Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 418 Uniting All Strengths

To be on the safe side, Zhou Yi invited Da Vinci and Mr. Liu and Chen to come and inspect it together.

The two inventors of the floating heart immediately began comparative experiments.

Liu Fusheng observed the different results of the two hearts and murmured, "Without increasing the number and intensity of plankton, it can produce three times the energy of the first generation heart per unit time... It's amazing that such a degree of optimization can be achieved just by changing the structure."

"This type of plankton is highly compatible with our heart device and should be cultivated on a large scale!"

Chen Ruixiang adjusted his thick-bottomed glasses and said, "Will there be any risks? The energy conversion rate is so high, and there is a three-fold difference in this order of magnitude, which is already a huge generation gap. For example, the loss of plankton, and the reduction of their own population due to excessive conversion..."

Zhou Yi told the story of the cave people.

The two old engineers were sitting upright at first, but when they heard the cavemen moving the space bubble, they became confused, and they were at a loss for the rest of the time.

"This is too..."

Liu Fusheng's lips moved, trying hard to find the right words. Finally, he smiled bitterly: "Chairman, you brought all the cavemen here... I feel that the experience and technology I have accumulated in the past have become meaningless and not worth mentioning in comparison with them."

Chen Ruixiang looked around the floating heart containing the caveman and rubbed his hands. "Amazing! Amazing! I didn't expect that I would be able to see such a powerful civilization in my lifetime. I didn't expect that they were so small and could create such amazing technology."

"As expected, if you live long enough, there will be new things to see! It's great to be alive!"

Zhou Yi smiled and said, "The cave people were a group that relied heavily on the accumulation of technical experience and information recording. They did create a strong and unique civilization."

"But now in this part of the Emerald City, there are few in number and lack their [record places]. Without those clay tablets that serve as technical manuals, they don't understand anything."

"Not long ago, the cave people fought back and forth with the local plankton, and many people died."

Chen Ruixiang was shocked: "Don't do that, Chairman. We have to protect them! If one dies, it will be a huge loss!"

Liu Fusheng glared at Chen Ruixiang and said, "Are you confused? If they are kept in captivity and protected, it would be a waste of natural resources and lose their own advantages."

"They need to come into contact with the outside world, gradually activate and adapt here, and then they can further reproduce and iterate on a large scale. Otherwise, they will be like those endangered species in captivity. They can't survive without protection and can only become ornamental playthings."

“…That’s what you said.”

Chen Ruixiang laughed a little embarrassedly: "Now it seems that they have adapted well. However, I still find it difficult to understand the principle behind the improvement in energy conversion of the floating heart device. How do they do it?"

“They increase the efficiency of biological energy conversion.”

After completing the tedious tests, Da Vinci spoke up: "The plankton communities we collected from Yalong Bay are generally stable. When they take in oil and sugar, they react to the death ray, and the energy conversion rate to the heart machinery is in the range of 10%, with fluctuations of no more than 1%."

"But after the cavemen joined, they connected with each other, and a large number of individuals formed a stable organization. The energy was transmitted in a targeted manner, and the conversion rate increased to about 32%."

"Their physiological structure inherently has a strong ability to capture and absorb energy, and they can efficiently transfer energy through a large number of small molecules such as ATP (adenosine triphosphate)."

"The cavemen are always connected to each other and move in a group rather than individually. This is already a microscopic biological device that can effectively utilize energy as much as possible, expand the reaction area, and move in a similar way, which can effectively reduce the internal loss during the death light reaction."

Zhou Yi asked: "Are most of the people in the heart now cavemen?"

"No, Chairman, the number of cavemen only accounts for about 0.5%. The vast majority are the previous plankton communities."

The electromechanical doctor projected a high-powered microscope image on the wall.

In the dynamic image, the plankton combine with each other to form a strange linear structure, just like different blocks in Tetris are assembled together.

These linear structures have a three-dimensional network structure in the center, forming a more complex and interconnected form.

A large number of microscopic life forms eventually merged into a huge mesh ball.

They maintain a jellyfish-like floating posture, further building a mesh structure from the inside out, and further extending and growing a linear structure outward.

If the plankton before were scattered soldiers, now they are fighting in groups.

Zhou Yi was a little confused: "Only 0.5% of the cave people can connect to other plankton?"

“This cannot be confirmed from observational evidence.”

“The reason is unknown,” said Leonardo.

Zhou Yi also questioned the person involved through consciousness synchronization.

Dong replied: "We exchanged life information with them, and they also connected with us."

"In fact, not all of our kind connect with us, only about 90%. These are the ones with small bodies and some difficulty in individual survival. Connecting with us can get more energy in each transformation. The ones who are unwilling to connect for a long time are the ones with larger bodies and higher individual strengths, and they prefer to act independently."

Zhou Yi understood now.

The cave people's special physiological structure can link a large number of external individuals into a whole, and the same is true for other plankton here.

Zhou Yi couldn't help but be curious: "If there are enough of you, there should be further qualitative changes, right?"

"Yes."

Dong said proudly, "If there are enough of our kind, we can create a new record place!"

Huh?
This qualitative change is different from what Zhou Yi imagined.

He also thought that when there were enough cavemen, they would transform into organ tissues like cells, and then each organ would form a giant life aggregate.

"Ah? There's no such thing..."

Dong explained: "We actually have a limit on quantity. More quantity is definitely better, but too much will cause new problems. Just upgrading will lead to constant local damage, and exceeding a certain scale will become less efficient."

"Fragile life forms, no matter how many of them there are, are just a bunch of fragile and short-lived lives. They cannot be directly transformed into powerful life forms. At least, in our experience, this is impossible."

“What we need to do is to create a record place.”

Back to the caveman clay tablet.

Zhou Yixin agreed.

Still use the traditional method of the cave people.

He asked, "Do you need to make a record site out of mud to record the current situation?"

Dong said: "If you have any, please provide some to us. Any clay from the Dead Sea will do. It's just the base plate. The most important carrier is us." "The dying individuals will become part of the record. Each one will carry a part of life information, arranged and connected in a specific order. Through their bodies sealed by energy shells, later generations of the same kind can read a lot of information. As long as we touch it, we can immediately obtain and copy those experiences."

"At present, we only have the shelter, which is equivalent to a record site. There is no such thing in the outside world. The individuals that entered the floating heart, although they are cave people, carry very little information and are not very intelligent. They cannot form group thinking like me. It is because they lack a record site that they cannot read and learn."

Zhou Yi was shocked.

The caveman clay tablets actually used the caveman corpses as information carriers.

No wonder they can directly read the records inside.

This method may seem barbaric and brutal at first glance, but it is extremely simple and effective. The biological information is sealed and stored, fixed layer by layer in the clay tablet, and can last for many years.

Zhou Yi pulled himself back to his senses.

There was one more thing that needed to be determined immediately.

Cavemen can have a huge boost on floating hearts.

Are the cavemen integrated into the hearts for the company's own use, or are all hearts operated in this way?

This world is ruled by the heavenly beings. If there are cavemen supporting the microscopic field, there will be more possibilities in the future. The more people who use the heart, the more cavemen will belong to the company.

The real enemy is the celestial being.

It’s just that Tianren’s strength is too high, and the company is still in a dormant period of development, so we have to keep a low profile.

We must unite all forces to deal with future crises between heaven and man.

The cavemen were weak and not easy to be discovered or noticed. They had already proven themselves to be able to harness light-nuclear energy and even developed space technology.

As long as they increase in number and obtain clay tablets from the Mud Tree World, they will be able to regain their former power.

Zhou Yi thought for a while.

He looked at Elder Liu and Elder Chen and said, "You two, I plan to ask the cave people to improve all the hearts."

"But before that, we will first complete the coverage of all the hearts within the company, and then gradually roll it out to the entire Development League, and finally launch it to the outside world."

"From a professional perspective, what do you think?"

Liu Fusheng was the first to agree: "That's great. The special physiological structure and tendencies of cave people have greatly improved the floating heart. If all the hearts of the company are upgraded, our power generation will increase by 3 times!"

Chen Ruixiang thought for a moment and said, "This method is very safe. We will observe internally first. If there are any problems, we can make adjustments early, replace the system within the company, and then gradually promote it externally. This will free up enough time for us to conduct inspections and tests."

Zhou Yi discussed it with Dong Shi, who also readily agreed.

So the plan was finalized.

The number of cavemen needed to change a floating heart is not large, only 150 are needed.

This basic number is enough to exchange information with other plankton and reproduce a large number of offspring. The new generation of cavemen has the strong reproduction ability of the local area and can split itself every 20 minutes to double its number.

Therefore, it only took the cavemen two days to move into the floating heart.

Another four days passed.

The floating hearts improved by the cave people have become stronger and more powerful, showing twice the efficiency of the second-generation hearts. This also makes all departments of the company more comfortable, and the electric cats are open to running and transmitting electricity, everywhere in the sky and underground.

……

The combination of the caveman and the floating heart showed a very strong chemical reaction.

In the company, the name of Dongren gradually became well-known.

However, as the genuine successor of the caveman civilization, the mud tree man Nige is somewhat depressed.

He found Zhou Yi and said, "Chairman, I don't understand."

"The cavemen are so small and fragile, yet they can create clay tablets and energy blocks, and can move and use space bubbles. Why can't we, the mud tree people, do the same? It doesn't make sense."

Zhou Yi smiled and said, "I think that it is because the Mud Tree People are inherently much stronger that they do not need to spend as much time seeking survival as the Cave People do. They use the corpses of their own kind as information carriers to make clay tablets. I heard from the Cave Clan that many of their technologies were developed by piling up corpses."

"You have found the Pan Tree and the Dingtian Tree, so your life is not difficult. Of course, there is no need to develop so many technologies."

The environment forces life to change.

The Mud Tree People live in a simple mode. When they were born, they found trees as their habitat and food source, and they have no motivation to develop various technologies. They only need to cultivate better plant tools to get more delicious fruits.

The cavemen, however, had nothing, were fragile and short-lived, so they had to desperately transform the environment, try various things, and use everything they had. Instead, they relied on the accumulation of generations to produce amazing civilization achievements.

Zhou Yi's words made Nige fall into deep thought.

"That seems to be the case."

"Chairman..."

The Mud Tree Man hesitated for a moment: "Are we Mud Tree People... very frustrated?"

Zhou Yi was stunned for a moment, then said: "No, I think the Dingtian Tree you developed is stronger than the Space Tree. Because the Dingtian Tree is a natural habitat, can produce food, and is the core of biological tools. If I have to choose between the two, I must choose the Dingtian Tree."

The Mud Tree Man finally smiled: "When it comes to trees and fruits, we are indeed very strong."

"Last month, except for the one where Heifu was, the other seven Pan trees all had a bumper harvest, producing 7 fruits."

"Now they are growing very lushly, almost 40 meters tall and very wide. The tree demons' improvement and fertilizer technology is truly amazing!"

Zhou Yi was also happy to hear this.

Dead Sea fruit is an important nutrient for improving the physical fitness of company employees.

According to the cycle of the trees producing one round of fruits every two months, they will be gradually distributed to employees and students next year to improve everyone's vitality.

Only with a good body can you live and work better!
(End of this chapter)