Chapter 528 Two Different Evolutionary Paths
The Celtic wizard took Locke to a file area in the laboratory. The tables here were filled with specially marked documents.
These data are all produced by our six groups of researchers and research assistants, and have been done for hundreds of years. We may have the largest collection of research data on the relationship between the key natural magic structural components of magic plants and the fecundity of magic creatures in Yunze Wetland."
"Each packaged document here corresponds to the research and analysis of a kind of magic plant's reproductive power on magical creatures."
The Celtic wizard said confidently: "I dare say that you have completely underestimated the impact of plants on the reproductive power of biological creatures before. But there are traces of all this."
The Celtic wizard said: "During the long process of natural evolution, plants and animals have chosen two completely different evolutionary paths - staying stationary and migrating everywhere."
"Not to mention the two evolutionary paths, who is right and who is wrong, who is better and who is worse, that is the research direction of other research groups. The key is that plants and animals learn during the process of evolution. In order to help each other and make up for each other's shortcomings, although the Celtic wizards were very dissatisfied with Locke, because the Ekaterina wizard chose him to join the project team, in order not to be singled out for any mistakes, they could only follow the process and introduce the research fields of their six groups to Locke, and help the new researchers to quickly get started with the work process.
Otherwise, with the character of the witch Ekaterina, he would never be able to eat and walk around.
Six members of the large project group of the Ekaterina Witch. Even if they try their best, they may not be able to satisfy the Ekaterina Witch, let alone act as a demon among them.
This is absolutely impossible.
The Celtic wizard is just not satisfied that Locke is just a wizard in the liquefaction stage.
It is a very simple common sense that the higher the magic level of a magical creature, the weaker its reproductive ability. "Then, logically speaking, there should be no possibility of natural reproduction and reproduction of the first‐level magical creatures in the natural environment."
The Celtic wizard said: "But this is not the case. The first-ring magic creatures borrowed the convenience of those first-ring magic plants and formed a symbiotic relationship with some magic plants in the natural environment, gaining the possibility of increased fertility." Therefore, magical creatures are needed to carry seeds and pollen for them, and magical creatures are required to bring them special resources that are not available locally. Therefore, many magic plants in nature will produce fruits that are of great benefit to living organisms after being consumed. "
"This is a little trick played by plants."
Locke immediately thought of the twelve special peaches in Jinmian Mountain and the coveted water jade peach.
Obviously, Shuiyu Peach was cultivated by utilizing the coexistence mechanism of plants and animals in nature. It has special effects that even rare potions cannot achieve, and has almost no side effects.
This is basically an active temptation to some creatures in nature to swallow that fruit.
The Celtic wizard said: "Our six groups are responsible for finding out which magic plants form a special symbiotic relationship with specific biological species."
“First select a rough species, and then start to verify whether the magical plant has an enhanced or weakened effect on the reproductive capacity of a certain magical creature, and find one or several key natural magical structural components. Over the past century, there have been countless Zhenchiin researchers who have concluded the Zhenchiin Fund Project by discovering the impact of a magical plant on the fecundity of a specific species.”
"And successfully obtained the exit certificate."
The Celtic wizard pointed at the pile of tables and the documents on a specific table and said: "That pile of documents is the magic plant information that the first-class wizard apprentices of Jinmian Mountain found in Yunze Wetland and the major colonial planes in Yunze Wetland, which may have an impact on the fecundity of specific magical biological species."
"Of course, with the low abilities of those apprentices, they only made some preliminary observations, which were full of fallacies and wrong observations, so the real research needs to be completed by us official wizards."
The Celtic wizard said: "Those who want to write a fund For a project application, you need to do preliminary experiments and use the experimental results to prove that a magic plant is indeed related to the fecundity of a specific species. "
"And it is best to roughly determine this ingredient, and then the project application you write can be approved."
"Your current job is to collect inspiration from the experimental reports written by the apprentices, find the really useful parts, lock in a certain correspondence between magic plants and magical creatures, and use the natural magic structural component structure comparison device and your own analysis ability to confirm which natural magic structural component plays a key role." "Most of the discoveries are actually the discovery of natural magic structural components that have been thoroughly studied. After all, this experiment has been done for a hundred years, and a large number of new researchers joined our project every year."
The Celtic wizard said: "Of course, if you have better luck and discover a new natural magic structural component..."
"Forget it, there is no need to say it." The Celtic wizard shook his head slightly and said: "If you can really discover this kind of thing, let alone a small Zhenzhiyuan foundation, you can Just send a zone one journal directly. "
"But this is really a test of your luck and vision."
"You'd better keep your feet on the ground."
The Celtic wizard threw an instruction manual to Locke [Natural Magic Structural Component Structural Comparison Device].
Locke flipped through it and found that it was a very large device.
The main function is that a formal wizard can control this super expensive and large breeding equipment and use a magic magnetic field to cut off a magic plant and extract all the ingredients in the mixed liquid.
Then, these components are put into a large layer column elemental separation equipment.
Because the natural magic power structural components are composed of composite element particles, the natural density, weight, etc. are different. Therefore, the layer column elemental separation equipment can be used to separate them one by one according to different properties and record them. Then compare them with the natural magic power structure component data in the database one by one to see which data matches, and then you can find out what natural magic power structure components are roughly contained in this magic plant.
Overall, this set of equipment, worth more than 10 million, is equipment that ordinary wizards cannot afford.
The main function is to analyze the quantity and type of natural magic structural components in the magic plant.
At the same time, the Celtic wizard also threw Locke another instruction manual for the device, the Ice Mirror.
This is a more advanced large-scale breeder's equipment.
The minimum price is 30 million magic stones.
Using the matching manifesting potion and placing it on slices of the magic plant, you can carefully observe and get the rough structure of the natural magic structure components that a wizard wants.
These two devices alone are things that Locke absolutely cannot access in the land of six towers.
Locke walked along the way and took a short look in this public laboratory. He could see a large number of advanced breeding experimental equipment.
They are all things that ordinary wizards from the outside world cannot touch even if they want to.
It is not only a question of money, but also issues such as purchase channels, maintenance channels, repair costs, and consumable costs.
That is something that breeder laboratories in other wizarding lands really cannot afford.
The Celtic wizard looked at Locke and said, "There is no need to queue up to use the structural comparison machine. We have a total of five such devices in our laboratory."
"Whoever wants to use it, you can just use it."
"You only need to limit the number of uses per day to two times, and you cannot use it consecutively each time, unless no one wants to share this equipment with you that day."
"As for the Ice Mirror, it is a high-level breeder equipment, and wizards from other groups also need to use it, so there are many people queuing up."
A flash of displeasure flashed in the Celtic wizard's eyes. "They, ordinary Zhenzhiyuan researchers, need to apply to me to use this advanced breeder equipment, and the manifesting potion is also very expensive."
"Basically, you are lucky to be able to use it once a month."
"But you are a researcher of the advanced Zhenzhiyuan, so according to the agreement in the contract, you have the priority to use the ice mirror equipment. You can use it once a week, and you will use the manifesting potion once for free."
The Celtic wizard glanced at Locke. "I hope you are worthy of your treatment." Locke ignored this sentence directly. Although he could see that the Celtic wizard seemed to have a strong opinion of him, the problem was that this laboratory did not belong to him, but to his mentor, the witch Ekaterina.
That doesn’t matter.
In any case, no matter how unhappy the Celtic wizard is, he still has to arrange work for himself, because this is the arrangement of the witch Catherine.
Furthermore, the wizard’s only moat is whether he can produce results.
As long as you produce good results, the current opinions of the Celtic wizards towards you will naturally disappear.
From Locke's point of view, the Celtic wizards simply didn't care that the senior researcher at the Zhenzhiyuan who was supposed to be assigned to his group six turned into a wizard from the outside who was in the liquefaction stage like him.
That's why he cares so much.
The Celtic wizard handed a separate piece of information to Locke and said: "Six of our groups have recently been studying the symbiotic relationship between ant-like magical creatures and madder-like magic plants. Eleven ordinary Zhenzhi Academy researchers are all studying an ant-like magical creature and a kind of madder. The relationship between magic plants, they are all in this project. "
"If you join in, the difficulty will be much lower. Moreover, the data produced by these projects can be interconnected, learn from each other, and accumulate from each other, which is of great significance to our six groups."
"So, you should read these materials first." The Celtic wizard said: "I have selected two research directions that are very suitable for you."
"One is a project done by a researcher from Zhenzhiyuan who just left the station. He has found Robusta grass, which can secrete a mating pheromone similar to that of the ant, deceiving the ants and allowing them to quickly complete the reproductive cycle."
“But near Robustas grass, the ants not only mate more often, but also have greatly enhanced fertility. Therefore, Robusta grass still has the potential to be explored.”
“Therefore, you can definitely study the relationship between Robusta grass and the ants.”
The Celtic wizard said: "The second project is our trump card project among the six groups, brora grass, which can help the eleven ant-like magical creatures discovered so far to reproduce." , you only need to discover a new ant creature whose reproductive ability is enhanced by brora grass, and analyze its mechanism of action, and you can complete the project within half a year."
The Celtic wizard gushed that he had arranged everything for Locke.
Even the project directions that can be chosen are actually limited to two types, and both of them are related to ants and madder-type magic plants.
Obviously, the Celtic wizards prefer that Locke, as a member of the Six Groups, sacrifice part of his own interests to safeguard the greater interests of the Six Groups.
After all, a group of researchers leaves every five years, but he, the team leader, has to stay in these six groups forever.
Hence, the interests of the Celtic wizard are not the same as his own. He values more the benefits he can bring to the six groups.
Hence, I hope that Locke, the new wizard, can cooperate with their research team.
Locke frowned slightly. As a researcher of the Advanced Shinzhiyuan, he received high welfare benefits. If it was an outbound project of an ordinary Shinshiyuan, he would be considered qualified and could go out.
Come to think of it, that special funding project is no longer relevant to me.
This is not in your own interests.
Locke took the information and did not refute it face to face. Anyway, he was here to work, not a student here. Whatever he wanted to do, the Celtic wizard in front of him could not interfere.
Learning to refuse, and rejecting others reasonably and smoothly is also a skill that a formal wizard should practice.
Locke said vaguely: "Well, I will read it, Mr. Celtic."
Being able to read it does not mean that he will only choose between these two projects, or even that he will only determine the topic he wants to do among the information on the symbiotic relationship between madder-like magic plants and ant-like magical creatures.
You should at least glance at the information here to see if you can pick out a good direction, and then decide on your own topic.
Furthermore, within the contract, he has independent personnel rights and fund allocation rights, so funds and recruitment are not threatened by the second-ring wizard, the team leader in front of him.
Just ask Witch Ekaterina to sign it.
The Celtic wizard frowned. As smart as he was, he naturally noticed the hidden meaning behind Locke's vague answer.
The little patience in the Celtic wizard's eyes suddenly disappeared completely. "That's probably it."
"I hope you can make the right choice. If you make the right choice, within the six groups, there will at least be a lot of past information that can provide you with reference. The wizard who was eliminated at the end last year was also a breeder and an outsider. I never expected that his comprehensive ability would be so poor, and once he was separated from his mentor, his research ability would be greatly reduced."
The Celtic wizard said: "The reason why many wizards can make many achievements in the first stage is not necessarily due to their own abilities. It may also be that there is an excellent formal wizard in the research group they were originally in, who designed the research framework and secured relatively good research conditions for that research group."
The Celtic wizard looked at the little fat wizard behind the information desk without much patience. "Panno, since you have some free time, let's introduce this new wizard to how to use the structural comparison machine and the ice magic mirror." After saying that, the Celtic wizard turned and left the file area and went to the other end of the public laboratory, an area with a large magic field.
After the Celtic wizard walked away, Wizard Panno stood up from behind the file table, looked at Locke curiously, and then scratched his head. "You don't have to think that guy is mean. In fact, apart from being particularly concerned about the progress of the six groups' experiments, he doesn't have any evil intentions."
Locke smiled and said: "Of course, if he really had ill intentions towards me, he wouldn't show his dissatisfaction to my face. I know that the Celtic wizard only treats the situation and not the person."
Panno laughed and said: "Then you are much more understanding than me. In fact, the Celtic Wizard was not like this a few years ago. He just failed one after another..." The selection for the Thousand Talents Project in Misawa Land failed again. With the continuous failures, he began to become strange."
"For example, sometimes he would stand at the door with his broken clock to see which unlucky wizard would be late..."
Wizard Panno said: "By the way, hello, I'm Panno. I heard that you are from the Advanced Academy of True Knowledge, right? Your name is Locke? Let me teach you how to use those two large devices first."
"In addition, I can also explain to you how to use various other equipment here."
"I really envy you. I heard that you are the champion of the Yunze Cup and a researcher of the Advanced Zhenzhi Academy. You are not as useless as me."
Although Pan Nuo is a one-ring crystal wizard and is not very old, he looks to be in his thirties, close to forty, but at this moment he has no energy at all.
He was crestfallen, "Although I am a native of Yunze Wetland and a student of our school, I chose to stay in Zhenzhiyuan after graduation. But this year is already the second year, and I have applied for the Zhenzhiyuan Fund Project. The application is still not approved. "
"Oh, I'm almost worried."
Locke wondered: "Why, isn't the application for this fund project very basic? Can everyone apply?"
Wizard Panno shook his head and said: "I thought so at first. But my luck was really bad. I passed it last year, but it took me a year to find out that I was in the wrong direction." , reapplied. This is the rule of Jinmianshan Zhenzhiyuan.”
Panno covered his face. "Snakegrass is extremely rare and can only be found in a few places. It not only ate up all my grass, but also ate up all the seedlings and all the seeds I left."
"I'm really miserable."
"Now, I'm looking for a new direction."
Pannno held up the information in his hand.
Locke followed him to a huge instrument, which was composed of a large number of hollow tubes and crystal matrices.
Obviously, it is the structural comparison machine.
Locke asked strangely: "Then why don't you look for it? The Celtic wizard provided you with some projects. He just suggested that I do those two projects."
Panno said guiltily: "He doesn't trust me. I didn't do those two projects just now. I heard it, but the ants and magic plants needed for the experiment are precious assets left over from our six groups over the past generations. "
"You are the Yunze Cup champion and a researcher at the Advanced Zhenzhi Academy. No matter how much he has objections to you, he still admits that you are capable."
"That's why I will give you the precious resources related to those two projects to use directly. If you are really willing to use them, I am different. I asked him before, but he was worried...worried that the bad luck of my snake grass will also happen to Robusta grass and Brora grass."
Anger flashed in Pannuo's eyes. "In the final analysis, it's all about that damn triangular black sheep. What's abominable is that it's the pet of a second-level wizard from the third group."
Pannuo explained to Locke the specific use of the two large-scale equipment. The structure was better than that of the machine, so the two of them started practicing directly.
But for the Ice Mirror, there were so many wizards queuing up that Panno himself had not used it many times. It was said that he had only used it once.
Hence, Pannuo could only struggle to use language to describe in detail how to use the Ice Mirror.
"Well, that's it, and then that, and finally..." Panno and Locke stopped in front of the Ice Mirror area in the corner of the public laboratory.
I saw many formal wizard students lining up in that area.
As soon as the magic mirror is empty, students will immediately use magic to summon their mentors, and their mentors will use magic and rush over immediately.
Wizard Panno looked at the Ice Magic Mirror and said: "In short, that's about it. There is a mirror spirit inside the magic mirror. You just need to know the general method of using it. The mirror spirit will help you. Using the Ice Magic Mirror to observe the natural magic structure components will test your eyesight. , proficiency in how to use it. "
"However, because we can only use the Ice Magic Mirror very few times, everyone is not very proficient in how to use it."
(End of this chapter)