Galaxy Technology Empire

February 24th.

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

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

Fang Haibo called up the relevant information, looked at it, and then replied: "The weather is sunny today, and the possibility of sandstorms in the next three days is less than 14.7%."

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

"Be careful. We have found 37 species of bacteria and 13 species 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 were collected through laboratory analysis from many samples collected near the base these days. These bacteria and viruses are all microorganisms unique to Mars.

Obviously, although this situation is quite unexpected, it does not exceed the expectations of the Human Innovation Alliance. By analyzing the geology and atmosphere of Mars, humans have long known that Mars had a relatively thick atmosphere and water resources in its history.

However, the magnetic field of Mars continued to weaken. Under the impact of solar wind and asteroid belt meteorites, the atmosphere of Mars continued to become thinner, and water resources continued to be blown into outer space.

With water and an atmosphere, and within 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 currently no treatment plan. If you are infected, you will be in trouble. However, a nanorobot virus treatment cabin has been transported from Blue Star to the Mars Space Station. If you are unfortunately infected by an alien virus, 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 saying that, Liao Qingsong took Kai Lide, wearing a mecha, and a large crawler vehicle, and headed southwest.

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

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

"Crawler vehicles cannot pass this depth and width, so we need to find other routes." Kay Rucker said while looking at the inspection data.

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

A micro-drone took off from the crawler vehicle and headed towards the bottom of the canyon. The two people clearly observed the situation of the canyon through the drone's camera.

"It's a fault canyon." Kai Lide looked at the layers of soil and rock layers and knew that the canyon was a geological fault structure.

"Start carbon-14 geological age detection." Liao Qingsong ordered. Kailider quickly started 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 figured out.

Kai Lide analyzed: "Judging from these data results, the geological age here is relatively young, roughly 16 million to 240 million years old."

"Wait a minute." Liao Qingsong said suddenly.

"What's wrong?" Kailide asked doubtfully.

"Let the drone return to its previous position."

"Uh..." Although he was confused, Kai Lide still operated the micro-drone to return to the previous location, while Liao Qingsong carefully observed the pictures transmitted back.

"Stop." Liao Qingsong shouted.

Kai Lide quickly pressed pause.

"Enlarge the picture."

Kai Lide followed Liao Qingsong's instructions and enlarged the surveillance screen. Suddenly his eyes widened and he looked at the enlarged screen carefully.

It is a geological sedimentary rock that is 123.74 million to 123.81 million years old. It is not that this sedimentary rock has any special minerals, but the outline of a suspected fossil appears on it.

Liao Qingsong once again sent a drone down, and soon they discovered more suspected fossils on the sedimentary layers between 123.74 million and 123.81 million years ago.

Among these suspected fossils, they discovered three large species [centipede-like fossils 150 million to 180 million years old], [beetle-like fossils 145 million to 170 million years old], [starfish-like fossils 120 million to 190 million years old], and another There are also a relatively small number of fossil species appearing in various sedimentary layers.

If there are only one or two suspected fossils, it may be a coincidence, but if a large group appears and can be classified into different categories, the possibility of these fossils being Martian paleontology is very high.

"This is the great discovery of the century. Multicellular organisms existed on Mars in ancient times, and there are also a large number of fossils." Kay Rucker suddenly became excited.

"I'll go down and collect some samples and bring them up. You can watch the situation from above." Liao Qingsong ordered.

"OK."

Liao Qingsong quickly started 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 that appeared from time to time on the rock formations on both sides of the canyon.

The condensed matter rifle instantly aimed at a centipede-like fossil, cutting off the entire fossil, and then cut off some other fossils, and sent these fossils piece by piece onto the tracked vehicle.

The two were busy for more than three hours, exploring the 3-kilometer-long canyon, and found no less than 5,000 suspected fossils on it. These were all exposed outside the rock formations. It is unknown how many fossils were inside.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Mars time, 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 view these fossil samples, and by the way helped Liao Qingsong and others send the information on 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 exclaimed when they looked at the photos, videos, and test data. Wang Tu quickly ordered his assistant: "Call the directors of the Institute of Alien Biology and the Institute of Paleontology to come over immediately."

"OK."

The assistant went down quickly.

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

"This is quite normal. Tardigrades and the like on Blue Star can also thrive in such an extreme environment. Multicellular organisms on Mars are not too unexpected." Wang Tu explained.

Soon the heads of the Institute of Extraterrestrial 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 suddenly lit up at the discovery and they quickly requested to go to Mars. inspection.

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

However, Wang Tu has taken the lead to remind them that once they go to Mars, they will have to stay there for at least half a year, and they will have to be isolated 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. He said without hesitation that he would go to Mars to investigate in person.

Even though they had the courage, Wang Tu could only arrange spaceships and preparations for going to Mars for them.

I’m having a stiff neck⊙﹏⊙, today’s update is a bit late