"It's connected... it's connected! It's connected!" The excited voice of the communication staff came from the broadcast of the Edge of Sui Star No. 1 remote control center.
After more than ten hours of drilling, the ice layer of Europa was finally broken through.
Chen Mengchuan and others quickly received the news and walked out of the conference room, with excitement and anticipation on their faces.
"How's it going?" Chen Mengchuan walked to Zhang Dongyu and asked.
Zhang Dongyu quickly opened the gravity screen and informed everyone of the progress.
In the picture, what appears is a wide space. The top layer of the entire space is an ice shell, the middle is hollow, and the bottom is a semi-liquid ocean of water ice. Just like the broken ice floating on the sea after the ice at the two poles of the earth melts.
"It's unbelievable that there really is an underground ocean."
"This structure must not be in a stable structural state. What is the temperature of the hollow? What is in the semi-liquid ocean underneath?"
"There must be Optimus Prime's structure connected to the underground ocean."
Everyone started talking quickly, and everyone was obviously very excited about the discovery of a semi-liquid ocean. This has confirmed many of the speculations of most people.
"The temperature is minus 102 degrees Celsius. The content of various components in the air is very different from that on the ground. The oxygen content is about 14%, the nitrogen content is about 83%, and other gas compositions such as helium, argon, xenon, and neon account for about 3%. The height of the ice shell reaching the sea level is about 2422.5 meters, and there are tides in the liquid ocean." The communication staff in the broadcast quickly reported the situation.
"I believe there must be life!" A voice from the crowd said firmly.
Chen Mengchuan looked over and saw that the speaker was still talking excitedly.
On the big screen, the gravity drill has completely broken through the ice. At this time, it has separated from the extraction pipe, activated the anti-gravity flight system, and is suspended in the hollow environment. It quietly records the frost-covered underground world into the lens and transmits it back to the base.
"Let's observe further." Chen Mengchuan said to Zhang Dongyu.
Zhang Dongyu nodded repeatedly. At this time, he was too excited to add anything, and he couldn't wait to go to Europa Europa immediately for an on-site inspection.
Not long after, the camera instrument carried on the gravity drill suddenly went black, and everyone in the hall was startled. They all started in an uproar, not knowing what had happened.
"What's wrong?" Chen Mengchuan and Toni all asked. Zhang Dongyu.
Zhang Dongyu saw some of the above data on the gravity platform, and said with regret, "The video recording equipment of the gravity drill can only continue to work for a short period of time in a continuous low temperature environment. There is no heating device, and the graphene battery cools down too fast."
Chen Mengchuan understood what he meant.
Graphene's temperature transfer is the fastest among their current technological equipment materials. It can be heated instantly, but it will also dissipate heat instantly. After being separated from the extraction pipe, the heating device was completely disconnected. After the temperature quickly dissipated, it stopped working. There was no way around it.
"Get ready, go down and take a look." Chen Mengchuan said to Toni.
Toni's eyes were bright and he nodded. He quickly took out the gravity tablet device in his hand and operated on it a few times.
"I called for help, it shouldn't be a big problem," Toni said.
"Brother Toni, what are you going to do?" Zhang Dongyu couldn't help but ask him.
After a few people laughed, Toni answered him, "Of course I put Multi-Arm Crab down for further exploration."
"This cave passage is too small, Multi-Arm Crab is afraid that I won't be able to go down." Zhang Dongyu said.
"No, we plan to directly calculate the space parameters, use the space shuttle to directly locate this underground world, then open the source point circle and transmit it directly." Chen Mengchuan said.
Zhang Dongyu's glasses lit up. "Good idea, but I forgot about this."
Chen Mengchuan nodded and started talking with Toni and others again.
Not long after, the people Toni called arrived at the scene. They were a group of core members of the space shuttle team, all of whom were responsible for calculating the parameters of Space-time Traversal.
They quickly entered the main control room, and super Artificial Intelligence Ah Chen quickly began to cooperate with them in calculations.
More than ten minutes later, when the hall was still very lively, Achen completed the positioning of the space shuttle parameters.
However, he did not start taking action immediately because he still had to wait for the return of Multi-Arm Crab. This time Exploration Multi-Arm Crab had already traveled far away on Europa. Ah Chen had already operated these Multi-Arm Crab to return as quickly as possible within a reasonable range.
During the short wait, Toni and others were in high spirits, and Chen Mengchuan was also happy with them. It is extremely rare to find such an environment where life may exist outside the earth. If it goes well, Europa's life adventure will give them a lot of valuable experience, which will be of great help when they explore similar environments in other galaxies in the universe in the future.
There was commotion again in the main control room, and Multi-Arm Crab all returned.
The team from the Space-time Traversal department has begun to remotely control the space shuttle to confirm the final source point parameters and make final corrections for opening the source point circle.
"Will there be life?" Toni glanced at Chen Mengchuan and asked him.
"There will be. If we don't find it on Europa, we will find it in other places in the future. In the vastness of the universe, how can it be that only the earth has the conditions for the existence of life? What do you think?" Chen Mengchuan answered him.
Toni nodded. "You are right, you can always look at many things calmly. Look at every face in the entire control center. They are excited, excited, happy, thoughtful, and many, many expressions. Only your expression is calm. And your calmness is different from other people's calmness. Our calmness is emotional calmness on the surface, and there is indeed excitement, tension and expectation in the heart, which is complicated. And you are calm."
Chen Mengchuan was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "You still have time to pay attention to my expression at this time?"
Toni nodded. "I never knew the difference between you and us, and I always understood and discovered the difference between you and us little by little. You look at everything with a kind of detachment and indifference, as if you know that everything will happen and everything should happen, but you look too far too far."
"While our eyes are still on Europa, maybe your eyes are still on Milky Way Galaxy beyond Solar System, or even the more distant universe beyond Milky Way Galaxy."
"You are really different from us." Toni's tone was calm but also full of disappointment.
This feeling of loss comes from the thin barrier between me and Chen Mengchuan. It is very thin, but it seems that I can never touch him.