Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 679

Chapter 676: Efficiency and Regularity: Can We Have Both?

Chapter 676: Efficiency and regularity, can you have both?
Locke and Wizard Salvador stopped the voice call, found Witch Mason, and told them that he was leaving Group 2’s research institute and heading to the depths of the dune plane.

Then, in front of the surprised eyes of Mason Witch and others, he left the ecological film alone and entered the desert.

Locke gazed at the yellow sand in the distance and pondered, “The Institute of True Knowledge’s first-class project fund should be completed as long as we use the special energy-locking structure of the ancient flower roots and conduct corresponding analysis. The most difficult step is to discover the ancient flower.”

“So, there’s no need for me to worry too much. But there’s one thing I’m really concerned about, and that’s why there are still advanced life forms surviving in the Dune Plane.”

Locke looked up at the sky, blanketed by heavy elemental particles, and the hundreds of conversion plants that stood like steel spikes in the sandy landscape. “How can we balance efficiency and long-term benefits in transforming nature, avoiding short-term ecological booms?”

Locke walked into the sandstorm, and suddenly the sky was filled with yellow sand howling. But the next moment, Mist’s power turned into a natural force field and descended, like a terrifying forest from outside the domain. The entire sandstorm dissipated in an instant.

Locke walked for about half an hour, looking at the endless yellow sand and frowning slightly. “It’s too slow to find it with the n*ked eye.”

“Think carefully, where the Dune People live, this dune plane probably still has some rudimentary ecosystems. If we find the plants, we should be able to find the remaining Dune People.”

Locke waved his right hand, and suddenly a full moon appeared in the sky, like a star hanging in the sky, and appeared behind him.

He transformed himself into the Dark Sun, and using the special operating logic of the Sun and Moon, he superimposed the gravity of the Dark Sun and the full moon, thereby doubling the moon’s gravity out of thin air.

At the same time, a full moon hung in the sky of this plane. Because the world power of this plane had become extremely weak and broken, the embryonic form of Locke’s great magic became a terrible magic hanging in the sky.

It illuminates this plane without being stopped by the power of the world, nor does it cast magic in other planes and suffer losses caused by being suppressed by the power of the world out of thin air.

Locke even felt the world’s welcome towards him.

“Found it.” Locke used the gravity of the full moon to lock onto the magical plant communities hidden underground in the desert, and then used the Big Green Leaf Dragon Bird to fly into an underground river entrance.

The moonlight still shone into the underground along the river and the cracks in the rocks.

Locke crawled out of the underground river and looked inside the underground river. There were a large number of low-level magical plants growing there, mainly ferns and mosses.

“There are so many demonic plants here? The temperature… is very low, around 30 degrees Celsius.”

Locke looked at a large block of ice next to the underground river. “So that’s what I mean. There’s a lot of underground ice in this area. I’m afraid the surface of this area was once covered in ice. Now the ice on the ground has melted, and the soil has turned to sand, but some of the ice underground has not yet completely melted.”

“So, there is still water here. Therefore, there are also some simple magic plant communities here. Low-level magic plants such as fern magic plants also have the lowest living environment requirements.”

In essence, trees and grass-like magical plants are not superior to fern-like magical plants in terms of tenacity, nor are they completely superior to fern-like magical plants in terms of reproductive ability.

Even in the wizarding world, in some areas with high moisture, ferns are still better than those plants.

Fern magic plants are created under extremely abundant natural resources, but they lose to more advanced magic plants because of insufficient differentiation in specialization and complexity.

Therefore, when resources are insufficient or in extreme environments, fern magic plants will become survivors because of their “low consumption and high efficiency”.

The fern magic plant is like nature’s backup system. When the grass and trees collapse, the fern magic plant will suddenly drill out from the cracks in the rocks to try to restart the world.

“This is…” Locke observed these special ferns. “These ferns have evolved to cope with high temperatures. Their leaves have shrunk, and they have multi-noded water-storage structures. These are very common energy-locking structures for drought resistance.”

“I’ve also read a lot of research materials from both groups.”

“But…” Locke looked at a strange fern-like magical plant in front of him and felt that it looked very much like the lava fern in the wizarding world. He snapped his fingers, and a flame appeared above the lava fern. Suddenly, the stomata on the surface of a special stone fern’s leaves began to absorb the high temperature rapidly to extinguish the flame.

Locke couldn’t help but marvel at this miracle of life. “This particular fern has undergone a similar evolution to the lava fern. The two should be completely unrelated, but could it have evolved in this direction to withstand the heat?”

Locke carefully used an ordinary grafting knife to dig out one of the special stone ferns, roots and soil included. “It must have evolved energy-locking leaves similar to the lava fern [high-temperature breath leaves].”

“Fern-like magical plants are always the easiest to adapt to their environment. With this lava fern, we can take advantage of the high temperature and flames in the air, and try to make it difficult for flames to appear.”

“It should be a plant that evolved spontaneously in this ecological community.” Locke remembered an article on ecology he had read before, which put forward a hypothesis – the spontaneous niche-filling evolution hypothesis.

That is, in order to maintain the existence of the ecosystem and respond to the danger of external destruction of the ecosystem, specific species will appear within the ecosystem and spontaneously fill a certain ecological gap needed to maintain the ecosystem.

Life will spontaneously evolve towards this ecological niche.

This hypothesis may not be correct, it is just a perspective on things.

In this hypothesis, it is believed that the root of biological evolution lies in the supplementation of ecological niches and the maintenance of the existence of the ecosystem.

Locke said, “The magic tide here is still strong. It should be due to the existence of the magic plant community. The magic tide is related to many elements. It is very complicated and I can’t fully understand it.”

“But at least it is directly related to the strength of the plane’s power and the total number of living things.”

“The total number of organisms here is still maintained to a certain extent, so the magic tide still exists.” Locke said: “These magical plants are trying hard to adapt to the changes in the environment.”

Locke frowned and said, “It’s just that the Dune Plane was almost pulled into the Solar Force Plane before, and the entire plane environment suddenly changed. The speed of this change was too fast, and it didn’t give the ecology here any time to react.”

“The intervention of the wizard civilization has stabilized the status quo of the Dune Plane, and the ecology here has undergone corresponding changes based on the current situation.”

“This may be one of the reasons why Dune People can still exist in this plane.”

Locke saw a lot of energy-locking structures that Group 2 was studying on these simple ferns, and even saw some sea buckthorn magic plants. These sea buckthorn magic plants also obviously had some special abilities.

For example, it can collect moisture in the air and increase the water vapor level in the environment.

It is obvious that the evolution of the demonic plants may be enough to solve the problems of the Dune plane.

But the problem is that the evolution of the magical plants is too slow.

Without the participation of wizard civilization, they wouldn’t even have the chance they have now.

Locke looked at the underground river and smelled a pungent odor. He thought it was the wastewater discharged from the conversion plants that had polluted the place.

Those heavy element particles are difficult to disappear even after tens of thousands of years.

Locke frowned. “That’s not right. Didn’t Wizard Zalan Bailey find an environmental protection company to help him treat his waste gas and wastewater? Why is the pollution still so serious?”

“Could it be that they are discharging wastewater directly into the desert, and then the wastewater flows out from the cracks in the sand, polluting the entire desert?”

Locke heard footsteps and immediately stood up from the ground.

…

Inside Group 2’s research center, Wizard Zaran Bailey arrived at the public laboratory with a smile on his face. “Is Wizard Locke Augustine here?”

Witch Mason quickly stood up, saluted him, and said, “Master Zalan Bailey, what a coincidence. Master Locke, although in the Dune Plane, has left the research institute base and traveled deep into the Dune Plane.”

Wizard Zalan Bailey frowned and said with a hint of dissatisfaction, “Did I miss it again? What was he doing in the deep desert?”

Witch Mason explained, “That… I’m not quite sure. The team leader seems curious about the Dune People who still exist.”

Zalan Bailey, hands behind his back, said, “They’re barely surviving. Their civilization has been lost, and their living conditions are no different from those of primitive cave dwellers. Group 2 completed their investigation long ago. They’re only surviving temporarily thanks to some special glaciers beneath the Dune Plane.”

“Hasn’t he read the relevant investigation report?”

Witch Mason wasn’t a little pleased with the other party’s preaching tone, but since the other party was a second-ring wizard, she could only swallow her anger. “I don’t know. Maybe the team leader has his own ideas.”

Wizard Zaran Bailey turned around. “When Locke returns, let me know. I haven’t seen him in a while.”

Witch Mason frowned slightly as she watched him leave.

“trouble.”

“Because he’s a second-ring wizard, it’s hard to refuse openly.”

Freya the Witch said, “Why bother with him? When he comes over, we just pretend to be busy and working. It’s not good for him to affect our work, otherwise Team Leader Sith will say something to him.”

“Then he asks, and we answer, simply. Just enough to save face. But why does he keep asking the team leader? He seems very active lately.”

Witch Freya said, “It seems he thinks our group is his rival. It’s strange that they’re so close.”

Mason Witch shrugged. “Who knows?”

…

Underground in the Dune plane, Locke saw two Dune people. They were only wearing simple clothes. Their overall civilization seemed to have seriously degenerated and they had lost the ability to speak.

Both of them seemed very hungry and weak.

But they can still communicate telepathically with their innate psychic powers.

Locke frowned.

He tried to use his virtual psychic organ to directly connect into the psychic resonance between the two people. After immediately designing a simple apprentice-level spell model, Locke used the virtual psychic organ behind his head to forcibly enter the communication between the two Dune people.

“This race is indeed born with very powerful magical potential of the psionic school.”

“Can I use my physical body to generate special psychic waves around myself, allowing for telepathic communication?”

“Although it’s just a very rudimentary application of the Psychic School. This thing is very primitive, but it’s a common talent of this race.”

Relying on his attainments in magic, Locke was able to gain a bird’s-eye view and force himself to understand the simple conversation between the two Dune People.

Locke discovered that these people should not have lost the ability to speak, after all, human thinking depends on the structure of language.

The two dune people are still communicating with each other.

“Life is getting harder and harder…all the fish in the river are dying…”

“Can we get through this year?”

“Ahem…after I ate that fish yesterday, my stomach felt uncomfortable…I heard that in the past we lived on the ground and we had delicious cakes to eat.”

“Cake? What’s that?”

“I don’t know… I heard it from my father. He told me telepathically.”

Locke looked at the polluted river and immediately realized that it was the plan of the wizard Zalan Bailey that caused the underground river in the Dune plane to be seriously polluted.

Low-level plant communities cannot support the activities of higher-level organisms, so these dune people can only barely survive by relying on the cold, living fish in the underground rivers.

However, the radical transformation plan of the wizard Zalan Bailey destroyed this fragile and temporary ecological balance, which was like the last straw that broke the camel’s back, causing the dune tribe to suffer a serious food shortage.

At this moment, a dune man suddenly held his stomach, foamed at the mouth, and fell to the ground in pain. His face was red, as if he had eaten fish contaminated by heavy element particles, which caused multiple organ diseases.

As a potion master, Locke recognized the problem with this person at a glance.

The dune man’s companion was extremely terrified and kept pushing his body, trying to confirm that his companion was still alive, but to be honest, it was of no use.

Locke frowned and subconsciously wanted to walk out, but he immediately thought of his principle of minimum intervention.

“I’m here to observe these remaining Dune People, why they’re still surviving, and to observe their ecology. If I intervene now, I can certainly solve their problems easily. But is that really appropriate?”

“From my perspective, I wouldn’t be able to clearly understand the Dune People’s ecology. And from their perspective, what does my existence mean to them? They’ve survived so tenaciously for so long, and perhaps this very existence is extremely precious.”

“I can’t break this state at will.”

“Let’s observe it in other ways first.” Locke looked at a ray of moonlight shining into the underground space, opened a bottle of holy spring nectar potion, put a ray of potion into it, and then used the moonlight to infuse the dune man’s body, alleviating his symptoms.

“First, I must trust the resilience of the remaining ecosystem of the Dune People. If you interfere with it at will, I will be like the wizard Zalan Bailey, freely transforming this plane.”

Locke said, “That’s the most efficient way, but the observation itself is meaningless.”

“Can we have both efficiency and the laws of nature?”

(End of this chapter)