Chapter 408 Alienated Plants
However, these citizens who are temporarily apprenticed are doomed to disappointment, because the federation has promulgated a rule that all martial arts halls in the federation are prohibited from recruiting students!
Although this news puzzled all the martial arts halls and citizens, a message released by the Federation afterwards made all the citizens of the Federation feel excited!
The Federation will distribute awakening potions for free in batches, so that all ordinary citizens of the Federation can initially awaken as awakened.
However, if you want to become an awakened person for free, you have to sign an agreement with the Federation, that is, after becoming an awakened person, you must work hard for three months. After three months, the federal government will also test all federal citizens who have exercised in the previous batch.
If you have excellent grades, you will be eligible to become a public awakened person hired by the Federation, under the jurisdiction of the Awakening Committee.
The Federation issued such a policy, obviously because the widely selected strategy reported by Xu Guowu has been approved by the top level of the Federation, and the best group of Awakened people in the Federation will also be selected in this process.
This winter, although the beast plague in the major mountainous areas of the Federation is still serious, due to the disclosure of the information of the Awakened, the plan of the Awakened is slowly being implemented, so all the citizens of the Federation are enthusiastic.
Perhaps this is when hope comes, and the suffering that people are going through will be forgotten!
After the fall of Qilian City, some other areas with more serious beast disasters have additionally sent a large number of awakened people to monitor and clean up the dangerous beast herd gathering phenomenon. Under this high-intensity guarantee, the Federation has survived this winter without danger.
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The New Year's bell passed in a blink of an eye, and the time came to the seventh year of Cangchi's reincarnation in this world.
After the impact of last year's beast disaster, the urban construction projects of the whole federation are working overtime to catch up, except for some urban construction projects to be built, the urban construction projects of the two major alien creatures in the Xuanwu State and the White Tiger State have been basically completed.
The city walls of these projects have been built, but various supporting facilities in the city have to be built one after another. If you want to completely turn into a prosperous big city, it is basically impossible to continue to build it without five or six years.
Although these cities had to start from scratch in terms of construction and trade, when a wall was erected that would make all immigrants feel at ease, the immigrants who had migrated erupted with unprecedented enthusiasm.
If we only look at the degree of vitality, these new cities in the Xuanwu State and the White Tiger State are the most dynamic places in the whole Federation! Every citizen is performing his own duties, and he is thinking again about how to grasp this rare opportunity and realize his life ideal or dream of soaring!
Now that the fortifications of the entire Federation have begun to take shape, the group of the Awakened has also developed to a certain level, and the qualified seed Awakened are also being screened in an orderly manner, which seems to indicate that the situation of the Federation will get better and better in the future!
But reality will always joke with you at some critical moments, so that you can deeply understand why reality is called reality!
Or, the plan is very plump, and the reality is more skinny!
The era of plants seems to be slowly coming!
With this year's summer on track, the alienated plants in the field are finally showing some different attitudes. Ye Feiqiu, who was sitting in his independent office, looked at an investigation report on the peculiar alienation plant in front of him, and fell into contemplation for a long time.
This year's spring and summer seasons are the infested with alienated insects, but because the insect resistance of alienated plants has become stronger, the harm of alienated insects eating crops is actually not too serious.
The impact of the alienated insect plague is not large, or the abundance of food in spring and summer, so that which high-level alienated insects will not take the initiative to provoke humans. The alienation insect plague is not important, but the alienation trend of special alienated individuals in crops seems to indicate that the past farming experience is gradually being abandoned!
For example, some alienated weeds, whose plant height is already more than one person tall, this is only the initial stage of growth, if it is allowed to grow indefinitely, this weed may be alienated into a woody plant.
Nowadays, it is basically difficult for pesticides to control weeds to have an impact on these weeds, and if you want to control weeds, you can only manually deal with them by special agricultural reclamation personnel. If weeding turns into logging, the burden on special farmers will be heavier.
And such weeds consume a huge amount of fertility of the land, and the formed woody roots are also difficult to remove, such weeds are also a big test for the future agricultural machinery.
And what's even more terrifying is that these weeds seem to have the initial ability to overwinter in the green of the whole grass, and the cold resistance, or the activity of their cells, has reached an unbelievable level!
It is well known that, as far as the current farming experience goes, after the fall, when the last crops are harvested, most of the land goes into a fallow period. However, in the late autumn and early winter, a large number of weeds can adapt to the temperature and light and grow back in the fields.
This giant weed is naturally among them, so if we don't weed it in time, then the next year is equivalent to reclaiming the land occupied by lignified weeds!
Whether it is frequent weeding after the autumn harvest or recultivation after the beginning of spring, it will be a time-consuming and labor-intensive matter!
In fact, in a sense, it is equivalent to human beings constantly competing for land that can be used for farming from the hands of weeds, and such expenses will bring huge additional expenses to the future agricultural industry!
The enhancement of weeds by the attributes of gigantic and winterless is only to make the frequency and cost of human cultivation to a higher level, so the alienation trend of various crops itself is to completely subvert the basic plate of agricultural reclamation experience!
Various speculations such as the early research on plant alienation have now been basically verified!
For example, the enormity of crop plants, the fact that they do not wither in winter, and the fruits of year-round flowering have basically appeared more or less in these aspects.
When Ye Feiqiu's research team made these conjectures, they all felt that these changes would completely collapse the thousands of years of farming experience accumulated by human beings. But now that I am looking at the various alienation phenomena of crops, the previous speculations are just a small thing!
It is not a problem for crops to bloom and bear fruit throughout the year, as long as you find the right balance between the flowering and fruiting of a plant, so that the yield of each plant becomes maximized, and then you can directly harvest it with a harvester.
In this way, even if there are some flowers on mature plants, the light and efficiency of plants are so great that there is no fear of wasting organic matter at all. Under this strategy, the federal crop production is showing a trend of increasing every year.
As for the gigantic plants and the non-withering of winter, these two are just phenomena that will only occur when the crops continue to grow indefinitely. Today's crops are harvested in advance, so these two alienation traits are not a problem at all.
For example, one of the alienation trends of seasonal crops such as wheat and rice is wood fibrosis!
This kind of lignofibrosis does not mean that the whole wheat has become a woody plant, but that the wood fiber in the straw of wheat and rice is becoming denser and stronger.
Although in its juvenile years, the whole straw of the whole plant is about the same as that of wheat and rice straw that has not been alienated before, but its hardness is very different from the normal one! Where a wheat pestle is, it is like where a wooden stick and pestle are.
Today's solution is to replace the cutting head of the harvester with special steel, so that it can be used to harvest the rice and wheat, which are as hard as wood.
The degree of wheat alienation is already such that the wheat straw of the future will be as hard as steel. Maybe at that time, harvesting wheat and rice would have to be done entirely by hand!
There is a crisis, but there is also a gospel, for example, another alienation direction of wheat and rice, when such an alienated wheat or rice is harvested, as long as its root system is not damaged, then the wheat and rice will sprout and develop again from the cutting place, and grow a wheat or rice plant again.
In addition, the yield of wheat and rice will not decrease, but with the increase of the number of harvests, the phenomenon of plant gigantic and woody fibrosis will become more and more serious. Therefore, rice and wheat are usually harvested only twice, and then they are recultivated and new crops are cultivated.
With the gradual intensification of the alienation trend of rice and wheat, perhaps these two crops that humans rely on for their livelihood will no longer be cultivated in the future. Or, in the future, each family only needs to plant a few wheat and rice plants in pots, and then the problem of feeding them all year round will be solved.
Rice and corn may no longer be suitable for large-scale cultivation in the future, but soybeans and corn can be planted as trees such as fruits.
As soybean and corn plants grow larger and grow more perennial, the pods and corn cobs they produce will become larger. This kind of planting and harvesting experience can be used as a reference for fruit planting.
The radical change in the growth habits of these common crops will certainly lead to a great change in the way of farming in the future. However, today's special agricultural workers have become an established high-paying occupation, and perhaps in the future, farmers will become a high-tech, high-risk type of work.
No one can say whether the news about the crops, good or bad, but in the fruit world, there is quite good news.
The super mitochondrial content in the fruits of alienated plants is gradually increasing, and with the continuous strengthening of this alienation characteristic, it is possible that alienated fruits and vegetables will become an important substitute for the awakening stock solution in the future.
However, because the alienated fruits and vegetables rich in super mitochondria require a long period of cultivation, although their price will be cheaper than the awakening stock solution, it will not be cheaper.
Regarding this trend of alienation, Ye Feiqiu feels that this should be a manifestation of the alienated plants gradually adapting to the new era.
Although today's pot of plants does not see any trend of intelligence, there is indeed some kind of plant pheromone exchange between plants. This exchange should allow plants to gradually learn the skill of producing highly concentrated super mitochondrial fruits.
Such a trend is actually a process of assimilation. When a fruit with a high concentration of super mitochondria is more preferred by the alienated animal, perhaps the alienated plant will desperately strengthen this process according to this feedback.
In the process of intensification, other plants of the same kind will be informed by the pheromones emitted between the same plants, so that this trend will gradually appear.
Of course, the phenomenon of plants using pheromones to cause this assimilation trend is just an assumption made by Ye Feiqiu based on the current data. If you want to verify it, you need to follow up with further argumentation and more substantial evidence.
However, if such a hypothesis is verified, then an alternative phenomenon of social communication between plants, or an alternative phenomenon of nerve reflex transmission, or the intelligent behavior of plant characteristics, will also be put forward as hypotheses.
Although the alienated fruits produced by plants are a boon to the growth of the awakened, correspondingly, the defense and protection mechanism of plants has become more stringent!
For example, it has been previously discovered that when a plant is pruned or harmed, the plant will actively secrete a volatile toxic substance, leaving the attacker unconscious.
The natural defense mechanism of this plant has also been strengthened in the subsequent process of alienation!
Nowadays, it is possible to prune or injure some special plants, which not only secrete highly toxic harmful substances, but can even spray high-pressure aerosolized toxic substances from the wound!
This high-pressure atomized toxic substance is more aggressive and aggressive, and if it weren't for the goggles and gas mask worn by the experimenter who discovered this alienation phenomenon in the first place, he might have been the first victim of this alienation phenomenon!
In addition to secreting strong toxic substances, some branches of the plant are becoming softer!
Such branches will be able to move like an octopus's brachiopods or a leather whip under various pressures in the plant.
This tentacled alienated branch does not actively attack creatures that come close to it. Even most of the time, these tentacled alienated branches will disguise themselves as ordinary branches to hide their own particularity!