The reproductive mode of living organisms can be divided into caste reproduction and caste reproduction, caste reproduction is easy to understand, and caste reproduction can be subdivided into budding reproduction, split reproduction, spore reproduction, vegetative reproduction, and fracture reproduction. In the case of corals, depending on the species, the mode of reproduction is also different, and even the same species will have different ways of reproduction in different environments.

Relatively speaking, coral is more about budding reproduction in surname reproduction and surname reproduction, and not to mention surname, simply put, budding reproduction, is a coral body "germination", the sprout is not separated from the mother, accept the mother's nutrients, until it grows into a polyp, at this time the mother is often dead, thus forming the new city metabolism of the race. Moreover, the bones left behind by the death of the new polyp and the mother are not separated, and as the generations continue to sprout and die, more and more bones accumulate and accumulate into coral reefs. Divisive reproduction, on the other hand, is the division of an individual into two identical individuals, unlike budding reproduction, where there is a difference between the mother and the bud, and both individuals will continue to survive.

However, to be more precise, this aquarium coral in Ao Tang is fractured and reproduced, and it is not split by itself, but by external forces.

Zhang Geng honestly explained: "I played the game all day today, and finally successfully cleared the level, I was excited for a while, and my hands danced, the key is that my hands are too long, and I accidentally interrupted the chandelier when waving, and as a result, I stabbed the coral to death." ”

Ao Tang then noticed the damaged lamp on the ground, this chandelier has a sharp corner, probably the coral is under the fall, although the coral's exoskeleton is a reef, but it is not long after the new life, the outer skeleton is still a little soft, and it was cut into two petals by the sharp horn on the spot. Zhang Geng thought that Coral was dead, and hurriedly reported to Ao Tang.

In fact, I have seen it in my hometown in the countryside, such as earthworms, which become two earthworms when they are cut into two pieces - according to the research of some scientists, it seems that they do not always become two, and certain conditions must be met.

Ao Tang stared blankly at the two polyps, the larger one was his aquarium coral, but what about the smaller one? Just looking at the speed at which it crawls around, it doesn't look like ordinary coral, after all, it is also split from the body of the aquarium monster! But just like that, there's an extra new aquarium for some reason?

Ao Tang's heart moved, and suddenly the dragon scales all over his body turned into scales, he didn't need to look at it with his eyes, he could naturally "see" or sense the condition of all the dragon scales, 73 of the 108 pieces were imprinted with aquarium graphics, corresponding to the 73 aquariums he lit, and there was only one dragon scale of the coral imprint, even if the coral was divided into two, there was no change.

"If only I could make a psychic connection with corals, I might be able to figure out the situation."

Ao Tang looked at the two polyps, and suddenly his heart moved, one coral can't help him build islands and reefs, unless it is given hundreds of millions of years, two corals can't do the same, so what about four? What about eight? 16, 32, 64...... What about 2 to the nth power only?

Thinking of it, Ao Tang did not hesitate to be ferocious, his palm turned into a dragon claw, and he waved down, and the two corals suddenly turned into four pieces, and after "dying" there for a while, they slowly wriggled again, and after a while, they really became four corals.

Ao Tang paused, although he couldn't establish contact with the coral, but under the sense, he faintly noticed that the overall vitality of the four corals was similar to the previous two corals, and even slightly reduced, thinking that it was the loss of the wound. If you continue to cut, there will be more and more corals, but the individual corals will inherit less and less vitality, and perhaps when it reaches a certain lower limit, it will not be able to survive. However, for Ao Tang, or for the aquarium, this is not a problem, and it can be supplemented by preying on other aquatic animals!

"Zhang Geng, where's the lunch box? You can't have finished eating coral, right? Do you have any other lunch boxes to hide? Hurry up and get it. ”

Zhang Geng crawled to the storage room in frustration, and took out a "lunch box", Ao Tang split it with one claw, and directly smashed the blue and white jar, regardless of whether it was worth it or not! There were some shrimp and crab shells inside, and they wanted to scatter and escape, but Ao Tang had already turned into a half-dragon, and the breath of the dragon was released, which made the small animals tremble and dare not move.

Ao Tang gently moved the four corals over, and the corals immediately began to prey...... Ao Tang looked at the time, it was already night, and immediately ordered: "Zhang Geng, bring a few more lunch boxes and go to the sea to eat." ”

Zhang Geng let out a sad cry and dragged a few blue and white jars out of the house.

Ao Tang watched the increase in corals, and it was not too boring, constantly repeating the cycle of cutting, waiting, eating, and continuing to cut, but when the number of corals exceeded 1,000, he finally had no choice, too much, he had to consider the distribution of life force, try to divide it as much as possible, then he could only cut it slowly, and every time he did it again in the future, it would be a huge and monotonous work.

Ao Tang looked left and right, and stared at Zhang Geng, who had already returned: "Zhang Geng, I will give you a glorious and great task, you must devote yourself to the great cause of the coral explosion army with a high sense of mission and responsibility, and explode the coral sea for me!" ”

Zhang Geng wanted to cry without tears, this job is not as fun as computer games, but it was ordered by Lord Longwang himself, so he could only do it. It burrowed into the kitchen, and when it came out, it landed on the ground with two wrists and feet, and the other six wrists and feet each rolled a kitchen knife, turning into a six-armed knifeman, and began to chop coral...... Ao Tang nodded and praised: "Good knife skills, Zhang Geng, you have the potential to be a chef." Well, since you're here to cut, I'm going to go get some food, just take a trip to the sea to see if I can meet the Pacific Giant Medal and fill up the last two spots on your Octopus team. ”

Zhang Geng nodded hurriedly, only hoping that the new Juzhang would appear soon, so that as a predecessor of the Juzhang, it could put on its old qualifications, hand over the work to the new employees, and supervise and guide it by himself.

Ao Tang thought that the blue and white jar was fragile, so he turned around a few rooms and turned out a large iron box. At the beginning, he asked a small factory to build a large number of such iron boxes, which were made of seawater-resistant stainless steel, with a volume of 0.4 cubic meters and 400 liters, as a vehicle for the aquarium to transport treasures.

In just a few moments, he came back with a full 400L of fish and shrimp, which was enough for coral to swallow for the time being. Once the bones are dry, the growth of coral is moving forward with the carcasses of countless fish and shrimp.

"Lan Jia stayed to assist Zhang Geng."

Ao Tang commanded, returned to the sea again, turned into a red dragon, and went straight to the open sea. An hour later, he found a Pacific giant chapter and immediately lit it, "You are Zhang Ren." Two hours later, he found Zhang Qi again, and the Pacific Giant Chapter Team was finally full, and the water tribe reached 75 people.

Just as he was about to go back, Ao Tang was suddenly stunned for a moment, he looked at some small animals on the bottom of the sea, and gradually became interested. He is looking at starfish and sea cucumbers, these animals also have the ability to break and reproduce, with the precedent of coral, Ao Tang can completely form an army of starfish and sea cucumbers!

It's just that coral has a unique reef-building ability, and it can be said that it is worth the money to spend a place for it, but what about these starfish and sea cucumbers? If it's completely useless, then there's no point, and Ao Tang decides to go back to Baidu and talk about it.

Rushing back to Panlong Island all the way, Ao Tang threw the two new water tribes to Zhang Geng: "Zhang Geng, as the predecessor of the giant chapter team, Zhang Ren and Zhang Gui will be handed over to you, be sure to teach them well!" ”

"Yes, Lord Dragonlord!" Zhang Geng responded loudly, finally someone can help it share this boring work.

Lan Jia looked at Zhang Ren and muttered: "Zhang Ren is my Lan Jia's former name, you must not insult this name!" ”

Ao Tang ignored the communication of the octopuses, crackled and searched for information, and soon found a lot of information.

Starfish are echinoderms, a higher level of evolution than coelenterates, and starfish do have the ability to break off and reproduce, or regenerate, even if they are cut into multiple pieces at once, they can grow multiple complete starfish.

And the role of starfish?

Ao Tang looked at one of them, starfish can be eaten and medicinal, but he will never take this one, he can't cut his own aquarium subordinates infinitely and sell them to humans as food, right?

According to some scientists, starfish absorb 100 million tonnes of carbon from the ocean every year, according to the calculations of some scientists. Nowadays, the impact of greenhouse gases on the earth's environment is increasing, and even giving rise to a carbon emission system, and the environmental value of starfish is more and more reflected.

Ao Tang is the dragon king, but he is also a member of the human race, although he is not too concerned about the ecological environment of the entire earth world, but it is good to use up a quota to make a try, and immediately set the 76th aquarium, without the need to sort the heavenly stems, and directly named it "starfish".

Looking at the information of sea cucumbers, sea cucumbers are one of the swallow abalone wing ginseng, and I only ordered abalone, bird's nest, and shark fin in Shencheng Mansion before, but I forgot to order sea cucumbers, which is a pity. After checking the information, sea cucumber has no special role, but as a precious ingredient, medicinal material, has a huge economic value, Ao Tang is not ready to light sea cucumber, thinking that in the future in addition to abalone, sea cucumber can also be used as a seafood aquaculture product.

After checking several other types of echinoderms and coelenterates, and did not find any special effects, Ao Tang put down the mouse, looked at the time, and rushed out. Half an hour later, he returned to the room with a starfish.

"Zhang Geng, Zhang Ren, Zhang Gui, I'll leave it to you!"

A few octopuses helplessly watched the workload increase greatly, and Zhang Geng made an excuse and said, "Lord Dragon King, there are not enough kitchen knives in the house." ”

"That's easy to do." Ao Tang looked at the fragments of the blue and white jar on the ground earlier, "Well, the porcelain fragments can be used improvised, and I will buy you dozens of kitchen knives tomorrow, well, hundreds, and the blades can be used for backup if they are broken." Uh, if you buy so many kitchen knives at once, will you be targeted by the police, and the real-name system for kitchen knives has ended, right? ”

(To be continued)