Chapter 136: Strange Ideas, Major Progress

Soft food but hard food?

Everyone was stunned for a while before they came to their senses.

It turns out that it was the eldest sister who provided the financial support, and the boss had the research funds.

This statement is quite funny.

Everyone wanted to laugh immediately, but they held it back and didn't dare to laugh out loud.

After all, he is a big boss, so it would be inappropriate to ridicule him like this, right?

Buck's head shrank.

It's over, it's over, he's making trouble again.

The boss’s passionate and inspiring speech turned out to be anything but passionate or inspiring at the last moment.

The effect is seriously inconsistent with the boss’s original intention.

"Laugh if you want."

Link saw that everyone was having a hard time suppressing their laughter, so he took the initiative and was very generous.

The reason why he suddenly said something that was completely inconsistent with his character was just to make everyone laugh.

After all, the tunnel is underground. Although it has discarded magic stones as a light source, it is not dark.

However, people are involuntarily affected by the cramped and low environment, which makes them easily depressed and amplifies negative emotions.

Link saw that his pep talk had no effect, so he turned to trying to be funny.

I hope this can ease the mood of the team members.

Sure enough, there was good feedback this time.

Seeing that Link really didn't care, everyone didn't hold back and chuckled.

The previous gloomy atmosphere was gone.

Everyone felt much more relaxed.

Jasmine couldn't help but cast a sidelong glance at Link. She didn't like this statement very much.

After waiting for a while, when everyone's emotions stabilized, Jasmine explained:

"How can there be any soft method to defeat him? I invested 5 magic stones, but he only used 2.5. I finally got back 30 magic stones. This return on investment is very high, right? That's not all."

As she spoke, Jasmine faced everyone's curious gazes and continued: "I was involved in all his subsequent research. Whether it was the signature of the 'paper' or the 'patent' rights, I had a share."

Jasmine raised Xuenen's chin slightly and said in a proud tone: "Do you think my investment is worth it?"

Everyone was silent after hearing this, not knowing how to express their feelings for a while.

you still need to ask?

It's definitely worth it.

It’s super worthwhile.

The emotions of the five brothers are more complicated than those of the three.

Thinking back on how hard they had worked to get close to Link's thick legs.

The eldest sister is in a good position, she doesn't have to pay anything, and she gets all the good things.

The differences between people are really huge.

Woohoo~

At least three of the five brothers seemed to hear their own cries.

Those are all tears.

The three of them understood why Link was willing to take Jasmine with him in everything.

It turns out there is such a connection.

Well……

I can’t say that their ideas are wrong, I can only say that they are too one-sided.

After such a fuss, everyone's attention has completely shifted, and they are no longer obsessed with research setbacks and experimental difficulties.

While drinking, eating, and resting, they started talking and laughing.

Dalton, who had been hiding for a day, took the opportunity to find Link.

He is responsible for monitoring the surrounding area in real time. His work is very important but also very boring.

"Is there a situation?"

As soon as Dalton came over, Link immediately asked him to sit next to him, handed him a glass of water, and asked with concern.

"Um."

Dalton nodded, took the water glass, took a sip of the sweet purified water made by the boss himself, and then said:

"Lanie Taylor showed up a few more times.

First, we wanted to replicate our method of crossing the river, but the rope was not long enough, and there was no tool to send the rope across.

Later, she tried to glide over, but was driven back by the ferocious beast in the water. "

The speaker has no intention, the listener has intention.

Dalton mentioned the ferocious beasts in the water, and Link suddenly remembered a strange thing.

Or to put it more appropriately, it is a characteristic of this world.

The size of herbivorous animals is relatively normal, whether compared with Link's previous life or the wizarding world.

The carnivorous animals are each larger than the last.

When I first entered this world and met Iris Clark, the group of beasts that looked like jackals but were much taller were like this; (see Chapter 4 of this volume)

Such were the beasts avoided along the way;

When rescuing Dalton, Andrea Norman, Lutz Berry, and Pamir Balves, the giant beast that looked like a Tyrannosaurus rex was lured away like this;

This is true even for the ferocious beast in the river that looks like a crocodile but has more than doubled in size.

This phenomenon is definitely not normal!

Don't worry about Lanny Taylor for the moment, there are more important things at the moment.

"Ask everyone a question."

Link immediately stood up, clapped his hands to attract attention, and then said loudly, "In your impression, what are the characteristics of the sizes of herbivorous animals and carnivorous animals in this world?"

The sudden question really confused everyone.

Especially Jasmine, who has never been out of the sandbank in the center of the river.

After a moment, Lin En, the most thoughtful person, was the first to react.

He stood up in shock and asked in shock: "Boss, do you think that the size of carnivorous animals is too large and seems abnormal?"

This is a point that most people easily overlook.

After all, every world is different.

The animals are larger because they have enough food and nutrition, or they are born that way.

This contrast would be difficult to detect without subdividing the animals and studying herbivores and carnivores separately.

It's like piercing a layer of window paper.

The rest of the people also understood what Link wanted to convey.

There was a lot of discussion.

"Why is this happening?"

"There must be something wrong here that deserves further investigation."

"Understanding the reason may be very helpful to our plan."

"Then how should we proceed? Hunt one or two giant beasts and come back, dissect and slice them into pieces?"

"It's not impossible, it's just a little troublesome."

"Aren't there big and fierce fish in the river? Catch a few fish first and study them."

Meade Valente has not participated in the discussion, but frowned in thought until the discussion subsided.

He slowly stood up and said in a deep voice: "Boss, I have a guess, I don't know whether I should tell it or not."

"It should be said, of course it should be said."

Link stretched out his hand to signal Meade Valente to speak boldly, and at the same time further expressed his stance,

"I emphasize again that we are a team. During internal discussions and brainstorming, anyone, any idea, and any point of view can speak out. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Never, never, never be afraid of making mistakes."

"Thank you, boss."

Meade raised his thick hand and scratched the back of his head, smiled shyly, and then expressed his guess,

"I've actually been thinking, if the contents of the secret passage murals are true, then where did the corpses of the dead gods go? Just after hearing the boss's question, I suddenly came up with a guess, could it be that the corpses of the dead gods went to The whole world was eaten by predators."

hiss……

There was a sound of breathing.

This guess is very bold, and the idea is very strange.

But it has to be said that there is a possibility of it being established, and it is extremely possible.

As we all know, the full name of the college is River South College of Biology and Medicine.

How to cultivate and utilize organisms better, more comprehensively and more efficiently is one of the strengths of the college.

Even if the first grade has not yet touched on related subjects, they have heard about it.

For example, the corpses of Storm Sea's new blood who died in the black area of ​​​​the West City will be recycled by the college, their hearts and lungs will be cut out, and they will be dismembered and cut to make up for the losses and recover their investment.

Therefore, everyone present quickly accepted and approved Meade's guess.

As a god, as a higher creature, wouldn't it be very simple for his body to be eaten by carnivorous animals to promote body growth?

Jasmine sighed: "No wonder I can't do anything to deal with those ferocious beasts in the water. They are all rough-skinned and thick-flesh. Except for self-exploding fire thunder, all attack and witchcraft can't break the defense. It turns out that they ate something good!"

This sentence immediately triggered Dalton's sad past.

He, Andrea, Lutz Berry, and Bamir Balves were crushed and ran away in panic precisely because they could not break through the defenses of the six giant beasts, and were finally blocked in the valley.

There is no way to heaven and no way to earth.

If Link hadn't come to the rescue, he would have been eliminated.

Link couldn't help but recall the situation when he and Iris worked together to lure away the six-headed beast.

Iris threw so many self-exploding fire thunders of various types and types, but they didn't even explode the skin of the giant beast.

That level of firepower is almost the same as the firepower used by Tracy Lucia to bombard the mountain col.

Even if Link wore the "Defender 3202" suit and continued to "double cast", "continuous cast", "parallel cast" and use water shield, he still couldn't withstand it.

If you don't "die" on the spot, you will definitely be seriously injured.

Based on various signs, Link also tends to agree with Meade Valente's guess.

So, here comes the problem again.

Link pressed his hands down slightly, signaling everyone to stop whispering.

After calming down, Link asked: "Assuming Meade's guess is true, the reason why carnivorous animals are generally huge is because they eat the corpses of the dead gods in this world.

So, does this phenomenon and this reason have anything to do with the fact that this world is on the verge of destruction?

Does it help or inspire us to reconstruct a sustainable ecological cycle system? "

These two questions were raised, which triggered a climax of low-pitched discussions among the people.

Lin En has a lot of thoughts and quick brains, and once again responded first: "Boss, I think we can temporarily ignore the connection with the world that is on the verge of being broken, and focus on helping and inspiring us."

"Yeah. Okay."

Link had other ideas in his mind, but he did not refute Lin En's remarks.

With approval, Linn continued: "Carnivorous animals are huge, and their daily consumption naturally increases, and the quantity and quality of food they need to eat immediately increases.

This breaks the original ecological cycle.

There must have been a period of sharp decline in the number of herbivores.

The surviving herbivores were forced to evolve in order to survive longer.

This also requires the consumption of energy and nutrients, so you need to eat more grass.

The ecological vicious circle has further deepened.

In addition, since the reason for the huge size of carnivorous animals is that they eat the corpses of the gods in this world, what about plants?

Don’t plants absorb flesh and blood?

I think there should be.

At least some of it does. "

After hearing this, Ezio immediately asked in a low voice: "Then, how to explain that herbivorous animals generally do not undergo drastic changes in body size?"

Linn replied calmly:

"Plants that have absorbed the flesh and blood of the gods have evolved. For example, those that were originally thornless grew thorns, those that were short became taller, those that were not aggressive became aggressive, and so on.

Many changes have made it impossible for those herbivorous animals to eat.

This is also the nature of plants to survive.

Herbivores lacked high-quality food sources and evolved much slower than carnivores and plants that directly absorbed the flesh and blood of the gods. "

"What you said makes sense."

Ezio has a stubborn personality and immediately admitted it after being convinced.

Others also feel that Lynn's statement has a certain logic.

Buck, who was talkative but never said anything, then stood up and spoke:

“I think we can try to reconstruct the ecosystem from two aspects at the same time.

One is to cultivate herbivorous animals so that they have the ability to eat most plants, especially plants that have absorbed the flesh and blood of the gods and become special;

It also gives them a certain ability to escape from predators.

The second is to cultivate basic, unchanged plants. I remember that the boss had a 'paper' and mentioned a cross-breeding method that might be useful.

The food quality of herbivores has been changed from the bottom up, allowing their evolutionary speed to catch up with carnivores.

In this way, we can return to a balanced ecological cycle. "

Whether it is feasible or not is another matter. It needs to be verified again. At least it has something to say.

Bang bang bang bang...

Everyone else, including Link, applauded consciously, giving Buck a rare thumbs up for excelling in serious matters.

Buck grinned, a little proudly, and sat back.

Seeing that no one had any other thoughts or opinions to express, Link began to summarize and arrange the work.

“I have synthesized everyone’s thoughts, opinions, and speculations.

Then based on the comprehensive conclusion, the following arrangements are made.

If there are any omissions or errors, please feel free to point them out and we will work together to correct them.

First, speed up the analysis and testing of existing water samples, soil, and biological specimens, find out the materials that have undergone special changes, analyze the reasons for the changes, and verify Meade's guess;

If it was true that the corpses of the gods caused the enlargement of carnivorous animals, there would be no traces in water samples, soil, plant specimens, and animal specimens.

this point is very important.

Then, various methods are used to cultivate common plants in order to meet the feeding needs of most herbivorous animals and provide sufficient energy and nutrients;

Finally, reconstruct the ecosystem from three different directions.

The first is based on the improvement of plant 'genes', the second is based on the improvement of herbivorous animal 'genes', and the third is based on the devastating blow to carnivorous animals. "

After saying that, Link looked at Jasmine: "I will continue to work hard for you tomorrow and build another large laboratory."

"no problem."

Jasmine readily agreed.

"Buck, Lynn, take Mead and Terry with you tomorrow and catch two big fish. You will die for the rest of your life."

"Okay, boss."

"Ezio, Dijie, take Betty and continue today's experiment. Be patient and take your time. We have plenty of time."

"Yes, boss. We will pay attention to adjusting our mentality in time."

"Dalton, continue to be responsible for reconnaissance and keep an eye on Lanny Taylor. If she appears by the river again, notify me immediately."

"Make sure to complete the mission."

Jasmine realized that Link had left out himself in his conversation, so she asked aloud: "What about you? Why are you going tomorrow?"

Link replied: "I'm going to go out to find someone and do something?"

"Going to find the crazy girl?"

Jasmine's face became slightly unnatural, and she bit her lower lip slightly with her teeth.

Link said calmly: "We are indeed going to find Iris. There are some things that we need to cooperate with the people in the North District to advance better."

"Is it important? Do you have to find it?"

Jasmine couldn't help but ask again.

"Then go ahead and be safe."

After saying the words, she regretted a little and said:

"Remember to come back early."