"There should be environmental research experts in the northern border of Ursus, but since we need more professional people, then tell me where the more professional professor is now, and I will go there immediately to find him..."
Wu Ke volunteered and said that he was very good at persuading others. Even if he could not impress the other party with a sincere physical attitude this time, he should be able to obtain the lost original data from the other party as soon as possible.
"When I used the company's long-distance communicator to communicate with Professor Nauman, their location was shown to be east of Letania, an active volcanic zone where volcanic eruptions occur frequently."
After learning the approximate location from Xinsir, Wu Ke was ready to set off, but before setting off, he had to deal with the matters that needed to be dealt with first.
After some discussions, Wu Ke paid the technical fees for the controller and the transfer fees for technical workers that should be paid to the environmental optimization company, which was about one-third of the original purchase amount, to Lin Wei, the leopard head who was the temporary supervisor. Miss.
The remaining two-thirds of the money is the cost of building an independent factory in the north, including but not limited to the salary of the skilled workers who will now be borne by him, and the expenses of assembling the convoy to the north of Ursus. As well as purchasing expenditures for special materials required for certain parts of the environmental controller that are probably not available in the northern border of Ursus.
In addition, as they were preparing to split up, the team without him needed some professional bodyguards. Franka and Razer, who had completed their mission and returned to Black Steel International after arriving in Colombia, had not even rested for a few days before receiving new orders. task.
Xinsir signed an A-level escort contract with Black Steel International. The task is to escort the entire convoy to the northern border of Ursus. The quotation is 300 million, with more than 400 people plus a convoy carrying some goods. More than a hundred security personnel from Black Steel International followed and escorted.
According to Franka and Razer, Black Steel International took ten commission points for this task. Although the remaining commissions that fell into the hands of security personnel were high or low, the minimum price was not lower than two million.
Corresponding to the high employment fee is the rich combat experience of these hired security personnel.
Unlike Xinsir who originally went to the northern border of Ursus, the Environmental Optimization Company was only different from the security personnel under the C-level security contract signed by Black Steel International.
The current security personnel of Black Steel International are nearly one-third of the employees of Black Steel International Security Organization.
Most of the people were elites who had retired from the regular army, and the protective force was sufficient. It was not an exaggeration to say that there was a surplus. However, for the safety of the personnel along the way, Wu Ke still paid for this fee.
Just when Wu Ke finished these things and was about to leave for Letania, Miss Bai Xue stood up and expressed her dissent, but she still had the task of observing Wu Ke.
"I don't mind taking you with me, but you look exhausted now. You haven't slept for twelve days. I think you should take a rest. After all, I won't be bringing a car with me on my next flight. Together, you will go directly to the sky to blow the wind."
"No, it doesn't matter, I can hold on."
Miss Shirayuki has some ninja perseverance.
"You have no problem, but what about Chen?"
Wu Ke pointed to the girl beside him, who was holding a bunch of Colombian-style barbecue and eating it.
A few days ago, Lao Shi Huaiya communicated remotely with the Environmental Optimization Company, and Wei Yanwu, the governor of Longmen, who appeared inside, wanted Chen to go back, but he was rejected directly by the girl. He was helpless. She can only let Bai Xue protect her.
Bai Xue: "..."
After not sleeping for twelve days, she finally...well, no, she had no choice but to give up her observation mission and get a truly comprehensive rest when she needed to protect her target while sleeping.
. . . .
Putting aside the situation where Miss Ninja almost caused her sudden death, Wu Ke flew to Letania according to the map that night.
The climate in Letania belongs to the temperate zone. Most of the cities Wu Ke encountered in the air along the way were lush and lush with vegetation.
There seemed to be many active volcanoes in the country of Letania. Every time he flew for a period of time, Wu Ke would encounter a faintly smoking hole.
After arriving to the east of Letania, the distribution of active volcanoes became even more dense, and it almost became a community of volcanoes.
The hot breath and the pungent smell of sulfur hit his face. Wu Ke even had some doubts. If he took a skewer of raw meat and stood on it for a while, and sprinkled some seasoning on the raw meat, the raw meat would be directly transformed into... A skewer of delicious barbecue?
"Is this a place where normal creatures can stay?"
Wu Ke was a little skeptical, but after falling to the ground from the air, he discovered that the temperature of the raised gray ground here was actually much lower than that at high altitude.
In the intervals between volcanic communities, there are also many heat-resistant plants growing.
If you observe carefully, you can find traces of animals in the plants that look like desert oasis.
Not only were there animals there, but there seemed to be some slight movement in the locks in the dust under his feet.
"Gejigejigeji..."
Just like now, a strange creature emerged from the dust, squirmed and made strange sounds, and climbed onto his feet. It looked like it was wrapped in magma, showing dark red cracks, and the color inside seemed to be evolving. bright and becomes orange.
"this is……"
Grasping something like a horn, Wu Ke lifted up the strange creature that crawled onto his feet.
Then, there was a boom, and the strange creature exploded in his hand.
The fierce flames enveloped Wu Ke, the hot blood hit his face, and the clothes on his body were eroded at a terrifying speed.
Wu Ke's upper body suddenly burst into flames, as if it had been doused with gasoline and ignited.
When the blood of the strange creature as fuel was quickly burned away, Wu Kecai looked a little embarrassed and appeared in the original place.
At this time, the clothes on his body had been burned to ashes, but he stood there in silence, really not knowing what to say.
Suddenly, he felt that his crotch was still a little hot, and when he looked down, he found that his pants were also burning.
He quickly patted his pants and extinguished the flames on his pants, which were not stained with strange fuel but were only ignited by normal flames.
Gejigeji, the same strange creatures as before emerged from the dust, and there were many of them.
The slits in the body were like eyes, seeming to stare at him, but the brightness of their bodies was getting higher...
. . . .
"what sound?"
Nauman was awakened by a dull rumble.
"It sounded like the explosion of a volcanic stoneworm."
Ella was also awakened and answered her husband's words.
"Did any creature intrude into their territory?"
"should be."
Neither Nauman nor his wife paid much attention to the sound of the explosion.
A creature mistakenly breaks into the territory of the volcanic stoneworm and is then exploded by the volcanic stoneworm. This is something that happens occasionally in the volcanic community here.
Although it's noisy when it happens at night while they're sleeping, they're used to it.
Sometimes, you can even fall asleep listening to those rumbling sounds, almost like a lullaby? !
"No, normal creatures that break into the territory of the volcanic stone worm will either be killed by the volcanic stone worm and stop attacking, or they will be scared away by the explosion. It is impossible for the explosion to continue like this."
"So, this should not be the volcanic stone worms resisting the invading enemies, but the rumored explosion and reproduction of the volcanic stone worms!"
Ella's eyes were shining, she got up by herself, and also called her husband to get up.
"Nauman, we can't let go of this rare breeding phenomenon. We have to rush to the place where the explosion occurred to take pictures of that scene."
"But aren't we still doing research on volcanic disasters?"
Nauman was puzzled.
"It doesn't matter, there are still two days before the eruption cycle of the volcano under our feet, and we have enough time to do other things now.
The asexual explosion and reproduction of volcanic stoneworms is a very rare thing. Scholars proposed this conjecture forty years ago, but this conjecture has not been truly confirmed until now.
If we can capture the exact reproduction scene, we may be able to add another research paper on volcanic stoneworms to the topic of volcanic eruptions. "
The researcher couple acted very efficiently. They quickly put on the special insulation equipment for operating in the volcanic community, carried an experimental professional camera, and left the temporary camp on a mountain off-road Originium vehicle.
"The sound came from the top of the mountain on the left, which is very close to the crater. Ella, do you think this will cause the volcano to erupt in advance?"
"This possibility cannot be ruled out, but the probability should be low. Even if the volcano does erupt in advance, there should be some signs before the eruption.
And it was not far from the safe observation point where we started. With the speed of the mountain bike, we could make it back before the volcano completely erupted. "
Ella made her judgment, and Nauman felt relieved. He believed in his wife's professional standards.
The mountain bike with the refined origin stone as the driving core drove quickly. In less than five minutes, the two of them arrived at the edge of the volcanic origin stone worm's territory.
"This is really a wonderful view..."
The Naumans stood on the roof of the car, and what appeared in front of them was a swarm of volcanic stone insects. Each volcanic stone insect was shining with light, and the light intertwined to form a dark red and orange color. Alternate ocean.
From time to time, extremely bright volcanic stone insects explode, causing brilliant waves in the ocean.
From a distance, the picture is extremely beautiful, but the beauty is also mixed with real danger.
Ella is a researcher and did not remain silent in this beautiful scenery. She quickly set up an observation camera on the roof of the mountain bike.
After recording these precious scenes that can prove another reproduction process of volcanic stone insects.
This is truly a miraculous phenomenon of reproduction.
According to the conjecture paper in the past, it was inferred that the Volcanic Origin Stoneworm exploded its body in order to explode the testes and ovaries in the body into the air, and then complete the reproduction in the air similar to the seed-vomiting plant...
However, the volcanic stone worm itself can reproduce through mating, and compared to this method of explosive reproduction, the survival rate of eggs born from the mating reproduction of normal insects is obviously higher.
Why?
Will organisms that can reproduce normally have to swarm and give birth to offspring even if they explode themselves?
Ella was thinking, but she was recalling some of the things mentioned in the conjecture paper she had read.
Forty years ago…
Knott Volcanic Field? !
Ella's eyes widened and she thought of something. Forty years ago, a huge volcanic disaster occurred in the Notte area.
Although the flowing magma did not flow to the mobile city where humans lived, the erupted volcanic debris was like a meteorite, causing huge damage to the city at that time.
If I remember correctly, the researcher who proposed this conjecture paper also died in that disaster.
As for the paper, it was something similar to a 'relic' or a 'last wish' compiled by the other party's students.
Unfortunately, because it was just a speculative paper without any substantive evidence, in the end no one was able to inherit the other party's research on this topic.
"Nauman, I know!"
Professor Nauman turned back and looked at his wife.
"What do you know?"
he asks.
"The phenomenon of explosion and reproduction of volcanic stoneworms occurs!"
Ella seemed a little excited. She mainly studied the occurrence of volcanic disasters, but she also had some involvement in the ecosystem around the volcano.
In the early years, Ella even had a research project on the impact of changes in the volcanic environment on the unique organisms in the volcanic ecosystem, but in the end the research was fruitless and the efforts were in vain.
However, here we are now, combining a conjecture paper from forty years ago with the scene before us, as well as my own years of research on the occurrence of volcanic disasters.
Ella felt that she had found the connection between natural disasters and ecosystems. She thought that she had found part of the truth about nature and volcanoes in this world.
"Volcanic stoneworms have extremely high heat resistance, and they can survive for a short period of time under the hot ground where magma flows.
The reason why they want to explode and reproduce may be because they are sure that the volcanic disaster that will happen next is not something they can survive by hiding underground. "
Ella said excitedly.
The volcanic stoneworm explodes itself and breeds a large number of dust-like eggs in the air.
When a volcano erupts, most of their eggs may be directly covered and killed by the magma, but a few will definitely stick to the surface of the erupted magma.
As long as they can reach the surface of the magma and undergo a certain amount of cooling and solidification, insect eggs with high strength and heat resistance may survive.
The behavior of exploding and reproducing is a biologically instinctive behavior of volcanic stoneworms in order to continue the race!
