After seeing off the 301st Battalion Commander, Wang Qi and Li Xiang chatted for a while: "Did you see anything?"
Li Xiang shook his head: "It's so strange. It's completely different from the theory of evolution you mentioned."
What she meant by natural was the body shape of a devil.
There is no need to explain too much whether the theory of evolution is true or not. Whether it works locally can be easily determined by observing bugs in two regions.
The exploration team has done a lot of work on this point, or in other words, with their decades of continuous exploration, the exploration team headquarters has almost become an insect and mineral museum, where you can experience the power of natural evolution.
The answer to why we collect insects is also very simple, because when they are in groups, they can easily show what kind of minerals are enriched in an area. For example, in areas where there is no copper, there will be no surface copper enrichment on the forewings. Coleoptera beetle. Even by referring to the average toxicity of insects in an area, the approximate size of the surrounding natural enemy groups can be determined.
Wang Qi also nodded: "It is possible that they are not a naturally born species, just like the Night Clan and the Blade. Maybe there is some unknown ancient story behind them."
"Wouldn't it evolve in the direction of convenience?"
"Maybe the demon world has just the right ecological niche, or maybe the overall population is too large and evolution is slow."
Natural evolution emphasizes use and disuse. Only the useful ones will stay, while the useless limbs and organs will shrink more and more. For example, if a bug cannot fly a few times a year, its wings will gradually become the main function of making courtship sounds. If the environment in the area is too noisy and courtship is not possible, it is better to save the nutrients for developing wings and give birth to more babies. Ten to hundreds of eggs.
However, when it comes to intelligent demons, if their group can maintain a certain size, it can subjectively resist evolution.
The key point here is aesthetics. Assuming that among the demon tribe, big wings are considered beautiful, and straight horns on the head are considered handsome. If they don’t look like this, the chance of successful courtship and reproduction will be reduced, even if something different appears along the way. With mixed race, the appearance of the main ethnic group will not change much.
After briefly chatting about the devil's size, Wang Qi and Li Xiang left the palace the next day and went to the reservoir area to inspect.
There are still many things to do at home, but since planting the giant sacred tree, Wang Qi has also intentionally delegated some power to various departments and administrative chief Lai Wen.
There are two main points. One is that Wang Qi promised Li Xiang to accompany her around after she was promoted to the Fifth Ring Road.
If you don’t go abroad, it’s not called shopping. If you go abroad, the time won’t be certain.
Wang Qi didn't have a good impression of the penal colony, an area where serfdom was common. It would be best if he had the opportunity to go to the main world to have a look and understand what his family would face next.
The demon world doesn't consider it...it doesn't look like a demon.
Another reason for decentralization is that the kingdom has developed so far that it is difficult to make short-term breakthroughs that will affect the overall strategic deployment. Those things that often have a development and testing cycle of five or ten years can just take a look at it at any time and keep an eye on it every day. It won't be any faster.
In short, since this period, Wang Qi has mainly focused on giant corporations and the military. The research institute and Blue Sky Heavy Industry are just incidental to the military equipment system.
Arriving at the reservoir again, this time Bai Xiaojiao no longer had to wait on the shore, and went directly to the wooden bridge to the central island.
Now the reservoir lake level is still a little over ten meters away from the planned height, and the urban part cannot be unfolded yet. However, the structure and height of the bridge itself are different from the basic surface. In terms of area, it is not large, so we can start first.
The bridge relied on artificial piling and several positioning islands to grow. For parts that were too long, additional pile foundations were developed underwater.
The total weight of this two-way four-lane bridge, which makes two small turns around the central island, is close to 500,000 tons. The figure excludes 60% of the water, and the rest is related to the nutrient collection capacity of the entire giant structure. Words are nothing.
For the development of giant structures, nutrition is the root of everything, and the planning of hundreds of square kilometers depends entirely on
It is unrealistic to rely on manpower to transport materials, and more depends on the microorganisms in the reservoir area.
In the preparation stage, the main task of the macrostructure is to gradually replace the functions of microorganisms with its own functions and reduce the losses of digestion and reuse.
So now on the bridge, you can see strings of green on the lake. These organs float on the water, responsible for absorbing light energy and carbon dioxide to synthesize basic resources and deliver them to the root network all over the bottom of the lake.
Li Xiang suddenly complained: "I've been saying this before, this bridge needs to be reinforced."
Wang Qi looked back and saw that the tips of Bai Xiaojiao's claws left a series of small pits on the ground, but they were not crushed by the flesh pads.
"There are not enough resources, so the reinforcement work needs to be delayed."
Wang Qi divided the load-bearing capacity of the bridge into two levels: "load-bearing capacity" and "road pressure resistance", which will make it easier to develop.
During this period of time, unused slag from factories and mines across the territory has been sent to the reservoir area for landfill. New Pettus even piled low-quality rutile directly by the lake.
Unfortunately, the overall manpower and mechanical strength are still somewhat insufficient. Collecting these things throughout the territory can increase the amount of 30,000 to 40,000 tons in a month, and nearly half of the materials are not used.
For example, the quartz mixed in low-quality rutile and the oxygen element in titanium dioxide itself are extra weight, and the only titanium, iron, and carbon in the giant structure are needed. Silicon cell walls have been developed on the Wangting tree before, and some silicon can also be used. However, as the main component of quartz, it accounts for almost 30% of the weight of the surface layer of the entire dark land block, which is enough for the land-based pipe below the reservoir area.
But there is no way to build a factory specifically for giants to extract these things. Not to mention the lack of people, just extracting so many types of simple substances is a huge project.
In addition, not all elements of macrostructure can be used. Some elements that are easily oxidized are fine. Some elements need to react with concentrated nitric acid and aqua regia, which is difficult to achieve in trees, at least not at this stage. Wang Qi now knows some magic, and he can try to use magic arrays to transform it, but the benefits are not as good as biochemical methods.
In the previous eleven months, half of the time was spent on basic work and optimizing transportation. In other words, the total amount of metal materials input so far is only 100,000 tons in single quality.
To strengthen a long bridge with a total length of almost ten kilometers, these raw materials may be just enough.
Limited by resource sources, we must save money if we can.
The bridge will later undergo bio-water control and partial silicification to reach a certain load-bearing level, and then asphalt pavement will be paved on top.
It’s not that it can’t be used now, there are already specially customized heavy trucks in operation.
The existing bridge allows two fully loaded heavy trucks to be parked on a single arch.
The weight of a single heavy-duty truck is 9.2 tons at the front, 8.1 tons at the trailer chassis, and 23.1 tons in total. The additional weight of fuel, personnel, etc. is not more than 1 ton. This weight requires one more set of wheels than a normal factory heavy truck. Some wheels that cannot be added, such as the front wheels, are also widened. Controlling the tire pressure can effectively reduce the pressure on the bridge deck. The disadvantage is that this kind of heavy truck with tires cannot drive on other roads, and its fuel consumption is significantly higher than that of ordinary vehicles. Due to the friction of the extra tires, the upper speed limit is also much lower.
Because there will be changes in the future, only a few of this special heavy-duty trucks have been purchased. Some of the transportation work uses civilian medium-sized trucks for transportation. These are vehicles developed by private enterprises that previously purchased four-cylinder engines from automobile factories, with a load capacity of about 3 tons.
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