Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 417 Monsters and Civilization (Please give me your monthly votes at the beginning of the month!)

Zhou Yi was shocked and quickly put the shell back into the energy block.

The shelter immediately merged into the solid light core body.

"what happened?"

Zhou Yi asked with concern: "What monster? Is the damage serious?"

"102 of our kind died."

Dong Shi said in a sad tone, "They are too ferocious and attack us crazily... We are not combat members and do not have combat tools. We cannot defeat them even if we try our best."

"There are endless monsters here. They are much bigger than us, stronger and more savage. They are unmoved by our friendly greetings and simply ram and hunt us."

"Mr. Jay, the world you live in is too terrible..."

After listening to its intermittent accusations, Zhou Yi finally understood what was going on.

Some cavemen tried to come out of their shelters because they took it for granted that the world here must be friendly and safe, just as Zhou Yi had shown.

As a result, they were besieged by local monsters as soon as they came out. Those monsters were much larger than them, ranging from 10 to 200 times their size, and their number seemed endless.

In fact, these monsters are plankton, which are microscopic life forms that ordinary people cannot see with their naked eyes.

Zhou Yi immediately called Da Vinci over and took some measurements of the cave dwellers' shelter.

"Chairman, this is a sealed object made of special materials. X-rays cannot penetrate it, so there is no way to know the specific structure inside."

"We found some very tiny lives on the surface of the shell-like shelter. They have no signs of life, but their bodies are fixed on the surface of the shell, and there is a strange force between them. I think these should be the dead cave people."

"The diameter of the caveman is about 0.3 micrometers, which is in the smallest bacterial size range and much smaller than a single cell."

"The plankton in our Dead Sea, including planktonic bacteria and planktonic eukaryotes, generally range in size from 0.5 to 100 microns in diameter. Cave people are extremely vulnerable, and they will become targets of attack and hunting by medium and large plankton."

The electromechanical doctor used a high-power microscope to show the appearance of the caveman.

They look like translucent tic-tac-toes, very thin, and can be connected to each other through four pairs of extended legs to form a stable combined structure.

"It is hard to imagine that this life form can not only create a civilization, but also master space technology."

Da Vinci continued, "With this fragile physiological structure, my existing database cannot deduce how they utilize high-density energy. Life is truly great and amazing!"

Zhou Yi asked: "Is there any device that can protect them? Like a cage that can block the plankton outside?"

"Yes. Plankton nets can do that. Our hospital purchased some before and has a small amount in stock."

"The net mouth has a minimum diameter, which can ensure that plankton from the outside cannot enter and can maintain air circulation."

Da Vinci went back to the hospital and got a few small cages and showed them to Zhou Yi.

Under the microscope, it can be clearly seen that the mesh indeed keeps all forms of plankton out, and they are unable to break through the dense mesh structure.

There are a lot of plankton in the Dead Sea, and they are generally large in size. But when you enter the land surrounded by the Dead Sea, the density of plankton suddenly decreases, just like going from a crowded subway to a sparsely populated country road.

In the cage, the cavemen emerged from the shell shelter and looked at this strange world.

"Mr. Jay, it's safe here. Thank you, thank you so much!" Dong said gratefully.

"fine."

Zhou Yi brought the net cage back to Emerald City and put a grain of wheat in it.

The Dong family responded strongly: "Amazing new life material! We have never seen this before. Its texture and structure are incredible. It contains unique and fascinating life information."

"We're trying to trade with it."

These words reminded Zhou Yi of the Boundary Breaker Haluk.

Haluk came here, and he was also very eager for all kinds of life on land, in order to obtain their DNA to help himself evolve to a stronger level.

It looks like cavemen had similar tendencies.

It took 1500 cavemen four days to completely decompose and digest this grain of wheat.

Dong said that after careful experimentation, they obtained a large amount of useful life substances, which were integrated and assembled into the bodies of each caveman, achieving a certain degree of evolution and growth.

"Great Jay, we hope to have contact with those monsters again."

Zhou Yi was curious: "Can you already defeat them?"

"If we rely purely on our own physical strength to collide with them, we have no chance of winning. But we must contact them, even if we have to fight for it. We need to exchange life information with them in order to achieve further growth and reproduction - their reproductive ability is as strong as that of monsters!"

Dong said: "Last time we came into contact with them, we found that they have a similar life form to us and are nearly the same species. They just took a different evolutionary path from us."

"Over generations, cavemen learned to make tools and transform the world so that fragile bodies could be safely contained."

"The close relatives here follow the most primitive principles of life, making themselves as strong as possible and reproducing as many offspring as possible. They continue in the simplest way."

"At the beginning, everyone in the shelter agreed that their monster route was foolish and absurd, and they hadn't even completed basic enlightenment."

"But after a period of in-depth discussion, everyone realized that this is not the case. They just took a different evolutionary path from us. Although we have the technical experience and accumulation that we are proud of, now we may only have this one shelter left."

Dong said in a serious tone: "Look at them again."

"In a world with such remarkable and majestic beings as you, they still exist, everywhere, and even in a diversity that we have never seen before. They are so diverse and can survive various environmental changes, not to mention their ability to reproduce at a rate that we cannot even begin to match."

"In this world, they are a more successful evolutionary direction than us."

“We chose the tools… or as you would say, built civilization.”

"They are monsters that embrace the purest essence of life and death."

"From the results, it can be seen that they are maintaining strong vitality. If nothing unexpected happens, they will continue to thrive. But we have been declining sharply for a long time, because more and more of our offspring are weak and necrotic. There are quite a few such individuals in the shelter."

"The new ones cannot make up for the number of deaths, and extinction has become inevitable." It said with some sadness: "We have the technology to change the world. We have created a large number of records and erected them all over the world as proof of our existence and prosperity, but we cannot transform ourselves and complete our continuation."

Zhou Yi talked to it and consulted Da Vinci, who was a doctor.

Leonardo da Vinci believed that the main reason was the abnormal living environment of the cave people.

In an era before trees and insects appeared, the only life forms in that world were cavemen.

This is both fortunate and unfortunate.

Fortunately, they are the natural masters of the world. They can complete the primitive accumulation of the entire group without worries, and eventually build up the brilliant civilization of cavemen from generation to generation.

Unfortunately, there is the problem of fertility.

They continued to reproduce, but they all intermarried, resulting in a large number of deformed children born to inbreeding. The longer the time, the more serious this phenomenon became.

"For life with simple structures, this is even more fatal," said Da Vinci. "A decrease in genetic diversity will weaken the population's ability to adapt to environmental stresses, such as changes in temperature and salinity, and increase the risk of extinction."

“High genetic similarity makes populations more susceptible to specific pathogens, leading to large-scale disease outbreaks.”

"Inbreeding may lead to reduced reproductive success and affect population numbers."

"The cave people want to come into contact with local plankton. This judgment and idea is correct. If we can exchange genes with local species and breed the next generation of cave people, we can fundamentally change the current predicament."

After hearing this scientific explanation, Zhou Yi felt relieved.

Da Vinci added: "But contact also needs to be gradual. Chairman, we can catch some smaller plankton and put a small amount into the cage."

Zhou Yi thought this was a good idea.

The specific operations were left to the professional Da Vinci.

It first put a planktonic bacterium into the cage.

After half a day.

Dong said excitedly: "We get along very well with it. Its close relatives on land are much gentler and more stable, and not as aggressive."

"It gets along well with us, and our kind have basically exchanged information with it."

This sentence means that mating has already occurred.

So Zhou Yi asked Da Vinci to increase his efforts.

As plankton were thrown into the cave one by one, the cave dwellers gradually became active.

"Zhou Dong, we have our first new member, a brand new caveman! This is a life born from the exchange and combination of us and the locals with similar species! This is a brand new moment worth remembering!"

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"These new generation cavemen are not much different from us, and they are very compatible with us. They are just a little more violent than us... We taught them basic knowledge, which has been recorded in the shelter. Fortunately, this part will not be forgotten."

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"Our numbers have increased tenfold!"

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"We reached 100 million individuals!"

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"Mr. Jay, we want to have contact with our own kind in the Dead Sea."

After seeking Leonardo da Vinci's opinion, Zhou Yi agreed.

"These monsters!! Still so crazy!! What a bunch of crazy beasts!"

"Damn it, don't think we're afraid of you! Brothers, kill them!"

"Kill them!"

After exchanging and reproducing with local plankton, the cavemen continued to renew their generations. Their group character also changed with the environment, no longer the timid and helpless ones who had lived in the greenhouse for a long time.

Now they are physically integrated with the local plankton and can be considered as part of the local community.

Zhou Yi pays attention to the latest situation in the cage every day and actively communicates with Dong.

one day.

Dong suddenly said, "Mr. Zhou, we want to challenge those plankton you raise. If we can integrate with local close relatives of this level, I think we can play a role."

"That way, we can not only repay your help, but also make ourselves stronger."

Zhou Yi took out an old-fashioned first-generation floating heart from stock and asked the Dong clan to send some of their people into it.

Four days later.

After testing, this floating heart was found to have an efficiency of 3 times that of the second generation heart!
Zhou Yi used a multi-band dead light reflector lamp to illuminate it and found that there was no green light inside, which meant that the plankton had not evolved to become stronger.

What's the situation?
Dong said proudly: "We have completed the information exchange with them, and a large number of new generations of cave people have been born. Now in the heart, we have actually become the dominant force."

"We use our innate structure to connect to each other, and we can release and transmit the energy we can generate with as little loss as possible."

"No waste! We can help you!"

Zhou Yi was shocked when he heard this.

Wouldn't that be...

Can the plankton in the heart be completely replaced by cavemen?

(End of this chapter)