Cyber Heroes

The speed of that dolphin was too fast - or in other words, Xiangshan's prosthetic body moved too slowly under the water. Although the Earth-Drilling Dragon has tried its best to design the buoyancy device as close to fluid mechanics as possible, this prosthetic body, which is mainly used for road combat, cannot explode at super high speeds in the sea.

It is not impossible to forcibly inhale seawater and then heat it and spray it out, but some weak points of the prosthetic body may not be able to hold up, and in such a shallow sea, the movement of doing so would be too great, and it would easily attract the power of the protector.

After chasing a few hundred meters up the mountain, the dolphin fled further and further away.

Xiangshan stopped in the sea, his thoughts were very complicated.

"Senior?" came the original messager's signal. Several other people were sitting in the vehicle and could only share what Xiangshan saw. And limited by the bandwidth that electromagnetic signals can carry, the quality of the pictures they can see is limited.

They didn't see what the big thing was.

Xiang Shan said: "Something is wrong, something is definitely wrong. Put other things aside... let's track that dolphin..."

"Senior?" The original informant was somewhat different, "Why did you suddenly change your mind?"

"It is impossible for dolphins to continue to this day in a purely wild state." Xiang Shan whispered, "Dolphins are marine mammals and breathe with their lungs...the natural lungs cannot directly absorb oxygen from seawater..."

"ah?"

"Under normal circumstances, it would be very difficult for benchmarked marine organisms to float." Xiang Shan said: "Before benchmarking, the overall density of many swimming marine organisms would be slightly lower than that of seawater... These organisms also have corresponding Use the organs to adjust this buoyancy to ensure that you can move in the vertical direction..."

"But after standardization, metal-based proteins will suddenly increase the overall density of organisms by several percentage points, and terrestrial animals like humans will not be able to float at all. If the buoyancy organs of marine organisms remain at their original size, they will not be enough. I'm afraid that only by swimming upward with all your strength can you ensure that you are at a relatively shallow depth..."

It is precisely because of this that even if the ocean is rich in biological resources, Yawgmoth does not think that many animals can survive the mass extinction.

"Not being able to float" is a fatal flaw. For floating plants, this means sinking to the bottom of the ocean, out of reach of sunlight. For animals, low temperature, high pressure, and lack of food are equally fatal.

Unless there is manual intervention, things like the size of the cavity in the animal's body and the proportion of fat are adjusted first.

Alternatively, some marine organisms with large populations can rely on their stronger damage resistance after benchmarking to forcibly withstand the damage caused by the deeper oceans, and then spend more energy swimming upward every day, desperately eating those artificial creatures in the shallower layers. Modified plankton.

Perhaps three hundred years of virus-catalyzed mutation plus natural selection can preserve a few small fish and shrimps... and squid.

But those marine artiodactyls are too difficult. These creatures work hard just to breathe.

During the No. 1 infection incident, the animal protectionists who desperately tried to save the whales also considered this. Yawgmoth tweaked the whale's genes to make it easier for the baseline whale to accumulate lipids. At the same time, they also plan to use a prosthetic swim bladder to provide buoyancy for the whale, or to lay artificial gills on the surface of the whale. In addition, considering that whales have extremely high intelligence, they also considered teaching whales to "help each other". When the young whales are not strong yet, the mature whales who have undergone prosthetic transformation will help them to breathe on the surface.

But this package plan may not be completed in the end. As the flames of war spread into space at an incredible speed, the battle between the first generation of knights and the thieves left the earth. Yawgmoth also joined the battle and rebelled at the end of the battle.

This is an unfinished business.

Xiangshan didn't think the whale could really survive. Without human help, the whales would not even be able to breathe on their own.

It is said that there are "language" and "cultural" differences between groups of killer whales similar to those of primitive humans, but this may not be enough for them to survive that man-made disaster.

Moreover, there is no description of this aspect in the literature of the Scientific Research Knights.

No one knows these things exist.

But...if...

Metal-based transformation will further increase the transmission speed of nerve signals and enhance the thinking ability of organisms.

Maybe humans are already smart enough, or maybe most people are not yet able to control such a powerful brain without training...

But for those creatures that are approaching a certain tipping point...

There was an emotion that drove him to check it out.

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Hikasi held half of the squid in her mouth and swam quickly. The tongues of marine creatures flexibly expand and contract to sweep away the inner threads of soft-bodied creatures in their mouths. The color of the skin of molluscs changes in an inexplicable and regular manner, and it does not seem to be a simple near-death reaction.

But Hikasi couldn't see clearly.

By human standards, all dolphins are short-sighted. Dolphins quite understand this. Tools that humans use to measure distances, such as rulers, are almost useless.

But dolphins also have dolphin senses of their own. In water, sound waves are much more convenient than light.

Unfortunately, dolphins have no sense of "color changes".

Hikasi sucked hard the delicious juice in her mouth. She hasn't eaten in a long time. The fish that exist now are so small that it would be difficult for bottlenose dolphins to catch such small fish. And the resources are not enough, so the dolphins are completely prosthetic and completely rely on electricity to survive.

They only made the most basic modifications, using an independent battery to replenish energy for the central nervous system. This relieved the pressure somewhat. But dolphins are not humans after all, and their bodies also need to be worshipped.

In recent decades, dolphins from distant places have discovered this brand-new creature in the sea - humans call it "squid" and "squid". For hungry dolphins, this is a rare prey. It's a pity that this kind of thing is too rare, and humans always persuade dolphins not to eat them to extinction, so the dolphins keep suppressing their appetite.

But Hikasi was really hungry.

After eating only half of the squid, the torture coming from his stomach became clearer.

Just a little clearer head.

Only then did Hikasi realize that before she lost her mind and rushed out, there seemed to be something else around the squid...

"Is it a human?" Hikasi thought: "Judging from the shape, it is very different from the humans that have appeared in the past, very unlike..."

"But what if it's a human?"

"It's over, we have to hide from the humans outside..."