Only I Walk Alone

Wu Ge understood what the martian wanted to express. He immediately said to Xiao Chao, “Send a robot to the location 3,000 meters underground where this creature was found to collect soil samples.”

Xiao Chao: “?”

Although Xiao Chao didn’t understand, he still did it. Moments later, the robot returned with fresh soil. When the robot brought the soil to the medical room, the martian immediately started struggling, but it was very weak and only increased the frequency of muttering that monosyllabic word.

Wu Ge said, “It smells the scent of the soil, feed it.”

Without questioning, Xiao Chao immediately controlled the robot to feed the soil to the martian’s mouth, and upon eating the soil, the martian swallowed it as if tasting something delicious.

Moments later, it began to breathe deeply,

After breathing deeply for about five minutes, it stabilized again. According to the data on the instruments, its life signs were very stable.

Wu Ge then expressed his doubt, “Martians, live by eating soil?”

Xiao Chao used instruments to examine both the soil and the martian’s body. It said, “There is a strange worm in the creature’s stomach, which is decomposing the oxides in the ingested soil and producing oxygen. The soil contains manganese dioxide as its most abundant component.”

Wu Ge was surprised. Worms in the stomach decomposing oxides to produce oxygen? How is the oxygen transported to the alveoli?

Xiao Chao responded, “This creature’s body structure is not completely similar to humans. Although they have many organs similar to those of Earth’s organisms, the situation is completely different from humans. Some new structures and organs do not yet have names. To fully understand the specific effects of these new structures and organs, dissection is needed.”

Wu Ge stopped Xiao Chao from dissecting the martian, saying, “Never mind, although I don’t know which genius martian came up with this method of obtaining oxygen, it’s not entirely unacceptable. Wait until this martian wakes up, I have something to ask. Before that, take good care of it, don’t let it die.”

Xiao Chao said, “Request recorded.”

Wu Ge returned to the rest area, began to look for information about Martians, but unfortunately, human records about Martians were few and far between, and most were human speculation. Many people guessed that Martians were the ancestors of humans.

Now, it seemed this question would soon be answered.

Around 8 o’clock the next morning, Xiao Chao suddenly reported to Wu Ge, “Martian intelligent life form number one has awakened, in good health condition, and with a stable mental state, communication can be attempted.”

Now, Wu Ge was already very familiar with the method of mental communication, so even if he didn’t understand the other’s language, he could still communicate with them.

Wu Ge came to the outside of the medical room, he started communicating through a layer of glass, “Are you awake? How do you feel?”

The martian was locked on the medical bed, unable to get off, only able to turn its head. It wasn’t too panicked but instead opened its large eyes wide to observe its surroundings.

The lighting in the medical room was not very bright, because the other party lived underground, so Xiao Chao used a brightness that wouldn’t stimulate the other party.

After Wu Ge asked with his mental power, the martian immediately became excited. It responded, “Are you a deity? Is this the divine realm? Have I returned to the embrace of the gods?”

It turned out that the Martian was so calm because it thought it had died and come to the Kingdom of God.

Wu Ge replied with his mental power, “No, this is not the divine realm. You are still alive and located in the orbit of Mars. I am not a native martian; to you, I am an alien.”

The martian was stunned because while talking, Wu Ge also transmitted the concepts of Mars, aliens, and the like, informing it about what Mars is and what the Mars orbit is.

The martian received too much information all at once, Its brain seemed unable to cope, and after a long while, it began to gasp for air.

“Indeed!” said the martian, “There really is an outside world, the ancient people’s records are correct!”

Wu Ge asked, “Can you elaborate?”

The martian took a while to stabilize itself, and after hesitating for a long time, it decided to share some information about the underground with Wu Ge.

It didn’t say much, only mentioned that it had found the ancient people’s records and then left its homeland to search for the relics mentioned by the ancients on the upper layers. However, it ended up finding nothing and fainted due to lack of oxygen.

The martian revealed not much information, remaining cautious. Wu Ge instructed Xiao Chao to transmit some of Earth’s data to the martian to gain its trust, and also had Xiao Chao create a synthetic martian body.

He was determined to make a trip to the Martian underground.

Even though a four-dimensional planetary scanner would be ready in six months, he still wanted to personally explore the underground.

About three days later, the martian began to tentatively accept the existence of Earthlings and also confirmed that it could consume the nutrients taken by Earth’s life forms.

Upon seeing the current state of Mars, it couldn’t believe and said, “How could this be? Didn’t the ancient records say the planet has its own regenerative abilities? Millions of years have passed, why hasn’t it recovered, but instead turned into this state?”

Wu Ge said, “I can help you restore Mars to its original state, just like Earth now. But the premise is that your Martian race joins the Earthlings. What do you think?”

The martian replied, “Although I really want Mars to be restored, I am the lowest class of laborer in my homeland, I don’t have the right to represent the entire Martian civilization. That right belongs only to a certain level of administrators.”

Wu Ge thought for a moment, then said, “Well, take me to your homeland to see the situation. I will discuss this matter with your administrators.”

In three days, Xiao Chao had fully mastered the Martian language, and now, the martian could also converse with Earthlings. However, the existence of this martian was not yet known to others.

The martian was named Kachi, and after much thought, it agreed to take Wu Ge to the martian underground. However, it was quite shocked when it saw the synthetic martian body.

“Is this me?” Kachi said in surprise.

Due to lack of other materials, Xiao Chao had made the martian body look like Kachi, after all, Wu Ge and his team couldn’t tell the difference between martian appearances.

However, on Kachi’s suggestion, Xiao Chao modified the synthetic martian body. Then, under Wu Ge’s control, the synthetic martian body, along with Kachi, headed underground. This time, Kachi was not going back alone; it had not only the synthetic martian body controlled by Wu Ge but also a large number of robots as guards.

After all, this was not just a simple underground exploration, it was also a visit by the highest commander of the Earthlings to the star of Mars.