See you soon Douluo

Chapter 365 Silver Forest
  The industrial demand for minerals is obvious to everyone. The Tulip Duchy consumes an astronomical amount of iron ore every year. Explosives have blasted the mine into a basin for several years. You can imagine how fast the metal is consumed.

Although the Sun Moon Continent is not as exaggerated as the Duchy, they have been using a large amount of rare metals for a longer period of time. With a little calculation, you will know that at this consumption rate, the metal will soon be insufficient, and it will not last for tens of thousands of years.

"Wait! Did you ignore a question?" Although Meng Shu was funny, his mind was still very flexible: "If the endless supply of metals in the Sun and Moon Continent comes from these metal plants, then these metal plants Where did it come from?
  Metal elements will not be born out of thin air. These plants can at most absorb trace metals in the soil. Theoretically, it is impossible to grow so large, unless every plant here has mastered the fusion technology of heavy elements, which can convert hydrogen in water into elements they need. "

Meng Shu's question hit the mark. If the plants here can fuse heavy elements, then they should run as far as they can!
  According to Cheng Ying's recalculation, the element content arrangement in Douluo Planet's crust is still oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, potassium, sodium, potassium, and magnesium. Although there is a lot of iron, the iron content in ordinary soil is very small. These plants can If the magnet is sucked, the iron content may not be low. Even if more of the internal structure is made of silicon, it cannot be grown on conventional terrain.

The reason why metal is consumed is because of rust. Crushed metal is difficult to collect and smelt again. The iron content in the soil is about two to three percent. There is almost nothing humans can do about this part of iron. What is extracted and utilized is not enough to grow plants with metal as the main element.

"There is another possibility, but we have to go in there to see if you can smell the subtle smell of sulfur in the air." After Tang Chen collected a metal plant with a complete soil sample, he stopped observing these plants.

"Smell of sulfur? You mean volcanoes?" Jian Hongchen frowned and said, "In that case, there are indeed many volcanoes around some cities in this area. The strangest thing is that this is not the junction of tectonic plates, but a continent. In the center, there are a lot of volcanoes. I didn’t feel it before, but now I think about it, it’s really strange.”

"That's right!" Bo Saixi clapped his hands: "The asthenosphere is rich in silica and many metal oxides. Below the landform, the metal content is even more exaggerated. If there are active volcanoes nearby, it can Explain the cause of this strange ecosystem."

"Let's go explore inside!" Tang Chen took out a seven-seater off-road vehicle from his storage watch. The huge tractor-like tires ensured that it could conquer almost any terrain.

"Get in the car!" Bo Saixi patted the car horn. She was the most skilled in driving vehicles. The few of them relied on their strength and were not afraid of sneak attacks by spirit beasts, so they turned on the car stereo.

"Running with the wind is the direction, chasing the power of thunder and lightning~" Rui Wenwen's familiar voice made Tang Chen couldn't help but roll his eyes, thinking that when he was making a clockwork car, Cheng Ying also sang this song, But how can the same song be so different?
  There was no road on the purple-black land. Fortunately, the tires were big, the chassis was high, and the horsepower was sufficient. It was able to forcibly carve out a path and drive away without any dust.

As an ecosystem, it is very unlikely that there are only producers, and consumers are probably aggressive. The car driving so arrogantly naturally attracted some unexpected attention.

A faint will-o'-the-wisp light stared at the car, and the metal shell on the car had a fatal attraction to certain creatures.

As night fell, the area illuminated by the car lights became smaller and smaller, and everyone soon felt the presence of uninvited guests.

The sound of squeaking metal friction was heard, and a six-legged creature crawling on the ground appeared within the range of the car lights. They looked like insects, but they were different. There was no distinction between the head, thorax and abdomen, and they were about the size of Basin size.

Wherever they passed, the metal plants were eaten away, leaving only the silicate skeleton as the backbone. The pure metal on the off-road vehicle was very attractive to them. At this time, dozens of similar things were destroying the vehicle. surrounded.

"What a big bug, but it's not even a soul beast. How interesting!" Yu Xikong snapped her fingers across the car. This time it was still an EMP impact.

Since bugs are made of metal, electromagnetic pulses should be able to cause some damage to their bodies.

The bugs surrounding the car were indeed affected by the electromagnetic pulse. Although they did not die, they made a sharp chirping sound, and then bit their companions as if they had lost their minds. "Should we go or not?" Bo Saixi's feet were hanging on the accelerator. These bugs posed little threat to them, so she actually wanted to stay and observe.

"Let's observe it first!" Tang Chen waved his hand to alert everyone, and then got out of the car to observe.

"This……"

Jumping off the car, everyone saw a strange scene. The body of the bitten insect actually had a mechanical structure similar to a crank connecting rod. The topology of the overall skeleton was also different from the mainstream carbon-based organisms.

Take the human skeleton as an example. The topology of the human skeleton is closer to a tree than a ring. It uses the spine as a backbone and looks like it is extending.

But those bugs do the opposite. The bones of the body extend in a ring around the outline of the body, which is strange.

The strange thing is not the functionality of the bones. In fact, the support structure of this form is more stable. But the problem is that it is difficult for life in this form to develop a nerve center. Grid-like bones often mean that With a grid-shaped nervous system, it is a strange creature like a starfish.

No nerve center means no brain. It is not difficult to see from the remains of these bugs that they do not have a brain, but judging from their initial behavioral patterns, their intelligence should be quite high.

The grid-like neural structure actually has a body structure that is symmetrical on both sides. It does not have a clear nerve center, but it has a lot of intelligence. No matter how you look at it, this species also belongs to the type that lets itself go on the road of evolution.

"Should we kill them all, or capture a few living samples?" Chao Tianxiang stared at the metal bugs that were killing each other, and suddenly said: "Do you think they will be like ants, with a stable Social Structure?"

Chao Tianxiang's words awakened the dreamer, and Bo Saixi immediately grabbed Meng Shu, who was about to catch the specimen, put the off-road vehicle away, and used a flashlight to illuminate it.

"When they have a few left alive, we will follow them!"

[To be continued]

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