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Chapter 1544 Unexpected Discovery

In the Star Ring City Aerospace Command Center, staff sitting in front of computers were also waiting for news from Europa.

Although the outpost on Europa was equipped with quantum communication devices, there was still a slight delay in communication. The moment the image of the drilling platform being blown away came, almost everyone in the aerospace command center held their breath.

After about half a minute, the staff took off their headphones silently, and many people sighed depressedly.

It was different from the emotions such as depression and regret in the hearts of these scientific researchers. Looking at the drilling platform that was blown away in the holographic screen, Jiang Chen felt a pain in his heart.

Just such a "blast" has resulted in at least more than 2 billion yuan, which also means that the efforts of the Europa outpost for more than a month have turned into a bubble.

The rising sea water will backfill the cracks that have finally drilled open in a short time, and it will be frozen again in no time. Fortunately, the colonists activated the perforation device in time, leaving the drill bit and the deep-sea robot behind the drill bit under the ice cap. Only after more than a month's efforts have not been achieved without anything.

However, thinking that most of the funds for colonial Europa were borne by other major member states, Jiang Chen felt a little better, at least he was not the only one who lost money.

"Drilling water is a wrong choice. The water pressure in the sea is unimaginable. When our drill bit is about 200 meters away from the bottom of the ice cap, the underground ocean directly cracked the lower ice cap, resulting in the subsequent blowout."

Through the perspective of the orbital satellite, looking at the giant umbrella-shaped fountain in the holographic screen, Kelwin's brows were locked tightly together and fell into deep thought.

"How is the situation of the deep-sea robot?" Jiang Chen asked.

"The operation is in good condition, and you can start after the ocean current environment is stable." Hearing Jiang Chen's question, Kerwin pointed to the line of parameters in the lower right corner of the holographic screen, "This is a pressure environment, you can see that the parameters are changing drastically, and our deep-sea robot is probably on the way."

"Will a big fish be swallowed?"

Kerwin was stunned for a moment, then he realized that Jiang Chen was joking with him in a teasing tone, so he said with a smile.

"It does not exist. In such a primitive ecosystem, it is impossible to have too large organisms, otherwise there will be serious problems in both organic matter consumption and heat supply. It is no exaggeration to say that only a whale can crush the entire Europa ecosystem."

"That's not good," Jiang Chen smiled and looked at the changing parameters. "When we first stepped on Mars, didn't we think it was a desert? But there were always some strange things that could come out under the sand."

Before revealing the truth, no one can guarantee that his inferences must be correct.

Of course, from the perspective of investors, he still hopes that Europa will not have any weird things to come out, otherwise there will be no benefit except increasing the cost of the Star Ring Trade to develop Europa, and the solar system is also a bit too lively.

"Are you considered a crow's mouth?"

The head was gently knocked down, Lin Ling covered her fair forehead and glared at Jiang Chen angrily.

Jiang Chen, who knew that he had not tried his best, ignored Lin Ling's exaggerated reaction, pretended not to see it, and continued to talk about the topic just now.

"Where is the life signal? You should have done this monitoring, right?"

Looking at the two of them awkwardly, Kelwin finally chose to ignore the "little tail" following Jiang Chen's butt, coughed gently and continued, "According to our back-transmission of life signal detection waves emitted by Europa's seabed, there are indeed some traces of suspected life sources under the seabed. However, due to the distance problem, the authenticity of those life sources is not yet certain, because..."

"Because the life signal detection device is only effective for mammals and birds, it has poor effect on arthropods, chords and other warm-warming animals, and its effect on plants can be almost ignored. Am I right?" Lin Ling proudly raised her chest, looking as if she was too great.

Kerwin looked at Lin Ling in surprise, obviously he didn't expect that girls of her age would know so much.

Judging from the age alone, this person is probably a little older than his daughter. Of course, this idea is because he doesn't know about things like electronic people. If he had let him know Lin Ling's real age, he was afraid that his expression would be more exciting than now.

"Don't worry about her, let her be proud." Jiang Chen looked at Lin Ling helplessly. This guy was a little abnormal recently. He didn't know what to say to her, so he coughed gently, looked at the numbers that continued to jump on the holographic screen, and then said, "Is there any good solution? The problem of colonial water sources."

"I will discuss with the engineers of Future Renhe Industrial to see if the blowout problem can be solved through engineering design." After lowering his head and pondering for a while, Kerrwin said helplessly, "Before solving this problem, we should continue to use the method of electric heating of ice cubes."

Electric heating is the most energy-consuming method of water withdrawal, which means that Europa, which is not rich in energy, has to find a way to solve the power problem. Now we can only hope for Jupiter next to us. The radiation emitted by this gas planet is 18,000 times that of the earth. Under the bombardment of various high-energy particles, there should be a lot of tritine on the surface of Europa.

Just as we were talking, the ocean current environment near the robot finally stabilized.

The colonists far away on Europa started the execution program of the deep-sea robot.

A sphere wrapped in titanium alloy discharged a string of bubbles from the surrounding gap. The blades retracted from the tail like stacked armor, revealing the propeller hidden in the armor, and began to move forward as the motor was activated.

On Jiang Chen's side, not long after, the video frame in the lower right corner of the holographic screen also lit up. This picture comes from the front camera of the deep-sea robot, and the area you can see is only the one illuminated by the searchlight.

Lin Ling opened her eyes slightly and stared at the picture on the screen. Although Europa had been colonized and developed in the 22nd century, that kind of distant thing obviously had nothing to do with her who had been lying on the hospital bed all year round.

"Don't the cyborg feel uncomfortable?" Jiang Chen asked in a low voice.

"Discomfort?" Lin Ling tilted her head.

"Deep-sea phobia." Jiang Chen said, "Although I don't, I still feel an instinctive discomfort when I watch the camera gradually dive in that picture."

"You should ask Lilith in this way," Lin Ling gave Jiang Chen a blank look.

Just as the two of them whispered in a low voice, a ray of light suddenly appeared in the picture. The faint light did not come from the beam of the searchlight, but from the deeper seabed. The people at the outpost turned off the searchlight on the deep-sea robot, adjusted the output power of the motor, and slowed down to slowly move towards the light source below.

When they saw the huge thing that appeared in the picture, everyone in the command room made a surprise sound at the same time. As for Lin Ling next to her, her eyes were almost protruding.

Looking at the huge figure on the screen, Jiang Chen's pupils contracted slightly and muttered in a low voice.

“…Why does it appear here.”
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