Chapter 1,225 Ant Nest More than 3 Billion Years Ago

On the space elevator leading to Star Ring City, Jiang Chen stood by the floor-to-ceiling window of the first cabin, overlooking the blue covered with pure white, slowly fading away in his field of vision. Ｗ≠

Thinking back on the two days of leisure on the island, he felt a little reluctant to end the vacation so hastily, but when he thought about the importance of the 071 mineral point, he could only sigh.

At this moment, a man came and stood next to him.

"It's a beautiful view, isn't it?"

Jiang Chen turned his head, raised his eyebrows, and said with a smile, "It's you, what a coincidence?"

Wu Changfeng smiled and said in a teasing tone, "Due to work requirements, I have to travel between Shangjing and Star Ring City. This month, I spend at least a week on the space elevator."

Jiang Chen smiled and asked in a casual tone.

"By the way, is that medicine easy to use?"

"...You are indeed a lot younger." Wu Changfeng nodded and said with emotion, "Your scientific and technological strength is shocking. Maybe in more than ten years, your citizenship will make everyone in the world Yearn for it.”

"You are joking." Jiang Chen said with a smile.

But it was a joke.

Even now, citizenship of the new country is coveted by countless people. Starting from the next term, President Zhang Yaping will have to gradually tighten immigration policies.

"By the way, when I came this time, I also brought a few questions about China... I wonder if it would be convenient for Mr. Jiang to answer them?"

"Oh?" Jiang Chen asked with a smile, "I wonder what the problem is?"

"I heard that what project you are launching in the Mars colony... is related to extraterrestrial civilization?"

"This is a fallacy. All projects involving extraterrestrial civilization will be disclosed to the major members of the Earth Defense Alliance, and they will vote to decide whether to disclose it to the minor members." Jiang Chen immediately said righteously.

Wu Changfeng was stunned for a moment, then smiled.

"Mr. Jiang misunderstood, I didn't mean anything else, I just asked..."

After the space elevator arrived at the station, Jiang Chen and Wu Changfeng said goodbye and took the MRT to the Space Department of Starlink Trading.

Sitting on the MRT train,

Wu Changfeng's words made Jiang Chen think for a long time.

Project 071 is closely related to strong interaction materials and is one of the highest-level secrets of the Star Ring trade. Logically speaking, it is absolutely impossible to leak. However, the news seems to have leaked out, which surprised Jiang Chen.

He didn't think that Major General Wu was just asking casually.

The birth of this major general is not simple. Although he came from the army, he came from the famous Second Department of the General Staff. Jiang Chen was familiar with this department of the General Staff. It was the army intelligence department of China. It was involved in everything from internal affairs to foreign affairs. It not only had great power, but also had broad scope.

However, judging from Wu Changfeng's probing tone, the Chinese side may have indeed caught some wind, but they still cannot confirm the accuracy of the news...

"Even the Chinese side has received the news. I'm afraid the Russian side has also heard something. Is it the supplies passing through the transport ship? Or somewhere else..."

Just when Jiang Chen was thinking about this problem, the MRT also arrived.

Putting this issue aside for the time being, Jiang Chen got off the MRT under the escort of the exoskeleton soldiers and walked towards the Star Ring Trade and Space Department.

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In the conference room of the Space Command Center, relevant members of the 071 project team were already sitting at the conference table.

The expressions on everyone's faces were solemn without exception.

Once any question is labeled as "extraterrestrial civilization", it will automatically be upgraded to Level A in the confidentiality level of the Star Ring trade. However, when the 071 project was first established, it was classified as an S-level secret, which is enough to highlight the Star Ring's confidentiality level. Trade attaches great importance to the 071 project.

The door of the conference room was opened. When Jiang Chen appeared at the door, all the top experts and researchers in the industry couldn't help but sit up straight and stopped whispering.

After walking to the head of the conference table and sitting down, Jiang Chen cleared his throat and spoke briefly.

"Sorry, the elevator encountered strong air currents in the troposphere and was delayed by ten minutes. Your time is precious, so get started quickly."

After saying that, Jiang Chen looked at Kerwin.

Kerwin nodded knowingly and immediately announced the start of the meeting.

The lights in the conference room dimmed, and it was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

"It is decided by the project team that the frontline staff will launch drones into the hollow layer below the 071 mine. Based on the data fed back from below... I'll just show you the pictures." As he said that, Kerwin sat at the conference table. He pressed a button on the touch pad and looked at the experts and researchers who were working on it. "By the way, this newly released three-dimensional image is also an S-class secret."

Three-dimensional graphics appeared on the conference table.

Light blue light particles emerged out of thin air, forming straight lines that crisscrossed back and forth in the sky, drawing a network map of the Martian landscape layer by layer. Immediately afterwards, the light particles filled the bottom of the Martian landform network, meandering all the way downward, and finally twisted into a spiral image.

Surprised expressions appeared on everyone's faces.

"What's this?"

"Incredible shape."

"A vein of some kind of natural mineral? But it doesn't look like..."

"Could it be an alkaline albite vein? Mars has experienced large-scale volcanic activity, and this can also be proven in the rock specimens transported back from the Mars colony. Considering the acidic environment of Mars, it is very likely that it is alkaline The traces left by the erosion of the igneous rock dikes..."

"It's possible, but it doesn't explain why there are abnormalities in our seismic wave observation data..."

"Could it be rare mineral residue?"

Looking at the scholars whispering in front of the conference table, Kerwin coughed lightly, motioned for everyone to look towards him, put his hands on the table and said.

"You can speak up if you have any opinions. The first issue to be discussed in this meeting is whether the discovery we found at the 071 mineral site is naturally formed, or is it a relic left by extraterrestrial civilization...or something similar."

There was silence in the conference room.

After a while, the whispers continued.

"If it is artificially formed, what is the point of building a building in a spiral shape? In terms of space utilization, this structure is completely meaningless..."

At this moment, Dr. Amos, who had been sitting in the corner of the conference table and had no presence from the beginning to the end, suddenly spoke.

"I remember when I was 7 years old, my grandfather took me to do an experiment in Bavaria." At this point, he paused, faced the eyes of the pair of people looking at him, and then said, "He took me Then I pour the liquid aluminum into the ant nest, and then when the aluminum water cools, we can get an aluminum ant nest model..."

"I'm sorry to interrupt you, Dr. Amos, we are now discussing the issue of Mineral Point 071," a professor interrupted with a teasing tone, "Besides, there are no ants on Mars."

"I know," Amos shrugged, "but who knows, maybe three billion years ago Mars was populated by some other kind of arthropods. Don't you think that this spiral structure is similar to ants? Are the holes similar?"