After staying outside this warm forest for two days, Lin Shuo and his party finally headed for the mountain forest.

It is no longer part of the Altai Tavanbogdor National Park, but if you walk a hundred kilometers further west, you will enter the territory of Russia.

When Arjuna flew the helicopter back and forth before, she had a bird's-eye view of the forest.

According to the Mongolian female police officer, the newly formed forest is extremely sizable, probably hundreds of thousands of hectares, and it is located across the border of the four countries.

These four countries are China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Russia.

This information is undoubtedly inconsistent with the previous prediction of the location of the king of the mountain yama, so Russia and Kazakhstan are now also nervous.

However, Lin Shuo can't control the affairs of the outside world for the time being, what he can control now is the team that is currently advancing in the forest.

To be exact, he can control three of the other four members of the current team.

A

E, Wei Xingshan, and Zhang Jin are obedient, but the European princess Dilan is different.

Once it comes to the professional field, this woman's absolute self-confidence is the same as Lin Shuo.

She also has her reasoning: the more detailed the biological sampling work she is currently conducting, the more data Yang Tuo will have, and the sooner she can draw conclusions, which is called sharpening the knife and cutting wood.

But this forest has geothermal heating, in the geographical environment can be said to be like spring all year round, the biological system is extremely complex, insects, birds and beasts, large and small plants are everything.

Collecting even a small number of representative species can be time-consuming.

So while walking, they waited for Dylan to collect samples, and the first day's journey was only ten miles.

The ten-mile road is safe and sound, whether it is Lin Shuo's nose or A

E's ears didn't notice anything unusual.

In the evening, when the group began to form a makeshift camp to rest, the helicopter came again and took away what Dylan had collected.

Lin Shuo was worried about Xiaoba's situation and asked A

E asked for a satellite phone and called Yang Tuo.

"How is Xiaoba?" Lin Shuo asked straight to the point without too much nonsense.

"I also asked for myself, and I invited an ancestor back in a good manner," Yang Tuo's voice was a little helpless, "I can't talk about it, and I can't bear to fight." In my life in the laboratory, there are not 10,000 animals but thousands of animals, and I need to beg in a low voice, your bird is the number one. ”

"Where is it now?" Lin Shuo asked.

"I've made enough fuss here, I'm walking in the yard with a flock of hens, and the rooster who was the leader has become his little brother. Yang Tuo said, "Fortunately, it is a breed that is reproductively isolated from chickens, otherwise these hens will lay eggs, will I eat them or not?"

Lin Shuo nodded, this is his own bird, and then asked, "Is there any result?"

"I begged for an hour just to pump blood. Yang Tuo said, "Where is the result so fast?"

"You send me a raincoat and iodine tablets, and that posture is like urging life, and you yourself are not in a hurry, right?"

"Someone from outside has brought it in, and I thought I'd give you a copy too. Yang Tuo smiled, "Do things fairly, don't be the only one who is afraid here." ”

"I'll you. Lin Shuo scolded.

"Don't get me wrong, that's not what I meant. Yang Tuo said on the other end of the phone, "But now that Xiaoba has an accident, then I'm relieved." There shouldn't be much to do with this thing, otherwise you'd lose contact. ”

"Well, that's the truth. ”

"By the way, I'll tell you the good news, the reproductive principle of this thing, the International Biological Research Association has some eyebrows. Yang Tuo said, "You turn on a hands-free and let them listen to it too." ”

Lin Shuo's heart moved slightly, and he hurriedly complied.

......

In Geneva, in the conference room of the International Society of Biological Research, in the center of the conference room stands a huge display with a map of the world.

On this overall white map of the world, there are more than 30 areas of different sizes, marked with different colors.

Of these, there are more than 20 pieces of blue, a few pieces of yellow, and two pieces of red.

These patches of color are constantly flickering, indicating that around the world, these marked areas are experiencing biological events of varying levels of danger.

Among them, the blue color is a level 3 biological event, and the degree of harm is not great. Generally speaking, the problem can be solved locally**, and the International Biobiological Association only needs to provide technical assistance.

Yellow, representing a second-level biological event, this level of strange creatures, if the local ** is dealt with by conventional means, the casualties will be very large, and it is often necessary for the International Biological Research Association to send a special task force.

Red, representing a first-level biological event, the culprit is suspected to be A-level, or a strange creature above A-level, whether it is a local ** or a biological research society, it is very difficult to deal with, and it needs to be entrusted to more professional people, such as China's Hunter's Gate Six Masters.

Two months ago, the Waixing'an Mountains on the north bank of the Heilongjiang River flashed this red.

And now, in addition to red, yellow, and blue, there is also a striking orange color that is flashing on this world map.

Orange alert, only twice in the decades since the establishment of the International Biological Research Association.

The last time was seven years ago, in Sichuan, China.

Another time, it was now.

The Altai Mountains in Asia are shrouded in orange.

This frightening color means that the super-biological incident, the harm of which is global, is characterized as "affecting the global ecology and endangering the survival of all mankind".

Priority for handling biological events, which is a resolution passed by United Nations legislation.

So at present, the minds of everyone in the venue are all about the Altai Mountains.

And right next to this world map, there's a slightly smaller screen.

The screen is directly connected to the satellite signal and is constantly updating the data.

The provider of these data is a biologist from China, Yang Tuo.

In recent days, the atmosphere in this venue in Geneva has been very depressing.

The orange on the world map resembles a sword of Damocles hanging over your head.

The dark clouds of a nuclear strike loom over the Altai Mountains not only over the Altai Mountains, but also over the minds of these biologists.

A nuclear strike is the most complete destruction of the ecosystem, and at the same time, it also declares the complete failure of human biology in this event.

If they don't make much progress these days, a nuclear strike will inevitably befall this land.

This not only means that all the living beings in this land are about to disappear, but even the surrounding area will suffer for hundreds of years.

They must use their lifelong knowledge and expertise to race against the Grim Reaper that looms over the Altai Mountains.

There is no time to sleep, and eating is only hasty. These highly respected authorities in their respective universities or research institutes have been unkempt and irritable for a few days.

Their teams of assistants in various countries also flew in from all over the world on an improvised basis, and they all joined this battle without gunpowder.

The International Society of Biology, with seven of the nine elders, took the lead in fighting this tough battle in two steps.

The first step is to subcontract the two genes of the Mountain Yama King to teams in various countries to crack them in the form of fragment interception.

This is a step that challenges the limits of human biology.

The double helix structure of genes itself contains a lot of information, many of which have no specific expression meaning, and some of the expression meaning, human beings have not yet figured out.

The expression of many traits is formed by multiple expressions, and the mechanism is very complex.

Not to mention the brand-new species of Mountain Hades, even if it is the genes of humans themselves, they have been deciphered since 1990, and now they have only completed the sketch construction, and they can barely know the outline.

The genes of other species, the world's biology team, can only do their own strengths.

That is, the elders of the International Society of Biological Research know what the teams in each country are good at, so that they can distribute the tasks as reasonably as possible.

And in this step, it is not enough to rely on people, but also to use supercomputers.

In the past three days, supercomputers all over the world have been running this project.

Then, on the basis of roughly understanding the expression of the genetic shape of the mountain yama king, the most experienced biological authorities will generally describe the functions of the major organs of the mountain yama king.

The key target is the reproductive system of the King of Mountain Yama.

Because this is related to the way the species spreads, and it also determines the upper limit of its harm.

And this depiction, because of the imperfection of the gene deciphering process itself, is based on a large number of assumptions.

Whether it is reliable or not, no one knows.

But now, the ears of the world only believe these few mouths.

In the early morning of that day, He Zihong and the team he led, after three consecutive days of sleeplessness, finally took the lead in depicting the principle of the reproductive system of the King of Mountain Yama.

The old man spent two full hours on the podium in Geneva, trying to persuade other teams who disagreed, until he almost ran out of gas.

Finally, there was a consensus of opinion.

Biologists from all over the world shook hands, hugged and even cried.

The orange area was downgraded to red as a result.

......

In the depths of the Altai Mountains, Yang Tuo on the other end of the phone thought for a while, organized his language, and said slowly: "This mountain Hades is actually a symbiosis of two creatures.

One of these two organisms is a fern with a relatively stable morphology, and the other is a crustacean that is small in size and highly active in its own variation.

The plant genes have been figured out, and the rest is the same, the stronger is the spores of this fern, which spreads very widely, and is a very good gene carrier.

The genes of the animal body have not yet been completely cracked, but the principle of the reproductive part is roughly understood. That is, before the death of the body, it will attach its genes to the spores of the plant body, so as to carry out a large-scale transfer.

What is more surprising is that its genetic information can contain the experience of the previous generation, which is why it has a large amount of genetic information. ”

"Can genes contain pre-mortem experiences?" Wei Xingshan's eyes widened as he listened, "Doesn't that mean that you are born with memories?"

"Of course it's possible. Yang Tuo said. "In fact, this situation is not unique in nature, even our human genes have similar functions.

For example, if the parents have been hungry, there is a high probability that the children will get rich and noble when they grow up.

This is a kind of self-adjustment of the nutritional environment by genes, so that the offspring can survive in an environment with little food.

Once the society changes, food is suddenly abundant, and the human body is not adapted, so there are various diseases of wealth such as high blood pressure.

Of course, this is not the same thing as memory inheritance, and to what extent this creature can do it, I still don't know.

But the principle is here, and many things can be explained. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Tuo paused and continued:

"As a species with extremely high mutation activity, the animal body of the Mountain Yama will naturally inherit the advantages of the previous generation, so as to continuously iterate.

But to make such a large mutation in reproduction like this, and to transmit so much information, it is bound to consume a lot of energy.

And the amount of energy that nature can take in is always limited.

It is precisely because of the limited energy intake in nature that it is impossible for organisms to be proficient in everything, and they will have their own evolutionary focus, resulting in different characteristics and advantages.

For example, the brain is the most energy-intensive organ in the body, which makes us the most intelligent species in the world.

The evolutionary focus of the mountain yama king is on reproduction.

Its reproduction, in fact, is a kind of self-replicating asexual reproduction, which transmits far more information than other species, which is both its unique advantage and its great burden.

Therefore, it can only be a single child every time it reproduces, which explains why its number is so rare. ”

Lin Shuo asked, "But how can you explain Xiaoba's situation?"

"I don't know about this yet, let's check it out in the field of biology first. Yang Tuo said, "But Lao Lin, to tell you the truth, if you want to find the answer in this field, I don't think the possibility is high."

Mind control is an area that is currently difficult for our human science to touch.

Actually, we can think differently and want to cure Hachi, the key is not mine, but you. ”

"Oh?"

"Since Xiaoba is suspected to be controlled by the King of Mountain Yama at present, we don't have to care about how the King of Mountain Yama controls it, you just kill the King of Mountain Yama, isn't it? Yang Tuo said.

"The truth is true, but what if Xiaoba is infected and becomes the next generation of Mountain Hell King in the future?" Lin Shuo asked.

"That's easy, it's biology, we can still handle it. Yang Tuo said confidently, and then his tone sank again:

"But Lao Lin, you have to hurry.

According to Hachi, what the King of Mountain Hades is doing at the moment, the intention is obvious.

It organizes a forest to maximize the use of resources, and as the top of the food chain, it naturally takes in energy more efficiently than before.

In its current form, it used to be a singleton reproduction, but it will be difficult to say in the future.

When the time comes, countless spores that are imperceptible to the naked eye will scatter in all directions, and each spor will be a Mountain Yama King, then it will really be invincible.

So, it's better to get rid of this thing sooner rather than later. ”

"Okay. Lin Shuo said, "I need a few things, you can prepare." ”

"Okay, please"