Super Dimension Technology Era

While Pang Panghai and others were busy with ecological issues on ice Mars.

Luo Feng's Huo Qubing escorted six Kunpeng-class transport ships and finally arrived near Ice Mars after a 13-day journey.

In the cockpit of Huo Qubing.

[Welcome to the Ice and Fire Satellite City, please follow the instructions...]

The pilot operated the battleship, shutting down three engines and retaining enough inertial power to float over.

Ten minutes later, the Huo Qubing and six Kunpeng-class transport ships entered the tugboat range of the Ice and Fire Satellite City under inertial power.

This method is similar to the use of tugboats to assist in berthing when giant ships of 10,000 tons docked in the AD era.

The driver of the tugboat is familiar with the conditions of the satellite city port. Things like entering and parking in the port, which involve certain risks, should be left to professionals.

In particular, photon engines emit lethal gamma rays, and the start-up of photon engines is restricted near satellite cities, civilian space facilities, and living planets.

As the tugboat approached the Huo Qubing, it split into two parts, front and rear, and then connected to the front and rear of the Huo Qubing's main hull.

At this time, the tugboat entered the port, and the tugboat's three plasma engines were spitting out plasma with the help of supercomputer, allowing the Huo Qubing to fly to the port berth according to the predetermined channel and intensity.

Only 12 minutes later, the Huo Qubing and six Kunpeng-class transport ships stopped steadily at the port of the Ice and Fire Satellite City.

[After the test is completed, you are allowed to disembark. ]

Luo Feng took Xiao Bing off the battleship. On the Kunpeng-class transport ship not far away, 1,400 new immigrants stepped off the ship one after another and set foot on their new home.

Accompanying them are a large number of equipment, including factory star spare parts, quantum computers, biological robots, communication balls, industrial robots, cloned meat factories, etc.

With this population and technology, there will be enough new humans on Mars to build a new human civilization.

However, the civilization seeds of the Tianya system have not yet reached the time to be activated, and the new humanity hopes that these civilization seeds will never be activated.

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After settling the new immigrants, Lu Yiming and the service director of the satellite city began to work on the large amount of equipment again.

Next, we need to build a degenerate material factory star, a comprehensive industrial star, establish a Tianya system defense system, and expand the scale of the Ice and Fire Satellite City.

A standard civilization seed, the original immigrants are 10,000 new human citizens, with a complete scientific research system, industrial system, social system and defense system.

Now everything in the Ice and Fire Satellite City has just begun.

…

His gaze returned to the Hulk Observation Station on Ice Mars.

A flying saucer-shaped spacecraft landed slowly on a piece of grass. Its six landing support legs were unfolded. The spacecraft of more than 500 tons pressed on the grass. The expanded triangular claw support legs sank more than 20 centimeters into the ground.

The automatic balance system follows suit, keeping the spacecraft from tilting at all.

Pilot Lu Duozhi activated the spacecraft's automatic warning system, then turned his head to Pang Panghai and Honda Masami and said:

"You two, this is the Forest of Fireflies in the Red Earth Continent."

"Who came up with this name? The Red Earth Continent? The Forest of Fireflies? Could there be some Celestial Dragons?" Honda Masami couldn't help but laugh.

Lu Duozhi pointed to the sky: "Xu Changsheng from Satellite City."

"It turns out to be the city chairman." Masami Honda shrugged.

…

Whoops! Xu Changsheng sneezed and thought narcissistically, is there a beautiful woman thinking of me?

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Honda Masami shows a virtual map of the Red Earth Continent, and Ice Mars has three continents.

The distribution is the Gusen Continent (an area of ​​5.41 million square kilometers), the Red Earth Continent (an area of ​​2.77 million square kilometers), and the Ice and Snow Continent (an area of ​​11.37 million square kilometers) where the Hulk Tribe was previously located.

Except for the three continents, the remaining areas are the Four Seas and the Seven Islands.

The vast majority of the Ice and Snow Continent is on the backside of Ice Mars and belongs to the permafrost zone, a forbidden land for life.

The Nibelungs, who liked sufficient heat, naturally chose the Gusen Continent in the subtropics and tropics as their base, and the red soil continent near the dividing line between day and night, which allowed them to preserve a relatively complete ecology.

The name "Forest of Fireflies" is actually not unfounded. The Forest of Fireflies is located near the day-night dividing line of the Red Earth Continent, and the rotation axis of Ice Mars is not completely in line with the Little Tianya Star due to the gravitational influence of the Big Tianya Star. .

Therefore, near the dividing line between day and night, there is an area with a width of 830 to 840 kilometers, which is divided into day and night.

The Forest of Fireflies is in the day and night zone.

Pang Panghai lifted the light shielding system on the observation platform of the spacecraft, and looked around to see patches of coniferous forests appearing in front of him.

The area where they landed now was on a plateau, with vertical cliffs not far away.

Bursts of biting southeasterly wind blew into the Firefly Forest from the sea of ​​ice floes, and many coniferous trees tilted to the northwest.

The grass and trees grow toward the sun, and the cold wind from the southeast blows for a long time. Shaped by the time of day and night, the trees in the Firefly Forest grow diagonally toward the northwest.

The red Little Tianya Star gradually disappeared into the distant horizon, and night fell in the forest of fireflies.

Pang Panghai took a look at the temperature.

[11.23 degrees Celsius]

The temperature is falling rapidly, and the closer you get to the icy back side of Mars in the south, the faster the temperature drops.

Pressing his eyebrows, the genetic armor quickly covered his whole body, and even a layer of chitin skin appeared on his face.

Behind him, Honda Masami also entered the alien wild state.

After passing through the sterilized airtight passage of the spacecraft, the negative pressure cabin door was immediately opened, and the two of them stepped into the forest of fireflies.

Under the night, the stars are shining brightly.

Herbaceous plants in the grassland have "disappeared".

Honda Masami praised: "What a strange life, how great the Creator is."

Some of the herbaceous plants on the grass have shrunk into a ball, some have rolled their leaves from broad leaves into needles, and some have even shrunk to the ground.

In order to withstand the nine-hour-long cold night, they are like eight immortals crossing the sea, each showing the wonders of evolution.

As the night gets darker, dots of blue fireflies appear in the forest. Gradually, there are more and more fireflies, and they appear in groups.

Many fireflies are flying around Pang Hai and Honda Masami.

Pang Panghai, who had been prepared for a long time, took out the insect storage box. The cell robot extended its tentacles and gently rolled up 10 fireflies to capture them and put them into the insect storage box.

These fireflies are about the size of a thumb, similar to a bumblebee, and have a faint blue light emitting from their tails. Their scientific name is giant fireflies.

Many mammals in the forest are preying on these fireflies, and from time to time you can see the blue light disappearing.

Fireflies, which are rich in nutritional value and contain high calories, are the source of calories for many animals in the Firefly Forest, but these animals will also pay a price.

After a large firefly is swallowed, the larvae will parasitize in the intestines of the animal, rely on the nutrition of the animal itself and the feces to develop, and will be excreted with the feces after half a month.

Of course, the larvae of giant fireflies will not cause fatal harm to animals, and will even use their feces to generate heat in the animal's body, making the animal feel like it can't stop.

This is a symbiotic relationship of mutual exploitation.

Pang Pang and Hai collected a large number of animal samples from the Firefly Forest.

By midnight, light snow gradually began to fall in the Forest of Fireflies. Seeing that the sample collection was almost complete, Pang Pang and Hai returned to the spacecraft.

The two collected tens of thousands of samples, including insects and other invertebrates, as well as blood from large vertebrates.

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