Chapter 58: From Venus to Mars

  After handling these things, it was already 11 o'clock in the evening. News came from the hospital that Xiaolong, the victim of this case, had escaped danger and could speak. Hearing this news, Liyang felt happy in his heart. This was his first time using a flying disc to assist the police in solving a case, and now it seemed like there was a perfect ending.

  "Liuyang, thank you so much tonight." Liu Xia saw Liuyang off outside the city bureau gate.

  "Hehe, no big deal, we're just helping each other out. Just now in the classroom, if you hadn't helped me out, I would have definitely been caught by our class teacher and scolded severely. If you really feel guilty, just remember to ask for a leave of absence for me, and tell our class teacher that I need to assist the police with a case before the exam, and I'll be allowed into the examination room on time."

  Liu Xia said with a sullen face: "You, really, do you have such a stubborn student? I can help with this trouble, after all, you really helped us crack the case today."

  Lei Yang, it's not that I'm saying you're bad, but as a student, you should still prioritize your studies. Although you have enough money to spend now, if you fail the college entrance exam, it will be very embarrassing."

  "Don't worry, Liu Jie, I've already mastered all those courses. Sitting in the classroom is just a waste of time for me. I really have something very urgent to deal with right now. After I'm done, I'll come back and take the college entrance exam, and I'll definitely get into a prestigious university and report back to you!"

  "Blow it! Hehe, I'm ignoring you now. I still have to go back and help interrogate the prisoners." Liu Xia smiled lightly and turned around to leave.

  Arriving at a quiet section of the main street, Li Yang transformed the mining ship into an inconspicuous QQ car and sat in it to make a phone call to his parents.

  Over the phone, he assured them that he was safe and sound after reporting his situation, telling them not to worry about him for the next few days as he would be assisting the police with their case. During this time, Lí Tiān Jūn's nutrition had been good and his fracture had almost healed, although he still couldn't move around, but his mental state had recovered quite well.

  After finishing the phone call with his parents, Li Yang let the QQ car wander around on the street, bought some food and water at a roadside store, and then had the mining ship take him directly into outer space.

  " Flying saucer brother, where are we going to mine this time?" Li Yang asked Xing Nao with his mind.

  "Venus, you've almost dug up all the diamonds on Mercury and the Moon, this time just go to Venus and try your luck." Xing Nao replied.

  "Alright, the planet is shining so brightly, just like a diamond. Who knows, maybe there's something good here. Later I'll turn the mining ship into a spacesuit and play around on it."

  "Venus isn't as great as you think, it's practically hell in your solar system. The atmosphere has a thick layer of sulfuric acid clouds, the air pressure is eighty times that of Earth, and the temperature is over five hundred degrees. In such an environment, even solder would melt, let alone a strong human from Earth who would be crushed to a pulp and burned to ashes in an instant if they were exposed to it. Are you sure you want to go to the surface for a bit of fun?"

  "Sulfuric acid atmosphere? Five hundred degrees of high temperature? Eighty atmospheres of pressure? I'm dizzy, isn't this a pressure cooker? Forget it, if the mining ship turned spacesuit has problems, I'll be cooked in an instant. Better to stay in the sturdy car."

  The mining ship flew at hundreds of times the speed of light, and although Venus was over 40 million kilometers away from Earth, it arrived in a fraction of a second. To Li Yang, this was just the blink of an eye; he had just given the order to the mining ship when the surroundings around the QQ car suddenly turned into dazzling yellow.

  Through the car window glass, Li Yang saw that outside were all red rocks and boulders of various sizes, with cracks in the ground everywhere spewing out yellow-green smoke. This smoke made the air visibility only five or six meters away, obviously not a good thing, feeling that the QQ car was a bit too thin, he hastily ordered the mining ship to transform into a Mercedes-Benz RV, which finally gave him a sense of security.

  Liyang had never seen what it was like when concentrated sulfuric acid turned into the atmosphere. He had just thought of this, and the large RV suddenly appeared in a thick, reddish-brown **. These ** seemed to be constantly rolling and flowing, but at a slow speed, similar to magma. However, Liyang looked at the temperature display on the light screen, and the outside temperature was 455 degrees, which was much lower than that of magma.

  He was curious, using his consciousness to manipulate the mining ship to jump out of the atmosphere, and the temperature immediately dropped to minus 243 degrees. He then returned to the surface of Venus, only to find that the temperature had soared to 512 degrees!

  "This is the greenhouse effect, acid rain rises to the outer atmosphere and forms a sulfuric acid cloud layer, causing the surface temperature of Venus to be unable to dissipate, the temperature gets higher and higher, and it becomes what it is today. You Earthlings, if you don't pay attention to protecting the environment, one day you will also turn the Earth into this state." Xing Nao reminded Lei Yang's question in his mind.

  "How terrifying! It seems that my superconducting company needs to get on track as soon as possible. Only by canceling the importance of fossil energy in our daily lives can we fundamentally solve the problem of global warming."

  After satisfying his curiosity, Li Yang manipulated the mining ship to enter the Venus rock layer. He then skillfully let the mining ship search for nearby purple gold mines and found nothing.

  Although there was no gold or diamonds, the planet's iron, titanium, aluminum, niobium, lithium and other metals were very rich. Looking at the various precious metals pouring down from the mining ship's cargo hold, Li Yang's heart felt a little more balanced.

  The temperature of the surrounding rock layers was actually much lower than that of the outer atmosphere, only over 300 degrees. As the mining ship dug downwards, the temperature displayed on the light screen became lower and lower, and at a depth of one kilometer underground, it had dropped to just over 100 degrees.

  Another kilometer down, the temperature rose again, and the first diamond finally appeared in the warehouse. Although it was only a common diamond the size of a thumb, Li Yang knew that this trip to the Golden Star would not be in vain.

  As the first diamond appeared, a large number of amethyst veins were also detected by the mining ship. Li Yang commanded the mining ship to descend and mine along these amethyst veins as a guide, and many diamonds appeared in the cargo hold of the mining ship.

  But what disappointed Li Yang was that the diamonds on Jupiter were all low-quality, thumb-sized diamonds, and there weren't many of them, despite their constant appearance, the total amount was not large.

  The mining ship continued to move downward, until ten kilometers deep into the rock, where there was a large but extremely dispersed diamond vein that required careful and meticulous searching. After an hour had passed, they had only managed to obtain over a hundred kilograms of low-quality diamonds.

  It was already midnight, and after giving the mining ship instructions, Leyang went back to the rear of the house car to sleep. After he fell asleep, the mining ship faithfully shuttled under the asteroid's rock layer, continuously using its purple light to vaporize rocks and extract various minerals and diamonds.

  The next day, Li Yang woke up at 9 o'clock in the morning.

  In this dark underground, it's easy to disrupt the biological clock. Fortunately, Li Yang is quite optimistic and his body is still okay, without any abnormalities. He went to the cockpit to take a look at the numbers on the instrument panel and found that the diamonds they dug up last night were only over 600 kilograms, which was a bit disappointing.

  Fortunately, it's not a complete loss, we got over 30 tons of Zi Jin and Niobium!

  Other metals are not scarce, iron, titanium, aluminum, lithium, these things have more than ten tons. These metals are urgently needed by the superconducting factory itself, so Liyang calmed down and decided to continue mining on Jupiter for a day and night.

  He made up his mind and decided to stay on the mining ship, exercising, listening to music, watching movies, eating, drinking, sleeping, and passing the time. Except for a bit of loneliness, there were no other problems.

  On the second day of such days, he finally felt tired and directed the mining ship to leave Venus and fly in space.

  This time, he only got more than a ton of ordinary low-grade diamonds. Fortunately, there were many other minerals to make up for the deficiency in this aspect. After unloading the goods on the flying saucer, he began to think about where to mine next.

  "Li Yang, you can go to Mars and take a look. Venus is about the same, it's hard to gain much." Xing Nao instructed.

  "Hey UFO bro, I've long heard that Mars is the most likely planet in the solar system to have aliens. Do you think there are aliens on it?"

  "Aliens? Just travel around the universe and you'll know, there are many so-called aliens, but most of them appear in the form of low-level civilizations. Mars is desolate, even if there's life, it should be a relatively low-level civilization."

  "Are you saying there might be aliens on Mars?"

  "Can't you just take a look and see? I don't care about these things, all I care about is whether or not we can get the diamond."

  "What if there were aliens and they attacked a mining ship?"

  "Joke, how easy is it for a mining ship to be attacked? If that's the case, I'll take them out with one hand."

  "Stop! Must you kill people at every turn? I'm off to Mars right now, and if there are any aliens, I'll catch a couple and bring them back to Earth to make some money. Then I'll start a Martian sightseeing tour, one ticket for a thousand bucks, and I'll definitely get rich."

  "You're already worth tens of billions, and you're still short of this little money? The right thing to do is to dig up diamonds for me properly."

  "Oh, I'm not short of money now. Hehe, I used to be poor all the time, no choice, and accidentally thought of making money."

  Leyang's operation of the mining ship arrived on the surface of Mars in less than a second.

  Within the range of the solar system, it's just a matter of seconds for Lai Yang to travel to any planet. After arriving at Mars, he looked at the display on the cockpit screen and saw that the external temperature was minus 65 degrees Celsius, which was quite cold but not too extreme.

  Out of curiosity about this planet, Li Yang commanded the mining ship to fly slowly along the surface of Mars, eyes wide open to see if he could really find an alien.

  In fact, without him looking, if there were signs of life around the mining ship, there would be hints. They flew hundreds of kilometers with one person and one ship, but there was no sign of life at all.

  Apart from the complete desolation, what struck me was the massive sandstorm whipped up by strong winds, which made it very similar to Earth. If I hadn't known that I had already arrived on the surface of Mars, Li Yang almost felt as if he had arrived in the Gobi Desert in western China.

  Just as he was about to lose his patience and order the mining ship to dive into the rocky layer for mining, a huge hole with a diameter of hundreds of meters suddenly appeared on the ground!