129. Unusual plants
The arrival of the half-elves of the dark green clan has provided the ecological park with a lot of knowledge and information related to magical plants.
"Magic is amazing." Lu Cheng held a small wooden stick and stood a... In front of the cannibal flower.
Elder Kasia told researchers that the plant, known as the Soul Eater, is a rare carnivorous plant that stores a large amount of toxin-containing magic in its basal cysts, which is often used by spellcasters to make poisons.
Carnivorous plants are also found on Earth, and more appropriately, insectivorous plants, such as the most well-known pitcher plant, and Venus flytrap, etc...
However, the existence of this type of plant is still stuck in the definition of 'plant', that is, the organism that is in a sedentary state and can nourish itself is called a plant.
The sedentary state of life is the most important definition, after all, there is no plant on the earth that can run around with legs.
But this Soul Devouring Flower behaves more like a carnivore, ready to devour people at any time.
However, the Soul Devouring Flower cultivated in the ecological park is only the size of a palm, and its whole body shows a dark blue color, and it has three petals that look like a bloody mouth when opened, and the petals are also with sharp fangs on both sides.
When Lu Cheng reached in front of the flower with a wooden stick, it swooped down on Lu Cheng's wooden stick in the blink of an eye.
It's just that the bite force is much smaller than Lu Cheng expected, and the small stick can withstand the bite of the flower, but creatures like flying insects and small lizards are not so lucky.
"If you take this flower back to the exhibition, it will cause a sensation."
Lu Cheng glanced at the wooden stick in his hand, which had been contaminated with a corrosive liquid, and it didn't take long for the stick to break under this liquid.
The snake-like bite of this Soul Devouring Flower just now was enough to shock all the botanists on Earth.
"The plants of this world are more or less hoarded with energy called magic, which makes them exhibit different qualities."
Dr. Ji Chuan made a note of what Elder Kasia mentioned... There are features about the Soul Eater, and there are also some uses.
After recording it, Dr. Ji Chuan also threw a salamander into the cultivation chamber of the Spirit Devouring Flower.
Less than three seconds after the poor little lizard entered the cultivation chamber, it looked left and right, and the next second it was swallowed by the blood basin of the Spirit Devouring Flower, leaving only the tail of the small flame outside, and it didn't take long for the small flame on the small tail outside to slowly extinguish.
The Soul Devourer Flower sucked the small half of its tail into its mouth like sucking noodles, and then burped contentedly, Lu Cheng seemed to be full of burps, and it opened its mouth and spat out a small circle of flames.
"This flower can briefly acquire the characteristics of the devoured organism, but this characteristic lasts for a short time, and this powerful ability to imitate is the goal of our current research."
Dr. Ji Chuan looked at Elder Kasia, and after coming to the camp, Dr. Ji Chuan finally felt what it meant to be 'powerless'.
It's not that there are any bottlenecks in the research project, but that there are too many objects to study!
Dr. Ji Chuan and his research team have already experienced the excitement of Columbus's discovery of the New World, that is, everything is new! Nothing has ever been seen before!
There is no need to put into words how much the discovery of a new species is an achievement for a biologist, there is not only a whole lot of new species in this world, but also a whole new ecosystem!
Dr. Ji Chuan now feels like he has walked into a cave full of treasures! How much treasure is there? Every step of the way is a large pile of gold, silver and jewelry, as well as artifacts that have been sealed for a long time.
This refreshing sense of exploration kept Dr. Ji Chuan and his research team awake all night.
This... Lu Cheng could tell it from the dark circles under the young doctor's eyes, but Lu Cheng couldn't help anything other than remind him to 'pay attention to his body and drink plenty of hot water'.
It is normal for people to work without sleep during the rising period of their careers, and Dr. Ji Chuan can no longer be described as an upward period, it should be said that he is riding a rocket all the way up.
"Our application to the Soul Eater Flower is only to refine its cysts into corrosive potions, as for why the Soul Eater Flower can absorb magical power... We don't know that. ”
Elder Kasia shook his head a little embarrassedly as he listened to what the interpreter beside Dr. Ji Chuan said... As he walked all the way, Elder Kasia thought that he knew everything about the plants in the ecological park, and that no one in the world could beat him.
But as soon as Dr. Ji Chuan came up, he said, 'Have you classified the plants?' ''Is there an uptake of mineral nutrients in the physiology of this plant?'' ''Does this plant have a specific impact on the local ecology?'' 'A series of qualities such as N Lian.
Elder Kasia could understand these words by listening to a single word, but when they were all connected, he entered a state of confusion.
In the end, Dr. Ji Chuan also understood that this elder's cognition of plants only stayed... Practical knowledge of where this plant can be used, what kind of medicine can be refined, where it can be collected, and what needs to be paid attention to when collecting.
Their world does not systematically establish the subject of biology, and everything on the earth that is in academic concepts cannot be understood, or precisely, there is no need to understand.
But this knowledge is also very useful to Dr. Ji Chuan, and it works so much that Dr. Ji Chuan even wants to catch these half-elves to do a biological classification for them now.
"And Captain Road, this is just one of the plants that has animal behavior characteristics, please come with me here."
In this ecological park that Dr. Ji Chuan is in charge of... In fact, many strange plants have been cultivated, such as the leaves that produce high-temperature scorching flowers, and the rhizomes store so much liquid that they can be used as mineral water bottles.
However, none of these plants deviated from the conventional plant characteristics on Earth, until the scientific research team outside discovered the existence of the Soul Devouring Flower.
For the first time, this flower blurred the concept between plants and animals on the earth, and Dr. Ji Chuan took Lu Cheng to a place of... Relatively empty activity area.
The incubator is more than 10 times larger than other plants, and the entire event space is empty enough to be used for raising creatures such as monkeys or orangutans.
In this huge cultivation warehouse, Lu Cheng saw... A mushroom that walks on its own.
"This is what we found in a cave in the mountains behind the camp." Dr. Ji Chuan's voice was filled with exclamation.
"Walking mushrooms, this kind of mushroom can grow to three to four calories, our country also has this kind of walking mushroom, it is said that the largest walking mushroom is ten calories." Elder Kasia explained.
"Mushroom essence?"
Lu Cheng looked at the mushrooms that were walking aimlessly in the breeding grounds, and they didn't seem to have any consciousness of their own.
"Where are you, sir, what is the purpose of this fungus creature?" Dr. Ji Chuan does not agree with the idea that this creature is the inevitable result of the evolution of the world with magical powers.
Every creature in this world contains magic in its body, and some creatures have less magic in their bodies, so they can't show it, but some creatures can accumulate a lot of magic power in their bodies.
For example, the salamander is good at accumulating the magic power of the fire attribute, so that its body has the characteristics of breathing fire.
"Eat." Elder Kasia said a sad thing, for these mushroom people, "the flesh of the mushroom has both the characteristics of mushrooms and meat, and they are the best tribute in the Far Southern Empire. ”
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