Chapter 21: Explaining Dragons with Science
David rubbed his eyes, completely unable to believe what he was seeing. This creature, which can be called a dragon for the time being, did not even get a drop of water, and its whole body emitted a golden light that was many times more dazzling than before it was shrunk, a bit like the golden real dragon in ancient Chinese mythology, except that its head was different, and there was a pair of golden wings on its back that were also covered with scales, and the whole shape was similar to that of a bat. And the end of its long tail is a bit like the tail of a lobster on Earth.
David stared at the dragon with wide eyes and said, "Muma, you ask it again, how did it get big and small, Muma, Muma?" โ
When he turned around, he saw that Muma was kneeling on the ground, not daring to raise his head, and his whole body was trembling.
The dragon shook its head and shook its golden tentacles, which were about a pair of feet long that grew from under its two mouths, and said something to Muma.
Waiting for Muma to calm down, he cautiously raised his head and said to David in English: "Divine beast, ask, what is the relationship between you and those, those from outside the sky, invaders, why, they, the same, divine power." And asked, "Why do I say your words?" โ
David asked, "Divine beasts?" โ
Muma said: "I, remember, my mother's, mother's, with me, said, it's, in our, words, translated, English, probably, called the beast." We read, woo enki. We, the caves, the walls, are also painted, long, have wings, can fly, can be bigger, smaller, and many more, divine power. They are our ancestors, the patron saints, but I, I thought, are just legends, but I didn't expect that there really is, Woo Enki. That is, the divine beast. โ
David said, "Woo Enji, it's a good tongue twister, in the future we will call this species dragon." Tell it everything you know. But remember to ask the question I just asked. โ
After more than ten minutes of communication, the dragon roughly understood the origin of David and his relationship with Muma, as well as some information about the human base.
At the same time, it also makes no secret of its own characteristics, allowing Mulma to tell David that its name is Zhuowu.
As for why it can become bigger and smaller, it doesn't understand the specific principle, it only knows that it is born with it, when it is in the water, it can make itself bigger by absorbing water, and on land, it can absorb water in the atmosphere to do this, but it is much slower than in the water.
Moreover, it can be invisible, and it can also spew yellow flames, and it has demonstrated it a few times on the spot, which makes Muma even more adored to the ground.
After David got Zhuo Wu's permission through Muma's translation, he took out a small flashlight from his backpack, touched Zhuo Wu's body east and west, and asked Zhuo Wu to demonstrate a few more times to become bigger and smaller, stealth appearance, and flying.
After preliminary analysis, David believes that most of the cells in Zhuowu's body can absorb water at any time and increase it by 10 million times, just like a matchbox-sized compressed black fungus can be soaked in water to make a large pot.
And Zhuo Wu can control how specific he becomes, and the biggest appearance is the state when he appears.
When it enters the stealth state, it is irradiated with a flashlight where it is located, and the refraction of light can be seen. You can also see some very embarrassing stomach food and "to-be" excrement.
David continued to use a flashlight to carefully inspect Zhuo Wu in a stealth state, and found that its bones were actually only more than two meters long, and the transparent state presented was slightly different from the transparent state of flesh and blood cells.
And no matter how big it becomes, the size of the bones, the real fangs, the scales and claws, the horns, the internal organs, the brain are the same.
Why do you say "real fangs, scales, claws, and horns", because in the swollen state, the seemingly huge fangs, claws, and horns are actually relatively soft, and are all made up of enlarged cells, rather than the original minions, scales, and horns.
Moreover, the ratio of water and air in its cells should be able to be controlled freely, and David even thinks that Zhuo Wu may have the ability to decompose the hydrogen in the air and replace the gas in the abdominal cavity and cells, so that his huge body can withstand the gravity of Proxima Centauri B about 14.00N/kg and still be active. At the same time, it can also ignite hydrogen fire.
However, the flame spewed out by Zhuo Wu is yellow, and most chemistry textbooks point out when talking about the flammability of hydrogen: "Pure hydrogen burns in the air, producing a pale blue flame." So why did David guess it was hydrogen?
In fact, during school experiments, it is easy to have a yellow hydrogen flame. Some people think that it is because of the glass catheter used for the experiment, the glass contains sodium salt, and when burned, the flame color of sodium appears, so it appears yellow.
Zhuowu's teeth and mouth are obviously not glass, in fact, it is because Proxima B has a very high oxygen content in the atmosphere, and the higher the oxygen content, the more yellow the flame will burn when mixed with hydrogen.
The principle is that hydrogen combustion first forms gaseous water molecules, which may be excited in the exothermic reaction system, and from spectral analysis, it is known that HโO has a wide and strong vibration-rotation band in the near-infrared region, and these weaker wings in the hydrogen and oxygen flame will extend to the red region of the visible spectrum. According to statistical thermodynamics, the vibration-rotation partition function of water molecules is related to the excited temperature, and when the temperature is higher, the more water molecules are in the excited state, and the stronger the spectrum produced by radiation. Therefore, as the flame temperature increases, the vibration-rotation red band of HโO becomes more pronounced. The more the relative amount of oxygen in the hydrogen combustion process, the more intense the combustion, the higher the temperature of the flame, the more red components of the flame, and the red vibration-transband spectrum of HโO in pure oxygen is the same as that of Hยท+ยท The blue bands of OHโHโO+Hv complement each other to orange-yellow.
As for how Zhuo Wu ignited the hydrogen gas, David thought for a moment, took out a lighter, and asked Muma to ask Zhuo Wu if he could spew out "this kind of thing" again.
Zhuo Wu seemed to appreciate David's ability to shoot flames, nodded, and spewed out another stream of flames, the ignition method David carefully observed, it was to use any two sets of teeth on the upper and lower left and right to hit and rub to produce sparks.
It seems that the teeth are harder than some metals.
At the same time, David believes that when Zhuo Wu becomes very large, his combat power is actually smaller than his real state, because turning and moving can no longer be supported by bones, and he relies on controlling the changes in the gas content of cells in various parts of the body and the expansion and contraction of muscles. Relatively sluggish, and unable to fly.
Zhuo Wu told Muma and David that the most powerful thing about the Uenji race is that when it is shrunk to the smallest, it is extremely powerful, with sharp claws, and can even bite stones, tear through trees, and burrow into the ground to advance quickly. The second is its intelligence, which considers itself the most intelligent creature in this "world".
It's only because the reproductive ability of its own race is very weak, it lives for a long, long, long time, and when its life is about to end, it will reproduce a offspring asexually, and their races will fight each other for territory, so the number is extremely rare, and it has seen less than ten of its own kind, and five of them have been killed by it.
The above refers to a long, long, long time, and Zhuo Wu's original words refer to the life cycle of the Muma race hundreds of times.
David counted on his fingers, and the lifespan of Mulma is about 20 years, hundreds of times...
Then David asked Mulma to ask Zhuo Wu why he didn't show up sooner... I ran out of bullets.
Zhuo Wu said that it had an egg in its belly, which meant that its life cycle was coming to an end, and it was about to go to Muma's tribe and give the egg to one of the warriors of "Kaka" to take care of, and then met Muma and David.
A long, long time ago, it was also adopted by a warrior of "Kaka" and learned the language of "Kaka", and later after the death of that warrior, Zhuo Wu saw things and thought about people, and did not want to stay near the area where the "Kaka" people lived for a long time, so he came out to "explore the world".
happened to see a human helicopter chasing and killing the two monkeys, and Zhuo Wu, who was hiding on the side to watch the excitement, then found that David was actually able to use the "magic wand" to fight back against the helicopter and even kill "Siwa" with the cooperation of Muma, Zhuo Wu thought that the relationship between Muma and David was so good, the two monkeys should be able to protect and teach their offspring together.
As for waiting for David to run out of bullets just now, he appeared because he wanted to further investigate the courage and combat effectiveness of the two monkeys.
And in Zhuo Wu's cognition, who knew that the powerful "magic wand" in David's hand was limited in the amount of "fuel" or other things to consume, so when they saw that the "magic wand" no longer spewed fire to kill "Xiwa", the two monkeys faced real danger, so they immediately went out to drive away the "Xiwa" group.
The two monkeys were besieged by the "Siwa" army because they carried a large amount of "Siwa" jerky and leather, and the smell of this made the "Siwa" think that the two monkeys were their enemies.
At this time, while translating Zhuo Wu's words, Muma's eyes gradually showed excitement.
Legend has it that being qualified to take care of the offspring of the divine beast means that his status in the clan can rise rapidly, and he can even become the patriarch like the warrior many years ago in Zhuo Wu's mouth.
The selection of the patriarch of the "Kaka" ethnic group does not pay attention to gender and origin, and whoever has strong ability and can protect and develop his own ethnic group can be qualified for the position of patriarch.
And David was also extremely excited at this time, because his first thought was whether he could ask Zhuo Wu to help him regain the command of the human advance army.
Thinking of this, David said to Muma, "Muma, can we not go home first, let Zhuo Wu help us to arrest Joseph, and then I will personally drive you back by helicopter?" โ
Muma thought for a moment and said, "Okay! โ
David said: "Then you tell Zhuo Wu about my request, and at the same time, you can say that Joseph is a big villain who intends to rule this planet, and if he is not defeated, all the natives of this planet will suffer in the future." โ