Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 258 Going to the bottom
"Is this Death Valley? It doesn't feel much different from other valleys." Walking at the bottom of Death Valley, Purficott looked around and saw that, except for the exposed rocks that made the place seem a bit desolate, There is no obvious essential difference from other places.

At this time, Purficott's face was wearing a respirator mask that she rubbed with her own hands. Her entire face was wrapped in a transparent glass mask, and she was breathing filtered air.

She used activated carbon and other materials to rub an air filter. After connecting to the breathing mask, the filter can effectively filter the air entering it and provide clean air for Purficott.

The entire filter has been tested and can be used for about two hours, which is enough for the small area of ​​Death Valley.

After all, Purficott just came down to take a look and didn't intend to stay here for a long time.

Of course, it was easy for her to extend her stay in Death Valley. She only needed to replace the filter element in the filter with a new one, and this did not even require her to do it herself.

Before coming down, Samantha had prepared double supplies of consumables for her breathing mask and air filter, as well as a set of spares, in order to avoid problems with the equipment used by Purficott.

Although this makes Purficott feel a little overprotective, it can also be seen from this point that Samantha has really put a lot of effort into ensuring Purficott's safety.

"Apart from the fact that this place is a little more desolate and the environment is a little more dangerous, it's just an ordinary valley. There's nothing special about it." Samantha also echoed Purficott's words. In her eyes, this valley is not only desolate but also dangerous.

However, thanks to the fact that a giant dragon originally lived here, the pressure from the superior predators meant that there were no other beasts in the valley.

Therefore, it is not impossible for organisms to adapt to high-concentration sulfide environments, and it is not impossible for those with better luck to evolve into large organisms.

You must know that in the early stages of life, there was not so much oxygen on the earth. At that time, oxygen was a poisonous gas to life.

But nature is also magical. Hydrogen sulfide and other sulfides are toxic and harmful to most living things, but not all living things can survive in this environment.

Of course, it is also possible that other organisms cannot adapt to the environment full of hydrogen sulfide gas in the valley and cannot survive in this highly toxic environment.

But in this valley, Purficott and others had been wandering around for almost half an hour and found no trace of other creatures.

After all, creatures in nature still have to follow the most basic principles of biological evolution. The vast majority of creatures will evolve themselves to a state that is in line with the overall natural environment, and will not evolve uniquely out of physiological habits that are completely opposite to the natural environment.

Therefore, an environment full of sulfide is lethal to most organisms.

On the other hand, the exploration team leader who came down with him showed a very surprised expression. Since reaching the bottom of the valley, he has been surveying and recording everywhere with great enthusiasm, as if he had made some major discovery.

He heard that both Purficott and Samantha thought this valley was nothing special, and couldn't help but retorted loudly: "This valley is extraordinary! Although you may think that there is nothing here but desolation, in terms of geology, In the eyes of researchers, this valley formed by geological collapse is simply a treasure. There are so many things worth studying here!

If I can study this valley clearly in my lifetime, I can even get the title of academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences and a medal from Her Majesty the Queen! "In the Victoria Empire, if a scholar can achieve impressive academic results and pass the review of the Royal Academy of Sciences, he can be invited to become an academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences.

Correspondingly, there is an academic bonus and a special medal established by the royal family. If you are lucky, you may even get a noble title.

Therefore, Purficott could understand the excitement of the exploration captain.

This is actually just like when she went to the Geopark in the original world. Ordinary people might think it was just a pile of broken rocks, right? What catches your eyes?

But in the eyes of professional geologists, these are just papers and academic achievements.

However, she didn't pay special attention to it, and just reminded the exploration captain: "Compared with the geological origin of this valley and other factors, the resources buried underground in this valley are more worthy of study.

If you can study the flammable gas resources and the black oil in the lake, your name can even be written into the history books. "

This is not an exaggeration by Purficott, because if you can understand the research on natural gas and oil, you can indeed write your name into the history books, and it will be a required course.

Hearing what Purficott said, the exploration team leader nodded in agreement: "I speculate that the flammable gas may be a substance like methane. This resource has high mining value. If there is really something underground If there are abundant gas deposits, the value of this valley will be amazing. "

The exploration team leader did not know much about the black oil in the oil lake. Although the history of human use of oil is actually quite early, most of them were used in quite extensive and primitive ways without too much in-depth research.

But for combustible gases, humans have a much richer history of contact and use in this area, and this also allows the exploration team leader to fully realize how valuable it is to mine them if there are abundant combustible gases underground. thing.

"So I need you to find out the specific conditions of this valley, including the underground combustible gas resources and oil storage conditions." Purficott looked at the exploration team leader and told him his request.

The exploration captain naturally agreed to this. Even if Purficott didn't ask for it, he would still do it.

After all, this is related to his own future and future.

"Let's go to the Oil Lake and the Dragon's Lair. Aren't there rumors in various knight novels that there are a lot of treasures buried in the dragon's lair? Let's go over and see if we can find any treasures!" Perficott suddenly said A rather childlike suggestion.

Faced with this proposal, the others naturally had no objection, so the group of people walked towards the dragon's lair next to the oil lake. It seemed that they really planned to open the lair made of bones to see if there was any treasure.

(End of this chapter)