Let you be the wall-facer: you turn around and join the Three-Body Problem?

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"This is a plant, similar to a willow tree, but its specific biological structure is unknown. What we know now is that it consumes the energy of organic matter and grows an energy conversion efficiency of over 100%. However, it is possible that it also absorbs energy in the process of consumption that we are not aware of. This point is questionable."

"Then it should be a man-made product of some intelligent civilization. It is very likely that the other party is a carbon-based biological civilization, because this plant, like humans, also needs oxygen to breathe."

Liu Chang finished speaking in one breath. This was all the information currently known to everyone.

"Do we need to send people down to investigate? Wouldn't this be too dangerous?"

"It is necessary, and it is very necessary!"

Liu Chang's brows relaxed, and his eyes were filled with excitement.

"This is most likely a product left behind by a powerful civilization, but that civilization is no longer here, or they never intended to be here."

"This is a very good research topic. Although there are certain risks, it is worth trying. No matter what you think, I plan to land on this planet and find out for myself."

"I'll go with you." Shi Qiang volunteered.

"Think carefully, I only have a limited understanding of this thing. From what I can see so far, it is very dangerous."

"Oh, it's true that you should be grateful to others for what you have done. Principal Liu, I can't just take your things for free, right?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Chang couldn't help but look at Shi Qiang again.

"Yes, you are at least more conscientious than that kid Lin Xuan."

……

Cheng Xing quickly used nanorobots to customize two sets of power armor for the two people, as well as a large number of mechanical detectors, which could provide some help in their exploration work.

"Let the navigator enter the deep sea state. If you find that something is wrong, immediately enter the forward four and escape. Don't worry about the two of us."

Before leaving, Shi Qiang handed the only family photo he had to Zhang Beihai and gave him some instructions.

Everyone knows that this landing is bound to be disastrous.

Shi Qiang and Liu Chang are likely to die forever on this planet, so the final preparations must be done well.

As a result, Chu Yan, who was standing by, saw this and simply stuffed the other party's family photo back into Shi Qiang's hands.

"Don't raise any flags randomly. You should keep this thing to yourself. I feel like something bad is bound to happen if you do this."

Seeing that he could not persuade Chu Yan, Shi Qiang had to put the photo back into his pocket and entered the landing cabin of the spacecraft with Liu Chang.

"Principal Liu, I am here to risk my life for you. Don't forget what you promised me when we return to Earth!"

"What did I promise you?"

"Grass!"

Chapter 159 I'm out of the cabin!

The landing capsule slowly lowered its altitude and entered the green planet.

After landing smoothly, the four robotic arms below unfolded to both sides at the same time, supporting the cabin weighing several hundred kilograms so that it would not directly contact the ground.

As the pressure valve spurted out a stream of white steam, the top cover of the hatch was pushed open little by little, and Shi Qiang was the first to pop his head out.

"I'm out of the cabin, feeling fine... cough, cough cough!"

Shi Qiang was only halfway through his words when he choked them back, accompanied by a violent cough.

"Silly, this planet has such lush vegetation, how can the oxygen concentration be low?"

"I really admire you. Really, you are the first person I have seen who dares to breathe pure oxygen."

As Liu Chang spoke, he put the oxygen mask on Shi Qiang's face, and the latter felt much better.

"Pooh!"

Shi Qiang took a deep breath, then took off his oxygen mask and spat out the phlegm in his mouth.

He couldn't catch his breath just now and almost coughed out his lungs.

"Fuck, what a lousy place this is. It's so weird."

The two quickly climbed out of the landing capsule and began to look around.

They landed on a sandy beach, one of the few areas on the planet not covered with willow trees.

Strangely, this willow tree seems to hate water, which is in stark contrast to the willow trees on Earth.

However, Liu Chang didn't think much about it. After all, up to now, he just thought that this thing looked like a willow tree on Earth, and it was not certain whether they were the same thing.

You must not give yourself a misconception in thinking. Even if you say that this thing is called a willow tree, you must never really think of it as a willow tree. Further research is needed to find out what its habits are.

After taking some lake water samples, the two turned and left.

In order to prevent irritation to the roots of the willow trees, the two of them wore a thick layer of power armor all over their bodies.

Liu Chang had tested it before and found that these willow trees only attack organic matter, and the nanorobots can avoid this.

"Cheng Xing, is there a panoramic map of this planet?"

Before landing, Cheng Xing allocated a portion of his computing power to provide power armor to the two to assist them in completing their exploration mission.

These two auxiliary AIs installed on the power armor are considered Cheng Xing's sub-machines, and will upload data to the host Cheng Xing on the Navigator in real time.

Of course, if you encounter signal blocking or something like that, the slave unit can also work independently from the host unit.

Soon, Cheng Xing shared a panoramic map scanned by satellite with the two of them.

"This is the result of a scan by the Navigator's onboard satellite. It may not be accurate, but it should be enough."

"Thank you."

Liu Chang called up the map given by Cheng Xing, and then marked several places that needed to be explored on it.

"So far, we have not found the trunk of this willow tree. It may be underground, or it may not exist at all. After all, who knows what this plant originally looked like."

"So we only need to collect some samples of the more characteristic terrain and environment of this planet, such as these active volcanoes, the soil near the planet's equator, or the lake water we just got."

"We can roughly analyze what we want by just looking at this environmental information. If we get any closer, we might be in danger."

Shi Qiang was shocked when he heard this.

"You know this is dangerous, I thought you weren't afraid of death at all!"

"I'm not afraid of death, but it's only meaningful if we survive and bring this data back. Otherwise, this data will be preserved forever on this planet."

Shi Qiang nodded. He felt that what Liu Chang said made some sense, but for some reason, he just felt something was weird.

The power armor has the ability to fly below the stratosphere, and at a very fast speed, which is equivalent to an enhanced version of the space plane... no, a flying man.

This is all thanks to the power provided by Ding Yi's cold nuclear fusion. Cold nuclear technology has really changed the cognitive gap in nuclear fusion energy supply.

Just like before smartphones became popular, people did not realize that the mobile phones in their hands could be used to watch short videos and fully understand the diversity of organisms in the future.

But just as the two were about to take off, Shi Qiang suddenly exclaimed!

"Fuck, Liu Chang, look over there, there are so many Xun brothers!"

Liu Chang didn't react to what Shi Qiang said at first, but when he turned around, his eyes suddenly widened!

I saw a few small willow trees standing under the shade of trees in the distance.

That’s right, not standing, but standing, they have legs!

They are not very big, only about the size of a seven or eight-year-old human child, and about 1 meters tall.

But they have no facial features and look like a group of trees with legs that can move.

"Treant?"

"It is indeed a tree man, so should this thing be considered a plant or an animal?" Shi Qiang asked puzzledly.

"It's hard to say. Humans distinguish between plants and animals, but this is just based on human understanding. As it stands now, biology will have a broader research direction in the future."

"Just like we subconsciously notice that these guys don't have facial features, that's because in our perception, all living things should have facial features."

Just as the two of them noticed the tree people, the other party also noticed them.

"They're coming."

Shi Qiang immediately became alert. He raised the electromagnetic cannon in his hand and prepared to fire at these guys first.

"Wait a minute, they probably don't have the urge to attack yet."

Liu Chang on the side quickly stopped Shi Qiang who was about to fire, but facing this unknown thing, Liu Chang himself also seemed very vigilant.

500 meters...300 meters...100 meters...

Finally, the tree people stopped 100 meters away from the two.

Both sides were sizing each other up, and the 100-meter interval seemed to be a safe distance tacitly agreed upon by both sides.

"Balakka waka!"

One of the tree men made a strange sound, and Liu Chang didn't know how a tree without any facial features could have the ability to make sounds.

He looked at Shi Qiang standing beside him, and a big question mark appeared above the latter's head.

"Why are you looking at me? Do you expect me to translate for you?"

"It's not impossible, actually. We can roughly analyze what he said. Even though we can't understand what this thing is saying, its tone... at least its tone is well-intentioned. And combined with its expression... well, this thing doesn't even have facial features, let alone an expression."

"Anyway, if I had to guess, it means..."

"Have you eaten yet?"

Shock value from Liu Chang +15!

Liu Chang couldn't help but give Shi Qiang a blank look.

"What? This tree man is also very authentic, right?"

In the end, Liu Chang came up with a solution to the problem.

Since you can't understand the other person's language, let the other person understand your language.

He asked Cheng Xing to download a memory from the Chaomeng database, which included all human languages and images of their meanings, equivalent to a human voice package.

But the problem soon arose: how should I transmit it to the other party?

The other party is obviously using biotechnology. It seems that they cannot read things like mechanical hard drives and memory cards, right?

"Forget it, let's just give it a try. This is the only way."

Liu Chang integrated the voice package that stored all human languages into a chip and threw it directly to the tree people, hoping that they would have a way to read it.

A branch suddenly grew out of the tree man's body. He caught the chip thrown by Liu Chang and began to study it carefully in his hand.

The two waited for about an hour, and one of the tree people finally spoke.

"Hello there!"

Just two words made Liu Chang and Shi Qiang suddenly excited.

It worked!

The tree man can actually read the memory in the chip!

This is great news.

As long as both parties can communicate, they can know more information they want.

"Are you the native species of this planet?"

Shi Qiang stepped forward and asked.

This time, the tree man was silent for a long time before answering.

“We were not massacred.”