I Have a Mansion in the Post-apocalyptic World Chapter 1243: Conjecture of oxygen supply layer

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The research progress of the devil insects is quite slow.

Not because these scientists are not good, but because every breakthrough discovery may bring countless possibilities to spread the roots of exploration at the boundaries of science and expand into the unknown soil.

The scientists gathered here are like babies sucking breast milk, drawing unheard knowledge from specimens from 3.7 billion years ago.

And the problems of biology, genetics, chemistry and other disciplines that have been overcome will later evolve new research branches.

In the words of a Chinese biologist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, it is probably that the existence of the devil insect has already refreshed human knowledge of biology.

A few days ago, the world ’s largest arthropod on earth was only a 12-foot-long Japanese spider crab, but the devil ’s net length was 15 meters. In addition, its terrible rock penetration ability can even penetrate metamorphic rock layers thousands of kilometers or even tens of kilometers underground, which also gives people a new understanding of the limits that organisms can reach.

Especially its two pairs of front teeth bite ability, in theory, can even cut the entire rebar, even the T-3 power armor armor in front of it is vulnerable. Only the armored units with nearly a tonnage, such as Mars Rover and Mars Infantry Vehicle, can be spared from its impact and bite.

There is also the hardened **** armor, which can protect it from swimming at high speeds in the cracked rock layer without being cut, and its defense is enough to be immune to the direct fire of 12.7mm heavy machine gun bullets. Fortunately, the soldiers of the Star Ring Marines used Gauss rifles. The infantry chariots were also equipped with large-caliber machine guns and external rockets. Otherwise, it would not be easy to break the defense.

Jiang Chen ’s first reaction was death claws when he received this destructive analysis report.

In its impression, only creatures like Dead Claw can compete with power armor.

Inaccurately, it should be the blade of the dead claw and the armor of the mud swamp. If it is just death claws, there is really no chance of facing the devil insects. Among the creatures that Jiang Chen has seen, I am afraid that only the mother of Deathclaw can beat it in individual combat effectiveness.

Later, because there are more and more discoveries from demons and insects, the research branch topics have become more and more fine-grained, and the field of coverage has become more and more extensive, so that there is actually a shortage of manpower.

In order to solve this problem, dozens of scientists jointly asked Jiang Chen to invite several scientists who are well-known in academia, but whose nationality is not in the four major member states. Because of the problems encountered in the study of demons and worms, it may be possible to use the conclusions that these people have already obtained in their respective fields.

After careful consideration, Jiang Chen exchanged views with representatives of China, Russia, and Germany, and finally relaxed the restrictions on the threshold of nationality.

Some of the candidates were selected from the list provided by the scientists who jointly petitioned. The Earth Defense League issued 11 invitation letters to the secondary member countries of South Asia, the three countries of Eastern Europe, and India, and authorized them to participate in some research projects. In addition, Finland, Donetsk, and Japan, which are actively promoting the joining of the Earth Defense Alliance, have also been approved by a scientist engaged in genetic engineering research.

However, this also brings another problem, that is, the news that the Devil Worm has arrived in the Star City, ca n’t hide it anymore ...

"Verdale Taylor, what's the matter?" Sitting in the lounge next to the laboratory, Jiang Chen put down the newspaper in his hand and looked at Verdale Taylor who walked into the lounge. Say, "If it is a new joint petition, I am afraid I can meet your request. Now we can receive thousands of petitions from the University of North Western Europe in our mailbox every day, too many people want to squeeze in here ... We also have a hard time. "

Hearing Jiang Chen, Verdell Taylor touched his nose embarrassedly and said sorry.

The joint petition also has his name in it.

Jiang Chen ’s attitude towards science workers has always been very friendly, and their requests have basically been met as much as possible. Later, Verdell Taylor also learned from the representatives of his own country how much trouble these people caused to the Star Ring Trade and the Earth Defense Alliance, so he was still a little guilty for Jiang Chen.

"It has nothing to do with the petition," Verdale Taylor coughed and said softly, "We have made new discoveries in the study of the devil insects."

"Oh?" Jiang Chenrao glanced at him with interest, "What did you find?"

"You know, from the entire atmospheric environment made of carbon dioxide, from groundwater to rock formations, everything on Mars is acidic." Verdale Taylor paused, then said, "And according to our previous research It was concluded that the devil insects can survive in an acid environment, and even the blood is a strong acid environment, which is probably the result of natural selection in the more than three billion years of evolution. "

"But later, our newly recruited scientists put forward different opinions."

"Oh?" Jiang Chen waited for his following.

"In addition to the strongly acidic blood, we have also found some special organic substances in its blood." So, Verdale Taylor wrote a bunch of Yi Jiangchen's chemical knowledge on the whiteboard and could not see it at all Understand the chemical formula, "And this organic matter can only exist in a strong acid environment."

"... My chemistry level is only undergraduate." Looking at the long list of chemical formulas on the whiteboard, Jiang Chenhan said.

"You don't need to understand it, you just need to recognize this symbol." Verdell Taylor shook his head and pointed to the letter O in the string of chemical formulas, "These represent oxygen atoms."

"I still know this ..." Suddenly, Jiang Chen found strange places in the chemical formula.

Almost every few letters, you can see a capital O.

This argument may be too amateurish, but it reflects the problem intuitively.

"Even if this Martian creature can survive in an acidic environment, it can never survive without oxygen." Verdell Taylor said in a positive tone. "We have not yet named this organic substance, but it is this organic substance that can only exist in a strongly acidic environment, providing the devil with the ability to move in an oxygen-free environment!"

Jianchen Chen can understand Verdale Taylor.

There is no oxygen on the surface of Mars, not just the surface, but the oxygen in underground mines is certainly quite lacking. The demons and insects that arch like earthworms between the bottom layers must have an organ that can hold their breath for a long time. Jiang Chen initially guessed that it was some kind of high-pressure airbag, but did not expect the reason to appear on the blood ...

Wait, if there is no oxygen underground, where are they ventilating?

There is also the Gaia civilization. He has never noticed this problem. How does the civilization built underground solve the problem of oxygen. It can't be said that they mastered air filtration technology when they were in the Stone Age?

How exactly do these Martian creatures survive underground?

Jiang Chen suddenly realized this problem.

And Verdale Taylor's next sentence reveals the answer to this question.

"The Martian atmosphere contains less than 1% oxygen, and it is impossible to provide this large arthropod with the oxygen it needs," Verdale Taylor's tone brought a trace of excitement, "so we can assert that there must be some underground Mars. There is such a location, there is a wealth of oxygen! We call it the 'oxygen layer'! "

"Oxygen supply layer?" Jiang Chen frowned.

"Yes!" Verdell Taylor nodded, and the color of excitement between the eyebrows became stronger and stronger. "I'm sure that in this special underground space, there must be some kind of special weariness. Oxygen fungus. This fungus can adapt to the Martian environment, survive in an acid environment, and consume carbon dioxide to produce oxygen. Its energy source may be geothermal, or it may be the feces of devil insects, and it plays the role of producer and decomposer. Because of the presence of this fungus, the Martian underground biosphere can be connected into a closed circle! "

"I was invited by SpaceX to design an anaerobic bacterium that can survive in a medium-acid environment for their Mars atmospheric transformation project."

"Do you know what this bacterium means to us?" Verdell Taylor said enthusiastically.

Although I guessed something vaguely, Jiang Chen couldn't help but swallow.

"What does it mean?"

"It means we will be able to transform the Martian atmosphere!"