Wizard: Starting with Symbiosis with Algae

Chapter 23 Flying Rods are Special Electric Worms

The roof of the test station was covered with dents of varying depths after the hailstorm.

It's nearly two centimeters deep.

Lynn was terrified.

It is foolish to try to fight against nature.

If you don't want to be open-minded, it's best to avoid hail.

He looked at the roof and the yard, which were covered with dusty ice balls. Fortunately, there were always gaps between the ice balls, allowing air to circulate.

As soon as I opened the door, the aroma of potatoes wafted out.

Ruby limped onto the lab table.

Startled worms wriggled in the pool, stirring the water with a splashing sound.

She reached out and pinched the worm, and after several repeated threats of force, the restless worm finally calmed down.

One by one, their heads wriggled, lingering around Ruby's hand like little dogs.

Ruby breathed a sigh of relief: "Very good. Except for one that died of fright, the others are all alive and well."

Lynn: "That's good. You bandage yourself, and I'll clean up the outside."

Ruby nodded in agreement and immediately began clearing the table, seemingly eager to start studying it right away.

Ruby has a great passion for research.

Lynn greatly admired this; people who can focus on the task at hand are rare, and such people are bound to succeed.

He looked up at the slanted ventilation shaft overhead and swung his vines to sweep the hailstones down.

It's like squeezing out the oil from a pimple, or playing a puzzle game.

Such cleaning brings joy.

Lynn repeated the action until there wasn't a single coin left on the roof.

He rubbed his wrist and caught a glimpse of blue-green in his field of vision.

Blue-green?

Lynn stopped and looked around.

What is it?

Lynn covered her head, feeling like she had forgotten something important.

He walked through the hail-strewn garden, chasing the hailstones down the slope as he headed toward the red boulder next to the house.

蓝绿色

like.

Blue-green algae are blue-green in color.

A thought flashed through Lynn's mind. He remembered, and then he saw it: the giant blue algae standing firm amidst the hail.

It stands so upright that it seems to be able to be described with all the fine qualities of perseverance and patience.

Lynn was stunned.

This is his resilient and reliable brother.

Its high consumption and high output characteristics make it difficult to survive in the early stages.

However, their gigantic size also gives blue-light algae a more resilient ability to fight crises.

Definitely a late-game hero.

So, out of a sense of responsibility to his good friend, he quickly walked up to the blue algae and carefully examined it.

"Hey bro, let me check if you're hurt."

Because the tendrils are too thick at the ends, they cannot be controlled with the precision of a wizard's hand. Even the slightest force will uproot the algae.

Lynn decided to use her hands.

He easily moved aside the largest hailstones above the blue algae's head.

Unexpectedly, the blue light algae quickly regained its upright posture through its own power, its fluorescence flashing and full of vitality.

He pressed the back of his hand against an algae leaf, where it felt slightly warm.

As we all know, releasing heat is the most direct way to combat cold.

This is one way that blue-green algae combats the cold.

The fact that blue-light algae could stand up and release heat during hail proved to Lynn that, given enough nutrients, it could survive hail on its own.

Lynn didn't know what benefit the heat generated by the blue-light algae would provide for him, but a heat-generating algae might provide shelter for small animals during a cold snap.

The sound of hailstones pelting down echoed through the sky once more.

Lynn used vines to shield himself while looking back. The giant blue algae stood tall and proud amidst the hail. Its main root was invisible, but it had dug at least ten meters into the ground, its lateral roots winding around the base of the rock and entwining its sides. The algae was firmly anchored to the sand by its root system; the hailstones hitting its filaments only caused it to sway slightly.

To this, Lynn could only say...

"Well done, blue-light algae."

Back inside, the hailstones pounded against the roof.

Lynn took a deep breath and switched to thinking mode. If the hail continued to fall, then the weather was far from the coldest time, and Lynn had two plans for getting through the coldest days.

One option was to sleep with a worm in your arms, but the thought of that made Lynn's scalp tingle.

As for the second method, it is to use woven clothing for warmth.

Humans don't need hair because other creatures have grown it for them.

For example, worms.

If any members of the Love Worms Association stand up and object.

Lynn resolutely stated that since the worm had not objected, the worm should respect its own wishes.

...

anyway

Since it's going to be processed into powder anyway, we can't just let it go to waste.

So Lynn asked

"Ruby, can you weave clothes out of hair?"

Ruby looked up and glanced at Lynn suspiciously.

What do you think?

He can't do this kind of delicate work, and neither can Ruby. One specializes in herbs, and the other in worms, so it's normal that they can't process them.

Ruby's senior seemed to be involved in alchemy, and Lynn thought he should know how to do it.

Therefore, Lynn could only trim the cilia of some worms that were originally intended to be ground into powder.

He collected the fluff, put it into an empty powder bag, inflated it into a small ball, and stuffed it into a small blanket inside the experimental station.

Lynn gently patted the ball; it was light, soft, and had excellent warmth retention to the touch.

"It would be great if worms could grow more hair without losing flesh."

Lynn sighed inwardly.

A few minutes later, the temperature dropped again as hail fell.

This is not just a simple climate phenomenon; there must be some kind of magic involved.

Who knows what this area will look like after a few more cold spells?

Ruby felt Lynn's gaze, snapped out of her daze, and said with some guilt, "Looking at me, do you want to learn magic on your own? Not today, I'd better use magic tomorrow."

Lynn replied

"No, I don't have that idea at the moment."

"I'm just thinking about how to get through this winter."

Rather than having Ruby teach him magic, the most important thing now is to hold out until the rescue team arrives.

He should focus on dealing with the sudden hailstorm.

The smell of earth wafted from outside.

The water from the melting hail seeped into the red sand.

Lynn glanced at the giant blue algae through the crack in the wall one last time.

All three plants survived perfectly, with the sand around their roots firmly secured, and the water from the hailstorm bypassing the roots without washing away from the trench.

Their heat release continues, and the air at the edge of the algae plates is slightly heated.

There shouldn't be any problems.

Lynn roasted potatoes, occasionally feeding Ruby some.

As an injured person, Ruby shamelessly accepted being fed.

Lynn wasn't surprised. Ruby had been like this for a while now.

The power dynamic between the two has evolved from him being slightly at a disadvantage to at least being equal.

He is sensitive to this.

About three hours later.

Ruby jotted down notes about the unusual worm in her notebook while sharing her questions with Lynn.

"This is likely a special individual. Its magical power level is much higher than that of a typical worm."

She pinned the unusual worm to the lab table and gently pressed its head segment with tweezers.

"However, Lynn, I have made a very strange discovery."