Dr. Doom made a ko gesture, and then was pulled into a strange place, as if he had a brand new body.
He opened his eyes and found himself in a box. Suddenly the box was opened, and Emma's holographic projection appeared in front of him. There were two silver-white robots beside him. It seemed to make it easier for everyone to identify themselves. There were suspended above the robot's head.
Holographic projection font.
The two robots have the red letters "Di Ying" and "Kudo Enji" suspended above their heads respectively, so there should also be the red letters "Victor Von Doom" above their heads.
"Doctors, you are trying to move your body now. There is also a five-sense test on the side." Emma pointed to a workbench nearby and said.
The so-called five senses test is actually to ensure that the stand-in robot can truly convey these feelings to the user and avoid serious errors.
Dr. Doom was very curious and picked up a piece of something similar to soap.
[Please put it in your mouth and taste the taste of this item.] Dr. Doom put the "soap" into his mouth, and a strawberry smell immediately filled his mouth.
"Strawberry flavor."
[correct answer.]
Di Ying and Kudo Yanzhi also started testing everything. After half an hour of testing, they found that the body movements, bionic functions, and five senses of their stand-in robots were completely normal.
At this time, Emma took them to see Liao Qingsong, the director of the Mars base. After introducing Liao Qingsong and the three doctors to each other, Emma's holographic projection disappeared in front of everyone.
"Liao, can you take us to see the Martian paleontological fossils?" Dr. Doom asked impatiently.
Di Ying and Kudo Yanzhi also looked at Liao Qingsong with eager faces. Liao Qingsong nodded and said, "Okay, the three doctors will follow me!"
Under the leadership of Liao Qingsong, after bypassing five cabins, everyone entered an isolated storage cabin, which contained a total of 5o samples of Martian paleontological fossils collected from Centipede Canyon.
Looking at the samples in each storage box, Dr. Doom knew at a glance that these things were very likely to be fossils. He asked eagerly: "Can I open it?"
"Wait a minute, I'll go to the next cabin so you can open it." Liao Qingsong is now in the storage cabin himself. He cannot have direct contact with these fossil samples.
After he got out of the storage cabin, he closed the door and said through the intercom: "Doctors, you can open the sample storage box now. The password is four zeros."
"Okay." Dr. Doom quickly selected a centipede-like fossil, and... [oooo] After entering the password, the storage box automatically popped open, and the centipede-like fossil inside appeared in front of him.
This piece of sedimentary rock is gray-white as a whole, and the centipede-like fossil is entrenched in the middle of the sedimentary rock. The centipede-like fossil is black and red, about 1.2 meters in length, and between o.13 and o.15 meters in width. It has a pair of antipodal legs.
The exact number of pairs remains to be studied; the other is a segmented carapace-like body, which really looks like an enlarged version of a centipede.
"Liao, do you have research equipment?" Dr. Doom turned his head and asked.
Liao Qingsong replied through the intercom: "The cabin on the left is a small laboratory, and the password is also four zeros."
"Thank you." Dr. Doom quickly put down the fossil and opened the small laboratory on the left. He was looking for tools to move the fossil to the laboratory. Suddenly he remembered that this stand-in robot could lift a maximum weight of 800 kilograms, so Dr. Doom tried
When I lifted up the fossil storage box, I lifted the box easily.
After entering the laboratory, he couldn't wait to start researching. Di Ying and Kudo Yanzhi also took action and began to study these fossil samples.
Time flew by, and before we knew it, we arrived at March 3rd, Year 1 of the Milky Way.
On the Mars space station, Dr. Doom, who had just eaten, came to the lounge and saw Dr. Di Ying, a fat little-eyed man, and Enchi Kudo, who was immersed in reading materials.
Yanzhi Kudo raised his glasses and asked: "How are you doing with your research?"
"I have preliminarily divided these paleontological fossils. So far, a total of 6 classes and 46 species of paleontological creatures have been discovered. However, there are no reptiles, mammals, and birds, the three common species in Blue Star." Di
Ying held her chin and said.
"Have you noticed a phenomenon?" Dr. Doom said suddenly.
"What's happening?" Di Ying asked curiously.
"Disang has been classifying fossils these days, and may not have studied this aspect yet." Kudo Yanzhi seemed to know what Dr. Doom wanted to say.
"The fossils in the geological era of 1.2o54 to 12o55 million years are too dense." Doom said as he turned on the holographic bracelet, and some pictures and data from his field trip to Centipede Canyon through the stand-in robot appeared in front of the three of them.
Kudo Yanzhi raised his glasses and said: "I also discovered this problem. After counting fossil samples and field inspection and analysis, I found that during the period from 1.2o54 to 1.2o55, a huge number of fossils appeared. At present, all the fossils we have discovered
The total number of fossils is 19,764, of which the geological era 1.2o54~1.2o55 accounts for 31%. The distribution of fossils in the geological era before this was relatively even. 1.2o54~1.2o55 showed a peak of fossil formation, and then there was a cliff.
The situation is that after 1.193, the fossils no longer appear."
Di Ying immediately frowned upon hearing this: "There is only one explanation for this situation, and that is that there was a mass extinction of life on Mars between 1.2o54 and 1.2o55."
Dr. Doom nodded: "I think so too. Many fossils before 1.2o54~1.2o55 are incomplete, but during 1.2o54~1.2o55, most of the fossils are complete. Therefore,
It can be seen that their death time is very dense and close, and it is a large-scale extinction."
"However, we cannot draw a direct conclusion yet. This survey result can only prove that there was a biological extinction event in the southern part of the Utopia Plain." Kudo Yanji continued.
"Indeed, we need to conduct investigations in other areas of Mars. If this situation also occurs in other areas, the results will be self-evident." Di Ying agreed.
Dr. Doom continued to look at the laboratory data. This kind of sudden biological extinction has also happened in the history of Blue Star, such as the most famous mass extinction of the dinosaurs 6.5 million years ago. The more he studies paleontology, the more Dr. Doom learns about nature.
The more we are in awe, the fact that human beings have been able to develop safely for so long can be said to be unlucky.
How difficult is it for an intelligent race to develop into the interstellar civilization stage? The universe is like a big filter, killing 99% of the planets suitable for life in the microbial stage, and the remaining 1% can evolve into multi-cellular biological planets; and 99%
The multi-cellular biological planets will stop here, and the remaining 1% may give birth to intelligent life; and 99% of the intelligent life planets will not be able to become interstellar civilizations.
The universe is like a big filter, filtering out living planets layer by layer. It is extremely rare that two quasi-interstellar civilizations can be born within 100 light-years.
There are many planets like Venus that were killed in the microbial stage, and there are also countless planets like Mars that were killed in the multi-cellular biological stage.
Dr. Doom opened the light-shielding layer and looked at the red planet under his feet. For a moment, he had mixed feelings.