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Chapter 364 Pain of Science (6000 words chapter)
Seeing his new contracted beast swallow the box, Gulas's expression became a lot more dignified.

Just now, he almost took the box back, but he finally stopped.

Soon, the ball of "mercury ball" began to change.

Its body began to bubble, spitting out the pieces of the corroded black box little by little, exposing a stump of limbs contained in the box.

It was the corpse of the Secondary Flying Beetle. After being killed by the legion players, Gulas sneaked back and put away the corpse of the Secondary Flying Beetle.

He could vaguely guess the characteristics of this "mercury ball", and with a glimmer of hope, he handed over the hidden corpse of the secondary flying beetle to it to devour.

But soon, he was disappointed.

After the Mercury Ball absorbed the corpse of the secondary flying mantis, certain physical characteristics of the secondary flying mantis soon appeared, such as its wings that can vibrate at high frequency, such as the pair of knives that tore apart the shells of most disaster beasts .

Of course, it seems that because Gulas came back too late, only one of the saber arms of the secondary flying beetle could be found at the scene, while the other disappeared to nowhere.

Looking at the four-face that is far from the secondary flying beetle, Gulas can only sigh: "Forget it, let's just leave it like this!"

He already felt that he had lost too much blood.

There is no way around this, this blob of something that looks quite similar to a mercury ball is obviously an extremely dangerous beast of disaster.

But even so, he still stretched out his hand to hug the ball of mercury.

With the help of the key to the door, he could barely feel some emotions of the mercury ball, which was a pervasive greed for food, and the object of the greed was himself.

But he still picked it up without hesitation.

Please, I am an immortal player anyway, if this is all about looking forward and backward, can it still be called "Chaotic Evil"?

As if sensing Gulas' indifference, the ball of mercury hesitated for a while before attempting to attack, and then rolled on Gulas's arm with some unhappiness.

Gulas looked at the disaster beast and couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

There is a difference between the Calamity Beast in the Calamity Beast Realm and the monster understood by Gulas.

After all, the focus of monsters lies in the word "magic" in front.

The most frightening thing about the monsters on the source star is that they can exert the power of "magic nature".

Demon nature is not something like magic or magic power. Although monsters with magic nature can also control magic to a certain extent, the biggest feature of magic nature is that it endows monsters with a high enough mystery.

Magic itself has power.

Some magic can give monsters the ability to control specific magic, so that these monsters can release magic at will to fight like the monsters in Western fantasy novels.

Some demons can endow monsters with the power to shake other people's souls. For example, the incomparably special species "Slime Girl" among slimes has the ability to confuse the consciousness of other races and make them match with it.

Some magic properties can greatly stimulate the body of the monster itself, allowing it to exert power beyond the physical limit it should have.

In the final analysis, this power comes from the mystery.

But Calamity Beasts are quite special. All the powers they possess seem to come from non-mystical systems.

Some scientific research players came to a very surprising conclusion after studying the Calamity Beast.

The growth method of the disaster beast is very scientific and reasonable.

If they want to gain more strength, they need to have a larger and stronger body.

If they want to fly faster, they need to have hollow bones, wings that can provide sufficient power, or some special means of acceleration, rather than "I think about it" and then use magic power to fly.

Similarly, faster calamity beasts running on land also need a body that reduces wind speed and strong leg muscles.

In short, one word, "reasonable".

It really makes sense.

Even if you just opened your mouth and sent me a stream of high-energy particles, or the acceleration of nuclear power with red horns, they are all things that can be achieved in the microcosm.

Such a system that leverages the laws of physics to exert its power is generally called science in the mouth of the overlord back then.

It's just that science doesn't have much market on Yuanxing.

No, it's not true. In fact, science is very marketable, but it is disguised by another layer of things, which makes it difficult for people to see its true colors.

That layer of things is called magic technology.

Many people think that magic technology comes first and technology comes later, but those who are familiar with the magic technology industry chain know very well that magic technology is based on science and technology, and if it is impossible to develop a suitable Only when there is no technology, can we break through the restrictions of physical rules through magical means.

The rapid development of magic technology is actually largely related to the sudden increase in the number of ordinary residents.

Even though the incomparably vast astral world has countless rich resources, it doesn't mean that ordinary people can easily enjoy these rich resources.

The current popular saying in the market is that the major superpowers firmly control the resources in their own hands and limit the growth of the people at the bottom.

This kind of saying has a long history, especially in the long time before the source star, the conflict between the limited resources of the source star and the unlimited needs of the extraordinary is almost irreconcilable.

In order to be able to control more resources, it is only natural that extraordinary people are unwilling to release resources.

But in the era of expeditions to the Xinghai, people will laugh when they hear this statement.

Because at least from the current point of view, the vast resources of the astral world are already innumerable.

Almost every moment, resources enough to feed a small faction for hundreds of years are discovered.

But the problem is, Yuan Xing's core power system is still a transcendent system.

This system has inherent barriers to entry. If you want to move forward on the extraordinary path, you need too many things, and ordinary people can't become a member of Expedition Xinghai even if they get investment from a big force.

After all, if it is too weak, it is not even considered cannon fodder.

The premise of the existence of cannon fodder is that it has the value of consuming the opponent, and most of the origin star beings that can't even hit LV9 are not even fighters when facing many forces in the star world.

This also led to the resources of the extraordinary system actively gathering towards the most valuable people.

The greatness of magic technology lies in the fact that it has given many ordinary people the possibility of a path to heaven.

Gulas even saw the "crazy words" of Tyrant when he promoted the magic system in some related books of the teacher:
"If this world is a dark forest, ordinary people are the prey to be hunted wantonly. Those high-ranking hunters are not only wanderers from the star realm outside the source star, but even many gods who protect the source star.

Whether you want to admit it or not, so far magic technology is the only method we can see that can kill gods with mortal strength. "

Yes, killing gods with the power of mortals, how unbelievable and rampant it is——

And make people jealous.

Yes, even on the mysterious side, how many people dare to say that they can embark on the road of killing gods?
In fact, Gulas is very clear that most of the people who continue to develop magic technology are ordinary people who are not willing to be ordinary.

As they built the basic framework of magic technology, most of the time, their brilliance was covered by the light of those who provided magic technology, but the center of gravity in the whole system had actually begun to shift.

In fact, if you think about it, you will know.

Although the flow of arcane and magic has been developing, but because it has reached a certain height, the current magic system has become incomplete.

Because the whole system is too huge, it is impossible for an ordinary spellcaster to master one percent of spells in a lifetime, let alone make secondary innovations in spells.

In other words, there is a limit to the power that the spell system that provides blessings for magic technology can improve in a short period of time, but technology is different, it is still at a relatively basic stage, and there is still enough room to grow and develop.

So the core reason why magic technology can continue to grow is actually very simple, because there are countless people who are constantly promoting the development of the underlying scientific and technological level.

And the Calamity Beast itself was really beyond Gulas' expectations.

Because in Gulas's view, the current evolution direction of the disaster beasts is basically based on understanding that they are developing in the direction of alternative technologies.

Among other things, taking the strongest disaster beast Tracer Island Dragon that players have learned so far, the direction of evolution is also very scientific and reasonable.

Gulas knew that a faction on the player forum was paying a huge price, hoping that a certain player faction would capture Tracer Island Dragon alive.

Yes, you read that right, live capture.

This seems unbelievable to Gulas, because the level of Tracer Island Dragon is too high.

The level of LV24 is considered very strong even among the demigods.

Even, due to the large size of the Tracer Island Dragon, the destructive power it can exert is still higher than that of demigods of the same level.

Especially, when it is facing players whose average level is far lower than its own, it can be said that as long as it is willing, theoretically speaking, it can block the players at the resurrection point for three days and three nights.

But even so, there are still people who want to capture Tracer Island Dragon alive.

And they didn't hide it. The funder is "Shengxia Group", the famous magic technology chaebol. Although it does not have the blessing of gods and godlike people, but because the destructive power of the top magic technology is too strong, it is in the source. Several surrounding worlds outside the star crystal wall also have a terrifying reputation.

Even, because there is a buddy who works in Midsummer Group, Gulas also knows that Midsummer Group seems to have discovered some value hidden in Calamity Beast.

Although the Shengxia Group kept it secret, but after learning from his buddies that Calamity Beast seemed to have some technical concepts that could promote the development of the basic framework of magic technology to a certain extent, he could probably guess what was going on.

It is nothing more than that the power of the disaster beasts can also be reproduced on the source star through technological means.

In this way, this Calamity Beast World is still quite valuable.

He shook his head.

What are you thinking, even if there are a lot of possibilities for improving high-tech means in these disaster beasts, what does it have to do with him?

He will not set foot on this road.

Feeling the blood in his body flowing more and more, a chill spreading all over his body made him lean against the forest unconsciously.

It seemed that he noticed that Gulas's body was getting tired, and the mercury ball held by him moved a little harder, and began to struggle.

But Gulas stared blankly at the sky, but the strength in his hands did not decrease at all.

After a long while, he lowered his head to look at the mercury ball. He didn't know what he thought of, and the strength in his hand dropped a little. He picked it up and looked at the knife that it had evolved, which was somewhat similar to the secondary flying beetle, but more cartoonish. arm, his expression became a little darker:
"It would be great if you could become it."

The mercury ball, which was still struggling, slowed down for a moment, and then its body swelled instantly, becoming swollen like a fat man who was angry, and then blasted Gulas's head with a "pia".

Gulas's body began to evaporate, which is a sign that he will be resurrected at the resurrection point.

And the mercury ball didn't seem to have vented enough, it pulled Gulas's body with its hook-like claws and smashed wildly.

It wasn't until Gulas was fully revived and the body disappeared that Mercury Ball rolled on the ground in a daze, its expression seemed a little unhappy.

On the other side, Lin Xianyu turned off the light screen on the screen where the mercury ball killed Gulas, and held a small "water drop" that flowed like mercury in his hand.

That was part of the organizational structure he obtained from Mercury Ball through the Key of the Door.

What's interesting is that even though the breath of this organizational structure has weakened after being separated from the mercury ball, it is still extremely active.

This subtle feeling always makes Lin Xianyu think that this ultra-small mercury ball has become an independent entity.

Of course, this is just what Lin Xianyu thought.

At least in the eyes of Lin Xianyu, a godlike person, this small body tissue does not have any independent thinking.

But this does not affect Lin Xianyu's research on it. At least so far, many disaster beasts have more or less collected relevant body materials by Lin Xianyu after entering the eternal dream.

And the body structure of some of these creatures really surprised Lin Xianyu.

Whether in the Overlord's Dream or now, he doesn't know much about biotechnology.

No, even in the world that Tyrant crossed over to, not to mention biotechnology, even the development of medicine, almost fell into an endless loop.

People seem to be constantly using the exhaustive method to test the way out of new medicines.

Lin Xianyu once saw this statement in a video in Bazhe's dream:
"Help me lower the price of beef, no problem. Help me lower the price of red wine, no problem. Help me lower the price of 70 medicine. Wait a minute, why can it sell for 70?

Specifically, how can a few milliliters of chemicals plus water be so expensive?Because this medicine is not that medicine, it is not difficult to copy, but it is difficult to create.The drug molecule is not difficult, but it is difficult to know why this drug molecule is.It takes tens of billions of dollars to develop a system, and it may not be successful. However, if you copy a pirated disc of the same code and sell it for only 5 yuan, he still has to make money.

It is because one is creation and the other is duplication, and creation has to start with R&D costs. To be more specific, the average time to develop a new drug is 13.5 years, which is only the investment in R&D.

If capital factors are considered, the cost is as high as US$17.78 billion.

What's more cruel is that you may not succeed in research and development even if you spend money and energy hard.From the selection of targets to the screening of lead compounds, to the 123 phase of clinical optimization, to the final marketing application, from the initial project approval to the market launch, the success rate is only 4% in more than ten years.

Any problem in any link will lead to the premature failure of research and development. For example, the SARS vaccine encountered difficulties in the third phase of clinical trials and has not been developed for 17 years.And the cost of these failures is to be shared equally with each new drug.

A lot of the drug fees we pay are actually paying for these failed research and development products. Even if the research and development is successful, even if it is introduced to the market, we still face a problem——

Mass production.

A lithography machine is several hundred million yuan, and a product line is several billion yuan, but why a mobile phone only sells for a few thousand yuan, because of mass production.

Billions of consumers share R&D expenses and fixed costs equally, but the user base of rare diseases is extremely limited. There are only hundreds of thousands of SMA patients scattered in various countries, and drug approval in different countries inevitably delays For mass production, the unit price will inevitably be high if it is apportioned.

The price of 70 pills is not due to the black heart of pharmaceutical companies to make money, but the iron law of the market that cannot be defied.Although medicine is used to cure diseases and save lives, it is essentially a commodity. Since the market has caused high prices, the price reduction must also rely on the market.

If eggs are not enough to eat, more people should be encouraged to raise chickens instead of killing chickens for eggs.If medicines are not cheap enough, it should encourage more pharmaceutical companies to make money instead of accusing them of profit-seeking.

Your medicine is so expensive, I took it for three years, and my house was gone. Another version of this sentence is, if there is no these medicines, either the house or the people will be gone.

Pharmaceutical companies don't make people sick, they just provide solutions to sick people.If a pharmaceutical company is criticized for providing solutions, more pharmaceutical companies will not dare to provide solutions. Those lives that have disappeared due to lack of drugs have never been noticed, as if they never existed.

There is a price for a plan. We can’t make it lossless. We can only reduce the price gradually. The level of technology cannot be achieved overnight. The market must be given some time, and profit is the best propeller.

Only when the profit is large enough will someone spend more than ten years waiting for the return and try again and again without fear of risk.Only when the profit is large enough can there be funds for medical research and development, theoretical research, scale effect, and cost reduction.Only when the profit is large enough will it attract more top talents and avoid detours to speed up.Only when the profit is large enough, there will be enough competitors, and you will fight to lower the price. Only by respecting the laws of the market can there be positive feedback, and only when medicines are regarded as commodities can the price be truly reduced. "

That video left a deep impression on Lin Xianyu, because the investment in medicine and technology has the same effect, and most of the time, investment in technology tends to fall into an endless loop.

If you don’t invest, you will never catch up with others, and you will be eliminated by others. If you invest, you may not get a return. Any omissions in the development of a new technology may ruin the results.

And the biggest problem facing the development of magic technology now is bigger than the problem of developing technology on earth.

Yuan Xing has been dominated by extraordinary people for too long, so long that ordinary people in this world have become accustomed to allowing extraordinary people to enjoy privileges.

There is one thing to say, although he was almost succeeded by Tyrant's backhand, but he never denied the greatness of Tyrant.

In a world where superhuman powers are raging, it is very easy to find a way for ordinary people to make a living. All it takes is the kindness of a strong man. height, that is a great man.

Even if the scientific system is borrowed, even if the overlord uses his extraordinary power to protect himself in the process, even after the overlord dies, the bright banner of science has been dominated by magic technology, and in the magic technology In the system, magic guide occupies a small proportion but harvests nearly 90.00% of the benefits, but it is undoubtedly a chance for ordinary people in Yuan Xing who have no way to further their studies on the extraordinary path.

What restricts ordinary people now is not the supernatural power, but precisely the poor and weak themselves.

On the way of the many extraordinary forces of the source star fighting in the new worlds, there are too many missed benefits that are enough for ordinary people to reap their rewards, but the problem is, if you can't develop yourself to break away from the source star, what do you get? Count on yourself to enjoy the benefits that others have worked so hard to harvest, even if this benefit is only superficial.

This is why Lin Xianyu chose Yuanlishi back then.

Regardless of the fact that Yuanlishi's growth relies on the accumulation of various knowledge, in fact, these so-called knowledge are only to help Yuanlishi enrich the core resources of his profession.

The professional core of the source force is like an ever-expanding resource bank. Whenever foreign resources are stored in it, the power of this resource bank will be expanded to a certain extent.And as more and more resources are accumulated in it, when you need to create something, the various resources in the resource library will always provide solutions for what you want to create with the cooperation of each other.

What's even more frightening is that as the resources in the resource pool increase, the things you create will become more and more refined, and will become more and more biased towards your ideal type, or even surpass your ideal type.

And knowledge is the resource needed by the source force.

The source force uses knowledge to simulate a brand new world by constantly plundering knowledge. As you learn more and more knowledge, you will find that the world you simulate will become more and more powerful, and the world you can mobilize from it The strength will also increase.

This is why, in the perception of ordinary people, the source force is a power that can easily "steal" the power created by other professional systems, and can even surpass the simulated profession after fusing other powers.

Because no matter how much knowledge your professional core contains, it is still too weak to face a virtual world.

Even if the power simulated by the source force user is not complete, the godlike source force user who has simulated a virtual world can always find other ways to replace the incomplete part.

This is why Yuan Lishi is so powerful.

　PS: I closed the car door at noon today and pinched a large bruise on my fingers. At noon, I found that my fingers could not feel the touch. Fortunately, after waking up from sleep, the touch was restored. It was so painful that my fingertips were black Blockbuster.Then a miraculous thing happened. I had a lot of things to type at work today, plus I updated 6000 words after I came back from work. Bright red blood clots, trance
　　
　
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