Lanki's doubts are not just her own, but those of many people on board, who wonder too many similarities in culture and too many coincidences in the story.

This is not the first time that such a discussion has been held, and the boring life on the ship has become a day for Chen Jian to read to the sailors.

From "Zhuangzi" to "Three Kingdoms", from "Historical Records" to "Water Margin", when only male sailors are left, they will also read "The Golden Vase of Plums" or read those market books in the name of criticism.

Life on the ship has become much more interesting, and names that were originally unfamiliar have gradually become one of the contents of daily discussions, such as Liu Guanzhang, such as the Water Margin heroes, and such as Mozi and Zhuangzi.

Many people were busy translating these books into the vernacular, ready to be printed when they returned. The cultural proximity makes the people on board prefer these books, and it is difficult to accept some of the stories in Europe with Christianity as a core value, just as Hamlet's entanglement is simply incomprehensible to the people on board.

These people's favorite books are still those pre-Qin books, even if they are translated into the vernacular, the charm in them is still undiminished, and you can faintly imagine the debates, doubts, and explorations that occurred in the era of change at that time.

Once you live this kind of life where you have to eat and drink, and people read books every day and look forward to the stories as if they were serialized, the voyage becomes more interesting, and the stories are more deeply rooted and impressive.

In this way, the fleet slowly circled along Australia, which is not called Australia, from the Indian Ocean to the southern tip, and then made a half-circle around New Zealand to land.

I saw the rare low-latitude aurora, traded some gadgets with the Maori tribe, touched my nose with the Maori, watched a man-eating feast, inspected the ecological structure of the disintegration of the Maori clan society, and sent dozens of steel knives and thirteen pairs of armor to several tribes by the way, and fought a battle with a group of tribes that clashed with the people of the fleet.

Chen Jian can also be regarded as a great thing that can leave a name in the history of naturalism, leading people to see a moa more than three meters high in New Zealand, snatching a few moa cubs, and also seeing the Haast eagle with a wingspan of more than three meters that can easily scratch human skulls.

I killed two moa birds, tasted the taste, and found that the meat was a bit firewood, not tasty, and had a strong fishy smell. Moa eggs are as long as 34 centimeters, and that's how they taste. The Maori, who had a fleet and traded, taught Chen Jian how to eat this bird's egg, open it and leave it for a day until the fat in the yolk came out and skimmed it before eating.

He led Lin Xi to inspect the woods for more than 30 days, taking away more than 20 chicks of moa birds and dried specimens of four Haast eagles. The extinction of the Haast eagle and the moa is a foregone conclusion, and perhaps the more than 20 moa chicks in his hands will be the last moa in the world, if they can return to their homeland safely and alive.

In fact, at this point, it is already worth the trip. In Wangbei City, Chen Jian bought a lot of furs from the aborigines of the dying Taiwanese clouded leopard; Here, Chen Jian saw two species of birds that were about to become extinct, and also saw the scene of the Haast Eagle hunting moa as if it was a fight between Pterodactyl and Diplodocus, which was more than three meters high and more than three meters long, which left a deep impression on the expedition team.

No feathers, only fluff; There are no wings, only vestigial barely visible fleshy wings...... This is simply the most primitive bird in the history of evolution, and it is not easy to see it with your own eyes.

But this is not enough, from the moment he stepped into the New Zealand jungle, Chen Jian began to be inseparable from Lin Xi, using various methods to either remind or pretend to be confused to instill various views of evolution.

This is the penultimate stop on the return to his homeland, and the next stop is the best gift Chen Jian gave Lin Xi - an expedition to the Galapagos Islands.

From New Zealand to the Galapagos, these two easiest places to find evidence will be the biggest highlights of this round-the-world voyage.

Starting from the hunting of the first moa, Jian Chen took Lin Xi and the expedition team to many primitive jungles, and each time he hunted, he tried his best to discuss the differences between these moa birds with Lin Xi, which gradually aroused the other party's thinking.

These giant birds need a lot of food, so they have their own territory, which also causes many obvious differences in the appearance of moa in different places.

After hunting and killing a pair of moa again, Jian Chen and a few people dragged the big bird of more than 500 catties aside and discussed with Lin Xi the difference between this pair of moa in the jungle and the depression outside.

"You see, the neck here is obviously longer than the neck in the depression outside, which can be clearly seen."

Lin Xi took out a rope ruler and measured it, nodded and said, "Yes, it's a lot longer." It should be in the woods that you need to raise your neck to observe the movement in the distance, so that you can easily find food. And you see its beak, which is also completely different from the ones in the depression outside, and is more suitable for eating nuts in the woods. Actually, I guess there is more sand in these birds in the woods than outside, and the main fruits of the depression outside are insects and grass seeds, as well as the berries of those dwarf bushes. ”

Several people took out knives and skillfully cut open the moa, and took out all kinds of food inside, and the strange stench of the ninja found a stream and washed it with water, scooping out the sand inside.

After Lin Xi recorded it in the notebook, he observed the simple nest of these moa birds, found a simple nest made of a broken stone, and carefully drew it with a graphite pen.

"The difference between the morphology, neck, and beak of these birds is well understood because of the difference between the woods and the depression, in order to survive. But what I don't understand is where do these birds come from? There are no such strange birds in the Black Swan River or on the continent to the north, and this is just an island the size of a county, could it be that these birds have been here since the beginning of the world? ”

Jian Chen smiled: "Do you still believe that these birds existed at the beginning of the world? Will you just evolve to adapt to change? ”

"Nope. I don't believe in anything that has only been around for a few thousand years. Do you remember what I told you a long time ago about the bones of ancient animals that were dug up in the coal mines? ”

"Yes."

"Why do I think this moa looks so similar to the bones that were dug up?"

Jian Chen squinted at the other moa that had not yet been dissected, and said with a smile: "You don't say that I forgot, it's really a bit like it." But the thing that was dug up was clearly not a bird. ”

"Yes, I can tell the difference, I've been to see it. I don't know how many years have been spent digging up those bones in the mining area, but what are those things that are extinct? Or did those things turn into birds? If so, how many years has the world changed? Compared to these long eras, the rest of the world has only three to five thousand years of recorded history. ”

"I guess so."

"Well, three or five thousand years ago, we would have been like the cannibal tribes on this island, the tribes in Africa, or the tribes in Wangbei City. This is recorded in the history books. In three to five thousand years, there has been such a big change...... I couldn't have thought any further. ”

"What's wrong?"

"O orangutan! If three or five thousand years of people can change from people like those in the tribe to what we are now, if the huge skeletal animals in those pits in countless years have become moa like this, maybe hundreds of thousands of years ago our close relatives were orangutans. This requires an experiment...... But this experiment is obviously not very good. ”

Jian Chen shook his head and asked, "Do humans mate with monkeys, orangutans, or apes?" ”

Lin Xi grinned and said, "I won't do it, but I believe that someone can't help but do it." But since horses and donkeys can give birth to mules, I would like to see if lions and tigers can give birth to offspring. In fact, what I was wondering about before was this question: this kind of thing will definitely be something that someone can't help but do, so where is the bottom line of this kind of scientific experiment? It's easy to talk about other subjects, whether it's physics, chemistry, even cabbage in agriculture, or even horses and donkeys...... But what to do when some problems involve people? ”

"That's the moral issue."

"More than that. You remember the smallpox incident in the capital, I trusted you very much......"

As he spoke, he raised his arm, revealing the scar of cowpox on his arm that had been cut with a knife, and said, "But even if I trust you, I still used myself to do experiments first, and after the cowpox disappeared, I had contact with a patient with smallpox for a long time, and only after I was sure that it was okay did I do something in the capital." This is an unsolvable question - is it reasonable to do something that violates morality for the sake of more people's happiness? ”

Lin Xi blinked, two small dimples appeared on his face, and said lightly: "This is what I am puzzled about...... The reason why we are ready or not. I have seen too many changes in the past ten years, but as you often say, material changes come first, and consciousness changes come later, and our consciousness and morality are about to fall behind the times, especially in our discipline and the discipline of medicine, which is closer to us. ”

"It's like we're already human, or at least it seems, but we're still doing what a beast would do."

Jian Chen seemed to understand something, and frowned, "I'm afraid it's difficult." It's like not killing civilians, and that it may take hundreds of years for it to become something that everyone accepts. ”

"Yes, but haven't you already started to prepare? If you don't prepare, you can never do it. Prepared, at least possible. When you get back, use your fame in the Academy and our reputation to start a discussion on the bottom line of science. At least...... Determine what a person is. It's one thing to not obey it, but it will always make more people think. ”

Chen Jianqi said: "Why do you suddenly think like this? ”

Lin Xi sighed and said helplessly: "It's not that I suddenly thought so, but when I saw those cannibals eating people before, I suddenly had an impulse in my heart and wanted to do an experiment...... Chop off the man's head and ask him a few words to see if he can answer after the head drops. Although it was only for a moment, and then I was pressed down, I still felt a little scared......"