Into the Immortal Cultivation - Chapter 1722

[Chapter 78: The Corrupted World Part 6]

All in all, Wang Qi’s first contact with this civilization came to an end in a very childish misunderstanding.

Wang Qi believes that the clusters formed by those individuals show extremely high exclusivity in short-term exchanges.

And according to the little information given by the Dragon Clan and the God of Beauty, the herd species did indeed have a serious tendency of xenophobia in the early stage of civilization. It’s like ant colonies or bee colonies on Earth exhibit extreme exclusivity. Perhaps this is the “innate shackles” of the Lingxi language.

Until the beasts gradually possessed the necessary cluster cores due to the practice of the Yuanying Law, and obtained the word “text” in the communication with foreign races [of course, the communication here includes war and most of the time it is “war”]. After the concept, this trend of xenophobia will be slightly weakened.

Therefore, Wang Qi was not sure what would happen if he rushed into the lair of this beast species recklessly.

The members of the Zhengyi Division also advised him to “wait”. He had better wait for the small group of bugs to return to the nest and merge into the main body before watching the main body’s reaction.

In the end, after Wang Qi recorded the coordinates of this area, he left.

Due to the temporary avoidance of direct conflict with the unknown immortal, Wang Qi did not destroy the other space squid immediately. This also led to the fact that everyone in Zhengyi Si was temporarily unable to place the artificial Tianchen instrument on the orbit of this unnamed planet. The dense cloud cover also makes it impossible for observation agencies from farther to observe directly.

Wang Qi can only wait for the next work cycle to come back here to check.

According to the performance of those worms, Wang Qi had reason to judge that this race must have a higher number in order to produce the wisdom equivalent to the human race – at least hundreds of worms are impossible. The number of a cluster should not be too small.

However, it won’t be too big either.

It is very difficult for a herd species that has not reached the level of immortals to have the realm of “there is only one group in one world” – it is better to say that the group has reached that level, and the will of the group as a “whole” does not have the essence of immortals, but it is a strange thing thing. According to Wang Qi’s previous judgment of “no immortals”, each of the herd species on this planet is relatively small.

This is also the common “situation” of the herd civilization before ascending to the Immortal. It can be regarded as a war between countries, but also a fight between several to dozens of extraordinary individuals.

“However, after walking for such a long time, there are almost no complex compounds suspended in the atmosphere – in other words, the ‘overwhelming luteolin’ and ‘the magic effect similar to enchantment’ spontaneously formed by Tianjiao’s report. It is impossible to see such a scene.”

Wang Qi said.

[We have reason to believe that the level of the celestial family is at the forefront of the universe. The ant clan is a remnant of the heavenly family, and naturally it cannot be considered as a beast species that has not separated from its home planet. 】

“Well.” Wang Qi nodded.

After leaving that area, he flew another 30,000 miles one after another, flying a small half circle around the planet.

In the meantime, he also encountered more than ten “small clusters” on the ground. The responses shown by those small clusters were surprisingly consistent—the bugs decided to attack almost as soon as they saw Wang Qi. This strange aggression even surprised Wang Qi. He even began to wonder whether these collective consciousnesses really had the concept of “civilization”, rather than just obeying instinct and possessing a lot of knowledge.

Even the emissaries who supported Wang Qi on the back of the moon and on many celestial instruments were gradually determined that this was indeed a herd species – they did not see even a single individual showing a “personalized” way of coping.

Yes, none of the individuals chose to communicate with Wang Qi. This is also proof of the lack of “personality” in the herd species.

Well, yes, unfortunately, the thinking of this group of people was unknowingly skewed by the information bestowed by the God of Beauty and Wang Qi’s initial judgment. .

In fact, all Lauders who can come to the ground to collect resources are trained. In their charter, if they see unknown creatures on the ground, then a direct attack is enough-after the mass extinction caused by the drastic climate change, there are almost no creatures on the ground.

And the large creatures that appeared on the ground were almost certainly the creation of the “Citrine Demon”.

And Wang Qi, who was investigating all the way, became more and more disappointed.

The place where he stood, among the many outcrops, was actually “living” – even though there were only fungi and lichens on it. In fact, many more places on the planet don’t even have fungi.

And the only place where Wang Qi really felt “living” was a river.

Calling it a “river” is a bit odd, because it’s really shallow, at most one and a half meters. Not enough to drown a person. But it is really long, thousands of kilometers in length, has surpassed most of the rivers in China. Only the valley, which is almost reminiscent of a “basin”, is telling the grandeur of his past.

But, on this water-starved planet, it has dried up. Since the last trace of the fire was pulled away and the magnetic field dissipated, the water was destined to leave this world forever.

And this water is really strange in the eyes of everyone. It turned out to be a strange light green. But Wang Qi was sure that this thing was definitely not the color of chlorophyll. It’s too shallow and too even. Moreover, this water clearly shows a strange stickiness, but the transparency is still very high.

Wang Qi fell slowly, and before he got close, he felt a terrifying stench. He had to stop breathing temporarily, not even opening his mouth, he should use his spiritual sense to communicate.

[This place stinks amazingly…I…I really want to share my nose consciousness directly with you. 】

【Well, it was already expected. 】 Guess what, the other side didn’t seem surprised at all. David, who is probably a monk in Tianlingling, said: [When we noticed that the atmosphere here is rich in sulfur and the temperature is too high, we guessed that we would encounter this situation. 】

【Ah? 】Wang Qi was surprised: 【Can you guess it? 】

[Well, of course. ]

Another person added coldly; [Thiobacteria anaerobic mesophilic bacteria and other things, including hydrogen sulfide in the metabolic waste – it is usually produced in the human intestinal tract. 】

Wang Qi immediately had a strong sense of vomiting. He looked at the stream under his feet and said; [I don’t want to fall down at all…]

[Please at least collect some samples. This anaerobic creature found on other planets can greatly complete the initial link in the evolution of Shenzhou. 】

【OK, OK…】

Wang Qi slowly descended, but found that this place was not entirely a barren river valley, with a few huge inscriptions engraved on the cliff. The inscriptions flashed slightly, creating updrafts that pushed the air up the valley.

Wang Qi was a little surprised; [What is the reason for this? ]

[Hydrogen sulfide is a by-product of anaerobic bacteria, just like carbon dioxide as a general carbon-based creature. Therefore, hydrogen sulfide can inhibit the activity of anaerobic bacteria. This is probably to ensure that anaerobic bacteria can thrive, right? 】

Wang Qi nodded, his spiritual sense swept over carefully.

Sure enough, there are many traces of human… or insects. There are traces of immortal masters, and a group of insects have come here for a long time to fetch water. In addition, the bottom of the stream is also filled with some rocks – at the speed of this current, they can’t be washed down, and these rocks don’t seem to be nearby at all.

[Wang Daoyou, please pick up those stones—speaking of which, the Yangyuan Zhengyi Division has sent a mountain and river city… Oh? Have? very good. Daoyou Wang, please pick up a stone. 】

Wang Qi looked disgusted and didn’t want to reach out to get it. He first took a wad of water. But he was surprised to find that the water was much heavier than he thought. He took out three test tubes from the storage bag, each of which was engraved with a talisman to maintain flexibility. The water was divided into three parts, and then fell into three test tubes. Wang Qi sealed it and put it in a special storage box. Immediately afterwards, he ingested a piece of ore with mana.

This block-like aggregate of stones is iron-black, and many white crystals of different sizes are attached to it.

Wang Qi could feel that there was even a hint of magnetism on the ore.

[Magnetite, but also rich ore, is of very high quality. 】Another voice appeared: 【I see, is this a smelter…】

“What?” Wang Qi was puzzled and forgot to keep his mouth shut. After abruptly inhaling a breath of excrement-smelling air, he hurriedly closed his mouth and asked: [What? The smelter… ugh…]

[Thinking about it, this method is also very natural. Because of the mass extinction of species, there is no fuel here, and the ground fire has also been drained. If you don’t want to completely rely on the cultivator’s real fire to melt the ore, the water smelting of microbes is indeed an option. 】

【Microbiological smelting by water method…what is it? 】

【Water alchemy and by-product of water refining. 】

Actually, the process of obtaining energy by living beings, to the most microscopic level, depends on electrons. A series of redox reactions involving the electronic lock realizes the transfer of energy. Substances that transmit electrons to electrons and substances that accept oxidation—that is, “nutrients” in the general sense, may also be “inorganic substances”.

A class of organisms that use inorganic substances to carry out chemical dark reactions in cells to obtain energy are the so-called “chemoautotrophs”. They survive by simply relying on chemically simple chemical reactions.

In this series of redox reactions, the metal ions in the metal ore will be replaced by these chemoautotrophic bacteria into the solution.

After listening to the explanations of other monks, Wang Qi dubiously probed his spiritual consciousness into the bottom of the stream. Sure enough, he felt a thick layer of sediment.

[This is a saturated ferric sulfate solution, and crystals have precipitated… The reason why it flows so slowly must be very clear…]

[Indeed. 】

The spiritual consciousness that Wang Qi spread out found a dam several thousand meters away.

It was the first man-made structure he had seen on the planet.

[End of this Chapter]