Chapter 1243 (1/2)

The progress in the research of devil bug is very slow.

It's not because these scientists are not good at it, but because every breakthrough discovery may bring countless possibilities, spreading the roots of exploration to the unknown soil on the boundary of science.

The scientists gathered here are like breast-feeding babies, drawing unheard of knowledge from this specimen from 3.7 billion years ago.

And a series of problems in biology, genetics, chemistry and other disciplines that have been solved will evolve into new research branches.

In the words of a Chinese biologist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, it may be that the existence of the devil bug itself has refreshed human understanding of biology.

A few days ago, the world recognized as the largest arthropod on earth was the Japanese spider crab with 12 feet long legs. However, the net length of this devil worm is 15 meters. In addition, its terrifying ability to drill through even several kilometers or even tens of kilometers of metamorphic rocks has given people a new understanding of the limits that organisms can reach.

In particular, the occlusal ability of its two pairs of front teeth, in theory, can even cut the whole rebar, and even the armor of T-3 power armor is vulnerable in front of it. Fortunately, this kind of armored vehicle can only be used to attack Mars.

And the hardened horny armor, which can protect it from being cut at high speed in the broken rock, is strong enough to be immune to the direct fire of 12.7mm heavy machine gun bullets. Fortunately, the starring Marines are equipped with Gauss rifles, and the infantry vehicles are also equipped with large caliber machine guns and external rockets. Otherwise, it will not be so easy to break through the defense.

When getting this report, Jiang Chen's first reaction was dead claw.

In its impression, only the dead claw can compete with power armor.

Not exactly, the blade of the dead claw and the armor of the mud crab. If it's just dead claws, there's no chance of winning head-on against the devil bug. Among the creatures that Jiang Chen has seen, I'm afraid only the mother of dead claws can surpass it in individual combat effectiveness.

Later, due to the discovery of more and more devil worms, the research branches became more and more detailed, and the scope of research became more and more extensive, so that there was a shortage of manpower.

In order to solve this problem, more than a dozen scientists jointly asked Jiang Chen for instructions and invited several scientists who are well-known in the academic circles, but whose nationality is not in the four major member states, to participate in the research. Because the problems encountered in the devil bug research may use the conclusions that these people have already reached in their own field of study.

After some deliberation, Jiang Chen exchanged views with representatives of China, Russia and Germany, and finally relaxed the restrictions on nationality threshold.

Some candidates were selected from the list provided by the scientists who jointly petitioned. The Earth Defense Alliance issued 11 invitation letters to South Asian countries, Eastern European countries, India and other secondary member states, authorizing them to participate in some project research. In addition, Finland, the Principality of Donetsk and Japan, which are actively promoting the accession to the Earth Defense Alliance, have also been approved to engage in genetic engineering research.

However, this also brings another problem, that is, the news that the devil and the insect have arrived around the city can not be concealed any more

”Forrest Taylor, what can I do for you?” Sitting in the rest room next to the laboratory, Jiang Chen put down his newspaper and looked at Ford Taylor who came into the rest room. He said softly, ”if it's a new joint petition, I'm afraid I'll meet your requirements. Now we can receive thousands of petitions from the University of northern Western Europe every day in our mailbox. Too many people want to squeeze in here It's hard for us to do it. ”

Hearing Jiang Chen's words, verdel Taylor touched his nose and said sorry.

The joint petition also had his name in it.

For scientific workers, Jiang Chen's attitude has always been very friendly, and their requirements have basically been met as much as possible. Later, from the representatives of his own country, Fidel Taylor learned how much trouble he had caused to the star ring trade and the Earth Defense Alliance. Therefore, he was still somewhat guilty about Jiang Chen.

”It's nothing to do with the petition,” said Ford Taylor, coughing and whispering. ”We've found something new in our research on the devil bug.”

”Oh?” Jiang Chen looked at him with great interest, ”what discovery?”

”You know, from the entire atmosphere of carbon dioxide, from groundwater to rock formations, everything on Mars is acidic.” And according to our previous research, devil worms can survive in acidic environments, and even their blood is in a strong acid environment, which is probably the result of natural selection during the evolution of more than 3 billion years

”But later, our new team of scientists came up with a different view.”