The excavation work for objects suspected to be lander millions of years or even older had not been completed by the time Wang Qi had time to pay attention.
This thing was discovered by Hongri Mining, the company that first received the mining mecha.
The mining machine developed by "Cliff Machinery" and modified from the Guangfeng Type 1 power armor was finally influenced by Wang Qi. After trial feedback from early models, and after considering production difficulty, use safety, maintenance convenience and other factors, it was The power armor scheme was abandoned and replaced by a small duck mecha with a simpler structure.
The duck mecha that Wang Qi originally drew was a very simple concept, which was to add legs and arms to the wedge-shaped box of the armored vehicle.
In order to cope with more complex working conditions, commonly used mining equipment cannot be made that large. The final machine has a standby height of only 2 meters, a normal standing position of 2.8 meters, and an extended standing position of 3.2 meters. The cockpit is more like an excavator cab. Personnel operate in a small cabin in a sitting position and can directly observe the situation outside through the three-layer laminated glass and protective net.
"Cliff Machine" is a brand temporarily issued by the Ministry of Industry to the research institute. The main task of the manufacturing bureau is to purchase military equipment and magic modules. It has no intention of mass-producing mining equipment. This mecha is called "Cliff Construction Machine" Later, it was contracted to Hongshi Magic Equipment Factory and several parts factories in Fenggu for joint production, and was finally assembled by Fenggu Automobile Factory.
Compared with mechanical equipment, the "cliff construction machine" that mainly uses magic is lighter in weight. The whole machine weighs less than 500 kilograms, which greatly reduces the difficulty of hoisting mines on the side of the floating island.
However, once something like a floating island cracks, it is affected by unknown factors. The lower the overall mass, the lower the floating height. Therefore, mining operations are required to be more cautious and must not cause large-scale cracking.
Due to safety considerations on the floating island itself, only two mining licenses for a single mineral vein have been issued so far. There are also other teams that want to join the industry, but the mining safety plan must be changed.
Hongri Mining’s mining plan is not necessarily foolproof. It’s just that this guy has been running various mining intermediaries and has been a shareholder of Blackwater Mining for many years. He has a deep understanding of minerals, is willing to spend money, and guarantees every month in the plan. Hire at least three earth-type fourth-ring mages and the safety team to go down the well to inspect and repair rock formation damage in a timely manner.
The other teams are relatively young, and some of the companies applying for it are even involved in mining for the first time. They don’t even have a table of professional exploration personnel at home. Even if the same plan gives people a lower safety impression, it will be necessary to continue to spend money. It's a loss-making business.
Back to this point, the object suspected of being a lander is mine No. 321 in the southeast of the Fenggu plate. The main component of this number is time. The previous one approved was the No. 302 bauxite mine corresponding to the Erte Artificial Gemstone Factory.
Mine No. 321 is a composite mine. The main product is silver, accompanied by a small amount of nickel, copper, and trace amounts of molybdenum and gold.
During the excavation process, an abnormal type of ore was discovered. An abnormal tungsten content appeared in a certain branch vein. After the sample was sent for inspection, it was found that the element niobium was present.
So far, the Kingdom has not extracted real niobium from minerals. The direct reason is that everyone does not know what niobium ore looks like, and the associated type will be given up or missed due to process, content and other reasons. However, the periodic table of elements was copied by Wang Qi. The existence, properties and chemical confirmation methods of niobium can be roughly inferred from the periodic table. It can be identified and used in minerals with higher enrichment and relatively low complexity. It won't be particularly difficult,
Then following this clue, the target was discovered.
It's actually not that far away, less than ten meters from the point where niobium and tungsten were found to be enriched.
There is still a long way between discovering the target object and digging it out.
The surface of the object and the rock formation are almost completely integrated, and previous enrichment can also be traced to this combination. It is speculated that the mineralization occurred due to the long-term influence of underground high-pressure steam.
Its outer surface is heavily mineralized, which also poses problems for excavation construction.
The current plan is to leave a 20 to 50 centimeter mineralized layer on it, dig it out first to see the overall shape and whether there are unmineralized surfaces, and then make other decisions.
This work is very troublesome, and a mage who can explore magic must be on-site to confirm. Engineers will then formulate excavation and mine reinforcement plans based on the magic detection information.
Wang Qi has a lot of meetings going on every day, so he can only ask Li Xiang to go and check them out for him.
Li Xiang's magic ability is much stronger than that of ordinary mages. After some testing, he can basically confirm that it is a lander.
This thing has no aerodynamics at all, and there are no wings or tilting engines found on the outside. However, it is seriously damaged on the side that has not been dug yet. Li wants to use [Magic Mapping] to confirm that there is magic inside. The equipment is basically powered by magic.
Spaceships millions of years ago or even older...
First of all, it can be basically confirmed that this universe has little to do with the previous universe. Magic is a universal and easy-to-use energy in this universe, and is not unique to the will of the local world.
Secondly, simply applying magic power has the potential to cross the atmosphere. As for the movement of stars in outer space, there is currently no evidence of a power plan.
Considering the complex situations faced by breaking through the atmosphere, this lander should have magical automation technology similar to microelectronics applications. If it can be restored, it will be very valuable. Of course, the possibility of landing by brute force cannot be ruled out now. For example, it will use multi-layer shields to reduce atmospheric effects.
Wang Qi’s first consideration was scientific value, while Li Xiang paid more attention to “people”.
"What do they look like? Is it possible that they brought the ecosystems of these three worlds? Are they still there now?"
"Wow, these questions of yours are quite difficult." Wang Qi praised and touched her hair.
She smiled beside him and leaned against him, waiting to hear him brag.
What it looks like cannot be determined by inference. Even if fingerprint information can be obtained, it is unreliable unless there is image evidence.
In terms of the ecosystem, there are certain external possibilities, but their absoluteness is limited.
Wang Qi's main basis is time: "It took tens of millions of years to evolve from mice to humans. But the time to evolve from a single cell to an insect is calculated as hundreds of millions of years. I don't think it can survive being buried underground for so long." Take the basic shape.”
It also involves one point, that is, how rich the basic organisms that aliens can bring to a planet.
According to the classification method of domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, etc., species in the same subclass can develop from a single species to cover the entire ecological niche in tens of millions of years, such as Synapsida, Sauromorpha, etc.
However, to form an ecosphere, we need to cross phyla and borders. Even hundreds of millions of years are not enough, because we have to degenerate back to multi-cells or even single cells to establish correlation. Assume that this biosphere is really brought about by this ship or other partners. , each phylum must have a basic biological group that is sufficient to reproduce on its own, which is obviously too high a requirement for interstellar travel.
But now that people can travel to the stars, it’s hard to say that they won’t build a factory on the ground for genetic breeding to recreate the biosphere.
Without relying on the chain of evidence, relying on guesswork, Wang Qi himself tends to have a certain relationship between the local biosphere and "alien". This is mainly because the local biosphere is complex enough and without enough mass extinctions, it is difficult to cultivate today's biosphere. ecological environment.
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As for the relationship between mass extinction and ecological complexity, the main reason is that it can eliminate some dominant species and provide new ecological niche space for latecomers. For example, if the Synapsid class that humans live in does not have a good opportunity, it will almost certainly continue to exist as a snack of the Sauromorpha class, with no chance of becoming larger at all.
The last question, "Are they still there?" is the most uncertain.
According to beautiful science fiction, a civilization that has achieved interstellar travel should be able to survive until heat death, and considering that there is a small amount of reverse entropy in the magical world, heat death is a false proposition. Interstellar travel should be equivalent to the eternal existence of civilization, and It is the conclusion from a cosmic perspective.
But from a biological perspective, civilizations have the possibility of killing themselves, even purely emotional and purely mechanical civilizations. The direction of development is not necessarily forward, especially on a time scale of millions of years. , the possibility of self-destruction and cross-stellar travel will be greatly increased. The more complex the interstellar vehicle production chain is, the greater the possibility.
This is still a situation where there is only a single civilization. If there is a completely heterogeneous civilization with humans on one side and arthropods on the other, there will be no empathy at all between the two sides, and things will become more complicated.
There is also the possibility that it is not beautiful at all.
Since the lander is not foreign at all, it is something similar to a magic carriage created by early local civilization. If this is the case, there is no need to talk about the problem of still being there. It simply becomes the upper limit of civilization being locked for millions of years. tragic story.
Of course, the enrichment phenomenon of niobium and tungsten discovered earlier can basically rule out this possibility. There are too many metals in the atmosphere that can replace their functions.
