The Secret History of Mars.

Chapter 14 The Cooling Star Core

"Huh~" Shui Zaitian let out a long breath, and the rescuers finally came. This No. 1 seed who just woke up, sometimes ignorant, sometimes sharp, Shui Zaitian has no way of predicting her behavior. This is the first time for him to be the No. 1 seed custodian, so seeing is believing.

He immediately turned around and reported to Renhui respectfully: "Elder Bao Xi, Elder Yan, the No. 1 seed is currently in good condition, but his thinking is a bit confused, which may be related to the fact that the neurons in the brain are not yet connected stably."

"Understood, let me take a look." The person walking behind said while walking around to the front, and came in front of Cui Xingmeng.At this time, the wall slid up, and Cui Xingmeng saw clearly the person in front of him, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and his manner of speaking and demeanor. When he walked over, there was a pleasant smell of green grass, which made people feel refreshed. This should be Elder Yan that Shui Zaitian mentioned.

"Come on, lie back on the petri dish!" Elder Yan said kindly, motioning for Cui Xingmeng to lie back on that "bed".Cui Xingmeng couldn't help doing the same, and asked in a murmur, "Are you Shennong?"

"It seems that the No. 1 seed in this life has been cultivated really well, and you can ask the elders before it has grown out of the cultivation cavity." Elder Yan said with a smile to Shui Zaitian and Elder Bao Xi who came with him.

"Not only can you ask in person, but you can also gossip about me, Elder Cangxi, behind your back." Elder Bao Xi said dotingly.

Before Cui Xingmeng could see Elder Bao Xi's face clearly, she slowly closed her eyes and fell into a coma again.When she woke up again, the first thing she saw was a familiar and handsome face, "Yizhou?!"

"Yizhou will be here soon." The magnetic voice caressed Cui Xingmeng's chaotic thoughts.

"Aren't you Yizhou? Who are you? Why do you look so similar to Yizhou?" Cui Xingmeng inquired about the other party with what little reason he had left.

"I'm Bao Xi, and I'm also Fu Xi, whom you just said, and who has an unsolved mystery with your Nuwa Empress." Elder Bao Xi joked, "Zai Tian said that you have many problems, don't worry, I will will tell you."

"Come on, drink this first. Elder Yan gave you a comprehensive examination just now, and the transformation was very successful. This Zhuyu grass juice can strengthen your brain and make you feel more awake and comfortable." He said, Elder Bao Xi handed over a small cup.

Cui Xingmeng sat up and reached out to take the cup, but her eyes stayed on Bao Xi's face. "It's so similar, except that it's a bit blue like me, it's almost carved out of the same mold as Yizhou, but why does he feel sacred and trustworthy to me, but not familiar?" Cui Xingmeng thought in his heart. pondering.

"If you feel good after drinking, I can take you outside the cultivation chamber and talk about anything you want to know." Bao Xi kindly reminded Cui Xingmeng to put the cup to his mouth instead of staring at him in a daze.

At this moment, Cui Xingmeng looked down at the cup in her hand, half a cup of bright green liquid in it reminded her of the word Qiongyeyuye.She was indeed a little thirsty, so she handed the cup to her lips, moistened her lips, and instantly a burst of sweetness spread from her lips.Then she put half a cup of Zhuyu grass juice into her mouth, and the sweet and mellow comfort flowed with Zhuyu grass juice all over her body.

Soon, Cui Xingmeng felt that his brain had woken up. It felt like a mountain that had been pressing on his head was removed. Suddenly, his whole body was refreshed, and his whole body felt extremely comfortable.

"Okay, then let's go out for a walk, please ask Elder Bao Xi to lead the way." Cui Xingmeng got up from the petri dish, and at the same time stretched out his hand to make a gesture of invitation to Elder Bao Xi.

"Come on, watch your step." Bao Xi still said with a loving smile.

Cui Xingmeng followed Bao Xi and walked out of the nurturing chamber. The Luotang cheongsam on her body suddenly tightened, making Cui Xingmeng wonder if she had become fat after lying down for so long!She quickly denied her own idea. The atmosphere outside the cultivation chamber was different from the warmth and comfort inside the walls. Every cell here made people feel turbulent and uneasy.

"The gravitational field of Mars is not very stable, and the energy will fluctuate with the interference of the solar wind." Elder Bao Xi saw that Cui Xingmeng felt uncomfortable, so he explained, "The breath soil has formed a protective film on the siliconized part of your body. , your brain has also been strengthened by Zhu Yu grass juice carbon base, so there is no danger, just get used to this feeling."

Cui Xingmeng has completely recalled the past at this time, including the chaotic conversation with Shui Zaitian when he just woke up.

"So, am I really on Mars? Did Xi Rang bring me here?" Cui Xingmeng tried to piece together all the possibilities of connection between the two completely different worlds before going to bed and waking up.

"Xiyang just helps your body transform into a more stable state suitable for the Martian environment. It doesn't have the energy to travel through time and space," Bao Xi explained, "Miemeng Gallery sent you here."

"Mie Meng Gallery?! Ye Qinghe's Mie Meng Gallery?!" Cui Xingmeng asked in surprise.

"Yes, after Qinghe sent you here, I went to pick up a boat with Cang Xi, and they should be here soon." Elder Bao Xi's reaction to Cui Xingmeng was not surprising, "We walked and went to pick up the boat at the shuttle station." Let's get off the boat."

"Miemeng Gallery can take interstellar travel? Isn't Ye Qinghe just collecting antiques? Her gallery also builds space shuttles?" Seeing what Elder Bao Xi said, Cui Xingmeng felt as relaxed as if he was going to the station to pick up a friend, so he could only continue to ask. .

"It's not interstellar travel, it's a waste of time, and it won't keep up with the review by your elders' house." Bao Xi was so cute by Cui Xingmeng's question, and patiently explained like a loving father, "It's time and space travel, directly moving time and space through time coordinates. mean."

"The Miemeng Gallery in Qinghe doesn't make space shuttles. The Miemeng Gallery itself is a space-time shuttle." Bao Xi continued, "Qinghe has already visited the Miemeng Gallery with a boat. When you meet him later, you can talk to him in detail. He chatted."

When the two were talking, they had already arrived at the lobby of the childcare center. Apart from the discomfort caused by the unstable gravitational field, there was no big difference between the environment and the nursery. Pure white or five-color fluorescent The decoration is easy to make people feel tired, until a huge display screen in the center of the lobby jumped into the eye very abruptly, attracting Cui Xingmeng's attention.

"There are 135 Martian years left until the star core is completely cooled!"

Seeing that Cui Xingmeng had turned his attention from the conversation with himself to the screen, Elder Bao Xi also changed the subject in a timely manner.

"This is the countdown card for the civilization of Mars. All activities on this planet are timed according to the numbers displayed on it." Bao Xie said with a sigh.

"The star core is completely cooled?" Cui Xingmeng repeated the part he didn't fully understand, "You mean the Martian core is cooling?"

"Yes, we discovered this problem 300 million years ago, and this countdown card started from then." Elder Bao Xi said helplessly.

"Why do you count down the cooling of the Martian core?" Cui Xingmeng was even more puzzled.

"Because when the number on this display screen turns to 0, it is the moment when the planet Mars is completely dead." Bao Xi said solemnly, "No matter how developed the civilization on Mars is, it is difficult to lose the parent star as a carrier. escape the fate of extinction."

"But why does the Martian core cool down?" Cui Xingmeng felt a little sympathetic to Elder Bao Xi and their Martian civilization.

"This is the fate that all planets in the solar system cannot escape." Bao Xie said with a wry smile. "Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto have met this fate, and if the civilization of Mars doesn't do something, we will eventually follow in their footsteps."

"Our sun is the same as all stars. When it was a supernova, its strong gravitational field condensed the super-high-quality star core after the big bang," Elder Bao Xi said slowly, "We can also take these The star core is understood as the sun fragments of the same origin as the sun. After hundreds of millions of years, these star cores have continuously attracted the surrounding gas, liquid and solid phase substances, formed their own planets, and finally formed the solar system and the nine planets. "

"Over a long period of time, our sun has continued to expand and grow, and it is not surprising that its own energy per unit volume has decreased, but the cores of the nine planets surrounding it, from far to near, are slowly cooling. For the civilization of the planet, it is fatal." Elder Bao Xi's words, like the voice-over in a movie, accompanied Cui Xingmeng's brain with an explanation of the evolution of the solar system.

"Three million years ago, the Martian civilization on the surface discovered that the gas molecules in its environment became thinner and thinner, and the temperature began to decrease year by year. Only then did it realize that the atmosphere surrounding the planet was being slowly peeled off by the solar wind." Bao Sacrifice seems to be like an old man in memory, peaceful and sad. "After several Martian periods of chaos and panic, we finally discovered that the root cause of this is that the magnetic field generated by the thermomagnetic convection of the Martian core is not enough to resist the stripping of the solar wind, and we can only let the solar wind tear the planet apart. everything of."

"Thermal-magnetic convection is dependent on the high-temperature fusion energy of the Martian core, and the slowly cooling star core is no longer able to provide enough energy to maintain the Martian magnetic field." Bao Xie turned his back to the countdown display screen, Walking towards the exit of the lobby, "So since then, this countdown board has been erected here, and the Martian civilization without the protection of the atmosphere has also moved from the surface to the ground."

Cui Xingmeng followed, and the exit of the lobby was directly connected to a smaller space like a van elevator. Bao Xi walked out of the lobby door and directly entered this small space, signaling Cui Xingmeng to come over as well.

"Come on, let's go up to pick up a boat." Bao Xi resumed his kind tone and said.

(End of this chapter)