Chapter 25: Unique Ideas and Significant Progress_2
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They began to discuss.
“Why is it like this?”
“There must be a problem here, it’s worth delving into.”
“Understanding the reason might greatly benefit our plans.”
“How should we start? Hunt down a giant beast or two, dissect and slice them up?”
“That’s not impossible, just a little troublesome.”
“Aren’t there big, ferocious fish in the river? Let’s start by catching a few for research.”
Mitte Valente hadn’t participated in the discussion, rather he was in deep thought, until the discussions gradually quieted down.
He slowly stood up, speaking in a muffled voice, “Boss, I have a hypothesis, I’m not sure if I should mention it.”
“You should, of course you should.”
Link gestured for Mitte Valente to boldly express his thoughts and further clarified,
“Let me emphasize again, we are a team. During internal discussions and brainstorming sessions, anyone can express any idea or perspective. Don’t be afraid to make a mistake, never never never be afraid to make a mistake.”
“Thank you, boss.”
Mitte scratched the back of his head with his bulky hand, shyly smiled, and then shared his hypothesis,
” I’ve actually been thinking, if the content on the mural in the secret passage is real, then where did the bodies of the dead gods go? When I heard the boss’s question, I suddenly have a guess; maybe they scattered throughout the world and were consumed by carnivorous animals.”
Hiss…
A gasp echoed.
This was a bold guess, quite imaginative.
But it must be said, it’s also plausible, and very likely.
Everyone knows that the full name of the academy is Ravensmouth Biological and Medical College.
How to better cultivate and utilize organisms more comprehensively and efficiently is one of the college’s areas of expertise.
Even if first-year students have not yet been exposed to related subjects, they still have some understanding.
For example, the bodies of the Storm Sea New Blood who died in the black zone of the western market would be recycled by the college for dissection and to offset losses and recoup investments.
Therefore, everyone there quickly accepted Mitte’s guess.
As higher beings, the gods’ bodies being eaten by carnivorous animals to promote growth seems like a quite plausible occurrence?
Jasmine sighed, “No wonder I couldn’t deal with those ferocious beasts in the water. They all had tough skins and fleshes. Aside from self-destructing fire thunder, no other attack spell could break their defenses. So it turns out they had eaten good things.”
These words immediately stirred up past wounds for Dalton.
He, along with Andriya, Lutz Bailey, and Bahmir Balves, were driven into a desperate flight and finally trapped in a valley because they couldn’t break the defense of the six giant beasts.
There was no way out.’
If Link hadn’ t come to their rescue, they would have been eliminated.
Link also couldn’t help but recall the situation when he and Elise were leading away the six giant beasts.
Elise threw so many upgraded self-destructing fire thunders of various models, but she couldn’t even explode the skin of the giant beasts.
That level of firepower was almost the same as the firepower Tracy Lucia used to bombard the mountain notch.
Evenif Link was wearing the “Defender 3202” suit, continuously using “Double Casting”, “Continuous Casting”, “Parallel Casting” to cast the Water Shield Spell, he couldn’t withstand it.
He would definitely have been seriously injured if he hadn’t been killed on the spot.
Link also favored Mitte Valente’s guess when combining various signs.
Then, the question came again.
Link slightly lowered his hands to signal everyone to stop the low-level discussion.
After the silence, Link asked, “Assuming Mitte’s conjecture is successful, the reason why carnivorous animals are generally large is because they ate the bodies of the gods who died in this world.
So, does this phenomenon, this reason, have any connection with the imminent destruction of this world?
Does it provide help or inspiration for us to construct a sustainable ecological circulation system?”
These two questions were thrown out, sparking another wave of low whispers among the group.
Linn, who was quick-thinking, was the first to respond again, “Boss, I think we can temporarily ignore the connection with the impending world destruction and focus on its help and inspiration to us.”
“Yes. That’s possible.”
Link had other thoughts in mind, but he didn’t refute Linn’s words.
Having gotten agreement, Linn continued, “When carnivorous animals grow larger, their daily consumption naturally increases, and the quantity and quality of food they need also increases along.
This breaches the original ecological cycle.
There must have been a sharp decrease in the number of herbivorous animals.
Surviving herbivores, in order to live longer, are forced to evolve.
This requires the consumption of energy and nutrients and hence, eating more grass.
The vicious ecological cycle deepens further.
Furthermore, since the cause of the large bodies of carnivorous animals is because they ate the bodies of the gods of this world, what about the plants? Haven’t the plants absorbed the flesh and blood too?
I believe they should have.
At least partially.”
After listening, Ezio immediately asked in a low voice, “Then, how do you explain that the bodies of herbivorous animals generally did not undergo drastic changes?”
Linn replied calmly,
“Plants that have absorbed the flesh and blood of gods have evolved, like thorny plants that were originally thornless, short plants growing tall, non- aggressive plants becoming aggressive, and so on.
With so many changes, herbivorous animals can’t eat.
This is also the instinct of plants to survive.
Herbivorous animals lack high-quality food sources, and their evolution is much slower than carnivorous animals and plants that directly absorb the flesh and blood of gods.”