Chapter 136

Lan Ni. Tai Le's mood was very complicated.

After agreeing to team up, Linke Grand kept his promise.

These days, he contacted her every day, telling her what she needed to do that day.

Never interrupted, never delayed.

Even, Lin Ke specially took out some time, very candidly sharing his team's research results with her.

It really let her and her team know exactly what they were doing and why.

Rather than brushing it off, getting free labor.

This made Lan Ni. Tai Le very surprised.

She originally thought she needed to constantly probe indirectly to barely learn this information.

Finally, she would have to expend a lot of labor to exchange for only a little of the other side's intellectual gain.

Who would have thought it would come so easily, so comprehensively?

There's simply no need for wits and courage, back-and-forth tugging.

Just need to report the results and data of what was done each day.

Lin Ke seemed unaware of how valuable the information he spoke was, casually 'leaking' it out.

Lan Ni. Tai Le couldn't figure out what Lin Ke was thinking.

If it were her, she definitely wouldn't disclose the information so easily.

At least she'd have to get free labor for a few days.

What was Lin Ke thinking?

Lin Ke just wanted to communicate candidly.

After all, driving people to act is far less effective than guiding them to act voluntarily, which yields higher efficiency.

Just whipping a donkey, over time the donkey will kick up its heels.

What's more, it's a person.

And hanging a carrot in front of the donkey's eyes makes it completely different.

The donkey, in order to get the carrot into its mouth, will endure hardship and labor willingly, pulling the mill and cart.

In Lin Ke's view, Lan Ni. Tai Le and her team are just a donkey still wild.

It's highly likely to happen that they refuse to move when led, or even go backward.

To better control this donkey, one must hang a 'carrot'.

Fresh, sweet, tasty, delicious and tempting.

Let them see the hope of completing the camp task, even the possibility of overtaking on a curve, finishing the camp task before Lin Ke's team.

Rather than muddling through doing this and that, not even knowing why they're doing these things.

This is precisely the 'carrot' Lin Ke carefully selected.

Candid communication is the way of hanging the carrot.

Fact shows, the effect of candid communication is very good.

The 'carrot's effect is very prominent.

Lan Ni. Tai Le's team members, five from the Newblood Mutual Aid Society and five from other apprentice organizations, no longer have much resistance to teaming up with Lin Ke.

After receiving the task, each one, even if they don't work with all their might, won't act one way outwardly and another inwardly, or cheat and slip.

This series of changes before and after, Lan Ni. Tai Le saw them all.

She faintly felt like she had tried to steal a chicken but ended up losing the rice.

She wanted to get Lin Ke's wisdom, exploratory and innovative thinking for free, and indeed she got it for free.

But the problem is she herself also got gotten for free.

And she was gotten even more harshly!

She had a strong premonition that Linke Grand was rapidly advancing toward his goal.

After she herself took the initiative to show up and offer help.

……

Meng Luo. Bu Li Sai Ni Ao calmly accepted Ai Rui Si. Ke La Ke's departure from the team.

Actually, even if he didn't accept it, there was nothing else he could do.

Obstruct?

If Ai Rui Si really went berserk, Meng Luo wouldn't dare withstand her wrath.

Although both are spatial storage magic items, Meng Luo's waist leather pouch holds far less than Ai Rui Si's small waist pouch.

Moreover, their wealth also has a huge disparity.

If they really went to war, Meng Luo's rune items and magic tools would be completely used up, while Ai Rui Si could continuously pull out upgraded self-exploding fire thunder from outside.

He really doesn't want to suffer another round of wild bombardment.

That would truly lose all face completely.

As for Linke Grand, who caused Ai Rui Si to leave the team.

To be honest, Meng Luo isn't the slightest bit jealous or resentful.

He is very clear that Ai Rui Si leaving the team is not because of Linke Grand.

The reason is that he himself never gained Ai Rui Si's trust in the past, and moreover failed to conceal his good intentions, which she saw through.

This time, if Meng Luo takes out his anger on Linke Grand;

Then next time a similar or different problem arises, who will he take his anger out on?

A person who always blames others, lacking the awareness and courage to face his own mistakes, cannot become a great talent.

Meng Luo has lofty ambitions; he certainly doesn't want to be a wizard apprentice for life!

He certainly wouldn't deceive himself.

On the contrary, Meng Luo greatly admires Linke Grand, especially after interacting directly.

He no longer doubts Lin Ke's genius in botany and pharmacology.

After splitting from Ai Rui Si's team, Meng Luo, accompanied by several people who were convinced by him, also got busy.

First, through some connections, he entered a ruin that had already been discovered.

After carefully examining the various records in the ruin, Meng Luo confirmed that the great war between the God Slayers and the gods indeed truly occurred in this world's history.

This indirectly corroborates Linke Grand's earlier remarks about "annihilation-style salvation."

At least the gigantism of carnivorous animals, the mutations of some plants, and the changes in a few herbivorous animals can all be explained in a logically consistent way.

If so, we must act quickly.

Not necessarily to finish the camp mission before Linke Grand, but at least to improve our own participation, performance, and results in the camp mission for ourselves and our team.

In the Two Districts Grand Comparison, the academy seems to have tossed the wizard apprentices into this world and then hardly managed them.

Yet every action of every wizard apprentice is clearly recorded by the academy.

Otherwise, how could the academy grade and determine rankings?

Research and experimentation are not Meng Luo's forte.

Forcing it won't speed up progress, and the effect may not be good either.

Meng Luo's choice is to use every means possible to first eliminate a batch of those giant carnivorous animals, then talk about it.

Thus, while Ai Rui Si's team was slaughtering in all directions, Meng Luo's team was also slaughtering in all directions.

The difference is, Ai Rui Si kills the purebloods of the opposing camp, especially members of the "Pureblood Will";

while Meng Luo kills giant carnivorous animals, and often snatches the kill when the opposing camp's organization is about to succeed in their hunt.

For a time, the Ai Rui Si and Meng Luo teams threw the opposing camp into misery.

Under the organization of some well-intentioned people, a siege operation targeting the Ai Rui Si and Meng Luo teams is about to unfold.

……

Lin Ke was glad he had stored a large amount of magic.

In the research and experimentation of the Reconstructed Ecosystem, many time-consuming procedures were greatly shortened and efficiency increased under the aid of various magics.

After just three days and nights, the experiment of the Reconstructed Ecosystem cycle, premised on annihilating giant carnivorous animals, yielded preliminary results.

When the temperature rose to a certain level, after four large fierce fish died in succession, the subsequently bred fierce fish showed an obvious trend of shrinking in size.

The changes were not limited to carnivorous animals.

Microorganisms, plants, and herbivorous animals all underwent adaptive changes accordingly.

After a rough comparison, Lin Ke believed that, in terms of sustainable development, the reconstructed ecosystem has an advantage over the existing one.

However, at this stage the research lacks sufficient experimental conditions, rigor, and reliable data, so it cannot yet be declared a success.

Lin Ke urgently needs a larger, more suitable site, more and better experimental materials, and superior, finer equipment to conduct a longer, more rigorous experiment.

Only then can it qualify as a proper study and produce a qualified "paper".

Um……

These demands arise from the academic instinct of researchers.

Actually, Lin Ke doesn't need to do that.

What is the initial purpose of launching research and experimentation on this world's ecosystem?

It is not really about reconstructing a highly perfect ecosystem.

Rather, it is to verify whether reconstructing a sustainable ecosystem can save this world.

Everything Lin Ke previously did—including exchanging equipment, arranging the team to analyze water samples, soil, and biological specimens, and conducting ecosystem reconstruction in three directions—was preliminary argumentation.

The argumentation need not be highly rigorous; logical self-consistency suffices.

Now, Lin Ke has already achieved preliminary results.

Namely, raising the temperature can trigger the demise of the giant carnivorous animals that consume the most resources of this world, thereby optimizing the ecological structure and allowing the existing, unbalanced ecosystem to shift toward a normal, sustainable development.

Thus, meeting the condition for the world to rest and recuperate, buying time for the slow recovery of the world's origin.

The preliminary argumentation yielded the desired outcome.

The next step is to find a place to submit the "report".

The power of wizard apprentices is limited; even if they find a way to save or destroy the world, they cannot carry it out themselves.

Therefore, Lin Ke concluded that the academy must have arranged a certain "place" or a certain "role" to assist the participating wizard apprentices in verifying their plans.

Where this "place" or this "role" is, is the question.

Given the academy's consistent style, it is impossible to directly tell the participating apprentices.

The participating apprentices need to guess, seek, and verify on their own.

In this regard, Lin Ke has a bold guess.

He wants to verify it.

"Come, everyone come over for a moment."

That morning, Lin Ke summoned the team members who had been buried underground in the sandbank, conducting three days of research and experiments regardless of external changes.

"Boss, any orders?"

Ba Ke shows a tendency to become a joint spokesperson for the Benevolent Brother Group and the Social Anxiety Group.

Whenever Lin Ke gathers everyone, he is usually the first to respond.

Talk is cheap; real action counts.

"No orders, just that there's something requiring everyone's joint effort."

Lin Ke said calmly, "This matter is relatively urgent; we may need to work overtime and finish it as soon as possible."

"Boss, just give the orders directly."

Ba Ke thumped his chest repeatedly with a dull sound, shouting loudly, "We brothers and sisters will definitely not hold the boss back; we will surely complete the mission!"

Accustomed to Ba Ke's antics, Lin Ke didn't mind; in fact, he rather liked this style.

The team has someone who livens up the atmosphere; that's nice.

Happy learning, happy work, happy life.

He continued, "Please, within two hours, summarize your assigned experimental records and data into a written report and hand it to me."

A report naturally cannot be just a few dry sentences.

It needs detailed experimental records, solid experimental data, and internally consistent logic.

The extensive analysis of water samples, soil, plant specimens, and animal specimens comes in handy now.

Targeting three directions, adopting different intervention methods to reconstruct three distinct ecosystems, the significance is thus realized.

All this is to verify the idea of "annihilation-style salvation."

All this is for a report on a feasible plan to save the world.

"No problem, boss."

Ba Ke responded, leading the Benevolent Brother Group and the Social Anxiety Group to work with great enthusiasm.

Mo Li stayed behind; when everyone was busy, she walked over to Lin Ke and asked softly, "Any progress?"

She understands Lin Ke's habits.

When a large amount of data is needed, that's when research yields results.

"Hmm."

Lin Ke didn't hide it from Mo Li either; he nodded and said, "I have a hypothesis I want to verify."

"What hypothesis, can you say it conveniently?"

Mo Li pressed further.

She has been keeping up with Lin Ke's steps, aligning herself with him in every way.

Understanding Lin Ke's way of thinking helps her a lot.

"I can't say for sure yet; I myself don't have a clear idea."

Lin Ke thought about it, but still didn't tell Mo Li the bold guess that suddenly popped into his mind.

This isn't because he doesn't trust Mo Li.

It's just that this guess is really too outrageous.

"Alright."

Mo Li shrugged, stopped pressing for details, and said instead, "If adventure is needed, be sure to stay safe."

It must be said, women's intuition is quite accurate.

Although Mo Li couldn't guess what Lin Ke wanted to verify, her intuition told her it was a relatively high-risk matter.

Thus, Lin Ke himself also lacks confidence.

Before acting, he doesn't want to say more.

"Hmm, I will."

Lin Ke said with a smile, then reassured, "Don't worry, nothing unexpected will happen."

Mo Li said nothing and turned to leave.

She was in charge of several experiments and also had to compile the records.

In less than two hours, Lin Ke received a stack of neatly organized experimental records and data.

He ducked into the tent, hung a discarded magic stone for illumination, and spread out paper and pen.

Lin Ke briefly organized his thoughts and wrote vigorously.

From the abnormality of the ecological environment, partial mutations in plants, partial mutations in herbivorous animals, the body size of most herbivorous animals remains relatively normal, while almost all carnivorous animals have become gigantic,

to the component testing, analysis, and comparison of water samples and soil,

then to the reconstructed ecosystem experiments based on genetically modified plants and based on genetically modified herbivorous animals,

and finally to the reconstructed ecosystem experiment based on naturally eliminating gigantic carnivorous animals,

Lin Ke wrote down every detail, big or small.

The records are complete, the data thorough.

After laying the groundwork, Lin Ke proposed his "annihilation-style salvation" plan and began logical deduction based on the above records and data.

In wording, Lin Ke tried to use plain language and reduce academic terms.

After several revisions and polish, nearly eight hours later, a report as long as fifty pages was finally completed.

Lin Ke took a brief rest, drank some water, ate some rations, and in one go began to verify his guess about a certain "place" and a certain "role."

He had Mo Li lead everyone out of the tunnel to the sandbank surface, preparing to cross the river at any moment.

Then he alone went back into the secret passage.

This time, Lin Ke didn't open the bronze door with thorns; he opened it himself by hand.

A creaking sound rang out.

The bronze door slowly opened.

The skeletal remains, leaning on a great sword and guarding the coffin, came into Lin Ke's view.

After locking eyes with the empty sockets for a long while, Lin Ke took a deep breath, stepped forward slightly, and placed the thick stack of reports in his hands before the skeleton.

If one seeks to find a person willing to save this world,

Lin Ke thought,

God Slayers might be.

That's a bold guess.

As for whether it is or not, let's wait a moment.

(End of chapter)