help me collect some ecological samples and come back, and do some simple data analysis."

Hoddle immediately replied: "Okay! I'll be back soon!"

Hoddle, who was so happy, finally had time to study academically.

During this period of time, he was dealing with the military and scientists from various countries, like a diplomat, a position he didn't like but did well.

After Hoddle entered the grassland, he quickly collected some grass branches and put them into a liquid nitrogen test tube. The appearance of this grass is basically the same as that of the northern Manila grass, except that the edges are sharper.

He dropped a blue reagent into a test tube and found that the grass itself was not toxic, that is to say, the components in the southern air that were toxic to the northern species would not be absorbed by the grass.

Similarly, he collected some chamaejasma japonica mixed with Manila grass. In this season, the north has not yet bloomed, but the south has already bloomed.

White with purplish red, double petals, not much different from northern chamaejasma.However, after scanning the database authorized by the teacher, it can be confirmed that it does not belong to any subspecies of chamaejasma in the northern sample biological database.

Hoddle found that several kinds of plants were not toxic after testing with reagents. Cynthia reagent was a chromogenic reagent developed by federal virologists based on the toxic components in the southern air, with an accuracy rate of more than 95%.

They must work out an antidote for how to allow the northern metatypes to breathe normally in the south, but it will take time, and the materials they have now are far from enough.

However, from the appearance traits of these southern plants, it can be found that the higher the plant level, the more obvious the morphological variation, no matter in terms of size or hue.

The more detailed cell structure in the middle can only go back and analyze it with an electron microscope to further uncover the factors that cause this difference.

Hoddle was interrupted by an exclamation. He looked at the source of the sound. It turned out that it was researcher Elsa Clemens and her assistant who were exclaiming. Seeing that the situation was not in any danger.

Out of curiosity, Hoddle went to the position of researcher Clemens. This female researcher who has always behaved dignifiedly was dancing?

Looking closer, it turns out that she and her assistant are catching a butterfly?

It was not the butterfly he was familiar with. It looked like the king butterfly in the north, but its size was several times larger. It had colored wings in black, and the phosphor powder on the wings glistened in the sunlight.

It is about the size of the largest butterfly, the Queen Swallowtail, as the wings spread over 30cm in the north.

The butterfly was flexible. Researcher Clemens and her assistant, who were originally wearing mechanical armor, were not able to use it as skillfully as soldiers, so they worked hard for a long time without catching the butterfly.

And the guards on the side didn't mean to help at all!

A vial suddenly appeared, and quickly shut the strange butterfly that was teasing them inside.

Researcher Clemens looked at the person coming. The iron cover of the mechanical armor was partly removed. Through the glass mask layer, she found that it was the doctor's assistant. During this time, Researcher Hoddle had been providing a lot of help to scientists.

Hoddle handed the vial to Researcher Clemens, and Elsa raised her eyebrows. This sample is very precious.

Although they were the first to discover it, it was researcher Hoddle who caught it. According to the convention in the scientific community of Gast, whoever gets it first gets it!

Seeing that Researcher Clemens did not take the bottle for a long time, Hoddle remembered that she was the only young female scientist sent by Gast. The rules of the xenophobic Gast country have always been quite different from those of other countries.

So he explained: "Researcher Clemens, this is your sample, I just help you catch it to prevent it from escaping."

Elsa doesn't get paid for nothing, this is her principle: "What do you want in exchange?"

Hoddle was surprised. Researcher Clemens' information showed that she was one of the few female scientists in Gast, and she was about the same age as him.

Being appointed by the state to participate in the federal scientific research mission at such a young age must be very good.

Although he always knew that Gast people were not easy to get along with, he didn't expect them to be so wary.

"There is no need to exchange anything. If you feel sorry, you might as well tell me what you found." Hoddle just wanted to make an excuse.

Elsa thought about it seriously, then took the vial, and said slowly:
"According to the samples collected so far, the more advanced the plant species, the higher the degree of variation; the microscopic data shows that the fiber cell walls of southern plants have a special kind of matrix, and further research is needed on what exactly it is."

It was only then that Hoddle discovered that the other party had even brought out a portable microscope, which weighed a lot under the gravity of the south. It seemed that Researcher Clemens was no less eager to understand the ecology of the south than he was.

"This is the information I can trade and share with you."

Hoddle's desire to share with the other party was instantly dispelled by her words. This researcher Clemens is completely ordering to evict the guest.

Hoddle also left wisely. Facing the troublesome Gast people, he, the descendants of his diplomatic family, had to hit a wall, and it was really difficult to get along with.

(End of this chapter)