Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 475 Microorganisms and Fossils
2 month 24 day.

At this time, 9 days have passed since Liao Qingsong and others settled in the Mars base. They expanded the Mars base, which had only 5 cabins before, to 16 cabins.

"Hai Bo, what's the weather forecast for today?" Liao Qingsong asked as he walked into the master control cabin.

Fang Haibo called up the relevant information and looked at it, and then replied: "The weather is fine today, and the probability of sandstorms in the next three days is less than 3%."

Liao Qingsong thought for a while and said, "Then Kai Rucker and I will go explore the surrounding area today."

"Be careful. We have found 37 types of bacteria and 13 types of viruses in the soil and air of Mars these days. It seems that Mars is not a lifeless planet." Fang Haibo reminded.

These bacteria and viruses are all collected from many samples near the base these days and analyzed through laboratory tests. These bacteria and viruses are all microorganisms unique to Mars.

Obviously, although this situation is quite unexpected, it did not exceed the expectations of the Human Innovation Alliance. Through the analysis of the geology and atmosphere of Mars, humans have long known that Mars has a relatively thick atmosphere and water resources in history.

It's just that the magnetic field of Mars continued to weaken later. Under the impact of the solar wind and asteroid belt meteorites, the atmosphere of Mars continued to thin, and water resources continued to blow into outer space.

Where there is water and an atmosphere, and it is in the habitable zone of life in the solar system, the possibility of microorganisms appearing is very high.

Liao Qingsong nodded: "I will pay attention."

Humans have no immunity to these alien viruses and bacteria, and there is no treatment plan for the time being. If they are infected, it will be troublesome. However, a nano-robot virus treatment cabin has been transported from Blue Star on the Mars space station. Star virus bacteria can only be treated with "big cleansing treatment".

"Keep in touch with the base at any time." Fang Haibo said with concern.

"Don't worry, I will pay attention to safety."

After speaking, Liao Qingsong took Kay Rucker wearing a mecha and a large tracked vehicle to the southwest.

Along the way, the sky was full of red sand, and the blue sun hung high in the sky. The two of them drove the mechs slowly forward among the rocks and gravel, stopping to drill and sample from time to time, or sending out micro-drones to scout the surrounding terrain.

Although the Utopia Plain is a plain terrain, it does not mean that the terrain is flat. Soon Liao Qingsong and the others encountered a canyon with a width of more than ten meters.

"The depth and width of the tracked vehicle is difficult, we have to find other routes." Kay Rucker said looking at the detection data.

"Put a drone to observe the bottom of the canyon." Liao Qingsong ordered.

A miniature UAV lifted off from the tracked vehicle and headed towards the bottom of the canyon. The two of them clearly observed the situation of the canyon through the drone's camera.

"It's a fault canyon." Looking at the layers of soil and rock formations, Kay Rucker knew that the canyon was a geological fault structure.

"Start the carbon-14 geological dating detection." Liao Qingsong ordered.Kay Rucker quickly activated the carbon 14 detection system, and soon the carbon 14 detection data appeared in the system. By analyzing the detection data, the geological age of these soil and rock layers was roughly revealed.

Kay Rucker analyzed: "From the results of these data, the geological age here is relatively young, roughly 1600 million to 2.4 million years."

"Wait." Liao Qingsong said suddenly.

"What's wrong?" Kelly asked suspiciously.

"Let the drone return to its previous position."

"Eh..." Although he was confused, Kay Rucker still operated the miniature drone to return to the previous position, while Liao Qingsong carefully observed the screen sent back.

"Stop." Liao Qingsong shouted.

Kay Rucker hastily pressed pause.

"Enlarge the screen."

According to Liao Qingsong's instructions, Kai Ruide zoomed in on the monitoring screen, suddenly his eyes widened, and he watched the zoomed-in screen carefully.

It is a geological sedimentary rock of 1.2374 million to 1.2381 million years old. It is not that this sedimentary rock has any special minerals or the like, but a suspected fossil outline appears on it.

Liao Qingsong once again released a drone, and soon they found more suspected fossils on the sedimentary layer from 1.2374 million to 1.2381 million years ago.

这些疑似化石之中，他们发现了3个大种类［类蜈蚣化石1.5亿～1.8亿年］、［类甲虫化石1.45亿～1.7亿年］、［类海星化石1.2亿～1.9亿年］，另外还有一些比较少数的化石种类出现在各个沉积层里面。

If there are one or two suspected fossils, it may be a coincidence, but a large number of them appear, and they can be classified into different categories. It is very likely that these fossils are Martian paleontology.

"It's a great discovery of the century. There were multicellular organisms on Mars in ancient times, and there are a lot of fossils." Kay Rudder suddenly became excited.

"I'll go down and collect some samples and come up, and you can watch the situation up there." Liao Qingsong ordered.

"OK."

Liao Qingsong quickly activated the ion engine of the mecha, and slowly descended down the canyon. Through the lighting system of the mecha, he could clearly see the fossil deposits appearing from time to time on the rock formations on both sides of the canyon.

The condensed matter rifle aimed at a centipede-like fossil in an instant, cut off the fossil in its entirety, and then cut off some other fossils, and sent these fossils to the tracked vehicle piece by piece.

The two were busy for more than three hours, exploring the 3-kilometer-long canyon, and found no less than 5000 suspected fossils on it. These are all exposed outside the rock formations. As for how many fossils are inside, it is unknown.

Mars time, around three o'clock in the afternoon, the two returned to the Mars base with these fossil samples.

Fang Haibo and others, who had received the news a long time ago, also came to watch these fossil samples, and helped Liao Qingsong and the others to send the information of these fossil samples back to Blue Star.

Through the quantum communicator of the Mars space station, they quickly packaged the data and sent it back to Blue Star.

……

Wang Tu and Zhao Hongxing looked at these photos, videos, and detection data and suddenly exclaimed. Wang Tu quickly ordered his assistant: "Call the heads of the Institute of Alien Biology and Institute of Paleontology immediately."

"Ok."

The assistant hurried down.

"I didn't expect that not only microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses exist on Mars, but even such large multicellular organisms exist." Zhao Hongxing sighed while looking at the information.

"This is quite normal. Water bears and the like on the blue star can also thrive in this extreme environment. It is not too unexpected for Mars to have multicellular organisms." Wang Tu explained.

Soon the heads of the Institute of Alien Biology and the Institute of Paleontology appeared in the holographic conference room. Wang Tu sent the relevant information to the two of them. Their eyes lit up at this discovery, and they quickly asked to go to Mars for a field trip. study.

After careful consideration, Wang Tu and Zhao Hongxing agreed to send four people to Mars from the Institute of Alien Biology and the Institute of Paleontology.

However, Wang Tu has already reminded them that once they go to Mars, they will have to stay on Mars for at least half a year, and they will have to be quarantined for a year or two when they return to Blue Star. However, for these scientists who are not afraid of death, exploring the unknown is the most important thing. Without hesitation, he said that he would go to Mars to investigate in person.

Even if they have the courage, Wang Tu can only arrange spaceships and preparations for them to go to Mars.

　Stiff neck ⊙﹏⊙, today's update is a bit late

　　
　
(End of this chapter)