Chapter 310: Seeking Daomu’s physical condition
"Is it true that I can't hide it from you?"
It was too shameful to be held in someone's hand, Qiudao Mu couldn't help but twist his body.
Maybe it was because Zhou Lu's questions made it a little flustered, so much so that it completely forgot that it could actually avoid all this by directly returning its consciousness to its main body.
"It's obvious." Zhou Lu said, "Especially after Hanabi evolved into a god, your weakness became even more obvious in my eyes."
The evolution of the beast master is not only an increase in the beast master's card slots, Zhou Lu's attributes are actually doubled like Hanabi.
This greatly increased his powers of observation and sensitivity, so the situation that Qiudao Mu deliberately suppressed was not hidden from his eyes.
Qiudaomu let out a long sigh, then lay in Zhou Lu's arms, and slowly told about his situation.
Its physical condition was worse than Zhou Lu imagined.
Originally, this species had a lifespan of at least 30,000 years even if it did not use life-extending materials.
After all, if you want to pursue the truth of the world, your own desire for knowledge is not enough.
A lot of knowledge requires continuous correction of errors with the progress of the times before it can get closer to the truth, so you have to live until that time to pursue the truth.
As one of the spiritual beasts closest to the original rules of the world, Qiudaomu's body can actually feel whether the knowledge it receives is close to the truth.
Wrong knowledge is actually harmful to Tao-seeking trees, which allows them to better judge whether the knowledge they receive is correct or wrong.
In the past tens of thousands of years, this concept was actually completely fine.
Because even humans, who are known as the spirits of nature, are slow to discover truth and knowledge.
If he had been in that state at that time, there was no doubt that Qiudaomu could live for tens of thousands of years without breathing.
However, with the opening of the era of beast control, human science and technology also ushered in a great explosion, and the relevant knowledge produced increased massively every year.
In this process, the generation of erroneous knowledge is inevitable, and even Qiudaomu uses this to continuously correct errors in the human technology tree.
This is how the beast-controlling era, which lasted only a thousand years, achieved greater feats than the tens of thousands of years of the immortal era.
In the age of immortals, the immortals were indeed powerful, but the power of this disease only radiated a small elite group of humans. The common people who truly occupied the mainstream basically did not enjoy the benefits of the era, and even had to be eaten by the era.
This is certainly because the nature of immortals makes immortals not care about these common people, but in fact, even if they really care about all mankind, they cannot actually achieve the goal of cultivating immortality for all people.
Before the technological explosion of the beast-control era, it was simply unimaginable that there would be a surplus of evolutionary materials.
It can be said that in the era of human beast control, it is an unprecedented achievement for all mankind to accomplish extraordinary feats, not to mention that this achievement only took a thousand years.
However all this comes at a cost.
Humanity has not suffered much of a cost.
Then someone must bear the main price.
Unfortunately, Qiudaomu is the individual who bears the price.
It uses its own perception of erroneous knowledge to continuously correct errors in the human beast-controlling technology tree.
However, the explosive development of human knowledge and technology has brought a huge amount of knowledge, and a large amount of wrong knowledge has become a sharp knife that can bite back the tree of seeking the Tao.
The technological explosion in recent decades has made Qiudaomu's situation even worse.
It cannot reject these erroneous papers because it does not know whether the brand new paper is correct or incorrect until it accepts it.
When Qiudaomu distinguishes the true from the false and rejects the erroneous paper, the damage caused by the erroneous knowledge has already been done.
Listening to Qiudaomu's calm explanation, Zhou Lu fell into a long silence.
It is precisely because of the existence of Qiudao Wood that mankind has basically not taken the wrong path on the road of development.
All the academic fraud that could affect decades and lead countless subsequent researchers to go astray were directly discovered by Qiudaomu and beaten to death in his infancy.
Qiu Daomu is dying.
It is not sure when it will suddenly collapse.
It is precisely because of this that it was forced to start the Mengyuhua plan in advance and spare no effort to promote the continuous evolution of Hanabi,
It wants to solve the biggest trouble for mankind in the future before it leaves.
Of course, Zhou Lu knew that Qiudaomu's "almost dead" was its own standard.
For a creature with a guaranteed lifespan of 30,000 years, no one knows what the standard of dying soon is.
"Is there no way to treat this kind of injury?" Zhou Lu asked after a long silence.
In fact, when he asked, he already knew the answer.
How many skills are there in this world? Qiudao Muke knows this better than Zhou Lu.
If it can't find a way to heal itself, then basically no one can.
Perhaps, humans can find new spiritual beasts and new skills that can treat Qiudaomu's condition by discovering and inventing new species.
But sometimes, science is a matter of luck.
Only then did Zhou Lu truly understand why Qiudao Mu did not choose to strengthen the seal, but instead cultivated Hua Huo to fight against Mengyu Huaxian who was about to break through the seal.
It no longer has enough power to maintain the seal.
Although it was still stronger than most of the divine beasts after it became ill and weakened, this weakness was very obvious in front of Mengyu Huaxian.
"Its next wave of temptations is coming soon." Qiudaomu said to Zhou Lu very seriously, "You must be prepared."
"Don't worry." Zhou Lu patted his chest and said, "The branches of Huahuo have now been spread all over the world in the name of quarantine. With the branches in various research institutes, it is impossible to achieve no loss at all, but the loss will be Even if it’s as low as possible, you still have confidence.”
Qiu Daomu looked at Hanabi.
It fully believes that Hanabi has this ability, and Hanabi definitely has a way to defeat these pollen branches.
But the crux of the matter is the price that fireworks need to pay.
If you have to use fooling to consume racial skills to defeat the opponent's branches every time in order to reduce the city's losses, it is fine once or twice, but once the number reaches a certain scale, it will also be a huge price for Hanabi.
After all, the racial skills abolished by [Fooling] cannot be absorbed again.
But if you use normal methods to defeat the pollen branches in order to preserve your own strength, losses will inevitably occur during the battle.
It is precisely for this reason that Qiudao Mu suggested that Zhou Lu go to the seal immediately when he has the confidence, and then confront Mengyu Huaxian head-on after breaking the seal.
This kind of war of attrition is completely unbearable for them.
Of course, if the intensity of the battle can be controlled within a reasonable range... it may still be of some benefit to humans.
Humans are just too comfortable.
They can basically find no foreign enemies.
Because human beings are now in a unified state, there are only factional struggles among them, which are not as fierce as national struggles.
This makes many people lose their enterprising spirit.
If any powerful foreign enemy suddenly appears at this time, if humans cannot adjust in time, they will definitely suffer a huge disaster in a short period of time.
This is not alarmist.
There are many secret realms in this world. Even in the two eras of immortals and beast masters, not all the secret realms have been explored. Even now, new secret realms are often discovered all over the world. In these secret realms, it is entirely possible for powerful and aggressive civilizations to exist.
This civilization is even very likely to come from humans, or another immortal civilization, or the human civilization that was destroyed by space agitation.
Zhou Lu didn't know that Qiudao Mu's thoughts had wandered so far.
He took out his mobile phone and dialed Wu Xiaoqing's number.
The reason why he didn't rush to start the final battle with Mengyu Huaxian was because he felt that he still lacked the confidence to defeat the opponent.
Zhou Lu didn't know how to make himself more confident, so he subconsciously chose the old path: gain some skills.
When it comes to who has the most new species in the world, Wu Xiaoqing claims to be second, but no one dares to say that she is first.
This is not to say that Wu Xiaoqing’s research level surpasses the entire era.
In terms of research level alone, there is actually no way to widen the gap between her and the geniuses of her generation.
The real strength of the senior student lies in her imagination and the research direction she chooses.
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Fungi reproduce rapidly and are prone to shape changes under artificially induced conditions, and because of the stability of their own structures, such shape changes are easily fixed.
This is unlike those viruses and bacteria, which reproduce quickly and change their characteristics easily. Especially viruses, even in an environment without artificial intervention, they like to change their own genes for fun.
However, this change cannot be stably preserved due to its own stability problems.
Often you just find an individual with good traits, but the other children that are split off completely lose this shape.
Then there are fungi, especially fungi such as mushrooms, which are easy to find in the wild, making the probability of discovering new species in the wild much higher than those of microorganisms.
As an expert in fungi research, my senior sister must have many different types of fungi on hand.
Although letting Hanabi bully those immobile fungi is indeed bullying a child, facing such a huge treasure trove of skills, there is no chance that Zhou Lu will miss it.
In fact, he had already been eyeing his senior's inventory early on, but he always viewed it as a guarantee. That is to say, this part of the inventory will be used when there is no income from new skills at all.
And this time is undoubtedly the most appropriate time.
Just like playing games to accumulate resources, if you don't use them for this kind of decisive battle, then when will you save these things? Will the world be destroyed?
"Hello?" Wu Xiaoqing quickly answered Zhou Lu's call.
Zhou Lu told Wu Xiaoqing his thoughts.
"Yes, yes, but there is a problem." Wu Xiaoqing answered quickly, but the next question stumped Zhou Lu.
"What are Hanabi's criteria for defeating these fungi?"
Yes, if it is a normal spiritual beast, the standard of defeating it is obvious to all.
But what Hanabi now has to face are various mushrooms and fungus-like creatures.
Mushrooms and the like are fine.
How do you know you've defeated the microbes?
You can't let Hanabi get infected by a fungus on purpose and then rely on your immune system to defeat the opponent, right?
"Let's master skills like mushrooms first." Zhou Lu decided not to dwell on this issue anymore.
"Okay, I'll sort out the information." Wu Xiaoqing muttered, "I remember my mobile hard drive is placed here."
Zhou Lu thought of Wu Xiaoqing's data hard drive and asked a little doubtfully: "Is there only 16T of data?"
For research data, this amount of data is actually a bit too small.
"16T is just a directory. I have to rely on these directories to call the data from the server and then find the storage location." Wu Xiaoqing explained.
Just a directory...
My damn...
Zhou Lu didn't know what to say for a moment.
Is this really the amount of research output a human being should have?
Hearing Wu Xiaoqing's answer, Zhou Lu suddenly felt something in his heart and said, "Sister Xiaoqing, I have a small question here."
Wu Xiaoqing was busy looking for something, and then asked perfunctorily: "What is it about?"
"Seeking Tao wood."
Zhou Lu turned his head and glanced at Qiudaomu, who was enjoying the massage with Hanabi's tentacles.
The other party felt Zhou Lu's eyes.
It also knew that Zhou Lu was looking for a cure for himself.
However, this is impossible.
Even Wu Xiaoqing.
All her research results were reported to herself by Xiao Xi. If there was any way to treat herself, Qiudaomu would definitely know about it immediately.
But Qiudao Mu still agreed that Zhou Lu would tell Wu Xiaoqing about his situation.
Human beings will know its situation sooner or later anyway.
Just like a child leaving its mother's arms, sooner or later humans will have to leave it and explore the path of truth alone.
"You mean, Qiudao Mu is now terminally ill and has only a few years to live?" Wu Xiaoqing's voice was calmer than Zhou Lu expected, and there was no hint of surprise at all.
"Do you have any treatment over there?"
There was a long silence on the other end of the phone, and the sound of rummaging could be heard from time to time.
Zhou Lu waited for a long time, but did not wait for Wu Xiaoqing's answer. He said with a slight disappointment: "No, it doesn't matter."
As he spoke, he looked at Qiudaomu.
Just as Zhou Lu was about to speak, he heard Wu Xiaoqing on the other end of the phone say, "Yes."
"Ah?" Zhou Lu was stunned for a moment, thinking he didn't hear clearly, "What did you say?"
"Yes. Although it is not a treatment plan." Wu Xiaoqing said word by word, "But just keeping Qiudao Mu alive should be no problem."
Qiudaomu also heard what Wu Xiaoqing said, and it immediately shouted in disbelief: "This is impossible! I know all your research results!"
"Huh? Is Qiudao Mu next to you?" Wu Xiaoqing was slightly surprised, and then said, "This is normal. I don't publish all my results. Such rubbish results..."
Wu Xiaoqing's words seemed to be interrupted by something, and Zhou Lu heard the sound of her neck being strangled.
Zhou Lu was shocked, thinking that his senior sister had been attacked, and then he heard his senior sister say intermittently: "What are you...doing...Xiao Xi..."
Immediately afterwards, he heard Xiao Xi, or Qiudao Mu’s roar:
"Say it quickly! How many results have you not published yet? Say it quickly!"
"Ahhhh! I really want to know! I really want to know!"
As soon as he heard about the new knowledge, Qiudaomu, who had just been dead-eyed and worried, suddenly became energetic.
(End of chapter)