The temperature of the ice cave is not high compared to the ice layer, reaching more than 80 degrees below zero.
There is plenty of air here, which maintains a strong atmospheric pressure. It is not nitrogen and hydrogen, but methane. There is ample methane gas here, with a concentration exceeding 95% of the air, and the remainder is ammonia.
"Hydrogen base?"
Shen Cong thought in his mind.
The chemical formula of methane is ch4, and the chemical formula of ammonia is nh3, both of which contain the hydrogen element h. If life is bred here, it means that ch4 or nh3 should participate in the life cycle. Of course, it is also possible that it is just Shen Cong's wishful thinking. The air here It has nothing to do with life.
"The smell of ammonia is really unpleasant and pungent." Shen Cong gave up his perception of ammonia.
Exploration in the ice continent begins.
From the color feedback, the color of the ice continent is bluish, which is the color of the air here. Occasionally there are yellow, green and other gases mixed in, and the ice cave wall is a mixture of blue, yellow and white.
Shen Cong started flying along the ice cave wall, heading towards the possible bottom of the cave. As he went deeper and deeper, he descended for about thirty kilometers before touching the bottom of the cave.
The bottom of the cave is no longer ice, but a rock structure.
The gray-yellow rocks bear a pressure of 400 million pascals and are as hard as diamonds at low temperatures. Even Shen Cong has difficulty breaking through these unusual rocks.
"Is there a geyser there?" Shen Cong's perception captured the anomaly on the rocky surface.
After arriving, the geyser was spewing blue gas. This gas contained a large amount of methane, and the temperature was also very high, about 30 to 40 degrees below zero.
Around the geyser, several long creatures were lying lazily on the ground.
Shen Cong hid his radiation fluctuations and quickly approached these long-shaped creatures. These creatures were the first Tianyuan IV-b life entities he discovered.
Without disturbing the long creature, Shen Cong observed carefully.
These life forms are very big. The small ones are two to three hundred meters long and fifty or sixty meters thick. The large ones are five to six hundred meters long and more than one hundred meters thick. The active waves emitted by their bodies are probably the second and third level particles after perception. Standard, that is, super eight and super nine talents. On earth, it is unreasonable to be tyrannical.
"Catch a line and study it carefully."
As soon as he thought of it, Shen Cong immediately approached one of them and before the other party could react, he instantly cut off the part where the head was connected to the body.
Its head looks incredibly strong, but its body is not.
The big sword was swung and the cutting motion was performed smoothly. The big life form was divided into two parts. The head "spasmed" continuously and the body jumped around.
This movement attracted the attention of the other birds, and they all rushed toward Shen Cong, using their round heads as arrows.
"Get away! Bug!"
Shen Cong's big sword struck in a circle without hesitation, just like the circular move in "Transformers 5: The Last Knight" when Optimus Prime killed a bunch of soldiers with one sword.
Bang bang bang bang!
The long creature flew out and hit the rocky surface, cracking the surface. But the hardness of the surface was terrifying, and the cracks that opened closed again in the blink of an eye, without even the slightest crack. Under such strong pressure and Under pressure, rocks have the ability to heal themselves.
The solidity of the ice cave is unimaginable.
Seeing that they were unable to attack Shen Cong, these long creatures attacked several times, leaving four corpses behind and fled. Shen Cong was not in a hurry to hunt them, but picked up the corpses on the ground and studied and analyzed them carefully.
There is no gold core formed, but it is indeed contaminated by metallic life, and part of the body is metalized, becoming a species that inherits the legacy.
"Hey, you actually have a brain?"
The creature's head is not complete, but divided into two parts with a thin slit in the middle.
It is easy to cut along the thin slit.
After cutting open the head ball, Shen Cong discovered that there was something like a neuroball-like structure inside. This thing stretched out a line and connected the entire body.
You can guess that this is its nervous system.
This is another life path that has the same principles as life on earth, but is just a different basic material. Compared with the evolution of life forms on the spiritual ball, Tianyuan 4b is obviously more in line with the "aesthetics" of life on earth.
"I have already thought about how to name Tianyuan 4b... Life originated from the ice here. To survive in the freezing environment, let's just call it ice hockey!"
At this point, Tianyuan 4b was renamed Ice Hockey.
Shen Cong lowered his head and looked at the corpse in his hands: "As for this long creature, let's call it the Ice Island Hammerhead Snake. It really looks like a hammer."
The lifeless Ice Island Hammerhead Snake has a dead body.
Shen Cong picked up a complete corpse and hammered it on the ground like a hammer. It could crack the rocky surface. But then Shen Cong seemed to have thought of something. This kind of body was cylindrical. The ice continent hammerhead snake, whose head is round and divided into two parts, is thrown away directly.
"nausea."
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After the Ice Island Hammerhead was dealt with, Shen Cong began to deal with the geyser.
The geysers ejecting methane were accompanied by fire energy. Shen Cong laboriously dug through the surface rocks and raced against time to find a fire fragment before the surface began to heal.
The tinder fragments are about the size of a washbasin.
Judging from the traces, not much material has escaped, because the crack surface is still very clear, as if it had just cracked.
The edges and corners of the fire fragments on the earth have begun to smooth out due to constant dispersion.
"The low temperature limits the radiation of the fire fragments, so they are well preserved. Although the Ice Island Hammerhead is very talented, this is related to its powerful life body. In fact, it does not obtain much fire energy. In other words, I only need to collect After removing the fire fragments, the legacy here has basically been cleared."
The premise is that all the ice islands can be discovered and all the fire fragments can be dug out.
This is a tricky job.
However, Shen Cong was not afraid of such difficulties at all. He immediately began to make signal marks on the rocky surface and moved forward in different areas. One area after another was carefully investigated.
If you see an iceberg hammerhead, hunt it; if you see a geyser, dig it.
With the radiation guidance of fire energy, it is relatively easy to find, but the interference here is very strong, and he cannot sense farther ranges.
Time passes.
After the Ice Island hammerhead snake, Shen Cong discovered a second ice ball creature.
A small mushroom-shaped insect that is much smaller than the Iceberg Hammerhead Snake, only about ten meters high. At first, Shen Cong thought it was a mushroom. As a result, an Iceberg Hammerhead Snake quietly approached the mushroom, and the mushroom immediately shrank its head and turned into a mushroom. A small pointed-headed insect twisted its body and burrowed into the hard surface rock effortlessly.
However, the Ice Island Hammerhead is very smart and knows how to wait and lie nearby without moving.
Half an hour later, the mushroom-shaped bug re-emerged and was smashed into a biscuit by the hammerhead snake. Then its body rolled over the biscuit, and its numerous mouthparts opened to absorb the biscuit.
Shen Cong then hunted a small mushroom-shaped insect.
I found that the structure of the little bug is very simple. It has no brain, only a simple nervous system, and its movements are all based on instinct.
"Let's call it mushroom worm."
"Iceland hammerheads eat mushroom worms. What do mushroom worms eat?" Shen Cong observed a mushroom worm for about three days and finally figured out what mushroom worms eat.
It eats methane rain.
Methane rain is a rain phenomenon in the ice continent. About every week or so, too much methane gas erupts from geysers, which will cause the methane to liquefy.
Then, like rain, countless amounts of liquid methane fell on the surface, eventually converging on the low-lying areas where the mushroom worms grew. The mushroom worms opened the pores of their bodies and absorbed the methane rain like crazy. They could grow from ten meters high to three meters high in an hour. Ten meters high and incredibly fast.
"It's a very simple ecological cycle. Snakes eat insects, insects eat rain, and the rain comes from geysers formed by underground methane eruptions... Although it is not closed, the food chain is not much more complicated. Is the food chain here originally very monotonous? Or is it? The legacy of the Raging Starbreaker contaminates and destroys?"
Can't judge.
Shen Cong could only continue scientific research while collecting fire seed resources, and soon unearthed about a hundred fire fragments of different sizes. This amount was equivalent to one-fiftieth of the total amount of spiritual ball remains. At this time The huge ice continent has been thoroughly explored by Shen Cong.
We need to continue to find fifty ice islands similar to this one before we can finish searching for the ice hockey legacy." Shen Cong calculated.