I Was Once a Legend

Chapter 124: Photosynthetic swarms

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The satellite system on the hover car is showing the surface of the entire city on the screen. The ice cap has raised the altitude of the city by nearly 50 meters. Looking at the extremely complicated contour map, Dong Zheng can't help but suspect that this place really used to be. a city

The wind was a bit strong, and the suspension car could almost only drive close to the ground, shaking slightly. The wind and snow greatly reduced the visibility. Looking out from the car, there was only a blur of white.

Since the underground base came out, Wang Que has become silent. There are too many insects here. Although most of them are sleeping, she can still vaguely feel it. With the huge amount of bonuses, these tiny inductions turned into a terrifying consciousness, dormant in her mind, waiting for orders and summons.

Dong Linhai saw her discomfort, tilted his head and thought for a second, touched the girl's arm, and said, "Are you afraid of bugs?"

Wang Que nodded.

Dong Linhai: "Then did you ever catch grasshoppers and crickets when you were young?"

Wang Que: "Yes, I played with the neighbor's children at that time. At night, there were a lot of them on the wall at the top of the building. Our children were caught together and kept in cages."

Dong Linhai didn't understand: "It shouldn't be, why are you afraid now?"

Wang Que smiled helplessly: "I still have a lot of things that I was not afraid of when I was a child, but I don't dare to do it at all now, and I don't know why the older I get, the more timid I get."

"Maybe girls and boys are not the same." Dong Linhai said, "Actually, I was afraid that after a while, when I was in kindergarten, I liked to dig watermelon worms in the small garden. They were gray and flat. It's a little bug that curls up into a ball when it's in danger. It's a bit like the bug we saw just now. Once I grabbed a whole bottle, I got allergies when I got home at night, and I got red all over my body. Rash, itchy and didn't sleep all night. My brother should know about it."

Dong Zheng, who was sitting in the driver's seat, kept listening to their conversation, nodded and said, "Remember, you were so itchy that you rolled on the floor and cried, so noisy that I didn't fall asleep all night."

Dong Linhai: "...you just remember it, don't go into such detail."

Wang Que couldn't help laughing, Dong Linhai saw the arc of her lips raised, and somehow felt a subtle satisfaction in her heart.

Dong Linhai had also talked about two girlfriends before. To be honest, they were both chasing him. After all, he was the second young master of the Dong family who was rich, cool and stylish at that time. He was simply the dream lover of thousands of girls. After waiting for a while, I felt boring, Dong Linhai didn't delay others, and broke up directly and simply, dashingly and cheerfully.

But now, he is just like many pilgrims, struggling to survive in the pure white world.

Apart from all the advantages given by the family, he is really an ordinary boy.

But he now has one of the biggest advantages, that is, he can have love for a long time! As long as they get along for a long time and care more about each other, Wang Que will definitely be interested in him... right

To be honest, Dong Linhai is not quite sure.

The wind and snow outside gradually became smaller. Dong Zheng and Alan took turns driving, Lin Hangzhi watched the road conditions for them and acted as a guide, while the three and a half old children, two real and one fake, sat in the back, endlessly. chatting.

After all, the box was only entered for the members of the Wonton Splitter team to exercise. In order to achieve a good effect, Cui Zuojing should not have too much intervention, so he touched the fish with peace of mind.

The car was swayed by the wind, and Cui Zuojing also swayed, and he was soon trapped. He yawned and was about to squint for a while when he suddenly felt the car stopped.

"I'll go down for a while, wait a moment." Dong Zheng put on his helmet again, and didn't say what to do, and got out of the car with Allen.

Cui Zuojing regained his energy, turned over and lay on the car window, watching the two of them stepped into the waist-deep snow with one foot, sinking in, almost using his body to open the way, and forcibly scratched five pieces in the snow. six meters away.

It is also thanks to them that if Wang Que goes down, it is estimated that it will be buried in the chest.

The protective suit was very light, so it wasn't as laborious as I imagined. When he walked to a protruding ice rock not far away, Dong Zhengcai stopped. the thing to see.

Dong Zheng has been observing his surroundings since he came out. In today's extremely harsh climate, even the most tenacious mosses cannot grow, and the whole world is hopelessly white.

But just now, he caught a glimpse of a different green.

It was a dark green lump, a thick layer, attached to the ice rock, and had a hairy feel, unlike any known plant.

"Is this a plant?" Allen's voice was muffled in his helmet. He, Dong Zheng, and Lin Hangzhi had already discussed the issue of the world's biosphere. Since there are so many bugs, there must be a lot of them around. Producers that convert inorganic matter into organic matter, providing them with the food they need to survive.

"It doesn't look like it." Dong Zheng said, reaching out and touching the green patch lightly.

The moment the protective suit glove touched it, the whole green block immediately moved, turning into countless tiny dots, disintegrating and moving quickly in all directions, and some climbed onto Dong Zheng's gloves and quickly followed him. Arm moves.

"Fuck." Dong Zheng was startled, he couldn't hold back his foul language, and hurriedly knocked out the little bug on his body. Allen was so frightened that he retreated one after another, forgetting that he was not in a normal terrain environment. One did not stand firm and shot directly into the thick snow, leaving a human-shaped pit more than half a meter deep.

"This thing is still a bug?!" Allen hurriedly got up and saw that the swarms of insects scattered by Dong Zheng's stimulation reconvened in another sunny place, forming a green.

"Go back first." Dong Zheng didn't jump to conclusions. The two returned to the suspension car the same way. In just a short while, the way they walked out was already covered with snow.

The door blocked the wind and snow, and Lin Hangzhi, who saw the two people's reactions from the window, asked eagerly, "How is it?"

"It's not a real plant." Dong Zheng stretched out his hand, and in his palm, there was a small green dot that was pinched to death before he could escape.

Cui Zuojing and the others also came over. A few people looked closer and Lin Hangzhi frowned: "Is this still a bug?"

"It shouldn't be exactly." Cui Zuojing said, "Doctor Lin, does this color look like blue-green algae?"

Lin Hang immediately understood what Cui Zuojing meant: "Are you saying that this worm is like cyanobacteria, and its body contains photosynthetic pigments that can carry out photosynthesis?"

Cui Zuojing: "Almost, I'm not good at biology, but you know what I mean."

Dong Linhai scratched his head: "Aren't chloroplasts capable of photosynthesis?"

"Cyanobacteria, like many photosynthetic bacteria, have no organelles in a row, and only rely on light and pigments such as chlorophyll for photosynthesis." Lin Hangzhi explained, "I originally thought that there may be many bacteria that perform chemical energy synthesis here. Producers support the biosphere, but they always feel that there are not necessarily so many inorganic substances for them to transform. Now it seems that if some bugs can evolve organelles for photosynthesis or contain photosynthetic pigments... With their huge numbers as producers, That's not impossible."

"This structure has a greater survival advantage than traditional plants. It can be dispersed and avoided in the event of danger and disaster, and it can be formed at any time in a place with good light to have better photosynthetic efficiency. It seems... quite scientific? "

Allen exclaimed: "It's a bit magical to be both an animal and a plant."

Dong Zheng: "It is estimated that there will be many magical things in the future. Let's continue."

Xiao Zong's body was thrown aside. This time, Allen was the driver. Dong Zheng took a break. There was a lot of snow on his protective suit.

Dong Zheng exhaled a long breath of white mist, but the inside of the car was not too warm. The water vapor condensed on his long and dense eyelashes, forming thin ice flowers.

Cui Zuojing looked left and right, and really felt that a man who grew up like this is quite heroic and not feminine, and it is really favored by God.

Aware of Cui Zuojing's gaze, Dong Zheng also looked over: "?"

"It's okay." The boy tucked the helmet into his arms, "You look handsome."

Dong Zheng almost choked on his own saliva. He has seen many strong winds and waves, and his face is uncontrollably hot because of this joke, but it is cold around him, so it should not be obvious.

Wang Que silently covered her face, and repeatedly warned herself in her heart: No, you can't just knock on a real person's cp. This is disrespect to both parties. If Brother Dong and Brother Cui know about it, they will probably beat her to death. !

But... But it's really sweet and soo!

Serious (zhengjing) is rio!

The snow is much smaller, the sun is gradually coming out, and the visibility is much higher. As the wind gradually decreases, the hover car also becomes stable.

Now they are 29 kilometers away from the base. The Biochemical Research Institute is in the northwest, and the base is in the east. The route given by the terminal needs to pass through the urban area. Of course, it is only the urban area of the year.

The hover car drove slowly but steadily, and there were no emergencies for nearly two hours. Although they knew that the box could not be calm, everyone couldn't help but relax their nerves that had been tense.

No one can stand it if it's stretched all the time.

At the moment when the countdown turned to 64:34:21, the car suddenly vibrated and stopped immediately. Cui Zuojing, who was leaning on the carriage and was confused, was framed and fell into Dong Zheng's arms. , did not get up for a long time.

"What's the matter?" Dong Zheng asked in the cab out of some ulterior motives, instead of helping him.

"I don't know, there's nothing in front of me. Is there a stone stuck on the ground?" Lin Hang was confused. He kept paying attention to the road conditions. The satellite map also showed that there were no large obstacles ahead. How could it suddenly stop

Alan, who was driving, kept trying to reverse the car and steer forward. After exhausting all the methods he could think of, he couldn't make the car move any more.

"It should be stuck." Allen sighed, with a bad guess, sighed, "I hope we don't have to walk on the next road, come, who will accompany me out to see?"

"I'm coming." Dong Linhai volunteered, Wang Que looked at the pure white outside, and felt that there was a calling.

She frowned suspiciously and stood up: "I'll go too."