The Survey Ship did not venture too close to Kraken-Mare Lake.
The reason was simple.
Although it was already the smallest Survey Ship in the Human Federation fleet, its hundred-meter-long hull made it unsuitable for entering this "tiny" lake.
Moreover, without special treatment, the heat the Survey Ship emitted would be nothing short of a nightmare for this methane ocean.
When the Survey Ship was a thousand meters above the lake's surface, the hatch on its underside silently opened.
Dozens of Spherical Probes, each less than a meter in diameter, shot out of the hatch and dropped into Kraken-Mare Lake.
Watching the splashes erupt across the lake's surface, everyone in the Command Center fell silent once more.
The view switched to a Spherical Probe.
The probes were carrying out their search at tremendous speed.
There were no signs of large creatures moving in the surface ocean-Kraken-Mare Lake itself.
Under Zero's control, the Spherical Probes swiftly descended into the depths.
Using the maps in the database, they located several cryovolcanoes connecting the Inner Sea and the Outer Sea.
Through these cryovolcanoes, which constantly spewed nutrients, the Spherical Probes entered the Inner Sea beneath Kraken-Mare Lake.
The evaporation of the Outer Sea had not affected the Inner Sea.
As the probes ventured deeper, signs of life gradually became more abundant-almost all of them unicellular organisms of various shapes.
This gave everyone in the Command Center a little hope.
It seemed... the seeds of life had not been completely extinguished.
But as time passed, that hope gradually faded-the probes searched every corner of the Inner Sea, yet still found no trace of the jellyfish.
"Perhaps..." Zhao Zijie pressed his lips together, his expression grim. "Our extermination-scale harvesting back then wiped out the entire population."
Lü Yongchang said nothing.
But a rare trace