Compared with urban areas, universities with a higher overall greening ratio before the disaster were the areas hardest hit by jungleization.
More than half of the buildings have walls falling off, and a small number of buildings have partially collapsed.
These buildings didn't mean much to Wang Qi. What he was looking for was the library and laboratory building.
Both are core facilities of the university, but the core facilities may not necessarily be in the newest building. When you find the library, it is full of messes.
It is a three-story red brick building. Several trees have grown out of the house. Half of the walls are missing. The books and bookshelves in the library can be directly observed from the outside. The rotten matter composed of books soaked in water on the ground supported a large number of fungi. When the temperature dropped, the fruiting bodies of the fungi shrank, leaving behind something similar to soil.
Because of the different types of ink and paper, such as coated paper, books are actually less attractive to bugs. However, once soaked in water, they become the same as rotten wood and become a paradise for bugs.
Wang Qi observed the stress-bearing structure outside for a while, then ducked into the library.
The water in the library mainly came from the damaged ceiling, and the flooded part was limited. There were still many books on some of the bookshelves that did not collapse.
This time, the main goal is related to the history of science and technology and biology. They can tell Wang Qi whether people before the disaster had the ability to use genes from other worlds to create strange and weird lives everywhere out of thin air.
There are very few books required, and you can get enough information just by scratching the surface, because in industrial society, nothing can exist alone.
For example, to realize gene manipulation, you will definitely need a variety of equipment, including optical and chemical equipment. Counting microelectronics, finishing, etc., each equipment involves at least a dozen industrial categories. As long as one category cannot Once the level is reached, genetic manipulation can only remain in the fantasy stage, and no matter how high the theoretical level is, it will be in vain.
The preservation of the laboratory building was a little better, and we successfully obtained the artifact: an old-fashioned monocular microscope.
I got a book, a microscope, and some various bottled chemical powders that seemed to be usable, and went out of town to catch some flying insects.
It seems like I have done everything during this period of time, and it seems like I have done nothing at all, but in fact I still have a plan.
The purpose is to reach the node in another world and find a way to close or seal it, so any anomalies along the way need to be investigated to help understand the operating mechanism of the node. Since we decided to spend enough time in Yabur City for the winter, the relevant specific work can be carried out without affecting survival. Just proceed in an orderly manner.
The RV is an important helper in reaching the node. Its transformation progress can be carried out slowly with the winter. Before winter, various preparations are mainly carried out, including the construction of the blacksmith furnace.
The benefits of having more people also emerged. Although the time was tight, all business advancements were carried out in an orderly manner.
Before the snowfall, Wang Qi had already started lake water experiments in the new base.
During swimming training, river water and upstream lake water were taken separately for distillation experiments. The visual inspection of the lake water was normal, but as expected, after the upstream lake water was distilled, mysterious substances that emitted ultraviolet light were seen.
The first time I saw the phenomenon of ultraviolet light emitted by living organisms was on ghosts, and then on mysterious flowers.
In fact, during the second half of the journey to Yabulcheng, Wang Qi also cut the sap from the trees running around, and after evaporating it to dryness, he also discovered the same luminous phenomenon.
But so far, it is not known what this luminous substance is that widely exists within the influence of nodes in other worlds.
Now, with the help of old-fashioned monocular microscopes, some of the mystery may be solved.
Old-fashioned microscopes do not require electricity and can be illuminated by candles. However, they are limited by the intensity and concentration of flame light. If the magnification is too high, it will appear gray. But no matter what, it is definitely better than the naked eye.
Use the red indicator obtained from the laboratory building to stain the river water samples and lake water samples respectively.
The red indicator has deteriorated somewhat, but it is not a big problem. It can still increase the contrast between the particles in the water and the water body.
In a few days, two small jars of pine oil were burned and hundreds of slides were made to find the culprit.
An amoeba with an unusually simple structure.
It took hundreds of slides to find it, because it is so fragile that on most of the slides where it can be observed, there is only one nucleus left, and this is the thing that glows. Wang Qi repeated the experiment, just to see whether it was some kind of stone or something, and then he saw an amoeba with a luminous core in a water drop without a cover glass.
In fact, it is still quite confusing at this point. I don’t know whether the amoeba swallowed something and became like this, or whether the luminous substance is the amoeba.
Wang Qi personally feels that there is a problem with the assumption that amoeba is equal to luminophore, and it deviates from the results of last year's luminous sugar crystallization experiment.
He then conducted distillation experiments and roasting experiments on distillation residues.
In the distillation experiment residue, no reliable life structure was detected under the microscope, and after adding a small amount of water, no reliable life structure was detected, but the luminescence phenomenon of the residue did exist.
During the roasting experiment, a significant increase in the ultraviolet light energy level was observed, and then nothing. The roasting will significantly accelerate the release of energy from the material, causing the ultraviolet light intensity to rapidly weaken to the point where Wang Qi's eyes cannot observe it.
His biological knowledge is limited, and the current experimental conditions are also limited. It is really difficult to draw a reliable conclusion.
However, relying on the experimental results and early observation clues in front of you is still confusing.
As a guess, it might be some kind of airborne virus, or a molecule of comparable structural complexity.
It would be great if we could time travel twenty years earlier. Not only would it be easier to find talents in related professions, but we could also use unused alcohol and gasoline to generate electricity and use more advanced equipment.
Now, even if I still have some bottled chemical powders on hand, I don’t know how to continue further research.
Do we need to collect biology and chemistry works and textbooks from the entire city and start learning from scratch?
...I don’t dare to think about it.
Even if he could collect enough complete information with pictures and texts, he was still willing to spend energy to chew down the book, and even forced everyone to study together. However, to actually conduct experiments later, various equipments would be needed, and everyone would also have to take into account the survival supplies. Production and collection. You may not be able to get real and reliable results if you invest in it for a lifetime, and there is a question mark as to whether a thousand people can even do it.
The uncertainty of conducting experiments to study luminous substances on the spot is too high, so it is more reliable to go directly to a base in another world.
Human development often involves solving problems first and then summarizing the principles. Blocking the source of luminous matter is necessarily related to the study of luminous matter. We also need to see the nodes of other worlds before looking at it.
Wang Qi hid and conducted experiments until he didn't know the time. One day, Anna suddenly came to his and Li Xiang's living area.
"A ghost appears."
"So early?"
According to experience in the North, ghosts are active for only four months a year. Although the temperature in Yabur City has dropped, the first snow has not fallen yet.
"It looks like they crawled out of the lake."
"..." Wang Qi glanced at the direction of the microscope resentfully and asked, "Are they too many?"
Anna nodded solemnly: "Yes, we saw at least twenty of them on the way back from cutting grass outside the city."
Ghosts are not necessarily a threat to people, as Elena concluded, they just make living people look more.
But to what extent?
There may only be one or two hundred of them in a city in the North. This place climbs directly out of a lake of unknown size. Is it possible to directly occupy half of the city?
Wang Qi thought of the dock area, where there were many fishing boats. Although they were dilapidated, they seemed to be old and had something wrong with them, and he felt bad in his heart.
"Go and get the three Valia and those eight people ready to go. I'll write a list."
This year's winter will definitely be lively, with fewer people and more ghosts. No one can figure out what the consequences will be if a group of ghosts launch a mysterious attack together. In order to avoid the situation getting to that point, we need to take advantage of the fact that there are not many ghosts yet, so we can take advantage of the winter. Necessary building materials and tools are available.
Fortunately, I had made statistics on the building materials warehouses first. I already knew what was in each warehouse. I wrote a list and gave it to the three Waliya brothers and asked them to bring four people and a truck to transport it from the nearest dry dock warehouse. Stuff comes back.
Li wanted to stay and guard the house, while Wang Qi took a trio of blacksmith boys and four reform-through-labor prisoners, dragging a small RV and a cart to the building materials supermarket in the industrial and commercial district.
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