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Dead on Mars Dead on Mars Chapter 203 – Sol Three Hundred and Twenty

Chapter 203: Sol Three Hundred and Twenty-Six, The Flocking Amoeba

Translator: CKtalon Editor: CKtalon

“Mutated bacteria?” Tang Yue took the petri dish from Tomcat. “You mean that they have mutated?”

“Bacteria are considered prokaryotes that lack full cellular structure. The stability of their DNA is relatively weak. Under the radiation on Mars, mutation is a common outcome… I've been rearing these bacteria for some time. I dare say that every time they replicate, there will be a mutation.” Tomcat nodded. “However, most of the mutations lead to a dead end. Gene mutation is like shooting with your eyes blindfolded. It's very rare to hit the target.”

Tang Yue curiously observed the mutated bacteria in the petri dish. The bacterial colony was a dark-colored oval with a smooth surface. He didn't know which bacteria it mutated from, but this was the first life he discovered to be born in a Martian environment—even if their parents came from Earth.

Mai Dong had already woken up and heard the conversation between Tang Yue and Tomcat.

“Mr. Cat, you reared bacteria?” The girl was very curious.

“Yes,” Tomcat replied. “These bacteria are my pets. I've just brought them in from the radiation exposure. I discovered that one of the bacteria, perhaps bacillus, has mutated.”

“Why do you expose it outside?”

“Isn't this common when rearing pets?” Tomcat replied. “You humans walk dogs, I walk my bacteria.”

“The mutation has allowed it to adapt to the Martian environment?” Mai Dong asked.

“You can't call it adaptation to the Martian environment.” Tomcat shook its head, clearly disinterested in the mutation. It then turned around and continued taking care of the tomatoes. “They have merely adapted to the environment inside the petri dish. If you opened the lid and poured them onto the sand outside Kunlun Station, I believe they wouldn't survive for more than twenty-four hours.”

“I was still hoping that they would produce the next civilization.” Tang Yue leaned in close to the petri dish and observed it. The bacteria were spreading on the substrate, but they had no idea that there was a pair of eyes looking at them from above. “Although I have no interest in playing God, I do wish to know what a brand new ecosphere would look like.”

“Think about how sulfur bacteria survive. For example, anaerobic purple sulfur bacteria. If they successfully evolve into higher-order lifeforms…” Tomcat hypothesized. “Then, they might be massive, slow-crawling creatures. They will be like reptiles that resemble amoeba. Their bodies will be translucent, and they will move by lying on the ground. However, their bodies will be much bigger than reptiles, spanning several meters.”

Tomcat's description immediately made Tang Yue imagine a nasal mucus.

“They will form swarms as they travel across the Martian desert. They will have mouths that resemble shovels, moving dirt as they travel. They will survive by consuming the sand on Mars because it will be rich in ferrous iron. These super worms will obtain energy from the microbial oxidation of ferrous iron to ferric ion,” Tomcat continued. “Their translucent bodies will have massive amounts of churning liquid that's filled with sulfuric acid as they will be responsible for oxidizing and vulcanizing. Apart from sulfuric acid, oxidation will also generate sulfates, leaving behind a long trail of their excrement on the desert to mark their activity.”

“Why would their bodies be translucent?” Tang Yue asked.

“It's to let light in,” Tomcat replied. “A portion of their energy source comes from photosynthesis, so sunlight is essential. These creatures' internals will be filled with acidic photosynthetic pigments. The sulfuric acid inside the liquid will be able to provide an acidic environment.”

“What about living in swarms?”

“They live in groups to withstand the harsh survival conditions. Not only will they live in groups, but they will also enter hibernation periodically to avoid the global hurricanes that sweep through the globe,” Tomcat replied. “Once the wind starts up, these worms will burrow into the sand to hibernate until the hurricane passes.”

“Will they create a social structure?”

“Any creature will have a social structure if they swarm together,” Tomcat said. “Every Martian amoebshaped worm might have a leader and it will follow a matriarchal society. Then, the leader will be the only queen that possesses the ability to reproduce. Since there's a queen, there's nothing stopping us from making further inferences. The Martian amoeba's swarm will have the worker class, and it might even have specialized workers… They will be specially made as energy stores; thus, making them bigger than other amoebae. Their mission every day will be to eat and drink. Their only value to provide the hibernating swarm with energy during a hurricane.

Tang Yue imagined the honeypot ants on Earth. These strange ants used their bodies as a vessel for food, and they spent their days gorging on food to be living food storage. When the ant swarm faced a lack of food, they would eat up the honeypot ants.

This was an evolution that a creature from Earth took to resist the environmental changes. What means the creatures on Mars used to resist hunger was still an unknown, but based on the principle of mediocrity, whatever showed up on Earth could equally likely appear on Mars.

“Will they have sight? Will they have hearing?”

“Sight isn't something especially important. They can evolve completely different sensual organs from Earthlings. For example, they could produce strangely long tentacles that crawl underground,” Tomcat said. “These tentacles could reach out into different directions and be used to find underground food, or in other words the abundance ratio of Iron(II) and Sulfide.”

“As for hearing, they crawl on the ground, using their bodies to sense the vibrations of the ground. It could even be their form of communication. By hitting the ground, vibrations of different frequencies are generated,” Tomcat said.

“What about a brain? Will they have a highly developed central nervous system?”

“Of course it's possible. Tang Yue, everything is possible.” Tomcat said as it turned around. “Time gives them everything.”

Tang Yue stared at the bacterial colony in the petri dish, unsure if what Tomcat said would become reality. Billions of years later, Mars might become a planet bustling with life. These bacteria could mutate to form amoeba that would form groups as they crawled across the desert. Their translucent bodies flowed with sulfuric acid, and as they walked, they shat, and sunbathed, in pursuit of the mineral elements underground. They would leave behind beads of sulfur. That would truly be a ridiculous and amusing world.

Even if the prophecy came true, it would be billions of years later.

Time was truly something that created miracles.

After Tomcat finished watering the tomatoes, it walked over to take the petri dish away. In its words, it was unknown if these mutated bacteria posed any security risks. Therefore, it was best if Tang Yue didn't stay too close to them. To ensure that it was 100% safe, this petri dish should have been placed in a P4 laboratory—even if its threat to Tang Yue's life was infinitely close to zero.

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Chapter 196 – Sol Three Hundred and Twenty–Four, How to Enter the Two
Chapter 195 – Sol Three Hundred and Twenty–Four, Desert, Loneliness, Shit
Chapter 194 – Sol Three Hundred and Twenty
Chapter 193 – Sol Three Hundred and Twenty
Chapter 192 – Sol Three Hundred and Twenty–Two, Law of Tomcat's Flag
Chapter 191 – Sol Three Hundred and Twenty
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Chapter 175 – Sol Two Hundred and Eighty
Chapter 174 – Sol Two Hundred and Eighty–Four, Buttocks and Thermal
Chapter 173 – Sol Two Hundred and Eighty
Chapter 172 – Sol Two Hundred and Eighty
Chapter 171 – Sol Two Hundred and Eighty
Chapter 170 – Sol Two Hundred and Eighty
Chapter 169 – Sol Two Hundred and Eighty
Chapter 168 – Sol Two Hundred and Eighty
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Chapter 162 – Sol Two Hundred and Eighty
Chapter 161 – Sol Two Hundred and Eighty
Chapter 160 – Sol Two Hundred and Eighty
Chapter 159 – Sol Two Hundred and Eighty
Chapter 158 – Sol Two Hundred and Eighty
Chapter 157
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Chapter 155
Chapter 154
Chapter 153
Chapter 152 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy
Chapter 151 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy–Seven, Bio
Chapter 150 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy
Chapter 149 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy
Chapter 148 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy
Chapter 147 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy
Chapter 146 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy
Chapter 145 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy
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Chapter 140 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy
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Chapter 135 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy
Chapter 134 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy
Chapter 133 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy
Chapter 132 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy
Chapter 131 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy–Three, Long
Chapter 130 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy
Chapter 129 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy
Chapter 128 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy–Two, New
Chapter 127 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy
Chapter 126 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy
Chapter 125 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy
Chapter 124 – Sol Two Hundred and Seventy
Chapter 123
Chapter 122
Chapter 121
Chapter 120
Chapter 119
Chapter 118
Chapter 117
Chapter 116
Chapter 115
Chapter 114
Chapter 113
Chapter 112
Chapter 111
Chapter 110
Chapter 109
Chapter 108
Chapter 107
Chapter 106
Chapter 105
Chapter 104
Chapter 103
Chapter 102
Chapter 101
Chapter 100
Chapter 99
Chapter 98
Chapter 97
Chapter 96
Chapter 95
Chapter 94
Chapter 93
Chapter 92
Chapter 91
Chapter 90
Chapter 89
Chapter 88
Chapter 87
Chapter 86
Chapter 85
Chapter 84
Chapter 83
Chapter 82
Chapter 81
Chapter 80
Chapter 79
Chapter 78
Chapter 77
Chapter 76
Chapter 75
Chapter 74 – Sol Hundred, Shit
Chapter 73 – Sol Ninety
Chapter 72 – Sol Ninety
Chapter 71 – Sol Ninety
Chapter 70 – Sol Ninety
Chapter 69 – Sol Ninety
Chapter 68 – Sol Ninety
Chapter 67: Sol Ninety-Eight, A Man Without Water Is Not a Man at All
Chapter 66: Sol Ninety-Eight, Scurvy, and Kidney Failure
Chapter 65: Sol Ninety-Eight, The Space Station's Miss Farmer
Chapter 64: Sol Ninety-Eight, The Mathematical Explanation Between Gradual Enlightenment and Instant Enlightenment
Chapter 63: Sol Ninety-Eight, Disappearance of the Orion I
Chapter 62: Epilogue
Chapter 61: Sol Five, Grab onto That Shackle
Chapter 60: Sol Five, Five Seconds That Can Give Birth to Ten Thousand Stars
Chapter 59: Sol Five, Seventy-Meter-Long Surgical Knife
Chapter 58: Sol Five, The Arm
Chapter 57: Sol Five, The Solitary Shout
Chapter 56: Sol Five, Fly Towards the Sun
Chapter 55: Sol Five, The Mountain Will Not Come to Muhammad
Chapter 54: Sol Five, Biting Fate by the Throat
Chapter 53: Sol Five, Good People Live Long
Chapter 52: Sol Five, Eternal Increase in Entropy
Chapter 51: Sol Five, We Crashed
Chapter 50: Sol Five, The Probability of Success from Betting One's Life
Chapter 49: Sol Five, Desperado
Chapter 48: Sol Five, I'm Watching from Hundreds of Millions of Kilometers Away
Chapter 47: Sol Five, Lonely Radio Wave
Chapter 46: Sol Five, Third Life in the Whole Universe
Chapter 45: Sol Five, Either Make or Break
Chapter 44: Sol Five, I've Been Caught by the Nazis
Chapter 43: Sol Five, Nostalgia Became a Tiny Spacecraft
Chapter 42: Sol Five, Lil' Eagle's Race
Chapter 41: Sol Five, Eagle, Away You Go!
Chapter 40: Sol Five, Mars United Space Station
Chapter 39: Sol Five, the Greatest Being-Toward-Death
Chapter 38: Sol Five, The Meaning of a Million Tang Yue's
Chapter 37: Sol Five, Snail in a Race
Chapter 36: Sol Five, The Universe's Final Broadcasting Station
Chapter 35: Sol Four, Man is Unable to Defeat the Universe
Chapter 34: Sol Four, Cold Physics and Mathematics
Chapter 33: Sol Four, Parents Need Alone Time When Guiding Children With Their Studies
Chapter 32: Sol Four, SpongeBob Lives Under the Sea
Chapter 31: Sol Four, Two Solutions to Repair a TV
Chapter 30: Sol Four, Antenna Father and Antenna Son
Chapter 29: Sol Four, A Person Equaling a Billion People
Chapter 28: Sol Four, Himalayas on the Plains
Chapter 27: Sol Four, Becoming a Mummy on Mars
Chapter 26: Sol Four, Would I Lose All My Reputation?
Chapter 25: Sol Four, Disappearance of Tomcat
Chapter 24: Sol Four, Forging Across the Hundred Meters
Chapter 23: Sol Four, Force 14 Wind on Mars
Chapter 22: Sol Four, 21st Century Famine
Chapter 21: Sol Four, Taking off the EVA Suit, Buttocks Go First
Chapter 20: Sol Four, I'm Starving
Chapter 19: Sol Three, Tomcat is a Good Dictionary
Chapter 18: Sol Three, A Cremation Awaits a Moment's Joy of Ripping Wires
Chapter 17: Sol Three, 13,416 Articles
Chapter 16: Sol Three, Kunlun Station's Enslaved Worker
Chapter 15: Sol Two, The Eagle That Lets Its Hair Down
Chapter 14: Sol Two, How an Earth Can Be Blasted Apart
Chapter 13: Sol Two, Grand Art of Dirty Clothes Changing
Chapter 12: Sol Two, The Naked Man on the Desolate Plains
Chapter 11: Sol One, Rectum Comparable to a Howitzer
Chapter 10: Sol One, Mars Wanderer
Chapter 9: Sol One, Kunlun Station is a Turtle Shell
Chapter 8: Sol One, Robots Do Not Need Sleep
Chapter 7: Sol One, You are Inhumane
Chapter 6: Sol One, Can Last Another Five Sols
Chapter 5: Sol One, Crazy Canned Food
Chapter 4: Sol One, Enough Oxygen for Fifteen Years
Chapter 3: Sol One, Live On
Chapter 2: Sol One, Last Human in the Universe
Chapter 1: Sol One, Earth Has Exploded
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