This Game Is Too Realistic

Among the many institutions in the alliance, the scientific expedition team's funding is definitely at the forefront.

Not only because this organization undertakes more than 30% of the tasks of players, but also because every time good things are picked up from the ruins of pre-war civilization, the improvement of the alliance's hard power can be seen with the naked eye.

Vault No. 404, the browsing room on the b4 floor.

Yin Fangzheng excitedly described to Chu Guang the treasures he found among the piles of rubbish hauled back from the Cow Horse.

"It was a piece of debris as big as a palm! When our researchers found it, it happened to be stuck on a piece of carbon nanotube material of the space elevator and almost missed it."

"If my guess is correct, this thing should be a structural material on a certain small and medium-sized spacecraft. What is certain is that even in the Prosperous Era, that thing was quite advanced. It's a pity that only such a small piece is left. …”

"Because there is no information to refer to, I named it without authorization. What do you think of the word ceramic? At present, our laboratory has analyzed its molecular configuration and material structure, and is now able to imitate it in the laboratory. , but industrial production may still be somewhat difficult.”

While speaking, Yin Fang showed Chu Guang the shape of the material and the data he had just collected through the beam projected by the holographic computer pen.

As if he guessed that Chu Guang would not understand, Yin Fang also deliberately used armor steel and A3 aerospace aluminum, which are currently the most produced by the alliance, as a comparison.

With reference objects, the characteristics of the material will be much clearer.

Its weight is between armor steel and a3 aviation aluminum, and its hardness is higher than the two. At the same time, it has heat resistance and oxidation resistance that the two do not have. The most incredible thing is that its performance in toughness and mechanical impact resistance actually exceeds that of ordinary alloys!

If this were placed in the 21st century, it would probably be regarded as something that fell off an alien spacecraft.

After all, the chemical bond properties and crystal structure of ceramics determine that it does not have an independent "slip system" and cannot resist deformation like metal.

However, this material called ceramite exhibits metal-like properties while retaining the hardness of ceramics. For materials science in the 21st century, not to mention production processes, even the most basic theoretical parts are unestablished singularities.

Even in the prosperous era of being able to manipulate gravity, there were only a few spacecraft using this material. It is precisely because of this that Yin Fang is so excited.

Chu Guang didn't expect to understand the principle of this material, and there was no need to do so.

Technical matters are naturally handled by professionals. He only needs to know the use, performance and production cost of this material.

After briefly understanding the properties of the material, Chu Guang immediately looked at Yin Fang and asked.

"What about the machining center on the b7 floor? Can it produce this thing?"

Yin Fang coughed lightly.

"The laboratory preparation I'm talking about uses that machining center...otherwise we can only do the analysis of material properties at most.

Chu Guang smiled sheepishly.

"I see... Then if we use the equipment of the machining center to produce it, how much output can we achieve? Is there any hope that it can be applied to our power armor or tanks?

As if he had guessed that Chu Guang would ask this question, Yin Fang made a helpless expression and said.

"If it is installed on a small scale, I think it shouldn't be a big problem. Although this thing is designed for spacecraft, it doesn't say it can only be used on spacecraft. As long as you can accept its cost, let alone power armor and tanks. Now, it’s no problem to put it on the exoskeleton.

After hearing Yin Fang's answer, Chu Guang said with a smile.

“As long as it’s easy to use, cost is not an issue.

The Alliance currently has no shortage of electricity and minerals, so how expensive can it be, no matter how expensive it is?

What's more, this part of the cost can also be passed on to the players.

For example, make upgrading ceramite armor a paid content!

Take the Xiaguang powered armor independently developed and produced by the alliance as an example. A "Xiaguang"

The unit price is one million silver coins. If players are willing to shell out an additional 500,000 silver coins for options, they can upgrade the armored steel breastplate to a ceramic steel breastplate, which will increase damage resistance and durability by 50% each!

Of course, the exact amount of improvement will have to be tested at a weapons proving ground. The general idea is this.

Looking at Chu Guang, who was already planning how to apply archaeological results to the Alliance Army, Yin Fang coughed lightly and said.

"Ceramic armor is just one of the technologies we recovered from the southern seas. We are currently thinking about how to design a more economical production process for it. You don't have to be so impatient. The technology we discovered is far more than just ceramite. According to me Based on our experience, we estimate that we can at least pick up at least ten D-level technologies that we don’t have from this batch of junk, and at least!"

"Not only that, the investigation of the ruins of coastal cities in Baiyue Province can also help us restore people's lifestyles, production methods and other experiences and knowledge other than engineering during the Prosperity Era. There are many of them worth learning from. All things require enough time to be reflected.”

"... What I want to say is that establishing an outpost in the Baiyue Strait is a genius idea, but it is not enough now. We should increase our efforts to develop the southern seas. There must be a lot hidden there that we have not discovered. baby."

After a pause, Yin Fang looked at Chu Guang and continued.

"In order to support the excavation work of the ruins, I hope that you can allow our scientific expedition team to set up an investigation station in Chipchi Port, so that we can directly screen the salvaged objects and ruins materials collected locally... This will also save us from wasting precious transportation capacity. You bring back a lot of garbage, and you have to slowly dig for gold from the garbage.”

"This is a good idea," Chu Guang nodded approvingly, "It just so happened that the residents of my refuge also proposed the same. They hope that the scientific expedition team can set up a branch in Friesport to conduct research on the local ruins exploration team and salvage ships. provide technical support.

For example, experts from the scientific expedition team will screen the targets worth exploring, prioritize the targets worthy of exploration, and eliminate targets that obviously have no search value from the list.

In the past, the way local players explored the ruins was to pick out some landmarks worth exploring purely based on experience, and bring them back first regardless of whether they were useful or not.

If some highly professional researchers can be dispatched to the local area to support players in their exploration work, it will undoubtedly improve the efficiency of players in searching for ruins and reduce their workload.

At least, it can avoid the situation of bringing the toilet seat back as a welded ring.

After listening to Chu Guang's words, Yin Fang immediately nodded and said.

"No problem, I will select some people, and I will ask you to send them over when the time comes."

Chu Guang said with a smile.

"Don't worry! Although we don't have the conditions to buy you a scientific research ship of the same model as the academy, there is still no problem in getting a scientific research airship! You can set off at any time when you are ready -

"By the way, bring along the people who helped us!"

Before Chu Guang could finish his words, he was hurriedly interrupted by the sound coming from the door.

Like a gust of wind, Hea with silver hair passed through the open trap door and blew in from the corridor outside the browsing room.

Looking towards the door, Yin Fang noticed the excited look on Heya's face. Without guessing, he knew that this guy had probably discovered some important clues.

Chu Guang raised his eyebrows with interest, and was about to ask her what happened. She sat down on the sofa nearby and stared at him with bright eyes, and couldn't wait to speak.

"Major discovery! Based on the strain samples brought back by your refuge residents from the north shore of the Baiyue Strait, we found 173 overlapping points and 677 similarities when comparing the genes with the samples collected from Jinchuan Province... …But this is not the point. The point is that we have compared several key genes expressing traits, and now we can basically confirm that Baiyue Province is the birthplace of Naguo!"

Upon hearing this, Yin Fang looked at her in surprise, then frowned and said.

"Baiyue Province is the birthplace of Naguo? Are you sure?"

Although Yin Fang is not good at research in the biological field, the situation in Jinchuan Province does not require rich biological knowledge to understand.

The savagely growing Naguo will assimilate all organisms into its own puppets and form a field of fungi as terrifying as a plague over a wide area.

It shows similar characteristics to the Qingquan City mutant slime mold in many aspects, such as releasing buns, indiscriminate erosion of organisms, etc.

If Naguo really originated in Baiyue Province, that place should have become a hotbed for Naguo breeding. How could the alliance establish an outpost or even a settlement there.

And the most important thing is that he didn't find any fruit-bearing mycelium on the waste products recovered from Baiyue Province? !

Looking at Yin Fang who looked suspicious, Heya took a deep breath, nodded seriously and said.

"I am almost 100% sure... I know what you are confused about. We are also confused as to why Naguo, which is expanding unbridled in Jinchuan Province, performs mediocrely when the climate conditions are more suitable in Baiyue Province. But the fact is That's how surprising! And what's even more surprising is that later, when we studied the genes of the original strain, we discovered that the original strain of Naguo itself was a hybrid of Gaia's slime mold and earth fungi under natural conditions. of bacteria!”

"Formed under natural conditions?" Yin Fang's eyebrows knitted together, he held his chin and fell into deep thought.

Hea nodded seriously and continued.

"Previously we speculated that Naguo was a strain obtained by the Torch Church using the gene pool obtained from the Mother Nest in Qingquan City to improve native fungi. Now it seems that our conclusion is incomplete. The most original Naguo strain itself It’s a combination of mutant slime mold and earth fungi, and they just artificially replaced some of the genes!”

This seemed a bit difficult to pronounce. Chu Guang, who had been listening to the discussion between the two, tried to understand it in his own way.

To put it simply, the original Naguo was the "child" of Gaia and the Earth. It had both gene a from outside the earth and gene b provided by a certain fungus on the earth.

After the Torch Church discovered Naguo, they found that this thing could help them complete the Kingdom of Heaven plan, so they improved it.

For example, through artificial breeding, the a1 gene obtained from the mother nest in Qingquan City was inserted into the original Naguo strain a-b.

The strain now prevalent in Haiya Province and the southern part of Jinchuan Province is the extremely aggressive a-a1-b type, or simply a1-b type.

But……

Does it make any difference?

Chu Guang frowned slightly, just about to ask about the confusion in his heart. However, just when he was about to speak, a glimmer of realization suddenly exploded in his mind.

a gene!

Where did the original a gene come from? !

After capturing this detail, Chu Guang blurted out almost subconsciously.

"There is a brood nest in Baiyue Province?!"

Or did it exist before? !

As soon as he finished speaking, two pairs of eyes looked at him.

"Baiyue Province...was there a brood nest before?" Yin Fang was slightly stunned, but it only took him a moment to react. He frowned and said to himself, "I see..."

"That's right! This is the first inference we drew from that specimen! There may be a mother nest of mutant slime mold in Baiyue Province! And this is very likely to be the reason why local survivors disappeared from the province!" He Ya looked at Chu Guang in disbelief and sighed with disbelief, "It's unbelievable, you actually guessed it!"

Chu Guang rolled his eyes and leaned on the sofa and said.

"Do I look stupid? Let's get straight to the point. Where do you think this nest might be?" "It's right here!"

While speaking, Hea took out a test tube filled with dark green liquid from his pocket and shook it in front of the two of them.

Yin Fang was startled by her actions and stood up from the sofa.

Chu Guang was not frightened by her actions.

However, she was stunned when she saw the test tube in her hand, and spoke after two seconds.

"Right here...what do you mean?"

"This is what I have in my hand! The extract of the original strain of Naguo! This is the mother's nest of Baiyue Province!" Hea raised the corners of her lips proudly, and her bright eyes were filled with incredible and fanaticism. “Those guys are geniuses!”

Trying to understand her incoherent speech, Chu Guang pinched his eyebrows with a headache.

"Wait...who are those guys you're talking about?"

"Of course those slime molds!" Hea said excitedly, "Do you remember? No matter what kind of mutant slime molds we have seen before, most of them are like Qingquan City Center or Xiaoyu. They all have the same characteristics. , that is, there is a mother nest and a group of fruiting entities, and all individuals share the same consciousness!"

Yin Fang swallowed.

"I know...then what?"

Hea continued speaking quickly.

"The mother nest in Baiyue Province is an exception! It did not choose to be parasitized, symbiotic or assimilated, but became them!"

"...Becoming them?" Chu Guang had vaguely guessed something, and Chu Guang's eyes couldn't help but enlarge slightly.

Mutant slime molds have extremely strong environmental adaptability. Not only can they flexibly change themselves to adapt to the environment, they are also good at borrowing and learning from the earth's native organisms.

For example, the mother's nest in Qingquan City.

That guy accumulated a lot of combat experience in fighting humans, and learned to use biomass energy to drive human armor.

not only that

That guy also imitated powerful alien species in the wasteland, such as monsters and death claws, and hatched powerful special fruiting bodies.

In fact, this is easy to understand.

The objects that mutant slime molds imitate are never just humans or human civilization. What they really imitate is the ecosystem itself.

Human beings and human civilization are only part of this system.

In most cases, humans who have mastered the weapons of civilization can gain the upper hand from natural selection, even if there are some ridiculously powerful alien species in the wasteland.

Therefore, in most cases, mutant slime molds will imitate humans more, and even penetrate into society and even civilization.

However, Baiyue Province is an exception.

Whatever the reason, local survivors have almost disappeared, replaced by a rich diversity of species and more intense natural selection.

Therefore, it is almost obvious what the mutant slime mold, as a "colonizer", will regard as the first target of imitation.

"That's right!"

Heya stared at Chu Guang with sharp eyes and nodded to confirm his unspoken guess.

"Not only Naguo, but also the grass there, the trees there, and the alien species in the woods... All the creatures in the entire Baiyue Province are the continuation of that mother nest! They all carry the information from the planet Gaia genes!”

"I am not yet sure whether the mother nest in Baiyue Province has a unified consciousness like the mother nests in other regions, but its children can no longer be called fruiting bodies, but have independent consciousness. Separate species!"

"It has completely become them, it is a land of 'living'!"