Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 463: The Great Buddha's Journey to the West
The next day, Emerald City.

Zhou Yi was eating rice with pickled radish and grilled fish.

He suddenly thought.

Is it possible that cavemen are also hydrogen-based life forms?
Zhou Yi immediately established a consciousness connection and asked Dong Shi.

"It turns out there is hydrogen-based life."

"Mr. Jay, you are really knowledgeable. I will record this with the administrator so that I don't forget it."

But it's not certain either.

Dong suggested: "Perhaps there are relevant descriptions in the records, but not in the shelter. We can find 300 million of our kind and put them into the hydrogen-based life environment to see if they can survive. If they survive, it means we might be, and if they die, it means we are not."

Zhou Yi shook his head: "Forget it. There is no need to send 300 million cavemen to their deaths for a guess."

Dong Shi, however, believed that "they died for the purpose of gaining more knowledge and experience. They died for a good reason."

Zhou Yi: “…”

The other party explained: "Mr. Zhou, the life cycle of cavemen is very short. According to the time calculation here, it only takes 60 minutes from birth to natural death. Even if they don't participate in these tests, they will die anyway."

"The experience and knowledge we have accumulated is accumulated through the death of a large number of our kind. The dead cavemen are here to do this. Their death will provide valuable records for their offspring and the entire group."

"It is the caveman's duty to make death meaningful."

After it said this, Zhou Yi understood.

This is a cultural consensus among the cave people. When they are dying, they will give back the last bit of value of their lives to the group.

I thought that since the cave people themselves did this, it was fine.

Zhou Yi took the Shell Shelter all the way to Maria Hospital and found Da Vinci for experimental testing.

The experiment was set up in the hospital's scientific research building.

Following the advice of the tracers, Leonardo da Vinci built four simple hydrogen-based life environments.

These four artificial ecological boxes correspond to low-temperature environment, high-pressure environment, oxygen-free state, and liquid hydrogen environment, respectively, and contain the main scenes for the emergence of hydrogen-based life.

30 minute later.

Leonardo da Vinci gave an observation report based on the experiment: "The current 300 experimental cavemen are all dead."

"The data clearly show that cavemen absorb some hydrides, such as water, methane, and hydrogen sulfide for metabolism, but they cannot survive and metabolize solely on a hydrogen-based environment, so the hypothesis is not valid."

Zhou Yi was not disappointed either.

At least one incorrect answer is eliminated.

"There is another discovery in this experiment."

The electromechanical doctor continued, "In order to conduct a controlled experiment, I also designed corresponding extreme environments. That is, high temperature environment, low pressure environment, aerobic state and gaseous environment, four control groups."

"The control group proved that the cavemen are a type of thermophilic bacteria. They are active in high temperature environments, and their activity and motility at 80-120 degrees Celsius are significantly higher than those at normal temperatures. When the temperature exceeds 300 degrees Celsius, their activity disappears, and physiological damage occurs due to further temperature increases."

"So they can easily adapt to the environment of the floating heart, where once the death light reaction starts, it will produce a sustained high fever."

"In addition, cave people have no problem surviving in oxygen-free and high-pressure environments."

"From this, we can infer that the cave people originally lived in a high-temperature environment, where frequent geological activities caused drastic temperature fluctuations. They may have replenished their energy through energy sources such as lightning, ultraviolet rays or hydrothermal vents," said Da Vinci.

"This mechanism is similar to that of the archaea at the beginning of life on Earth."

Zhou Yi thought.

No wonder the cavemen can get along well with the plankton on Earth, as they have many similarities in physiology with life on Earth.

He couldn't help but ask: "Is this a coincidence?"

"unconfirmed."

Leonardo da Vinci said: "Based on this experiment, we can infer that when cavemen were born, the Mud Tree World should have had thin oxygen, long-term high temperatures, and abundant energy. The eruption of the circular current caused local natural disasters to be frequent and more severe."

"Only cave people can survive in such an extreme environment. It is also because of such harsh natural conditions that species cannot have diversity."

"It was not until many years later, after a long period of evolution and change in nature, that new life appeared."

Unfortunately, Dong himself knew nothing about the history of his ethnic group.

Only by obtaining more clay tablets can we truly read the history of the rise and fall of the cave people.

Zhou Yi turned his attention back to hydrogen-based life.

There are electric cat survival areas on both Earth and Mars, with the same holes in the sky, transparent castles made of 7 times diamond, and fluid hydrogen-based life at their core.

This can be seen.

The Golden Elephant herdsmen attach great importance to fluid hydrogen-based life. Raising cats is only a means rather than an end. It is to build an organic ecology so that hydrogen-based life can be born.

Zhou Yi summoned Xiaofu: "I don't quite understand. Since so much effort has been put into cultivating hydrogen-based life, why did the Golden Elephant herders leave the half-built Forbidden Paradise on Earth unfinished, and then they just abandoned their work and ran away when they were annoyed by the electric cats on Mars... Are advanced civilizations also so emotional when doing things?"

"Hard to say."

The tracer said: "Not everything is done within a rational framework." "I once visited the ruins left by an advanced civilization, and there were records there that they went to war with another civilization because a bird-like creature they carefully raised was put on the table by the other civilization and eaten every day."

"A hundred-year war broke out between the two sides. In the end, the bird-raising civilization won, and the bird-eating civilization had to sign an agreement, promising not to eat this kind of bird anymore. Only then did the war end."

Zhou Yi: “…”

"It sounds outrageous and counterintuitive, right? In fact, the reason is very simple."

Xiaofu said seriously, "Because everyone has a different value system. What we treasure may be garbage to others. What one group of people consider to be a sacred area that cannot be violated may be desecrated by another group every day... It is not uncommon for large-scale conflicts and wars to evolve into this."

"It's true that the Golden Elephant herders raise electric cats, it's true that they get tired of the cats' noise, it's true that they decide to build a forbidden park to create a death experience, and it's normal that they give up in the end."

"These two things show that they like to raise all kinds of life. They have powerful life-raising skills, but they don't have much patience."

Zhou Yi thought about it and it made sense.

Isn't it the same for human beings?

When you keep a pet, your love for it is real, and your annoyance at abandoning it is also real.

The ambition to create a landmark at the beginning of the massive construction project was real, but the unfinished project and the subsequent running away and pretending to be dead were also real.

……

Two days later, the kestrel suddenly flew over in a hurry.

"Zhou, there is news about us from the Western Continent."

Zhou Yi immediately thought: "Something happened in Huayi?"

"No. It's the Leshan Giant Buddha. It's fighting a local natural disaster over there."

Zhou Yi frowned: "What's going on?"

Hong Jian started talking immediately.

After leaving Shagang, the Buddha headed westward.

Because the East Continent region is relatively stable overall.

Especially with all the big moves on the legal front right now, no one can withstand it except the Wasteland Development Company.

The owners of various territorial waters are all worried about becoming the next target of annexation by the legal front, so everyone is honestly shrinking their development and no one dares to be the first to cause trouble.

"The main territory of the Kingdom of Heaven is also in the East. There is an empire here, with a large population, and the overall situation is under control. If a war breaks out, many refugees will flee to the Kingdom of Heaven regardless of everything. Even if they cannot obtain citizenship of the Kingdom of Heaven there, they are willing to work as slaves without any protection in the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore, this forces the lords of various sea territories to operate carefully to avoid the loss of population under their rule."

"The West is the territory of various governors and Guangna cities. A large number of sea lords have long been in local separatist regimes, and annexation and wars are more frequent than here."

Hong Shun briefly introduced this: "Due to historical and environmental influences, the situation in the Eastern Continent is more stable and gradually tends to be dominated by urban areas. Both the Light Nascent Souls and the Enhancers tend to work together to build cities."

"The Western Continent has become a cultural reliance on each party to raise troops and plunder each other. It is common for large forces to plunder small forces, and small forces to plunder civilian groups. Civilians are easily transformed into thieves, and many towns rely on forming plundering groups to go out and generate income."

Zhou Yi understood.

The East Continent developed an agricultural culture, while the West Continent was a place of perennial hunting and fighting.

"Against this backdrop, the Buddha headed west, because there were more people in need of help and in crisis there."

The drone continued, "According to the satellite records of Xingshu, the Buddha was attacked by the Guangna army soon after entering the Western Continent."

"Because it's too far away from the company, and Yicheng has a monopoly on trade, the company's goods flow slowly there, and its influence hasn't expanded yet. So they know very little about the company."

"These Light Na soldiers dared to attack the Buddha because the Buddha would not attack or fight back against them, so they acted recklessly. Because the alien itself is of great value, they wanted to capture the Buddha and take it away to sell it."

Zhou Yi's eyelids twitched when he heard this.

These local gangs in the Western Continent are so unruly.

The light core body passed by and even dared to rob... This shows that the people over there are indeed tough and daring.

but.

The Buddha's abilities are to [attract life] and [put down the butcher knife]. The more people it affects, the stronger its own abilities become, and it is strongly related to the interactive feedback from the outside world.

It becomes stronger when it is hit.

From this point of view, it is a good idea to go to the Western Continent.

Zhou Yi asked: "And then?"

Hong Xun said: "Although the Buddha has been attacked, those forces cannot harm it at all, especially since it is still in the Dead Sea and is in the most suitable environment."

"So all those attacks were directly borne by the Buddha. It also eliminated the hostility of a large number of looters and attackers, and even rescued some challengers who were weakened and unconscious due to their desperate attacks. Relying on its strength and unique behavior, it gradually became famous there."

"But recently, the Buddha has been in big trouble."

The Kestrel paused.

"It sank into the Dead Sea after being seriously injured due to fighting against a super light explosion of the light core level..."

Zhou Yi frowned: "Rescue immediately!"

(End of this chapter)