"Genes, you're talking about blood, aren't you? genes...... The foundation of life, the cause of all spirits, it is really appropriate to use it to refer to the bloodline, and the future people will really be ahead of our group of old antiques. ”

"Peng Zu" praised meaninglessly, and then explained: "Actually, it shouldn't be as complicated as you think. This kind of thing is like breeding rice and livestock, good seeds can grow good rice, good livestock can give birth to good livestock, these are very normal evolutions.

We just pick out the good things for them in the process, and then put them together, constantly select the good ones, and create an excellent living environment for them.

Or change the environment, create extreme environments, and stimulate them with other things, so that they continue to evolve in order to adapt to the things around them. ”

It's the equivalent of forcing people to go in the direction you want. Although it didn't actively drag it to run, it was actually no different from being chased and run.

In this case, it is impossible not to evolve, because the species that have not evolved have become extinct, and if they want to survive, they must evolve to adapt to such external stimuli and changes.

The corners of Ouyang's eyes twitched, and he said in a somewhat strange tone, "It sounds so cumbersome." ”

The complexity of artificial breeding is definitely not as simple as Peng Zu said!

Take the artificially bred "Ragdoll cat" as an example, it took about 40 years to completely complete the breeding and become what people see today.

This is also because compared to humans, cats themselves have a shorter life cycle, and they are easier to bred.

And like trees, which often exist for hundreds or hundreds of years, if you want to cultivate a variety like the "brain of the plant", no matter how you look at it, only an existence like "God" can do it, right?

It's not rice, corn, bananas or anything, it grows and cuts a stubble, and the life cycle is almost equivalent to only one year, and maturity is equivalent to the end of the road.

"Artificial interference with evolution is actually not as troublesome as you think. ”

"Peng Zu" seemed to see through Ouyang's idea of a "future person", and immediately explained for him: "The cultivation of a plant does not need to accompany it through its life, as long as it is cultivated to the stage where it can reproduce and sow...... That is, the genes are passed on. ”

"But this kind of spectacular sight doesn't look like something that can be cultivated in a generation or two. Ouyang said, pointing to the super big head.

"Hmm...... In fact, it didn't take many generations, only one or two hundred years. Peng Zu explained, "Because of my own physique, I age much slower than others. So fortunately, I can say that I witnessed all the processes of this big guy's formation.

In the beginning, we just wanted to cultivate a plant that could hold memories, so that a lot of knowledge, technology, and history could be preserved and not lost.

Memory, this kind of thing, in fact, is the soul of a person, since you want a plant to carry memory, then you need to carry it with the soul, that is to say, this plant needs to be similar to the human brain, and it also needs to be similar to the heart. ”

"So those ancient sages are quite a replica of your brain, right?" Ouyang asked, "Not only the brain, but also your heart?"

"That's pretty much it. "Peng Zu" moved the young man's body that he was manipulating, and then said, "To be precise, I should have fused my brain with such a plant, not only trees but also various fungi, and cultivated them from generation to generation, and finally created this plant." ”

Outrageous!

This Nima is outrageous!

The corners of Ouyang's eyes twitched constantly, and he always felt that it was very outrageous that this kind of thing could be artificially cultivated.

While it is plausible and theoretically feasible, it ......

I just feel that this kind of thing is absolutely impossible to appear without a 100,000-year toss!

I don't know what kind of black technology the ancient ancestors of the emperor's era relied on to toss such a thing, and it is estimated that I have to travel back for a while and see it with my own eyes to know.

"So what is the meaning of the existence of this 'plant brain'?"

Ouyang didn't want to dwell on how such an almost supernatural thing was created, so he diverted the topic and tried to learn something else:

"Why hasn't it appeared in hundreds of years, but at this time? What is your purpose? And those civilians from Pengcheng, where did they go?"

From the "Cordyceps parasite" in the mouth of the "mushroom man", it can be known that the establishment of this "plant city" is very likely to appear to fight zombies.

And the "brain of plants" is to pass on knowledge, civilization, memory, technology, and history.

So it is not difficult to guess that it is likely that such a spectacular thing was created in order to prevent some kind of catastrophe, to prevent human civilization, or rather, the Chinese civilization in China from being cut off.

But then there are all sorts of problems.

The appearance of zombies is due to the existence outside the world, and some invisible force catalyzes the evolution speed of Cordyceps.

And there are all kinds of indications that this almost "god-like" existence can't control such a high-speed evolution very finely, so that the brakes are pulled, and some defective zombies appear.

"Listening to Your Excellency's tone, it seems that you should know something that is going to happen in the near future, or rather, next?" asked Peng Zu.

"Isn't the appearance of these zombies already an omen?" Ouyang asked rhetorically.

"Zombie ...... But is it true that the appearance of these monsters has only been around for a long time?" Peng Zu asked Ouyang again.

"Could it be...... Isn't it?"

Ouyang's brain was running fast under the blessing of Daiochisis, constantly thinking about the meaning of the words "Peng Zu".

In the end, he gradually widened his eyes and looked at the puppet man manipulated by "Peng Zu", revealing an expression of disbelief.

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Xiong Zhong led the convoy into the forest and began to collect building materials for the third time.

The journey went very smoothly, and there were no zombie hordes, and the giants did not reappear.

The convoy consisted of ten wagons, three of which were equipped with flamethrowers just in case, two were used to transport soldiers for gathering, and the remaining five were used to load building materials.

The other ten wagons and horses were left inside the fort, and the two convoys rotated, so that one team could work while the other team could rest, which would be more efficient.

Kumanaka walked into the depths of the woods alone, without guards or chariots, and was left alone without any restraints.

This was a habit he suddenly had when he went out to collect building materials.

He likes to relax himself like this, and has a kind of "fragrant breath" of freedom.

The high walls of the fortress were gradually erected, and the tall and wide walls brought not only a sense of security, but also a sense of oppression and a sense of confinement that could not breathe.

Since he was born, he has been locked up in a high wall.

Kumanaka's mother died not long after giving birth to him, and he was raised by his stern grandmother, Yue Ji, the daughter of Yue Wang Goujian.

In that childhood and adolescence, he was always learning, learning, and learning.

In his impression, in fact, the memory of his father King Chu is not very deep.

That middle-aged man, as early as when he was still Gongzizhang, was always busy going out to fight.

After becoming the king of Chu, he often slept in the political palace.

The king of Chu always seemed to complain that the dormitory was too far away from the political palace, and it took a long time to go back and forth, and he could not receive envoys and courtiers in the dormitory.

Because of this incident, his grandmother Yue Ji always said that the king of Chu did not have the prestige of being a king.

Of course, the king of Chu is not indifferent to Xiongzhong.

In the memory of the bear, the king of Chu seems to have an inexplicable obsession with the number "seven".

He would always give himself a day of rest every six days, and then return to the dormitory from the political palace, or find Yue Ji and concubines, or come to see him, or play with other uncles.

No matter what important state affairs are, he cannot interrupt such a habit.

"Only work and not play, and the wise king becomes stupid. The King of Chu always put this sentence on his lips.

And on that day, the king of Chu would often bring all kinds of interesting things to visit Xiongzhong, ask him about his study in the past six days, and say some interesting things to him.

When he was a child, Xiongzhong always liked to talk about political affairs with the king of Chu, and said his extremely naïve political ideas with the attitude of a little adult.

And the king of Chu would always look at Xiong Zhong with a kind face, and then he would not comment, and with a kind of tactfulness peculiar to adults, he would pass the topic with something that a child was interested in.

Occasionally, Xiong Zhong remembered that his father had not commented on his "political opinions", and when he took the initiative to ask his father, the king of Chu would always say:

"You'll understand when you're older. And your teacher is better at teaching you than I am. ”

I don't know why, Xiong Zhong has such a feeling: it seems that the king of Chu always has some "sense of disobedience" every time he sees him.

It was that he didn't know how to describe this kind of feeling, until he saw that his good friend Gongsun Chao also had a child and became a "father" for the first time, he remembered it and used a just right word.

A little nervous, and the youthfulness of a "first-time father".

"Maybe it's because I feel some guilt about not being with me in my childhood and youth, and I don't know how to deal with it. ”

Gongsun Chao was very empathetic to the king of Chu, and enlightened his friends with this.

After all, Gongsun Chao himself is the same, his father, as Ling Yin, is equivalent to the prime minister of Chu State, if he doesn't work hard, a little slack is likely to insult the surname "Gongsun".

In a way, the title "father" did not spend much time with them in childhood.

And after he became a "father", he was able to more or less understand his father's mood at that time.

This is probably a kind of growth, right?

Xiong Zhong breathed some cold fresh air, and couldn't help but think: Maybe only by becoming a father can he really mature?