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"There is no problem in this regard. In fact, I have a better way to utilize the energy from the warrior's extraordinary characteristics. After all, the magical items I create are no match for more professional craftsmen. The devils I create still require regular intake of blood. In order to maintain continuous operation, it is not completely without consumption.”

Colin was already very satisfied with this: "This level of blood consumption is nothing. Every day of work, only one liter of blood is needed. Not to mention that it does not necessarily have to be human blood. There are monsters with blood nearby. It’s a lot, even if we have to use human blood, we can afford it.”

"Listen to me first. I was summoned by Derrick, and I know many more powerful craftsmen than me in the outside world. He has now been promoted to Sequence Three, an occult scholar. If he only makes this simplest If you use a warrior-sequence magical item, you can guarantee that it will not have any side effects, and the work efficiency is more than twice that of what I made, which is enough to drive multiple generators at the same time.

For a place like you where there are not many coal mines around and there is no sunshine, this is the easiest energy source to obtain in the early stage. Derrick can sacrifice the extraordinary characteristics of your warriors and then let the organization behind me help make it. Turn it into a magical item, so that the initial energy crisis will be over.

As for me, my real expertise is in biotechnology. However, the ecological environment around your city is very special. Let me put it bluntly. There must be an extremely powerful sealed object affecting the surroundings. Otherwise, the black-faced grass will No other plants can survive here.

I need to come into contact with that sealed object in order to effectively improve crops. Otherwise, the improved things will not be suitable for this land. If you can't trust me and let me come into contact with that sealed object, I There is nothing we can do here. "

Colin sighed helplessly.A council was convened that day, and after discussion, they finally agreed to inform Lan Nuo of the sealed artifact and allow him to have close contact with it.

"We call this sealed artifact the gift of the earth. It was transformed from the corpse of Giant Queen Omi Bella. It has a rich effect. As long as we make corresponding sacrifices to him, we can make a large area The crop yield in the area becomes abundant, and other plants will also benefit from this process, but this does not come without a price. The price is that everyone who eats these foods will be within the scope of the seal. After death, they transform into monsters. Only by killing them with their own blood relatives can the curse of becoming monsters be ended.

In theory, this kind of tragedy can be avoided by keeping the dying person out of the area of ​​influence of the sealed item. However, the area of ​​influence of this sealed item is very large, and most people will not have time to be transported in the darkness. out such a long distance.What's more, every time we leave Silver City is an adventure. We can't let young warriors take such risks for a person who is about to die, just so that they can die peacefully without having to die at the hands of their relatives. .

Including myself, almost every adult in Silver City has personally killed his parents and relatives.This is the price of abundance. "

Lan Nuo had actually known about this for a long time, but he could only pretend to sigh: "If it is true as you said, the extraordinary characteristics contained in this sealed object are at least at the level of the second angel of the sequence. I don't have it." The ability to eliminate the side effects, but if you can let me come into contact with his body, I may be able to improve more crops so that they can grow quickly and be rich in nutrients, which is enough for you to feed more people. , expand the scope of Silver City, and have more opportunities to explore other city-states or ruins in the dark."

After discussion, everyone agreed to the plan. Colin and the other two elders took Lan Nuo to a huge underground palace, where there was a corpse. The corpse was larger than ordinary people, but it was not the same as the real one. Compared to giants, they are slightly smaller, probably slightly taller than those in Silver City who have an average height of [-] meters per person.

This corpse was the sealed object itself, and in the process of approaching the pair of bodies, Lan Nuo had already observed that the animal and plant samples he carried began to mutate. Then without saying anything, he took out a microscope and began to observe the mutation. , and took out various reagents that he carried with him, recorded the process of these mutations, and summarized the rules.

With the assistance of such a fertility effect, it is actually possible to create crops that are much better than black-faced grass. Even if the silver achievement is just to replace the black-faced grass with wheat and pray for fertility through sacrifices, you can get better results than The current black-faced grass has better effects, but the end of the world has arrived too hastily, and a large number of plants have become extinct. When they found the body, only this kind of dog tail that had not been fully domesticated by humans was left. Grass-like existence can be used as food crops.

If Lan Nuo had come here with nothing, it would be difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. Even if he had the ability of a druid, he would still need three or four generations of improvements to turn the black-faced grass into an excellent high-yielding grain. crop.

But it’s not that he brought nothing, he carried a large number of plant seed samples from the outside world. These are excellent seeds that humans have spent thousands of years domesticating. In addition, there are also a large number of bacterial and fungal samples, almost By carrying a species gene bank with you, you can extract useful gene fragments from these gene banks and use Agrobacterium plasmids and other methods for genetic modification, so that you can achieve high food production here.

There is also the assistance of the fertility effect, which may take effect within a few months, allowing a new round of crops to be harvested here. After the harvest, you can not only get a lot of food, but also get enough alcohol with extra food. .

At the same time, the straws of these crops can also become new carbon sources and exist as metal smelting and fuel. This is essential for survival in the dark. Food and fuel in Silver City are rationed, and fuel It is even more precious than food, because it is extremely dangerous to be attacked in the darkness here, so even when sleeping, there must be lighting inside the room.

In the past, part of the fuel was straw, and the other part was candles made from the fat of hunted monsters. Even so, the use of fuel must be carefully calculated. Many times, when the fuel is insufficient, it must be Gather a large number of people into the church, brighten the lights in the middle of the church, and then let everyone sleep here collectively.

If there is a complete shortage of fuel, a vicious cycle will form. Someone must carry enough fuel to go hunting, and enough fuel is needed to light up the farmland for farming. If hunting and farming cannot be carried out, there will be less fuel, so everyone will What's more, they can only be trapped in the church, and in the end they will only end up extinct.

Therefore, the new crop must not only have high yield, but also be able to produce a large amount of straw as fuel. When these two conditions are raised, it will basically directly lock in the crop of corn, but Lanno chose the one he has already grown in The wheat that has been modified by the outside world has become very similar to corn, with thick stalks and more than one ear. After being implanted with the genes of C4 plants, their conversion efficiency of organic matter has improved. It has been greatly improved, and its ability to resist drought, diseases and pests has also been greatly enhanced. After certain improvements, it can be planted on a large scale here.

In addition, Lanno has no intention of letting go of fungi such as mushrooms and edible insects. They have already accumulated technology trees in this area since they first came to the world of Resident Evil. Facing the doomsday, ordinary people When there are not enough plants to eat, they have to eat insects and fungi. This is already a must-have in their doomsday survival manual.It can be said that all Lannos are experts in doomsday survival, and they are truly professional counterparts in dealing with the situation in Silver City.The improved bugs and fungi have reached the level of excellent food, both in terms of yield and taste. It will take several months for the new generation of food to grow, but the improved fungi and bugs only It takes a short period of time to be ready for consumption.

Anyone who has picked mushrooms knows that as long as it rains, mushrooms will grow quickly. Some people even exaggeratedly described that if you urinate under the roots of a tree, a mushroom will grow the next day. The modified fungi can basically do this.

However, everyone in Silver City still showed due vigilance towards unfamiliar food. Hundreds of people gathered in the square in front of the church, and around the fire here were huge mushrooms with umbrellas, iron The larvae that have always been like cabbage caterpillars are roasting on the board. Even if no luxury oil crops are planted, the fragrance released by the protein denaturation in the high temperature still makes everyone around them swallow their saliva. This It is the human biological instinct for protein.

In the physiological activities of the human body, proteins can synthesize most of the substances needed for survival such as fats and sugars through a series of reactions. However, sugars, fats, etc. cannot be used to synthesize proteins in turn. This is the reason why This is the reason why some people like to eat meat. We naturally crave substances that our bodies cannot synthesize.

And when these brand-new fungi and bugs produced from straw and plants that could not be used as food in the wild were roasted, Colin and another elder took the lead to personally try whether these foods were poisonous?

Whenever they encounter a brand new food that may be edible, the elders are the first to try it, not only because they need to improve people's cohesion, but also because if ordinary people eat poisonous food, they may die immediately. , and extraordinary people at the level of god worshipers can resist most poisonous things through their own bodies.

When the crispy shell came into contact with his teeth, he was exposed to a taste that he had never tasted in his life. Colin felt so moved that he wanted to cry. Food without much seasoning is definitely not a delicacy. , but the brand-new food that is tangible enough to change the future can excite everyone who tastes it.

As time passed, lightning flashed across the sky again and again. More and more people gathered in the square. Everyone looked nervously at the elders, worried about the painful expressions on their faces, worried about their appearance. Poisoning reaction.

This kind of observation lasted for a full day. This was a hard lesson. Not all poisonous animals and plants will cause an attack immediately after eating them.

When the lightning gradually became sparse and it was equivalent to night time here, Colin and the other elders around him looked at each other, finally nodded, and loudly announced to the people gathered in the square: "After testing , these two new foods are non-toxic!”

After a brief silence, a wave of cheers erupted. The relieved Lan Nuo was about to go back to the church to catch up on his sleep, but someone grabbed his arm and pulled him into the crowd. Both pairs of enthusiastic and powerful hands threw it into the sky.

The people of Silver City threw him up again and again, expressing their excitement and gratitude in the most simple way.

They have been abandoned by God.They never expected that someone could come to this city and save them, but today it actually happened.

That night, not everyone ate this brand-new food. On the contrary, except for those that had been roasted and eaten in the square, no one touched any of the other cultivated fungi and insects. Those were Hope for the future, they are looking forward to these fungi and bugs multiplying more and more, and no one is willing to eat any more.

After being thrown away all night, Lan Nuo was finally able to rest for a while, and during this time, he had already formulated his next development plan.After solving the most basic food problem, the next thing that needs to be faced is the problem that every civilization must face, and that is the energy problem. In a broad sense, the food problem is also part of the energy problem. Most energy sources are actually variations of solar energy.

The energy for burning trees comes from the organic matter accumulated through photosynthesis of plants. The water energy in rivers is the energy contained in rainfall in high altitudes after sunlight evaporates seawater. Fossil energy is the accumulation of sunlight energy countless years ago. In such a world, In a world without sunlight, most of the energy is lost. If you want to survive, you must develop new energy.

There are energy sources that can be used by humans in this world to replace sunlight. Thinking of this, Lan Nuo couldn't help but look out the window at the lightning that illuminated the entire world.

The humans who walked out of the jungle for the first time obtained fire under lightning and became the overlords of the planet. Now, the humans in Silver City once again mustered up the courage to reach out to the jumping white light.

[To be continued]

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