Locke ended his voice call with Wizard Salvador, found Mason Witch and the others, and told them he was leaving Group 2's research institute to head deep into the Dune Plane.
Then, under their astonished gazes, he left the ecological membrane alone and entered the desert.
Locke gazed at the yellow sands in the distance. "For the Truth Institute's First-Class Project Fund, we should be able to complete the project once we analyze the Ancient Flower Root's special Energy-Locking Structure. The hardest part was finding the Ancient Flower."
"So I don't need to spend much more effort on it. But one thing does bother me: why are advanced lifeforms still alive on the Dune Plane?"
Locke looked up at the sky shrouded in Heavy Element Particles, then at the hundreds of conversion plants driven into the sandy earth like steel spikes. "When reshaping nature, how do we balance efficiency against long-term benefits and avoid a short-lived ecological boom?"
Locke stepped into a sandstorm. Yellow sand came howling at him from every direction, but in the next instant, Mister's Power descended as a Nature Force Field. Like a terrifying forest arriving from beyond the plane, it dispersed the entire sandstorm in an instant.
After walking for roughly half an hour, Locke frowned at the boundless sands. "Searching with my eyes is too slow."
"Come to think of it, wherever the Dune People live, some rudimentary ecosystem must still barely survive. Find the plants, and I should find the remaining Dune People."
Locke swept his right hand through the air. A full moon appeared in the sky behind him, like a star suspended beyond the heavens.
He became the Dark Sun and used the Sun-Moon Dual Cycle's unique operating logic to combine the gravitational pulls of the Dark Sun and the full