Doomsday Bunker Upgrade Chapter 524: Failed experiment

In a dome city, insects are flying all over the sky. They constantly nibble on the leaves of the planted plants, making the original environment full of life dilapidated and desolate.

A large number of insects are rampant, and even other animals are powerless to resist such a terrible disaster. The streets are full of small animals that died, and their corpses were also eaten by insects, and even became the breeding ground for new insects. hotbed.

"Failed again!" Chen Xin couldn't help sighing when he saw this scene, and the researchers around him who saw this scene with him became very frustrated.

"Sure enough, it's too difficult to artificially build a stable ecosystem!" A researcher couldn't help but give up and almost lost the confidence to continue.

This was the seventeenth time they had failed, and while this time the entire ecosystem held up longer than any previous test they had done, in the end the entire ecosystem was almost exponential due to the gradual death of birds and insects This level of reproduction can lead to the collapse of the entire ecosystem.

Before this, sixteen attempts by them had also failed.

For the first time, because the species of plants were not properly controlled, insects ate the leaves of plants and produced toxins that poisoned birds, and the corpses of birds caused indirect poisoning of other animals, and the entire ecosystem collapsed.

The second time you noticed the problem of plant species, but the birds in the city were out of balance due to the hunting of pet cats, and you ended up with insects flooding and the entire ecosystem collapsing.

The third time was a surge in bird populations that ate up all the insects; the fourth time was the introduction of predatory birds to maintain the balance, resulting in common birds being hunted down due to territorial problems; the fifth time ...

Chen Xin flipped through the experimental records and didn't want to recall how he failed before.

In all seventeen trials so far, they insisted that the shortest ecosystem lasted only seven months, and the longest was this one, which lasted for a total of ten years, but eventually collapsed.

“Where is the problem? We have fully considered the needs and output of all animals in the entire food chain, why is it still crashing?” A researcher asked unwillingly, as if he was asking others, Also questioning myself.

Faced with this problem, Chen Xin sighed helplessly: "The ecological balance itself is very fragile, and any variable may easily break the original balance. It is very important for nature to form a stable structure. It also takes a long time to form a stable coexistence relationship.

Our current idea that we want to build a balanced and stable ecosystem by artificially bringing together several organisms... is too idealistic. "

Although Chen Xin doesn't think this is impossible, after so many failures, even he must admit that a truly stable ecological environment is far from being able to be formed by adding a few creatures.

Perhaps there is a natural enemy relationship between some two organisms, but the influence of population size, environmental carrying capacity and other environmental factors often lead to results that are not as ideal as expected. Often it may only be a difference in a variable that will lead to vastly different differences.

"Is our thinking wrong?" Although everyone was frustrated by the seventeen consecutive failures, some researchers still put forward new ideas: "Every previous experiment we have used animals for one-time use. The result is that the development speed of the populations is different due to the difference in reproduction speed. As a result, a balanced ecological system cannot be formed, resulting in a rapid collapse of the ecological system every time.

This time we tried to breed the species to a certain size and then put it in batches. It took ten years for the entire ecosystem to collapse, and it persisted longer than every previous one, so should we adjust our thinking? "

"You are right. The ecological balance should be a dynamic balance, and the number of different populations should have a certain elasticity, so that the entire ecosystem has a certain fault tolerance rate and automatic correction function. We may It's time to change your thinking." Chen Xin nodded in agreement after listening to the researcher's words.

Their previous experiments were mainly based on Professor Li's successful experience in researching ecological agricultural systems, combining several coexisting animals and plants according to the consumption and supply relationship on the food chain, thinking that a balanced ecological system could be constructed. .

But it is clear that an ecosystem is not simply composed of a combination of several species.

Especially changes in environmental factors will affect the ecology of species, and there is also a relationship between different species.

In this case, there are actually quite a few variables that affect the final ecological balance. Although Chen Xin can simulate the effects of various environmental variables, he cannot calculate a correct answer.

Or there are correct answers, but the conditions they provide are not sufficient to calculate the optimal solution.

Faced with the current situation and 17 consecutive failed experiments, it is also a good choice to change your mind.

"Speaking of which, we seem to have overlooked another important factor!" At this time, a researcher was trying to review the test just now. Just looking at the results of the review, he suddenly found a blind spot.

Hearing what the researcher said, Chen Xin suddenly looked at him curiously: "What did you find?"

“What we need to build is an urban ecosystem, right? But so far ~IndoMTL.com~ it seems that we have never included the city as a variable in the entire ecosystem! And we have been simulating the There is only the ecology of animals and plants, and there is no calculation of the existence of human beings." The researcher said his findings aloud.

"That's right, but we can't build a stable ecosystem without ignoring cities and human activities. If we add human activities and cities as influencing variables, it's probably even more difficult to achieve. Balance?" Although other researchers agreed with the problems he found, they did not agree with his ideas.

Chen Xin had a different view on this. He interrupted the debate between the two researchers and said after a while: "Since we want to change our thinking, we should add urban variables and human activities to the ecosystem as a reference. It can be regarded as a way, after all, this is the final result we seek, and it is better to bring it in now, right?

And more than this, we should consider how to build this system first, so that it can run smoothly, instead of always being destroyed for various reasons as it is now. "

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