Chapter 239 Planetary Silicon-Based Lifeforms

"Is the planet alive?!"

Chen Fan had just finished speaking when Isa, who was standing beside him, stood up from her seat and looked out the window at the ground, which was outlined by the high-power searchlights, with a face full of horror: "Will it move?"

Not only Isa, Gao Yuan also showed some uneasiness on his face.

With the unique imagination of highly intelligent life, giant phobia and dark phobia broke out completely at this moment.

In the endless darkness, no one knows what is happening on the surface and inside of this planet.

This is the fear engraved in DNA!

Chen Fan stared at the abnormal current signals that kept popping up in the holographic projection with a serious look.

At this moment, the planet model in the holographic projection in front of him has become an electric ball that flickers with golden light.

While the current signal is constantly dissipating, new electric signals are continuously generated. Obviously, the ship-borne drone is the root cause of this strange phenomenon:

as the drone group explores in depth, the frequency and flashing speed of abnormal current signals have increased significantly.

——This planet has woken up.

"Move... I don't think it will move."

"Even if it is really alive, how do you want such a big planet to move?"

Chen Fan chuckled and shook his head, responding to Isa's previous question: "I just think that these sudden electrical signals are a bit like the instant feedback of organisms to external stimuli."

The electronic synthesis sounded, and Yi gave another answer: "It is also possible that there is some unknown life form in the rock layer of this planet, and these electrical signals are just the response of these life forms."

"At present, the ship-borne drone is conducting a comprehensive inspection of the area where the current signal is generated..."

Yi's voice suddenly paused, and the originally peaceful voice suddenly became urgent.

"Warning!"

"The current signal is detected to have a very high regularity, and the information recognition is: very high!"

"The decoding program has been started, and the signal is being tried to be decoded..."

Hearing this series of electronic synthesis sounds, Chen Fan's face instantly became ugly.

The signal recognition is extremely high, which means that his previous guess was not wrong-this seemingly decaying frozen planet under his feet is actually a vibrant planet with life!

It's just...

what is the form of life on the planet? Are these lives related to the missing research ship? How threatening are they?

Everything is unknown.

Suddenly, Chen Fan seemed to have discovered something.

He slightly widened his eyes and stared at the seemingly messy electrical signal warning information in the holographic model.

"No, that's not right..."

Chen Fan said in a hurry: "First, comprehensively analyze the relationship between all electrical signals!"

"It... seems to be exchanging information with each other!"

"Communication?" Gao Yuan turned his head to look at Chen Fan, "Brother Fan, what does this mean?"

"Literally."

Chen Fan pointed to several electrical signals that had just appeared in the holographic model in front of him: "The exploration of the shipborne drone can only be regarded as the initiator of this electrical signal storm. What really makes these electrical signals sweep across the entire planet are these life forms that send electrical signals!"

As he said, Chen Fan pointed to the back of the holographic planet model: "If nothing unexpected happens, new electrical signals will soon appear in this area."

As soon as the voice fell, several bright yellow warning messages popped up in the area where Chen Fan pointed.

Almost at the same time, Yi also gave the corresponding analysis results: "So far, the new electrical signals have the characteristics of mapping diffusion."

The meaning of mapping is very easy to understand.

The electrical signals generated on the front of the planet will be quickly transmitted to the back of the planet and generate electrical signals at the corresponding position.

And diffusion...

As Yi showed the analysis results, Chen Fan also understood its meaning: these electrical signals will continue to amplify during the transmission process. Originally a scattered weak signal, mapped to the back of the planet is an obvious signal with considerable intensity!

"So, there is some way to transmit electrical signals inside this planet. It can not only transmit signals, but also amplify the range of diffusion signals..."

Chen Fan's voice stopped abruptly.

He thought of the planetary structure obtained from the previous planetary scan.

Under the hard ice layer and in the thick rock crust, there are veins made of single crystal silicon and rare earth elements!

Sensing Chen Fan's thoughts, Yi took the initiative to present the electrical signal warning map and the internal structure map of the planet in front of him at the same time.

Just a glance, Chen Fan discovered the mystery-every area where the electrical signal is generated contains a considerable amount of mineral veins!

"Can you determine the source of the electrical signal?"

Chen Fan pondered for a moment and asked Yi.

"This machine is trying to establish a diffusion model."

Chen Fan did not speak, silently waiting for the analysis results from Yi.

"The model has been successfully established, and we are trying to trace back all the electrical signals."

"Tracing back successfully."

"All electrical signals have the same source."

Chen Fan raised his eyebrows slightly.

Just as he guessed in his mind, the electrical signals found on this planet are all variant signals obtained by mapping and diffusing the source signal!

"The location of the source signal..."

Yi's voice continued: "It's at the Great Rift Valley."

...

Under Yi's command, a large number of ship-borne drones rushed towards the huge rift valley deep underground.

Delicate probes gently penetrated the exposed mineral veins, and the white scanning beams kept lighting up on the dark planet.

This brought a stronger electrical storm.

The originally dark planetary rift even showed the light of electric sparks!

A large amount of detection data was summarized at the shipboard computer, and the analysis data on the holographic panel was constantly refreshed.

The original electrical signal warning map and the planetary structure map were integrated - mineral veins of varying sizes and complexity kept flashing with light that flickered.

Every flash meant a complete discharge!

Just like the bioelectrical signals in the brain of a living being, the entire planet formed a dense and frequent discharge process in front of Chen Fan's eyes.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Chen Fan couldn't help but have this shocking idea in his mind.

"The test results are out."

The electronic synthesized voice interrupted Chen Fan's thoughts: "A part of the monocrystalline silicon ore is combined with rare earth elements to form a disguised ultra-low temperature semiconductor."

"The energy source of the electric current should be the still active core inside the planet."

"Not only that, this machine also detected some silicon-based low-temperature superconductors in the canyon."

Listening to a series of familiar terms, Chen Fan widened his eyes slightly: "So..."

"Is this planet a huge computer?"

Who would believe this!

A planet wandering in the void of the universe is actually a giant computer, and it is a naturally formed computer!

It's better to believe that he is the reincarnation of Qin Shihuang.

"Rather than calling it a computer, this machine prefers to call it a silicon-based life form." Yi denied Chen Fan's words, "You are right, this planet is indeed alive."

"Those silicon ores combined with rare earth elements constitute the other party's thinking units, and those silicon-based superconductors with special arrangement structures become the wires connecting the thinking units."

"To put it simply." Chen Fan swallowed his saliva and took over the conversation, "The whole planet is a brain?"

"And this silicon-based life is a vegetable with no ability to move and only a brain?"

Yi was silent for a while: "...If you insist on making an analogy, it can indeed be understood this way."

Chen Fan took a deep breath and calmed down the complex emotions in his heart.

"It is also a silicon-based life..."

He couldn't help but think of the member of the Tenth Civilization who managed the dangerous technology monument, Krolen.

"Isn't the gap a bit too big?"

"Like carbon-based life, the differences between silicon-based life individuals are also quite huge." Yi gave an explanation, "This is related to the other party's living environment." "

But no matter what, this form of silicon-based life is indeed very rare."

"At least in the database that this machine can access, the human union has not discovered similar silicon-based life so far."

"Unable to move, lack of means of external communication..." Chen Fan's face gradually became weird, "Even if the human union has really encountered such a life form... With the human union's mining methods, are you sure this thing will not be mined by the human union?"

Yi fell silent.

After a long time, it finally gave an answer: "Insufficient data, this machine cannot answer this question."

Chen Fan shook his head and threw the weird conjecture in his mind behind his head: "Forget it, don't dwell on this issue."

"Can you communicate with the other party?"

"If the other party is really a highly intelligent life, maybe you can ask it about the whereabouts of the research ship."

Yi's tone was a little hesitant:

"The language system of a single individual civilization is usually confusing and difficult to understand. After all, they basically don't need to communicate with the outside world."

"So..."

"It's quite difficult, this machine can only try its best."

Chen Fan suddenly realized: "I understand."

"Being alone for too long, the language function has become a useless decoration, right?"

Yi: "..."

...

In order to avoid various interference factors, under the control of the shipboard computer, [Varilla] slowly landed to the location of the signal source.

Inside the planet's Great Rift Valley.

The rift valley with a width of more than 100 kilometers can easily accommodate the entry of the investigator starship, which is undoubtedly excellent news.

The high-power searchlight on the side of the ship illuminates the environment inside the Great Rift Valley.

Through the porthole, Chen Fan could clearly see a series of tiny arcs bursting out on the dark gray rift stone wall.

As if reacting to the [Varilla], these arcs followed the footsteps of the starship and spread to the depths hundreds of kilometers below.

"Yi, do you think it can see our existence?"

Looking at this strange scene, Chen Fan couldn't help but ask Yi.

"...Insufficient data, this machine can't make a judgment."

Yi gave a standard answer: "The visual form of silicon-based life is quite complex. In theory, relying on the electric field formed by these currents and the magnetic field of the planet itself, the other party can produce a very special vision."

(End of this chapter)