Chapter 37 The Aroma of Barbecue

The rainstorm did not last for a long time. When the dark clouds all dissipated and the light came again, Leviathan once again set foot on the land of the Glitter Woodland.

But here... can it still be called a woodland...?

There were black marks everywhere, and the thick trunks turned into black debris and dust, covering the ground.

There were also many twisted trees that did not fall, but they also turned a charred color under the fire, and the whole jungle exuded a strong smell.

This kind of scene is caused by the extinction of species.

Is the species going extinct... Lin is only thinking about this issue now.

That's right... A beautiful environment, an environment suitable for living, is also composed of countless organisms. The organisms protect the land from ultraviolet rays, and the organisms enrich the world. Every species, every predator and prey is a Buckled together, they form a special relationship with each other, allowing nutrients and energy to constantly rotate between them.

Lin had noticed this relationship when she was observing various creatures, but at that time Lin didn't study it in depth...

If one of these species disappears, the unpredictable happens.

Extinction... Lin only did the same thing in the single-cell era, but there were too many cells at that time, and even if one kind of went extinct, the other one would soon fill the position of the exterminator, but in the multi-cell era, It doesn't seem like creatures will pop up so soon to fill the exterminator's place...

After all, every multicellular organism has evolved through countless disasters. Once it disappears, it will disappear forever. Together with its evolutionary information for countless years, it will disappear without a trace.

It turns out that this is the true meaning of sympathy...

Lin doesn't know how the Chibcha bugs manage the fungus, but it seems that they have a way to keep the fungus from spreading to the jungle. Maybe the Chibcha bugs will have other effects on the jungle, but there's no way to know now.

Seems to be a little regretful...

If a similar situation occurs next time, Lin will not make a decision so simply, but will consider it in more detail, but Lin will not easily let go of those creatures that threaten her.

Now that the matter is over, Lin won't think too much. After summarizing and thinking, Lin knows what to do next time.

Now, go ahead and research here to see what the flames have left behind.

The flames didn't extend into the jungles of the Dark Plains, and Lin discovered that the trees that weren't destroyed were able to produce a special liquid that seemed to stop the flames from burning them.

But the fungus destroys this ingredient and leaves the tree dry and cracked...

Lin is now mainly studying the burnt-out, smoky woodland that smells of smoke. Everything that has been burned by the flames emits this smell. The high temperature of the flames destroys their cellular structures and emits a A thick smoke.

In fact, Lin's olfactory system defines smells by itself. Lin let them evolve and grow like ordinary cells. Regarding the sense of smell, cells are still evolving quite quickly.

The strange thing is that the smell of these smokes is not foul, but 'scent'.

'Fragrant' is the opposite of 'smelly', it is a signal of food, that is to say...

Lyn asked Leviathan to release a few collectors and let them eat some of the ashes around them.

These ashes should be left after the plants were burned, and most of them are digestible, and they are digested very quickly.

It turns out that after being burned by flames, what was originally food will become easier to digest, so that is to say, the flames are not completely destructive.

Lin noticed that many small creatures that escaped when the fire was on fire also returned here. They were rummaging through the ashes. Lin also saw a huge cockroach digging a pile of ashes.

It was a cockroach with a body length of more than 4 meters. It was the largest cockroach Lin had ever seen, but it was not vicious. When Leviathan walked towards it, it ran away.

Leviathan dug up the ashes that the cockroaches were digging, and Lin found that there were a large number of burned and charred reptiles hidden underneath, which seemed to be their nests.

Lin let the Devourer eat some charred reptile meat, and found that this meat was as digestible as the ashes mixed with plant residues.

But the nutrients contained in it are much less than when it is not scorched, just like the meat of this reptile, Lin calculated that it would take about ten times the amount to make up the nutrients obtained by directly eating it alive.

Other burnt materials may be different, but they are basically not as nutritious as directly eating live ones.

However, the charred meat also has the advantage that it has few other fungi on it.

Single cells are very strange creatures. No matter how you kill them, they will keep popping up. Therefore, when ordinary creatures eat, they need to prepare a considerable number of immune cells, and the speed of digesting food is also much slower. If you encounter immune cells The fungi or viruses that cannot be beaten will have to wait to die.

But the burnt food has almost no single-celled organisms, no viruses and too many impurities, so it is much easier to digest, so do so many creatures like to dig up the burnt things to eat here?

So, after the food is grilled, will it become safer?

But this means nothing to Lin, Lin completely ignores the threat of single cells and viruses, so Lin will never choose to eat food after roasting it with fire.

Regarding the fire research, Lin had done it before the rain stopped. Lin found that the reason for the fire is quite simple. It needs high temperature and can be combined with flammable objects.

Lightning is the cause of the high temperature, as long as something, such as cracked wood, will have a flame, and it seems that oxygen is also required, and the burning of the flame will reduce the surrounding oxygen.

This phenomenon is quite interesting, but because of the temperature of the flame, it is difficult for Lin to study the detailed structure, so Lin plans to make some units with the ability to protect against high temperature to study.

The flame will disappear because it is isolated from combustibles, and it can be isolated with water. This is the reason why Lin has never seen such a fun phenomenon for so long, because most of the time she lives in the ocean.

High temperature can be generated by the friction of high-speed objects, and in this way a flame can be generated.

At present, Lin thinks that the meaning of fire is only used to destroy creatures, maybe it is used in battle.