Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 845 Dolphins
The speed of that dolphin was really too fast—in other words, the movement of Xiangshan's prosthetic body under the water was too slow.Although the Driller has designed the buoyancy device as close as possible to hydrodynamics, this prosthetic body, which is mainly used for road combat, cannot explode at super high speed in the sea.

It is not impossible to forcibly inhale seawater and then heat it up and spray it out, but some weak points of the prosthetic body may not be able to hold it, and in this shallow sea, the movement of doing so is too loud, and it is easy to attract the power of the asylum.

After chasing hundreds of meters to the mountain, the dolphin fled farther and farther.

Xiang Shan stopped in the sea with complicated thoughts.

"Senior?" The original hearer's signal came.Several other people were sitting in the vehicle and could only share what Xiang Shan 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 clearly what that big thing was.

Xiang Shan said: "It's not right, it's definitely not right. Put other things aside...let's go and track that dolphin..."

"Senior?" Yuan Wenren was a little different, "Why did you suddenly change your mind?"

"It is impossible for dolphins to survive in a purely wild state." Xiang Shan said in a low voice, "Dolphins are marine mammals that breathe by lungs...the natural lungs cannot directly absorb the oxygen in seawater..."

"what?"

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

"However, after standardization, metal-based proteins will suddenly increase the overall density of organisms by a few percentage points, and land animals such as humans cannot float at all. If the buoyancy organs of those marine organisms are still the original size, they will not be enough at all. I am afraid that only by swimming upwards with all our strength can we ensure that we are at a relatively shallow depth..."

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

"Unable to float" is a fatal injury.For floating plants, that means sinking to the ocean floor, out of sunlight.For animals, low temperature, high pressure, and lack of food are equally fatal.

Unless there is human intervention, go ahead and adjust the size of the cavity in the animal's body, the proportion of fat and so on.

Or, some marine organisms with a huge population can rely on the stronger damage resistance ability after benchmarking to forcibly withstand the damage caused by the deeper ocean, and then spend more energy to swim upward every day, desperately eating those artificial creatures in the shallow layer. Modified plankton.

Maybe 300 years of virus-catalyzed mutation plus natural selection can keep a little bit of small fish and shrimp... and squid.

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

In the No. [-] infection incident, those animal protectionists tried their best to save the whales, and they also considered this point.Yawgmoth tweaked the whales' genes to make the benchmarked whales more likely to accumulate lipids.At the same time, they also plan to use the prosthetic swim bladder to provide buoyancy for the whale, or lay artificial gill prostheses on the whale's body surface.In addition, considering that whales have extremely high intelligence, they also considered teaching whales to "mutually help". When the strength of young whales is not strong, adult whales that have undergone prosthetic transformation will entrust them to breathe on the surface of the water.

But this package plan should not be completed in the end.As the flames of war burned into space at an incredible speed, the battle between the first generation of knights and kleptocrats left the earth.Yawgmoth also threw himself into that battle and defected at the end of that battle.

It's an unfinished business.

Xiang Shan didn't think the whale could really survive either.Without human help, the whales would not even know how to breathe on their own.

I heard that there will be "language" and "cultural" differences similar to primitive humans among killer whale groups, but this may not be enough for them to survive the man-made disaster.

Moreover, there has never been a description in this regard in the documents of the Scientific Research Knights.

Nobody knew these things existed.

But... if...

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

Maybe humans are smart enough, or maybe most people can't control such a powerful brain without training...

However, for those creatures who are approaching a certain tipping point...

An emotion drove him to check it out.

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Hikashi was swimming quickly with half of the squid in her mouth.The tongue of the sea creature stretches flexibly, rolling away the inner line of the mollusk in the mouth.Mollusk skin color changes inexplicably and regularly, and it seems that it is not a simple near-death reaction.

But Shikashi couldn't see clearly.

All dolphins are nearsighted by human standards.Dolphins are quite aware of this.The tools that humans use to measure distance, such as rulers, are almost useless.

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

It's a pity that dolphins' senses are really insensitive to "color changes".

Hikashi sucked the delicious juice in her mouth hard.She hasn't eaten for a long time.The fish that exist today are simply too small for bottlenose dolphins to catch such small fish.And the resources are not enough. The dolphins are completely prosthetic and rely entirely on electricity to survive.

They have only done the most basic modification, using an independent battery to supplement 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 enshrined.

In recent decades, dolphins from far away have discovered this brand-new creature in the sea-humans call it "squid" and "calamari".This is rare prey for hungry dolphins.It's a pity that this kind of thing is too rare, and humans always persuade dolphins not to eat them to become extinct, so the dolphins have been suppressing their appetite.

But Hikashi was just too hungry.

After eating half a squid, the torture from the stomach became clearer.

Just a little more clear-headed.

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

"Is it a human being?" Hikashi thought: "From the shape, it is too different from the human beings that appeared in the past, very unlike..."

"But what if it's a human?"

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

(End of this chapter)