Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 117 Metal Life, Second Generation Bacteria

Tiewei took the coffee cup to the kitchen to wash it.

The lighthouse has no running water or well water. In the past, people had to carry buckets to the river near the town to fetch water, which was a long round trip.

Now Lin Bo uses distilled water and uses the Fierce Control Technique to vibrate the sea water. The generated water vapor enters the copper tube, condenses, and is collected in a bucket.

Although this is also a way to train the Mantra Bending Technique, it is not very efficient. Just like rocks are not suitable for the Life Bending Technique, sea water is not suitable for the Fierce Bending Technique. Therefore, he cannot use water freely.

Now that the underground alchemy workshop has been connected to the power supply, Lin Bo has planned to install a distiller, which he can design and manufacture himself.

He planned to build a water purification room underground, dig a pipeline to connect to the sea, use a water pump to draw seawater, filter and distill the clean water, and then pump it to the lighthouse.

After the electricity is turned on, the water supply should be turned on. This is also a relatively troublesome project.

Back on the second floor, logging into the online chat interface, Lin Bo continued to discuss with netizens the improvement plans for mechanical prosthetic technology.

The two ideas proposed by [Garbage Picking Up] are very inspiring. To make mechanical prostheses as flexible as arms and fingers, the key lies in neuron design.

The active metal wire made by the crazy dwarf can transmit nerve signals, making the brain believe it is true, so the alchemy beast can move so nimbly and naturally.

However, active metal wire is, after all, "metal that looks like living things" and cannot resolve the body's rejection reaction. It is clearly separated from neuronal cells and can only be forcibly connected to the spinal cord.

If we continue down this path, we will inevitably undergo even greater mechanization transformations, until we become the final alchemical elephant, with the entire body made of machinery, leaving only the biological brain as the control center.

Lin Bo hopes to combine the prosthetic limb's nervous system with the organism itself, so that the broken nerve bundles can grow together with the prosthetic limb. This requires taking another approach, "like a metal organism."

The "mud monsters" mentioned in [Garbage Pickup] are a type of living, viscous liquid, known as slimes in some worlds. Some mud monsters can even become adventurers, traveling across the multiverse, and there's no guarantee that there won't be players among them.

Some oozes feed on metal, acquiring strong, conductive bodies whose nerve clusters possess the strength of metal and the complexity of biomass.

According to netizens, she also had the idea of ​​creating biological armor using metal mud monsters. A mass of mud monsters coexisting with the host can surge out of the body surface during combat and transform into power armor or prosthetic limbs.

This living armor can be operated just like one's own hands and feet, and is even more flexible.

Mud monsters are also available on the Duolian Duoyi platform as an option for players to develop the "farming" route. Just like Lin Bo chose the all-purpose fungus, [Picking up trash makes me happy] chose Mud Monsters.

At present, the solution lies in the all-round fungus strain. This is what Lin Bo plans to do. He wants to combine the biological properties of mycelium with the toughness of active metals.

If one were to approach this from the perspective of an alchemist, the first method they would think of is to throw the mycelium and active metal into a furnace together to calcine and smelt them, and after the process of blackening, whitening, and yellowing, they would eventually obtain a reddish product with perfectly uniform physical properties.

Lin Bo thought from the perspective of a mushroom farmer. He planned to cultivate metal mushrooms just like he cultivated metal mud monsters.

"Mushroom Agronomy" records that the all-round fungus will evolve adaptive traits according to the environment. In the forest, it may climb on the tree trunk like wood ear, and in the desert, it may simulate the hard shell and thorns similar to those of cactus.

It's possible for a versatile fungus to grow on steel, but the prerequisite is that it must be very strong and possess miraculous powers to break down metal for energy. Currently, the fungus in the East Cliff Grottoes is far from reaching such a high level of evolution.

So Lin Bo needs to prepare some easily digestible metal, such as "red rust loam". Spellcasters use this powdered soil that is smelted and purified from a large amount of metal when cultivating some potions with unique growing environments.

Red rust loam is a basic alchemical formula, and the detailed production method is included in the textbook purchased by Lin Bo.

The process is also very simple. The main raw materials are just iron and sand, and the auxiliary materials are the flesh and blood of magical creatures, which can be replaced by whale meat.

Before dawn, after completing his daily study tasks, Lin Bo went into the alchemy workshop with the materials.

Although it was still a bit empty, the spaciousness made him feel very happy.

He pushed the door open and walked into the alchemy room that he had built bit by bit. He looked at the pipes for the alchemy fire ceremony spread on the ground, the whale oil tanks high at the foot of the wall, the gray steel intelligent alchemy furnace standing in the middle of the room, the bright chandelier above his head, the hexagrams carved on the eight walls, the sink and the sewage pipe.

A retro and sophisticated professional atmosphere hits you in the face, mixed with the complex smells of metal, grease, rubber and lime putty, forming a unique fresh smell, which shows the state of things that have not been disturbed by time and dust.

Today is the first day of furnace opening.

Lin Bo first turned on the exhaust fan. This was the only room in the alchemy workshop equipped with a ventilation system. After the stray air was exhausted, it was easier for him to smell the elixir energy emanating from the furnace.

Iron Guard followed behind the Night Watchman, and the camera recorded all his actions.

Lin Bo was neither hurried nor slow as he checked the devices of the Danhuo Ceremony, tapping and touching them gently, listening to what they had to say.

Then he turned on the computer system of the furnace and performed a functional self-check.

After confirming everything was correct, the oil tank valve was opened, allowing the whale oil to flow through the pipeline, like blood being pumped from the heart, passing through the enchanted artifact, much like flowing through the liver. Finally, the refined whale oil was connected to the alchemy furnace, igniting into billowing whale flames that filled the fire chamber. The intelligent monitoring system displayed the real-time temperature, which soared to over a thousand degrees, but the excellent insulation kept the furnace's outer walls cool.

Lin Bo sighed, it was indeed professional equipment, much better than a pressure cooker.

He put the raw materials into the feeding port, set the feeding temperature and order, and then all he had to do was wait. If an accident occurred, he would need to intervene in time.

The whole operation is so simple, technology really changes life.

Whale fire wrapped around the medicine chamber hanging in the furnace, and the flames gently licked the elixir. The burning smoke flowed into the internal pipe and injected into the water chamber above, causing it to boil and bubble.

Soon, gurgling white mist dissipated from the dome of the furnace, and the alchemy room was filled with mist, and the exhaust fan worked hard.

Lin Bo found a soft cushion, sat down cross-legged, and began to smell the Dan Qi.

The original name of the material head shattered, transformed, and reassembled, each broken character emerging and flowing in a meditation as deep as a well. Lin Bo stared silently, carefully memorizing their forms.

The alchemy furnace was operating normally and the door of the room was half open.

If a furnace explosion occurs, Iron Guard will immediately cut off the whale oil valve, then drag the meditating Lin Bo out the door.

Whether it is a stove or a person, as long as one can move, the accident can be avoided successfully.

When the Dan Qi coming out of the furnace no longer conflicts and the chaotic and complicated words merge into one, it means that the red transformation is complete.

Lin Bo woke up from meditation and took out a special notebook from his backpack. He quickly wrote down the real name runes of the elixir ingredients and finished products, wrote down the broken and missing parts of each name, and the process of reconstructing the character strokes.

This is also a process of accumulating small amounts into big ones.

He extinguished the whale fire and opened the furnace. After waiting for it to cool, he whispered the true name of the red rust soil and took out the twenty-pound portion of alchemical soil and bagged it.

The heavy loam, with its dark red particles, looked oily and gave off a faint smell of blood. The magical power of the pill fire seeped into it, making the finished product of better quality.

Alchemy is very time-consuming. I spent the entire morning working on a furnace. After cleaning the furnace and dumping out the ash, it was already late.

Lin Bo looked at the bright sky at noon and immediately set off for the Dongya Grottoes.

He assembled a box with wooden boards, poured alchemical soil into it, and then took a ball of mycelium from the mushroom garden and put it into the soil, allowing it to absorb nutrients and grow.

The mycelium entering the new environment seemed very uneasy, like white glutinous rice falling into borscht, extending its tentacles and exploring deep into the soil.

They whispered to the wizard: "Nutrients, absorb nutrients, work hard... ask for water, I am thirsty."

Lin Bo drew water from deep within the caverns, pouring it onto the surface of the fungal carpet, soaking the red rusty soil. The adaptability of the versatile fungus began to unfold, constantly absorbing the life-giving metallic elements within the soil. The pure white mycelium gradually took on the dark red hue of the soil, as if blood were coursing through it.

The metabolic activity of organisms is also a kind of alchemical behavior, digestion, decomposition, acceptance and reorganization. The whole process does not involve fire and is not as violent, but the result is equally extraordinary.

Lin Bo lightly touched the red-stained mycelium and listened carefully to their murmuring Gudorei language, and gradually words of the Animist language appeared.

He realized that, as recorded in "Mushroom Agronomy", this group of separated mycelium had taken a different path from the original strain due to the drastic change in the growth environment.

They will gradually transform into second-generation strains with unique properties, while losing some of the abilities of the original strains.

Lin Bo knew the real name of the original strain, and was also curious about the changes in the real names of these second-generation strains.

However, there was no conflict in the evolution of the mycelium, and the combination of mushrooms and red rust loam was very peaceful and natural, so he could not find the opportunity to find out the real name.

He could only wait until the evolution was complete before trying to find a way to learn the true name of the second-generation fungus. During this period, he needed to constantly add soil. After the mycelium absorbed all the nutrients from the red rust loam, only useless residue remained.

Lin Bo silently estimated that if everything went well, it would take about three or four days to complete the evolution.

He hopes that the second generation of metal bacteria will retain the original generation's mimicking function and differentiate into neurons. He will then test whether these neurons can replace active metal filaments and whether they need to be regularly replenished by the bacterial mat.

He was actually not sure whether this experimental project would be successful in the end.

If you fail, just try another way and try again. If you fail again, try again.

Until it succeeds.

(End of this chapter)