This Game is Too Real

  Chapter 681 He and His Children

  As the Union Institute of Biological Research originally guessed, the forests in the Baiyue Province are the children of "Gaia" and the earth.

  The forest here does not just refer to the trees in the forest.

   Also includes flowers and plants, insects and birds, birds and beasts, and even humans who once lived here.

  The brood that landed on this land opened up its own gene pool, and at the same time endowed all creatures on this land with the ability to exchange genetic material with each other.

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

   Instead, under the framework of natural selection unique to the earth, the best gene fragments and the arrangement and combination of fragments stand out from the evolution, and flourish in the extreme natural selection and continuous trial and error.

  It only took them two centuries to complete the path that the earth's ecosystem would have taken 2 million or 20 million years to go—or even impossible to walk at all.

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

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

   “…this is fusion?”

   I mean that route is weak. In fact, the most buggy ascension route in the entire game starts with that one.

   "What about the people here? They also had that fusion... fusion of DNA of a different species?"

   Equivalent to buffs all over the body!

"In particular, the method of gene transmission is not just the way of reproduction... Let's take the example below the earth to illustrate. Bad, smelt and herring are two related hot water fish, but herring The antifreeze protein gene appeared in the latter gene sequence, which is what you call the horizontal transfer of genes."

  As for why their footprints have traveled thousands of stars, or why they lost their original appearance, it is just that the pursuit of both parties is the same.

  The situation shown by Planet Liying is nothing like a "cross-species compatible" civilization.

"Oh, by the way, are they researching how to use slime molds in the construction field recently? Might as well try this biological self-healing material, whether it is suitable for other previous situations. As for the utilization rate High land, if you want to keep the original ecology of the forest—"

   "It's the same as when you were in Qingquan City. You reclaimed the land and then contracted it to you to plant. As long as nothing grows underground, there should be a problem, right?"

  "A piece of imperial bamboo grass," Li Yingli looked at the blade of grass under my hands, and continued, "You found a DNA fragment of human mitochondria in the mitochondria of the sliced ​​cells of a sample of imperial bamboo grass."

  A river separates the rats, with mountains on one side and forests on the other. The river dried up a million years ago, and the two waves of rats met again, and reproductive isolation occurred between them, which can be regarded as degenerating into the same species. It cannot even be said that "isolation" is a necessary condition for the generation of new species.

   "'disappeared' in degeneration, or merged, and became an existence in the form of another self..."

   is over-simultaneously relative, with the side effect of causing the player's racial interface to become a messy palette.

   At that moment, Lao Bai, who had been digging into a dead end just now, suddenly interjected.

   Fang Chang said with a wry smile.

   "Where are the people left here?"

  Looking at the stunned two people, Chen Yutong said in a loud voice.

  And that is also the reason why the evolution of life on the earth basically showed a "branch shape" and extended upwards before passing through the early microbial stage.

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

   "It should be no accident. There are not as many survivors in this area as in Qingquan City, but there must be some people who stayed."

   "He handed the earth a key to unlock your degenerating locks."

   "Is there no solution?"

  Li Yingli continued to speak patiently.

  In addition, that piece of land does not have the buff of "growth speed +n%", and the soil fertility seems to be ridiculously low. If you do it badly, you can harvest eight or seven periods a year.

   "In addition, the 'self-healing' they observed later is actually based on the principles you said later."

  There isn’t an ascension talent out there that I’ve been looking for a lot. It’s called "cross-species compatibility", which also starts from the first paragraph of "genetic ascension".

   "But that's going to introduce genes out there and make things easier there—"

"Actually, in the past two centuries, no alien species has left that forest, and no new species has joined and retreated. Some ethnic groups have thrived in that rainforest, and some ethnic groups have contributed their DNA to escape from the rainforest. Disappear."

  As if guessing that I would ask that question, Chen Yutong patiently explained.

  Chen Yutong nodded again.

  Old Bai nodded.

  The stars in the world have only one color, and all civilizations are keen to expand their territories.

   After taking the blade of grass, Lao Bai looked at you with comprehension.

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

   "But...how did that happen?"

Why bother?

   "Then bear low maintenance costs right?"

   And their poems have not been written in the past years-that is, this being that the human colonists call the hive.

  The colonists sent Gaia carrying this poem back to Earth, and Gaia scattered in Baiyue Province is an excerpt from that poem.

  Fang Chang was stunned, and suddenly realized that he asked a very stupid question, ignoring the order of magnitude gap between the variable and the overall.

   "It must have left that forest?"

   "What can I do?"

   "That's not a brood."

"That is?"

  Human mitochondria? !

  However, if you take a close look at it, this is not the beehive that abnormal people understand, but thousands of beehives are one!

"Yes."

  From a macro perspective, money is just a tool to balance logistics profit and loss and market supply and demand. The damage caused by a negative asset is only a shortfall under the financial report, and it will also cause a small amount of manpower and material resources to be wasted on meaningful things.

   After a pause, you looked at Fang Chang who was thinking.

   (Thanks to the leader of "Sarayago" for the reward!!)

  Chen Yutong nodded.

   "There is also a way."

  This civilization, which has not yet dissolved into the tangible, may be lower than human imagination.

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

"According to the relevant literature of the era of prosperity, it is only fish, and similar situations exist in reptiles, birds, and mammals. Therefore, until the post-war period, the general view in the academic community is that the evolution of life is not a classic In the shape of a tree, there have always been a large number of thin and large silk threads between some branches."

  Fang Chang asked immediately.

   Fang Chang frowned slightly.

   "So... you guys are now joining the honorable degradation?"

   Even if the BUFF is stacked to the sky, the AI ​​with well-developed brains outside the game is still the player's opponent.

  Old Bai frowned slightly and asked.

"From an abstract point of view, that forest is equivalent to a 'mother nest' that superimposes the natural laws of the earth and develops to the primary stage. All creatures in the entire rainforest are fruiting bodies, and the sum total is an abstract 'Gaia' '...As for the most primitive and specific Li Ying, you are still looking for it."

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

  He is all, and all is he.

  In the eyes of the insiders, we are a unified consciousness.

   It is known that the CPU of the most advanced computer will dry out, but if the CPU of the human brain has to dry out.

"Maybe it's a wrong idea to keep the original ecological style as much as possible. In fact, it is also necessary to make all settlements the same. If you consider exploring a model suitable for the development of Baiyue Province? That is the only suggestion you can give gone."

   "Is this the area that is always active?"

   Perhaps no civilization was born to build a spectacle, or write a poem.

   "Anything will happen, just like the survivors who left the rainforest and fled to the island, the part of the gene we took away is to participate in the degradation of the rainforest."

  I believe that horses and donkeys can mate, but ants and trees, spiders and cockroaches... How can those strange combinations get together? !

   "But... are the survivors in the southern sea still bad? You also feel that we are no different from you."

   "That is also the question you are studying, including why the forest is limited to this province, but has it spread to other places... Don't be too slow."

  Any interbreeding hybrids of the same species will regress with other hybrids, and the images and names will end up being weird.

  Chen Yutong nodded, and looked at the dense rainforest ahead.

  Fang Chang vaguely felt that I seemed to be approaching the truth of the Eight Years War—the main thread of "Wasteland OL" since the service was opened.

  For some reason, they have achieved cross-species integration, and they have also integrated the organisms under the entire planet into one body in the smooth and blocked gene exchange.

   Besides, the rainforest just became like that today. Have you seen anything new?

   While talking, Chen Yutong squatted on the ground, picked a leaf of yellow bamboo grass from the side of the road, and handed it to my hands before getting up.

  Chen Yutong looked at me and said.

"The degeneration of individuals and the development of populations are two different things in the same dimension. Faced with the extremely deteriorating natural environment, some people chose to leave, while others chose to stay. The survivors in the southern seas just left That part of the population, we were participating in the degradation that happened in that rainforest before."

   Therefore, a small number of players will click until the end, and the first paragraph of "Jifei" is stuck, so as to maintain the purity of the species and their own sense of substitution.

   That time when Laobai changed his mind, he pressed the center of his eyebrows with a headache.

   Fang Chang asked with a headache.

  I touched my forehead with my left hand, and I said with a smile.

   What's more, it takes four years of compulsory education.

  —

  Fang Chang looked at you dumbfounded, feeling that he understood completely, but it seemed that he understood a little bit.

   "That's right... That idea is wrong. In fact, it's not as bad as you think. It's not right to replace these flowers and plants with cash crops."

  Looking at the bewildered expression on my face, Chen Yutong raised his index finger and pressed the center of his eyebrows, and said rather helplessly.

Because once cross-species compatibility is unlocked, it means that players cannot operate through a series of war crimes, such as permanently placing two creatures with the same traits on the same planet, forcing us to regressively hybridize, and the newly born hybrids A positive trait will be inherited from the parents, and it is limited by the lower limit of genetic improvement and cannot be stacked indefinitely.

  Seeing my worried expression, Lao Bai shrugged helplessly.

   "...How on earth did that kind of thing happen." Lao Bai was still scratching his head in confusion, thinking over and over again the question that I thought would make sense.

  Don’t talk about metabolites, we only have one or two corpses left outside the forest, what can a few cotton seeds count?

   A small number of biology textbooks and popular science books will mention such a complex model when explaining the concepts related to geographical isolation and reproductive isolation.

  Chen Yutong's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly.

  Old Bai glanced at the Yue Clan people in the eastern camp, and continued.

  The infrastructure expenditure of Potato Fries Port is entirely paid by Baiyue Strait Development Co., Ltd. The alliance finance may pay for the road construction expenses of Potato Chips Port. I have to consider the balance of payments casually.

"Yes, the genes you carry will also retreat into that forest in some form. There are microorganisms everywhere that will decompose your feces, hair, and even your remains. Those are one of the ways to retreat. It is a process That’s the integration at the macro level, and at the micro level, as long as you are eaten by the alien species there and turned into urine, you will disappear in that rainforest.”

   "...we've been there for so long, does he think there's still one or two chromosomes missing?"

  That reminds me of a game I once played called Stellaris.

  Both Lao Bai and Fang Chang had surprised expressions on their faces.

"...For the time being, you still have no way to trace the source of the DNA fragment that originally belonged to humans. How did it migrate to the emperor bamboo grass? Maybe it migrated through the food chain, maybe it was bridged by some kind of intermediate microorganism, or neither. Before that During your investigation, you found similar situations under the bodies of mutated spiders, lizards, and even snails...their bodies have neither human nor other components of my species."

   And it was just a question of money.

  I haven’t given up on understanding the settings in the game from a scientific point of view. If I use the settings of the game to understand it, my thinking will open up instead.

   "Temporarily develop the area we are going to, how about planting some cold zone crops to occupy the area first? Such as rubber, cotton, etc... Do you remember that some low-yield cotton seeds were produced outside the shelter after a long time?"

  Standing aside, Lao Bai couldn't help asking.

  The general view in the field of biology is that the horizontal transfer of genes is unique to microorganisms, and most of them occur between eukaryotes.

  Old Bai stared at her blankly.

   "In that low-level 'involution' environment, once a physical vacuum area appears, it will be quickly occupied by other species."

  Chen Yutong looked at me helplessly and said.

"And what the mother nest does is to turn those silk threads that originally played only a small role in biological evolution into bridges between species and species, so that the original tree-shaped life evolution pattern on the earth, It has become a 'net' similar to Li Yingxia."

"makes sense…"

   "The lock from which all things degenerate."

"That's... there is a way," Chen Yutong made a helpless expression, "Let's not talk about your gathering place, it's not the Shilong City that existed later, it can also block that kind of extraordinary natural force." With the erosion of force, the creatures there must be wasted a little bit, and they should try their best to use the land that has been opened up, which is worse."

   Seeing my desperate expression, Chen Yutong felt a little helpless, but still said patiently.

   Players only need to repeat the operation several times tirelessly, and finally they can create a super species that is compatible with all the positive characteristics in the game!

   "...you can probably guess what he was thinking, reproductive isolation between species and species, right?"

   When it comes to that, you suddenly think of something.

  Although I don't understand biology, I have received four years of compulsory education.

"The unimpeded exchange of genes between species, and the continuous selection of more advanced species in natural selection, where organisms are either plants or animals, producers or consumers in the food chain, They all have extremely strong vitality and the ability to accumulate nutrients... because they must be like that, they will soon become the cannon fodder that contributes a few sets of codes and then disappears."

   Yet you tell me that the isolation between species has been broken? !

Not many players will get the intermediate product of my mixed blood under a planet before the ultimate goal is achieved—nor get this super creature with thousands of buffs in one body, and put the vassals to declare war colossus to charge in one go. chug off.

Chen Yutong: "Actually, it's a bad solution, as long as you keep occupying the area, for example, the land on his feet, because no one passes by often, so the grass grows too lush, and the cement can last for a long time. For a long time, the relative maintenance cost may be lower than other places.”

   Then how did you do it? !

  (end of this chapter)