"Ten thousand years ago, Planet Morizawa was actually a planet where 99% of its area was covered by water!"
Xia Chujian immediately understood and said in surprise: "But now, there is no water source at all on the surface!"
"Ninety-nine percent of Morisawa Planet right now is land covered by vegetation!"
"What a transformation..."
Xia Chujian sighed, but Qilu's childish voice sounded a little strange.
It murmured quietly, "It's not that the sea has changed... It's still the sea, but the ocean is hidden by the roots of those plants."
"This place only looks like land, but it's not at all!"
Xia Chujian: “…”
"Qilu, what do you mean it's not at all?"
Qi Lu did not say anything, but after the Carp-class interstellar airship officially landed on a narrow east-west open space, he operated an unmanned exploration vehicle and drove out of the interstellar airship.
This unmanned vehicle is not large in size, about the size of a small cart. It has two extendable robotic arms on the left and right ends of the vehicle body, and there is also an extendable robotic arm at the front end that extends forward.
After running ten kilometers south, the unmanned vehicle arrived at the edge of the open space.
Further ahead is an area covered with dense vegetation.
There are towering ancient trees of various colors, which look completely different from the trees in the Beichen Empire.
Just like what they saw in the video footage provided by the base.
Most of the trees are self-contained and do not have any leaves.
The colors are colorful, including bright pink, deep sapphire blue, and beautiful red and orange like the morning glow.
There are also pure white trees that look like ice sculptures, which are so beautiful that people can't stop smiling.
The branches looked like succulent plants, but when the unmanned vehicle's robotic arm touched them, they were hard.
It doesn't look like a succulent plant at all, it's more like the hardest stone!
Then, the front end of the unmanned vehicle's robotic arm switched to the shape of a drill bit and stabbed hard into the vegetation-covered ground area!
With this piercing, the monitoring and detection equipment of the unmanned vehicle started working.
It continuously transmits various detected ground data back to the interstellar airship terminal.
Xia Chujian and Qilu looked at the data together.
"Huh? The soil here seems very loose..." Xia Chujian thought thoughtfully, "Qilu, can we compare it with the soil data of the Beichen Empire?"
Qi Lu said, "The comparison is very simple. The conclusion is that the soil here can't even be called soil. It can only be called sea sand, or sea dust, or water surface sediments!"
Xia Chujian: "... accumulation on the water surface, is that what I understand?"
Qilu's childish voice was a little excited: "That's right! So the soil covered by vegetation here is not soil!"
"Then the area covered by vegetation here is not land!"
“It’s still an ocean!”
"But the plants in the ocean mutated and grew wildly, becoming towering trees."
"Their roots have also undergone a transformation, becoming enormous and intricately intertwined."
"Over the past 10,000 years, a large number of marine animals have died."
"Their decaying bodies and incorruptible bones gathered on the surface of the sea, engulfed by the sand. It looked like land... but it wasn't land at all!"
"Ninety-nine percent of this planet, Morizawa, is still covered by ocean!"
"The place where we are parked is the real land!"
"It's the tiny amount of land that only accounts for one percent of the planet's area!"
"This basically matches the information from 10,000 years ago in the Qilu database!"
What it means is that its historical data is actually more accurate than the data provided by the base...
But Xia Chujian didn't pay much attention to Qi Lu's implied meaning.
She squinted her eyes and looked at the towering trees on the high-definition display screen of the interstellar airship, especially those without leaves that looked like succulent plants.
The colors of the branches of those big trees are all kinds of strange, almost every color exists, except green!
Xia Chujian murmured, "I understand, that's not a big tree...that's coral!"
"That's coral growing from the bottom of the ocean!"
"No wonder they look so different from normal trees..."
Qi Lu also said: "Yes! That is the coral tree formed by the alienation of underwater coral! But it has mutated and does not need to grow completely in seawater."
“There’s no need for a very clean environment.”
"Anyway, the corals that can't adapt to the environment would have died out long ago."
"Now these mutant coral trees can reach heights of thousands or even tens of thousands of meters. They are no longer the same species."
Xia Chujian's eyes widened as he cried out, "How is this possible?! These coral trees are only a few hundred meters tall, how can they be thousands or tens of thousands of meters tall?!"
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