Age of Cataclysm: I can light up the technology tree

While waiting, Lv Yongchang and the academicians around him carefully observed the fragile sapling that was growing hard in the laboratory.

According to the data from other experimental groups, they slowly adjusted various environmental parameters in the laboratory.

Moisture, radiation, temperature, atmospheric composition...

I don't know if it was a psychological effect or something else, when several parameters were adjusted to the optimal state, Lv Yongchang seemed to see the extremely thin roots of the sapling tremble quickly a few times.

It was like expressing his joy and satisfaction with the comfortable environment.

Looking at the increasingly bright light green leaves, a faint smile rose in Lv Yongchang's eyes.

Outside the laboratory, a light footsteps came from far away.

Meng Lu is here.

Perhaps because she learned about the new research project, her footsteps seemed particularly hurried and dense!

The door of the laboratory slowly opened, and Meng Lu's voice came along.

"Professor Lu, what strange civilization did the fleet discover this time?"

Her voice revealed a bit of excitement and excitement.

Until now, she still remembers the shock that the language system of those amino fish brought to her.

Unfortunately...

With the outbreak of the war of advanced civilizations, the Gliese 555 star system has been completely destroyed.

The amino fish deep in the ice giant...naturally cannot escape the fate of extinction.

Thinking of this, Meng Lu smacked her lips with some regret.

I am afraid that in the future, she can only remember these silly big guys from the civilization data she compiled.

"Academician Meng, come quickly."

"Let me make it clear first, this mission is much more difficult than the last time, you can't run away at the last minute!"

Just as Meng Lu was standing at the door of the laboratory thinking, Lu Yongchang's voice came from the laboratory.

She was stunned for a moment, and walked towards the direction where the academicians gathered with some doubts.

"Professor, what are you talking about?"

"I don't even look down on research tasks that are not difficult!"

She said half-jokingly as she walked to the crowd.

Inside the curtain wall made of transparent aluminum is a spacious room with white as the main tone.

Looking at the various arrangements, Meng Lu's eyes showed a hint of enlightenment.

This is a biological laboratory.

But then, she frowned.

In this biological laboratory, apart from the busy scientific research type I robot, there seemed to be no other living creatures - except for the extremely thin sapling in the center.

"Did you see it?"

"This is your research object."

Lu Yongchang's voice came from the side.

Meng Lu was stunned for a moment, raised his hand in surprise and pointed at the sapling in the transparent curtain wall, and asked in an extremely strange tone: "Professor?"

"You want me to study the language system of a tree?"

"Are you... serious?"

Lv Yongchang smiled and waved his hand to the side: "Old Mao, you come and explain it."

"Academician Meng."

A familiar voice came from the side: "We meet again."

"Academician Mao!" Seeing Mao Zhengzhi, Meng Lu hurriedly greeted him, "You..."

Mao Zhengzhi smiled cheerfully and interrupted Meng Lu's unfinished words: "Don't worry, I'll introduce it to you first."

"This is a plant-type highly intelligent life we ​​found on a planet."

More than ten minutes later.

Unlike the confused look at the beginning, at this moment, Meng Lu looked at the inconspicuous thin sapling with strange colors in his eyes.

"Plant-type highly intelligent life..."

"The universe is so vast that there are so many wonders!"

"How is it? Are you confident?" Lv Yongchang asked with a gentle tone and a chuckle.

"..."

Extremely rare, Meng Lu did not respond to Lv Yongchang's inquiry immediately.

After all, this is an unprecedented plant-type life, which is different from those animal-type life that communicates through sound or other media.

Although Academician Mao Zhengzhi introduced the information of this giant tree to her in detail, she is still in a state of confusion.

Therefore, facing Lv Yongchang's inquiry, Meng Lu's face showed a deep entanglement.

After pondering for a long time, she responded hesitantly: "Professor, let me try first."

Lv Yongchang was not surprised by Meng Lu's reaction.

After all, it is a new field, and even he dare not say that he can definitely decipher the language of the giant tree.

He smiled gently: "Don't be too stressed."

"This is not the core research direction of the Academy of Sciences, and even if it fails, it will not have much impact."

Seeing that Meng Lu was slightly relieved, he whispered again: "If you have any difficulties during the research, you can tell me or Academician Mao, and the Academy of Sciences will try its best to meet your requirements."

...

The research officially began.

Based on the various experiments and exploration data provided by Academician Mao Zhengzhi, Meng Lu can basically determine that these giant trees rely on roots to transmit information.

According to the speculation of Professor Lu and Academician Mao, all the trees on the Lost Star are branches of the 10,000-meter giant tree. In other words, it is a separate individual life.

The problem arises.

The value of the language system is communication. Whether it is language, gestures or text, its ultimate goal is communication.

Does individual life really have a so-called language system when it does not need to communicate with its own kind?

Without a perfect language system, the difficulty of her work will increase exponentially.

Let a tree understand what humans mean, and it is an alien tree!

How easy is that!

Before the experiment began, Meng Lu had already doubted the success rate of the experiment.

Even so, she tried to start the experiment according to the normal process.

Because there was no precedent, she could only conduct tentative experiments according to her own understanding.

First of all, the conjecture of bioelectricity appeared in her mind.

In the isolated biological laboratory, a scientific research robot was carefully implanting tiny electrodes into the roots of the saplings.

Under the camera, Meng Lu could clearly see that with the movement of the scientific research robot, the saplings shook their thin roots slightly, as if resisting this behavior.

As the last electrode was successfully implanted into the roots of the saplings, she breathed a sigh of relief.

In order to reduce the stimulation of this operation to the saplings, she specially chose the smallest type of electrode.

Fortunately, there were no unexpected situations in the entire operation process.

She turned her head and looked at the holographic image on the side.

After waiting for a while, a series of undulating curves appeared in the holographic image.

"Sure enough, there is bioelectricity..."

Meng Lu frowned slightly and carefully observed the fluctuations of these curves.