Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 644: More serious pollution?

The first row contains drug experiments for curing curses, and the second row contains reagent experiments for purifying marine pollution.

"Regarding the issue of how to purify seawater pollution, I have considered many methods, such as imitating the practice of the cult's joint deployment of natural disaster detection devices and deploying devices with purification functions in polluted sea areas; or directly treating the source, with the main goal of restoring a good and healthy ecological environment. But in the end, I chose to mainly make purification reagents. On the one hand, it is because liquid reagents are more likely to react with seawater, which can lower the threshold for use; on the other hand, it is because the materials of liquid reagents are easier to collect, which can save costs to the greatest extent."

"Of course, even if they are the same liquid reagents, there will be slight differences in their specific modes of action."

Rorona pointed to the row of purification reagents in the cupboard and introduced their effects and principles to Ling Ge. "Like the 314th test product, its mode of operation is proliferation and replacement. Through the rapid proliferation of the internal magic factor, the newly born pure factor and the polluted factor are replaced with each other to achieve the effect of purifying the water quality. In simple terms, when this bottle of reagent is mixed with polluted seawater, it will react and proliferate the same type of pure water source based on various factors such as the current water quality, water temperature, oxygen content, and microbial content of the sea area, and then replace the polluted water source in the sea area with the pure water source, so that it can be restored to the healthiest state."

Healthy... She sounded like she was describing a patient, and perhaps that was what she thought in her heart.

"It sounds like a bold setting that even novelists wouldn't dare to adopt," Linger commented. "But the water content in the sea is fixed. When new seawater is injected, what will happen to the old seawater? If there is no treatment measure, I'm afraid it will only cause the pollution to be transferred to other sea areas, right?"

"It's okay. When the reagent takes effect, it will undergo a special reaction to decompose the polluted seawater into pure high-energy magic, which will return to nature and ensure the stability of the water cycle." Rolena smiled. She has always been concerned about the problem of marine pollution and naturally would not ignore such details. But soon, she shook her head again: "However, as written in the experimental records, its biggest flaw is that it is too slow. If you want to rely on this method to completely purify the seawater pollution, I'm afraid even the lifespan of a true god will not be enough, right?"

The issue of efficiency is the issue of survival, because time has always been the most precious thing. Linger has a deep understanding of this: the reason why the steam engine appeared, the reason why the steam revolution was so rapid and unstoppable, the reason why the workers were busy in the matchbox-like factories... aren't they all for the word efficiency?
Every poor soul devoured by steel machines is a powerful proof of this point.

Rorona then introduced her test subjects to Lingge, as if she was introducing her most proud works, even though these works all ended in failure: "Test subject No. 315, I returned to the traditional thinking and tried to refine reagents with materials that already had purification effects. After they were fused, the magic reaction increased several times, and the purification effect did meet expectations, but the cost was too high, so it was not suitable for mass production; Test subject No. 316, well, this is the most recent test product. I originally wanted to refine a reagent that can deeply purify seawater pollution by creating a magic reflux phenomenon, but the result, as you can see, is completely different from expectations. Perhaps it's because I took too big a step. I should have formulated a more mature plan and tried again..."

Linger listened patiently, asking questions and commenting from time to time. When Rorona finished introducing all the purification reagents in the cabinet, half an hour had passed. When the two people in the room didn't feel anything, Rorona sighed with a sense of unsatisfaction: "In fact, the test products stored here are recent results. There are no physical objects left from earlier test products, only some experimental records."

"The experimental project on purifying marine pollution has progressed much slower than the experimental project on treating drugs. The latter has been tested thousands of times, while this project has only been tested over 300 times. On the one hand, this is because I didn't pay much attention to this issue in the early days. It was not until I went to Lotterdana that I realized that the marine pollution problem had developed to such a serious level. On the other hand, this is because the difficulty of this matter far exceeded my imagination. The experimental project on treating drugs also has specific symptoms to study. Although the symptoms are different each time, I can summarize some rules based on the symptoms. However, the complexity of marine pollution cannot be summarized in a simple sentence or two. The practice of each idea requires hundreds or thousands of verifications before it can be put into practice."

Hearing this, Linger couldn't help but ask, "Is the problem of marine pollution very complicated, Miss Rolena? Maybe I don't know much about the ecological environment, but for the phenomena visible to the naked eye, it is nothing more than liquid pollution, gas pollution and solid pollution, which correspond to the three problems of water pollution, turbid air and marine garbage. In addition to this, are there other forms of pollution?"

"You have summarized the pollution problem very comprehensively, Mr. Ling, provided that the scope is limited to areas of human activity." Rorona said, "But I wonder if you still remember what I said before? My dream is to completely purify the marine pollution problem in this world - this world, not just areas of human activity."

Linger frowned slightly: "Besides humans? Do you mean aliens? In my impression, aliens have always gotten along well with the natural environment."

For example, the traveler elves, the mirror elves, and the strange creatures he had seen in the Sosen Mountains and the Void Root Swamp.

"This is a kind of prejudice, Mr. Ling. If humans want to develop civilization, they have to sacrifice the environment. Who says aliens are not the same? It's just that their civilization is too suppressed by human civilization, so this sacrifice is not very obvious. If the positions are reversed and alien civilization is stronger than human civilization, I'm afraid the world's most serious pollution problem will come from the hands of aliens, right?"

If the mirror elves of the Azure Mirror had not only the city of Nereids, but had spread their civilization all over the Azure Sea, wouldn't they have dug sea rocks and built magnificent palaces? Wouldn't they have driven out other sea creatures and turned the vast plains into their own farmland? Wouldn't they have bred sea beasts and expanded their military power, thus causing serious ecological imbalance?

They don't do that now, simply because they don't have the strength to do so.

The elves who love nature and live in harmony with the ecological environment in fantasy stories do not exist. Even if they do exist, their civilization is doomed to fail to prosper. Just like fairies, fairies are the darlings of nature, but in the history of civilization for tens of thousands of years, it has never been heard that fairies have established their own country. They still maintain the primitive tribal and family system.

Development is a natural and innate habit of living things. Their struggle with nature began in the primitive era before civilization was born, and human beings are just one of them.

Lingge quickly figured out this truth and couldn't help but remain silent.

It seems that he thinks he knows enough about the aliens. After all, except for Alice and Metien, almost all of his companions are aliens. However, there are still many prejudices in his heart.

Is this human nature and beyond reproach?

"Besides, who told you that marine pollution is only about liquid, gas and solid pollution, Mr. Ling?" Rorona suddenly gave him a mysterious smile. "In areas without human activities, the most serious, terrifying and unstoppable pollution problem in the world has actually begun to emerge. Mr. Ling, you should have noticed that when I introduced the working principles of those purification reagents to you just now, I mentioned the same word: magic reaction."

Ling'er's heart skipped a beat and he slightly widened his eyes: "What do you mean?"

"That's right." Rorona said word by word, "The marine pollution problem, which is more serious than water pollution, air pollution and marine garbage, is actually the phenomenon of magic pollution."

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(End of this chapter)