In order to give the illusion of "learning something" through communication, Wang Qi used some tricks here.
The remaining length of the 1.5mm steel wire rope cannot touch the bottom, and the wood tied to it cannot enjoy the maximum pressure service. In order to have a strong enough visual contrast, dead branches with high enough dryness must be selected. If it is a broken branch that has just fallen, the moisture inside it will cause trouble, and the deformation of thousands of meters will not be obvious.
In short, the student's magic sinking plan cannot be used. It is a bigger problem than the diving bell plan, and there is basically no fault tolerance at all.
Back at the camp, Wang Qi estimated the progress of his map change and decided to go back and meet up with Natasha and others. There, close to the coniferous forest, you can find pine cones and small monsters, which can slow down the consumption of supplies.
Walking back here, I didn't expect to see Natasha riding Bai Xiaojiao towards me halfway.
Wang Qi found this combination very strange.
Bai Xiaojiao has never been ridden by others at home. Wang Qi also intended to let Akeem and Natasha have more contact with Bai Xiaojiao, but it has its own ideas and has never been successfully ridden by these two people.
Bai Xiaojiao came closer. Li Xiang put his hand between the helmet and his cheek and touched it. Wang Qi waited for Natasha to come down and asked, "What happened?"
"No, Bai Xiaojiao seems to miss you two. He always stares here and seems a little uneasy. He ran far away early this morning. I found him and he didn't want to go back. I thought I might as well bring him over to have a look before I take him back. It goes back."
Wang Qi looked at Bai Xiaojiao with a smile. Li Xiang kneaded even more enthusiastically after hearing the explanation.
It took more than four days to travel from the place where they were separated to the well. Calculated, it was nine days apart. It seemed to be the longest separation since I picked it up. When I stayed in the yard of the Fountain of Youth Alien Beast Response Team, the longest separation was also I'll go see it in two or three days.
Maybe the snowfield environment reminds him of his childhood? Based on its attribute level, its brain may indeed be much more developed than that of an average bear.
This would also explain why it lets Natasha ride it, because it can't speak, so bring Natasha over and someone will explain the situation.
But the camp over there is not without its risks.
Wang Qi watched Bai Xiaojiao's body gradually relax, and turned to talk to Akeem: "Akeem, take Lenochka to Olga's side first, while Natasha and Bai Xiaojiao stay with me. "
Like other people in the Eight Great Vajra no longer use nicknames, Lenochka is the correct name of the Snow Lion.
"yes!"
Akeem and I packed up, each took a big backpack, and ran away in a hurry.
The students behind were a little shocked.
The prophecies they commonly use are not the lingua franca of the south, so they are blessed with language knowledge. Wang Qi and Bada Jingang all speak in Qin language. After a long time, they will naturally understand what they are saying.
After the teams separated, it was planned that the other team would have to retreat to the outside for two or three days. It should be about 70 kilometers away from the meeting point. It was a bit unexpected for the two heavy armored soldiers to run over like this. It seemed that they were not right. The estimate of the guard's strength needs to be adjusted higher.
After meeting Bai Xiaojiao, Bai Xiaojiao pulled Wang Qi and Li Xiangzuo's sleigh instead. This freed up two horses for replacement and the speed was faster. They rested for two nights on the road and completed the rendezvous before nightfall on the third day. .
When I came back from the well, I found some small pieces of flying stones collected from there, as well as some elementary magic crystals.
Except for some of the primary magic crystals that were put away by Li Xiang, the others were handed over to the students for research, which was the same subject as the little rock puppet kidnapped before.
In the evening, Wang Qi explained the situation to the students: "I will go to the magic well in a few days to do some experiments. The whole process may take more than half a month. Add up the time it takes for us to return to the haunted town. Food is the next biggest thing. How do you think the problem should be solved?"
People actually can’t eat too much.
"Collect pine cones. Horses can't eat needles directly, but they can still fill their stomachs if processed artificially."
"These things are buried under the snow, and it is inefficient to find them. How about we separate a team and go back to purchase a load of grass seeds?"
"You really can't kill two horses."
Wang Qi nodded aside, in fact, all of these plans are acceptable.
Collecting pine cones and needles is more troublesome, and the current efficiency is not even one-tenth that of late autumn. However, with the ability to use magic to clean up local surface snow, it should not be a big problem to halve the overall consumption of the cavalry, but this solution cannot completely solve it. A situation of insufficient food.
The current team has a total of twenty-one people, including two guarantors, eight people from Wang Qi's group, eleven exchange students and their families, and the Belanger family accounts for six.
In a cold environment, each person must ensure a caloric intake of at least three to four thousand calories a day. The mages and the horsemen with kidney deficiency eat a little less, but the Eight Diamonds need more. To sum up, the total daily food consumption is converted into dry food. There are nearly thirty kilograms, and the dry food prepared for a month is almost the cargo part of an entire sled.
When Bai Xiaojiao looked for food for himself on the way, he could also supplement some reserves, but so far more than half of the food he had brought out had been consumed.
If the team does not move next, the surrounding meat sources will soon be destroyed based on the team's consumption, so the food supplement of the personnel also needs to be considered.
It's good to go back and buy grass seeds separately and replenish some dry food.
Killing the horses is also possible, but this solution cannot solve the dilemma of horse feed. Moreover, these cold-land horses were exchanged for them by the Sour Lake Chamber of Commerce. They will have to return them when the time comes. Unless it is necessary to kill the horses to satisfy their hunger, they will not be considered for the time being. .
After discussion, we decided to form a team to go back for purchase.
In terms of magic power, Natasha and Carter's magic swordsman guards are in charge, along with the two Eight Great Vajras and guarantors, and Belanger supports two more guards from his family.
For a team of eight people, the upper limit of magic response ability is only three levels, but with three of the Eight King Kongs, it is enough to deal with many types of dangers.
After arranging safeguards, the students continued their field research, and Wang Qi settled down to transform the seeds of the sacred tree.
A few days later, Wang Qi and Li Xiang took the Bai Xiaojiao back to the well to plant seeds.
The biggest difference between this seed and the various sacred trees planted in the past is that Wang Qi compiled a thermal synthesizer.
Simply put, this is an ATP reserve method that is different from photosynthesis. It mainly uses heat as the energy source for chemical synthesis. The main structure and composition reference object is the fungal organelles in volcanic hot springs.
When using thermal synthesizers in cold areas, Wang Qi still considers efficiency.
Two aspects.
During the ground development stage, the sunshine intensity of the snowfield cannot be expected. If you want to collect enough light, you must develop a huge branch and leaf system, and the nutrient resources consumed will significantly slow down the pace of underwater exploration.
Mainly using thermal synthesis, this step is solved directly with magic solution.
The method is to find a relatively flat normal stone with a volume of more than 20 cubic meters by the pit. Two people will use magic to give it an initial heat, and the surface temperature will be controlled at about 50 degrees.
Neither Wang Qi nor Li Xiang knows advanced fire magic. They mainly use [Firework] to heat stones. This is a second-level spell, which is the same level as fireball. It is a special effect. It can make the whole body covered in fire without causing burns. , its flame can adjust the temperature according to the caster's will, and the highest temperature can ignite firewood. It is absolutely impossible to use it to make iron.
After completing the spell casting, he used the magic props he brought in his luggage to assemble a "radiator" and stuffed it under the stone to locally insulate the stone.
These magic props are all modular and can be assembled with radiators, air conditioners, lighting, induction cookers and other effects. They are basically life-oriented functions. They were launched by small folk magic equipment companies after the release of gem energy storage modules. They are very expensive and cannot be used by ordinary people, but they are really convenient to travel with.
By relying on magic props and stones to maintain the basic heat supply in a small area, the demand for photosynthesis can be greatly reduced, making it easier for the sacred tree to collect resources from the low-temperature soil under the snow to grow.
Another consideration for thermal synthesizers is the underwater part.
Water is a substance with very low thermal conductivity, even lower than glass and building bricks. Heating water mainly relies on its fluidity rather than conduction.
The small lake in the center of the magic well is obviously a water body with no fluidity, at least without large-scale vertical mobility, so even though its surface is frozen, the temperature of the water below is probably about the same as the temperature of the formation at the same level, which is about every time it goes down. 100 meters, an increase of 2 to 3 degrees, maybe even more than 3 degrees.
Two kilometers down, the water temperature may reach or even exceed 60 degrees, which is enough to initiate thermal synthesis and provide additional energy support for the sacred tree to perform its collection tasks.
