Chapter 792 - 492: The 100-Meter Squid and Global Panic

Chapter 792: Chapter 492: The 100-Meter Squid and Global Panic

At this moment, Wang Ye is already very close to the Sun.

Since Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun, Wang Ye’s goal of setting his sights on Mercury naturally brings him closer and closer to the Sun.

Looking at the Sun which almost covers his entire field of vision, Wang Ye cannot help but feel a sense of awe.

Life born on Earth always seems so insignificant before such a vast and ancient Fixed Star.

No matter how far he evolves, he always realizes his own insignificance and helplessness in front of such a supergiant planet.

Although he is still a long way from the Sun, he can almost constantly feel the Sun’s scorching brilliance shining down on him.

The vacuum in the Cosmos remains extremely cold. This is because there is no medium in the vacuum to store or reflect temperature, the temperature approaches absolute zero, reaching about -273.15 degrees Celsius. But since heat can still be transferred through radiation, the only method of transferring heat in a vacuum is thermal radiation. Therefore, as long as one is close enough to the Sun, high temperatures can still be felt. Wang Ye is now already feeling the Sun’s thermal radiation, the heat wind brought by thermal radiation and the cold of the vacuum almost coexist simultaneously, making him feel extremely conflicted.

After a long voyage, Wang Ye finally landed at the destination of this journey.

Mercury.

The reason it’s called Mercury is because this celestial body actually looks dark gray upon observation, giving it the color of water and thus being named Mercury.

In ancient Europe, it was called Mercury, meaning the Messenger God.

Mercury looks somewhat similar to the Moon on its surface, both are cool gray and covered with ring-shaped crater meteor pits,

Moreover, Mercury’s diameter is 4879 kilometers, while the Moon’s diameter is about 3476.28 kilometers, which means Mercury’s diameter is only slightly larger than the Moon.

If it were any smaller, it might be kicked out of the planet category like Pluto.

There’s no doubt, Mercury is currently the most suitable planet for Wang Ye to practice on.

After Wang Ye descended on Mercury, he felt the temperature of the environment suddenly rise.

According to his body estimate, the current temperature on Mercury should be about 400 degrees Celsius.

But on the other side of Mercury, the temperature drops to minus 100 degrees Celsius.

The level of coldness is even close to the vacuum environment in the Cosmos.

This is because Mercury has the largest day-night temperature difference in the Solar System.

The astonishing day-night temperature difference is due to Mercury having no atmosphere.

So Mercury cannot retain heat on the surface of the planet, nor can it regulate the surface temperature.

Thus, although Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun, receiving intense radiation from the Sun during the day, its maximum temperature is only 427 degrees Celsius. This maximum temperature is not even higher than that of Venus, which is farther from the Sun. You should know that Venus’s maximum temperature can reach up to 462 degrees Celsius.

At the same time, due to Mercury’s inability to preserve temperature, its nighttime minimum temperature can drop to minus 173 degrees Celsius.

It can truly be called a world of extreme heat and cold.

But a day on Mercury lasts as long as one thousand four hundred and eight hours, equivalent to fifty-eight days on Earth.

So a single day-night cycle is extremely long.

Moreover, there’s an interesting phenomenon on Mercury: one day equals two years.

As is well known, on Earth, one rotation of the planet equates to a day, and one revolution around the Fixed Star equates to a year.

For most planets, the time required for revolution is much longer than for rotation, because most planets are very far from the Sun.

But it is not the case with Mercury, as the closest star to the Sun, Mercury’s revolution time is very short.

According to Wang Ye’s calculations, approximately on April 22 in Earth’s Gregorian calendar, at 2:49 am will be Mercury’s greatest eastern elongation.

At that time, it will be the best period for Earth to observe Mercury.

Today is already April 20.

This means that in two days, it will be the best time for astronomy researchers on Earth to observe Mercury.

Wang Ye does not need to send his message of blowing up Mercury back to Earth. Because Mercury’s greatest eastern elongation is a very rare opportunity, by then there will naturally be many astronomers and enthusiasts on Earth observing Mercury’s conditions.

Once he takes action, people on Earth will naturally become aware.

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Meanwhile,

on Earth.

After several days of evolution, the creatures in the ocean have undergone earth-shattering changes in rapid evolution. To begin with, most marine organisms have grown nearly 1.5 to 2 times in size, causing a serious disruption to the ecological chain in the ocean. Most creatures, already with astonishingly large food intake, now under the impetus of evolution, must continuously and brutally consume to barely maintain body consumption.

It’s worth noting that many large organisms, such as Blue Whales, originally require constant movement in the ocean to filter countless small fish as a way of eating, and if they stop, they will quickly feel hunger. Evolution, moreover, demands exceptionally high nutrition; you should know that when Wang Ye first started evolving, it was difficult to maintain stable nutritional intake, occasional exercise would lead to severe nutritional shortages, even with a very high daily food intake, but the weight was still rapidly decreasing. And now, the evolutionary extent of these marine organisms is greater than Wang Ye’s initial evolution, meaning the intense hunger is likely to have already consumed their consciousness.