Law of the Wasteland

"Young man, do you know why there is a smog layer? Why does the smog layer surround our entire planet? Why does it linger all year round, and even replace land and sea as the new surface of the earth?"

After distributing the rewards, Fang Buping introduced the patriarch and elders of the Purgatory Clan to Wuchou Zhizhi respectively, and sent her to communicate with these people and accept the task.

Then he turned around and said to Wei Bubing very seriously.

"It should be because of...air pollution, extremely tiny dust particles floated into the air with the disturbance of the airflow..." Wei Bubing replied hesitantly.

Although this is the world of the game, some background settings are still very scientific.

So Wei Bubing would hesitate, because this is obviously not an accurate answer. If the truth is like this, then there are too many things that go against common sense that cannot be answered.

Sure enough, Fang Buping was slightly disappointed after hearing this: "That's it? That's all your understanding of the smog layer?"

"Let me remind you. Since you have chosen planting as a major, you must know something about the evolution of organisms. Let me ask you, in the first 20 billion years of life on the earth, what kind of organisms endured the original environment of the earth?" Harsh, the atmosphere with a high concentration of carbon and sulfur oxides was slowly decomposed and solidified, and finally transformed into an atmospheric environment suitable for us to breathe and survive?"

This is the difficulty of learning business skills. The skill tutor will ask you some subject-related questions from time to time, which is equivalent to a random exam.

If the answer is correct, the favorability will be increased, and the skill will be deducted if the answer is wrong.It is not a major that matches in reality, and the skill points that are often increased every day are not enough to be deducted like this.

Fortunately, Wei Bubing has a brain control chip.Retrieving information at any time, these problems are not difficult for him.

But even if there is no brain control chip, this question belongs to common sense, and it is easy to answer: "It is plankton."

"That's right, it's plankton." Fang Buping clapped his hands vigorously.

Looking at the old man's shining eyes, Wei Bubing suddenly understood what he meant, and couldn't believe it: "You mean, this smog layer is composed of plankton?"

What is plankton?It can be seen from the name, it is floating.Swimming, living things, are the drifting mix of algae, bacteria, jellyfish, krill and the like that live in the water.

Flying in the sky, can that still be called plankton?

It seemed to see Wei Bubing's doubts.Of course it must be.The lines of the director department were designed in this way, Fang Buping said conveniently: "Why can't it be plankton?"

"With the cataclysm, the radiation intensified, and the environment deteriorated sharply. Many creatures have mutated, the most widely distributed and the largest number, and the plankton that has lived on the earth for the longest time has also mutated. Is this strange? ?"

"Of course, the mutation may be natural. It may also be artificially induced. In short..." The old man spread his hands.

"But, how, how?" Wei Bubing couldn't hide his doubts.

The vast majority of things like plankton live in water, and of course there are very few, such as bacteria attached to suspended matter, which can float in the air.

But in the final analysis, they are denser than air. Even if they are blown into the sky by the wind for a while, as time goes by and the wind weakens, they will eventually settle down.

Although the time may be extremely long, it may even last for several years, but in the end...

It is impossible to continue to hover all year round like this.

Moreover, as mentioned earlier, the air density in the smog area is hundreds of times that of normal air, and a fraction of that of water.

According to the simplest laws of physics, they should also sink to the ground, and then come up with fresher air?

"It's very simple, because they have evolved the ability to fly."

The ability to fly?Plankton can also evolve the ability to fly?Do not make jokes?

Creatures have evolved for hundreds of millions of years from ancient times to the present. Although the pure flying ability has evolved independently from dragonflies to bats to birds, all of them rely on the principle of aerodynamics...

It is impossible to evolve a stable flight ability with the body-sized athletic ability of plankton;

Even if it is, the smog layer built with this kind of flying ability should definitely not look like this, unless...they have other ways to obtain buoyancy.

Looking at the expectant eyes of the old man Fang Buping, Wei Bubing felt blessed in his heart: "Could it be...they obtained the energy to resist gravity with the help of the earth's magnetic field?"

There are not many relatively stable energy sources that can cover the whole world regardless of day and night, and the earth's magnetic field is undoubtedly one of them.

This also explains the reason why electronic signals cannot penetrate the smog layer. If the smog layer is completely composed of plankton suspended by the force of the earth's magnetic field, it is obviously impossible for electromagnetic signals to penetrate through it.

In the process, the energy is consumed by the plankton that feed on it.

Or some people may wonder, according to the orientation of the earth's magnetic poles, the force to levitate living things should not be produced, and the direction is simply wrong.

This is ignorance of the setting of the wasteland world.

According to Wei Bubing's limited understanding of the world's settings, the cataclysm had the greatest impact on the earth, which was the extremely rapid increase in the energy of the earth's core and the acceleration of the rotation speed of the earth's core.

While intensifying the crustal activity on the earth's surface, it also made the originally stable earth's magnetic field abnormally disordered.

The earth's magnetic poles are no longer in the original direction, but divided into several complex and changeable magnetic poles, the rotation speed is quite fast, and there seem to be various movements of engulfing, merging or falling apart before each other.

In a word, the earth's magnetic field, which was gentle and stable before and could indicate the direction, no longer exists.

Instead, a rapidly rotating, unpredictable and violent new magnetic field.

The changing magnetic field produces an electric field, which is an important reason why the weather on the earth's surface changes three times a day and is moody after the catastrophe.

At the same time, this also provides a theoretical basis for plankton to obtain energy through the earth's magnetic field and suspend in the air.

"You got it right!" The old man slapped Wei Bubing's shoulder hard, feeling deeply for the spirituality of this student.

At the same time, a series of system prompts sounded.Your friendship with Fang Buping has increased by xx points, your planting skills have increased by xx points, your xxxx has increased by xx...

Is that all right?Wei Bubing's mouth twitched.

Fang Buping said to himself, "Plankton have evolved a magnetic levitation system. As you know, except for magnetic monopoles, magnets have two poles, which naturally attract each other..."

"The rapid reproduction of magnetic plankton, the population is getting bigger and bigger; the larger the population, the stronger the magnetic field formed through aggregation, the more conducive to their survival and reproduction..."

"After the survival of the fittest in the environment, the survival of the fittest, and finally a stable biological community layer is formed at a distance of 300 meters to 3000 meters from the surface..."

"It's extremely dense. It's an unreasonable haze layer."

"A place that is too low is impenetrable to sunlight, charged particle streams, and cosmic rays, and it is difficult to obtain energy supplements; a place that is too high has too thin air, and it is difficult for plankton to survive..."

"This layer of smog isolates the electronic signals from the world below to the sea of ​​clouds, but at the same time it also stabilizes the chaotic earth's magnetic field. The surface of the earth is still maintained by a relatively stable magnetic field. It is used to block the blowing of the solar wind..."

"At the same time, the plankton will also swallow the suspended matter such as polluted dust, volcanic ash, and human industrial waste gas carried in the air at this altitude."

"When they are alive, only by relying on these things can they form the magnetic levitation device in their body; when they die, they will lose their levitation ability and sink to the ground."

"In this way, they are constantly purifying the Earth's atmosphere..."

"It's as if billions of years ago, when the earth was still in its infancy, they participated in the evolution process. It changed the appearance of the entire earth..."

"It's strange why I tell you so much? I'm going to get to the point soon."

"My lifelong ideal is to grow food for human beings wherever possible. So that no one will starve to death in this world."

"You might say, since the smog is entirely composed of plankton, isn't the problem solved?"

Plankton is a very important food source in this era.

Many plankton are directly edible; even if they are inedible, they will become edible after some means of processing.

Not to mention that among the plankton, there are krill, which have the highest protein content, are nutritious and delicious.

If the smog layer is really composed of plankton, is it simply a pile of food covering the earth?

"But it's a pity that the plankton in the smog need to absorb suspended matter to form their suspenders, which are rich in various heavy metal particles, so they cannot be processed and eaten at all, unless a lot of energy is wasted to extract..."

"But in that case, the efficiency will be low. It's better to grow other crops honestly..."

"But there are exceptions to everything. Plankton is the real bottom of the biological chain, even if they can fly. All kinds of creatures living in the haze layer, including animals and plants, rely on them to provide food."

"The vast majority of organisms have evolved the ability to adapt to this harsh food source, and use the enriched heavy metal ions in their bodies to produce special abilities such as light, electricity, and magnetism."

"But I believe that there must be some organisms that have evolved purification capabilities. They can excrete various toxic substances adsorbed from plankton in their own way, and keep the clean and usable parts."

"No matter how this ability is realized, no matter whether such a creature can be eaten directly, as long as one can be found, even if it is poisonous, it will be a huge improvement for the cultivation of crops that can be grown in the smog layer! "

"Recently, I have detected unusual disturbances in heavy metal ions from the erupting species of this steam volcano."

"I believe that around this active volcano, there are very likely the crops I want to find. Boy, are you willing to help me?"

Willing, willing, of course willing!Wei Bubing definitely agreed.

But before we can speak, you have already visited the entire cave... Before you know it, it is actually a volcanic cave, and the cave is full of smog.

The brother and sister walked all the way along the cavity of the bubble, unknowingly they had gone deep into the cave without knowing it.

"Brother, we are developed! We are developed!" Buchou finished the tour of the cave.After finishing talking with every npc that can talk to, I came to my brother happily, "Hey. Brother, you haven't finished yet?"

"Yeah, just listen to the old man's rant, blah..." There were a few people nearby who were very interested in this novel journey of the brothers and sisters, watching all the way, and heard Buchou say this I feel the same way.

Wei Bubing clicked the confirmation option: "It's still quite interesting, don't you think?"

Don't worry about not seeing it.Without the right to speak, the onlookers just curled their lips: "What's so interesting?"

As soon as the words fell, Master Fang Buping let out a long laugh: "Very good! Very good! People love to chatter when they are old. You can listen to my old guy's nagging from beginning to end, neither rush nor impatient, neither sullen nor angry, Children can be taught!"

"Dangdangdangdang".Accompanied by the sound of a series of copper coins falling into the bag.

Your favorability with Fang Buping has increased by xx points.Your planting skills have increased by xx points, and your xxxx has increased by xx...

Several teams of onlookers hid their faces and left after hearing the sound, they didn't bring such a slap in the face!

"Hey, don't go, don't go, this matter has something to do with everyone." Buchou hurriedly reached out to greet them?

Only then did everyone remember that they were not worried about shouting happily just now, saying that they were about to develop.

What developed?Even if there is something good, their current roles are not in place at all?

Stop with doubts.Hearing what Buchou said, he was stunned.

"Nani? This. This, this is a new copy!"

"Sister, are you kidding me?"

"This new version has been opened for almost two months, is there any undiscovered copy here?"

No one has ever played, or even discovered, since the game was launched, a new copy of the world has appeared?Such a copy must be grabbed!

A copy is like a treasure trove.

You suddenly go in the dust-covered treasure house, and there are so many treasures in it that it can dazzle your eyes.

As time goes on, as the number of players who pass the level continues to increase, the treasures will gradually be discovered, and the income from playing dungeons will gradually enter the equilibrium period.

This is the setting of the wasteland game. The previous stage of the treasure house being dusty and just opened is commonly known as the wasteland reclamation period.

The land reclamation period is always difficult, and it can be regarded as a reward for the difficulty of land reclamation. The teams that clear the customs first will always get the best rewards.

Basically, as long as it is a good item that the boss in the dungeon has a chance to drop, no matter how low the drop rate is, no matter how rare it is, there will always be one or two items dropped during the land reclamation period.

After the drop, wait for the next drop, then you will not know the year of the monkey...

Not only that, but at some point, something better than the setting will come out, so even if it's just a small five-person book, the land reclamation period is definitely worth looking forward to.

You know, the game has only had hundreds of dungeons since the server was opened until now.

Moreover, nearly half of these dungeons were excavated as early as the [-]th level land reclamation period when the first district was opened.

Later, with each version update, it is customary to open several new copies.

But everyone knows that such a setting is set. As soon as the new map is opened, it will flood in on a large scale, and then search in the sky and underground, and when it is found, it will rush in.

So the so-called land reclamation period has basically been shortened from the first few days or even longer to a few minutes or even an hour.

Your fate is bad, you are on the wrong map, and you can't even make it to get a share of the pie...

It's that intense!

Under such circumstances, the brother and sister could still find a complete, unopened copy. This is really lucky!

At present, there are discussions about how to maximize the use of this period of land reclamation and strive for greater benefits.

Although Wasteland officials have never disclosed the settings, according to the understanding of Wasteland players, opening up wasteland is like drawing a lottery.

There are a total of 100 prizes, first come first served, last come no.

The further you go, the greater the chance of winning, and the chances become lower and lower as time goes by, until all the places are exhausted.

These 100 copies are not casually mentioned, but estimated by the players based on the output of dungeon land reclamation.

This is true no matter if it is a super-large copy of 100 people or a small copy of five people.

There are many super-large dungeon drops and high-end equipment. Basically, three or five teams clear the level or one team clears the level three or five times, and the lottery period is over.

As for the small dungeon in front of me, I am afraid that it will have to be cleared forty or fifty times to squeeze out the value of the dungeon.

This needs to be well coordinated, because once a team clears the level, there will be an unprecedented copy record on the list immediately, letting everyone in the game know that a new copy has appeared somewhere .

And this certain place will definitely be the Sea of ​​Thunderclouds—the front of the dungeon belongs to the large map marked with the dungeon.

Then by the name of the dungeon, for example, what kind of volcanic lava cave, what kind of ice and wind frontier outpost, what kind of cloud sea gas cave... etc., it is easy to determine the approximate geographical location of the dungeon.

Although the map of Thundercloud Sea is vast, as long as players make up their minds, dozens or even millions of people will mobilize to search for it. It won't take long for the dungeon to be exposed.

It would be fine if it was a super-large dungeon. The difficulty of the super-large dungeon lies there, and the clearance time lies there. There are very few teams with the ability and conditions.

As long as you have enough strength, it is relatively easy to complete three or five levels one after another and get as many rewards as possible before everyone else can pass the level.

But the small copy will not work.

It is easy to get started, and everyone can come in and share a piece, you have a piece, I have a piece, there are only a few things in total, and if you share it, it will be gone.

So be strategic!

"For the first round of customs clearance, we can adopt the configuration of the maximum number of teams, each team enters the cost at the same time, and clears the level in seconds; then according to the length and difficulty of the dungeon, determine the team combination for the second round of customs clearance..." (To be continued ..)