The arrival of the half-elves from the Dark Green Clan provided the ecological park with a lot of knowledge and information related to magical plants.
"Magic is really amazing." Lu Cheng stood in front of a...piranha plant holding a thin wooden stick.
Elder Cassia told the researchers that this plant is called the Soul-Eating Flower, an extremely rare carnivorous plant. Its root spores store a large amount of toxic magic power and are often used by spellcasters to make poisons.
There are also carnivorous plants on Earth, or more accurately, insectivorous plants, such as the most well-known pitcher plants, Venus flytraps, etc.
However, the existence of this type of plants still remains within the definition of "plants", that is, organisms that live in a fixed state and can nourish themselves are called plants.
Among them, the fixed life state is the most important definition. After all, there is no plant on the earth that can grow legs and run around.
But this soul-eating flower behaves more like a carnivore that is ready to devour people at any time.
However, the soul-eating flower cultivated in the ecological park is only as big as a palm, and its entire body is dark blue in color. Its three petals look like a bloody mouth when opened, and there are sharp fangs on both sides of the petals.
When Lu Cheng stretched a wooden stick in front of the flower, it pounced on Lu Cheng's stick in the blink of an eye.
However, the bite force was much smaller than Lu Cheng had imagined. The thin wooden stick withstood the bite of the flower, but creatures like flying insects and small lizards were not so lucky.
"If we take this flower back to the exhibition, it will cause a sensation."
Lu Cheng took a look at the wooden stick in his hand, which was already stained with corrosive liquid. Not long after, the stick broke under the liquid.
The snake-like biting action of this Soul-Eating Flower just now was enough to shock all botanists on Earth.
"The plants in this world have accumulated a certain amount of energy called magic, which makes them show different characteristics."
Dr. Ji Chuan wrote down what Elder Cassia mentioned...about the characteristics of the Soul-Eating Flower and some of its uses.
After recording, Dr. Ji Chuan also threw a fire lizard into the cultivation chamber of the Soul-Eating Flower.
Less than three seconds after this poor little lizard entered the breeding chamber, it looked around and was swallowed by the bloody mouth of the Soul-Eating Flower in the next second, leaving only its tail with a small flame outside. Not long after, the small flame on the tail slowly went out.
The Soul-Eating Flower sucked the small half of its tail into its mouth like sucking noodles, and then burped contentedly. It seemed that Lu Cheng was indeed burping, as it opened its mouth and spit out a small circle of flames.
"This flower can briefly acquire the characteristics of the organism it devours, but these characteristics only last for a short time. This powerful mimicry ability is what we are focusing on now."
Dr. Ji Chuan turned his gaze towards Elder Cassia. After arriving at the camp, Dr. Ji Chuan finally felt what it meant to be "incapable of doing something".
It’s not that there is any bottleneck in the research project, but that there are simply too many objects to be studied!
Dr. Ji Chuan and his research team have experienced the excitement of Columbus when he discovered the New World, that is, everything is new! Everything has never been seen before!
There is no need to explain in words how great an achievement it is for a biologist to discover a new species. This world not only has a lot of new species, but also a brand new ecosystem!
Dr. Ji Chuan now felt like he had walked into a cave full of treasures! How much treasure was there? Every step he took was filled with a pile of gold, silver, and jewelry, as well as long-forgotten artifacts.
This exhilarating feeling of exploration kept Dr. Ji Chuan and his research team awake all night.
This... Lu Cheng could see from the dark circles under the young doctor's eyes, but Lu Cheng could not help him much except to remind him to 'take care of your health and drink more hot water'.
It is normal for people to work non-stop during the rising stage of their careers, but Dr. Ji Chuan’s situation now can no longer be described as a rising period. It should be said that he is riding a rocket and rushing upwards.
"Our application of the Soul Devouring Flower is just to refine its spores into a corrosive potion. As for why the Soul Devouring Flower can absorb magic power... we have no idea."
Elder Cassia listened to what the translator next to Dr. Ji Chuan said, and he shook his head somewhat awkwardly... As he walked along the way, Elder Cassia thought he knew the plants in the ecological park like the back of his hand, and no one in the world could rival him.
But Dr. Ji Chuan started by asking a series of questions like "Have you classified plants?", "Does this plant have any mineral nutrient absorption in its physiological structure?", "Does this plant have any specific impact on the local ecology?", etc.
Elder Cassia could understand these words word by word, but when he put them all together he was completely confused.
Finally, Dr. Ji Chuan also understood that this elder's knowledge of plants only stayed at the practical knowledge such as where this plant can be used, what kind of medicine can be made with it, where it can be collected, what to pay attention to when collecting it, etc.
Their world does not have a systematic establishment of the subject of biology. They cannot understand anything on Earth that is in the academic concept realm. To be more precise, there is no need for them to understand it.
But this knowledge is also very useful to Dr. Ji Chuan. It is so useful that Dr. Ji Chuan even wants to capture these half-elves and do a biological classification on them.
"And Captain Lu, this is just one of the plants that has animal behavior characteristics. Please follow me over here."
In the ecological park that Dr. Ji Chuan is in charge of... a lot of strange plants are actually cultivated, such as the fire flower whose leaves can produce high temperatures, and the water-absorbing grass whose roots and stems store so much liquid that it can be used as a mineral water bottle.
However, these plants did not deviate from the characteristics of conventional plants on Earth until a scientific research team outside discovered the existence of the Soul-Eating Flower.
For the first time, this flower blurred the concept between plants and animals on Earth, and Dr. Ji Chuan brought Lu Cheng to a...relatively open activity area.
This breeding chamber is more than ten times larger than that of other plants, and the entire venue is so spacious that it can be used to raise creatures such as monkeys or gorillas.
In this huge breeding chamber, Lu Cheng saw... mushrooms that could walk on their own.
"This is what we found in a cave in the mountains behind the camp." Dr. Ji Chuan's voice was filled with amazement.
"The walking mushroom, this kind of mushroom can grow to between three and four kalis. We also have this kind of walking mushroom in our country. It is said that the largest walking mushroom is ten kalis." Elder Cassia explained on the side.
"Mushrooms become spirits?"
Lu Cheng looked at the mushrooms walking aimlessly in the breeding area. They seemed to have no consciousness of their own.
"Old sir, what is the function of this fungus in your place?" Dr. Ji Chuan does not agree with the view that this creature can become a spirit or not. He believes that this creature is the inevitable result of evolution in a world with magic.
Every living thing in this world contains magic power. Some creatures have less magic power, so they cannot reveal it, but some creatures can accumulate large amounts of magic power.
For example, the fire lizard is good at accumulating fire-attributed magic power, which allows its body to have the ability to breathe fire.
"Eat." Elder Cassia said something sad. For these mushroom people, "the flesh of the walking mushroom has the characteristics of both mushrooms and meat. They are the best tribute in the Far South Empire."