Hot.
The first feeling coming to the gravity planet from Explorer 1 is heat.
In fact, the temperature on Explorer 1 is also very hot. The temperature is 37 degrees Celsius, which is the temperature in midsummer in many places on the earth.
But compared to this planet, it pales into insignificance.
As soon as Zheng Senlin arrived here, his skin quickly wrinkled together due to the high temperature. His body's stress response caused him to quickly adjust his condition and lock in moisture as soon as possible.
But even so, the whole body is very uncomfortable.
Not to mention anything else, the immediate body temperature is probably above 180 degrees, which is higher than boiling water. If an ordinary person comes, he can last for one or two minutes - two minutes. After that, he will completely lose consciousness, and it will be almost cooked in another ten minutes.
Fortunately, there are a variety of thermophilic organisms on the earth that live in volcanic craters at temperatures of more than 100 degrees all year round. This gene allows Zheng Senlin to survive.
High temperature is followed by hypoxia. This planet is not without gas, nor is it without any oxygen. From the cracks in the ground, thick smoke and gas that smelled like sulfur were constantly sprayed out.
These gases contain toxins that are harmful to carbon-based organisms. Even if Zheng Senlin takes a breath, he will feel uncomfortable. He can only hold his breath to prevent further damage to his lungs.
"A very strange planet."
After Zheng Senlin temporarily adapted, he looked around.
This is a rocky planet, and almost everything you can see is made of various types of ores.
The ground is rocky.
Above the sky is a "dark cloud-like" wrapper composed of various types of toxic gases.
But he had to thank the poisonous cloud atmosphere.
Thanks to its protection, the temperature here is only 180 degrees Celsius.
I don't know if it's because it's close to the star, or because the star in the galaxy where the planet is located is larger than the sun. Anyway, it's very bright here, and you can feel the strong light even under the dark clouds.
Then under the light is a city of stone people. This city…
Huhuhu...
While Zheng Senlin was still observing the city, wind suddenly blew up behind his head, and stone men came through the star gate one after another.
As soon as they arrived, they used their race's unique method to sound the alarm.
The surrounding staff turned around, and sure enough they saw a vaguely transparent shadow under the strong light.
"Yeah." When Zheng Senlin saw this scene, he didn't hesitate for a second and ran away.
According to the laws enacted by advanced civilizations, this is a "civilized planet". In theory, these stone men can't do anything to themselves, but they will definitely hinder their actions.
It's not his style to sit still and wait for death. Leaving the scene immediately is the best choice.
But as soon as Zheng Senlin started running, he clearly felt that his speed was much slower. The gravity of this planet was obviously much higher than that of the earth, but fortunately it was within the tolerance range.
He ran all the way, taking advantage of the shadows of the surrounding buildings. As long as he was not under strong light, it would be difficult for the other party to spot him.
Zheng Senlin was fast enough and small enough to quickly get away from the pursuit.
And after leaving the area where the wormhole marked by the Star Gate is located, there are obviously many less stone men around.
"The people here don't seem to be particularly prosperous." After getting rid of the pursuit, Zheng Senlin climbed up to a rock house.
It is said to be a house, but more like a cave.
A cave carved out of an elevated "ore slope".
This is a relatively high point. Zheng Senlin looked up and saw that there were not many pedestrians in the entire city.
There are more messy "carbon-based plants" than humans.
These creatures are either a handful of crystals, an iron flower with "flowers" blooming, or a crystal tube with a metal ball on top. They are motionless. If Zheng Senlin hadn't been able to feel the electricity in their bodies, For signal transmission, they can only be regarded as "strange-looking" metal stones.
Zheng Senlin really wanted to pick some silicon-based organisms and go back to study them, but he had more important things now - to understand the core of gravity civilization and at the same time to understand the fertility method of stone people.
After thinking for a while, he decided to do the second thing first.
He didn't understand the gravity device, but understanding the reproduction of silicon-based organisms would be beneficial to his own research.
In this way, Zheng Senlin wandered around the city of gravity civilization, searching for everything like a voyeur.
There are no birds in the sky...
There are no green leaves on the ground...
The ground was extremely hard and the room was mostly empty.
The entire planet is a hundred times more desolate than Earth or Explorer 1.
This feeling of desolation and lack of "humanity" makes even an emotionless human like Zheng Senlin feel very uncomfortable.
Wherever there were people, the stone men did not show any "intimate" behavior.
It seems that such things as "falling in love" and "getting married" do not exist on this planet.
Zheng Senlin shopped around but couldn't find the information he wanted. In desperation, he could only spend 500 points at the Advanced Civilization Store to buy the communication function.
Then, he can hear others "talk".
The air is filled with "sounds" everywhere, and people in the entire city are "communicating" indiscriminately.
People in gravity civilization use the vibration of some kind of gravity wave to communicate. This method of communication can be transmitted very far, and there is no need to "talk" face to face like humans.
Zheng Senlin does not have the ability to feel gravity waves, but after purchasing the communication function, these waves are automatically converted into sounds.
"Someone invaded..."
"Everyone, be careful..."
"I just seemed to see him..."
"It's an evil alien..."
"It seems to hide the body..."
"Carbon-based organisms..."
"Can carbon-based organisms survive here?"
"He is an interstellar explorer. He has obviously been strengthened many times..."
"Lock up the experimental items..."
"We can't let him find out..."
…
With his ears full of noisy sounds, Zheng Senlin carefully captured useful information. After waiting for a long time, he finally heard someone talking about childbirth.
According to the exchange, he came to a huge hole in the center of the city.
There was heat emanating from the entrance of the cave, and it was bottomless inside.
Here is the stone man's "birth base".
With curiosity, Zheng Senlin climbed down the rocks at the entrance of the cave and dived for a full two to three hundred meters before reaching the bottom of the cave.
There is an "underground lake" here, and some kind of strange lava flows in the lake.
There are some minerals accumulated around the lava, which are very similar to the "material" of the stone man's body.
Some stone men are surrounding the lava, wrapping themselves in these semi-cooled high-temperature magma, seeming to be conducting some kind of "information communication."
"Is this how they conceive?"
Not only is it asexual reproduction, even the "offspring" is not separated from one's own body.
It's no wonder that the stone people don't have the concept of family and love. There is no distinction between male and female among these people.
Zheng Senlin hid in the dark and looked around. He saw that the stone man's skin slowly melted and merged with the same kind of material softened by magma. Like human DNA genetic information, it was processing genetic information in a way that carbon-based organisms could not understand. transfer.
The dead ore slowly became "vital" through constant communication, and electrical signal transmission was slowly generated inside.
But this speed is much slower than humans giving birth.
"No wonder the population is so small."
There are quite a few stone people breeding offspring in this magma cave. There are thousands of them - much denser than the people on the street.
Moreover, above the entrance of the cave, people are constantly using "anti-gravity devices" to slowly fall down, replenishing manpower.
But Zheng Senlin had been observing for so long, but he hadn't seen a single "fetus" divide successfully.
It can be seen that this is a long project.
Difficulty in reproduction and long lifespan are Zheng Senlin’s two biological definitions of gravity-civilized humans.
