This Game is Too Real

  Chapter 670 That is a "living" land!

   Among the many institutions in the alliance, the funding of the scientific expedition team is definitely at the forefront.

   Not only because the organization has contracted more than 30% of the tasks of the players, but also because every time a good thing is picked up from the relics of pre-war civilization, the improvement of the hard power of the alliance can be seen with the eyes.

  Vault No. 404, browsing room on the B4 floor.

  Yin Fangzheng was excitedly describing to Chu Guang the treasure he found among the piles of **** brought back from the Cow and Horse.

   "It's a piece of wreckage the size of a palm! When our researchers found it, it happened to be stuck on a carbon nanotube of a space elevator, and it was almost missed."

"If my guess is correct, this thing should be a structural material on a small and medium-sized spacecraft. It is certain that even in the era of prosperity, that thing is quite advanced, but unfortunately there is only such a small piece left ..."

"Because there is no information to refer to, I named it without authorization. What do you think of the word Taogang? At present, our laboratory has analyzed its molecular configuration and material structure, and it can be imitated in the laboratory. However, industrial production may still be difficult."

   While speaking, Yin Fang showed Chu Guang the shape of the material and the data he just collected through the beam projected by the holographic computer pen.

   As if guessing that Chu Guang would not be able to understand it, Yin Fang also deliberately used armor steel and A3 aerospace aluminum, which are currently the most produced by the alliance, as a comparison.

  With the reference object, the characteristics of the material are much clearer at a glance.

  Its weight is between armor steel and A3 aviation aluminum, and its hardness is higher than the two. At the same time, it has heat resistance and oxidation resistance that the two do not have. The most incredible thing is that its performance in toughness and mechanical shock resistance exceeds that of general alloys!

  If this is placed in the 21st century, it is estimated that it will be regarded as falling from an alien spaceship.

   After all, the chemical bond properties and crystal structure of ceramics determine that it does not have an independent "slip system" inherently, and cannot resist deformation like metal.

  However, this material called ceramic steel exhibits metal-like properties while retaining the hardness of ceramics.

  For materials science in the 21st century, not to mention the production process, even the most basic theoretical part is an unestablished singularity.

  Even in the era of prosperity where gravity can be manipulated, there are not many spacecraft using this material. It was precisely because of this that Yin Fang was so excited.

  Chu Guang didn't expect to understand the principle of this material, and there was no need to do so.

  Professionals are naturally responsible for technical matters. He only needs to know the purpose, performance and production cost of this material.

   After briefly understanding the properties of the material, Chu Guang immediately looked at Yin Fang and asked.

   "What about the machining center on the B7 floor? Can it be produced?"

  Yin Fang coughed lightly.

   "The laboratory preparation I'm talking about is the use of that machining center... Otherwise, we can at most achieve the step of analyzing material properties."

  Chu Guang smiled embarrassedly.

   "So that's the case... Then if the equipment of the machining center is used for production, how much can the output be? Is there any hope of applying it to our power armor or tanks?"

   Seems to have guessed that Chu Guang would ask such a question, Yin Fang said with a helpless expression.

"If it is installed on a small scale, I think it should not be a big problem. Although this thing is designed for spacecraft, it did not say that it can only be used on spacecraft. As long as you can accept its cost, let alone power armor and tanks Yes, it’s no problem to install the exoskeleton.”

  Hearing Yin Fang's answer, Chu Guang said with a smile.

   "As long as it is easy to use, the cost is not a problem."

  The alliance is not short of electricity and mines, so how expensive can it be?

   What's more, this part of the cost can also be passed on to the players.

   For example, make the upgraded ceramic steel armor into paid content!

  Taking the Xiaguang Power Armor developed and produced by the alliance as an example, the unit price of a "Xiaguang" is one million silver coins. If the player is willing to spend another 500,000 silver coins for optional accessories, the armored steel breastplate can be upgraded to the ceramic steel breastplate, and the damage resistance and durability will be increased by 50% each!

  Of course, the specific improvement will have to be tested in the weapons proving ground. The general idea is this way.

  Looking at Chu Guang who had already started planning how to apply the archaeological results to the Alliance Army, Yin Fang coughed lightly and said.

"Ceramic steel armor is just one of the technologies we have recovered from the southern waters. We are currently thinking about how to design a more economical production process for it. You don't need to be so impatient. The technology we discovered is far from just a piece of ceramic steel. According to me According to my experience, we can at least retrieve at least ten D-level technologies that we don't have from this batch of 'trash', and at least!"

"Not only that, the investigation of the ruins of the coastal cities in Baiyue Province also helps us restore people's lifestyles, production methods, and other experiences and knowledge other than engineering in the era of prosperity. There are many of them that we can learn from It takes enough time for everything to manifest.”

"... What I want to say is that it is a genius idea to establish an outpost in the Baiyue Strait, but this is not enough. We should increase the development of the southern sea area, there must be a lot of hidden things we haven't discovered baby."

   After a pause, Yin Fang looked at Chu Guang and continued.

"In order to support the excavation of the relics, I hope you can allow our scientific expedition team to set up a research station in Potato Fries Harbor, so that we can directly screen the salvage and relic materials collected locally... This will also save us from wasting precious transportation capacity Bring back a lot of rubbish, and have to slowly pan for gold from the rubbish.”

"That's a good idea," Chu Guang nodded approvingly, "It just so happened that the residents of my shelter proposed the same, they hoped that the scientific expedition team could set up a branch in Potato Chips Port, and the local ruins exploration team and salvage ship provide technical support."

  For example, the experts of the scientific expedition team screen the targets worth exploring, list the targets worth exploring as a search priority, and remove the targets that are obviously not worth searching from the list.

  In the past, local players explored the ruins by scratching their eyebrows and picking some landmarks worth exploring purely based on experience, and brought back the things they found no matter whether they were useful or not.

  If some professional researchers can be sent to the local area to support the players' exploration work, it will undoubtedly improve the efficiency of the players' search for ruins and reduce the workload.

  At least, it can avoid the situation where the toilet ring is brought back as a welded ring.

   After listening to Chu Guang's words, Yin Fang immediately nodded and said.

   "No problem, I will pick some people, and I will trouble you to send them there."

  Chu Guang said with a smile.

   "Don't worry about that! Although we don't have the conditions to get you a scientific research ship of the same model as the academy, it's not a problem to get a scientific research airship! You are ready to go at any time—"

   "By the way, those who help us will also bring along!"

   Before Chu Guang could finish speaking, he was hurriedly interrupted by a voice coming from the door.

  The silver-haired Heya was like a gust of wind, blowing in from the corridor outside the browsing room through the open movable door.

  Looking in the direction of the door, Yin Fang noticed the excited look on Heya's face, and he didn't need to guess to know that this guy probably found some important clues.

  Chu Guang raised his eyebrows with interest, and was about to ask her what happened, when she sat down on the sofa beside her, stared at him with piercing eyes, and couldn't wait to speak.

"A major discovery! According to the strain samples brought back by your shelter residents from the northern shore of the Baiyue Strait, we found 173 overlapping points and 677 similar points when comparing the genes with the samples collected in Jinchuan Province... But this is not the point, the point is that we compared several key genes that express traits, and now we can basically confirm that Baiyue Province is the birthplace of Naguo!"

  Hearing this sentence, Yin Fang looked at her in surprise, then frowned and said.

   "Baiyue Province is the birthplace of Naguo? Are you sure?"

  Although Yin Fang is not good at biological research, the situation in Jinchuan Province does not require a lot of biological knowledge to understand.

  The savagely growing Nago will assimilate all organisms into its own puppets, and form a plague-like fungal field in a wide area.

  In many aspects, it exhibits similar characteristics to the Qingquan City Mutliform Slime Mold, such as releasing spores, such as indiscriminate erosion of organisms, and so on.

  If Naguo really originated in Baiyue Province, it should have been a breeding ground for Nagoo long ago. How could the Alliance establish an outpost or even a settlement there.

   And most importantly, he didn't find Naguo mycelium on the waste products recovered from Baiyue Province? !

  Looking at Yin Fang who looked suspicious, He Ya took a deep breath, nodded seriously and said.

"I'm almost 100% sure... I know what you're confused about, and we're equally confused, why Naguo, who expanded unscrupulously in Jinchuan Province, performed mediocrely in Baiyue Province, where the climate conditions are more suitable, but the fact It’s so surprising! And what’s even more surprising is that when we studied the genes of the original strain, we found that the original strain of Nago itself was formed by the hybridization of slime mold Gaia and earth fungus under natural conditions bacteria!"

   "Formed under natural conditions?" Yin Fang frowned, pinching his chin and lost in thought.

  Heya nodded seriously and continued.

"Before we speculated that Naguo was a variety obtained by the Torch Church using the gene pool obtained from the brood of Qingquan City to improve the native fungus. Now it seems that our conclusion is incomplete. The most primitive Naguo strain itself It’s a combination of slime mold and earth fungus, they just artificially replaced some of their genes!”

   This may sound a bit awkward, but Chu Guang, who had been listening to the discussion between the two, tried to understand it in his own way.

   To put it simply, the original Nago is the "child" of Gaia and the earth. It has both gene A from outside the earth and gene B provided by a certain fungus on the earth.

  After discovering Naguo, the Torch Church found that this thing could just help them complete the plan of the kingdom of heaven, so they improved it.

  For example, through artificial breeding, the A1 gene obtained from the brood in Qingquan City was inserted into the original strain A-B of Naguo.

  The strains that are flooding in Haiya Province and the southern part of Jinchuan Province are the extremely aggressive A-A1-B type, or simply A1-B type.

But…

   Does it make any difference?

  Chu Guang frowned slightly, just about to ask out the confusion in his heart. However, just when he was about to speak, a glimmer of understanding suddenly exploded in his mind.

   A gene!

  Where did the original A gene come from? !

   Having captured this detail, Chu Guang blurted out almost subconsciously.

   "There is a brood in Baiyue Province?!"

   Or existed before? !

   As soon as the voice fell, the two pairs of eyes looked at him in unison.

   "Baiyue Province... There was a brood before?" Yin Fang was slightly stunned, but it only took a moment to react, frowning and muttering to himself, "I see..."

"That's right! This is the first inference we have drawn from that specimen! There may be a nest of mutated slime molds in the Baiyue Province! And this is very likely to be the reason why the local survivors disappeared from the province!" He Ya looked at Chu Guang in disbelief, and said with disbelief, "It's unbelievable, you actually guessed it!"

  Chu Guang rolled his eyes, leaned on the sofa and said.

   "Do I look stupid? Let's get straight to the point, where do you think this brood might be?"

"right here!"

   While speaking, Heya took out a test tube filled with dark green liquid from her pocket, and shook it in front of the two of them.

  Yin Fang was taken aback by her action, and stood up from the sofa in a jerk.

  Chu Guang was not frightened by her actions, but he was taken aback when he saw the test tube in her hand, and he spoke after two seconds.

   "What does it mean right here...?"

"It's the thing in my hand! The extract of the original strain of Naguo! This is the brood of the Baiyue Province!" He Ya cocked her lips proudly, her bright eyes filled with disbelief and fanaticism, "Those guys are a genius!"

  Trying to understand her incoherent speech, Chu Guang pinched his brows with some headaches.

   "Wait... who are you referring to?"

"Of course those slime molds!" Heya said excitedly, "Do you remember? No matter what kind of slime mold we have seen before, most of them are like Qingquan City Center or Xiaoyu. They all have the same characteristic , that is, there is a mother nest and a group of fruit entities, and all individuals share the same consciousness!"

  Yin Fang swallowed.

   "I know...then what?"

  Heya continued speaking quickly.

   "The brood of Baiyue Province is an exception! It neither chose to parasitize, nor did it choose to co-exist or assimilate, but became them!"

   "...became them?" Having already vaguely guessed something, Chu Guang's pupils couldn't help dilating a little.

   Mutant slime molds have a strong ability to adapt to the environment. Not only can they flexibly change themselves to adapt to the environment, they are also good at borrowing and learning from the earth's native organisms.

  For example, the brood nest in Qingquan City.

   That guy has accumulated a lot of combat experience in fighting humans, and learned to use biomass to power human armor.

not only that-

   That guy also imitated monsters, death claws and other powerful alien species in the wasteland, and hatched powerful special fruit entities.

   Actually, this is easy to understand.

  The object that the mutant slime mold imitates is never just humans or human civilization, what they really imitate is the ecosystem itself.

  And human beings and human civilization are only a part of this system.

  In most cases, humans who possess the sharp weapon of civilization can gain the upper hand from natural selection, even if there are some outrageously strong alien species in the wasteland.

   Therefore, in most cases, the mutant slime mold will imitate humans more, and it will even penetrate into society and even the level of civilization.

  However, Baiyue Province is an exception.

   Whatever the reason, the local survivors have all but disappeared, replaced by a rich diversity of species and more intense natural selection.

   So it's almost obvious—

  As a "colonizer", what will the mutant slime mold use as the first target for imitation.

   "Exactly!"

  He Ya stared at Chu Guang with piercing eyes, and nodded to confirm his unspoken guess.

"Not only Naguo, but also the grass there, the trees there, and the alien species in the forest... All the creatures in the entire Baiyue province are the continuation of that mother nest! They all carry the blood from the planet Gaia. Gene!"

"I'm not sure yet whether the brood in Baiyue Province has the same unified consciousness as the brood in other regions, but its children obviously can no longer be called fruiting entities, but have independent consciousness Separate species!"

   "It completely became them, it was a 'living' land!"

  (end of this chapter)