Lu Ping'an's new life did not start happily. The world was not friendly from the beginning.
"I'm afraid this ordinary person will get cooked if he stays here for a long time." Just this outdoor temperature has prevented the natural reproduction of most of the earth's animals, and has also caused the high prices of local "earth meat and vegetables".
In fact, even in the lowest areas, mortals need various facilities, props and even divine grace to ensure their livability.
If they left the towns built at the bottom of the world, they would be like ants in an ant nest that were ignited in a forest fire, and they would die worthless.
The "technology" and "local specialties" that Lu Pingan is most concerned about are also quite subtle from the results.
"Are most industries and products at the top?" Even research institutions are at the higher level.
Lu Pingan was not in a hurry to get up and go. He always felt that "research" must start from the basics.
Compared with the chaotic world above, he believes that "basic" research must be done first. The ordinary soldiers, logistics, and researchers in his courtyard also need time to adapt to the environment, and various materials need to wait for research reports to be produced.
, sociology, geography, introduction to elements and many other aspects of basic information need to be accumulated.
Lu Ping'an felt that if he really wanted to analyze something, I'm afraid it would be easier to see the trend with marginal basic samples.
The most he has gone to is around the tenth floor.
And the layer here is not a floor, but more like a "height" concept. You can be on the tenth floor of the mountain one moment, climb to the eleventh floor of the plateau the next moment, and then accidentally slide into the ninth floor.
Lava lake.
What makes Lu Ping An even more helpless is the severe water shortage in this world, which is a nightmare condition for gardeners who mainly focus on magic plants.
Fortunately, there were already high-level gardeners working here before Lu Pingping came.
They came up with a special magic plant that can live here and produce water-rich fruits. This alleviates the problem to a certain extent. If a large lake really appears, it will evaporate instantly and break away from the existence of an independent water source.
, seemingly does not exist at all.
This in itself is actually quite advanced, meaning that the inventor has a special extraordinary module that "converts heat and energy into life energy".
Of course, the water produced in this way is quite inferior and even has a sandy smell.
"It seems that I can just sell water, but I don't even have enough."
Lu Ping'an's courtyard has a water source, but it is also produced regularly. If you want to increase the amount, you can use life points to exchange for it, but it is obviously not cost-effective.
This reality means that he cannot use magic plant mass production tactics. If many magic plants are thrown out, they will definitely not be recycled, and it is impossible to plant them on a large scale outside.
"Looking at the best, magic plants and related materials can be sold at a good price here."
He set up several experimental fields, purchased the extremely expensive "water melon tree species", and used them as a water source to conduct localized experiments on magic plants in the bottom layer (where the temperature is the lowest).
Let’s take a look at which species can adapt to the local environment, and what surprises they can bring to themselves after adapting.
On the other hand, what really attracted Lu Ping An to stay were the local "residents".
"This way of birth is a bit interesting."
Lu Pingan was lying on the plain, resting but also "working", watching the busy collectors working in front of him, waiting for their results, which was considered his own work.
In the courtyard, a large amount of materials have been piled up, and the expert team is busy, hoping to come up with theoretical results for the operation of the courtyard production system as soon as possible.
What attracted Lu Pingan's attention, and even made him not intend to leave for a short time, was the mystery of the birth of life in front of him.
"There is no reproduction behavior, no father or mother, just born like this?!"
Right in front of Lu Ping'an's eyes, the local fragmented red "elements" gathered on their own, forming a whirlwind of elements.
When the whirlwind extinguished, a round and fat "elemental man" appeared. It had no obvious limb structure, but seemed to be the most basic unit of life.
At this time, some of its predecessors walked over and brought it to the town. After a period of study, it will have a certain degree of wisdom and knowledge, and start to mimic it in order to survive.
So, what happens if there is no one to guide you?
“More interesting”
Lu Pingping went up to the fifth and sixth floors. There were still basic "elemental people" born here, but they were larger than their counterparts on the lower floors. Soon after they were born, they would face the hunting of elemental wolves and elemental dragons.
The one who runs slowly will die naturally, and the one who evolves slowly is about the same. If you can evolve into an elemental wolf within dozens of hours, then even if you are not accepted by the wolf pack, you can survive independently for a period of time and try to
Complete new evolution.
Lu Ping'an can easily crush a piece of the lowest elemental beings, but this kind of plasticity makes them very mysterious.
He captured a lot of low-level elemental dragons, elemental wolves and those spheres, and dissected them in all aspects, but the answer given by the logistics team was that they were completely different at the genetic level.
In other words, they are not simply "accumulated", but have undergone transformation in their life forms.
"Is it possible for magic plants to exist in such an environment?"
Plants and animals are different. Excluding intelligent creatures, ordinary animals are adaptors and predators of the environment, while plants are symbionts and transformers of the environment.
He searched higher up, but didn't find it. Instead, he found something at the bottom.
That is "grass" or elemental grass roots.
In fact, it is ubiquitous on the earth and is an aggregation of local elements, and most elemental life is born on these grass roots.
"Uh, ginseng fruit?"
Lu Ping'an dug it out, and what he got were crystal-like roots, which seemed to instinctively gather the surrounding elements to form a hotbed of new elemental life.
Is this natural? Or is it a modified product of superior organisms?
Safe roads need more.
He compared it and found similar products in the upper layers, but perhaps because the basic particles were more aggregated and showed obvious crystallization, the newborns they produced seemed to have a higher starting point.
"It seems that this world still has ecological cycles of nature, plants (producers), and animals (consumers). Well, as cyclic converters of energy and resources, it may not necessarily be plants, and animals themselves do not seem to need genes for reproduction.
By exchanging, life can also evolve."
If you are a low-level gardener, you probably won't be able to connect those crystals and plants together. They actually have no life response.
But an existence like Lu Ping'an has actually transcended some of the limitations of life and death.
He can really "I am thinking". If he thinks you are a plant, you probably really are.
"Life investment really works!"
When he invested in it and successfully cultivated a large vein of crystals in the manor, he also began to analyze the structure of the underlying logic of this world.
At this time, the local master's envoy finally found him and found this strange reinforcement who was not doing his job, digging holes everywhere and catching pets.