883 Excess Metal

The Russians' refuge plan is quite unique. In addition to building underground fortresses with all their strength, they also built several underwater cities in several offshore areas.

The reason for building underwater cities is that seawater can effectively resist giant worms. Living on the seabed is not only free from the threat of giant worms, but also can obtain enough marine products to supply the city.

Although the Russians have no chance to participate in the space program, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and their foundation is much higher than those second-tier countries. In addition, they have accumulated a lot of wealth from the previous arms exports, and they are no less capable than Beidu and Washington in carrying out large projects.

The Russians also have a trick that no one can learn. They moved a large number of people north to the cold northern Siberia, hoping to use the severe cold there to resist aliens.

However, Beidu and Washington know that the severe cold can only resist giant worms, but cannot stop the aliens who live on Jupiter's moon all year round... The temperature there is even lower than Siberia.

The Russians cannot be unaware of this, but they still insist on doing so, which is really puzzling.

A few days passed in a flash in the chaos. The Fourth Fleet had already left Mars. The engineering ships and other non-combat ships returned directly. The Nanzhou and several other combat ships followed Jupiter's buttocks slowly. Even the half-crippled Yushan was not spared.

The reason for this is that Beidu judged that Jupiter's current orbit was unscientific and believed that Jupiter was likely to adjust its direction. In that case, the planetary engine must be used. The fleet followed Jupiter in order to wait for the planetary engine to appear and destroy it in one fell swoop.

Beidu also knew that this was a hopeless wait. If there was no other way, Beidu would not have resorted to this last resort.

After receiving the order from Nanzhou, the Yushan once again began its routine patrol work, accelerated its departure from the fleet, and flew to the front of Jupiter with an extremely light posture. According to previous practice, the Yushan will fly around Jupiter for a week and take the opportunity to observe the situation on Jupiter.

Although the Yushan only had the remaining orbital segment, it still had a full thruster. Its thrust-to-weight ratio was the highest among all warships, and its speed could reach twice that of the Nanzhou. Ling Yu valued the speed of the Yushan and ordered it to continue to follow the fleet. Ye Han and Lin Yi had no power to object and could only obey.

The warship flew in front of Jupiter, and Lin Yi glanced at Jupiter casually: "Chief, the lava lake seems to have solidified."

"Really? It's really fast." Ye Han muttered unexpectedly, adjusted the direction of the optical lens, and aimed at the lava lake on the surface of Jupiter.

As Lin Yi said, the edges of several lava lakes showed obvious solidification, and the solidified edge areas had a dark metallic luster.

Ye Han frowned,

Metallic luster?

He felt a little dizzy, and immediately turned on the communication equipment: "Yushan calling Nanzhou, the lava lake is condensing, something is wrong."

"What's wrong?"

"The lake doesn't seem to be magma..."

"If it's not magma, what is it?"

"It seems to be metal, molten metal!"

"Are you kidding?"

"No kidding, it's very strange, but it's very clear." At this point, Ye Han sent a video to Nanzhou.

This video caused a shock to the entire fleet, and the main force of the fleet, led by Nanzhou, immediately accelerated to catch up... In fact, the main force of the fleet was only three warships, which was all the armed forces of mankind near Jupiter.

After seeing the condensed lake, Ling Yu, who was extremely shocked, immediately called for help from Earth. Beidu was also shocked after receiving this information.

Although one of the main components of Phobos is hematite, can the impact still produce steel?

After careful analysis, it was found that Ye Han had made a big mistake. The metal reflection in the video was not solidified lava, but a piece of arched metal floating on the surface of the lava. The length of this thing is at least more than 30 meters, and only a small part is exposed outside. It is unknown how big the part hidden under the rock surface is.

It is not strange to see metal in the lava lake. After all, the boulder that hit Jupiter was driven by a super engine, but this piece of metal was obviously man-made, and it was not a part of the super engine!

Beidu immediately thought of the underground city all over Jupiter, and thought that it was very likely that the boulder smashed through the surface and smashed the alien underground city, so this piece of metal floated from the bottom of the lava lake to the surface of the lake.

As for why no abnormality was found before, it was also very simple. The temperature of the lava lake was too high, and the metal was burned into a red-hot state by the high temperature in the lake. The color looked similar to the magma. In addition, the surface of the lava lake was wavy and no one was staring at it. It was not surprising that no floating metal was found.

Moreover, the metal in the lake must be a light metal alloy, or the metal component is hollow inside, otherwise it would not float on the lake.

This thing is not only light and strong, but also very resistant to high temperatures, otherwise it would not have survived the impact of a small celestial body.

After coming to the conclusion, Beidu casually issued a task, requiring the Fourth Fleet to carefully count the amount of metal on the lava lake to provide a basis for judging the number of underground cities.

You don't know until you check it. Once you check it, you will be shocked. The number of large metal components in the lava is beyond imagination. More than a thousand pieces were found in the smallest lava lake.

This number is too outrageous. Ling Yu thinks that the observation is wrong. The result of re-checking is still this number. There is a little fluctuation in the fraction, but the total number has not changed much.

Ling Yu is not calm now. In order to confirm the accuracy of the data, he ordered the warship to launch a missile at the lava lake.

The missile hit the lava lake accurately, and the warhead exploded, stirring up high waves. In the rolling waves, at least dozens of metal components floated up and down.

This scene confirmed the previous observations and shocked everyone in the bridge.

The news was reported to Beidu, and Beidu immediately organized personnel to analyze and found that according to the density of metal components obtained by observation, there should be a super-large underground city under the lake, otherwise there should not be so many metal components.

But it is a coincidence that a lava lake is above the underground city. Could it be that all of them are above the underground city? There must be a super underground city under Jupiter Zero?

The more the situation is analyzed, the weirder it becomes. All analysts are a little confused. At this time, someone suddenly thought of the hollow theory of Jupiter Zero, and an idea came to their mind. Could these metal components be the outer shell of Jupiter Zero?

If Jupiter Zero is wrapped in a thick metal crust, and the inside is indeed hollow as speculated, then the low gravity, the insufficient area of ​​the lava lake and the unreasonable density are all reasonably explained!

The analyst suddenly realized that all the incomprehensible things about Jupiter's moon could be explained, but the answers were so unbelievable!