Chapter 5: Deep into the Sea

Meng Fan did not deal with Qin Su in the end. Qin Su and Xiao Ai did not know what method they used to persuade Tang Ji to successfully join the team of undersea exploration.

Finally, the expedition identified eight members - Tang Ji, Meng Fan, Qin Wanyong, Doctor, Qin Su, Ai Mengna, Qian Sanhai and Little Jack.

Among the eight people, Donji is the leader, and the reason why he brought Qian Sanhai and Little Jack is that the mausoleum is full of unknown dangers. These two people have strong combat effectiveness and are a powerful supplement to the expedition team.

As for the others, they are all left on the island. All four large turbines around the island are activated, and no ships can approach. It can be said that people are very safe on this island.

In the morning of the day after the submarine was repaired, several people were ready to go deep into the seabed. In the evening, they entered the submarine and were ready to dive.

The submarine has three sides tightly wrapped by copper walls and iron walls, but the front is a transparent quartz glass several meters square as an observation port. When the submarine slowly dived into the water, everyone faced the observation window and looked at the beautiful fish swimming by from time to time, as if they were in the blue ocean, which was very novel.

The sea is the source of life. For the sea, human beings will have a natural yearning and expectation. Located in the submarine and the sea, everyone's mood suddenly becomes extremely calm.

When the submarine penetrated 100 meters into the sea, the sunlight gradually disappeared and the surroundings became dark. Tang Ji turned on the front view light, and the dim yellow light illuminated a small area in front of the submarine. With this faint light, everyone could barely see the situation ahead.

Under 1,000 meters under the seabed, the species and number of fish gradually become rare. These fish are flat and very different from the fish near the sea.

Doctor explained: "These fish have long been used to the high pressure in the deep sea. If they are caught on the sea, they will die in a few seconds."

Meng Fan looked at the fish swimming freely through the window from time to time and understood Doctor's explanation very well.

This is the truth of survival of the fittest.

A hundred years ago, those scientists who thought they were authoritative asserted that there would never be any creatures below one kilometer of the sea, because the pressure there was so great that no creature could withstand such great pressure.

But later, it turned out that those stupid people were wrong and completely wrong. Like Aristotle's 'iron ball theory', they fooled human beings for thousands of years, but finally could not stand the test of facts.

In today's scientific field, it is unknown how long those assertives respected as theorems by countless scientists can stand the test.

Maybe in the near future, someone will come forward to overturn the so-called three laws of Newton and the laws of conservation of energy...

However, even if that day is coming, these theories are still standing firmly on the altar. If someone raises an objection to it, they will be regarded as a madman and be scolded and despised by scholars in the world scientific community...

"Meng Fan." At this time, Doctor suddenly said thoughtfully, "Recently, I have found a very interesting thing while studying life-related things."

"Oh, let's talk about it." Meng Fan raised his interest.

"Biologists have always believed that the most basic substances that make up life are amino acids and proteins. As long as these two substances do not exist on a planet, there can be no life. However, recently I found that this assertion is wrong and ridiculously wrong.

"Eh? Did you find other forms of life? Tang Ji also came over. He is a scholar. Although he specializes in archaeology, he seems to be also interested in biology.

"Yes." Doctor affirmed, "That requires a very special condition, to be precise, at a high temperature of more than 100,000 degrees."

Doctor thought for a moment and continued, "I have done several particle collision experiments. In the case of absolute vacuum, the temperature of a small area rises to about 100,000 degrees through the collision of high-energy particles and lasts for a week. As a result, in this small area, I found signs of life, which are very weak and can't even reach the level of single-cell organisms. At best, they are only the size of germs, but they do have the representation of basic life..."

"Wait." Tangji unbelievably interrupted Doctor's words, "You mean, you found life in a high temperature of 100,000 degrees and an absolute vacuum? So, what are they made of?

"It's an iron element." Doctor replied affirmatively, "Because the basic particles used in the particle collision experiment are free iron elements."

"No protein and amino acids?"

"No!"

Tang Ji and Meng Fan looked at each other with a shocked expression.

A living body composed entirely of iron elements, what is this concept?

Although the survival conditions of this kind of life are relatively high and require 100,000 degrees of temperature and absolute vacuum, it does exist and is completely divorced from the concept of traditional life composition.

"That's why I say that human science's perception of life is too superficial." Doctor sighed, "However, it is really difficult to imagine that there may be corresponding life under any conditions, even on the surface of the star or the nucleus of a white dwarf star, there may be special life."

Meng Fan fully understood Doctor's statement, which boils down to only one sentence - survival of the fittest.

Under conditions such as the earth, the basic components of living organisms are amino acids and proteins. However, on stars with completely different conditions from the earth, life is likely to exist in a completely different form.

That is to say, there may be life in an absolutely vacuum universe or a huge star with a surface temperature of hundreds of thousands or even millions.

It's just that the composition of these organisms is not the same.

In fact, on earth, the existence of those creatures 10,000 meters deep in the sea has conveyed a similar message to human beings, but human biologists have not completely woken up.

During several people's discussion about life, the submarine was still slowly descending. When it was estimated to drop to 5,000 meters, the hull suddenly trembled slightly.

"What happened?" Meng Fan was shocked and looked out of the window, but did not see any threats from outside.

"It doesn't matter." Tangji explained, "It's just the vortex at the bottom of the sea. Don't panic."

"The vortex on the seabed?" Meng Fan was puzzled, "In my impression, the bottom of the sea should be very calm."

"Yes." The Doctor took over and said, "This is usually the case, but there are exceptions. Sometimes, in a specific area, water will flow suddenly and quickly, and I am not very clear about the reason.

"Oh." Meng Fan nodded helplessly. As a great scientist, Doctor represents the highest level in the three scientific and technological fields of physics, chemistry and biology. He can't figure out the topics that ordinary people can't figure out.

"I know." At this time, Qin Su, who had been silently paying attention to the situation outside the window, suddenly said, "Because water is also alive and has a character. They are very naughty and like to play."

"Oh? Really?" The Doctor was obviously interested.

"At least for me, it's true." Qin Suwan smiled and turned around again to enjoy the strange fish swimming outside the window from time to time with Xiao Ai.

"This is really an interesting topic, and I must record it." The doctor hurriedly took out the notepad and began to enter.

The submarine is still falling slowly, but the diving speed is obviously much slower than before. It can only drop two or three meters in about a minute. At this speed, it will take at least four or five hours to reach the bottom of the sea of 10,000 meters below the water.

Qian Sanhai and Little Jack were tired of the scenery outside the window and began to play Texas Poker. The bet was very simple, just a pile of lollipops. Qin Wanyong had been sitting on the side of the control hall and closed his eyes slightly. It seemed that he was closing his eyes to refresh his mind and nourish his spirit for the next adventure. Xiao Ai was still looking at the window with great interest. Susu accompanied her in the outside scenery; as for Tangji and Doctor, after diving six kilometers under the submarine, they stood in front of the operating platform and concentrated on checking the operation of the whole submarine.

Meng Fan was idle and saw that Qin Wanyong was closing his eyes to refresh his mind. He thought it was a good way to adjust his spirit, so he also found an open space, lay on the ground, and dozed off.

I don't know how long it took, the submarine suddenly trembled slightly. Meng Fan opened his eyes in a daze and heard Tang Ji say very excitedly, "It's here!"