Chapter 614 - 403: Vertical Earth Golden Radiance
After discovering this ability, Wang Ye continued digging into the pit in front of him.
As his body touched the surrounding minerals and rocks.
The volume of the surrounding minerals and rocks also gradually shrank.
This is because most rocks are primarily composed of calcium (Ca), carbon (C), oxygen (O), and silicon (Si), so they all contain some carbon elements.
So Wang Ye could absorb Carbon Atoms by touching most rocks.
But at the same time, Wang Ye also discovered a problem,
that is, through touch and devour, he could only absorb Carbon Atoms from the material,
He seemed temporarily unable to absorb other elements.
Wang Ye suspected that this might be because he is a carbon-based organism, inherently more affine with Carbon Atoms.
As he gradually evolves, other elements should also gradually be absorbed by him.
During the previous excavation process, his body had already accumulated approximately eleven kilograms of Carbon Atoms.
Although these Carbon Atoms seem better than nothing,
but accumulating them for a long time.
Definitely can cause a qualitative change.
Based on Wang Ye’s current ability, about a ton of Carbon Atoms,
should be able to evolve into a segment of finger joint-sized carbon acetylene bone structure,
but with his current skin’s absorption rate of Carbon Atoms,
he might have to stay in the rock layers for several days before barely evolving his left palm into carbon acetylene.
Wang Ye did not plan to stay underground in the Antarctic for that long,
Instead of slowly exhausting time this way, he might as well complete his current tasks first,
and get one thousand tons of Graphite Ore from Old Yi, achieving it in one step.
Thinking of this, Wang Ye continued to excavate an underground chamber large enough to accommodate the Ice Ridge Dragon.
After placing the Ice Ridge Dragon properly,
he left this rock layer and began searching for other lakes.
He moved around underground like a mole, constantly digging and moving at high speed.
And consistently used Primordial Qi to sense the environment within hundreds of meters.
After about twenty hours, Wang Ye had explored all of Antarctica’s ice layer.
He had explored almost all of Antarctic’s lakes.
Unfortunately...
He did not find anything that caught his interest.
Indeed, some lakes contained rare organisms undiscovered by humans,
but at best, they were merely small fish or insects.
And due to being separated from the outside world for too long,
they have hardly evolved over the last million years,
still maintaining backward structures from a million years ago.
In terms of evolutionary potential, they may not be stronger than terrestrial organisms.
There is simply no point in nurturing them.
After exploring the Antarctic underground, Wang Ye returned to the ice layer,
When he stood again on the ice layer at the South Pole,
he discovered a strange weather phenomenon.
The sky and the ground almost blended into one,
The entire world was dyed white.
Wang Ye squinted his eyes,
immediately realized that this was the milky sky only seen in polar environments.
Milky sky refers to a phenomenon in polar regions, when the ground is covered by snow and the sky uniformly filled with clouds,
creating a scene where the ground and sky are both enveloped in white haze.
In this scenario, there are no reference points around, nor a visible horizon or skyline, resembling a pure white room,
coupled with the surrounding wind and snow blocking distant views,
being amidst white whirlwind, with white snow and ice beneath your feet,
it’s utterly impossible to discern up from down, left from right, north from south, and ordinary people standing in this milky sky environment would instinctively feel dizzy.
And even faint.
In such an Antarctic environment, fainting is practically equivalent to a death sentence.
Because here, within half an hour, life can be directly snatched away.
Moreover, the wind speed here is extremely high,
combined with the need to carry heavy supplies and wear thick clothing, making movement difficult,
other team members absolutely cannot carry a fainted teammate back to camp.
Hence encountering the milky sky here is essentially encountering fatal weather.
But Wang Ye is almost immune to this.
Ultimately, dizziness boils down to some part of the brain not adapting to the environment,
essentially it’s just because the brain isn’t strong enough.
For instance, dizziness from standing at height is because the "amygdala" is too sensitive.
With enough training, or controlling the amygdala, fear and dizziness won’t be felt.
Even though Wang Ye never trained in such a "milky sky" environment,
his brain development degree is high enough,
to freely control brain parts to work according to his will.
So he can forcibly make the brain adapt to the environment without training.
Learning is also like this, ordinary people feel pain in learning,
because the brain resists such high-energy-consuming behavior.
Thus recalling every word, every noun explanation,
is extremely difficult.
But many people find, as they memorize more words, their memory seems to gradually improve,
because memorizing activity can increase brain activity, repeated learning will trigger cooperation between the hippocampus and cerebral cortex, enhancing synapse connection between neurons through long-term potentiation effect. Each time memories are retrieved, myelin thickness increases by 0.2-0.5μm, boosting nerve signal transmission speed.
Moreover, after learning enough knowledge, existing knowledge can become cognitive anchor points, compressing new information into 3-4 chunks stored in working memory. For instance, people who read regularly process information while reading a book at a rate 5 times higher than those who seldom read.
These are intellectual improvements achievable through training.