Guide to Galactic Dominance

The huge sinkhole is pitch black, especially among the diverging magma, which looks weird.

Even the most well-trained and experienced expedition team members will not easily enter such a cave. Chi Jia and others reported their findings. On the one hand, they sent a drone into the sinkhole cave for further investigation. On the other hand, they continued along the Valle Marineris and landed on the plateau in the middle of the Valle Marineris.

The team members wearing individual armors walked out of the landing ship one after another. The first one to set foot on the Martian ground was naturally the captain Chi Jia.

Because the gravity is smaller than on the earth, even with the adjustment effect of the individual armor, the expedition team members still feel that they move too easily. With a slight jump, they can jump tens of meters away. This is because they have not used the strength increase of the individual armor. Case.

After extracting some samples and taking a few photos similar to those taken by tourists, the team members' minds were not here. The huge sinkhole cave became a big mystery in everyone's mind.

Even Tashvi, who was most excited about arriving on Mars, had no interest at all at the moment and said naggingly to Huang Quan: "There must be something under that big hole, otherwise it would be impossible for even the magma to be separated."

Huang Quan used a tool to shovel open a stone, and unexpectedly saw a blue light inside. It was a very beautiful sapphire. Huang Quan smiled and put the stone into his bag, saying: "Okay, don't think too much about it, no matter what Whatever is found below has nothing to do with us.”

Tashvi shouted: "How could it have nothing to do with us? This is what we discovered."

Huang Quan said sarcastically: "Do you think you can still benefit us by sharing the wealth? Don't say that we just saw the sinkhole. Such a discovery is not enough to provide us with any benefits. Maybe you can name the sinkhole cave."

"Okay, okay, even if it's just a name."

The unique sinkhole cave on Mars also caught Bai Zhongqi's attention immediately. The drones sent by Chi Jia and other expedition members were not responsible for the control and monitoring. They had their own dedicated personnel to handle the drones. Bai Zhongqi was also quietly watching the pictures sent back by the drones in Ruyi City.

The tiankeng cave is not only large in diameter, measuring dozens of kilometers, but its depth is also somewhat unexpected.

Bai Zhongqi squatted in front of the surveillance screen, pinched his beardless chin, and thought: "Isn't this big hole going all the way to the center of the earth?"

Not long ago, the incident about Cui Haixing had already cast some doubts on Bai Zhongqi about the center of the earth. Although the planetary life of Emerald Sea Star is in a state of chaotic consciousness, if it were not for special detection methods, there would be no way to know the difference between it and normal planets. But not knowing that planetary life was born hundreds of millions of years ago and possesses terrifying power, Bai Zhongqi is wary of anything that the Iridium people don't understand.

When playing games, Bai Zhongqi is happy to see any unexpected situation, even if it may catch him off guard and force him to load the save file and start over. But in reality, every unexpected discovery makes Bai Zhongqi nervous.

Unfortunately, this is the universe, a place full of infinite possibilities. Even if the Iridium United Empire is so powerful, it will still capsize in some gutter. If Bai Zhongqi, as the head of state, makes a major mistake, the empire may even be doomed.

After dozens of Dragonfly drones penetrated tens of thousands of meters into the tiankeng cave, they suddenly entered an open place. At the same time, the drone's body suddenly became extremely inflexible.

Bai Zhongqi narrowed his eyes and quickly found the reason. The dragonflies' sensors show that the environment they are in is actually only 1.5 Earth atmospheres.

The atmospheric pressure of Mars itself is lower than that of the Earth, and as you go deeper into the sinkhole, the pressure on the drone will continue to increase. But for some reason, after suddenly entering this open place, the atmospheric pressure changed dramatically.

"These……"

Bai Zhongqi had already seen the surrounding environment through Dragonfly's camera. He suddenly stood up from his seat, his eyes shining brightly.

"This is an artificial ecosystem." Mo Laitong, director of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, who also looked at the surveillance images, recognized it all at a glance.

More images were passed on, allowing the holographic image in front of Bai Zhongqi to present him with a more complete picture. In the picture, several dragonfly drones are flying high in the sky, as if they are wandering among the clouds. The entire zenith is covered with blue sky and white clouds, which is very similar to the blue sky and white clouds in Ruyi City.

Relying on spectral scanning, the drone was able to find that the hole directly above itself was the big hole they flew down from. But the man-made ecosystem here covers the big hole. Although passing through is not a problem, it looks like it doesn't exist.

From the forged zenith to the "ground", the distance is about 800 kilometers, which is much larger than the artificial ecological circle of Yicheng.

Molaitong was checking the detection data sent back by all the dragonflies and said: "The fake star hanging on the zenith is actually shining and heating. Then this artificial ecosystem system must still be maintained normally, and it is better than ours." The ecosystem system of Ruyi City is more realistic."

Bai Zhongqi was silent as he watched this astonishing scene. The first question that came into his mind was, why is there such a huge artificial ecosystem underground on Mars?

The environment here was obviously built to adapt to the living habits of the primates. There are various races in the galaxy that are prone to different environments. Some species prefer an oxygen-rich environment, while others prefer more sulfides or nitrogen compounds in the air. Some prefer a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere, and non-carbon-based animals are even more diverse and bizarre.

Bai Zhongqi made a prompt decision and sent more reconnaissance vehicles into the sinkhole. It took him nearly a day to finally understand the scope of the man-made ecosystem under this huge sinkhole.

This underground artificial ecosystem covers an area of ​​more than 40 million square kilometers, with complete topography and landforms, rivers and lakes. Unlike the artificial ecosystem built by the Iridium people, there is actually no life here. There is soil on the ground, but there is no vegetation and no animals. Even in the soil sampled, no microorganisms were found, but it was full of organic matter.

And in this empty underground world, a huge building that leads from the "ground" to the "sky", which means it is eight hundred kilometers high, stands in the center of the underground man-made ecosystem.

This obvious man-made building should be the main control platform of the underground man-made ecosystem. It's just that this building, which is like the Tower of Babel reaching the sky, is somewhat similar to the Mayan pyramid in appearance. It has a square base. One level up is another square formed by connecting the midpoints of the four sides. One level up is another square in the middle. The square formed by connecting the points continues over and over again until it reaches the highest point.

This huge building full of mysterious atmosphere made Bai Zhongqi first think of the words "temple" or "altar". There is no doubt that this building possesses an extremely high level of technology and is able to maintain an artificial ecosystem covering an area of ​​more than 40 million square kilometers.