The discovery of a giant monster underground spread quickly. After all, there were many witnesses and there were only so many infected people, so the news spread very quickly.
Yak also heard the news and couldn't help but raise his brows. He did see some content about underground creatures in Tulip's records, and the records all showed that the situation was not optimistic. The overall strength of underground creatures was definitely not good.
Low.
He no longer needs to be responsible for connecting derivatives and infected people. He still has a job as an idle member in the game team. With his current data strength, he is basically a cheating existence in the game world, so he plays the game
It’s similar to Shaocai, and can be considered quite casual.
However, Chen Zihan still visited him often, and today she came again, bringing details about the magma creatures.
"This is a video taken at that time. It is not very clear. After all, the firefight was very intense at that time. The magma underground may destroy the protective clothing of our soldiers." Chen Zihan explained.
"Finally we encountered them, Yak sighed. I advise your combat department to prepare for the worst. The overall strength of the underground biosphere may not be much worse than the empire.
Although their individual intelligence is not high, and individuals with advanced intelligence do not form a very advanced civilization, they occupy a favorable location and the environment in which they live. The high temperature in the asthenosphere is fatal to us.
In other words, the substances they simply breathe out can disappear. The breath of the dragon generally causes damage to us. Of course, the low temperature on the surface can also cause frostbite to them. But as a party that needs geothermal energy, we will undoubtedly need to
We conduct away operations, and even send high-temperature-resistant machinery into the magma to protect our equipment.
In their view, such behavior is extremely evil. To use an analogy, a group of races suddenly arrived on our planet whose normal body temperature is below minus 80 degrees. They need the heat on our planet, so
It will drastically cool down our planet.
Wherever they go, it will become a bitterly cold place like the Arctic. The crops we depend on for survival will be harvestless under the extreme cold they bring. And such people still hope to continue to expand. Will be more
Many places have turned into frozen soil without any vegetation.
There is no doubt that this contradiction cannot be resolved through negotiation, and it threatens the fundamental survival of the other party. After the enemy's intelligent race discovers this problem, it will almost certainly start an endless war with us."
Chen Zihan frowned: "The Intelligence Department has analyzed the situation this time. But they are not as pessimistic as you. The heat in the earth's core is quite huge. The thickness of the asthenosphere is not thinner than the crust. They have a way out.
Moreover, the deeper underground should also have higher temperatures.
I can't think of any reason why they have to fight us desperately. Since the war will bring huge losses, and we have enough huge strategic space, why not retreat a little bit?"
Yak shook his head: "The premise for your consideration is that there is a high probability that there are no intelligent creatures in this magma. From the perspective of wild animals, this choice is correct. But I can tell you clearly that there are intelligent races underground.
, and there are quite a lot of them, and they already have a good level of civilization.
A civilization as a whole will not be as short-sighted as biological individuals. They will see our threats. Likewise, they will build their own buildings and create wealth around these buildings.
It's like you are forcing all the residents of a prosperous city to leave their homes. Many people know that they may die if they resist, and they are not willing to be driven out of the city they built with their own hands."
"Then are all their cities distributed on the surface of the asthenosphere? They should be evenly distributed across the entire boundary layer? In this case, they would not leave their hometowns to open up wasteland, but be forced to migrate to other cities
, will there be particularly fierce resistance in this case?”
Yak sighed: "You still regard them as wild animals. Even wild animals will not be randomly and evenly distributed in a natural area. They will also choose an area that is more suitable for their survival.
This is true for animals, not to mention intelligent creatures? Their survival is as complicated as ours. We need water, food, flat land for cultivation, difficult terrain for defense, and smooth roads for transportation. A city’s
There are many factors to consider when establishing one.
Although the things they need are not the same as us, they are not much less. They need ocean currents of magma to migrate quickly, just like we need rivers. They need food to replenish their energy needs, and so do they.
It needs some rarer mineral elements in magma, just like we need to eat salt.
One of these factors happened to cause them to build their city close to the surface of the asthenosphere. That was the food source.
You have to understand that in the underground world, there is no sunlight, so they cannot synthesize the components of their bodies and the energy needed for energy metabolism through photosynthesis and other methods.
There is no point in planting here, and they have no clear division between plants and animals, because the only way to obtain energy here is through the heat here.
But you should understand the second law of thermodynamics. Heat will not spontaneously transfer from a low-temperature object to a high-temperature object. Similarly, it is impossible to absorb heat from a single heat source and completely convert it into work, which is the second type of perpetual motion machine.
does not exist.
With this theory as a premise, you can understand that even if the magma here is hot and there is no temperature difference, it will be difficult for the creatures here to convert the energy contained in the magma into the energy required for their movements.
Therefore, we can easily infer that areas with large temperature differences in the asthenosphere must breed relatively prosperous biological groups.
There is no doubt that this area with large temperature difference refers to the surface of the asthenosphere.
The low temperature here is fatal to many underground creatures, but it is also fatally attractive. Because only here can they maintain a relatively low body temperature and absorb the energy of high-temperature magma to improve their physiological processes.
Activities remain as normal.
The important elements and complex compounds that make up living organisms will undoubtedly become more abundant as more and more organisms settle here, and these are the food needed by intelligent organisms here.
Even though it’s not of much significance for them to eat and obtain energy, they need those complex compounds, and it’s really because of these characteristics that they gave birth to their own agriculture.”