Chapter 676 Efficiency and regularity, can we have both?
Locke stopped the voice call with Wizard Salvador, found Witch Mason, and told them that he was leaving the research institute of Group 2 and heading to the depths of the Dune Plane.
Then, under the surprised eyes of Mason Witch and others, he left the ecological film alone and entered the desert range.
Locke looked at the yellow sand in the distance and thought: "The Zhenzhiyuan's first-class project fund can solve the problem as long as it uses the special energy-locking structure of ancient flower roots and conducts corresponding analysis. The most difficult step is to discover the ancient flowers."
"So, there is no need for me to worry too much. But there is one thing that I do care about, and that is why there are still advanced life forms surviving in the dune plane."
Locke looked up at the sky shrouded in heavy element particles, and at the hundreds of transformation plants that were like steel nails stuck in this land of yellow sand. "How to balance efficiency and long-term benefits in transforming nature to avoid short-term ecological prosperity?"
Locke walked into the sandstorm, and the yellow sand roared from the sky. But the next moment, the power of Mist came in the form of a natural force field, like a terrifying forest from outside the territory, and the entire sandstorm dissipated in an instant.
Locke walked for about half an hour, looking at the boundless yellow sand, frowning slightly. "It's too slow to find it with the naked eye."
"If you think about it carefully, where the Dune People live, there is probably some primary ecology barely existing in this dune plane. If you find the plants, you should be able to find the remaining Dune People."
Locke waved his right hand, and suddenly a full moon descended in the sky, appearing behind him like a star hanging in the sky.
And he turned into the dark sun, using the special operating logic of the sun and the moon to superimpose the gravitational pull of the dark sun and the full moon, making the moon's gravity twice as strong out of thin air.
At the same time, the full moon hung in the sky of this plane. Because the power of the world in this plane was extremely weak and broken, Locke's embryonic form of great magic became a terrifying magic that hung on the horizon.
It illuminates this plane without being blocked by the power of the world, nor does it suffer the loss caused by casting magic in other planes and being suppressed by the power of the world out of thin air.
Even, Locke felt that the world welcomed him.
"Found it." Locke relied on the gravity of the full moon to locate the magic plant communities hidden under the desert, and then used the Big Green Leaf Dragon Bird to fly along the entrance of an underground river.
The moonlight still shines into the ground along the river and through the cracks in the rocks.
Locke emerged from the underground river and looked at the large number of low-level magic plants growing inside this underground river, mainly ferns and moss.
"There are actually so many magic plants here? The temperature... is very low, about 30 degrees Celsius."
Locke looked at a huge ice block next to the underground river. "I see, there is a lot of underground ice in this area. The surface of this area may have been ice in the past, but now the ice on the ground has melted and the soil has turned into yellow sand, but part of the underground ice has not completely melted."
“So, there is water here. Therefore, there are some simple magic plant communities here. Low-level magic plants such as ferns are also the magic plants with the lowest living environment requirements.”
In essence, trees and grass magic plants are not better than ferns in terms of their tenacity, or even completely better than ferns in their ability to reproduce.
Even in the wizarding world, in some areas with heavy moisture, magical ferns still outperform those grass and trees.
The fern magic plant is based on the extremely rich natural resources. Due to insufficient professionalism and complexity differentiation, it loses out to the more advanced magic plants and trees.
Hence, when resources are insufficient or in extreme environments, fern magic plants will become survivors because of their "low consumption and high efficiency".
The fern magic plant is like a natural backup system. When the vegetation collapses, the fern magic plant will suddenly emerge from the cracks in the rocks to try to restart the world.
"This is..." Locke observed this special part of ferns, "These ferns have undergone special evolution in response to high temperatures. The leaves have shrunk, and the leaves have multi-node water storage structures. These are very common energy-locking structures produced for drought resistance."
In the research data of 2 groups. , I have read about it a lot."
"But..." Locke looked at a strange fern magic plant in front of him and felt that it looked like a lava fern in the wizarding world. He snapped his fingers, and a flame appeared in the sky above the lava fern. Suddenly, the stomata on the surface of a special stone fern were rapidly absorbing high temperatures to extinguish the flames.
Locke couldn't help but sigh when he saw this miracle of life with his own eyes. "This special fern has evolved similarly to the lava fern. Obviously the two should have nothing to do with each other, but in order to resist high temperatures, did it evolve in this direction?"
Locke carefully dug out one of these special stone ferns with an ordinary grafting knife, including the soil and roots. "It should have evolved an energy-locking structure blade similar to the lava fern [high-temperature breath blade]."
"Fern magic plants are always the easiest to adapt to the environment. With this kind of lava fern, you can use the high temperature and flames in the air, and try your best to It makes it difficult for flames to appear. "
"It should be a plant that evolved spontaneously in this ecological community." Locke remembered an article about ecology that he had read before, which proposed a hypothesis-the hypothesis of spontaneous niche filling evolution.
In order to maintain the existence of the ecosystem and cope with the danger of external destruction of the ecosystem, specific species will appear within the ecosystem and spontaneously fill in a certain ecology needed to maintain the ecosystem.
Life will spontaneously evolve toward this ecological niche.
This hypothesis may not be correct, it is just a perspective on things.
In this hypothesis, it is believed that the root of biological evolution lies in the supplementation of ecological niches and the maintenance of the ecological circle.
Locke said: "The magic tide here is still strong, which should be due to the existence of the magic plant community. The magic tide is related to a variety of elements. It is very complicated, and I can't fully understand it."
"But at least it is directly related to the strength of the power of the plane and the total amount of living creatures."
"The total amount of life here is still preserved to a certain extent, so there is still a magic tide." Locke said: "These magic plants are trying to adapt to environmental changes."
Locke frowned and said: "It's just that the Dune Plane was almost pulled into the Sun Force Plane before, and the entire plane environment suddenly changed, and the speed of change was really too fast. , and did not give the ecology here time to react. "
"The intervention of the wizard civilization has stabilized the status quo in the Dune Plane, and the ecology here has changed accordingly based on the current situation."
"This may be one of the reasons why the Dune people can still exist in this plane."
Locke saw a lot of energy-locking structures being studied by two groups in these simple ferns, and even saw some sea-buckthorn magic plants. These sea-buckthorn magic plants also obviously had some special abilities.
For example, it can collect moisture in the air and increase the level of environmental moisture here.
Obviously, the evolution of magic plants may be enough to solve the problem in the dune plane.
But the problem is that the evolution of magic plants is too slow.
Without the participation of wizard civilization, they would not even have the chance they have now.
Locke looked at the underground river and smelled a pungent smell. He thought it was the wastewater discharged from the conversion plants that had polluted this place.
Those heavy element particles are difficult to disappear after tens of thousands of years.
Loke frowned. "That's not right. Didn't Wizard Zalan Bailey find an environmental protection company to help him with waste gas and wastewater treatment? Why is the pollution still so serious?"
"Could it be that they are discharging wastewater directly into the desert, and then the wastewater flows out from the cracks in the sand, polluting the entire desert?"
Locke heard the footsteps and stood up from the ground immediately.
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In Group 2 Research Institute, wizard Zalan Bailey came to the public laboratory with a smile on his face. "Is Wizard Locke Augustine here?"
Witch Mason quickly stood up, saluted him, and then said: "Lord Zaran Bailey, what a coincidence. Lord Locke, although he was in the dune plane, he left the research base and went to the depths of the dune plane."
Wizard Zaran Bailey frowned and said slightly dissatisfied: "Did I miss it again? What did he go to the depths of the desert for?"
Witch Mason explained: "This...I Not sure. The team leader seems to be curious about the Dune People who still exist." Zalan Bailey clasped his hands behind his back and said, "They are just surviving. The civilization has been lost, and their living conditions are no different from those of the cave-dwelling primitives. The 2nd team has already completed the investigation, and they only survived temporarily by relying on some special areas with glaciers under the dune plane."
"Didn't he read the relevant investigation report?"
Witch Mason didn't like the preaching tone of the other party, but at the moment the other party was a second-level wizard, so she naturally had no choice but to swallow her anger. "I don't know either. Maybe the team leader has his own ideas."
Wizard Zalan Bailey turned around. "Tell me when Locke comes back. I have never met him before."
Witch Mason looked at his leaving figure and frowned slightly.
"Trouble."
"Because he is a second-level wizard, so it is difficult to refuse clearly."
Freya Witch said: "Why are you talking to him? When he comes, we will pretend that we are busy and working. He should not affect our work, the Sith team leader will talk about him."
"Then he asked, and we answered briefly. We just need to keep face. But why is he always looking for the group leader? He seems to be very active recently."
Witch Freya said: "Ordinarily, he seems to think that our group is a competitor of his group. It's strange to be so close."
Witch Mason shrugged. "Who knows."
The two of them seemed to be very hungry and weak.
But they can still communicate telepathically with their natural psychic abilities.
Locke frowned.
He tried to use his virtual psychic organ to directly connect to the psychic resonance between the two people. After immediately designing a simple apprentice-level spell model, Locke used the virtual psychic organ behind his head to forcefully enter the communication between the two Dune people.
"This race is indeed born with a very powerful spiritual school of magic potential."
"Can it use its physical body to form special psychic waves around itself to produce telepathic communication?"
< br/> "Although it is only a very elementary application method of the spiritual school. This kind of thing is very primitive, but it is a common talent of this race."
Locke relied on his attainments in magic and being in a high position to forcibly understand the simple conversation between the two Dune people.
Locke discovered that these people should not have lost the ability to speak. After all, human thinking relies on the structure of language.
The two Dunemen are still communicating with each other.
...I heard that we lived on the ground in the past, and we had delicious cakes to eat."
"Cake? What is that?"
"I don't know... I heard it from my father, and he told me telepathically."
Locke looked at the polluted river and immediately understood that it was the plan of wizard Zalan Bailey that caused the underground river in the dune plane to be seriously polluted.
· Low-level plant communities cannot support the activities of high-level organisms, so these dune people can only survive on the cold fish that are still alive in the underground rivers.
It was just the radical transformation plan of wizard Zalan Bailey that destroyed this fragile and temporary ecological balance. Like the last straw, the Sand Dune tribe in front of them suffered from severe food shortages.
At this time, a Dune man suddenly held his stomach, foamed at the mouth, and fell to the ground uncomfortably. His face was red. It seemed that he had eaten fish contaminated with heavy element particles, which caused multiple organ lesions in him.
Lock, as a potion master, recognized the problem with this man at a glance.
The fellow Dune Man was so frightened that he kept pushing his body, trying to confirm that his companion was still alive, but to be honest, it was of no use.
Locke frowned and subconsciously wanted to step out, but he immediately thought of his principle of minimal intervention.
"I'm here to observe why these remaining dune people can still survive and observe their ecology. If I intervene now, of course I can easily solve their problems. But is this really appropriate?"
"From my perspective, I will not be able to see the ecology of the Dune people clearly. And from the perspective of the Dune people, what state does my existence have for them? They have survived for so long, and perhaps this state itself is extremely precious."
"I don't You can break this state at will."
"Let's observe in other ways first." Locke looked at the ray of moonlight shining into the underground space, opened a bottle of holy spring nectar potion, put a ray of potion into it, and then used the moonlight to infuse the dune man's body, which relieved his symptoms.
"First of all, I have to believe in the resilience of the remaining ecology of the Dune people. If I interfere at will, I am just like the wizard Zaran Bailey, who is transforming this plane at will."
Locke said: "That is the most efficient, but the observation itself is meaningless."
"Can efficiency and natural laws have both at the same time?"
(End of this chapter)