Chapter 680 He and its children

As the Alliance Institute of Biology initially speculated, the forests of Baiyue Province were children born to Gaia and the earth.

The forest here refers not only to the trees in the forest.

It also includes flowers, plants, insects, birds, birds and animals, and even humans who once lived here.

The mother nest landed on this land opened its own gene bank and gave all living creatures on this land the ability to communicate with each other's genetic material.

Of course, this kind of communication is not a random migration without rules.

Instead, under the framework of natural selection unique to the earth, the best genetic fragments and the arrangement and combination between fragments stand out from evolution and carry forward the ultimate competitive nature and continuous trial and error.

In just two centuries, they completed a path that originally took 2 million years or 20 million years to go or even impossible to go on the earth's ecosystem.

The rustling of leaves and the chirping of insects in my ears.

Hearing this shocking conclusion, Fang Chang was stunned for a long time, and his Adam's apple moved gently and swallowed his saliva.

...This is fusion?

Chen Yutong nodded.

Lao Bai, who was standing aside, couldn't help asking.

What about the people here?They also had that fusion... fused the DNA of the heterogeneous species?

Chen Yutong nodded again.

As expected, it should be that there are not as many survivors in this area as in Qingquan City, but some must have stayed.

Old Bai stared at her blankly.

But...are the survivors in the southern waters still fine?We didn't feel that there was any difference between them and us.

As if he guessed that he would ask this, Chen Yutong explained patiently.

The evolution of individuals and the evolution of populations are two different dimensions. Faced with the extremely deteriorating natural environment, some people chose to leave, while some people chose to stay.The survivors in the southern waters were just the people who left, and they no longer participated in the evolution that took place in this rainforest.

Old Bai asked with a frown slightly.

What about the people who stayed?

In evolution, it "disappeared", or was fused, and became other forms of existence...

While saying that, Chen Yutong squatted on the ground, gently picked a yellow bamboo grass leaf from the side of the road, got up and handed it to his hand.

After taking the blade of grass, Lao Bai looked at her in confusion.

This is?

A piece of Huangzhu grass. Chen Yutong looked at the grass leaves on his hand and continued, we found DNA fragments of human mitochondria in the mitochondria of sliced ​​cells of a Huangzhu grass sample.

Human mitochondria?!

Old Bai and Fang Chang both showed surprise expressions on their faces.

How did this be done?!

...We are not able to do yet how the DNA fragment that originally belonged to Shuoyuan, which migrated to Huangzhucao, may be through the food chain, may be through some kind of intermediate microorganism, or both.In subsequent investigations, we soon discovered similar situations in mutant spiders, lizards, and even snails... They have both human components and other species.

Looking at the stunned two people, Chen Yutong said softly.

This is Gaia.

She handed the earth a key, opening the lock in our evolution.

The lock of the evolution of all things.

Fang Chang looked at her in amazement, feeling that he didn't understand at all, but he seemed to understand a little.

This reminded him of a game called Stars that he once played.

There is a talent for ascension that he rarely goes to in the name of cross-species compatibility, which is the last part of gene ascension.

It’s not that this route is not strong, but in fact, this is the most buggy ascension route in the entire game.

Because once cross-species compatibility is unlocked, it means that players can use a series of war criminal operations, such as constantly placing two creatures with different traits on the same planet and forcing them to cross. The newly born mixed-race children will pick a positive trait from their parents to inherit it, and they will not be limited by the upper limit of genetic improvement and can be stacked infinitely.

Players only need to repeat the operation several times without getting tired of it, and finally create a super species that is compatible with all the positive traits in the game!

It's equivalent to buff all over the body!

However, at the same time, the side effect is that the player's race interface becomes a messy palette.

The hybrids that grow between any different species will reproduce with other hybrids, and the images and names will eventually become weird.

I don’t know whether the CPU of the computer will be fucked, but the CPU of the human brain will definitely have to fuck it.

Why bother?

Even if the BUFF is not stacked into the sky, the AIs in the game with underdeveloped cerebellum are not opponents of players.

Therefore, most players will click until they are stuck in the last paragraph of Kifei to maintain the purity of the species and their sense of substitution.

There are also a few players who will get the super creature with thousands of buffs after achieving the ultimate goal, and then get the other mixed-race intermediate products onto a planet, and put the vassal declaration of war to charge the colossus in one go, and all of them will be dropped.

The situation shown on the planet Gaia is a bit like a cross-species-compatible civilization.

For some reason, they not only achieve cross-species integration, but also integrate organisms on the entire planet in unimpeded genetic communication.

To outsiders, they are a unified consciousness body.

However, looking at it with a curd, it is not the hive that ordinary people understand, but the whole of thousands of hives is one!

She is all, and all is all her.

That civilization that has been dissolved invisible may be higher than humans imagined.

As for why their footprints have not been traversed by thousands of stars, or why they have lost their original appearance, it is just that the pursuits of both sides are different.

The stars in the sky are not only of one color, and not all civilizations are keen on expanding territory.

Perhaps some civilizations are born to build a wonder or write a poem.

And their poems have been written in the past years, that being called Gaia by human colonists.

The colonists sent the mother nest with the poem back to the earth, and the mother nest scattered in the Baiyue Province is an excerpt from this poem.

Fang Chang vaguely felt that he seemed to be close to the truth of the three-year war. "Wasteland OL" has laid the main line since its launch.

Looking at Chen Yutong, Lao Bai still had an incomprehensible expression.

But...how did this be done?

The common view in the biology community believes that lateral transmission of genes is unique to microorganisms and rarely occurs between eukaryotes.

This is also the reason why the evolution of life on Earth basically appears to be a tree branch and extends downward after passing through the early microbial stages.

A river separates the rat group, with mountains on one side and forests on the other. After millions of years, the rivers dried up, and the two waves of rat groups met again, and reproductive isolation occurred between each other, which can be regarded as evolving into different species.

It can even be said that isolation is a necessary condition for the generation of new species.

Most biology textbooks and popular science books mention such a simple model when explaining the concepts related to geographical isolation and reproductive isolation.

However, she told him that the isolation between species was broken?!

Although he did not understand biology, he had received nine years of compulsory education.

What's more, it doesn't take nine years of compulsory education.

He believed that horses and donkeys could mate, but how could these strange combinations be brought together with ants, trees, spiders and cockroaches?!

Looking at the confused expression on his face, Chen Yutong raised her index finger and pressed her eyebrows, and said helplessly.

...I can probably guess what you are thinking, is the reproductive isolation between species right?

Lao Bai nodded.

Yes.

Chen Yutong continued patiently.

Generally speaking, this is the case, but the way genes are transmitted is not only reproductive... Let’s take the example on the earth to illustrate that guaroon and herring are two unrelated cold-water fish, but the antifreeze protein gene of herring appears in the former gene sequence. This situation is called horizontal migration of genes.

According to relevant literature on the prosperity era, similar situations exist not only in fish, but in reptiles, birds, and mammals.Therefore, as of the time of the war, the general view in the academic community was that life evolution was not a classic tree shape, and there had always been a small number of fine silk threads adhesion between some branches.

What Gaia did was to turn these silk threads that originally played only a tiny role in biological evolution into bridges between species, and turn the original tree-like life evolution figure of the earth into a "net" similar to Gaia.

This time, Lao Bai pressed his eyebrows with a headache.

So…we are now joining the glorious evolution?

Chen Yutong nodded and looked at the airtight rain forest in the distance.

Yes, the genes we carry will also enter this forest in some form, and the ubiquitous microorganisms will break down our feces, hairs, and even remains, which are one of the ways to enter.However, this is an integration at the macro level. At the micro level, as long as we are not eaten by the alien species here and turn into feces, we will not disappear in this rainforest.

Fang Chang, who had been thinking for a long time, suddenly asked.

What if I leave this forest?

Chen Yutong looked at him and said.

Nothing happens, just like the survivors who fled to the island from this rainforest, the part of the genes they took is no longer involved in evolution in the rainforest.

In fact, in the past two centuries, alien species have been leaving this forest, and new alien species have joined in.Some ethnic groups have grown up in this rainforest, and some ethnic groups have also lost their DNA after contributing their own DNA.

In abstract view, this forest is equivalent to the "Gaia" superimposed on the earth's natural laws and developing to the primary stage.All living things in the entire rainforest are fruit entities, and the sum is an abstract "maternity nest"... As for the most primitive and concrete mother nest, we are still looking for it.

...How to do this kind of thing?Lao Bai was still scratching his head in entanglement, thinking about this problem that he could not understand even if he could understand.

Seeing his stubborn expression, Chen Yutong was also a little helpless, but she still said patiently.

This is also the question we are studying, including why this forest is limited to the province and has not spread to other places... Don't be too anxious.

After a pause, she looked at the contemplative Fangchang.

In addition, the "self-healing nature" you observed before actually exists based on the principles I mentioned before.

Genes communicate unimpededly among species and continuously screen out stronger species in natural selection. The organisms here, whether plants or animals, whether producers or consumers in the food chain, have extremely strong vitality and nutrition accumulation ability... because if they are not, they will soon become the cannon fodder that will disappear after contributing several sets of codes.

In this highly ‘incoil’ environment, once a physical vacuum area appears, it will be quickly occupied by other species.

Fang Chang asked with a headache.

Is there a solution?

Chen Yutong: Actually, it is easy to solve. Just maintain your possession of the area. For example, the land under your feet is often passed by, so you cannot grow too lush grass. You can even stick to it for a long time with cement, but the relative maintenance cost may be higher than other places.

Fang Chang asked immediately.

What if it is an area that is not often active?

Then... there is nothing I can do. Chen Yutong made a helpless expression. Not to mention that your gathering place, even the Shilong City that existed before, could not block the erosion of this extraordinary natural force. The creatures here cannot tolerate a slight waste. You should try your best to use the developed land.

Fang Chang said with a wry smile.

Then bear high maintenance costs, right?

The infrastructure expenditure of French Fries Port is completely paid by Baiyue Strait Development Co., Ltd., and the alliance finance cannot pay for the expenses of French Fries Port's road construction. It must carefully consider the issue of balance of income and expenditure.

And it's not just a matter of money.

From a macro perspective, money is just a tool to balance logistics profit and loss with market supply and demand.

The damage caused by a negative asset is not only a deficit in the financial report, but also a large amount of manpower and material resources are wasted on meaningless things.

Chen Yutong looked at him helplessly and said.

It may be a good idea to try to maintain the original ecological landscape. In fact, there is no need to build all settlements the same. Do you think about exploring a model suitable for the development of Baiyue Province?This is the only advice I can give.

When she said this, she suddenly thought about something.

Ah By the way, aren’t you studying how to use slime molds to the construction field recently?You might as well try out the biological self-repair material, which may be suitable for the special circumstances here.As for land with low utilization, it is better to maintain the original ecology of the forest.

At this moment, Lao Bai, who had been stubborn just now, suddenly spoke and said something.

It's not impossible.

Both of them looked at him at the same time, and Fang Chang asked immediately.

What's the solution?

In areas that cannot be developed temporarily, how about planting tropical crops first to occupy the area?For example, rubber, cotton, etc.... I remember that a long time ago, didn’t there be some high-yield cotton seeds in the shelter?

Lao Bai glanced at the Yue tribe members in the eastern camp and continued.

Just like when we were in Qingquan City, we reclaimed the land and contracted it for them to plant it.As long as something grows on the ground, it should be fine, right?

The maintenance cost of cotton fields is always much lower than that of cement floors, and the cash crops produced can make a fortune.

In addition, this land has a buff of +n% growth rate, and the soil fertility seems to be ridiculously high. If you can get three or four periods in a year, you may not be able to harvest.

He has given up understanding the settings in the game from a scientific perspective. It is better to use the settings in the game to understand it, and his ideas have been opened.

Chen Yutong's eyes also lit up and she said excitedly.

For Ah... this idea is good, but it is actually similar to what I thought. Just replace those flowers and plants with cash crops.

Fang Chang frowned slightly.

But will this introduce genes here and make the situation here more complicated?

Looking at his worried expression, Lao Bai shrugged helplessly.

...We have been here for so long, do you think there are still one or two chromosomes missing?

Fang Chang was stunned for a moment and suddenly realized that he had asked a stupid question, ignoring the order of magnitude gap between variables and the population.

Not to mention metabolites, they have more than one or two corpses thrown in this forest. What can a few cotton seeds be considered?

What's more, this rainforest has not become like this today. I haven't seen any new things before?

He touched his forehead with his right hand and said laughing and crying.

That's what I said...