Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 322 Bionic Reference for the Hailan Fish Boat: Hailan Fish

While testing various boat-shaped soul tools, Tang San unexpectedly discovered more than twenty super-large soul tools resembling aircraft carriers in Gu Yuena's Golden Rope Treasure Pouch, named: Vast Ocean Sky Boat.

Each ship could be considered a sea fortress, capable of housing the population of a small town.

"Just how powerful was the Golden Civilization before it was destroyed?" Yu Tianheng's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets when he saw the enormous Vast Ocean Ship.

Gu Yuena was in no better shape, after all, the size of the Vast Ocean Sky Ship was almost the same as her original body.

Golden Civilization...

This already destroyed kingdom, in a much more distant era, truly defeated the Dragon God who had not yet attained the divine titles of Creation and Destruction... Gu Yuena had no further doubt about this.

After putting away the Vast Ocean Sky Boat, Tang San said to Gu Yuena, "Bring out the Ocean Wave Fish Boat. This Vast Ocean Sky Boat is too big; it can't fit in the Dark River."

Gu Yuena nodded obediently, took out the Hailan Fishing Boat, and infused it with soul power, transforming it into a small fishing boat about twenty meters long.

It's sizzling!

The side cover opened, and the four people filed in. The cover then closed automatically, and they slowly descended.

Tang San sat in the driver's seat at the front, gripped the steering wheel-like instrument, and steered the boat upstream. He found that the speed was not slow at all. The oncoming water was repelled by the soul guidance patterns on the Hailan Fish Boat, and with the help of the water flow, the speed of progress was even faster.

"As expected, it utilizes the structure of the Sea-Lan Fish." Tang San used his spiritual power to sense the water flow around the Sea-Lan Fish boat and couldn't help but admire, "The research and production of soul tools are essentially bionics."

"Bionics?" Gu Yuena asked, puzzled.

"It's about inventing and creating things by imitating the characteristics of plants and animals, not limited to soul tools, but also including all kinds of things made by humans," Tang San explained to Gu Yuena. "Didn't you memorize the description of this Sea Wave Fish Boat? It's an invention and creation based on the shape and some structures of the Sea Wave Fish."

"The Sea-Sea Fish is a very weak soul beast, with almost none reaching the thousand-year level. For most sea soul beasts and a small number of land soul beasts, this soul beast is a delicacy."

"But it also has an advantage that other soul beasts don't have, namely, it lays a lot of eggs every year when it reproduces. A mature female sea bream can lay nearly 10,000 eggs at a time."

"Similar to a soul beast called the Iron-Toothed Fish in this endless desert, it abandoned power and chose survival, and even more thoroughly."

Gu Yuena pouted, "Then what's the use of such a soul beast? It just gets eaten anyway, doesn't it?"

"Yes, they were eaten, but thanks to their numerical advantage, the Sea Lan Fish species might still exist in tens of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions of years. Other powerful soul beasts, especially dragons, phoenixes, and unicorns, are no longer seen or have even become extinct," Tang San said calmly. "From the perspective of species survival and reproduction, the Sea Lan Fish have evolved very successfully. At least, they existed when the Golden Civilization was still prosperous and have continued to this day."

Gu Yuena was startled and suddenly realized that if she only wanted soul beasts to survive and reproduce, it wasn't that difficult; she just needed to give up becoming powerful.

But how can a soul beast give up on evolution?

What is the purpose of evolution?

survive.

But once they possess wisdom, how could they merely strive for survival? They will inevitably pursue higher, faster, and stronger goals!

"Suddenly, I realized that this world is full of contradictions." Gu Yuena began to think about things from a philosophical perspective.

"Snap out of it." Tang San pulled her back. "I hope you think things through, but don't overthink it. That's not a good thing for someone like you whose values ​​aren't fully developed yet."

Psychological age has little to do with how many years one has actually lived.

Tang San just hoped that she wouldn't be too fixated on the distinction between soul beasts and humans. After all, soul beasts weren't even a large race, and different kinds of soul beasts couldn't be of one mind.

Moreover, he felt that those ferocious beasts that could transform into human form were also deceiving themselves.

Even if it wasn't a true transformation, once it took human form, its physical body was no different from a human's. Apart from being able to transform back into a beast, what aspect of its body couldn't be described as human?

Don't tell him that the internal organs of that enormous beast form are the same size as the organs inside that two or three-meter-tall humanoid form... It's impossible to even think about it.

However, from this perspective, a ferocious beast that has survived a tribulation should have mastered the conversion between matter and energy... But Tang San felt that they themselves didn't understand how it happened; they only knew that the beast could transform into human form and use it instinctively...

"snort!"

Gu Yuena snorted coldly, then asked, "Weren't we talking about bionics? How did we get onto the topic of the sea snail?"

"High reproduction rate is just one characteristic of the sea snail. The reason for this is that they breed in freshwater rivers." Tang San explained the breeding process of the sea snail, which has similar habits to salmon. "Sea snails usually live in the ocean. During the breeding season, they swim in groups against the current of the major rivers that flow into the ocean, returning to the calm freshwater rivers where they mate and reproduce."

"The flow rate of major rivers flowing into the sea is much faster than that of this underground river. Even sea spirit beasts that are over ten thousand years old would find it difficult to go against the current for a very long distance."

"But these sea bream, which live for at most a hundred years, can swim upstream in large groups. Even a ten-year-old sea bream can achieve what even a ten-thousand-year-old sea spirit beast cannot do."

"Moreover, this journey covers nearly ten thousand miles—"

"A book in the Papal Palace called 'Tales of the Soul Beasts of Mountains and Rivers' records: In early January, along the coast of the East China Sea, the Sea Fish swam upstream against the current, vast and mighty, like a silver dragon. After two months, they swam thousands of miles to spawn in the Lingyuan River. The fish eggs were delicious... cough, that's another story."

"The reason why the Sea Wave Fish can swim against the current, which even a ten-thousand-year-old sea spirit beast cannot do, is because the body shape of this spirit beast is a flat triangular cone. The current flowing against them, flowing from their body surface, becomes a propulsive force rather than a resistance to their progress."

"In addition, it has three pairs of fins, which allow it to manipulate water flow, further accelerating its upstream swimming speed."

"This Sea Wave Fish Boat borrows these two characteristics of the Sea Wave Fish, making its shape biomimetic, and then engraving soul guide patterns with water attributes."

Gu Yuena was deeply moved. She had never imagined that the soul beast Hailan Fish, which she had never paid attention to and could be used as food, would have such great abilities.

In order to survive and reproduce, they abandoned the evolution towards becoming stronger, and instead evolved super reproductive abilities, as well as a body shape that allows them to swim upstream and fins that are mainly used to control water flow.

If a sea bream could reach the level of 100,000 years, its ability to manipulate water currents would probably be more exquisite than that of the Silver Dragon King.

(End of this chapter)