As if to confirm the horsepower's guess, Lu Cheng replied: "I think you have also guessed that they are indeed coming up against the current." ”

"How is this possible!The atavistic event has only been around for less than four months, could it be that they have evolved beyond the municipal level in freshwater?!" Wei Shenjin exclaimed behind Ma Li.

It is an atavistic fear of its own ancestors, and naturally knows a lot about aquatic monsters. Although it can survive in the sea now, it is somewhat limited. For example, evolutionary aspects are certainly not as convenient as in fresh water.

In terms of the explanation of this matter, the most vocal is naturally the biologist Zhou Liansheng, who coughed slightly and replied:

"After Lu Lao was attacked, I once asked the people in the base to find salt, and roughly simulated the sea water in the freshwater pool, although there is a difference in composition, but it is not very big. In the end, it turned out that it was much more difficult for freshwater animals to survive in saltwater than on land and water. This undoubtedly explains why many humans died on the shore after returning to their ancestors as aquatic animals. ”

Hearing this, Ma Li's heart suddenly moved, and he hurriedly interjected: "Then according to your reasoning, teacher, there should be very few aquatic atavistic beasts, right? Because when the atavistic incident occurred, there should be very few humans who happened to be close to the water source!"

"Yes, horsepower, your brain is spinning much faster now than at school!" Zhou Liansheng praised him with surprise on his face, and then returned to the topic, "It is precisely because we think of this layer that we think that it is an urgent matter to find the fruit of the different forces! Because if we don't hurry up to develop the strength of the base, when the monsters in the sea invade in a big way, we may not be able to fight back! Although the communication has been interrupted, the current situation on the coastal side is estimated to be very unoptimistic. ”

"So how far do you think they have evolved to start leaving the water and into the land, compressing our survival resources?"

"It's hard to say, the tuna that attacked Lu Lao has reached the municipal level, and I haven't had time to judge whether it is low or medium. Speaking of this, he shook his head lightly and said, "Actually, if those mutant monsters have a second evolution, they should be able to leave the water and enter the land to survive." Because that means that they have great evolutionary potential, and the species that will evolve at that time should be amphibians. ”

"Second evolution?" Ma Li's heart moved, and he remembered the previous explanation of Rulai, "Teacher, do you mean secondary mutation? Just like the Peacock King mutated into a phoenix?"

"Yes. According to the speculation of Lu Lao and others, not only can the mutant monster evolve twice, but our atavistic beast can also return to the ancestor twice, however, the atavism has not been proven for the time being. ”

Hearing his speculation, the golden light in Ma Li's mind fluctuated violently again for a few seconds before it quieted down.

Ma Li naturally noticed its abnormality, but he had experienced many earth-shaking events in a short period of time, and his psychological endurance had grown rapidly, and this movement was naturally well concealed, and he continued quietly and casually:

"Since your speculation is very reliable, we and animals have the same atavistic virus after all. ”

"Atavistic virus?" Zhou Liansheng was stunned, frowning and chewing on the last two words, "Virus... Virus? You took the name yourself?"

The horsepower was so frightened that his heartbeat suddenly increased several times, but fortunately, there was no abnormal performance on the outside of the body!

He hurriedly suppressed his heart-pounding feeling, and said with a haha, "I said it casually! Don't you often tell us about viruses this semester, plus I used to watch movies on the Internet about humans mutating into zombies because of viruses, so I came up with such a name!"

Zhou Liansheng's eyes flickered, and he said with a smile: "This name is very good, I will call it atavistic virus in the future!"

"Okay!"

Ma Li smiled innocently, but in his heart he was scolding himself for being stupid. Rulai was even more angry and reprimanded, asking him to talk less to old foxes like Zhou Liansheng, and by the way, he also asked him to pull Lu Lao into the same blacklist that prohibits in-depth communication.

Ma Li naturally chooses to listen and not listen, and it is better to make his own way and make his own decisions.

Lu Cheng's eyes touched Zhou Liansheng's, and the two didn't know if they read any special information from each other's eyes, and at the same time chose to divert the topic.

Zhou Liansheng paced Fang Bu with his hands behind his back, exactly the same as when he took biology class with Ma Li: "Ma Li, if my guess is correct, when the monster class evolves to the national level, there should be a big change, and this change will produce some unknown mutations, I have already communicated with Lu Lao about this matter, and now, it is time to talk to you." ”

Ma Li felt like a thorn in his back at this time, quite restless, and the Rulai in his mind was even more concentrated on waiting for Zhou Liansheng's analysis and speculation.

"That's right, before I went to Douzhuang No. 2 Middle School to become a teacher, I used to be a professor at Kaiyuan University..."

After Zhou Liansheng briefly talked about his experience in the past few years, he pulled the topic to the reason why he was expelled. Although Ma Li already knew his identity, he could only pretend to be surprised at this time and listen to it again honestly. And Lu Lao, who told him the truth in private, was listening to Zhou Liansheng's narration with a serious face without squinting at this time. Ma Li peeked at it and had to admire the psychological quality of these old people.

"At that time, in order to maintain the academic reputation of Kaiyuan University, the reason for my dismissal above was academic misconduct, that is, the problem of teacher morality!" He had a mocking look on his face, and he didn't know who he was right, "Actually, I discovered a special code in our garbage gene at that time." The code was weird, it looked like something like code, but I couldn't think of a trigger mechanism for it, and what kind of inducement do they need to trigger the sending code?"

"AT THAT TIME, I WAS NOT VERY OLD, ENERGETIC AND IMPULSIVE, SO I CHOSE TO PUBLISH THIS INFERENCE IN BIOESSAYS, A TOP JOURNAL ABROAD. However, at that time, the relevant leaders of the school stopped me, saying that this crazy speculation would seriously affect the academic reputation of the school, but I was a little crazy at the time, so I privately contacted a friend in the same industry abroad and shared this inference with him. Who knew that he called me a madman at the time!" At this point, he sighed, and a sense of pain and loneliness appeared on his face, "Not only that, but he also stabbed the school about it, because our biology department had a project exchange with them at that time, and he suggested that the university kick out of the project exchange team for irresponsible and delusional researchers like me." So, I was fired. ”

When Ma Li heard this, the shock in his heart was no less than when he knew that Rulai existed, this was the first time he had heard someone he knew and trusted, talking about the complex rules of the adult world, and he suddenly didn't think about that world so much.

"Teacher, in fact, you haven't given up that conjecture since then, right?"

"Yes, once a person engaged in scientific research has decided on something, unless there is conclusive evidence to prove that it is wrong, he will be haunted for the rest of his life! This is the attitude of scientific researchers, and it is also the fate of scientific researchers, and many people have spent their whole lives on a wrong topic. ”

"But the current atavistic events prove that your guess may be right, is it?" asked Mali tentatively.

His heart and his heart were fiercely raised.

"The atavistic event can't prove it, but if there are creatures on the earth that have evolved to the national level, it can be proved. ”

"What kind of mutation?"

"With the creature that has reached the national level as the power source, some kind of bioelectric signal is emitted from its body, as for where it is transmitted to, and who the target is, I don't know!"

When he heard this, Rulai was so frightened that he almost jumped out of Ma Li's brain to kill Zhou Liansheng, and it couldn't care about the old man of the Emperor Beast Clan who was recuperating in retreat, and began to call it wildly.