After moving about five kilometers on the long bridge, we arrived at the Juju Border Inspection Station, which is the outermost tree among the small trees planted in the lake area.
Materials transported to the center of the lake are inspected here, and the personnel stationed are the permanent staff of the 51st Regiment.
The 51st Regiment is a reserve force, but the reserve force is not vacant all year round. Its regiment headquarters is a permanent establishment, and each battalion also has about one platoon of personnel to do related management work, so that a team ready to participate in combat can be formed at any time during reserve training.
This is equivalent to the new headquarters of the 51st Regiment. In a few years, it will be moved out a little bit and the place will be given to the traffic police.
The size of the small tree is not large. After such a long time and two adjustments in the middle, it is already complete.
In its complete form, measured from the surface of the island to the treetops, its total height is 80 meters, of which the upper 25 meters are the canopy layer with plant functions, ignore it, and there are five floors of office and living space downwards. There are three exits for the upper, middle and lower floors.
The upper level is connected to the long bridge that Bai Xiaojiao walked on; the middle level is the standard height of the giant city, but now there is only a small platform coming out of the tree. The distance between the upper and middle floors is about the height of a three-story building, which means that the long bridge will be elevated in the city of the future.
The lower level is for water surface inspection. Its entrance and exit are relatively close to the surface, only a little more than six meters. The small dock has been set up and is just waiting for the water surface to be in place.
The lower level is quite depressing in real use. From the water surface to the bottom of the basic ground, there is only a little over three meters of space. After pipes are added in the future, if the boat is slightly larger or grows to the height of a sharp blade, it may hit the head, even if the height is small. In order to facilitate some pipeline maintenance work at the bottom of the city, at least there is no need to hang while doing the work.
In addition to its basic functions, it also has a fixed height point, located about two meters below the small pier. There are many tumors growing around the island.
This is connected to the basic buoyancy structure of the megacity. It is located 1.6 meters underwater at the standard water surface height. This means that the water depth of most waters under the megacity will not exceed 1.6 meters. There will be some open lake areas in the future. , will also be separated from these shallow water areas.
In fact, it can be made shallower. For a small boat on the lake, a water depth of 40 to 50 centimeters is enough. The buoyancy structure is set to 1.6 meters underwater. Some problems caused by meteorological abnormalities should be taken into consideration. After all, when the water is full, the area of the artificial glacier will become very small. If the atmospheric moisture drops too much, the lake level may not be maintained.
After passing the border inspection, continue walking on the long bridge, then pass two checkpoints, and arrive at the central island where the giant sacred tree is located.
The garrison personnel were rotated and became the 4th Company of the 6th Battalion and the 3rd Company of the 7777th Battalion.
The living conditions are also much better, because the sacred tree provides some basic living functions.
The main structures of the sacred tree are in the water and around the lake. Its size is even smaller than the small tree at the border inspection, and it is bald and has no crown.
The main body of the sacred tree is black. If you look closely, it actually has leaves, but they are just black needles, which are not densely distributed.
Black is an anti-evolutionary color, Wang Qi did it on purpose.
If plants don't like the energy of a certain band, they will reflect that band of light. Of course, whether they like it or not depends on the mode of the photosynthetic organ.
The sacred tree is an unnatural creature, and of course some extraordinary measures must be used when supplies are in urgent need. The black color of its body is an experiment.
Wang Qi greeted the garrison, took Bai Xiaojiao and Li Xiang to the underground level, and used a big book to read the data of the sacred tree.
The Divine Tree itself does not have this function. It was created by Wang Qi. It is just like making Phoenix coins and bank card readers. It is quite troublesome, but the function it implements is very simple.
It can count how much the weight of the nutritional reserve capsule has increased.
The nutrient reserve capsule is a resource storage that grows from the divine tree's underwater root system, waiting for instructions to provide the basis for rapid development.
The main body of the sacred tree has a specially corresponding nutritional reserve capsule, which is not calculated together with others, and its weight check function is only
It can support so many things.
According to the feedback information, when the size of the body has not changed and only the color has changed, the weight of the corresponding reserve bag has increased by an additional 3% compared to the previous cycle.
This increment was so small that it could even be ignored as an error. This was all Wang Qi's fault, because he couldn't figure out what kind of chemical reactions were needed to allow plants to use full-spectrum energy, and what molecules needed to be synthesized in the middle.
But there is a way. The most powerful ability of the host body is to induce mutation. Now that it is confirmed that black can indeed obtain more energy to synthesize materials, the ability of the host body can be activated and let it carry out certain small-scale induction under restricted conditions. Change.
There are many restrictions: the color cannot be changed, the body temperature cannot be too high, blood vessels cannot beat on the wall, the growth controllability cannot be reduced, and the legs cannot wander away.
These settings are all settings for the host and have nothing to do with the plant itself.
The nucleosome is an RNA-like molecule with less than a thousand pieces. It is not as good as most viruses. It itself cannot be changed. It's just that the "common will" can decide what kind of information each fragment is used to express, and can even choose different expressions between two different hosts. Through such a combination, very complex things can be expressed in the end. For example, "combining into smooth muscle" only requires more than a hundred host nuclei, each contributing one segment.
A nucleosome is so small that it can hold almost tens of thousands of copies in one cell nucleus. The upper limit is very, very outrageous.
In this way, the debugging for this period is completed, and we will see the effect next period.
After that, I rode Bai Xiaojiao to the reservoir and lay down. By this time, the island no longer had the unique smell of humus when I first came here, and the lake water was calm enough and very comfortable.
"If we hadn't come here, would we have been lying like this every day, looking for something to eat?" Li Xiang asked.
Wang Qi thought for a while and nodded: "Probably."
With only one or two people, or the strength of a village, it is impossible to mess with anything. There is a high probability that they will just eat and wait to die.
"Do you like it now?"
"I don't like it, but I feel a sense of accomplishment. What about you?"
"I don't know. I like you. I feel comfortable wherever you are."
To manage a national power, no matter how small it is, you have to worry about everything from the military to the people eating, drinking, and eating. The people you serve are not the folks, so if you like it, it will be against your will.
Having said that, he can still play with giant structures now. Since he has lost the burden of his career, design as his favorite can actually provide greater fun and enough to adjust his mentality. In addition, it can bring an era-changing quality of life to many people, have the ability to allow more people to live longer, and may even change the world line. This sense of accomplishment is not something that the captain of a small team can experience.
Li Xiang is relatively simple. He had an insecure childhood. After that, he got used to the two of them being together, and there was nothing else.
After taking a short rest on the grass by the lake, we returned to Phoenix and started worrying again.
