Chapter 1227 - The Prehistoric Mars (1/2)

“Okay, little guy, we have to count on you now.”

Jiang Chen looked speechlessly at the guy in the spacesuit as he released the drone. Then he began to control the spherical drone and flew down the well.

Back on the rover, Wang Qiang took off his spacesuit in the buffer compartment and sat back into the driver’s seat. James next to him was drinking coffee while watching the drone disappear down the well.

“Intelligent?”

Wang Qiang leaned back against his seat, then he took a sip of his coffee before he grinned.

“What else? You think it’s controlled remotely by the ground command center?”

Even with hyper-light-speed communication based on quantum effects, the delays in communication was Mars and Earth was still in the thousands if not ten thousands milliseconds. The best way to put this into perspective would be like playing an online game where the character lagged by half a minute.

Communication was not an issue, but it would be hysterical to control a drone.

However, Wang Qiang did not know that the drone he released was not communicating based on electromagnetic waves, but based on a Klein particle communication chip embedded with crystal fragments…

After the drone entered the well, it took about half an hour before the drone Jiang Chen controlled finally arrived at the bottom of the tunnel where the metal shell was drilled through.

“Let’s take some photos first…”

Jiang Chen pointed the camera at the hole, although the previous drone already photographed the scene, neither the resolution nor the lighting were comparable to the drone with the latest technology.

While pressing the shutter, Jiang Chen controlled the drone and flew into the hollow layer with the spiral structure.

The space of five kilometers was unexpectedly empty, at least emptier than the hologram concept map shown at the meeting. The spiral tunnels looked like a trunk, at every interval, the space extended to the surrounding and resembled leafs on the tree.

All the “rooms” were empty, and nothing was there except for the build up of dirt.

After Jiang Chen took a few photos of the rooms, he continued down.

The spiral space was particularly long and extended down to a depth of ten kilometers. Here, the composition of the air changed slightly. Although it was still dominated by carbon dioxide, the oxygen content was much higher compared to before.

“The Martian also breathed oxygen? This is a new discovery right?” Jiang Chen looked at the data on the drone and muttered.

When he arrived at the last layer of the spiral tunnel, Jiang Chen passed through an open door, circular in shape, and slowly drifted into a spherical space.

However, when he entered the spherical space, he felt slightly uneasy.

This kind of uneasiness was like being watched by Death Claws, or Mud Crabs in the dark. The only difference was that his intuition told him that it was not hostile, it seemed to be purely observing him.

He suddenly had a hunch that he had encountered a bit of an issue.

“…I feel a little weird here. I’ll get Amos.”

When he looked around the lines on the spherical space wall, the uneasiness in his mind grew stronger.

Just as he was about to interrupt the connection with the drone and change to Dr. Amos, a white light suddenly illuminated from underneath him, engulfing the entire space together along with the floating drone…

…

He didn’t know how long it took.

Suddenly Jiang Chen opened his eyes and sat up from the ground.

“Where am I?”