Doomsday Bunker Upgrade Chapter 525: New ideas

The failure of the ecological environment experiment really made a lot of researchers and Chen Xin feel frustrated, but it was only a dozen or so experiments that failed, but it did not make people lose their fighting spirit.

And the fact that they only add animals will always cause the entire ecosystem to collapse. If it is just plants, it can keep the entire ecosystem in a relatively stable state for at least five hundred years.

This also proves that the construction of an artificial ecosystem is feasible, but compared to the more stable and controllable situation of plants, animals are relatively more likely to change, which will lead to imbalances in the ecosystem and eventually lead to ecological collapse.

Chen Xin's initial idea was to add animals to this relatively stable ecosystem consisting only of plants, but previous experiments have proved that this is not feasible.

The first few experiments failed, largely due to a mismatch between plants and animals, which prevented the two from coexisting.

In subsequent experiments, they tried to put animals and plants together in the experiment, but the difference in reproduction speed between different species could easily lead to the collapse of the entire ecosystem.

This is also why, after the failure of the seventeenth experiment, it was proposed to change the mind.

Because according to the original thinking, they tried all the solutions they could try, and it turned out that they had to jump out of their original thinking.

So after finishing the seventeenth experiment, Chen Xin gave everyone a day off, let everyone rest for a day, change their minds, and see if they could generate some new ideas and ideas.

And he himself tried to adjust his thinking, thinking about the problem.

An ecosystem is generally composed of four parts: abiotic environment, producers, consumers and decomposers, and in order to maintain the operation of an ecosystem, these four parts are indispensable.

In Chen Xin's current experiments, the non-biological environment is the best guarantee, and it is also the most stable part of the four parts.

As for the producers, they usually refer to the green plant part. Although this part is not as stable as the non-biological environment, they don't need to worry too much. They can already build a stable plant ecosystem.

But the consumer part of the whole system really stumped Chen Xin and the researchers.

Although by definition, animals are considered consumers in the ecosystem from the bottom up, in fact, every link in the entire food chain can be regarded as a producer and a consumer.

What they consume is the next level, and they will be consumed by the upper level of the food chain. Finally, the existence at the top of the food chain will be decomposed by the decomposers after death, forming a closed loop of the entire material cycle and energy flow.

So the supply and demand relationship between each species and other species is the key to maintaining the balance of the entire ecosystem.

This is like a production line. Raw materials are input from the source. The processing workshop processes the raw materials into parts, and then assembles them in the assembly workshop. The amount of work to be done in each link in the middle is calculated in advance, neither more nor less.

If one of the links is too much or too little, it will cause problems in the entire production line.

If it is too much, it will lead to more and more things in a certain link. If it is less, the final product of the production line will be reduced.

Only the production line in the factory can be directly adjusted, but the ecological environment is obviously not so easy to control and adjust.

Although human beings can indeed play a regulating role in the ecological environment of the dome city, so that the entire ecological environment can last longer, but if there is a problem with the ecological system itself, even if there are external forces interfering with it, it is just too much operation After a while, it will eventually collapse.

And in some aspects, it is difficult to save the entire ecosystem even with external interference.

This point can be clearly seen in the previous sixteenth and seventeenth experiments. The mass reproduction of insects has caused a terrible scene like a locust plague. Even if human intervention is involved, the final result must be to rebuild the entire ecology. system.

Of course, it will lead to such a result, but also because there is no external interference, the entire ecosystem has been completely out of balance.

If there is a monitoring system that can monitor the entire ecological environment all the time, and solve problems and variables in a timely manner, to a certain extent, it can indeed maintain the operation of the entire ecological system.

As long as there are no problems that cause the entire ecosystem to collapse in an instant, this can actually make the entire ecosystem run smoothly for a long time.

But the dome city can do this, but if you want to restore the ecology of the entire Blue Star later, this will undoubtedly not work.

After all, human beings currently do not have such a powerful force to monitor the ecology of the entire Blue Star and make timely adjustments to possible problems.

So Chen Xin must find a possibility that allows the entire ecosystem to operate smoothly without external interference.

But what's easier said than done?

Giving up thinking about this issue, Chen Xin decided to let his mind rest and change his mind to see if he could find new inspiration.

So he left the research center and returned to his home.

Back home, Chen Xin noticed that Qin Lan was sitting on the sofa sorting something, so he walked over curiously and asked her, "What are you looking at?"

"Some photos, there are a lot of old photos in the things that Qingyan brought back before, so let's organize them." Qin Lan answered Chen Xin's question, and also looked up at him: "Why are you like this today? Are you back early?"

"I encountered a little obstacle at work~IndoMTL.com~ The experiment failed again, so I just gave everyone a day off, let everyone rest, and change their minds." Chen Xin said this, and sat down beside Qin Lan. , picked up the album she had organized and turned it over.

Most of the photos above are photos of them having fun in Mo Qingyan's bar before, and some were taken when everyone went outdoors together.

Chen Xin turned over looking at these photos and recalling those happy times in the past, and couldn't help but feel relaxed.

But when Chen Xin was flipping through these photos, he suddenly noticed that one of the photos was a little different.

The photo is of Qin Lan, but she is completely different from the one Chen Xin always remembered at that time, who was always wearing a training uniform. Instead, she was rarely wearing a plain white long dress, which seemed to sit very quietly. In front of a table, and in front of her, there was a glass ball covered with stones like a fish tank, with small fish and algae.

It was the glass ball that really caught Chen Xin's attention. He asked Qin Lan curiously, "Alan, when did you take this photo? And what is this ball? Without opening, the fish inside Won't you suffocate from hypoxia?"