This Game Is Too Realistic

Just as the Alliance Biological Research Institute initially speculated, the forest in Baiyue Province was the child of "Gaia" and the earth.

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

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

After landing on this land, the Echao opened its own gene pool, giving all creatures on this land the ability to exchange genetic material with each other.

Of course, this kind of exchange is not an irregular and random migration.

Rather, under the unique natural selection framework of the earth, the best gene fragments and the permutations and combinations between fragments stand out from the competition, and are carried forward in the ultimate natural selection and constant trial and error.

It only took them two centuries to complete the journey of the earth's ecological system, which originally required 2 million 㹓 or 20 million 㹓 to go - or even not possible at all.

The rustling of leaves and the chirping of insects can be heard 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.

"...Is this fusion?"

Chen Yutong nodded.

Standing aside, Old Man couldn't help but ask.

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

Chen Yutong nodded again.

"Not surprisingly, it should be 㱕. There are not as many 㱕 survivors in this area as in Qingquan City, but there must be some who have stayed."

Lao Ji looked at her blankly.

"But... aren't the survivors in the southern sea still doing well? We don't feel any difference between them and us."

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

"The advancement of individuals and the advancement of populations are two different things in different dimensions. Faced with the extremely harsh natural environment, some people choose to leave and some choose to stay. And those survivors in the southern seas only It’s just the people who left, and they will no longer participate in the progress in this rainforest.”

Lao Ji frowned slightly and asked.

"What about the people left behind?"

"During the process, it 'disappeared' or was merged into other forms of existence..."

As he spoke, Chen Yutong squatted on the ground and gently picked a yellow bamboo grass leaf from the roadside. After standing up, he handed it to his hand.

Taking the blade of grass, Lao Jin looked at her puzzled.

"This is it?"

"A piece of bamboo grass," Chen Yutong looked at the grass leaf in his hand and continued, "We found fragments of human mitochondrial DNA in the mitochondria of the sliced ​​cells of a sample of emperor bamboo grass."

Human mitochondria? !

Both Lao Yi and Fang Changyi had expressions of surprise on their faces.

How the hell do you do this? !

"...We are currently unable to trace how this DNA fragment originally belonging to humans migrated to the Emperor Bamboo Grass. Maybe it migrated through the food chain, maybe it was bridged by some kind of intermediate microorganism, or both. And since then During the investigation, we soon found similar situations in mutant spiders, lizards, and even snails... They have elements of humans and other species. "

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

"This is Gaia."

"He handed the earth a key and unlocked our door."

"Everything enters the lock."

Fang Chang stared at her dumbfounded, feeling that he didn't understand at all, but he seemed to understand a little.

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

There is an ascension talent that he should click on called "Cross-species Compatibility", which is the last part of "Gene Ascension".

It’s not that this route is not strong, in fact it is the buggiest 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 continuously placing two creatures with different characteristics on a planet and forcing them to interbreed, so that hybrids can be born. He will pick a positive trait from his father to inherit, and it is not limited by the upper limit of genetic improvement, and can be stacked infinitely.

Players only need to take the trouble to repeat the operation a few times, and eventually they can create a super species that is compatible with all the positive traits in the game!

It’s like having buffs all over your body!

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

Hybrids of random species will breed with each other and with other hybrids, and the images and names will eventually become bizarre.

I don’t know whether the computer’s CPU will eventually burn out, but the human brain’s CPU will definitely burn out.

Why bother?

Even if the BUFFs are not stacked up to the sky, the AIs in the game with underdeveloped cerebellums are no match for the players.

Therefore, most players will click 㳔 until the last part of "Ji Fei" is stuck without clicking, in order to maintain the purity of the species and their own sense of belonging.

There are also a few players who will, after achieving the ultimate goal - that is, after obtaining the super creature that combines thousands of buffs, put other mixed-blood intermediate products on a planet, place the vassal declaration of war on the colossus, and charge them all in one go. Chug tug off.

The situation displayed by the planet Gaia is a bit like "cross-species compatibility".

For some reason, they not only achieved cross-species compatibility, but also integrated all organisms on the planet into one through unhindered genetic exchange.

In the eyes of outsiders, they are a unified consciousness.

However, if you look closely, you will see that it is not a single honeycomb as ordinary people understand it, but thousands of honeycombs all integrated into one!

He is all-in-one and all-in-one.

The text that has been dissolved into the invisible may be higher than what humans can imagine.

As for why their footprints have not traveled across thousands of stars, or why they have lost their original appearance, it is just a matter of pursuit by both parties.

The stars in the sky are not of only one color, and not all writers are keen on expanding their territories.

Maybe some writers were born to build a wonder, or write a poem.

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

The colonists sent the poem "Chao" to the earth, and the "Chao" scattered in Baiyue Province is an excerpt from this poem.

Fang Chang vaguely felt that he seemed to be close to the truth of the Three War - "Wasteland OL" had laid a clue since the server was launched.

Looking at Chen Yutong, Lao Yi still had an expression of incomprehension.

"But...how to do this?"

A common view in the biological community is that horizontal gene transfer is unique to microorganisms and rarely occurs between eukaryotes.

And this is also the reason why the evolution of life on Earth basically extended downwards in a "tree-fork shape" after passing through the early microbial stage.

A river separated the rats, with mountains on one side and forests on the other. After a million miles, the river dried up. The two waves of rats met again, and reproductive isolation occurred between them, which can be regarded as separate species. . It can even be said that "isolation" is a necessary condition for the creation of species.

Most biology textbooks and popular science books will 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 didn't know much about physics, he had received nine years of compulsory education.

What's more, this doesn't involve nine years of compulsory education.

He believed that horses and donkeys could make a good match, but how on earth could these strange combinations of ants and trees, spiders and cockroaches come together? !

Seeing the confused expression on his face, Chen Yutong raised his index finger and pressed his eyebrows, and said somewhat helplessly.

"...I can probably guess what you are thinking. Is reproductive isolation between species correct?"

Lao Bai nodded.

"Yes."

Chen Yutong continued patiently.

"Generally speaking, this is the case, but reproduction is not the only way of gene transmission... Let's take an example from Earth to illustrate. Smelt and herring are two unrelated cold-water fish, but herring's resistance The frozen protein gene appears in the former's gene sequence. This situation is called water migration of the gene. "

"According to relevant literature from the Age of Prosperity, a similar situation exists not only in fish, but also in reptiles, birds, and mammals. Therefore, as of before the war, the common view in the academic community is that the evolution of life is not classic. In the shape of a tree, there are always a few tiny threads sticking between some branches.”

"What Gaia has done is to turn these threads, which originally played only a small role in the evolution of animals, into bridges between species, allowing the earth's original tree-like life to evolve. The graphics have become similar to the 'net' on Gaia."

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

"So...we have now entered a glorious evolution?"

Chen Yutong nodded and looked towards the airtight rainforest in the distance.

"Yes, the genes we carry will also enter this forest in some form. The ubiquitous microorganisms will decompose our feces, hair, and even human remains. These are one of the ways to enter. But this It’s integration at the macro level, and at the micro level, as long as we don’t get eaten and turned into shit by the alien species here, we won’t disappear from this rainforest.”

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

"What if we leave this forest?"

Chen Yutong looked at him and said.

"Nothing will happen. Just like the survivors who left the rainforest and fled to the island, the part of the genes they took away will no longer participate in the evolution of the rainforest."

"In fact, in the past two centuries, alien species have been leaving this forest, and new alien species have entered. Some ethnic groups have thrived in this rainforest, while some ethnic groups have contributed their own DNA and disappeared from the rainforest. ”

"From a simple point of view, this forest is equivalent to 'Gaia' which has superimposed the natural laws of the earth and developed to the primary stage. All the things in the entire rain forest are fruiting bodies, and the sum total of them is a desert. 'Mother's Nest'... As for the most primitive and specific mother's nest, we are still looking for it."

"...How on earth could such a thing be done?" Lao Bai was still scratching his head in confusion, thinking over and over again about this problem that he couldn't figure out even if he was dead or alive.

Seeing his confused expression, Chen Yutong was a little helpless, but he still said patiently.

"This is also an issue we are studying, including why this forest is limited to this province and has not spread to other places... Don't be too impatient."

After a pause, she looked at Fang Chang, who was deep in thought.

"In addition, the 'self-healing properties' you observed before are actually based on the principles I mentioned before."

“The unimpeded flow of genes between species, and the continuous selection of more powerful species through natural selection, the organisms here, whether they are plants or animals, whether they are producers or consumers in the food chain, all have extremely strong Their vitality and nutrient accumulation ability...because if not, they will soon become cannon fodder that disappears after contributing a few sets of codes."

"In such a highly 'involved' 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's easy to solve. Just maintain possession of the area. For example, the land under your feet cannot grow very lush grass because people often pass by it. Even if it is paved with cement, it can last for a long time." , but the relative maintenance costs may be higher than elsewhere.”

Fang Chang asked immediately.

“What if it’s an area that’s not very active?”

"Then... there is nothing we can do," Chen Yutong made a helpless expression, "Not to mention your gathering place, even the Shilong City that existed before, could not block this extraordinary nature. Due to the erosion of force, there is no room for any wastage of the resources here. It would be better for you to find ways to utilize the developed land as much as possible. "

Fang Chang said with a wry smile.

"And then bear the high maintenance fees, right?"

The infrastructure expenditure of Chipchi Port is entirely paid for by Baiyue Strait Development Co., Ltd. It is impossible for the alliance's finance to pay for the road construction expenses of Chipchi Port. It must carefully consider the issue of balance of payments.

And it's not just about money.

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 not only a shortfall in financial reporting, but also a large amount of wastage of manpower and material resources on meaningless things.

Chen Yutong looked at him helplessly and said.

"It may be a good idea to keep the original style and style as much as possible. In fact, there is no need to make all settlements the same. Why not consider exploring a model suitable for the development of Baiyue Province? This is what I can give Only suggestion.”

When she said this, she suddenly thought of something else.

"Ah, by the way, haven't you recently been studying how to utilize slime mold in the construction field? You might as well try that kind of biological self-repairing material, maybe it will be suitable for the special situation here. As for the land with low interest rate , it’s better to keep the forest as it is—”

At this moment, Lao Bai, who had been trying to get into trouble just now, suddenly spoke up and interrupted.

"It's not impossible."

Both of them looked at him involuntarily, and Fang Chang asked immediately.

"What can I do?"

"How about planting some tropical crops to occupy the area that cannot be developed for the time being? For example, rubber, cotton, etc... I remember that there were some high-yielding cotton seeds in the shelter a long time ago?"

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

"Just like in Qingquan City, we reclaimed the land and contracted it to them for planting. As long as there is something growing on the ground, it should be fine, right?"

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

Furthermore, this piece of land has the buff "Growth Speed ​​+n%", and the soil fertility seems to be ridiculously high, so maybe three or four crops can be harvested a year.

He has given up on understanding the settings in the game from a scientific perspective. It is better to understand the settings in the game, and his ideas will open up.

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

"Yes... this is a good idea. In fact, it is similar to what I thought. Just replace those flowers and plants with cash crops."

Fang Chang frowned slightly.

"But will doing so introduce genes here and make the situation here more complicated-"

Seeing the worried expression on his face, Lao Bai shrugged helplessly.

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

Fang Chang was stunned, and suddenly realized that he had asked a very stupid question, ignoring the order of magnitude difference between the variables and the overall value.

Not to mention metabolites, they just dumped more than one or two corpses in the forest. What are a few cotton seeds?

What's more, this rainforest didn't just become like this today. Is there anything new that I haven't seen before?

He touched his forehead with his right hand and said in a dumbfounded voice.

"That's right..."

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