Chapter 129 - Chapter 129: Fish Tank
Chapter 129: Fish Tank
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The planet in front of him was so special that Li Wenyuan could not help but pay too much attention to it.
This was a planet that was completely covered by the ocean. There was no land on its surface.
It was estimated that the average depth of water on this planet was more than eight thousand meters, and the deepest part was more than twenty thousand meters.
No matter how he looked at it, Li Wenyuan felt that it was the work of humans to have such a water-rich planet near the black hole.
Due to the influence of the tidal force, the ocean planet was constantly surging with huge waves.
This time, it was truly monstrous. The waves could form a thousand-meter-tall wall of water, scraping layer after layer on the surface of the planet.
Such a huge wave had already reduced the general livability of the place, not to mention the harsh space environment near the black hole.
Strictly speaking, this place was not suitable for any intelligent life.
This strange giant wave landscape also led Li Wenyuan to call this special ocean planet Giant Wave Planet.
After all, the ocean planet could give birth to intelligent life. The First Turbulence Empire was a kind of aquatic lifeform. Their origin was a gentle ocean planet.
However, it was as difficult as ascending to the heavens to give birth to intelligent life on such a giant wave planet. The overly harsh surface environment prevented the possibility of complex life from being born.
Perhaps only in the deep sea could there be some special intelligent life.
At first, Li Wenyuan was very interested in the planet itself. After all, there was too much water here.
In this Black Hole Galaxy, other than this giant wave planet, the rest of the planets had become barren planets due to the harsh space environment, without any life.
However, this giant wave planet was clearly about the same size as other planets, but its atmosphere did not dissipate, and the water content was firmly locked on the surface of the planet.
The situation looked different. Li Wenyuan felt that humans were experimenting here.
“A Black Hole Galaxy with a material depressurizing device, what kind of experiment is it doing?” His research spaceship approached the Giant Wave Planet and released a large number of drones for reconnaissance.
The environment here was only the endless deep sea. It was much more troublesome to explore than those ordinary planets.
Although drones could also be used for deep-sea exploration, the efficiency in the water was much lower than in the air.
However, in view of the special environment here, Li Wenyuan called Gray Wind over to see if she was interested in this place.
As he expected, Gray Wind showed great curiosity.
“A giant wave planet with a depth of ten thousand meters? Isn’t this a great place for adventures?”
The game she had been playing recently was Deep Sea Horror developed by the First Turbulence Empire. This group of aquatic lifeforms had a much more detailed understanding of the ocean than ordinary creatures.
Even for the current interstellar civilization, the ocean no longer had any secrets, and everything could be used.
However, this interstellar civilization made up of aquatic lifeforms still retained their reverence for the ocean. Their countless works were related to the deep sea and were filled with ancient primitive fears. In the current era where horror stories were popular, it became a cultural trend.
However, this was just a little spice for entertainment. This was because these interstellar civilizations had done a lot of things like pumping water. Sometimes, even if they drained all the water on a planet, they would not see the terror of the deep sea.
In the interstellar era, the unknown of the universe was even more terrifying.
However, Gray Wind probably didn’t mind eating it. The adventure in the deep sea was a story that she had never thought of before. Perhaps in addition to the nothingness of space, the unknown deep sea was also a unique seasoning.
Hence, she entered the Giant Wave Planet without asking Li Wenyuan.
As Gray Wind and a large number of reconnaissance drones went deeper, the internal environment of this Giant Wave Planet was gradually revealed to him.
As he expected, there were only some simple microorganisms and algae living on the surface of the planet. Occasionally, slightly more complicated creatures would come to this area and quickly dive.
The huge tidal force would cause the surface of the sea to roll up and then fall. During this process, no creature could resist the huge impact of falling directly from the sky.
This was no different from directly falling onto the surface of the rock.
However, after leaving the most dangerous area on the surface, the species on the giant wave planet suddenly increased.
It was difficult for the light from the black hole to penetrate this depth, and the creatures here looked very casual.
It was almost necessary to not have eyes. The evolution of the body was also adapting to the environment here.
Some kind of fish with streamlined bodies could be seen moving quickly through the water. In order to adapt to the water pressure, their muscles were extremely strong, and their powerful tails made them foam in the water like arrows.
Before their food could even react, they suddenly lost half of their bodies, and the other half disappeared into the ocean a few seconds later. Only the full predator was swimming leisurely.
However, this was only one part of the food chain. A tentacle suddenly shot out from the depths of the sea, dragging the predator that had just eaten a full meal into the deep sea. As for its fate, it was obvious.
A complete and stable ecological cycle was formed on this planet, and it was in this area with the most biological mass that Li Wenyuan discovered a deep-sea observation station left behind by humans.
“What’s that?” Under the curious expression of Gray Wind, a giant floating building that was motionless in the torrent gradually revealed its full appearance in the dark ocean.
It looked like a giant top, and its outer shell was covered with fluorescent materials, becoming the only source of light in the dark sea.
Logically speaking, the phototaxis of deep-sea fish should have caused the creatures here to swarm in groups, but a sound wave that surrounded the huge building at all times dispersed those creatures.
Compared to the bustling area, this place was undoubtedly much quieter.
However, this might be the situation needed for such a deep-sea observatory.”
As Gray Wind and his drone approached, he also received a signal from the observation station:
[ Gentle reminder from Deep Sea Observation Station 003: ]
[ This is a fish tank. Please do not disturb the ecological environment here. Otherwise, some poor researcher will lose his research results! ]
“Fish tank?” This special form of address stunned Li Wenyuan for a moment before he immediately understood.
“This should be a breeding area for some kind of experimental material. I guess the research topic is about the evolution process of living things in an ocean planet in a black hole environment.”
Actually, it was quite normal for such things to appear. Not to mention humans, even in the current interstellar society, due to the rapid development of productivity, many experiments were carried out on planets.
The Milky Way was so vast that it couldn’t always be limited to a small planet.
There were already quite some interstellar tycoons who bought several desolate planets and built artificial eco-cities on them. They captured some natives and made them treat them as gods to enjoy the feeling of being worshipped.
Some bold and crazy scientists secretly invaded the native planets for some sociological research, causing internal turmoil and expanding the experimental samples.
These were all actions that could be achieved in the interstellar era, so humans of that era could have such a planetary fish tank.
However, what surprised Li Wenyuan was that other than the human signal, he also detected other signals.
This kind of signal was completely different from what humans usually used, but it was full of patterns. It was probably a signal sent by an intelligent creature.
After the translation, Li Wenyuan became more and more curious about the Deep Sea Observation Station.
It was a distress signal. “We have been invaded by the enemy.. Please provide support as soon as possible!”