From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 343 Surface Exploration

Author: Dong Ali

Chapter 343 Surface Exploration

After preliminary inspections that lasted for several days on the home planet, the two spellcasters, who had mastered more detailed information, began to prepare for the exploration of the surface in person.

Of course, in order to minimize possible losses in the event of an accident, they would not be able to land with the Beast King's Cage for the first time, nor would they reach the surface in a complete state.

Therefore, a 35-meter-diameter saucer-shaped aircraft filled with high-energy cell fluid reserves carried their respective clones and many experimental equipment inside, departing from the space station and spinning toward the planet Purgatory.

descend;

Along the way, the aircraft passed through the dense greenhouse gases in the upper layers, bypassed the frequent thunderstorm areas concentrated in the middle and low latitudes, and passed through the corrosive clouds more than 30 kilometers thick in the middle and lower atmosphere, and finally reached its intended destination.

Earth - a giant volcano located on the surface of Purgatory, close to the equator.

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An aircraft broke through the dim orange sky and came to a vast orange-yellow 'plain' surrounding the volcano, and continued towards its center, the volcano with an altitude of about 12,000 meters.

The crater is traveling at high speed

The volcanoes here are very different from their parent star. First of all, their shape is not a pointed cone, but an open shield-like structure. They generally have huge craters and very broad lava slopes.

The overall look is like a giant crater located in the Great Plains;

Secondly, the volcanic activity here is frequent but gentle. Although magma emerges from the ground all year round, it usually does not appear in a sudden eruption. Instead, it slowly flows out like running water to form a molten lake, and then spontaneously erupts again.

Erosion flows between canyons to the outside world.

For example, right now, at the end target of the aircraft, there is a super giant crater with a diameter of 30 kilometers. With its breadth and the special geographical shape of itself and its surroundings, if we do not carefully screen

, it is almost impossible to determine its specific 'identity'.

The crater that is simultaneously displayed by the light curtain is a ring of craters that are essentially very high in altitude, but appear to be very low from the outside. Inside is a hot lava lake formed by the accumulation of magma, and on the outside is a crater.

Countless large and small 'rivers' flow along the canyons eroded out of the 'craters' all year round to the outer shield-shaped gentle slopes, just like the rivers of life flowing through the open plains on the home planet.

General;

However, what flows in these rivers are all dark red molten magma flows, and naturally no life is conceived wherever they pass. At least this is the current conclusion;

Among them, the longest one even stretches across the entire "shield plain", spreading out in the open about 12,000 kilometers away, waiting for the day it turns into soft magma.

After a while, the aircraft arrived at the semi-open high ground at the crater. After deforming its lower part into a flat surface, it landed and sank slightly into the soft rock layers.

In the control cabin inside, two 'elves' who were only about 0.5 meters tall were observing the external scenery through the light curtain. They saw the lava lake in the lower part in front and the dark streams flowing into the distance behind.

red river.

"Huh, it's finally here, I'm a little excited!"

The younger Agatha was obviously a little overly excited, because this was the first time that elves had set foot on the surface of other planets, and the participant happened to be herself.

"Twelve thousand meters above sea level, close to the molten lake, with a maximum temperature of 813 absolute degrees and a minimum temperature of 793 absolute degrees. Although the temperature is high, the temperature difference changes are relatively minimal;"

On the side, the more experienced Freya quickly suppressed the throbbing in her heart, immediately entered into working mode, and continued,

"This is one of the best places to build."

The judgment she, or rather the engineering team made, was based on the suitability of the material.

Although the atmospheric circulation under the greenhouse effect here can spread excess heat to the entire planet's surface within three days, the temperature difference in each area of ​​Purgatory Planet can still reach about 200 absolute degrees;

As far as the known species of life forms are concerned, whether it is 600 or 800 absolute degrees, there is no essential difference for most of them, and the ending is nothing more than death.

And because their cell tissues usually cannot even withstand the lowest temperature of 600 degrees, this 200-degree temperature difference cannot have any impact on the results or time of their inevitable death.

However, for some materials that are specially created to cope with special environments, the impact of a temperature difference of 200 degrees is extremely significant.

Because when the temperature exceeds a certain numerical stage, every improvement in the temperature difference adaptability of targeted special materials will become extremely difficult. Often, some materials that can withstand high temperatures of 800 degrees may not be able to maintain their temperature at 750 degrees.

its own physical properties;

Vice versa, materials specially designed to handle 600 degrees may also undergo physical degeneration when the temperature reaches 650 degrees or even lower;

As a result, the surface bases and many facilities built on them may lose their effectiveness in such temperature difference transformations, or even be directly destroyed.

The most convenient way to overcome this problem, besides 'material technology advancement', is to use totem inscriptions to expand their adaptable temperature range. However, the substantial transformation of the physical properties of materials will in turn make the inscription drive necessary.

Consumption has increased sharply, and it does not seem to be a wise choice to use the precious resources produced by the Beast King's Cage to combat the temperature difference.

Therefore, this open area next to the crater has become one of the best address choices marked in the early exploration due to comprehensive considerations of temperature, resources and many other aspects.

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"Pay close attention to the reserve status of high-energy cell fluid and notify in time before approaching the warning line;"

"Immediately start monitoring wide-area geological activities and establish a prediction data module. If there are no problems, we will release the Beast King's Cage as soon as possible;"

"Send samples of all materials outside the cabin and observe their adaptability changes in different environments. One group is sent to the magma lake, one group is sent to the canyon magma river, one group is placed next to the aircraft, and another group is placed next to the aircraft."

"Suck in surface atmospheric samples and establish an isolation chamber with no concentration gradient in a closed cabin."

Continuous commands were input into Freya's brain, and the latter began to execute each of the commands she said with "Understanding." again and again.

As a result, several hatches on the outer layer of the aircraft were opened later, and one after another, large and small exploration vehicles and small exploration aircraft were released from them. They either walked with wide soles and multiple legs, or

The anti-gravity inscription that activated itself left the surrounding area and was heading towards the designated location of all parties.

Afterwards, several more air extraction windows were opened, sending outside air into a certain cabin inside, thus forming several laboratories with different concentration gradients in the series of closed compartments.

When Zhinao reported the relevant execution results, Freya ordered her companions,

"Agatha, you can separate out a few sub-bodies with complete functions and go to the airtight cabin to verify the most energy-saving breathing method."

"Okay~"

With a promise, Agatha's body, which was only 0.5 meters tall, was divided into three parts again and went to the airtight cabin, preparing to conduct relevant verifications as Freya said.

After giving the instructions, Freya herself was not idle either.

She first separated a thumb-sized body, held it in the palm of her hand, and sent it to the brain display platform, paying attention to the summary of data from all parties;

The focus of this clone is the operating status of the space station above, so that emergency measures can be quickly initiated in times of crisis, and at least the two beast king cages must be preserved, otherwise they are likely to be trapped here before rescue arrives;

We also need to pay attention to the energy reserves of this aircraft and the exploration equipment that previously left the periphery, and immediately deliver cell fluid supplies when needed.

At the same time, her other three clones, which contained the vast majority of the cells in the aircraft, went to the other two laboratories, preparing to start the research on 'chemical water creation', 'physical water creation', and 'magma water creation'.

Water extraction', and verification work on 'separating element 8 to form life-sustaining gas', etc.

On Agatha's side, there was a three-part body with no clothes on, one wearing a mask, and one with inscriptions on its face. At this time, it entered the gas-tight cabin and was exposed to the different concentrations of the Purgatory planet's surface atmosphere inside.

, the technical verification of 'breathing' was launched almost at the same time.

In the process of her walking from the low-density area to the high-density isolation warehouse, the other two bodies responsible for the verification of equipment and body inscriptions were fine, but the body responsible for the functional and structural changes of the cell group had undergone significant changes.

Big changes that are clearly noticeable on the surface

At this time, her hair was no longer a raging 'Three Thousand Purple Silks', but had gathered into strips of fleshy skin-wrapped tentacles the size of a thumb, and the ones at the bottom had turned into skin as indifferent as the rest of the body surface.

The two tough materials of the scalp are completely connected to each other, and the epidermal tissue on these structures strictly isolates external corrosive gases and small droplets from invading and eroding the inner parts of the body;

In addition, the long and thick eyelashes around the purple eyes on her face have also disappeared. They fit together one after another and formed a convex lens structure like a crystal gem along the outline of the eye socket, thus making the inside

The eyeball and the relatively fragile eye mucosa are completely isolated from the outside world;

Moreover, on both sides of the slender neck, there are 24 salamander parotid glands distributed up and down. At this moment, they are breathing air between the opening and closing, and through the dense network channels inside, which may be wide or thin, they are continuously flowing.

Volcanic gases, as well as other atmospheric components that can be utilized, are filtered through layers and transported to the pair of attached lungs in the body;

Within and outside the attached lungs, those tissue groups that had degenerated and shrunk in the past, but are now activated and growing stronger, continue to transmit the components needed by the body to the main lungs, and then to various parts of the body through the main circulation pathways;

On the contrary, those waste gases that are not needed or are discharged after circulation will follow the other two fleshy ducts at the back of the neck that are indistinguishable from the tentacle-like braids, together with the waste gases that were previously filtered by the parotid glands.

Impurities are excreted together;

As a result, as she walked, masses of dark, turbid mist composed of gas, solid particles, and liquid droplets formed near her calves. They were emitted like car exhaust, and then dissolved into the surrounding environment.

In this way, a breathing cycle that relies solely on the physical body is formed, although it consumes much more than breathing ordinary air on the home planet;

But compared with the verification data uploaded to the main thread by the other two bodies sharing the mind at this moment, this breathing method has shown certain advantages.

Specifically, it is more energy-saving than the equally reliable 'body inscription breathing', and has the advantages of reliability and energy-saving compared to 'external breathing equipment';

Both of them use "constant chemical formulas" to create the gases required by the main lungs, during which the process needs to provide the energy required for both "driving totem" and "redox";

However, if the corresponding adaptive adjustment is made through the form of "functional abnormality" of the physical body, then after spending the energy for transformation in the initial stage, one can only focus on maintaining the energy supply to maintain the body's operation;

Therefore, in the long run, 'functional metamorphosis' will inevitably be more energy-saving and relatively more trustworthy, so it has won the competition regarding breathing methods, at least for high-level spellcasters who can freely transform the functional structure of cells.

This is indeed the case

But when it comes to other compatriots, such as low-level spellcasters, warlocks, or warriors, it may not be difficult to activate the attached lungs, but then they degenerate into a series of auxiliary tissues such as the parotid glands, or assimilate a series of auxiliary tissues corresponding to their functions.

The steps of implanting the body in each part will be more troublesome in the process;

Therefore, in the short term, if there is no significant progress in the technology of physical body adjustment, then 'body inscriptions' and 'external equipment' are more convenient and accessible ways to breathe on the Purgatory Star.

In short, after summarizing the data from all parties in her mind and the corresponding analysis results, Agatha habitually sent them to the main control room immediately;

When Freya's 'thumb clone' received it, her other clones, and even the main structure above the orbit, also received the same information from the main thread simultaneously, and then an ultra-long-range electromagnetic wave was blasted from the space station.

It was sent out, spanning the long space within the star system, and headed for the outer orbit of the parent star.

At the same time, in the process of accepting and sending this message, a kind of doubt arising from the phenomenon involuntarily entered Freya's mind.

“Previous information connectivity, even within and outside orbit separated by thick atmospheric barriers, demonstrated extraordinary immediacy;”

'It seems that when one of my clones' cell body received the information, both the main thinking thread on the main body and the branch thoughts used by the other clones immediately shared the same content at the absolute same moment?

'

'What is the principle of the phenomenon? What are its limits?'

She couldn't stop thinking, and she thought further,

'If the distance between the clone and the clone is extended to the extent from the home planet to the purgatory planet, or even further, can such immediacy be preserved?'

After thinking for a long time, she summarized her thoughts into concrete expressions and sent a supplementary message to her home planet.

(End of chapter)